Mark Sanders

Born: August 31, 1960

Introducing A Very Heavy Person, First Visit

By Sergio Armaroli

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2025
Track listing: Intro; Pigs Grunting; The Train; Chewing On Crackers; BluBottle Fly; Rubber Boots; Iron Scaffolding; 20 Scratchin Pencills; Scraping Frost Windshield; Wheezing Lungs; Small Scissors; Low Groan.

Follow A Very Heavy Person, First Visit

By Sergio Armaroli

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2025
Track listing: Barely Hiding A Vocal Sneer; Suppressing A Sneeze; A Very Heavy Person; Violent Gasp; Puffing; Mallet; Dog Softly Barking; Straw; Squeal Of Servo; Sheets Of Rain; Loud Mother Daughter; Long Thin Spring.

Colapesce

By Gabriele Mitelli

Label: We Insist! Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Mare Nostrum; Cola, the Call of the Waves; Colapesce, Son of the Sea; The King and the Challenge; Three Stones, Three Pillars; The Abyss; The Column of Sicily; The Sacrifice; The Rising Legend; Shadows in the Depths; Songs of Sea and Land; The Dance of the Waves; Under the Waves; The Eternal Guardian (Hymn for Lelio Giannetto); Voices of the Sea.

Cup & Ring

By Larry Stabbins

Label: Discus Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Cup No 1; Ring No 1; Ring No 2; Ring No 3; Cup No 2; Ring No 4; Cup No 3; Ring No 5; Ring No 6; Cup No 4; Cup No 5;

Ecliptic

By Shifa ???? - Rachel Musson, Pat Thomas, Mark Sanders

Label: Discus Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Ecliptic.

Dark Days

By Neil Charles

Label: Jazz Now
Released: 2025
Track listing: Dark Days; I Knew It; Why Do We Hate; They Do Not See; Dark Days Outro; Sing Or Shout; Children; Army; Treason; A Nation; Find A Way.

Neil Charles Quartet: Dark Days

by Mark Corroto
August 25, 2025

In 2025, amid global unrest and political fracture, the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom can feel like a distant dream, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech like a myth from a gentler past. Has social media, with all its noise and manipulations, induced a kind of societal amnesia? ...

Shifa ???? - Rachel Musson, Pat Thomas, Mark Sanders: Ecliptic

by Mark Corroto
August 13, 2025

Some books are divided into chapters--numbered, titled, and carefully structured. The musical equivalent is the tracklist: segmented, labeled pieces presented in order. But Ecliptic by the trio Shifa (????, Arabic for “healing") rejects that format entirely. This 46-minute set of improvised music by saxophonist Rachel Musson, pianist Pat Thomas and drummer Mark Sanders unfolds without titles, ...

Olie Brice Quartet: All It Was

by Mark Corroto
August 11, 2025

Bassist Olie Brice wears the title of Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside with remarkable ease. Equally adept in free improvisation and structured composition, Brice moves fluidly between extremes. His work with improvisers such as Tobias Delius and Mark Sanders on Somersaults (Two Rivers, 2015), or with Paul Dunmall on The Laughing Stone (Confront, 2023), exemplifie his outside approach. ...