tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118322222024-03-13T19:58:41.586+01:00Perfect SoundsMusings on music by Chris MonsenChris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.comBlogger544125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-87846935824014600762023-10-06T01:18:00.001+02:002023-10-06T01:18:11.057+02:00Substack<p> A belated post to notify that as of December 2022, I have moved over to Substack. This blog will have no further updates, so go find me over at the new place. Link: <a href="https://chrismonsen.substack.com/">https://chrismonsen.substack.com/</a><br /></p>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-72840840210273516982022-07-01T14:59:00.003+02:002022-07-04T14:55:03.628+02:00Favorite new music releases, January through June, 2022<p>With so many seemingly determined to destroy all that is good in the world,<span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="1" data-phrase-index="0"><span> music's ability to provide strength, create hope, </span></span></span><span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="1" data-phrase-index="0"><span><span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="1" data-phrase-index="0"><span>invigorate, provoke thought, </span></span></span>ignite sparks of imagination and life affirmation, break down barriers and reveal the beauty of human diversity</span></span></span><span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="1" data-phrase-index="0"><span><span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="1" data-phrase-index="0"><span>, among many other things,</span></span></span> has seemed as important as ever. Here's a list of 20 </span></span></span><span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="1" data-phrase-index="0"><span><span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="1" data-phrase-index="0"><span>new releases </span></span></span>as well as a handful of old/vault/reissues from the first six months of 2022 (and one from late 2021) that, on one level or another, have managed to do so (Entries kinda, sorta ranked by order of preference, but by no means set in stone):</span></span></span></p><p><span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="1" data-phrase-index="0"><span> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="1" data-phrase-index="0"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTG4hXpT2yL8NiIVUOS7EzJPGVTWFvo3knze323ACYhS7HVIVHlqBLdgeHbEQH5ECN3G9V1nKCs0XTnFYFmPLPHm0j84cSkkPtIlKaZ9DUD5b6BV9tFpxaQjCV6GxDDpU5Ccv27QlwAWm9qdOHU0ytz5Qj8bdDrmF7gf--VIpvcKD2NCbRf48/s1462/10%202022-page-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="1462" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTG4hXpT2yL8NiIVUOS7EzJPGVTWFvo3knze323ACYhS7HVIVHlqBLdgeHbEQH5ECN3G9V1nKCs0XTnFYFmPLPHm0j84cSkkPtIlKaZ9DUD5b6BV9tFpxaQjCV6GxDDpU5Ccv27QlwAWm9qdOHU0ytz5Qj8bdDrmF7gf--VIpvcKD2NCbRf48/w400-h159/10%202022-page-001.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></span></div><span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="1" data-phrase-index="0"><span><br /></span></span></span> <p></p><p> New albums: <br /></p><ul><li><b>Mary Halvorson: <a href="https://maryhalvorson.bandcamp.com/album/amaryllis"><i>Amaryllis</i></a> (Nonesuch Records)</b> – The terrific band on <i>Amaryllis</i> provides a purposeful, and exciting, thrust<i> </i>to much of the music, coupled with rich textures and solo outings that twist, turn, probe and encircle the blossoming compositions. A stand-out album in what is an already remarkable discography. <span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="5" data-phrase-index="4"><span>[Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet in Klassekampen, May. 23., 2022].</span></span></span><span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="5" data-phrase-index="4"><span> <br /></span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><b>Andrew Cyrille, William Parker, Enrico Rava: <i>2 Blues For Cecil</i> (TUM Records) </b>– Three masters of modern music pay homage to Cecil Taylor, whom they all have had stints playing with, not by revisiting his music, but by finding common ground along their own, unique paths. Masterfully <span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="5" data-phrase-index="0"><span>restrained in their collective expression, the trio avoids sudden outburst or forceful blows in favor of deep</span></span><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="5" data-phrase-index="4"><span> reverberation, creating something truly majestic and magnificent in the process. [Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet in Klassekampen, Feb. 31., 2022].</span></span></span><span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="5" data-phrase-index="4"><span> <br /></span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="5" data-phrase-index="4"><span><b>John Zorn: <i>New Masada Quartet</i> (Tzadik [released late 2021])</b></span></span></span><b> </b>– The latest version of the Masada Quartet, now a sax, guitar, bass and drums combo, finds new ways to combine familiar Zorn elements like klezmer, Coleman, drive, propulsion, unruliness, hooks and joy. [Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet in Klassekampen, January 3., 2022].</li></ul><ul><li><b>Zoh Amba: <i>O, Sun</i> (Tzadic) </b>– My predisposition for sax, bass and drums trios, coupled with my immense admiration for all things William Parker, made me very curious about <i>O Life, O Light, Vol.1, </i>(577 records) by young tenor saxophonist Zoh Amba. And while it showcases her admirably developing a personal voice along a path first traveled by Albert Ayler<i>, </i>on the wonderful, daring <i>O, Sun </i>she reveals a richer, more diverse palette that combines the rough and crude with the delicate and gentle. Album debut of the year (so far). [Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet in Klassekampen, June 13., 2022].</li></ul><ul><li><b>Alexander Hawkins Mirror Canon: <a href="https://alexanderhawkinsintakt.bandcamp.com/album/break-a-vase-2"><i>Break a Vase</i></a> (Intakt Records)</b><b> </b>– From bits and pieces, as the cover says, the immensely talented pianist and composer Alexander Hawkins and a terrific cast of musicians<span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="1" data-phrase-index="0"><span> probe, turn, twist, stretch the compositional framework, at times seemingly breaking it into tiny fragments, only to put it back together in a fascinating, and surprising, ways. [Reviewed for Jazznytt #262, Spring 2022].</span></span></span><span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="1" data-phrase-index="0"><span> </span></span></span><br /></li></ul><div><ul><li><span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="1" data-phrase-index="0"><span><b>Nduduzo Makhathini: <i>In the Spirit of Ntu</i> (Blue Note) </b></span></span></span>– South African pianist and composer Nduduzo Makhathini's best album to date, which finds him in great company perfecting a synthesis of the rich South African jazz tradition and adventurous, American predecessors like Andrew Hill and Don Pullen. [Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet in Klassekampen, June 20., 2022].</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Jacob Garchik: <a href="https://jacobgarchik.bandcamp.com/album/assembly"><i>Assembly</i></a> (self-released) </b>– A digital only release by trombonist and composer Jacob Garchik (who also plays on the above-mentioned Mary <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Halvorson album). Music that is full of hooks as it is tricks, establishing a pattern one moment before pulling the rug </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">from</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> under you, and scurrying off in another direction the next. I find it utterly delightful.</span><br /></li></ul><ul><li><b>Moskus: <a href="https://moskus.bandcamp.com/album/papirfuglen"><i>Papirfuglen</i></a> (Hubro)</b><b> </b>– <span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="1" data-phrase-index="0"><span>Few Norwegian ensembles fit the idea of jazz as a toolbox rather than a set of guidelines better than Fredrik Luhr Dietrichson, Hans Hulbækmo and Anja Lauvdal of Moskus. <i>Papirfuglen</i> is further proof of this, where rather than aiming to fully develop melodic, thematic and rhythmic ideas and fragments, they allow the elements to ebb and flow, disappear and reappear, reveling in the music's fragmentary nature, and as such playing up the beauty and wonder of the the unfinished, that which has not not yet been revealed, and the inconclusive. [Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet in Klassekampen, March 21., 2022].</span></span></span><span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="1" data-phrase-index="0"><span> </span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><b>Erlend Viken, Jo Berger Myhre, Thomas Pohlitz Strønen: <a href="https://vikenmyhrestroenen.bandcamp.com/album/djupet"><i>Djupet</i></a> (OK World)</b><b> </b>– A reworking of Viken's and Berger Myhre's commissioned work for the 2020 Ultima Festival, <i>Djupet</i> weaves and flows through strands of Norwegian folk music, improvisation and electronic dance music, revealing mysticism and depth along the way. [Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet in Klassekampen, March 28., 2022].</li></ul> <ul><li><b>Luke Stewart's Silt Trio: <a href="https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-bottom"><i>The Bottom</i></a> (Cuneiform Records</b>)<b> </b>– Following the idea of taking cues from the past in order to move forward, the tireless, brilliant bassist Luke Stewart joins forces with DC saxophonist Brian Settles and ace drummer Chad Taylor, connecting the dots bewteen, among other things, blues tinged landscapes and "fire music" throughout the decades with open mindedness and elasticity. [Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet in Klassekampen, January 24., 2022]. <br /></li></ul><ul><li><b>Myra Melford’s Fire and Water Quintet: <i>For the Love of Fire and Water</i> (RogueArt) </b>[Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet in Klassekampen, April 11., 2022].<br /><b></b></li><li><b>Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman, Anna Lund: <i><a href="https://relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com/album/space">Space</a> </i>(Relative Pitch Records)</b><b> </b>[Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet in Klassekampen, March 7., 2022].<b> </b></li><li><b>Eri Yamamoto, Chad Fowler, William Parker, Steve Hirsh</b><i><b>: <a href="https://mahakalamusic.bandcamp.com/album/sparks">Sparks</a></b></i><b> (Mahakala
Music) </b>[Reviewed for Jazznytt #263, Summer 2022].</li><li><b>Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin: <a href="https://orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/album/ghosted"><i>Ghosted</i></a> (Drag City) </b><br /></li><li><b>Billy Mohler: <a href="https://billymohler.bandcamp.com/album/anatomy"><i>Anatmoy</i></a> (Contageous Music)</b></li><li><b>Amalie Dahl’s Dafnie: <a href="https://amaliedahl.bandcamp.com/album/dafnie"><i>Dafnie</i></a> (Sonic Transmissions Records)</b> [Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet in Klassekampen, May 16., 2022]. <br /></li><li><b>Max Johnson Trio w/Anna Webber and Michael Sarin: <a href="https://maxjohnson.bandcamp.com/album/orbit-of-sound"><i>Orbit Of Sound</i></a> (Unbroken Sounds)</b><br /></li><li><b>TEIP Trio: <a href="https://teiptrio.bandcamp.com/album/teip-trio-3"><i>TEIP Trio</i></a> (Sonic Transmissions Records)</b></li><li><b>Emmeluth / Knedal Andersen / Skavhaug Nergaard: <a href="https://astralekasn.bandcamp.com/album/the-a-z-of-microwave-cookery"><i>The A-Z of Microwave Cookery</i></a> (Astral Spirits) </b></li><li><b>Ches Smith: <a href="https://astralekasn.bandcamp.com/album/the-a-z-of-microwave-cookery"><i>Interpret It Well</i></a> (Pyroclastic Records) </b><span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="no" data-number-of-phrases="1" data-phrase-index="0"><span>[Reviewed for Jazznytt #263, Summer 2022]. <br /></span></span></span></li></ul><p>Vault/reissues:</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li> <b>Cecil Taylor: <i>The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert </i>(Oblivion Records)</b> [Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet in Klassekampen, February 28., 2022].</li><li><b>Albert Ayler:</b> <b><i>Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings</i></b> (<b>Elemental Music)</b> [Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet in Klassekampen, May 2., 2022].<br /></li><li><b>Peter Brötzmann, Milford Graves, William Parker: <i>Historic Music Past Tense Future</i> (Black Editions)</b> [Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet in Klassekampen, February 28., 2022].</li><li><b>Sirone: <i>Artistry</i> (Moved By Sound)</b> <br /></li><li><b>Pere Ubu: <i>The Lost Band</i> (Ubu Projex)</b> <br /></li></ul><p></p></div>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-87879403593348569152021-12-31T02:58:00.004+01:002021-12-31T12:21:33.849+01:00Fave music of 2021<div><p> Just days before 2021 turned to 2022, <a href="https://artsfuse.org/244710/the-2021-jazz-critics-poll-only-the-best/">the results for the 2021 edition of the annual Jazz Critics Poll</a> were posted. Earlier than usual, if memory serves, and after a few years being sponsored and hosted by NPR, this year The Arts Fuse is hosting the poll.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOkEWM21Sf1PXxOXK4t5_k-hCz_GPwPpnSPmu2QIjNGterMO5kdRlGQZQfAnDckw5pp__8R0EhTgsxyPG8D9ge0Jvlxu-RZ5G_2bmy23Z0F-DMO1gIzBw_9EhbTKGcJ9xK9jslabsoAWSjcQlRUOuVRaZYPWYABFZ-I22JM6jPuvn5tH3DKcI=s700" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOkEWM21Sf1PXxOXK4t5_k-hCz_GPwPpnSPmu2QIjNGterMO5kdRlGQZQfAnDckw5pp__8R0EhTgsxyPG8D9ge0Jvlxu-RZ5G_2bmy23Z0F-DMO1gIzBw_9EhbTKGcJ9xK9jslabsoAWSjcQlRUOuVRaZYPWYABFZ-I22JM6jPuvn5tH3DKcI=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></div>I mention the Jazz Critics Poll partly because I have been a voter in it since 2011, but additionally because although I have kept lists of favorite albums since the inception of this blog (though much less diligently in recent years), once Francis Davis' invitation to vote in the Jazz Critics Poll lands in my inbox, usually near the end of November, that's when I really start to scratch my head to figure out which albums I want to highlight form the past year. This year was no different, and although the ballot I provided for the poll is arbitrary for several reasons, colored by whatever felt or seemed "right" on that particular day, the 10 albums I ended up voting for (my ballot is available <a href="https://hullworks.net/jazzpoll/21/ballots-06.php?vid=80">here</a>, by the way) will be very similar to those at the top end of the list below. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNUW8F8a62tlx4dQ-sZy-aZc9OxCRhRBHVzLhfMI55u8atxZrjQhzUJfo30WLQ7h_dasasT5H48AcbjGPZtiMgD4YFfWi750wFv1MXkwym3IPloYlDldjk_7tLblY6bQkfU3EXJI8maNOmKBUZr87lZyfNRp6MG3f904rYlM4mdp9wQGky0fY=s700" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNUW8F8a62tlx4dQ-sZy-aZc9OxCRhRBHVzLhfMI55u8atxZrjQhzUJfo30WLQ7h_dasasT5H48AcbjGPZtiMgD4YFfWi750wFv1MXkwym3IPloYlDldjk_7tLblY6bQkfU3EXJI8maNOmKBUZr87lZyfNRp6MG3f904rYlM4mdp9wQGky0fY=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></div>Though there is at least one key difference: I've long since quit ranking my fave albums in any strict sense, and rather sort them into tiers. And although I'm sympathetic to the writer (I forget who at the time of typing) who argued that (and I'm paraphrasing from memory) although ranking should never be taken to be set in stone (fully agreed), doing so is a service to the reader in signaling that, if this list piques your interest, maybe start here. I myself will argue that all of those albums in the top tier contain terrific, singular and are all worth your time. For each of these I've written about why I think so in print, albeit only in Norwegian. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhS_3aAMI5cs_qwhj3uQzWAjfnU_owmojh3jtJPgrO1QbkI36lq-YF01UjlVrKYKfXii-UIPrtKmHCRWKcJ2Kh9mLGt3YBuhys-qFRzDJTrCybamDygdZsi0DWn_L-c-3gYTUTS0g1NH0d5f2Jd6isAMrljlNT4t_gnnAufEI3pqwKR-0Xqgfw=s700" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhS_3aAMI5cs_qwhj3uQzWAjfnU_owmojh3jtJPgrO1QbkI36lq-YF01UjlVrKYKfXii-UIPrtKmHCRWKcJ2Kh9mLGt3YBuhys-qFRzDJTrCybamDygdZsi0DWn_L-c-3gYTUTS0g1NH0d5f2Jd6isAMrljlNT4t_gnnAufEI3pqwKR-0Xqgfw=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></div>But to try and offer a couple words of guidance on at least a couple of these albums here. For airy searching tenor sax melodies accompanied by a malleable rhythmic push in supple interplay sounds intriguing, try Mariá Grands reflections on motherhood on the magnificent <i><a href="https://mariagrand.bandcamp.com/album/reciprocity-2?from=search&search_item_id=2809729490&search_item_type=a&search_match_part=%3F&search_page_id=1994584493&search_page_no=1&search_rank=1&search_sig=e640164f13d59938d0ba5704a1ed336c">Reciprocity</a>. </i>For rugged, freewheeling but determined explorations both fiery and soulful, James Brand Lewis / Red Lily Quintet's terrific <a href="https://jamesbrandonlewis.bandcamp.com/album/jesup-wagon?from=search&search_item_id=652479517&search_item_type=a&search_match_part=%3F&search_page_id=1994584889&search_page_no=1&search_rank=1&search_sig=0815714bd9acfb59b53e27c7018ba97b"><i>Jesup Wagon</i></a> should hit the sweet spot. For a jubilant, celebratory, open minded musical travelogue that dances along on influences from, among other places, Chicago, Austin, Amsterdam and Oppdal (Norway), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten's celebratory <a href="https://ingebrigtflaten.bandcamp.com/album/exit-knarr?from=search&search_item_id=3888885073&search_item_type=a&search_match_part=%3F&search_page_id=1994592368&search_page_no=1&search_rank=1&search_sig=ea8cd82afc6791f166e87adec0674226"><i>Exit (Knarr)</i></a> has you covered. And if music that soars towards the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjY1qk_PZVrG3XhwazRVb33NVhBoYH3ybxElGd57mnFp2G3YiSiU_qlt90RIdiFN73reVFXnwoRESKPawBCmH6GceNImy-d6etwIt7QOuSqTRhG5EZ2IgyvRYLTkDF4IlVhS4knezvp4wUX_yvvT_04K6gzf0yPMIIevNSKoyq7_eF56bqrGFM=s700" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjY1qk_PZVrG3XhwazRVb33NVhBoYH3ybxElGd57mnFp2G3YiSiU_qlt90RIdiFN73reVFXnwoRESKPawBCmH6GceNImy-d6etwIt7QOuSqTRhG5EZ2IgyvRYLTkDF4IlVhS4knezvp4wUX_yvvT_04K6gzf0yPMIIevNSKoyq7_eF56bqrGFM=w200-h200" width="200" /></a>skies with an alternately shimmering and screaming guitar and a bass and drums combo that boom and propel as if they were the engines of a rocket ship, that's part of the excitement of William Parker's stellar <a href="https://williamparker.bandcamp.com/album/mayan-space-station?from=search&search_item_id=1725145178&search_item_type=a&search_match_part=%3F&search_page_id=1994592656&search_page_no=1&search_rank=1&search_sig=24906d83d77a8625b4707276619b0280"><i>Mayan Space Station</i></a>.