All new releases on this show. A great compilation of Wayne Shorter’s music from the Posi-tone label is the focus. In addition there are new albums from Francisco Mela & Jonathan Reisin, Ivo Perelman & Nate Wooley, Todd Mosby, Hutchinson Andrew Trio, Itamar Borochov, Elina Duni with Rob Luft plus Matthieu Michel & Fred Thomas, Matt Rollings Trio, Nevaris, The Man From Atlantis, Sara Serpa & Andre Matos, Daniel Carter with Adriana Camacho & Federico Ughi, Camila Nebbia, Josh Cole, and, Jaimie Branch.
- Show Intro 00:00
- Art Hirahara “Lost” from Shorter Moments – Citizen Wayne (Posi-tone) 01:07
- Francisco Mela & Jonathan Reisin “Flourishing” from Earthquake (577 Records) 06:39
- Ivo Perelman, Nate Wooley “Three” from Polarity 2 (Burning Ambulance Music) 14:47
- Todd Mosby “Place In The Sun” from Land of Enchantment (Self Released) 25:48
- Hutchinson Andrew Trio “Jig” from The Senator: A Tribute to Tommy Banks (Chronograph Records) 32:05
- Behn Gillece “Mahjong” from Shorter Moments – Citizen Wayne (Posi-tone) 37:28
- Itamar Borochov “Who Shall Grant Me Flight” from Arba (Greenleaf) 42:30
- Elina Duni, Rob Luft, Matthieu Michel, Fred Thomas “Whispers of Water” from A Time To Remember (ECM) 44:30
- Matt Rollings Trio “Groove With A View” from The Valentine Sessions (Found Records) 50:57
- Nevaris “Lockotronic” from Reverberations (M.O.D. Reloaded) 56:19
- The Man From Atlantis “Third Movement with Heikki Ruokangas” from Golden Light (Ramble Records) 1:00:04
- Sara Serpa & Andre Matos “From A Distance” from Nightbirds (Robalo Music) 1:08:45
- Daniel Carter, Adriana Camacho, Federico Ughi “Oltre La Montagna, Il Mare” from Trabajadores De Energia (577 Records) 1:15:03
- Camila Nebbia “Ruinas” from una ofrenda a la ausencia (Relative Pitch Records) 1:34:04
- Josh Cole “The Bar” from Kind Mind (Cassiar Records) 1:38:19
- Jaimie Branch “Burning Grey” from Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) (International Anthem) 1:44:13
- Blue Moods “Juju” from Shorter Moments – Citizen Wayne (Posi-tone) 1:53:50
SHOW NOTES
Shorter Moments – Citizen Wayne
A compilation of Wayne Shorter’s music from Posi-tone artists. The third and final part of the Shorter Moments trilogy of releases. Originally intended as a celebration of Master Shorter’s 90th birthday. I’m including three tracks from the album Art Hirahara playing Lost. Behn Gillece playing Mahjong and Blue Moods playing Juju.
Francisco Mela, Jonathan Reisin
Francisco Mela, a 577 Records mainstay and master avant-garde drummer, is joined by young saxophonist Jonathan Reisin on Earthquake. On the five-track album, the duo explores the dynamic range of improvisation they can achieve using a simple instrumental dyad. Each piece represents a thoughtful, seismic shift, and creates a soundscape that echoes the unpredictability and beauty of natural phenomena. Reisin brings his prestigious musical education to play tenor and soprano saxophone on their debut album, showcasing his ability alongside his creative expression. Earthquake will be available as a CD and for download in October. Featured track – Flourishing
Ivo Perelman, Nate Wooley
Returning as collaborators on a follow-up to 2021’s Polarity, Ivo Perelman and Nate Wooley trade barbs, soothing communiqués and fiery tirades on Polarity 2, released on Burning Ambulance Music. Tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman and trumpet player Nate Wooley, whose Polarity was one of the first two releases on Burning Ambulance Music, return for a second collection of intimate, deeply communicative duos. Featured track – Three
Todd Mosby
Instrumental composer, songwriter, and Imrat guitar innovator Todd Mosby is a storyteller and a landscape artist. He uses the guitar to whisk listeners away to a borderless realm where jazz, jazz fusion, North Indian classical, classical composition, bluegrass, bossa-nova, and folk-rock create transporting and transformative experiences. His latest album, Land Of Enchantment, is a scrapbook of the visual, emotive, spiritual and cultural interactions Todd has personally experienced within the New Mexico region of the United States. Featured track – Place In The Sun
Hutchinson Andrew Trio
The Senator pays tribute to the the Honourable Tommy Banks (1936-2018), a jazz legend who was both a world class musician and a champion of the performing arts in his community. Banks – a pianist, conductor, arranger, composer, TV personality, actor, producer and politician – had an unparalleled, multi-faceted career spanning more than 60 years in virtually every aspect of the entertainment industry in Canada. A professional jazz pianist at age 14, he went on to lead his own bands, conduct symphony orchestras around the world, direct musical ceremonies at international events, host his own long-running television show, and act in film and television. He also served nearly 12 years in the Canadian Senate.
