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Human Intelligence (Live)

By Christoph Irniger Pilgrim

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Hendrix; Calling the Spirits; Secret Level; Human Intelligence (Interlude); Seven Down Eight Up; The Kraken; Human Intelligence; Emergency Exit; Back in the Game.

Christoph Irniger's Pilgrim: Human Intelligence (live)

by Mark Corroto
April 9, 2025

"The one thing I concluded was not to try and reproduce a live event--I thought, live goals are different. There might be more improvisation, more risk," Christoph Irniger reflects in the liner notes to Pilgrim's 2023 studio album Ghost Cat (Intakt). The saxophonist and composer reinforces the idea with this electrifying live recording, captured at Red ...

Alex Hendriksen: Lotus Blossom

by Chris May
July 11, 2024

There is a story, possibly apocryphal, about a young tenor saxophonist who, after some arm twisting from a friend, was persuaded to venture on to the bandstand and join in a jam session alongside Coleman Hawkins. Afterwards the player was asked by his friend whether he had enjoyed the experience. “It was OK," he said, “but ...

John Blum, David Murray and Chad Taylor: The Recursive Tree

by Troy Dostert
June 8, 2024

After maintaining an almost impossibly prolific recorded output during the 1980s and 1990s (with over fifty releases in the 1990s alone), saxophonist David Murray eased up considerably in the 2000s, leaving his fans wondering if he might ever return to his earlier fecundity. Although it would be unrealistic to expect the veteran tenorist to approach the ...

Ghost Cat

By Christoph Irniger

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Marvel; Seven Down Eight Up; Ghost Cat; Calling the Spirits; Four States of Mind; Walking with Dinosaurs.

Meta Zero

By Samir B?hringer

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2023
Track listing: Magnetfeld; Adam Shaq; River Down; Albatross; Homunkulus; Fraktal; Scheinriese; Serious Game; Perpetuum Mobile; A Sunset Over A Windy Field.

Chris May's Best Albums Of 2023

by Chris May
December 4, 2023

Another great year for recorded jazz. Fourteen of 2023's most special albums are presented here. Eight are new recordings and six are reissues or previously unreleased archive items. Joint Number One Best New Albums Of 2023 Irreversible Entanglements Protect Your Light Impulse! There are two contendors for the slam-dunk ...

Jaimie Branch: 7 Steps To Heaven

by Chris May
October 24, 2023

Following the 2024 re-election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, and his subsequent ratification as President-for-Life, the US Constitution was suspended. Jaimie Branch, who had passed in 2022, was one of many musicians, film makers, writers and visual artists whose work, no longer protected by the First Amendment, was declared Un-American and its ...

The Red Microphone, Nicolas Politzer, Trevor Dunn & Surya Botofasina

by Maurice Hogue
October 24, 2022

This episode of One Man's Jazz has bookends of much contrast, from the opening set of music featuring trumpeter Jaimie Branch to the closing pair of tunes locked in the transcendental mode of Alice Coltrane from one of her disciples, Surya Botofasina. In between, there's some great stuff highlighted by new releases from the poetry and ...