<br /><p></p><p>Those four, along with several more, where highlights of my music listening in 2021, lifting the spirits and mood, providing for for thought, inspiration and much more during yet another odd year. I've listed a total of 30 albums below, because I had to stop somewhere. Many more albums are worthy of a mention, but these were the ones I chose to highlight today. A longer, if not very up-to-date and by no means complete or final list of music that tickled my fancy in 2021 can be found <a href="https://perfectsounds.blogspot.com/p/2021-favorites-ongoing.html">here</a>. And with that. I'm wishing you all the best for the new year!</p><p>Voyager Golden Record <br /></p><ul><li><b>Maria Grand: <i>Reciprocity</i></b> (Biophilia)<b> </b></li><li><b>Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: <i>(Exit) Knarr</i></b> (Odin)</li><li><b>James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet: <i>Jesup Wagon</i></b> (Tao Forms)<b> </b></li><li><b>Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Ole Morten Vågan: <i>Plastic Wave</i></b> (Odin)</li><li><b>The Source: <i>. . . But Swinging Doesn't Bend Them Down</i></b> (Odin)</li><li><b>William Parker: <i>Mayan Space Station</i></b> (AUM Fidelity)</li><li><b>Irreversible Entanglements: <i>Open the Gates</i></b> (International Anthem)</li></ul><p>Profound, lasting impression</p><ul><li><b>Anthony Joseph: <i>The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running for Their Lives</i> </b>(Heavenly Sweetness) <br /></li><li><b>Flukten: <i>Velkommen håp</i></b> (Odin)</li><li><b>Mariá Portugal: <i>Erosão</i></b> (Staatsakt Rec.)</li><li><b>John Zorn: <i>New Masada Quartet</i> </b>(Tzadik)<br /></li><li><b>Aki Takase-Christian Weber-Michael Griener: <i>Auge</i></b> (Intakt)</li><li><b>Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet: <i>The Chicago Symphonies</i></b> (TUM) <br /></li></ul><ul><li><b>Mach Hommy: <i>Pray For Haiti</i></b> (Griselda Records) </li><li><b>Marthe Lea Band: <i>Aura</i></b> (Motvind)</li><li><b>Luís Vicente Trio, Gonçalo Almeida, Pedro Melo Alves: <i>Chanting In the Name Of</i></b> (Clean Feed)</li><li><b>Dry Cleaning: <i>New Long Leg</i></b> (4AD) </li><li><b>Madlib: <i>Sound Ancestors</i></b> (Madlib Invazion) </li><li><b>Tim Berne - Chris Speed - Reid Anderson - Dave King: <i>Broken Shadows</i></b> (Intakt)</li><li><b>Andreas Røysum Ensemble: <i>Fredsfanatiker</i> </b>(Motvind)</li></ul><b></b><ul><li><b>Little Simz: <i>Sometimes I Might Be Introvert</i></b> (Age 101)</li><li><b>Kari Ikonen: </b><i><b>Impressions, Improvisations and Compositions</b> </i>(Ozella)</li><li><b>Emily D'Angelo: <i>enargeia</i></b> (Deutshce Grammofon) <br /></li><li><b>Punkt. Vrt. Plastik. (Kaja Draksler, Peter Eldh, Christian Lillinger): </b><i><b>Somit</b> </i>(Intakt) </li><li><b>Turnstile: <i>Glow On</i></b> (Roadrunner Records)</li><li><b>Japanese Breakfast: <i>Jubilee</i></b> (Dead Oceans) <br /></li><li><b>Henry Threadgill Zooid: <i>Poof</i></b> (Pi Recordings)</li><li><b>No-no Boy: <i>1975</i></b> (Smithsonian Folkways)</li><li><b>Miguel Zenon: <i>Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman</i></b> (Miel)</li><li><b>Claire Rosay: <i>a softer focus</i></b> (American Dream Records)</li></ul></div>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-25051819615743838172021-08-06T20:37:00.008+02:002021-08-07T11:27:38.218+02:0050 fave new music releases a bit past 2021s midway point<p>There are a couple of reasons why I'm posting this belated "mid-year" faves lists now. For one, July was incredibly busy, and I had no time nor energy to do any writing, either of the professional or blogging kind. My first piece of August is due to be published this coming Monday, so for reason number two, consider this a sort of kick off. And third, today is <a href="https://bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a> Friday, which means today the hosting site will be waiving their cut for all sales, digital or physical media. Most of the releases listed below can be found on Bandcamp. <br /></p><p>Now, I'm acutely aware that simply listing music without adding any rationale, explanation, whys or hows is of limited use. Yet, I've been posting music lists for years. In part, I do this for selfish reasons, as a way to keep track of what I've been enjoying the most over a specific period of time, a way of narrowing down and sorting all those incoming CDs and digital files (and sometimes LPs) into one neat pile. Now, I could easily keep those lists in my notebook or on my PC, but then again, some folks like lists, for one reason or another. As a shorthand, quick way to get a glimpse into what music the listmaker in question has been grooving to, I can see the usefulness. And if that's a thing you enjoy, well then this is for you.</p><p>Those who have read or hear me opine on music will likely get why, say, the interweaving patterns, lithe melodic flights and supple bounce of María Grand's <i>Reciprocity</i> and the irrepressible rambunctious thrust and soar of William Parker, Ava Mendoza and Gerald Cleaver's <i>Mayan Space Station</i> are stuff that resonate with me. As for the other music listed here, well I wish I had time to elaborate some. I have written about several of these picks over these past six months or so, mostly for Klassekampen's weekly music supplement Musikkmagasinet. Others, I have not, for any number of reasons. I do wish I had the opportunity to write more than I have in recent years. In time, perhaps a solution and more opportunities will arise.(The list is by no means exhaustive, there has been even more music that has struck my fancy over the past six/seven months, but for today, 50 will suffice).</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr7fdGQibJf_0zyJl8e7eN7t9fPCNq1iczu665hu5cqhTWDfP6649HIYGyM0sNon7710a2jHsEXDZ4kdsu9KEpL29G0YHmrw0RstBd3vcfFwxc8IElijHH2BocUqad1gWc2o3sqw/s800/Skjermbilde+2021-08-06+201405.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="800" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr7fdGQibJf_0zyJl8e7eN7t9fPCNq1iczu665hu5cqhTWDfP6649HIYGyM0sNon7710a2jHsEXDZ4kdsu9KEpL29G0YHmrw0RstBd3vcfFwxc8IElijHH2BocUqad1gWc2o3sqw/s320/Skjermbilde+2021-08-06+201405.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglmWQJYYitc2j-nw3VafbEvSxZoU-wDgGJtbn3IFRBG_fADQY5OAxc14u_0Lpq1eK138PS4S7y8DGYlAm9VVT51Q-Fo64LRnh_AWzwWItfUPcMFnYL7xFU0WUO8gYURjg3ybRJrQ/s2048/09+-+TAO05_JesupWagon_LP-CoverArt.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Music from the spheres:</div></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>María Grand: <i>Reciprocity</i> (Biophilia Records)</li><li>James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet: <i>Jesup Wagon</i> (TAO Forms)</li><li>William Parker: <i>Mayan Space Station</i> (AUM Fidelity)</li><li>Luís Vicente Trio, Gonçalo Almeida, Pedro Melo Alves: <i>Chanting In the Name Of</i> (Clean Feed)<br /></li></ul><p>Heavy rotation: <br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Alder Ego: <i>III</i> (We Jazz Records)</li><li>Christian Reim Sextet: <i>Mona Lisa Suite Live at Molde, 1973</i> (Jazzaggression) </li><li>William Parker: <i>Painters Winter</i> (AUM Fidelity)<br /></li><li>Kari Ikonen: <i>Impressions, Improvisations and Compositions </i>(Ozella)<br /><i></i></li><li>Madlib:<i> Sound Ancestors </i>(Madlib Invazion) <br /></li><li>Dry Cleaning: <i>New Long Leg</i> (4AD)</li><li>Punkt. Vrt. Plastik. (Kaja Draksler, Peter Eldh, Christian Lillinger): <i>Somit </i>(Intakt) </li><li>Mario Pavone / Dialect Trio + 1: <i>Blue Vertical</i> (Out Of Your Head Records)</li><li>Silke Eberhard Trio: <i>Being the Up and Down</i> (Intakt)</li><li>Three Layer Cake (Brandon Seabrook, Mike Watt, Mike Pride): <i>Stove Top</i> (Rare Noise Records)<br /><i></i></li><li>Sibusiso Mash Mashiloane: <i>Ihubo Labomdabu</i> (self-released)</li><li>Mach-Hommy: <i>Pray For Haiti</i> (Griselda Records) <br /></li><li>Miguel Zenon: <i>Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman</i> (Miel)</li><li>Carl Magnus Neumann, Ketil Gutvik, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Paal Nilssen-Love: <i>New Dance</i> (PNL) <br /></li><li>Fire!: <i>Defeat</i> (Rune Grammofon)</li><li>Ivo Perelman Trio: <i>Garden of Jewels</i> (Tao Forms)</li><li>Marthe Lea Band: <i>Aura</i> (Motvind)</li><li>Claire Rosay: <i>a softer focus</i> (American Dream Records) <br /></li></ul><p>Thoroughly enjoying <br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Aki Takase/Christian Weber/Michael Griener: <i>Auge</i> (Intakt) <br /></li><li>William Parker: <i>Migration Of Silence Into and Out Of the Tone World</i> (Centering Records) </li><li>Tom Rainey Obligato: <i>Untucked In Hannover</i> (Intakt)</li><li>Anthony Braxton: <i>Quartet (Standards) 2020</i> (New Braxton House)</li><li>Signe Emmeluth: <i>Hi Hello I'm Signe</i> (Relative Pitch) </li><li>Koma Saxo: <i>Live</i> (We Jazz Records)</li><li>Christopher Hoffman: <i>Asp Nimbus</i> (Out Of Your Head Records) <br /></li><li>Body Meπa: <i>The Work Is Slow</i> (Hausu Mountain)<br /></li><li>Part Chimp: <i>Drool</i> (Wrong Speed Records)</li><li>Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language Quartet: <i>Let the Free Be Men</i> (Trost)</li><li>Skarbø Skulekorps: <i>Dugnad</i> (Hubro)</li><li>Flow Trio with Joe McPhee: <i>Winter Garden</i> (ESP)</li><li>Tine Surel Lange: <i>Works For listening 1-10</i> (Sofa Music) <br /></li><li> Mats Eilertsen: <i>Solitude Central</i> (Hemli) <br /></li><li>Mario Pavone Tampa Quartet: <i>Isabella</i> (Clean Feed Records)</li><li>Aksel Rønning Trio: <i>ART</i> (Øra Fonogram)</li><li>Frode Haltli: <i>Avant Folk II</i> (Hubro) <br /></li><li>Butcher/Weston/Storesund/Knedal Andersen: <i>Mapless Quiet</i> (Motvind)</li><li>Hedvig Mollestad Trio: <i>Ding Dong. You're Dead</i> (Rune Grammofon) <br /></li><li>No-no Boy: <i>1975</i> (Smithsonian Folkways)<br /></li><li>Paul Dunmall / Percy Pursglove / Olie Brice / Jeff Williams: <i>Plindronmes</i> (West Hill Records) </li><li>Iréne Schweizer & Hamid Drake: <i>Celebration</i> (Intakt)</li><li>Mdou Moctar: <i>Afrique Victime</i> (Matador) </li><li>Devin Grey, Ralph Alessi & Angelica Sanchez: <i>Melt All the Guns</i> (Rataplan) <br /></li><li>Arne Torvik Trio: <i>Northwestern Songs</i> (Losen)* <br /></li><li>Barry Altschul 3Dom Factor: <i>Long Tall Sunshine</i></li><li>Sons Of Kemet: <i>Black To the Future</i> (Impulse!)</li><li>Mind Maintenance: <i>Mind Maintenance</i> (Drag City)</li></ul><p>* Full disclosure: I wrote the liner notes for this release. <br /></p><br /><br /><br />Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-15984933001949794372021-04-12T21:11:00.006+02:002021-04-18T00:44:04.674+02:00The spritied collaborations of Calle Neumann and Christian Reim<p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5iaRvF9UTPXBurXtP6F0CskoDIF5yaWFOdzBmDNb8bNRH9bBzlA-eA4Q_PMM6L5S5mpMaOflMs-Igb37NtvBgcvY9rJTNwzGGb8X46vxHxg1w6uhUXRU1GBomDfqSsX0nY1AU8w/s877/MM+2021+12.+Apr.+Neumann%252C+Reim.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="877" data-original-width="681" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5iaRvF9UTPXBurXtP6F0CskoDIF5yaWFOdzBmDNb8bNRH9bBzlA-eA4Q_PMM6L5S5mpMaOflMs-Igb37NtvBgcvY9rJTNwzGGb8X46vxHxg1w6uhUXRU1GBomDfqSsX0nY1AU8w/w310-h400/MM+2021+12.+Apr.+Neumann%252C+Reim.jpg" width="310" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From my piece in today's Musikkmagasinet supplement in Klassekampen<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Partly because the sparky and fiery altoist Carl Magnus "Calle" Neumann and the soulful pianist Christian Reim never made a studio recording together, their collaborations during the 1970s have become somewhat forgotten parts of the story of the Norwegian jazz explosion of that era. However, theirs were no less vital or vibrant than the music of their contemporaries, as exemplified by the reissue of <i>Live at Molde International Jazz Festival 1976</i> and, in particular, the hitherto unissued <i>Mona Lisa Suite</i>, both recently released by Jazzaggession Records.<br /><p></p><p>On the latter, recorded live in Molde in 1973, we hear a sextet lead by Reim, who also composed the suite, with Neumann on alto and soprano, Knut Riisnæs on tenor and flute, Ditlef Eckhoff on trumpet, Terje Venaas on double bass and Epsen Rud on drums. The first part of the suite opens with Reim's gently flowing piano tones over arco bass, and the piece segues via a folk music inspired fanfare into a soul jazz tinged landscape, marked by Eckhoff's expressive trumpet solo. </p><p>The second part opens with another intro by Reim, bluesy yet upbeat, but soon kicks into another gear, propelled by Venaas' two bass ostinatos, the first light-footed and eager, the second a deep and powerful groove, its bustling energy accentuated by Rud's delightful, alternating ride and hi-hat work, and agitating horn riffs, creating a launch pad for a saxophone solo that lifts off, soars, and rips and tears at the seams of the tune.<br /></p><p>A highly recommended recording in its own right, but especially for anyone interested in what Norwegian jazz had to offer outside of the more famous ECM associated acts of the era. Vinyl copies are limited, but can still be found at stores like <a href="https://www.dustygroove.com/item/967345?sf=christian+reim&incl_oos=1&incl_cs=1&kwfilter=christian+reim&sort_order=artist" target="_blank">Dusty Groove</a>.<br /></p>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-53038445553246568472021-04-02T17:38:00.002+02:002021-04-02T22:12:33.337+02:00A quick 2021 1st quarter round-up: Bandcamp friday is a Good Friday<p>Three elder statesmen of jazz and improvised music, one resolutely productive "mayor", the continued emergence of a singular talent of the alto saxophone, fascinating takes on solo albums and latin associated musicans takes on Ornette Coleman all feature among my fave recordings of 2021 so far (adding one album released today). Below, a quick and easy list of 20 of those favorite releases, and since it's Bandcamp Friday, I've added links to the relevant Bandcamp pages where such are available. I'll be posting a round-up of my published writing from January through March, many featuring some of the music mentioned below, later this week.</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Kari Ikonen: <i>Impressions, Improvisations and Compositions</i> (Ozella Music) <br /></li><li>Mats Eilertsen: <a href="https://matseilertsen.bandcamp.com/album/solitude-central" target="_blank"><i>Solitude Central</i></a> (Hemli) <br /></li><li>Christopher Hoffman: <a href="https://outofyourheadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/asp-nimbus"><i>Asp Nimbus</i></a> (Out Of Your Head Records)</li><li>Signe Emmeluth: <a href="https://signeemmeluth.bandcamp.com/album/hi-hello-im-signe"><i>Hi Hello I'm Signe</i></a> (Relative Pitch)</li><li>Miguel Zenón, Ariel Bringuez, Demian Cabaud & Jordi Rossy: <i><a href="https://miguelzenon.bandcamp.com/album/law-years-the-music-of-ornette-coleman" target="_blank">Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman</a> </i>(Miel Music)<br /></li><li>Thumbscrew: <a href="https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/never-is-enough" target="_blank"><i>Never Is Enough</i></a> (Cuneiform)</li><li>Madlib: <a href="https://madlib.bandcamp.com/album/sound-ancestors" target="_blank"><i>Sound Ancestors</i></a> (Madlib Invazion) </li><li>Aki Takase - Christian Weber - Michael Greiner: <a href="https://intaktrec.bandcamp.com/album/auge" target="_blank"><i>Auge</i></a> (Intakt)</li><li>Skarbø Skulekorps: <a href="https://skarboskulekorps.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank"><i>Dugnad</i></a> (Hubro)</li><li>William Parker: <i><a href="https://williamparker.bandcamp.com/album/migration-of-silence-into-and-out-of-the-tone-world-volumes-1-10" target="_blank">Migration of Silence Into and Out of The Tone World [Volumes 1–10]</a> </i>(Centering/AUM Fidelity) <br /></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Butcher/Weston/Storesund/Knedal Andersen: <a href="https://butcherwestonstoresundknedalandersen.bandcamp.com/album/mapless-quiet" target="_blank"><i>Mapless Quiet</i></a> (Motvind Records)</li><li>Gary Bartz, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge: <i>Jazz Is Dead 6</i> (Jazz Is Dead)</li><li>Calle Neumann / Ketil Gutvik / Ingebrigt Håker Flaten / Paal Nilssen-Love: <a href="https://paalnilssen-love.bandcamp.com/album/new-dance" target="_blank"><i>New Dance</i></a> (PNL)<br /></li><li>Sana Nagano: <a href="https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/smashing-humans" target="_blank"><i>Smashing Humans</i></a> (577 Records)<br /></li><li>Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra: <a href="https://floatingpoints.bandcamp.com/album/promises" target="_blank"><i>Promises</i></a> (Luaka Bop)</li><li>Paul Dunmall / Percy Pursglove / Olie Brice / Jeff Williams: <a href="https://westhill.bandcamp.com/album/palindromes" target="_blank"><i>Palindromes</i></a> (West Hill)</li><li>Archie Shepp & Jason Moran: <a href="https://archieshepp.bandcamp.com/album/let-my-people-go" target="_blank"><i>Let My People Go</i></a> (Archieball)</li><li>Johan Lindström Septett: <i>On the Asylum</i> (Moserobie Music Productions)</li><li>Frode Haltli: <i><a href="https://frodehaltli.bandcamp.com/album/avant-folk-ii" target="_blank">Avant Folk II</a> </i>(Hubro)</li><li>Patricia Brennan: <a href="https://patriciabrennan.bandcamp.com/album/maquishti" target="_blank"><i>Maquishti</i></a> (Valley Of Search)<br /></li></ul>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-58039288614043820812021-03-06T12:15:00.002+01:002021-03-06T12:17:54.787+01:00Peter Brötzmann at 80<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbENxLcOIt33dLYqBsCMdExqR3twv1sdw47YjBbLmMT3FV02rNcPxNS0JmJvmyy1TDXpSMeCZu8pwss_la6M1ZxdXuE87BtIoFMg5qk8HjgGluiR1NUG-vYKG1s253SgD3TR6m0A/s1536/Peter_Br%25C3%25B6tzmann_W71_2017_02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbENxLcOIt33dLYqBsCMdExqR3twv1sdw47YjBbLmMT3FV02rNcPxNS0JmJvmyy1TDXpSMeCZu8pwss_la6M1ZxdXuE87BtIoFMg5qk8HjgGluiR1NUG-vYKG1s253SgD3TR6m0A/s320/Peter_Br%25C3%25B6tzmann_W71_2017_02.