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Intakt Records

By Hobart Taylor | Allston Boylston
July 9, 2025
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This week we celebrate the outstanding Swiss independent label, Intakt. Also, we have an extended work by the emerging artist Rico Jones, and a nuanced composition from trombonist/composer John Yao and his "17 piece instrument."

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Shuteen Erdenebaatar

piano
b.1998

" data-original-title="" title="">Shuteen Erdenebaatar /

Nils Kugelmann

bass, acoustic

" data-original-title="" title="">Nils Kugelmann "What Will Remain" from Under the Same Stars (Motema) 00:00

John Yao

trombone
b.1977

" data-original-title="" title="">John Yao "Early Morning Walk" from Points in Time (See Tao) 03:37

Host Speaks 10:00

Sumi Tonooka

piano
b.1956

" data-original-title="" title="">Sumi Tonooka

Alchemy Sound Project

band / ensemble / orchestra

" data-original-title="" title="">Alchemy Sound Project " For Stanley" from Under the Surface (ARC) 11:42

Rico Jones

saxophone

" data-original-title="" title="">Rico Jones "BloodLines Suite of the Eternal and Omnipresent Spirit" from BloodLines (GiantStep Arts) 20:18

Host Speaks 50:40

Myra Melford

piano
b.1957

" data-original-title="" title="">Myra Melford "A Line With A Mind Of Its Own"

Michael Formanek

bass, acoustic
b.1958

" data-original-title="" title="">Michael Formanek /

Ches Smith

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">Ches Smith from Splash (Intakt) 52:08

Louis Moholo-Moholo

drums
1940 - 2025

" data-original-title="" title="">Louis Moholo-Moholo /

Marilyn Crispell

piano
b.1947

" data-original-title="" title="">Marilyn Crispell "Journey" from Sibanye (We Are One) (Intakt) 56:38

James Brandon Lewis

saxophone, tenor
b.1983

" data-original-title="" title="">James Brandon Lewis Quartet "Multicellular Beings" from Abstraction is Deliverance (Intakt) 1:08:26

Host Speaks 54:44

Ingrid Laubrock

saxophone
b.1970

" data-original-title="" title="">Ingrid Laubrock

Kris Davis

piano
b.1980

" data-original-title="" title="">Kris Davis "Blood Moon" from Blood Moon (Intakt) 1:16:48

David Murray

saxophone, tenor
b.1955

" data-original-title="" title="">David Murray Quartet "Cycles and Seasons" from Francesca (Intakt) 1:01:31

Angelika Niescier

saxophone

" data-original-title="" title="">Angelika Niescier

Tomeka Reid

cello

" data-original-title="" title="">Tomeka Reid /

Savannah Harris

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">Savannah Harris "A Dance to Never End" from Beyond Dragons (Intakt) 1:29:28

Ohad Talmor

saxophone, tenor

" data-original-title="" title="">Ohad Talmor "Four Sextet Variations on Tune 4" from Back to the Land (Intakt) 1:38:32

Host Speaks 1:45:38

Silke Eberhard

saxophone

" data-original-title="" title="">Silke Eberhard Trio "Being-A-Ning" from Being-A-Ning (Intakt) 1:48:15

Host Speaks 1:53:48

Irene Schweizer

piano
b.1941

" data-original-title="" title="">Irene Schweizer " Reise" from Irene's Hot Four (Intakt) 1:56:12

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