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Microplastique: Blare Blow Bloom!

by Glenn Astarita
Blare Blow Bloom! by Microplastique, a Chicago-based contemporary music group, is a wild ride through the avant-garde jazz landscape. The album is a cacophony of sound that somehow manages to be both chaotic and harmonious, a testament to the artists' musical prowess and fearless creativity. The press release states: Performing the compositions of band leader Adam ...
Microplastique: Blare Blow Bloom!

by Lawrence Peryer
Chicago's experimental music scene welcomes a new voice as Microplastique, four multi-instrumentalists, release their debut album, Blare Blow Bloom! (Irritable Mystic Records), on December 6, 2024. Formed in April 2023, the group includes Ben Zucker, Molly Jones, Josh Harlow and Adam Shead, with Shead composing and leading. Blare Blow Bloom! documents Microplastique's July 2024 ...
Jason Stein / Damon Smith / Adam Shead: Volumes & Surfaces

by Glenn Astarita
Jason Stein, a saxophonist with a penchant for pushing boundaries, brings his avant-garde sensibilities and razor-sharp technique to the fore in Volumes & Surfaces. Known for his dexterous command of the bass clarinet, Stein has made a name for himself in the jazz world with his innovative approach and fearless improvisation. His contributions to this album ...
David Bixler, Milosz Pieczonka, Reza Askari, Marilyn Crispell & Jason Stein

by Maurice Hogue
This edition of One Man's Jazz is the 600th done for Taint Radio, and to mark the occasion two albums that would have fit in perfectly with Black History Month in February, but good music has no timetable. Saxophonist David Bixler drew upon not on the jazz poetry of the great Black Poet, Langston Hughes, but ...
New Releases From Ernesto Cervini, Gary Urwin, Charles Pillow, And More

by Bob Osborne
On this show we present new releases from Ernesto Cervini, Gary Urwin, Charles Pillow, Last Oak Out, Ayumi Ishito, Doug MacDonald, Joe Webb, Gui Duvignau, Ivo Perelman with Barry Guy & Ramon Lopez, Jason Stein with Marilyn Crispell Damon Smith & Adam Shead, Klaus Kugel & Pavel Hruby, Recabarren Menares Vazquez, Bobby Wellins, and, Yes! Trio. ...
Hum

By Adam Shead
Label: Irritable Mystic Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. Yawning Flock 21:53 2. Precipitous Halo 21:36
Volumes & Surfaces

By Jason Stein
Label: Balance Point Acoustics
Released: 2022
Track listing: Heterodox Symmetry; The Deaf Voice Of The Light; Blue Isn't For Sitting; The Non Dimension
Of The Present; Clearly, Blue Is For Sitting.
Jason Stein / Damon Smith / Adam Shead: Volumes & Surfaces

by Mark Corroto
Damon Smith might be the hardest working man in show business. Free-jazz show business, that is. If there is a performance or recording somewhere in the States or Europe, there is a very good chance his double bass is in attendance. You name an improvising artist and he's recorded with them, from Roscoe Mitchell to Joe ...
Daniel Rorke, Hello Cacus & Previews

by Maurice Hogue
Saxophonist Daniel Rorke, originally from Australia, then NYC, Scandinavia and now in Dublin Ireland, dropped some music on OMJ recently and tracks from different trios plus a stint in a crazy Icelandic big band are featured. Two very important alto saxophonists have new recordings on the way and those are previewed--Ornette Coleman's first two releases for ...
New Releases From Michael Weiss, Ron Ledoux, Tim Berne & Gregg Belisle-Chi, and more

by Bob Osborne
On this week's show we feature an eclectic selection of brand new releases from Michael Weiss, Ron Ledoux, Tim Berne & Gregg Belisle-Chi, Hello Cacus!, Luneta Freedom Jazz Collective, In Real Time, Adam Shead and Manuel Valera New Cuban Express Big Band.Playlist Michael Weiss Persistence" from Persistence (Cellar Live) 00:00 Ron Ledoux Quartet Fourth ...