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Marty Ehrlich's Trio Exaltation, Loot, Enemy & Cosmic Ear

By Maurice Hogue | One Man's Jazz
April 21, 2025
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The much respected woodwind master,

Marty Ehrlich

woodwinds
b.1955

" data-original-title="" title="">Marty Ehrlich, has a thing about trios—he feels a trio is a perfect vehicle to get to the essential core of music. Ehrlich has fronted several great trios with the most recent being Trio Exaltation. The 2018 debut of that band with bassist

John Hébert

bass

" data-original-title="" title="">John Hébert and drummer

Nasheet Waits

drums
b.1971

" data-original-title="" title="">Nasheet Waits was met with much acclaim and now they're back with This Time. It's terrific and it's the feature in this episode of One Man's Jazz. Actually, there are several feature releases from across the spectrum of improvised music. Cosmic Ear is a Swedish quintet that jumps into

Don Cherry

trumpet
1936 - 1995

" data-original-title="" title="">Don Cherry's music with gusto on their new Traces for We Jazz Records. Dutch saxophone legend

Ab Baars

clarinet

" data-original-title="" title="">Ab Baars stands out in the new Netherlands band, Loot. Drummer

Teun Verbruggen

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">Teun Verbruggen from Belgium takes his Blind IO quartet down a path referencing the works of Terry Pratchett's Discworld universe, Sanskrit rasa's and astronomical phenomen in his new Pillars Of Creation Part 1, while

Enemy

band / ensemble / orchestra

" data-original-title="" title="">Enemy, the European trio of

Kit Downes

keyboards
b.1986

" data-original-title="" title="">Kit Downes,

Peter Eldh

" data-original-title="" title="">Peter Eldh and

James Maddren

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">James Maddren (piano/bass/drums) should make plenty of friends on their latest, Fiend. There's plenty more. Have a listen.

Playlist

Gil Scott-Heron
vocals
1949 - 2011
" data-original-title="" title="">Gil Scott-Heron "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" from The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (BMG) 00:00
Archie Shepp
saxophone, tenor
b.1937
" data-original-title="" title="">Archie Shepp "Things Have Got To Change" from Things Have Got To Change (Impulse) 03:02
Host speaks 19:46
Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation "Dusk" from This Time (Sunnyside) 22:05
Fred Moten
poet / spoken word
" data-original-title="" title="">Fred Moten &
Brandon Lopez
bass
b.1988
" data-original-title="" title="">Brandon Lopez "#11" from Revision (AUM Fidelity) 30:23
Stéphane Galland
drums
b.1969
" data-original-title="" title="">Stéphane Galland "Ipseity" from Stéphane Galland & The Rhythm Hunters (Challenge) 36:32
Host speaks 44:39
Teun Verbruggen & Blind IO "Lockman Hole" from Pillars Of Creation Part 1 (Rat Records) 46:57
Nels Cline
guitar, electric
b.1956
" data-original-title="" title="">Nels Cline's Concentrik Quartet "Surplus" from Nels Cline's Concentrik Quartet (Blue Note) 54:37
Felix Henkelhausen
bass, acoustic
" data-original-title="" title="">Felix Henkelhausen Quintet "Particle IV: The Place Was A Waiting Room" from Deranged Particles (Fun In The Church) 59:48
Host speaks 1:08:33
Tony Jones
drums
b.1953
" data-original-title="" title="">Tony Jones,Charlie Burnham &
Charles Downs
drums
" data-original-title="" title="">Charles Downs "Prepare A Refuge" from Sextet (Reva Records) 1:10:16
Kadawa
" data-original-title="" title="">Kadawa "Sophianic Mess" from Post Graduation Fees (Self-released) 1:18:22
Enemy "Faster Than Light" from Fiend (Edition) 1:23:58
Host speaks 1:29:46
Loot "Upperclass Upperground" from Loot (ICP) 1:31:20
Loot "Impala" from Loot (ICP) 1:35:02
Mathias Landaeus
piano
b.1969
" data-original-title="" title="">Mathias Landaeus Trio "The Gift" from Dissolving Patterns (Self-released) 1:39:51
Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation "Sometimes This Time" from This Time (Sunnyside) 1:46:18
Host speaks 1:52:52
Cosmic Ear "Right Here Right Now" from Traces (We Jazz) 1:55:58

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