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Roots Magic, Audio Cave Artists & Alan Braufman

By Maurice Hogue | One Man's Jazz
September 9, 2020
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A new release by the Italian Quartet Roots Magic is always welcome. Their contemporary and improvisatory approach to old blues tunes and the way they always put their own touch on the music of avant-garde jazz composers is kind of unique on the European scene. Take Root Among the Stars, out on Clean Feed, should be right up there with the best of 2020 releases. Also from Italy comes music by the The Auanders, a larger ensemble formed initially for a visit to New York arranged some years back by the busy Auand label, and a track from the Livio Bartolo Variable Unit. Speaking of record labels, Warsaw's Audio Cave artists are sampled, and there's more from Clean Feed's latest batch. You'll also hear a preview of the upcoming release by Loft veteran

Alan Braufman

saxophone

" data-original-title="" title="">Alan Braufman, and music from a new name on the scene, saxophonist Max Bessensen.

Playlist

Roots Magic "Devil Got My Woman" from Take Root Among the Stars (Clean Feed) 00:00
Host speaks 08:22
Roots Magic "Humility in the Light of the Creator" from Take Root Among the Stars (Clean Feed) 10:00
Sergio Verdinelli Trio "El Intragante" from No Me Digas Loco (Ears & Eyes) 15:36

Steffen Schorn

saxophone, soprano

" data-original-title="" title="">Steffen Schorn & Norwegian Wind Ensemble "Malacungu��" from Hermeto's Universe (Paschen) 21:45

Russ Lossing

piano
b.1960

" data-original-title="" title="">Russ Lossing Trio "Furiosa" from Mood Suite (Steeplechase) 26:50

Host speaks 31:50

Hunger Pangs "Hollyn The Goat" from II (Audio Cave) 32:54

Max Bessensen "Mayhem" from Trouble (Ropeadope) 44:05

Host speaks 50:54

The Auanders "Fies" from Text (us) (Auand) 52:33

Martin Kuchen

saxophone

" data-original-title="" title="">Martin Kuchen &

Mathias Landaeus

piano
b.1969

" data-original-title="" title="">Mathias Landaeus "Love Flee Thy House (In Breslau)" from Mind the Gap of Silence (Clean Feed) 59:44

Host speaks 1:07:28

Who Trio

" data-original-title="" title="">Who Trio "The Mooche" from Strell (Clean Feed) 1:08:49

Eivind Opsvik

bass

" data-original-title="" title="">Eivind Opsvik & Overseas "Doggerbanken" from Overseas Live (2002 -2012) (Loyal Label) 1:16:05

Abbey Rader

drums
b.1943

" data-original-title="" title="">Abbey Rader & John McGinn "Freedom with Roots" from Duo from the Heart (Abray) 1:21:52

Host speaks 1:28:33

Livio Bartolo Variable Unit "Torre Ovo-Librari-Trullo De Mare" from Don't Beat a Dead Horse (Dodicilune) 1:29:33

Whit Dickey

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">Whit Dickey Trio "Desert Flower" from Expanding Light (Tao Forms) 1:36:48

Hunger Pangs "HP Sovs" from II (Audio Cave) 1:44:45

Host speaks 1:53:14

Luis Nubiola

" data-original-title="" title="">Luis Nubiola "Neo" from Ten Plagues (Private Edition) 1:53:53

Alan Braufman "Home" from The Fire Still Burns (Control Group) 1:59:34

Host speaks 2:05:22

O.N.E. Quintet "Something Impossible Possible" from One (Audio Cave) 2:07:31

Lisa Ullen

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Lisa Ullen,

Joe Williamson

guitar

" data-original-title="" title="">Joe Williamson &

Erik Carlsson

" data-original-title="" title="">Erik Carlsson "Solid" from Slow Dance (Self-released) 2:16:40

Thumbscrew

band / ensemble / orchestra

" data-original-title="" title="">Thumbscrew "Composition #52" from The Anthony Braxton Project (Cuneiform) 223:49

Host speaks 2:28:09

Diomede "Gwda Mala" from Przsypiewki ( Audio Cave) 2:29:06

Christophe Monniot

saxophone

" data-original-title="" title="">Christophe Monniot "Free Noisy" from Freestyles (Le Triton) 2:36:29

James Brandon Lewis

saxophone, tenor
b.1983

" data-original-title="" title="">James Brandon Lewis,

Chad Taylor

drums
b.1973

" data-original-title="" title="">Chad Taylor "Come Sunday" from Live In Willisau (Intakt) 2:40:17

Horace Tapscott

piano
1934 - 1999

" data-original-title="" title="">Horace Tapscott "One for Lately" from The Dark Tree (Hat Art) 2:43:57

Host speaks 2:54:07

The Auanders "Song to the Unborn" from Text (us) (Auand) 2:54:34

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