Alex Fournier

Stages

By Dan Pitt

Label: Self Published
Released: 2023
Track listing: Fourteen Days; Part Two; Foreboding; Tape Age; Fifteen Minutes; Ghosts; Stages.

Carlos Bica, Coltrane/Dolphy & James Brandon Lewis

by Maurice Hogue
August 28, 2023

This show is highlighted by Portuguese bassist Carlos Bica's latest release on Clean Feed--Playing With Beethoven. Bica creates some very unexpected music. No one expected to hear em>Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy; the original recording sat undiscovered for many years. But it's now available and there's a great deal of buzz ...

Six-ish Plateaus

By Alex Fournier

Label: Elastic Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: An Intrepid Toad; Six-ish Plateaus; Addenda/Agenda; Tragic Leisure; Saltlick City.

Triio: Six-ish Plateaus

by Dan McClenaghan
September 27, 2022

Canadian bassist Alex Fournier takes inspiration from some of the best, most notably bassist/cellist/composer Andrew Downing and bassist/composer Michael Formanek. Both of these mentors sit outside the mainstream, but not far off, within spitting distance we might say. Six-ish Plateaus, by Fournier's Triio—which is not a trio but rather a sextet--explores the hybrid of written material ...

Idris Ackamoor, Jasper Hoiby, Die Hochstapler & Monder/Malaby/Rainey

by Maurice Hogue
September 12, 2022

A band that has endured since the 70s when they were one of the first American bands to tour Africa, Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids, have just re-released some of that early music, and we dig into that, plus new music from Germany's Die Hochstapler, Toronto's Luis Deniz, bassist Nicolas Ojeda from Buenos Aires & Jasper ...

Yaroslav Likhachev, Fade In Trio, Joao Carreiro & Baker/Harris/Lopez

by Maurice Hogue
August 22, 2022

This episode has an edge to much of the music with tastes of new recordings from German saxophonist Yaroslav Likhachev and his quartet, Manila-based saxophonist Rick Countryman teamed up with Swiss drummer Christian Bucher, the Chicago trio of Jim Baker, Bill Harris & Brandon Lopez, Alien Radio from Canada, the Italian trio Fade In, Portuguese guitarist ...

A Mix Of New And Old

by Bob Osborne
August 4, 2022

This week a mix of brand new releases and classic recordings. There are fascinating new albums from Gard Nilssen, Steve Tibbetts, Daniel Carter with Evan Strauss, 5-Track, and Sheridan Riley, Alex Fournier, Trevor Watts & Liam Genocky, and, Brian Eaton. I also have some older releases from Elvin Jones, Pharoah Sanders, Clifford Jordan, Maria Schneider and ...

Roger Lewis, Gordon Grdina, Nick Dunston & O' Canada!

by Maurice Hogue
August 1, 2022

Hour one of this episode lands on New Orleans for a taste of new albums by the veteran saxophonist Roger Lewis's debut as a leader and poet Don Paul with a great band. Polish keyboardist Kamil Piotrowski was in NYC for the recent Jazztopad Festival, collaborating with locals, but I've got his latest Polish release to ...

Wrongs

By Dan Pitt

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Two Part; BroOke; Shadows Loom; Hunter��s Dream; What Is; Wrongs; Change is Imminent.