Chris Andrew – Piano
Kodi Hutchinson – Bass
Dave Laing – Drums
Featured track : Jig
Itamar Borochov
Trumpeter Itamar Borochov is creating a new musical hybrid, bringing the sacred sounds of his upbringing to a jazz quartet setting. Borochov first heard Sephardic music in his local synagogue and absorbed these ‘maqams’ (modes) of the greater Middle East and North Africa alongside a range of other musical influences, including the Mizrahi and Ashkenazi musical flavours that are his birthright. Featuring Rob Clearfield (piano), Rick Rosato (bass), & Jay Sawyer (drums). The third single “Who Shall Grant Me Flight” from Itamar Borochov’s upcoming album Arba. “This is the first time I’m releasing a track that I’m not playing any trumpet on, just voice,” Borochov says. A short and spellbinding piece for piano and expressive wordless voice with a gentle and simple acoustic texture, it feels like an interlude: the conclusion of one chapter and the start of another.
Elina Duni, Rob Luft, Matthieu Michel, Fred Thomas
A Time To Remember is a continuation of the special synergy that inhabited Elina Duni’s acclaimed Lost Ships and finds her regrouping with that album’s quartet of guitarist Rob Luft, Matthieu Michel on flugelhorn and Fred Thomas on percussion and piano. Over the course of the past years, the group’s rapport has grown more familiar, leading to greater interplay and a collaborative spirit. Many of the original compositions on the album are heavily inspired by an extended spell Rob and Elina spent in the Sinai Desert and reference the Red Sea, desert climate and nature in general – naturally provoking the cinematic quality Elina hints at. Featured track “Whispers of Water”.
Matt Rollings Trio
The virtuosic pianist, prolific session musician, producer, and arranger Matt Rollings returns to his jazz roots on The Valentine Sessions, his first jazz trio album in 30 years. Rollings performs ten of his diverse originals, exploring a variety of moods while displaying a personal and swinging style. The Valentine Sessions (which is a digital-only release) is the brilliant pianist’s first trio album since 1990’s Balconies. He is joined by bassist David Piltch and drummer Elizabeth Goodfellow. Featured track “Groove With A View”.
Nevaris
‘Reverberations’ is the third collaboration between Nevaris, Bill Laswell and this lineup of musicians (DJ Logic, Will Bernard, Peter Apfelbaum, Lockatron) with the addition of Matt Dickey. On this release, they focus more on the dub aspects of their sound. The artists’ New York roots shine through. Bass, percussion, drums and turntables take center stage, with a sound that channels the city’s vibrancy. Nevaris is a musician and artist of Mexican and European descent, who is heavily influenced by Afro-Latin, dub, and funk music. Featured track “Lockotronic”.
The Man From Atlantis
Following the success of the heavy psych cassette release ‘Kali Ma Rama Lama Fi Fo Fi Fum’, the Man from Atlantis has unleashed another slice of heavy, guitar-psych. ‘Golden Light’ features 5 movements with a hand-picked group of leading experimental guitarist from around the globe guesting on each track – Heikki Ruokangas (Finland), Kris Gruda (USA), Giannis Arapis (Greece), Chris Alford (USA), Ernesto Diaz-Infante (USA). TMFA aka Mike Sill says “’I had an idea for Golden Light to be one long piece of music broken into smaller movements with each movement relating to a stage of development – from birth to death and so on. I had John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme in Mind and in a way this recording is a kind of homage to him. GL is a meditation on the purity that we are all born with and the internal struggle we all face to maintain this purity throughout our journey. Golden Light is a meditation on this inherent goodness that we all possess”. Featured track Third Movement which is a partnership with Ruokangas.
