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Geof Bradfield: Colossal Abundance

by Dan Bilawsky
In the summer of 2023, saxophonist Geof Bradfield and trumpeter Chad McCullough launched Calligram Records--a label focusing on the Chicago creative music scene and its branches. The first batch of albums was strong, with showcases for each of the label heads' respective combo projects, trumpeter Russ Johnson's chordless quartet, and newcomer tenorist Arman Sangalang. A wide ...
Geof Bradfield Releases 'Colossal Abundance' On Double Vinyl

Geof Bradfield straddles diverse streams of the African Diaspora, drawing on modern jazz, Southern blues and roots, and African rhythms. With Colossal Abundance, his 10th album as a leader, Bradfield unveils his most ambitious work to date. Colossal Abundance is a meditation on the fabulous wealth—material, intellectual and spiritual—and abject poverty that coexist in modern society. ...
SticklerPhonics: Technicolor Ghost Parade

by Mark Corroto
For drummer, composer, and bandleader Scott Amendola it ain't nothing but a party. From his early days with guitarist Charlie Hunter's ensembles and their later collaboration with T.J. Kirk which covered the music of Thelonious Monk, James Brown, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Amendola has been an entertaining and maybe more important immersive musician. He seeks out ...
Raffi Garabedian: The Crazy Dog

by Hrayr Attarian
Bay area composer and saxophonist Raffi Garabedian is the descendent of survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. These life defining events have had a major impact on family lore and on cultural expressions primarily in the form of literature. Garabedian draws inspiration from these oral and written stories to craft the cohesive eight part suite ...
Louis Sclavis, David León, Roby Glod & Joy Guidry

by Maurice Hogue
Reed players have taken over the house this week. The eminent clarinetist Louis Sclavis stars in an excellent quartet using music, text and spoken word to create a moody sonic landscape out of short stories, poems and aphorisms by French and African authors. Other European saxophonists heard are Luxembourg's Roby Glod in a familiar setting with ...
Bear Proof

Label: Secret Hatch Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Gold Gate; Bent Into Shape; Switched On; Flush; Magnetic North; Boom Bust Startup Ruin; Turns Luck; Prospects; Reverse Fortune.
Rivers In Our Veins

Label: Royal Potato Family
Released: 2023
Track listing: Of Two Rivers (Part 1); Of Two Rivers (Part 2); Water; Hudson; Fierce; For The Fish; Blue Wild Indigo; GO!; Shipyards; Riparian Love; Potomac; The Dancing Tide.
Nighttime Creatures

Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Nighttime Creatures; C.B. the Time Traveler; Cloud House; Astral Light of Alarid; Lady of the Lavender Mist; Land Here; Ringleader; Big Weirdo; Wrong Door for Rocket Fuel; Tristeza; Run.
Hudson

Album: Rivers In Our Veins
By Allison Miller
Label: Royal Potato Family
Released: 2023
Duration: 5:03
The Most Exciting Jazz Albums Since 1969: 2017-2020

by Robert Middleton
As we start to wind down to the 72nd jazz thriller, in our penultimate collection of half a dozen jazz thrillers this week, it becomes clear that brilliant, compelling music comes in all shapes and sizes. From an understated quartet from Germany to an Aaron Parks masterpiece, all of these albums deserve a place in the ...