Alabaster DePlume

This fluid live music performance reassures with behaviour and sound while it challenges with thoughts and words. With two recent viral clips shared close to a thousand times with 55K minutes viewed, the show delivers a distinct political philosophy through hilarious and provocative honesty. The quartet performance described as ��The best artistic event I have ever experienced in my life�� on the Manchester Jazz Festival website has also toured solo internationally. Collaborating with a fresh ensemble of musicians each month in his East London development residency ��Peach��, saxophonist and spoken word artist Alabaster is engaging communities in the production of his 4th album The Corner of a Sphere

Gira

By Marcelo Frota

Label: Batov Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Para; Rio; Passo De Avarandar; Oqueeei; Jao; My Mind; Beija Flor; Summer Interlude; A Walk In The Park; Gira.

Robyn Rocket and People you May of Heard Of : Gentle EP

By Robyn Rocket

Label: Self Release
Released: 2024
Track listing: You Choose What You Do with Your Power On Connection

MOMO.: Gira

by Chris May
September 27, 2024

Gira is one of those exhilarating beyond-category albums which London produces uniquely well, if the gentle reader will excuse a little partisanship. It is part m��sica popular brasileira (MPB) and part jazz, but never entirely one or the other, swinging between the two as the fancy takes it. Add to that splashes of West African highlife, ...

Ruth Goller: Basso Profundo

by Chris May
February 26, 2024

Altogether easier to talk to than is suggested by the stage makeup in the photo above, Ruth Goller reveals herself as totally down-home when, some ten minutes into this interview, the conversation turns to International Anthem, the Chicago-based label that has released her second solo album, Skyllumina. “I feel so lucky to have them," says Goller. ...

Kavita Shah, Alabaster Deplume, Angelika Niescier, Tomeka Reid, Savannah Harris & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
October 24, 2023

A cosmopolitan edition of Mondo Jazz, which brings India, Cape Verde, Canada, Haiti, England, Sicily, Sardinia, the Great American Rivers, California and Germany to your headphones, wherever you might be, through Radio Free Brooklyn's digital transmitter in Bushwick, NY! Let's call it “jazz without borders!" Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison Mondo Jazz ...

New Music From James Brandon Lewis & More

by Bob Osborne
October 12, 2023

On this show we feature new album from James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet. In addition, releases from Steve Lehman, Matana Roberts, Quinsin Nachoff, Royal New Zealand Air Force Jazz Orchestra, Alabaster DePlume, Surdelsur Ensamble, Jesse Dietschi, Wendell Harrison, and, Itamar Borochov.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 James Brandon Lewis, Red Lily Quintet “Deep River" from ...

Recent Releases From Stan Sulzmann, Ferdinando Romano, Sam Dickinson, & More

by Bob Osborne
August 3, 2023

On this show we feature new and recent releases from Stan Sulzmann, Ferdinando Romano, Sam Dickinson, Itamar Borochov, Christine Jensen, Orrin Evans, Frank Zappa, Alabaster DePlume, Alan Skidmore, and, Paul Dunmall with Olie Brice. Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Stan Sulzmann “Flying Scots" from On Loan With Gratitude (Jazz In Britain) 00:48 Ferdinando Romano “La ...

We Jazz Records: Finland's indie label shaking up the global conversation

by Rob Garratt
September 15, 2022

The past decade's genre-bending jazz renaissance has been well-documented, but between the trailblazing players taking improvised music to increasingly hip places, and the ever-growing audience queuing up to hear them, sits the homegrown labels bottling these brave, thrilling (r)evolutions for all to hear. In conversations about the state of jazz today, it's often easier to distil ...

Michael Leonhart, Marta Sanchez, Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Alabaster Deplume & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 26, 2022

It's February. The Winter Olympics are well under way and there are so many new and upcoming releases in 2022 that we can fill an entire show with them... Starting and ending with two Orchestras: Michael Leonhart's mighty ensemble and their upcoming stunner, The Normyn Suites, and Paul Wacrenier's Healing Orchestra, a band with a mission: ...