It's always a pleasure to see the latest Dave Graney and Clare Moore recording drop into the in-box. What's different this time though is that, as an avid watcher of Dave 'n' Clare's Saturday Night/Sunday Morning "Stage It" shows, I've been exposed to a lot of the music of this album already. Their 50 minute … Continue reading Everything Was Funny
Tag: 2021
Banal
Flea were a punk/grindcore band from Manchester who were active between 1988-1992 and returned in 2017. The band is Boz Vile (Boz Hayward) – vocals/guitar and Rat / Reg Concrete / Art Carbuncle – bass/vocals, ably supported by Sissy the beatbox. 2021 saw the band return after a 29 year absence with a stunning new … Continue reading Banal
Asclepius
Asclepius is the new album from Iceburn, who return with their first new material in twenty years, with a Southern Lord release on 25th June 2021 including LP and digital formats. The rawness of Asclepius harks back to the days of their early records (such as Hephaestus), and fuses elements of metal, jazz, psychedelia, and … Continue reading Asclepius
Garden of Jewels
One of the most exhilarating qualities shared by great improvising musicians is the ability to bring one’s immediate situation – the joys, sorrows, fears and desires of the day – into each unique performance. What made this most recent convening of the Ivo Perelman Trio so singular was the fact that not only were all … Continue reading Garden of Jewels
Samba de Maracatu
On February 26, the venerated multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe Chambers releases Samba de Maracatu, a notable Blue Note Records return for a significant figure in the label’s history. The album is a nine-song set of original compositions, standards, and pieces by Wayne Shorter, Bobby Hutcherson, and Horace Silver. In the mid-to-late 1960s, Chambers played drums … Continue reading Samba de Maracatu
Baker’s Circle
After last year’s successful big band outing, Blue Soul, guitarist Dave Stryker is back with his hard-driving, deep grooving B3 organ group on his new recording—Baker’s Circle. With the addition of cutting-edge tenor player Walter Smith III, Baker’s Circle features Stryker’s originals as well as a couple Eight Track gems and a tip of the … Continue reading Baker’s Circle
The Secret Handshake with Danger, Volume One
The Secret Handshake with Danger, Volume One features five musicians - Binker Golding on Saxophones, Henry Kaiser on Guitar, N.O. Moore on Guitar, Olie Brice on Double Bass and Eddie Prévost on Drums. The promotional material suggests that album’s two extended tracks are largely influenced by Miles Davis’s On The Corner electro-jazz era, which there … Continue reading The Secret Handshake with Danger, Volume One
Playfield Vol. 1
The first volume from the debut three-album trilogy PLAYFIELD, offers the musical equivalent of a walk through New York, meandering through the city’s conflicts, unparalleled diversity and mutual harmony. After years of playing improvised shows in small clubs and smaller apartments from Brooklyn to Harlem, the pandemic brought spontaneous collaboration between diverse musicians to an … Continue reading Playfield Vol. 1
Live in the Metaverse (to Evan Parker and John Coltrane)
UK-based musician Massimo Magee is relatively certain that this was the first free jazz concert made in a virtual venue. His innovative new album, Live in the Metaverse (to Evan Parker and John Coltrane), is defined by this sense of confident and playful originality. Magee recorded this performance by streaming live into a room called … Continue reading Live in the Metaverse (to Evan Parker and John Coltrane)
Some Kind Of Tomorrow
Soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom and bassist Mark Helias come together to create duets discovered in the moment in a way that is rarely heard today with Some Kind of Tomorrow. The long time bandmates, separated by space and time find a way to play in real time with one another and the results are … Continue reading Some Kind Of Tomorrow
Different Noises 