Sara Serpa & Andre Matos
Seven years after their last duo album, vocalist Sara Serpa and guitarist André Matos return with Night Birds. Due out September 29, 2023 in CD and digital download on the Portuguese label Robalo Music, the duo’s third release captures and crystallizes their uncanny musical connection. Serpa is widely acclaimed as one of the premier vocalists of her generation . Matos has been praised as “one of the kings of melody…” by the New York Music Daily.
A collection of original compositions, improvisations and a Bartok bagatelle, the dozen tracks on Night Birds reflect on the fast-paced societies of the modern world, questioning the consumption and exploitation of natural ecosystems. Serpa’s distinctive singing and Matos’ spectacular sonic landscapes are enhanced by original and creative artists in jazz and improvised music including Brooklyn-based pianist Dov Manski, South-Korean avant-garde cellist Okkyung Lee, Ethiopian-Swedish experimental vocalist Sofia Jernberg (, Portuguese up-and-coming drummer João Pereira, and on two tracks, Serpa and Matos’ child Lourenço. At turns magic, dazzling and calm, the duo’s unique sonic world draws on pure, contemplative sounds and takes a personal approach to melody and poetry. Featured track is From A Distance.
Daniel Carter, Adriana Camacho, Federico Ughi
Legendary New York saxophonist Daniel Carter and drum wizard Federico Ughi, after having worked together for more than two decades with many ensembles but mainly as a duo, join forces with Mexico City-based, cosmic bass player Adriana Camacho. The three experienced improvisers met in March 2023 in Italy during the SOF international music residency. After having spent a whole month playing music together from dawn to dusk, the trio went to a studio in Rome to celebrate the encounter and the new international ensemble. ‘Trabajadores De Energia’ (energy workers) is the result of that recording session, where cosmic energies solidified as interstellar music shaped by these sound crafters. Featured track – Oltre La Montagna, Il Mare – Beyond the mountain, the sea
Camila Nebbia
“una ofrenda a la ausencia” (an offering to absence) explores in depth the rawness, harshness and roughness of sound embracing the intense and unfiltered expressions that emerges from absence. Released August 25, 2023, Camila Nebbia: tenor sax, spoken word, fx. Recorded in Doctor F studio December 2022, Buenos Aires Argentina. Featured track “Ruinas”.
Josh Cole
Josh Cole’s Kind Mind is yet another imaginative outfit to emerge from Toronto’s vibrant and curious-minded jazz scene. The trio comprises Cole (of the Brodie West Quintet, October Trio, and Sandro Perri’s band) on bass and electronics, acclaimed saxophonist/ clarinettist Karen Ng and the dexterous Michael Davidson on vibraphone and marimba. Sandro Perri provides electronics and Joe Strutt field recordings. Their music is a finespun hybrid of their leader’s warm compositional signatures and the ensemble’s improvisational perspicacity, peppered with delicate electronic treatments and environmental recordings. Throughout this new outing—their vinyl debut—the band continually walks the borders between chamber music and jazz, building gentle, compact forms with generous amounts of space, graceful melodic figures, and ear-catching textural details. This interplay between these (and other) elements produces a broad spectrum of different results, giving the record a wondrous episodic quality. Featured track : The Bar.
Jaimie Branch
In July of 2022, just one month before jaimie branch’s death sent shockwaves around the world, the trumpet player and composer was in Chicago at International Anthem studios putting finishing touches on an album. It was a suite of music she had composed and then recorded with her flagship ensemble, Fly or Die, over the course of a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. In her wake, the album was near complete, with only mixing tweaks, final titles, and artwork to be fully realized. In the months following, her family (led by sister Kate Branch), her band (Jason Ajemian, Lester St. Louis, and Chad Taylor), and her collaborators at IARC banded together to gather memories, texts, emails, photographs, artwork and fragments belonging to jaimie to light the path forward. The goal was always to do what jaimie would have done. Packaged in stunning artwork by John Herndon, Damon Locks, and branch herself, Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) is jaimie’s final album with her Fly or Die quartet.
jaimie branch – trumpet, voice, keyboard, percussion, happy apple
Lester St. Louis – cello, voice, flute, marimba, keyboard
Jason Ajemian – double bass, electric bass, voice, marimba
Chad Taylor – drums, mbira, timpani, bells, marimba
Featured track : Burning Grey
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