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The Creative Convergence Of R*Time And Doug Hammond

by Lawrence Peryer
A metal sculpture, a borrowed ladder, and Doug Hammond's unexpected presence transformed a routine tour stop into the genesis of It's Now: R*Time Plays Doug Hammond (ESP-Disk, 2024). During R*Time's performance at a gallery in Linz, Austria, drummer Igal Foni spotted a metal sculpture he wanted to incorporate. When the venue declined permission, he found a ...
Breakdown Lane: Free Solos & Duos 1976?-?1998

By Duck Baker
Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2024
Track listing: Allah, Perhaps; Peace; No Family Planning 1; Klee; Like Flies (Requiem for Bobby Fussell); Breakdown
Lane; Yewatta; Buffalo Fire; No Family Planning 2; Eusebia’s Lament; 47 East Houston St.; 2:29 in
Unleavenworth; Sonadem Sol; Breakdown Lane (duo version); Take the ‘A’ Train; Straight, No Chaser
(bonus track).
New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2024
Track listing: Primal Poem; Sea Song; The Function; Non Circle; Tone IQ; Brain System; Brain Work; Coherent System.
Spirit Stronger Than Blood

By Frank London
Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2024
Track listing: Let There Be Peace; Resilience; Spirit Stronger Than Blood; Poem for a Blue Voice; Abundant Love; Resistance/Healing.
Mark Corroto's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Mark Corroto
Ahh, the Best Of" lists, when I get the privilege to tell you what is what." For me, the releases below are not the best discs of 2024 but the ones I kept coming back to most often this past year. I certainly missed a few, as I will discover reading other AAJ contributor's best-of lists. ...
Duck Baker: Breakdown Lane: Free Solos & Duos 1976?-?1998

by Mark Corroto
This release is a great introduction to the music of Duck Baker and, maybe more importantly, a reminder of why the musician's sound is so vital. Baker, a finger-style acoustic guitarist, is a folk music omnivore. Besides Scottish and Irish fiddle music, he is at home with bebop, blues, free jazz and free improvisation. Let that ...
Brilliant ECM Luminessence Series Shines New Light On Classic Vinyl

by Joshua Weiner
Blue Note. Verve. Impulse! ESP-Disk. Just saying the name of such storied jazz record labels immediately conjures up each one's distinct aesthetic, from the music to the cover art. By the close of the 1960s, jazz was undergoing a period of intense change, with an unprecedented mixing and matching of styles and influences--both musical and political--that ...
Matthew Shipp: New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz

by Mark Corroto
Jazz fans are much like baseball geeks; they collect facts and statistics. The baseball fan will know a player's numbers such as on base percentage, at bats, home runs and stolen bases, whereas the jazz fan, maybe better said the jazz fanatic, will note recording dates and lineups, titles, releases and recording engineers. The baseball fan ...
Matthew Shipp Trio: New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz

by Karl Ackermann
Matthew Shipp with bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Newman Taylor Baker, issue their fifth album as the most enduring of Shipp's various trios. New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz is another vehicle for the pianist/composer in which to express his singular, intricate vision. The perpetual sea-change artist believes that this album is a substantial leap ahead ...
Paul R. Harding / Michael Bisio / Juma Sultan: They Tried to Kill Me Yesterday

by Mark Corroto
When we speak of poetry and music, should we ask the chicken and the egg question? As in, which came first? Certainly there was music before spoken word, for imitations of bird calls and other nature sounds will have predated language. So, it's settled, right? Maybe, but not so fast. They Tried to Kill Me Yesterday ...