Will Glaser

All It Was

By Olie Brice

Label: West Hill Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Listening Intently to Raptors; After A Break; Morning Mourning (for Tosh Brice); Happy Song for Joni; A Rush of Memory Was All it Was; And We Dance on the Firm Earth.

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. ...

Skyllumina

By Ruth Goller

Label: International Anthem Recording Company
Released: 2024
Track listing: Below My Skin; Reach Down Into The Deepest White; Of Snowhere; Next Time I Keep My Hands Down; All The Light I Have, I Hand To You; She Was My Own She Was Myself; How To Be Free From It; From Breaks To Shreds, It��s A Short Path; Don��t Follow Me; I Have For You.

Ruth Goller: Skyllumina

by Chris May
February 27, 2024

The Italian-born, British-based bassist and composer Ruth Goller has been rattling jazz's cage since 2007, the year she joined Acoustic Ladyland. The band was in the vanguard of what became known as “jazz punk," although its sound was closer to metal than classic punk, and the lineup included tenor saxophonist Pete Wareham and drummer Sebastian Rochford. ...

Ruth Goller: Basso Profundo

by Chris May
February 26, 2024

Altogether easier to talk to than is suggested by the stage makeup in the photo above, Ruth Goller reveals herself as totally down-home when, some ten minutes into this interview, the conversation turns to International Anthem, the Chicago-based label that has released her second solo album, Skyllumina. “I feel so lucky to have them," says Goller. ...

Micromotives

By Moss Freed

Label: Discus Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Union of Egoists, for Anthony Braxton; Unprecedented Times, for Pauline Oliveros; Left-Leaning, for Louis Andriessen; Kilter, for John Zorn; Starlings, for Christian Wolff; Hidden Hand, for Terry Riley; Hung Parliament, for Barry Guy.

Moss Freed / Union Division: Micromotives

by John Sharpe
August 11, 2023

A question any composer for improvisers must face is whether they can create something more worthwhile than what they might come up with if left to themselves. It can be a tough call. For some, such as Alexander von Schlippenbach's Globe Unity Orchestra or Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet, the ultimate conclusion was no, while for others ...

Brilliant Corners 2022

by Ian Patterson
March 31, 2022

Brilliant Corners 2022 The Black Box Belfast, N. Ireland March 4-12, 2022 Brilliant Corners is ten. Belfast's onliest jazz festival celebrated the milestone by welcoming audiences back to The Black Box after 2021's virtual edition. When Brilliant Corners was last held here before a live audience, in March 2020, Covid ...

Will Glaser: Climbing In Circles

by Chris May
January 6, 2021

Women musicians seem more inclined to describe their albums as “playful" than their male counterparts. We need not spend time speculating on the reasons for that here. Playful, however, is the word that best sums up this delightful trio album by two generations of male musicians. Young bloods drummer Will Glaser and saxophonist Matthew Herd have ...