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">The sudden screams and splutters from three saxophones is shocking and disturbing, the following rat-at-at-at of the two drums rattling and unsetteling. The sound barrage is almost overwheling, shaking the listener out of their comfort zone. Even now, having listened to <i>Machine Gun</i> countless times since I first encountered it over 20 years ago, I'm never quite prepared for that opening salvo.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">That initial outpouring soon gives way to much mellower sounds, though. Out of the smoke pops Fred Van Hove's slighty swinging piano, subtly stumbling bass patterns by Peter Kowald and Buschi Niebergall, and an off-kilter, drunken saxophone forging its way in between. Only to be shaken up by yet another outburst.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peter Brötzmann's work tends to keep you on your toes and alert. It can also seem like perfect examples of what Robert Wyatt termed "trying to find beauty where others see ugliness" (paraphrasing here, since I can't at the tie of writing find the original quote). Not that there's anything beautiful about a machine gun barrage, mind you. Some of his work is just downright beautiful in its own right, though, such as the solo work <i>14 Love Poems</i> (reissued last year on vinyl by Cien Fuegos). On the other side of the spectrum is stuff like LAst Exit, music that hits as hard as any you can think of.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Throughout his career Brötzmann has played with some of the greatest bassists. The above mentioned Kowlad, of course, not to forget William Parker in projects like Die Like a Dog. But I mention this specifically to highlight one of my fave Brötzmann recordings, <i>Songlines</i>, where he teamed up with the mercurially brilliant Fred Hopkins (of Air fame) as well as a certain Rashied Ali, arguably the nimbles bass-drum combo Brötzmann ever played with, and he more than holds his own.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwaPZOgrlkQ9TUoD04sNeWyZkzjooH5oVLxbwt-tHZhOY1q_x5FMtb-au8Tzi7FcprEd5dh8m0zN2x2Vm7gRUUeAF0svLK-7Wya5PSmxPDr1qoTEcyFvSjjBc_ZzX6VgGUdwA8ig/s600/R-15889533-1599657174-6191.jpeg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwaPZOgrlkQ9TUoD04sNeWyZkzjooH5oVLxbwt-tHZhOY1q_x5FMtb-au8Tzi7FcprEd5dh8m0zN2x2Vm7gRUUeAF0svLK-7Wya5PSmxPDr1qoTEcyFvSjjBc_ZzX6VgGUdwA8ig/s320/R-15889533-1599657174-6191.jpeg.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">That's just the tip of an iceberg of recorded output that numbers over 300 recordings and counting, with groups and solo work under his own name, Die Like a Dog and Last Exit, to collaborations with Cecil Taylor, ICP, Globe Unity Orchestra, Frode Gjerstad, and the more recent work with pedal steel guitarist Heather Leigh. I've only had the chance to witness him live in concert once, with the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet at Molde International Jazz Festival in 2007. It was an experience I won't soon forget. Hopefully, another chance or two will arise once this pandemic blows over.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Happy 80th b'day, maestro!</span></span><br /></p>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-87638815748574095982020-12-04T13:11:00.002+01:002020-12-08T15:19:29.374+01:00Jazz Critics Poll ballot short list/early 2020 faves rough draft<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">With
the deadline for submitting my Jazz Critics Poll ballot approaching, I figured I'd do something different and post a short list
here, culled from my hand written notes, numbering 30 albums (I had to stop somewhere). It can double as a sort of "faves of the wretched year of 2020"
rough draft. The "vaccine efficacy" rating is just a playful way of
suggesting the likelihood that the releases will be ending up among the final
10. A star denotes I've covered the album in writing. I'll publish a
more thorough "review of the year" (2020 is not over yet) in early
January next year.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKU1f2B9fmI99ny_ov-8ltqGSXwD0X-mo3TcYKERnnApgVBCQtwGwJNk63_83LojxCr6voVtPw_oEJ6a6RKQLVoHMtubXDxHj0V07Iuri4p6MWzIFEz3l1gJOt2pX852DoMbcvAQ/s880/2020+top+6+short+list.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="880" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKU1f2B9fmI99ny_ov-8ltqGSXwD0X-mo3TcYKERnnApgVBCQtwGwJNk63_83LojxCr6voVtPw_oEJ6a6RKQLVoHMtubXDxHj0V07Iuri4p6MWzIFEz3l1gJOt2pX852DoMbcvAQ/s320/2020+top+6+short+list.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">95% vaccine efficacy</span></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Gard Nilssen Supersonic Orchestra: <i>If You Listen Carefully the Music Is Yours</i> (ODIN) *<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Aly Keita, Jan Galega Brönnimann, Lucas Niggli: <i>Kalan Teban</i> (Intakt) *<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Irreversible Entanglements: <i>Who Sent You?</i> (International Anthem)</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> *</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I.P.A.: <i>Bashing Mushrooms</i> (Cuneiform) * </span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Eric Revis: <i>Slipknots Through a Looking Glass</i> (Pyroclastic Records) *</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Skurkar: <i>Skjulte Motiver</i> (Øra Fonogram)</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> *</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra: <i>Dimensional Stardust</i> (International Anthem)</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Matthew Shipp: <i>The Piano Equation</i> (Tao Forms) *</span></span></span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">94,5% vaccine efficacy</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Andreas Røysum Ensemble: <i>Andreas Røysum Ensemble</i> (Motvind)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anna Högberg Attack: <i>Lena</i> (Omlott) *<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">James Brandon Lewis Quartet: <i>Molecular</i> (Intakt) *</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Okkyung Lee: <i>Yeo-Neun</i> (Shelter Press)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Camila Nebbia: <i>Aura</i> (ears&eyes Records) *<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Superposition: <i>Superposition</i> (We Jazz Records) *</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shabaka and the Ancestors: <i>We Are Sent Here By History</i> (Impulse!) *<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lisa Mezzacappa Six: <i>Cosmicomics</i> (Queen Bee Records) *<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sigurd Hole: <i>Lys/Mørke</i> (Elvesang) *<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; 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Recordings) </span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Otis Sandsjö: <i>Y-OTIS 2</i> (We Jazz) <br /></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Luke Stewart: Luke Stewart Exposure Quartet (Astral Spirits)</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Ingrid Laubrock: <i>Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt </i>(Intakt)</span></span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">92% vaccine efficacy <br /></span></span></span></div><ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Moskus: <i>Live på Victoria</i> (Earthly Habits) *<br /></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Terje Rypdal: <i>Conspiracy</i> (ECM) *<br /></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Maria Kannegaard Trio: <i>Sand I En Vik</i> (Jazzland)</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Rudresh Mahanthappa: <i>Hero Trio</i> (Whirlwind Records) *<br /></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Barrage: <i>The Was and Is to Come</i> (Øra Fonogram) *<br /></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Orientation of We: <i>Emergence</i> (Off)<br /></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Wako: <i>Wako</i> (Øra Fonogram)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hegge: <i>Feeling</i> (Particular Recordings) *</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Am</span></span>brose Akinmusire: <i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;">On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment</i><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;"> (Blue Note Records/Universal) *</span></span></li></ul></div>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-35889070412560559562020-07-02T23:41:00.002+02:002020-12-01T22:05:41.081+01:00Published reviews, April through June, and fave music of 2020 so far<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>When music moves us, it can do so in many different ways. Music can inspire and incite, spark joy, trigger memories, it can console, it can consolidate. Music can be an awakening, it can shake us out of our numbness. It can be a much needed reminder of the many things that are not right in the world, but music can also help us imagine it as a much better place.<br />
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These and many others reasons are why people turn to music even when the world is in various stages of turmoil and unrest. It is why music -- and art, literature, film -- remains important for many of us while we also recognize there are larger concerns. Because music is mental and emotional sustenance <br />
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I've tried to convey those sentiments, implicitly or explicitly, in my reviews. Although arguably not always successfully so. Speaking of which, below is a list of music I've covered in writing from April through June (Jan. through March can be found <a href="https://perfectsounds.blogspot.com/2020/03/published-reviewed-and-notable-albums.html">here</a>), followed by a list, of sorts, of 50 of my favorite recordings released so far this year. That list could've been longer, but I had to stop somewhere.<br />
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PS: Depending on future developments, this may be the last entry on this blog for the foreseeable future. Granted, it hasn't seen a lot of activity at all over the past decade, my focus having been on paid published work. Still, I have debated moving my online presence to a different, more professional platform/site altogether for a while, but seeing as writing in any form has become increasingly emotionally taxing for me over the past few years -- took me three days to finalize and publish this post, and the stakes aren't particularly high, to put it mildly -- I've shelved that plan for the time being. Who knows what the future holds.<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span> <b>"Uten sikkerhetsnett: Risikoen ved et liv i jazzen"</b> Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen May 11., 2020.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><b>"Fritt etter folkemusikk" Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen</b> June 29., 2020. </span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Aly Keita, Jan Galega Brönnimann, Lucas Niggli: <i>Kalan Teban</i> (Intakt)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Irreversible Entanglements: <i>Who Sent You?</i> (International Anthem)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Matthew Shipp: <i>The Paino Equation</i> (Tao Forms) </span></span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Run the Jewels: <i>RJ4</i> (Jewel Runners) </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Andreas Røysum Ensemble: <i>Andreas Røysum Ensemble</i> (Motvind
Records)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Rudresh Mahanthappa: <i>Hero Trio </i>(Whirlwind Records)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Okkyoung Lee: <i>Yeo-Neun</i> (Shelter Press)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Ambrose Akinmusire: <i>On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment</i> (Blue Note Records/Universal) </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Shopping:<i> All or Nothing</i> (Fatcat Records)</span> </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Anna Högberg Attack: Lena (Omlott)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Aksak Maboul: <i>Figures</i> (Crammed Disc) </span></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Fiona Apple: <i>Fetch the Bolt Cutters</i> (Epic)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Torbjörn Zetterberg & Den Stora Frågan: <i>Are You Happy? </i>(Moserobie
Recordings) </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Brandon Seabrook with Cooper-Moore and Gerald Cleaver: <i>Exultations</i> (Astral Spirits) </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Bob Dylan: <i>Rough and Rowdy Ways</i> (Columbia)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Horse Lords: <i>The Common Task</i> (Northen Spy) </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>No Age: <i>Goons Be Gone</i> (Drag City)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Wendy Eisienberg: <i>Dehiscence</i> (Wendy Eisienberg) </span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>
</span></span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Thoroughly enjoying </span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>
</span></span></span><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Hegge: <i>Feeling</i> (Particular Recordings) </span></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Lisa Mezzacappa Six: <i>Cosmicomics</i> (Queen Bee Records)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Sigurd Hole: <i>Lys/Mørke</i> (Elvesang)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Shabaka and the Ancestors: <i>We Are Sent Here By History</i>
(Impulse!)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Wako: <i>Wako</i> (Øra Fonogram)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Erlend Apneseth: Fragmentarium (Hubro) </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Gerald Cleaver: <i>Welcome Adventure! Vol. 1</i> (577 Records) </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Jim Black Trio: <i>Reckon</i> (Intakt)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">X: <i>ALPHABETLAND</i> (Fat Possum)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">John Pål Inderberg Trio: <i>Radio Inderberg</i> (AMP Music & Records)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Moses Sumney: <i>Græ</i> (Jagjaguwar)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Cameron / Carter / Håker Flaten: <i>Tau Ceti</i> (Astral Spirits)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Daniel Romano's Outfit: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Daniel Romano's Outfit </span>Do (What Could Have Been) "Infidels" by Bob Dyaln & The Plugz</i> (self-released)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Dave Sewelson: More Music For a Free World (self released)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Lina Allemano's Ohrenschmaus: <i>Rats and Mice </i>(Lumo Records) </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Beauty Pill: <i>Please Advice</i> (Northern Spy)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Tim Berne's Snakeoil: The Fantastic Mrs. 10 (Intakt)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Hedvig Mollestad: <i>Ekhidna</i> (Rune Grammofon) </span></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Inland Empire: <i>Inland Empire</i> (Clean Feed) </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Large Unit Fendika: EthioBraz (PNL)</span></span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Heroes Are Gang Leaders: Artificial Happiness Button (Ropeadope)</span></span></span></li>
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</span></span></span></div>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-89918251892849683592020-03-31T17:05:00.001+02:002020-12-01T22:04:00.149+01:00Published reviews and notable albums, 1st quarter, 2020 <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">These
are strange and worrying times, and even though we cannot go out and experience live music
for the time being (that said, I quite enjoyed a fair share of sreamed "quarantine gig"), there is still a lot of great recorded music around. Below is a round-up of the music I've covered from
January through March, as well as a list of 15 album favorites of the year so
far. </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Stay safe, all, and
wash your hands!</span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgivDEsG3GeYmYg6F-3ELZYsuTCHMKLfweDxKarg4VxjvRCDbhXGbHANTYBGbuTCqeNyGqnjiO0oDttrs90s_ghfQkWPgxh57Zxf-pjWWlSM7kaImm1ZBuy1252SF-T1oogwIaBhw/s1600/cover+338_kl.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="472" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgivDEsG3GeYmYg6F-3ELZYsuTCHMKLfweDxKarg4VxjvRCDbhXGbHANTYBGbuTCqeNyGqnjiO0oDttrs90s_ghfQkWPgxh57Zxf-pjWWlSM7kaImm1ZBuy1252SF-T1oogwIaBhw/s200/cover+338_kl.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Large Unit Fendika: <i>Ethiobraz</i> (PNL
Records)</span></b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">
Reviewed for</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, Jan. 13., 2020<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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(Intakt Records)</span></b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">
Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, Jan. 20., 2020</span></span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">JUNO: <i>Young Star</i> (Jazzland Recordings)</span></b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen,
