Mark Helias

Born: October 1

Bassist/Composer Mark Helias has been making innovative music since beginning his career in the mid seventies. He has enjoyed long musical associations with Edward Blackwell, Anthony Davis, Dewey Redman, Ray Anderson, Don Cherry and Gerry Hemingway.

Eight albums of his music have been released since 1984, including Split Image, The Current Set (1987), Desert Blue (1989) and Attack The Future, (1992) Loopin' the Cool (1995), Fictionary (1998), Come Ahead Back (1998) and New School (2001) Verbs of Will (2003).

Mr. Helias had a seventeen year association with the great drummer Edward Blackwell, with whom he recorded two CDs

John O��Gallagher, Ivo Perelman, Jon Irabagon & Tomas Fujiwara

by Maurice Hogue
August 18, 2025

Three of today's premier saxophonists share this edition's spotlight, as all have new releases--John O'Gallagher, Ivo Perelman & Jon Irabagon. O'Gallagher, now living in Portugal, reunites with guitarist Ben Monder on his new Ancestral and pulls off a first for master drummers Billy Hart and {{m: Andrew Cyrille who had never played together. Perelman, on the ...

Big Ears Festival 2025

by Mark Sullivan
April 8, 2025

Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 27-30, 2025 This year's festival again featured several spotlighted events (but none of them required special ticketing, as was tried last year). “Across the Horizon" was a series of concerts combining Americana and ambient music, curated by Bob Holmes and the band SUSS. “Age ...

Uri Caine Trio at Bimhuis

by Nenad Georgievski
March 10, 2025

Uri Caine Trio Bimhuis Amsterdam, Netherlands February 28, 2025 Uri Caine's concert at Bimhuis was nothing short of an exhilarating journey through the vast landscape of jazz. The trio--Caine on piano, Mark Helias on double bass, and Joey Baron on drums--displayed a telepathic level of interplay that kept the audience captivated ...

Erik Friedlander: Dirty Boxing / Floating City

by Vic Albani
February 21, 2025

Ironico come sempre, Erik Friedlander torna sul mercato con un singolare nuovo lavoro intitolato Dirty Boxing dedicato al crudo vocabolario delle arti marziali miste (!!!) con tanto di guantoni da boxe in copertina. Il gioco �� quello di esplorare gli imprevisti parallelismi tra la disciplina artistica della musica e il combattimento strategico delle arti marziali.

Water Music

By Ivo Perelman Quartet

Label: Rogue Art
Released: 2024
Track listing: Entrainment; Life Force; Sound Essence; Human Intuition; Boundless; Water Music; Fluidity; Flow.

Dirty Boxing / Floating City

By Erik Friedlander

Label: Skipstone Records
Released: 2024
Track listing:
Dirty Boxing:

Sprawl; Foot Stomp; Shrimping (Mod 9); Ground & Pound (Mod 1); D'Arce (Mod 2); Contender; Submission; Kimura.

Floating City:

Floating City I; Floating City II; Floating City (Interstitial I); Floating City III; Floating City IV; Floating City (Interstitial II); Floating City V.

Truth Seeker

By Ivo Perelman

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Truth Seeker; Devotion; Mystical Vibration; Spiritual Growth; Ubiquitous Light; Life's Meaning; Intuition.

Gordon Grdina's The Marrow with Fathieh Honari

By Gordon Grdina's The Marrow

Label: Attaboygirl Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Not of Them; Raqib; Rags e Parvaneh; Break The Branch; Qalander.

Jazz&Wine Of Peace 2024

by Neri Pollastri
November 20, 2024

Varie sedi Jazz&Wine of Peace 2024 Cormons e altre localit�� del Friuli e della Brda slovena 23-27 ottobre 2024 Una presenzassenza ha caratterizzato la ventisettesima edizione del festival Jazz&Wine Of Peace, svoltasi dal 23 al 27 ottobre a C��rmons e, come sempre, nello splendido territorio che circonda la cittadina friulana: ...