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Wadada Leo Smith / Douglas R. Ewart / Mike Reed & Benoit Delbecq

By Maurice Hogue | One Man's Jazz
March 3, 2021
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The lineup for this edition of OMJ is like a menu in an ice cream shop: so many flavours to choose from. The AACM is alive and well in the excellent new release for Astral Spirits by

Wadada Leo Smith

trumpet
b.1941

" data-original-title="" title="">Wadada Leo Smith,

Douglas R. Ewart

" data-original-title="" title="">Douglas R. Ewart &

Mike Reed

drums
b.1974

" data-original-title="" title="">Mike Reed, power guitar from Slovenia's

Samo Salamon

guitar, electric
b.1978

" data-original-title="" title="">Samo Salamon with a French quartet, prepared piano from

Benoit Delbecq

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Benoit Delbecq, Jorma Tapio and

Rolling Thunder

" data-original-title="" title="">Rolling Thunder from Finland, and the Zoom-session created Some Kind Of Tomorrow by

Jane Ira Bloom

saxophone, soprano

" data-original-title="" title="">Jane Ira Bloom &

Mark Helias

bass

" data-original-title="" title="">Mark Helias. Astral Spirits has also released new free stuff from

Thollem

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Thollem and Rob Frye. Enjoy all of these plus a lot more to taste.

Playlist

Wadada Leo Smith, Douglas R. Ewart & Mike Reed "Unknown Forces" from Sun Beans Of Shimmering Light (Astral Spirits) 00:00
Host speaks 09:42
Wadada Leo Smith, Douglas R. Ewart & Mike Reed "Super Moon Rising" from Sun Beans Of Shimmering Light (Astral Spirits) 11:16
Pia Hernandez Quintetto "La Torre" from Relicario (Irazu) 21:32
Emanuele Passerini
saxophone
" data-original-title="" title="">Emanuele Passerini & Pacho Rossi "Praises To The Master" from Our World (Dodicilune) 27:17
Host speaks 33:11
Rolling Thunder "Farewell Song" from Live In Japan (Self-released) 36:00
Francois Houle
clarinet
" data-original-title="" title="">Francois Houle 4 "The Black Bird" from Recoder (Songlines) 44:50
Host speaks 50:15
Benoit Delbecq "Anamorphoses" from The Weight Of Light (Pyroclastic) 51:34
Mario Rom
trumpet
" data-original-title="" title="">Mario Rom's Interzone "Here's To Another Decade" from Eternal Fiction (Traumton) 59:06
Host speaks 1:04:07
Samo Salamon "Man Of Mystery" from Live Ones Volume 1 (Self-released) 1:05:42
Kevin Sun
saxophone, tenor
b.1991
" data-original-title="" title="">Kevin Sun Trio "Seaworthy (Unseaworthy)" from (Un) Seaworthy (Endectomorph) 1:14:30
Paulina Porszke Ensemble "D-Town" from Addaptacja (Self-released) 1:20:15
Host speaks 1:29:18
Jane Ira Bloom & Mark Helias "Roughing It" from Some Kind Of Tomorrow (RL) 1:31:20
Nathan Clevenger
" data-original-title="" title="">Nathan Clevenger Group "Difficult Clocks" from Stateless (Self-released) 1:40:42
Vinny Golia
woodwinds
b.1946
" data-original-title="" title="">Vinny Golia Octet "Mr. And Mrs. Sam Wells Check Into The Hotel In Bombay" from Nine Winds: New Blood (Nine Winds) :46:15
Host speaks 1:52:48
Rolling Thunder "Yarra Yarra" from Live In Japan (Self-released) 1:53:28
Orientation Of We "Principle Of Differentiation" from Emergence (OFF) 1:59:52
Host speaks 2:10:03
Rob Frye "Lightship SGR A Star" from Exoplanet (Astral Spirits) 2:11:22
Michael Formanek
bass, acoustic
b.1958
" data-original-title="" title="">Michael Formanek &
Peter Formanek
saxophone, tenor
" data-original-title="" title="">Peter Formanek "Two, Not One" from Dyads (Out Of Your Head) 2:18:02
Enrique Haneine
drums
" data-original-title="" title="">Enrique Haneine "Seldom Disguise" from Unlayered (Elegant Walk) 2:25:18
Host speaks 2:30:34
Thollem/Valsamis/Greenhill/Kim "Track 1" from Thollem's Astral Traveling Sessions (Astral Spirits) 2:32:23
Krystyna Stańko
" data-original-title="" title="">Krystyna Stańko &
Zé-Luis Nascimento
percussion
" data-original-title="" title="">Zé-Luis Nascimento "Afro Blue II" from Novos Anos (For Tune) 2:42:18
Host speaks 2:48:08
Linda Sikhakhane
saxophone, tenor
" data-original-title="" title="">Linda Sikhakhane "Amakhosi" from An Open Dialogue (Self-released) 2:49:06

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