Jan. 27., 2020</span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul type="disc">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUkDXiHRbpvViVijBORyNUKVASxOeKDpvmM4J-2drJMYPGCdaXX9zbRT5gm8da8x1l_SxGChPAQf9i6Y2L_Z4sUjQYfo_24X3tyas_B0GyL8cb9U5z2f0hetisXuE5N0XuJqBbwA/s1600/Gard+Nilssen%25E2%2580%2599s+Supersonic+Orchestra_LP_Cover.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1589" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUkDXiHRbpvViVijBORyNUKVASxOeKDpvmM4J-2drJMYPGCdaXX9zbRT5gm8da8x1l_SxGChPAQf9i6Y2L_Z4sUjQYfo_24X3tyas_B0GyL8cb9U5z2f0hetisXuE5N0XuJqBbwA/s200/Gard+Nilssen%25E2%2580%2599s+Supersonic+Orchestra_LP_Cover.jpg" width="198" /></a></span></span>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Jeff Parker: <i>Suite For Max Brown</i>
(International Anthem) </span></b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, Feb. 10., 2020</span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Gard Nilssen Supersonic Orchestra: <i>If You Listen Carefully the
Music Is Yours</i> (Odin Records/Grappa) </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Reviewed for
Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, Feb. 10., 2020</span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul type="disc">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZNCnRt0yf_f2uCP5DEsqltahnMHMrzYewzOr6esbd5i54olSeHT_D34UwdfSiTEq7VsVsXgUGDJckKSxLtYDbHC4fzubHE9j01kJCyCKtUcxcndvzA8pTNKitg7FYOiBEOoZQDQ/s1600/andreas_roysum_300+%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZNCnRt0yf_f2uCP5DEsqltahnMHMrzYewzOr6esbd5i54olSeHT_D34UwdfSiTEq7VsVsXgUGDJckKSxLtYDbHC4fzubHE9j01kJCyCKtUcxcndvzA8pTNKitg7FYOiBEOoZQDQ/s200/andreas_roysum_300+%25281%2529.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Sigurd Hole: <i>Lys / Mørke</i>
(Elvesang/Musikkoperatøren) </span></b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, Feb 24., 2020</span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Lisa Mezzacappa Six: <i>Cosmicomics</i> Queen Bee Records) </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekamepn, Feb. 24., 2020</span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Andreas Røysum Ensemble: <i>Andreas Røysum
Ensemble</i> (Motvind Records)</span></b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klasssekampen, March 9., 2020</span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul type="disc">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDyUOpjoOGPJldRZnZ-b6-CnLgH3Srv1FJ2SRlaDU5van4wqEKcNIAncE5T9SNiGkA9YO-F9JfHed_A5krGWMqsyHcX-XOztTv_QEX8E5zsHCJhUG80Qduz93oVavwXJnXso55Dw/s1600/cover+art+IARC0031+Irreversible+Entanglements++Who+Sent+You.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDyUOpjoOGPJldRZnZ-b6-CnLgH3Srv1FJ2SRlaDU5van4wqEKcNIAncE5T9SNiGkA9YO-F9JfHed_A5krGWMqsyHcX-XOztTv_QEX8E5zsHCJhUG80Qduz93oVavwXJnXso55Dw/s200/cover+art+IARC0031+Irreversible+Entanglements++Who+Sent+You.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo9; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Shabaka and The Ancestors: <i>We Are Sent Here By History</i></span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">(Impulse! </span></b><b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Record) </span></b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, March 16., 2020</span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo10; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Irreversible Entanglements: Who Sent You? (International Anthem)</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, March 23., 2020
(Available online </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://dagens.klassekampen.no/2020-03-23/neve-med-nerve"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">here</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">. </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">In Norwegian
only) </span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo11; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Stein Urheim: <i>Downhill Uplift</i> (Hubro) </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Reviewed for Jazznytt #254</span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">15
notable recordings of the year so far:</span></b></span></span></h4></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Heavy rotation</span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Gard Nilssen Supersonic Orchestra: <i>If You Listen Carefully the
Music Is Yours</i> (Odin Records/Grappa) </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Aly Keita, Jan Galega Brönnimann, Lucas Niggli: <i>Kalan Teban</i>
(Intakt Records)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Irreversible Entanglements: Who Sent You? </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">(International Anthem)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Superposition: <i>Superposition</i> (We Jazz Records)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Andreas Røysum Ensemble: <i>Andreas Røysum Ensemble</i> (Motvind
Records)</span></span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Thoroughly enjoying </span></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></div><div><div><ul type="disc">
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul type="disc"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Lisa Mezzacappa Six: <i>Cosmicomics</i> (Queen Bee Records)</span></span></span></li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Sigurd Hole: <i>Lys/Mørke</i> (Elvesang)</span></span></span></li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Waxahatchee: <i>Saint Cloud </i>(Merge)</span></span></span></li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Torbjörn Zetterberg & Den Stora Frågan: <i>Are You Happy? </i>(Moserobie
Recordings) </span></span></span></li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Shabaka and the Ancestors: <i>We Are Sent Here By History</i>
(Impulse!)</span></span></span></li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Horse Lords: <i>The Common Task</i> (Northen Spy) </span></span></span></li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Wako: <i>Wako</i> (Øra Fonogram)</span></span></span></li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Jim Black Trio: <i>Reckon</i> (Intakt)</span></span></span></li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Shopping:<i> All or Nothing</i> (Fatcat Records)</span></span></span></li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo13; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Stein Urheim: <i>Downhill Uplift</i> (Hubro)</span></span></span></li>
</ul>
</div></div>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-72426130320413341152020-01-15T10:41:00.002+01:002020-12-01T22:06:00.934+01:00The 2019 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/795888693/the-2019-npr-music-jazz-critics-poll">Results for the 2019 edition of Francis Davis' Jazz Critics Poll</a>, for the past two years hosted by NPR, were posted yesterday. In a year where I could see now clear consensus favorite in advance, it was still not that surprising too see Kris Davis<i>' Diatom Ribbons</i> take the no. 1 spot, considering it received a good deal of buzz late in the year. Happy to see James Brandon Lewis' <i>An Unruly Manifesto</i> make the top 20, especially considering he did most of the albums promotion himself, as well as the strong finish for Anna Webber's <i>Clockwise</i>. Steve Lehman is be now a long-time favorite who continues to impress in many formats, and even if <i>The People I Love</i> didn't resonate with me quite as much as <i>Dialect Flourescent</i> or <i>Selebeyone</i>, it's still a terrific release by one of this generations leading and most original musicians, composers and improvisors. Disappointed, though, that neither Per 'Texas' Johansson/Torbjörn
Zetterberg/Konrad Agnas nor Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity, who both
released stellar albums, made the top 50, but at least I did my bit. <br />
<br />
Speaking of things I did, I blurbed the winner of the Rara Avis category (re-issues, vault releases and similar), <i>Musical Prophet</i>, which covers Eric Dolphy's 1963 New York sessions. This, along with the results, plus Francis Davis' essay can be accessed via the link up top, while individual ballots (also available via the main article) are as always hosted by Tom Hull and can be accessed <a href="http://hullworks.net/jazzpoll/19tw/index.php">here</a>. You should go check them all out, it's half the fun of such polls, but I'm posting mine below.<br />
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</span></span><div class="subh"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
NEW RELEASES</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ol>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">James Brandon Lewis, <i>An UnRuly Manifesto</i> (Relative Pitch)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Per "Texas" Johansson-Torbjörn Zetterberg-Konrad Agnas, <i>Orakel</i> (Moserobie)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anna Webber, <i>Clockwise</i> (Pi)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity, <i>To Whom Who Buys a Record</i> (Odin)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Emmeluth's Amoeba, <i>Chimaera</i> (Ora Fonogram)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Avram Fefer Quartet, <i>Testament</i> (Clean Feed)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Aki Takase Japanic, <i>Thema Prima</i> (BMC)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Federico Ughi, <i>Transoceanico</i> (577)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Steve Lehman Trio & Craig Taborn, <i>The People I Love</i> (Pi)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Taylor Ho Bynum 9-tette, <i>The Ambiguity Manifesto</i> (Firehouse 12)</span></span></li>
</ol><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><div class="subh"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
REISSUES/HISTORICAL</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ol>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Eric Dolphy, <i>Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions</i> (Resonance -3CD -18)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Detail, <i>Day Two</i> (1982, NoBusiness)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Griot Galaxy, <i>Kins</i> (1981, Third Man)</span></span></li>
</ol><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><div class="subh"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
VOCAL</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Art Ensemble of Chicago, <i>We Are on the Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration</i> (Pi -2CD)</span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><div class="subh"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
DEBUT</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nick Dunston, <i>Atlantic Extraction</i> (Out of Your Head)</span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><div class="subh"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
LATIN</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet, <i>The Rhythm of Inventio</i><b><i>n</i></b> (Patois)</span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-46261854986853512322020-01-08T13:33:00.001+01:002020-12-01T22:06:20.135+01:00El Intruso 12th Annual International Critics Poll<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The results for the Argentine "dedicated to other music" magazine El Intruso's 12th Annual International Critics Poll were posted this Monday. Link to the results and personal ballots <a href="https://elintruso.com/2020/01/06/encuesta-2019-periodistas-internacionales/?fbclid=IwAR0zV79Ubh86omJtcu9AvMSgKNH33Mf21SuAdTguTOsRpgEKTc8pnqI36UA">here</a>. I'll point you to the "musician of the year" category in particular, and happily note that 5 of the top 6 are female artists.<br />
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Posting my ballot below, although you can also find it via the results page linked to above.<br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Musician of the year</span></b>: Gard Nilssen, Jaimie Branch, Eric Revis<br />
<b><span lang="EN-US">Newcomer Musician</span></b>: Georgia Wartel Collins, Nick Dunston, Claire Rousay<br />
<b><span lang="EN-US">Group of the year</span></b>: Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity, Emmeluth’s Amoeba, jaimie branch’s Fly or Die II<br />
<b><span lang="EN-US">Newcomer group</span></b>: Nature Work, Aki Takase Japanic, Aila Trio<br />
<b><span lang="EN-US">Album of the year</span></b>: James Brandon Lewis – An UnRuly Manifesto (Relative
Pitch Records), Per “Texas” Johansson / Torbjörn Zetterberg / Konrad
Agnas – Orakel (Moserobie Music Production), Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity
– To Whom Who Buys a Record (ODIN)<br />
<b><span lang="EN-US">Composer</span></b>: James Brandon Lewis, Anna Webber, Taylor Ho Bynum<br />
<b>Drums</b>: Gard Nilssen, Damion Reid, Christian Lillinger<br />
<b>Acoustic bass</b>: Eric Revis, Luke Stewart, Petter Eldh<br />
<b>Electric bass</b>: Luke Stewart, Brian Gibson, Ellen Brekken<br />
<b>Guitar</b>: Anthony Pirog, Hedvig Mollestad, Mary Halvorson<br />
<b>Piano</b>: Matt Mitchell, Craig Taborn, Kris Davis<br />
<b><span lang="EN-US">Keyboards/Synthesizer/Organ</span></b>: Craig Taborn, Jamie Saft, Anja Lauvdal<br />
<b>Tenor Saxophone</b>: James Brandon Lewis, Andre Roligheten, Per “Texas” Johansson<br />
<b>Alto Saxophone</b>: Signe Emmeluth, Steve Lehman, Mette Rasmussen<br />
<b>Baritone Saxophone</b>: Eirik Hegdal, Julian Argüelles, Mats Gustafsson<br />
<b>Soprano Saxophone</b>: Sam Newsome, Roscoe Mitchell, André Kassen<br />
<b>Trumpet / Cornet</b>: Magnus Broo, Jaimie Branch, Steph Richards<br />
<b>Clarinet / Bass Clarinet</b>: Ken Vandermark, Jason Stein, Patrick Holmes<br />
<b>Trombone</b>: Mats Äleklint, Steve Swell, Jeb Bishop<br />
<b>Flute</b>: Nicole Mitchell, Henry Threadgill, Anna Webber<br />
<b>Violin / Viola</b>: Matt Manieri, Ola Kvernberg, Jean Cook<br />
<b>Cello</b>: Tomeka Reid, Christopher Hoffman, Fredrick Lonberg-Holm<br />
<b>Vibrafone</b>: Mattias Ståhl, Christopher Dell, Matt Moran<br />
<b>Electronics</b>: Ikue Mori, Noel Meek, Tommi Keränen<br />
<b>Other Instruments</b>: Theon Cross (tuba), Bill Lowe (tuba), Hild Sofie Tafjord (French horn)<br />
<b>Female Vocals</b>: Sofia Jernberg, Moor Mother (Camae Ayewa), Fay Victor<br />
<b>Best Live Band</b>: Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity, Moskus, Henry Threadgill Zooid<br />
<b>Record Label</b>: Hubro, Records Astral Spirits, Pi Recordings</span></span>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-66670574712488557452019-12-20T10:59:00.002+01:002020-12-01T22:06:37.551+01:00Fave music (i.e. mostly jazz/"jazz") of 2019<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I've often been wary of posting year-end favorites until sometime into the new year, mainly since from experience something interesting invariably pops up at later dates that demands my consideration. Be that a late release that hits the sweet spot, or something that has flown under ones radar, the latter being an example of why -- in spite of the many groans they inspire -- I still find year-end lists useful: something might pique your interests when it's placed among other stuff you admire picked by a person whose taste you trust.<br />
<br />
Whether I am to be trusted or not I'll leave up to you to decide. In any case, as years have gone by I've become less stressed out that such list should somehow be final. They are, for me, a report of how things stand at the time it is posted. And on that note, if you arrive at this list after the personal ballots for the NPR Jazz Critics Poll, in which I voted, have been published, and something doesn't quite square with my ballot, that's because this list has been posted at a later date and for whatever reason, something felt slightly different this time around. That said, even if album X placed slightly higher than Y on one compared to the other, chances are I still like them both a hell of a lot.<br />
<br />
With that out of the way, here's a list of my favorite jazz and jazz adjacent albums released over the past year or so, stopping at 40 because I have to stop somewhere. Plus, with an additional list consisting 10 fave "other" releases, that makes 50.<br />
<br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>The best of the best:</b></span><br />
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">James Brandon Lewis: <i>An UnRuly Manifsto</i> (Relative Pitch Records)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Per 'Texas' Johansson/Torbjörn Zetterberg/Konrad Agnas: <i>Orakel</i> (Moserobie Music Production) </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity: <i>To Whom Who Buys a Record</i> (ODIN) </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Anna Webber: <i>Clockwise</i> (Pi Recordings) </span></span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
<span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>On heavy rotation:</b></span></span><br />
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Taylor Ho Bynum 9-tette: <i>The Ambiguity Manifesto</i> (Firehouse Records)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Avram Fefer Quartet: <i>Testament</i> (Clean Feed) </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Emmeluth's Amoeba: <i>Chimaera</i> (Øra Fonogram)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Aki Takase Japanic: <i>Thema Prima</i> (Budapest Music Center Records) </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Steve Lehman Trio + Craig Taborn: <i>The People I Love</i> (Pi Recordings) </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Federico Ughi: <i>Transoceanico</i> (577 Records)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Matt Brewer w/Mark Shim and Damion Reid: <i>Ganymede</i> (Criss Cross Jazz)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Dave Rempis, Brandon Lopes & Ryan Packard: <i>The Early Bird Gets</i> (Aerophonic Records)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Gebhard Ullmann: <i>mikroPULS</i> (Intuition Records) </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">DKV & Joe McPhee: <i>The Fire Each Time</i> (6CD, Catalytic Sound) </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">jaimie branch: <i>FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise</i> (Internaional Anthem)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Nature Work (Jason Stein/Greg Ward/Eric Revis/Jim Black): <i>Nature Work</i> (Sunnyside) </span></span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
<span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> <b>Thoroughly enjoyed:</b></span></span><br />
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Abdullah Ibrahim: <i>The Balance</i> (Gearbox Records)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Steph Richards: <i>Take the Neon Lights</i> (Birdwatcher Records) </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Tomeka Reid Quartet: <i>Old New</i> (Cuneiform Records)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Big Yes: <i>The Big Yes</i> (Nakama Records) </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom: <i>Glitter Wolf</i> (The Royal Potato Family)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Rich Halley Quartet: <i>Terra Incognita</i> (Pine Eagle Records)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Matt Mitchell: <i>Phalanx Ambassadors</i> (Pi Recordings)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Petter Eldh: <i>Petter Eldh Presents Koma Saxo</i> (We Jazz)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Attic (Rodrigo Amado, Goncalo Almeida, Onno Govaert): <i>Summer Bummer</i> (NoBusiness</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Big Yes: <i>The Big Yes</i> (Nakama Records) </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Kris Davis: <i>Diatom Ribbons</i> (Pyroclastic Records)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Nick Dunston: <i>Atlantic Extraction</i> (Out Of Your Head Records)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Junius Paul: <i>Ism</i> (International Anthem</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">William Parker/In Order to Survive:<i> Live/ShapeShifter</i> (AUM Fidelity)<i><br /></i></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Fire! Orchestra: <i>Arrival</i> (Rune Grammofon) </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Art Ensemble of Chicago: <i>We Are On The Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration</i> (Pi Recordings)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Somersaults (Tobias Delius / Olie Brice / Mark Sanders): <i>Numerology of Birdsong</i> (West Hill Records)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Fredrik Ljungkvist Trio: <i>Atlantis</i> (Moserobie Music Productions) </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Gebhard Ullmann Basement Research: <i>Impromptus and Other Short Works</i> (WhyPlayJazz)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Scheen Jazzorkester & Thomas Johansson: <i>As We See It...</i> (Clean Feed)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Aila Trio: <i>Aila Trio</i> (Hoo-Ha Recordings) </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Nick Mazzarella Trio: <i>Counterbalance</i> (Astral Spirits) </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Christian Meaas Svendsen + Nakama + Rinzai Zen Center Oslo: <i>New Rituals</i> (Nakama)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Burton Greene / Damon Smith / Ra Kalam Bob Moses: <i>Life's Intense Mystery</i> (Astral Spirits)</span></span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
<b><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Vault/Re-issue:</span></span></b><br />
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Griot Galaxy: <i>Kins</i> (Third Man Records)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Clifford Jordan: <i>Glass Bead Games</i> (Purple Pleasure Records)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Quintet: <i>Events: 1998-1999</i>(PNL) [Disclaimer: I wrote liner notes for this release] </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Detail: <i>Day Two</i> (NoBusiness Records)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Sam Rivers: <i>Emanation</i> (NoBusiness Records) </span></span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
<br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>Non-jazz releases:</b></span><br />
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Lightning Bolt: <i>Sonic Citadel</i> (Thrill Jockey)</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Purple Mountains: <i>Purple Mountains</i> (Drag City)</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Fontaines D.C.: <i>Dogrel</i> (Partisan)</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Little Simz: <i>GREY Area</i> (Age 101)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Ekiti Sound: <i>Abeg No Vex</i> (Crammed Disc)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Eddy Current Suppression Ring: <i>All In Good Time</i> (Castle Face)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Carly Rae Jepsen: <i>Dedicated</i> (Intercscope)</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Broen: <i>Do You See the Falling Leaves</i> (Su Tissue)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">black midi: <i>Schlangenheim</i> (Rough Trade)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Jamila Woods: <i>Legacy! Legacy!</i> (Jagjaguwar)</span><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I'm well aware we are a couple of weeks past the half-year mark, but since I'm just now enjoying </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">something of a break
between having visited Kongsberg Jazz Festival and the smaller, more condensed and
thus more focused sort of protest festival Motvind last week, and gearing up to
next week's Molde Jazz Festival, doing a short and quick half-year round-up
seemed appropriate. Below are some of the newly released recorded music that has
grabbed my attention the most over the first six months plus a week of 2019, and a couple reissues
and "vault music" releases of interest. An asterix denotes that I have had a published review of the release in question.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">James Brandon Lewis magnificent
<i>An UnRuly Manifesto</i> has been a favorite since its release, and seems
like a major work in an already promising career. It channels the lessons of
Ornette Coleman and cohorts like Charlie Haden while avoiding the trap of trying to sound like them, the odd musical nod apart. Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity's <i>To
Whom Who Buys a Record</i> (officially released today), does something similar
in the acoustic trio format, yet another great outing from a terrific band. Catch
'em live if you can. </span><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJxGThZSzTIspQsOQp9587M2FGgqHBScV3TbmlPawtek2U2W1YNNm-cCsuRPC_ISIvKIF1y1yeoKIBeoORiJmMLh3kYENHsaTKKxV5t_gKxBMnGi8PNzIwVXmsigvuCLu2yNBt5w/s1600/Johansson%252C+Zetterberg%252C+Agnas+-+Orakel.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJxGThZSzTIspQsOQp9587M2FGgqHBScV3TbmlPawtek2U2W1YNNm-cCsuRPC_ISIvKIF1y1yeoKIBeoORiJmMLh3kYENHsaTKKxV5t_gKxBMnGi8PNzIwVXmsigvuCLu2yNBt5w/s200/Johansson%252C+Zetterberg%252C+Agnas+-+Orakel.jpg" width="200" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Speaking of trios, the
number of good-to-great sax, bass and drums albums that have crossed my path is notable,
topped by two Scandinavian acts including Acoustic Unity, with Matt Brewer's an
all American trio close behind, all exhibiting great inventiveness, agility and
skill and slipping in and out familiar structures and melodic hooks and
intricate, nimble and exciting acrobatics. Then there's the hefty yet loose
limbed, occasionally ferocious <i>Transoceanico</i> by Federico
Ughi with Rachel Musson on tenor and Adam Lane on double bass, and the freewheeling
openness of Dave Rempis, Brandon Lopez and Ryan Packard's <i>Early Bird Gets</i>.</span><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSDuBeJtBE0WBlnuVtzV5-hp6GJ5HSdztbj_J8HOdfpQm6yC16uZXHrtW6RJBQiWzwUmM5TYII2Lq2G2oNRwtrNuiQ6HbtapMlMhLfn_i2KS89DRHEmEz6xIt5nbxWroULyWfnSw/s1600/ODINCD9570.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1585" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSDuBeJtBE0WBlnuVtzV5-hp6GJ5HSdztbj_J8HOdfpQm6yC16uZXHrtW6RJBQiWzwUmM5TYII2Lq2G2oNRwtrNuiQ6HbtapMlMhLfn_i2KS89DRHEmEz6xIt5nbxWroULyWfnSw/s200/ODINCD9570.jpg" width="197" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I'm reluctant to call this
a trend, though, as I see no clear cultural, social nor really economic reasons
for there being as many sax, bass and drums trios around at this moment in time. So put
it down to a happy coincidence, plus that my particular predisposition for sax, bass and drums trios means I tend to sniff such albums up more easily. Nevertheless, the number of
recordings in this format that have tickled my fancy are notable not only for
their number, but also the variety of musical expressions they exhibit.</span><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGvYPH6ihgKu6MGguJbhMosyLp8rAkf4V_6o6xBSWQm8uP1gLulEW5dzJT0MQMcOJFGFdMoS8AE1QCUTjRE_CSSuU3Bu9Tt4NImir3WsyBr_iyoMyDMldBlzF2_23eII64qSXCJQ/s1600/cover.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1439" data-original-width="1600" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGvYPH6ihgKu6MGguJbhMosyLp8rAkf4V_6o6xBSWQm8uP1gLulEW5dzJT0MQMcOJFGFdMoS8AE1QCUTjRE_CSSuU3Bu9Tt4NImir3WsyBr_iyoMyDMldBlzF2_23eII64qSXCJQ/s200/cover.jpg" width="200" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Other things of note: Anna
Webber's intriguing, percussion work inspired <i>Clockwise</i>, the continued
rise of trumpeter Steph Richards as an instrumentalist, composer and bandleader, the perpetual relevance and inventiveness of
the Art Ensemble of Chicago, veteran pianist Burton Greene's return to the
piano trio with <i>Life's Intense Mystery</i>, the absorbing zen-jazz of
Christian Meaas Svendsen's <i>New Rituals</i>,
to mention only a few. The list is capped at 30 for no particular reason other
than to keep it somewhat short. I've heard more good music than I've found space for here, also in fields outside of jazz:</span><br />
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<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">Tête de la course:</span></span></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"><br />- James Brandon Lewis: <i>An UnRuly Manifsto</i> (Relative Pitch Records) *<br />- Per 'Texas' Johansson/Torbjörn Zetterberg/Konrad Agnas: <i>Orakel </i>(Moserobie Music Production) *</span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity: <i>To Whom Who Buys a Record</i> (ODIN) *</span></span></span></span><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- Anna Webber: <i>Clockwise</i> (Pi Recordings)</span></span> *</span></span> <br /><br /></span></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">Chase:</span></span></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"><br />- DKV & Joe McPhee: <i>The Fire Each Time</i> (6CD, Catalytic Sound) <br />- Matt Brewer w/Mark Shim and Damion Reid: <i>Genymede</i> (Criss Cross Jazz) *<br />- Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom: <i>Glitter Wolf</i> (The Royal Potato Family) *</span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- Nature Work (Jason Stein/Greg Ward/Eric Revis/Jim Black): <i>Nature Work</i> (Sunnyside) *</span></span></span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- </span></span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">Scheen Jazzorkester & Thomas Johansson: <i>As We See It...</i> (Clean Feed)</span></span> *</span></span></span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- </span></span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">Bjørn Marius Hegge: <i>Ideas</i> (Particular Recordings)</span></span> *</span></span> <br /><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">Breakaway:</span></span></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"><br />- Aki Takase Japanic: <i>Thema Prima</i> (Budapest Music Center Records) *<br />- Dave Rempis, Brandon Lopes & Ryan Packard: <i>The Early Bird Gets</i> (Aerophonic Records)<br />- Federico Ughi: <i>Transoceanico</i> (577 Records) *<br />- Steph Richards: <i>Take the Neon Lights</i> (Birdwatcher Records) *</span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- Angelica Niescier: <i>New York Trio feat. Jonathna Finlayson</i> (Intakt) <br />- Fire! Orchestra: <i>Arrival</i> (Rune Grammofon) *<br />- Art Ensemble of Chicago: <i>We Are On The Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration</i> (Pi Recordings) *</span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- The Attic (Rodrigo Amado, Goncalo Almeida, Onno Govaert): <i>Summer Bummer</i> (NoBusiness) *</span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- Matt Mitchell: <i>Phalanx Ambassadors</i> (Pi Recordings)</span></span> <br />- Gebhard Ullmann Basement Research: <i>Impromptus and Other Short Works</i> (WhyPlayJazz)</span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- Christian Meaas Svendsen + Nakama + Rinzai Zen Center Oslo: <i>New Rituals</i> (Nakama) *</span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- William Parker / In Order To Survive: <i>Live/Shapeshifter</i> (AUM Fidelity)</span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- Fabian Almazan Trio: <i>This Land Abounds With Life</i> (Biophilia) </span></span><br />
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<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- Alex Fournier: <i>Triio</i> (Furniture Music Records)</span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- Matthew Shipp Trio invites Nicole Mitchell: <i>All Things Are</i> (Rogue Art)</span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- Maria Faust, Tim Dahl & Weasel Walter: <i>Farm Fresh</i> (Gotta Let It Out)</span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- Boneshaker (Mars Williams, Paal Nilssen-Love, Kent Kessler): <i>Fake Music</i> (Soul What Records)</span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- Iro Haarla, Ulf Krokfors & Barry Altschul: <i>Around Again - The Music of Carla Bley</i> (TUM) *</span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- Lind May Han Oh: Aventurine (Biophilia Records) * </span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- </span></span><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">Greg Ward presents Rogue Parade: <i>Stompin' Off From Greenwood</i> (Greenleaf Music) *</span></span><br />
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<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- Detail: <i>Day Two </i>(NoBusiness)</span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- Alice Coltrane - Live at the Berkeley Community Theater 1972 (BCT Records) </span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- Griot Galaxy: <i>Kins </i>(Third Man Records)</span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- Clifford Jordan: <i>Glass Bead Games</i> (Purple Pleasure Records)</span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">- Sam Rivers: <i>Emanation - Sam Rivers Archive Project, Volume 1</i> (NoBusiness)</span></span></span></span></div>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-67603757243694320102018-12-20T10:02:00.002+01:002020-12-01T22:08:36.102+01:00Fave Jazz of 2018<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'm repeating myself, but doing year-end round-ups when the year isn't even over still feels a bit odd. That said, having voted in Francis Davis annual Jazz Critics Poll over the past 7 or so years, where votes are due at the beginning of December, has made me get used to a Thanksgiving to Thanksgiving "jazz season" of sorts. So, putting together a top 10 ballot for this year's edition of the Jazz Critics Poll is where and when this now expanded list was started. I do consider of whatever crosses my path after this "season" ends, of course, and have added a couple of notables here, too. Withthat out of the way, below is my list of the 50, which seemed an apt and sufficient amount at he time of posting, best jazz albums released since the turn of the year. An asterisk denotes that I've written about the album in question (see <a href="https://perfectsounds.blogspot.com/2018/12/listening-booth-music-releaseas-and-bit.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://perfectsounds.blogspot.com/2018/08/listening-booth-music-reviewed-january.html" target="_blank">here</a> for info about where and when). As has been my custom in recent year, I separate these recordings into sections rather than rank them in any strict, numbered manner. That said, they are loosely listed in order of preference. <br />
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Cream of the crop:</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Hanna Paulsberg + Magnus Broo: <i>Daughter of the Sun</i> (Odin) *</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Salim Washington:<i> Dogon Revisited</i> (Passin' Thru) *</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Ole Morten Vågan: <i>Happy Endlings</i> (Odin) *</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Ken Vandermark, Klaus Kugel & Mark Tokar: </span><span><i>No-Exit
Corner</i></span><span>
(Not Two Records)</span><span> *</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg: <i>Dirt... And More Dirt</i> (Pi Recordings) *</span></span></span></li>
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<span>Heavy rotation: </span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Angelika Niescier, Christopher Tordini & Tyshawn Sorey: <i>The Berlin Concert </i>(Intakt Records) * </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Daniel Carter, William Parker, Matthew Shipp: Seraphic Light (AUM Fidelity)*</span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Erlend Olderskog Albertsen: <i>RødssalG nEEn GlassdøR</i> (Dugnad Rec.) *</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Rodrigo Amado, Joe McPhee, Kent Kessler, Chris Corsano: <i>A History of Nothing</i> (Trost Records)*</span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Dave Holland, Evan Parker, Craig Taborn & Ches Smith: <i>Uncharted Territories</i> (Dare2 Records) *</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">James Brandon Lewis & Chad Taylor: <i>Radiant Imprints</i> (Off) *</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>The Necks, <i>Body</i> (Fish of Milk) *</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Johan Lindström Septet: <i>Music For Empty Halls</i> (Moserobie Music Productions) *</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Friends & Neighbors: <i>What's Next</i> (Clean Feed) *</span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Myra Melford Snowy Egret: <i>The Other Side of Air</i> (Firehouse 12) *</span></span></li>
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Thoroughly enjoyed: </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mia Dyberg Trio: <i>Ticket!</i> (Clean Feed)*</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">María Grand: <i>Magdalena </i>(Biophilia)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Kaja Draksler, Petter Eld, Christian Lillinger: <i>Punkt.Vrt.Plastik</i> (Intakt) *<i> </i></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fredrik Nordström: <i>Needs</i> (Clean Feed) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Adam Hopkins: <i>Crickets</i> (Out of Your Head Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Harriet Tubman: <i>The Terror End of Beauty </i>(Sunnyside Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bjørn Marius Hegge: <i>The Creator Has a Bachelor Plan</i> (Particular Recordings) * [review due to be published before the end of the year.] </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tord Gustafsen Trio: <i>The Other Side</i> (ECM) *</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Moskus: <i>Mirakler</i> (Hubro) *</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fay Victor's SoundNoiseFUNK: <i>Wet Robots</i> (ESP Disk') *</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Josephine Davies' Satori: <i>In the Corner of Clouds</i> (Whirlwind Recordings) * [published in Musikkmagasinet, Dec. 17th.]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jemeel Moondoc Quartet: <i>The Astral Revelations</i> (RogueArt)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Brandon Lopez: <i>quoniam facta sum vilis</i> (Astral Spirits)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore: <i>After Caroline</i> (Northern Spy)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chris Pitsiokos CP Unit: <i>Silver Bullet in the Autumn of Your Years</i> (Clean Feed) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">David S. Ware Trio: <i>The Balance (Vision Festival XV +)</i> (AUM FIdelity)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Heat Death: <i>The Glenn Miller Sessions</i> (Clean Feed) *</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sylvie Courvoisier Trio: <i>D'Agala</i> (Intakt) *</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tyshawn Sorey: <i>Pillars</i> (Firehouse 12)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Barre Phillips:<i>End to End</i> (ECM) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Håvard Wiik Trio: <i>This Is Not a Waltz</i> (Moserobie Music Productions, 2017)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Igor Lumpert & Innertextures: <i>Eleven</i> (Clean Feed) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Christian McBride: <i>Christian McBride's New Jawn</i> (Mack Avenue Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Luke Stewart: <i>Work for Upright Bass and Amplifier</i> (Astral Spirit)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bjørn Marius Hegge Trio: <i>Assosiasjoner</i> (Particular Recordings) * </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lauren Sevian: <i>Bliss </i>(Posi-Tone) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Steve Coleman and Five elements: <i>Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (The Embedded Sets)</i> (Pi Recordings) *</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mette Rasmussen & Chris Corsano: <i>A View of the Moon (From the Sun) </i>(Clean Feed) *</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Emmeluth's Amoeba: <i>POLYP</i> (Øra Fonogram)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Espen Eriksen Trio & Andy Sheppard: <i>Perfectly Unhappy</i> (Rune Grammofon)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Atomic: <i>Pet Variations</i> (Odin) *</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mary Halvorson: <i>Code Girl</i> (Firehouse 12) *</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">JD Allen: <i>Love Stone</i> (Savant)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Amaro Freitas: <i>Rasif</i> (Far Out Recordings) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band: <i>Presence</i> (Smoke Sessions) </span></span></li>
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Reissues/vault: </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Frode Gjerstad with William Parker and Hamid Drake: <i>Frode Gjerstad with William Parker and Hamid Drake</i> (4 CD, NotTwo Records) *</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Svein Finnerud Trio: <i>Plastic Sun</i> (ODIN) *</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sonny Rollins: <i>Way Out West (Deluxe)</i> (Craft) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Charles Mingus: <i>Live In Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Selde</i>n (BBE) *</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anthony Braxton: <i>The Essential Anthony Braxton: The Arista Years</i> (Arista/Legacy) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">John Coltrane Quartets: <i>Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album </i>(Impulse!) *</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Miles Davis & John Coltrane: <i>The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series Vol. 6</i> (Columbia/Legacy) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Erik Andresen Quartet: <i>GIP</i> (Jazzaggression Records)</span></span></li>
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(The Ornette Coleman 10 LP box set <i>The Atlantic Years </i>(Atlantic/Rhino) would trump pretty much any music any year, but though I know the music contained here inside out, I do not own this particular box set and so I only mention this in passing here rather than add it to the list proper).<br />
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PS: If you think the album is a silly concept to care about in the era of streaming, then 1) you tell that to musicians who have spent time and energy writing compositions, hours practicing with a group of musicians (regulars or not) that they probably already had in mind when writing the music and whom they have to pay for their services as they also have to do for studio time. Go tell them that they should only record a single in stead. 2) f*ck the exploitative nature of the current streaming services, and finally 3) f*ck off!<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Mia Dyberg Trio:<i> Ticket</i> (Clean Feed) </b><b>-</b> Reviewed Aug. 6th, 2018. Original grade: <b>5/6 </b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> Daniel Carter, William Parker, Matthew Shipp: <i>Seraphic Light</i> (AUM Fidelity) </b>- Reviewed Aug. 13th, 2018. Original grade: <b>5,5/6</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> Moskus: <i>Mirakler</i> (Hubro)</b> - Reviewed Aug. 20th, 2018. Original grade: <b>5/6</b></span></span></li>
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</span></span><ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH_c8Px2ajVcM0qI-pBFMzQU_SLUOWCzNjezrM4BhOfZrex8A7t11bhPZJcITgTlzVmvkSOpjNZ5LJgKz0WNjMHYTgNUWiUbg66LuCQQysabeEeX-Nm60uxKgtlT49MsYql-DJSg/s1600/No-Exit+C.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH_c8Px2ajVcM0qI-pBFMzQU_SLUOWCzNjezrM4BhOfZrex8A7t11bhPZJcITgTlzVmvkSOpjNZ5LJgKz0WNjMHYTgNUWiUbg66LuCQQysabeEeX-Nm60uxKgtlT49MsYql-DJSg/s200/No-Exit+C.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> Wayne Shorter: <i>Emanon</i> (Blue Note)</b> -Reviewed Aug. 27th, 2018. Original grade: <b>4/6</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> Ken Vandermark / Klaus Kugel / Mark Tokar: <i>No-Exit Corner</i> (Not Two Records)</b> - Reviewed Sept. 3rd, 2018. Original grade: <b>5,5/6 </b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Lassen: <i>Eventyrer</i> (Jazzland)</b> - Reviewed Sept. 17th, 2018. Original grade: <b>4,5/6</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> Tord Gustavsen Trio: <i>The Other Side</i> (ECM)</b> - Reviewed Oct. 1st, 2018. Original grade: <b>5/6</b><b> </b></span></span></li>
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</span></span><ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVyvkkYtOphhg-XVYanjzR7688rdvwpPpoW7xQOmuHN_gEXu6amZddvueRNCyA8BdHDBRUZxBTHAF4LcZFYVFugU7rkO8Ri3l71Sy6u0ONFuey8O1KtHGJU1aIul0SGKWMSLD5gQ/s1600/Necks%252C+Body.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVyvkkYtOphhg-XVYanjzR7688rdvwpPpoW7xQOmuHN_gEXu6amZddvueRNCyA8BdHDBRUZxBTHAF4LcZFYVFugU7rkO8Ri3l71Sy6u0ONFuey8O1KtHGJU1aIul0SGKWMSLD5gQ/s200/Necks%252C+Body.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Necks: <i>Body</i> (Fish of Milk/Northern Spy)</b> - Reviewed Oct. 1st, 2018. Original grade: <b>5,5/6</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> Fay Victor’s SoundNoiseFUNK: <i>Wet Robots</i> (ESP-disk)</b> - Reviewed Oct. 8th, 2018. Original grade: <b>5/6</b><b> </b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Hanna Paulsberg Concept + Magnus Bro:<i> Daughter of the Sun</i> (Odin)</b> - Reviewed Oct. 15th, 2018. Original grade: <b>5,5/6</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Jonathan Finlayson: <i>3 Times Round</i> (Pi Recordings)</b> - Reviewed Oct. 22nd, 2018. Original grade: <b>4/6</b></span></span></li>
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</span></span><ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTtCyBm4OhUxS2vmyPk0nLtmXJ6HbbhrBKl5YtMxp1LKSNdNOhvhZFs1nDxvvxl1fDb4KGjhVXzVT5b-ywIIXBYbVconodxc6TbxovxsAFkuUiRTyqIB62N7sLPN7cfT-H2T8T9g/s1600/HP%252BBroo%252C+Daughter.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTtCyBm4OhUxS2vmyPk0nLtmXJ6HbbhrBKl5YtMxp1LKSNdNOhvhZFs1nDxvvxl1fDb4KGjhVXzVT5b-ywIIXBYbVconodxc6TbxovxsAFkuUiRTyqIB62N7sLPN7cfT-H2T8T9g/s200/HP%252BBroo%252C+Daughter.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Ole Morten Våga: <i>Happy Endlings</i> (Odin)</b> - Reviewed Oct. 29th, 2018. Original grade: <b>5,5/6</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> Charles Mingus: <i>Live In Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Selden</i> (BBE)</b> - Reviewed Nov. 5th, 2018. Not graded.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Atomic: <i>Pet Variations</i> (Odin</b>)<b> - </b>Reviewed Nov. 12th, 2018. Original grade: <b>4,5/6</b></span></span></li>
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</span></span><ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZXqgsqK1hidwgvdSZbaVQhyphenhyphenMKpTLWQ5DCDuvmhZ9dxRrF93n1zbLa6IRHSUz6YPjRqBrM-jHSXBv91Vdz6REQaa01zPMfvOkuO4NDVRquPaw-TPSuYwu3kurIX73iEnLDIxzDkw/s1600/TJO%252C+Happy.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZXqgsqK1hidwgvdSZbaVQhyphenhyphenMKpTLWQ5DCDuvmhZ9dxRrF93n1zbLa6IRHSUz6YPjRqBrM-jHSXBv91Vdz6REQaa01zPMfvOkuO4NDVRquPaw-TPSuYwu3kurIX73iEnLDIxzDkw/s200/TJO%252C+Happy.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret: <i>The Other Side of Air</i> (Firehouse 12)</b> - Reviewed Nov. 19th, 2018. Original grade: <b>5/6</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Eric Dolphy: <i>Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions</i> (Resonance Records)</b> - Reviewed Nov. 26th, 2018. Not graded. </span></span></li>
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Live reviews:<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Sons of Kemet, Oslo Jazzfestival, </b><b><b>Nasjonal Jazscene August 12. </b></b>Published Aug., 20th, 2018</span></span></li>
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For <a href="https://jazznytt.jazzinorge.no/" target="_blank"><b>Jazznytt</b></a>:<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Steve Coleman and Five Elements: <i>Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (The Embedded Sets)</i> (Pi Recordings)</b> - Reviewed in Jazznytt #248, fall 2018. No grade.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Der Lange Schatten: Concurrances (Trouble In The East Records)</b> - Reviewed in Jaznnytt #248, fall 2018. No grade.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Friends &
Neighbors</b><i><b>: What’s Next?</b></i><b> (Clean
Feed)</b> - Reviewed in Jaznnytt #249, winter 2018. No grade.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Mette Rasmussen
Chris Corsano</b><i><b>: A View of The
Moon (from the Sun)</b></i><b> (Clean
Feed)</b> - Reviewed in Jaznnytt #249, winter 2018. No grade.</span></span></div>
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</span></span>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-12853201407999583482018-08-03T15:47:00.001+02:002020-12-01T22:10:04.634+01:00Listening Booth: Music reviewed January through the first week of July, 2018 + first half and a bit faves<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For a half-year update, this is of course a month late, but since my summer vacation came to an end this week it seems a good if belated moment to post an update of the records I've reviewed so far in 2018. I've also added a short list of "favorites" of the year's new releases up to the last week of July or so. By no means a comprehensive one -- the magnitude of great music to have crossed my path would lead to a much longer list than this, and there's still plenty more on the horizon that I'm not comfortable to rank in any way yet -- but it felt appropriate to give an extra shout out to a handful of the new recordings I've enjoyed the most thus far in 2018.<br />
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For Klassekampen's weekly music supplement Musikkmagasinet (all 2018 releases except where noted): <br />
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Gard Nilssen
<span lang="en-US">Acoustic</span> Unity: </b><i><b>Live in Europe</b></i><b> (Clean Feed, 2017)</b> <b>-</b> Reviewed Jan. 15th, 2018. Original grade: <b>5/6</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Shopping</b><b>: <i>The Official
Body</i> (Fatcat Records)</b><b> </b>-<b> </b>Reviewed Jan. 22., 2018. Original grade: <b>5/6</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Sylvie
Courvoisier Trio</b><b>: <i>D’Agala</i> (Intakt Records)</b><b> </b>- Reviewed Feb. 5., 2018. Original grade: <b>5/6</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Kris Davis &
Craig Taborn</b><b>: <i><span lang="en-US">Octopus</span></i> (Pyroclastic
Records)</b> - Reviewed Feb. 12., 2018. Orignal grade:<b> 4,5/6</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Frode Gjerstad with Hamid Drake and William Parker: <i>Frode Gjerstad with Hamid Drake and William Parker</i> (NotTwo, 4CD)</b> - as part of the article "Frode Gjerstad: Verdensklasse." Reviewed Feb. 19., 2018. Not graded.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Various Artists: <i>We Out Here</i> (</b><b>Brownswood Music)</b> - Reviewed<b> 4/6</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Heat Death</b><b>: <i>The Glenn
Miller Sessions</i></b><b> (Clean Feed)</b><b> </b>- Reviewed<b> </b>March 5., 2018. Original grade:<b> 4,5/6</b></span></span> </li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Erlend Olderskog
Albertsen</b><b>:</b><i><b><i> RødssalG
nEEn GlassdøR</i></b></i><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> (Dugnad
Rec)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></i>- Reviewed March 5., 2018. Original grade:<b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> 5/6</span></i></b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">James Brandon Lewis & Chad Taylor: <i>Radiant Imprints</i> (Off Records)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></i><br /><i><span style="font-style: normal;">- Reviewed March 12., 2018. Original grade: <b>5/6</b></span></i></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Mary Halvorsen: <i>Code Girl</i> (Firehouse 12)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-style: normal;">- Reviewed March 19., 2018. Original grade <b>4,5/6</b></span></i></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Miles Davis & John Coltrane: </span></i><i><span style="font-style: normal;"><i>The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 </i></span></i>(<i><span style="font-style: normal;">Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></i><br /><i><span style="font-style: normal;">- Reviewed March 26., 2018. Not graded.</span></i></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Sons of Kemet: <i>Your Queen Is a Reptile </i></span></i>(<i><span style="font-style: normal;">Impulse!/Universal)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></i><br /><i><span style="font-style: normal;">- Reviewed April 9., 2018. Original grade <b>4,5/6</b></span></i></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Svein Finnerud Trio: <i>Plastic Sun</i> (ODIN/Musikkoperatørene)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></i><br /><i><span style="font-style: normal;">- Reviewed April 16., 2018. Not graded.</span></i></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Johan Lindström Septett: <i>Music for Empty Halls</i> (Moserobie Music Productions) </span></i></b>- Reviewed April 23., 2018. Original grade: <b>5/6</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">The Ex: <i>27 Passports</i> (Ex Records)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></i><br /><i><span style="font-style: normal;">- Reviewed May 7., 2018. Original grade: <b>5,5/6</b></span></i></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Dave Holland, Evan Parker, Craig Taborn & Ches Smith: <i>Uncharted Territories</i> (Dare2 Records)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></i><br /><i><span style="font-style: normal;">- Reviewed May 14., 2018. Original grade: <b>5/6</b></span></i></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg: <i>Dirt... And More Dirt</i> (Pi Recordings) </span></i></b><br /><i><span style="font-style: normal;">- Reviewed May 28., 2018. Original grade: <b>5,5/6</b></span></i></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Henry Threadgill: <i>Double Up, Plays Double Up Plus</i> (Pi Recordings)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></i><br /><i><span style="font-style: normal;">- Reviewed May 28., 2018. Orignal grade: <b>4,5/6</b></span></i></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Angelika Niescier, Christopher Tordini & Tyshawn Sorey: <i>The Berlin Concert</i> (Intakt Records) </span></i></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">- Reviewed June 4., 2018. Original grade: <b>5,5/6</b></span></i></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Bjørn Marius Hegge Trio: <i>Assosiasjoner</i> (Particular Recordings)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></i><br /><i><span style="font-style: normal;">- Reviewed June 11., 2018. Original grade <b>5/6</b></span></i></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Rodrigo Amado, Joe McPhee, Kent Kessler, Chris Corsano: <i>A History of Nothing</i> (Trost Records)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-style: normal;">- Reviewed June 18., 2018. Original grade <b>5/6</b></span></i></span></span></li>
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</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">John Coltrane: <i>Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album</i> (Impulse!/Universal) </span></i></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">- Reviewed for July2., 2018. Not graded.</span></i></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Kamasi Washington: <i>Heaven and Earth</i> (Shoto Mas/Young Turks/Playground)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></i><br /><i><span style="font-style: normal;">- Reviewed July 2., 2018. Original grade <b>4,5/6</b></span></i></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Salim Washington: <i>Dogon Revisited</i> (Passin’ Thru Records) </span></i></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">- Reviewed July 2., 2018. Original grade <b>5,5/6</b></span></i></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
<i><span style="font-style: normal;"><b> </b>For Jazznytt:</span></i><br />
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Roswell Rudd: <i>Embrace</i></span></i> (RareNoiseRecords, rel. 2017)</b>, Jazznytt #245<i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></i></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Wadada Leo Smith:<i> Najwa</i> (TUM, rel 2017)</b>, Jazznytt #245</span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Wadada Leo Smith: <i>Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk</i> (TUM, rel. 2017)</b>, Jazznytt #245</span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Joe McPhee/Pascal Niggenkemper/Ståle Liavik Solberg: <i>Imaginary Numbers</i> (Clean Feed)</b>, Jazznytt #246</span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Håverd Wiik Trio: <i>This Is Not a Waltz</i> (Moserobie, rel. 2017)</b>, Jazznyt #246</span></span></li>
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<i><span style="font-style: normal;"><b> Other published writing:</b></span></i><br />
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Murray i utvalg</b>. Three highlights from David Murrays discography, for Musikkmagasinet, Feb. 12., 2018.<b> </b></span></i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Frode Gjerstad: Verdensklasse</b> for Musikkmagasinet, Feb. 19., 2018.</span></i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Carla Bley: Foreganskvinne</b> for Musikkmagasinet, July 2., 2018.</span></i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Fred Hersch: Inn ruslet Fred </b>for Musikkmagasinet, July 2., 2018.</span></i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Hittegods: Wilbur Ware: <i>The Chicago Sound</i></span></i></b> for Jazznytt #246<i><span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></i></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<i><span style="font-style: normal;">Fave music January through July (loosely ranked in order of preference):</span></i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Ex: <i>27 Passports</i> (Ex Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg: <i>Dirt... And More Dirt</i> (Pi Recordings)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Parquet Courts: <i>Wide Awake</i> (Rough Trade)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Salim Washington:<i> Dogon Revisited</i> (Passin' Thru)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Superchunk: <i>What a Time to Be Alive</i> (Merge)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Angelika Niescier, Christopher Tordini & Tyshawn Sorey: <i>The Berlin Concert </i>(Intakt Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Toni Braxton: <i>Sex & Cigarettes</i> (Def Jam Recordings) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">JPEGMAFIA: <i>Veteran</i> (Deathbomb Arc)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: <i>Hope Downs</i> (Sub Pop)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Erlend Olderskog Albertsen: <i>RødssalG nEEn GlassdøR</i> (Dugnad Rec.)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tracey Thorn: <i>Record</i> (Unmade Road)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lori McKenna: <i>The Door</i> (CN Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pusha T: <i>Daytona</i> (G.O.O.D. Music)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shopping: <i>The Official Body</i> (FatCat Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Johan Lindström Septet: <i>Music For Empty Halls</i> (Moserobie Music Productions)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore: <i>After Caroline</i> (Northern Spy Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dave Holland, Evan Parker, Craig Taborn & Ches Smith: <i>Uncharted Territories</i> (Dare2 Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Janelle Monae: <i>Dirty Computer</i> (Bad Boy Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Elza Soares: <i>Deus É Mulher </i>(Deckdisc) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mia Dyberg Trio: <i>Ticket!</i> (Clean Feed) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">María Grand: <i>Magdalena </i>(Biophilia)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Amy Rigby: <i>The Old Guys</i> (Southern Domestic Recordings) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sloan: <i>12</i> (Yep Roc Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Old Man Saxon: <i>The Pursuit</i> (Pusher, LLC) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">No Age: <i>Snares Like a Haircut </i>(Drag City) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Skadedyr: <i>Musikk!</i> (Hubro) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rodrigo Amado, Joe McPhee, Kent Kessler, Chris Corsano: <i>A History of Nothing</i> (Trost Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">James Brandon Lewis & Chad Taylor: <i>Radiant Imprints</i> (Off)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Young Fathers: <i>Cocoa Sugar</i> (Ninja Tune)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chris Pitsiokos CP Unit: <i>Silver Bullet in the Autumn of Your Years</i> (Clean Feed)</span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
</ul><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
Vault music:</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><div><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Frode Gjerstad with Hamid Drake and William Parker: <i>Frode Gjerstad with Hamid Drake and William Parker</i> (NotTwo, 4CD)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Sonny Rollins: <i>Way Out West</i> (2LP, Craft) </span></i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;">John Coltrane: <i>Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album</i> (Impulse!/Universal)</span></i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Anthony Braxton: <i>The Essential Anthony Braxton The Arista Years</i> (Arista Records) </span></i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Svein Finnerud Trio: <i>Plastic Sun</i> (ODIN/Musikkoperatørene)</span></i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Alan Braufman: <i>Valley of Search</i></span></i> (Valley of Search, original release on India Navigation, 1975)<i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Miles Davis & John Coltrane: </span></i><i><span style="font-style: normal;"><i>The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 </i></span></i>(<i><span style="font-style: normal;">Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music)</span></i></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-75009849120378346352017-12-21T14:55:00.003+01:002020-12-01T22:11:28.832+01:00Fave Jazz of 2017 and the 2017 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The results of the <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/12/20/571631251/the-2017-npr-music-jazz-critics-poll" target="_blank">2017 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll</a>, as usual conducted by Francis Davis, were posted on the 20th of December. The winner in what I thought would be a close race from a year with so much great jazz, but no clear consensus recording, turned out to be Vijay Iyer Sextet's<i> Far From Over</i> in something of a landslide. Further proof that Iyer is cementing a place as a universally respected artist. It was one of several excellent albums from what turned out to be a terrific year for jazz in the running for place on my ballot, losing out in the very last minute. Which is to say, on any other day it might have been included, as could a handful of others.<br />
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For me as I'm sure for many others, it makes little sense to set a top 10 in stone. Heck, a top 10 itself doesn't really make all that much sense. By the end of a given year, my fave list usually consists of a few -- most often three or four, sometimes less rarely more -- releases that have engaged, enthralled and moved me profoundly in ways that set them apart from all the other great music I might have heard that particular year. After that, there's a selection from a further pile of terrific albums that float in the zone just below. Picking the remaining releases from that stack to create a top 10 is a rather off the cuff exercise, the results depending on several, seemingly haphazard things such as day form, how recently I've heard a particular recording, and so on and so forth.<br />
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In any case, my ballot for the 2017 Jazz Critics Poll can be accessed via <a href="http://hullworks.net/jazzpoll/17/index.php" target="_blank">this link</a> (more specifically on <a href="http://hullworks.net/jazzpoll/17/ballots-05.php" target="_blank">this page</a>: scroll down or do a page search). But for my personal run down of my favorite jazz albums of the year, I'll instead go with the format I have used in recent years, and separate them into a three categories that makes more sense to me. Happy listening, and Happy Holidays!<br />
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<b>MUSIC FOR THE AGES:</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>William Parker Quartets: </b><i><b>Meditation / Resurrection</b> </i>(AUM Fidelity) [reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen July 3., 2017] -- The New York eminence has achieved similar artistic heights previously, but the juxtaposition of his two celebrated quartets -- one groove focused and bop-tinged, the other more abstract and experimental, with Parker and drummer Hamid Drake's distinctive rhythmic interplay the beating heart of both -- mirrors two sides of Parker's qualities as composer, band leader and musician, providing a rich picture of a remarkable artist in the process. Few if any create avant-jazz this warm, engaging, energetic, burning and soulful as Willim Parker does.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Angles 9: <i>Disappeared Behind the Sun</i></b> (Clean Feed) [reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, Febrary 27., 2017] -- Angles 9 come at you as a boisterous, mini big band, with p<span id="result_box" lang="en">oignant<span> melodies, similarly captivating</span><span> rhythms and deceptively unruly music that mines </span><span>the tension between</span><span> sorrow and</span><span> joy, with winning results.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Harriet Tubman (feat. Wadada Leo Smith): <i>Araminta</i></b> (Sunnyside Records) [reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, March 6., 2017] -- <i>Araminta</i> is at once the most unsettling yet uplifting and powerful collection of music Harriet Tubman have made yet, and one of this year's most gripping listening experiences. </span></span></li>
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<b>ON HEAVY ROTATION:</b> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Trio 3 (Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman): <i>Visiting Texture</i></b> (Intakt Records) [reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, April 10., 2017]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Jaimie Branch: <i>Fly or Die</i></b> (International Anthem) [reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, May 29., 2017]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Eric Revis: <i>Sing Me Some Cry</i></b> (Clean Feed) [reviewed for Jazznytt #244]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>AKMEE: <i>Neptun</i></b> (Nakama Records) [reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, June 19., 2017]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Cortex: <i>Avant-Garde Party Music</i></b> (Clean Feed)[reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, October 16., 2017]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Mike Reed, Flesh & Bone</b> (482 Music) [reveiwed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, August 28., 2017]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Aki Takase & David Murray: </b><i><b>Cherry - Sakura</b> </i>(Intakt Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Matt Mitchell: <i>A Pouting Grimace</i></b> (Pi Recordings) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity: </b><i><b>Live In Europe</b> </i>(Clean Feed) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Kate Gentile: <i>Mannequins</i></b> (Skirl Records) [reviewed for Jazznytt #244] </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Vijay Iyer Sextet: <i>Far From Over</i></b> (ECM) [reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, September 18., 2017]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Nate Wooley: <i>Knknighgh (Minimal Poetry for Aram Saroyan)</i></b> (Clean Feed) [reviewed for Jazznytt #244]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Team Hegdal: <i>Vol. 4</i></b> (Particular Recordings Collective) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Alexander Hawkins: <i>Unit[e]</i></b> (self-released) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Hegge: <i>Vi är ledsna men du får inte längre vara barn</i></b> (Particular Recordings) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Lisa Mezzacappa: <i>avantNOIR</i></b> (Clean Feed) [reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, February 20., 2017]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Matthew Shipp Trio: <i>Piano Song</i></b> (Thirsty Ear) [reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, February 6., 2017]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Pedro Melo Alves' Omniae Ensemble: <i>Omniae Ensemble</i></b><i> </i>(Nischo) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: <i>Fukushima</i></b> (Libra Records) [reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, December 18., 2017]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Large Unit: <i>Fluku</i></b> (PNL) [reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, December 18., 2017]</span></span></li>
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<b>THOROUGHLY ENJOYED: </b></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Craig Taborn: <i>Daylight Ghosts</i></b> (ECM) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Liza Mezzacappa: <i>Glorious Ravage</i></b> (self-released) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>David S. Ware Trio: <i>Live in New York 2010</i></b> (AUM Fidelity) [reviewed for Jazznytt #244]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo: <i>Peace</i></b> (Libra Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Pereservation Hall Jazz Band: <i>So It Is</i></b> (Legacy)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Wadada Leo Smith: <i>Najwa</i></b> (TUM) [reviewed for Jazznytt #245]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>CP Unit: <i>Before the Heat Deadth</i></b> (Clean Feed)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Tyshawn Sorey: <i>Versimilitude</i></b> (Pi Recordings) [reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, August 21., 2017]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition: Agrima</b> (self-released) [reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, November 20., 2017]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Roswell Rudd-Fay Victor-Lafayette Harris-Ken Filiano: <i>Embrace</i></b> (RareNoise) [reviewed for Jazznytt #245]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>FCT (Francesco Cusa Trio meets Carlo Atti): <i>From Sun Ra to Donald Trump</i></b> (Clean Feed)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Eivind Opsvik Overseas: <i>Overseas V</i></b> (Loyal Label) [reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, March 20., 2017)]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Kirk Knuffke: <i>Cherryco</i></b> (SteepleChase) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Atomic: </b><i><b>Six Easy Piece</b>s</i> (Odin) [reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, Febrary 27., 2017]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Nicole Mitchell and Haki Madhubuti: <i>Liberation Narratives</i> </b>(Black Earth Music)<b> </b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>JD Allen: <i>Radio Flyer</i></b> (Savant) [reviewed for Jazznytt #244]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Goncalo Almeida-Rodrigo Amado-Marco Franco: </b><i><b>The Attic</b> </i>(NoBusiness) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse: </b><i><b>Morphogenesis</b> </i>(Pi Recordings) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Miguel Zenón: <i>Típico</i></b> (Miel Music) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Nicole Mitchell: <i>Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds</i></b> (FPE Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Max Johnson: <i>In the West</i></b> (Clean Feed) [reviewed for Jazznytt #244]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Jonas Sjøvåg, Karl Seglem, Sigurd Hole: West Wind Drift</b> (Shipwreckords)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Angelica Sanchez Trio: <i>Float the Edge</i></b> (Clean Feed) [reviewed for Jazznytt #243]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Harris Eisenstadt Canada Day Quartet: <i>On Parade in Parede</i></b> (Clean Feed) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Billy Meier: </b><i><b>Introducing... Billy Meier</b> </i>(Just For the Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Mess (Brandon Lopez, Chris Corsano, Sam Yulsman): <i>Holy Holy</i></b> (Tombed Vision Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Brandon Seabrook: <i>Die Trommel Fatale</i></b> (New Atlantis)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Necks: <i>Unfold</i></b> (Ideologic Organ) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Trespass Trio: <i>The Spirit of Pitesti</i></b> (Clean Feed) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>John Pål Inderberg Trio: <i>Linjedalsleiken</i></b> (Ponca Jazz Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Jane Ira Bloom: <i>Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson</i></b> (Outline) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Roligheten: <i>Homegrown</i></b> (Clean Feed)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Microscopic Septet: <i>Been Up So Long it Looks Like Down to Me: The Micros Play the Blues</i></b> (Cuneiform Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Amor Amok: <i>We Know Not What We Do</i></b> (Intakt Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Roots Magic: <i>Last Kind Words</i></b> (Clean Feed) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Led Bib: <i>Umbrella Weather</i></b> (RareNoise Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Mind Games: <i>Ephemera Obscura</i></b> (Slean Feed) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Tim Berne's Snakeoil, Incidentals</b> (ECM) [reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, September 18., 2017]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Wadada Leo Smith: <i>Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk</i></b> (TUM) [reviewed for Jazznytt #245]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Scheen Jazzorkester & Audun Kleive: <i>Politur Passiarer</i></b> (Losen)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Ross Hammond: <i>Follow Your Heart</i></b> (Prescott Recordings) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Jeremy Pelt: <i>Make Noise</i></b> (High Note)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Julia Ulehla & Aram Bajakian<i>/</i>Dálava:<i> The Book of Transfigurations</i></b> (Songlines Recordings) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>1982: <i>Chromola</i> </b>(Hubro)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Noah Perminger: <i>Meditations on Freedom</i></b> (self released)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Ahmad Jamal: <i>Marseille</i></b> (Jazz Village) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Friends & Neighbors: <i>What's Wrong</i></b> (Clean Feed) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Ben Allison: <i>Layers of the City</i> </b>(Sonic Camera Recordings) [reviewed for Jazznytt #244]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Jeremy Pelt: <i>Make Noise!</i> </b>(HighNote)</span></span></li>
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<b>Reissues and vault music:</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Dave Holland: <i>Conference of the Birds</i></b> (ECM) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Spontaneous Music Ensemble: </b><i><b>Karyobin</b> </i>(Emanem) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Thelonious Monk: <i>Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1960)</i></b> (Sam Records) [reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, May 8., 2017)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Winston Mankunku Ngozi Quartet: <i>Yakhal' Inkomo</i></b> (Jazzman Holy Grail Series)</span></span></li>
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</span></span>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-81835014112402644322017-08-01T00:29:00.001+02:002020-12-01T22:12:21.561+01:00Listening Booth: Fave music a bit past the half way point, published reviews April through July 3rd, Geri Allen RIP & more<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This post should have been poublished a month ago, but events has prevented me from finishing it. Since July is a quiet month for me in terms of writing, I don't feel too bad posting it at the end of the summer break.<br />
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The few months prior to the summer break were difficult ones. Not only did my dad die in May, just before that and in the weeks following, so did Chris Cornell, Geri Allen, Prodigy, and then Khelan Phil Cohran, all of them musicians who have made an impact on me at least to some extent over the years. Following their respective deaths, I've found solace, power and courage in the music they made, in particular in the case of Cornell and Allen. And as for my dad, some of the music he loved. But life goes on, and additionally, there has been so much great new music released so far this year (and much more just over the horizon) to keep me occupied and to lift my spirits.<br />
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None more so than William Parker's terrific, riveting and uplifting <i>Meditation / Resurrection</i> double album, which showcases two of his quartets -- the actual William Parker Quartet as well as In Order to Survive. It's a truly wonderful release. Parker has hit similar heights on record previously, but part of what makes this one so interesting is how the two albums both contrast and mirror each of the two groups, both among the best jazz ensembles of the past few decades, and in doing so revealing the breadth of Parker's work in the quartet format as well as how his singular voice as a musician and composer permeates the music of both, with the unparalleled rhythmic power duo of Parker and Hamid Drake at their respective cores. As I wrote in the conclusion of my review for Musikkmagasinet, whether the music swings hard or moves in more abstract, exploratory patterns, absorbing melodies and impelling grooves never too far away, and few if anyone today makes avant-jazz this warm, energetic, soulful, fiery and engaging quite like Parker and his trusted cohorts.<br />
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A couple of words, too, for Geri Allen. I was a tad late to Allen's music, admittedly, not really digging into her discography until I re-listened to and was subsequently captivated by her trio recording <i>Printmakers</i> (Minor Music), featuring Andrew Cyrille on drums and Anthony Cox on double bass, for the 1984 project I started almost 10 years ago. Geri Allen was a terrific pianist and a talented composer whose artistic practice followed its own path. Much has been made of Allen's ability to operate on either side of the trad./mainstream and the avant-garde so-called divide, but to me she rendered such a division pointless, and thus paved the way for how great musicians such as the bassist Eric Revis (who also has a new, really good album out) seem to think and work today. It was as if she ripped away the wires of a dividing fence and danced between the posts with grace and vivacity.<br />
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<i>Printmakers</i> remains a fave, but there are many other great recordings with Allen, both as a sidewoman and as a leader and co-leader. From her work with Oliver Lake, Steve Coleman, and Wallace Roney, to the trio recordings with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian and later Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette, up to the very recent group she had with David Murray and Terri Lyne Carrington, and many others, including an album with Ornette Coleman. She'll be sorely missed.<br />
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<b>Published reviews, April through July 3rd.</b><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Trio 3: <i>Visiting Texture</i> (Intakt Records)</b> Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, April 10., 2017. Original grade 5 out of 6. <b>A</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Thelonious Monk: <i>Liaisons Dangereuses (1960)</i></b> Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, May 8., 2017. [<a href="http://www.klassekampen.no/article/20170508/ARTICLE/170509966" target="_blank">Link to online version</a>] Not graded (part of an article). <b>A</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Jaimie Branch: <i>Fly or Die </i>(International Anthem) </b>Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, May 29., 2017. [Original grade 5 out of 6. <b>A-</b></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Akmee: <i>Neptun</i> (Nakama Records)</b> Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen,June 19., 2017. Original grade 5 out of 6. <b>A-</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>William Parker Quartets: <i>Meditation / Resurrection </i>(AUM Fidelity)</b> Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, July 3., 2017. Original grade 6 out of 6. <b>A+</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Linda May Han Oh</b><b>: <i>Walk Against
Wind</i> (Biophilia Records)</b> Reviewed for Jazznytt #243, Summer 2017. Not graded. <b>B+</b></span></span> </li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Angelica Sanchez Trio: <i>Float the Edge</i> (Clean Feed)</b> Reviewed for Jazznytt #243, Summer 2017. Not graded. <b>A-</b></span></span></li>
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Additional published writing: <i>"Opp med Shipp-farten"</i>, on Matthew Shipp, Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, April 3., 2017 and Chris Cornell obit, Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, May 22., 2017.<br />
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<b>Fave new releases, January through the first week of July 2017:</b><br />
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For the ages:</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">William Parker Quartets: <i>Meditation / Resurrection </i>(AUM Fidelity)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Angles 9: <i>Disappeared Behind the Sun</i> (Clean Feed)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Harriet Tubman feat. Wadada Leo Smith: <i>Araminta</i> (Sunnyside Records)</span></span></li>
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Heavy rotation:</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">IDLES: <i>Brutalism</i> (Balley Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jens Lekman: <i>Life Will See You Now</i> (Secretly Canadian) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Trio 3 (Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman): <i>Visiting Texture</i> (Intakt Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jaimie Branch: <i>Fly or Die</i> (International Anthem)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Arto Lindsey: <i>Cuidado Madame</i> (Northern Spy Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Khalid: <i>American Teen</i> (Right Hand Music) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Akmee: <i>Neptun</i> (Nakama Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Alexander Hawkins: <i>Unit[e]</i> (self-released) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lisa Mezzacappa: <i>avantNOIR</i> (Clean Feed) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Matthew Shipp Trio: <i>Piano Song</i> (Thirsty Ear)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Craig Taborn: <i>Daylight Ghosts</i> (ECM) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">David S. Ware Trio: <i>Live in New York 2010</i> (AUM Fidelity) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Emperor X:<i> Oversleepers International</i> (Tiny Engines)</span></span></li>
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Thoroughly enjoyed:</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo: <i>Peace</i> (Libra Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">CP Unit: <i>Before the Heat Deadth</i> (Clean Feed)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Eivind Opsvik Overseas: <i>Overseas V</i> (Loyal Label) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Atomic: <i>Six Easy Pieces</i> (Odin)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Preservation Hall Jazz Band: <i>So It Is</i> (Legacy Recordings) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lithics: <i>Borrowed Floors </i>(Water Wing Records, 2016)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Orchestra Baobab: <i>Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng</i> (World Circut Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Wire: <i>Silver/Lead</i> (pinkflag)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Mountain Goats: <i>Goths</i> (Merge Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Goncalo Almeida-Rodrigo Amado-Marco Franco: <i>The Attic </i>(NoBusiness) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Priests: <i>Nothing Feels Natural</i> (Dischord Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Steve Coleman: <i>Morphogenesis </i>(Pi Recordings) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Saint Etienne: <i>Sound of Water </i>Heavenly Recordings) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Miguel Zenón: <i>Típico</i> (Miel Music) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nicole Mitchell: <i>Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds</i> (FPE Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Angelica Sanchez Trio: <i>Float the Edge</i> (Clean Feed) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">JD Allen: <i>Radio Flyer</i> (Savant Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Oumou Sangare: <i>Mogoya</i> (No Format) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: <i>The Nashville Sound</i> (Southeastern)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Spoon: <i>Hot Thoughts</i> (Matador)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Harris Eisenstadt Canada Day Quartet: <i>On Parade in Parede</i> (Clean Feed) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Brandon Seabrook: <i>Die Trommel Fatale</i> (New Atlantis)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bardo Pond: <i>Under the Pines</i> (Fire Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sunny Sweeney: <i>Trophy</i> (Aunt Daddy Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tresspass Trio: <i>The Spirit of Pitesti</i> (Clean Feed) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Microscopic Septet: <i>Been Up So Long it Looks Like Down to Me: The Micros Play the Blues</i> (Cuneiform Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Diet Cig: <i>Swear I'm Good at This</i> (Frenchkiss Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Syd: <i>Fin </i>(Columbia)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Amor Amok: <i>We Know Not What We Do</i> (Intakt Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Led Bib: <i>Umbrella Weather</i> (RareNoise Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nnamdi Ogbonnaya: <i>DROOL</i> (Father/Daughter Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Brandon Seabrook: <i>Die Trommel Fatale</i> (New Atlantis Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Necks: <i>Unfold</i> (Ideologic Organ) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Low Cut Connie: <i>Dirty Pictures (Part 1)</i> (Contender) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Omar Souleyman: <i>To Syria, With Love</i> (Mad Decent)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ross Hammond: <i>Follow Your Heart</i> (Prescott Recordings) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jeremy Pelt: <i>Make Noise</i> (High Note)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Julia Ulehla & Aram Bajakian<i>/</i>Dálava:<i> The Book of Transfigurations</i> (Songlines Recordings) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Noah Perminger: <i>Meditations on Freedom</i> (self released)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Benjamin Brooker:<i> Witness</i> (Rough Trade) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cloud Nothings: <i>Life Without Sound</i> (Carpark Records)</span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
<br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
Reissues and vault music:</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dave Holland: <i>Conference of the Birds</i> (ECM) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thelonious Monk: <i>Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1960)</i> (Sam Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Prince: <i>Purple Rain (Deluxe, Expanded Edition)</i> (NPG Records/Warner) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Soundgarden: <i>Ultramega OK</i> (Sub Pop) </span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-10864205542432891592017-04-04T10:15:00.001+02:002020-12-01T22:12:44.413+01:00Listening Booth: Published reviews and fave music of 1st quarter, January through March, 2017<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Not too many albums covered here, partly because I did not write for the latest issue of Jazznytt, but worth the update nonetheless, not least because among these are some terrific albums. Below, 20 of the most notable new albums I heard form January through March (listed 20 because I had to stop somewhere. Albums to be released have not been included).<br />
<br />
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Steve Swell Quintet: <i>Soul Travelers</i> (Rogue Art, released 2016)</b><i> </i>Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, Januray 16., 2017. Original grade 5 out of 6. -- <b>A-</b></span></span> </li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <b>The XX: <i>I See You</i> (Young Turks) </b>Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, Januray 16., 2017. Originally graded 5 out of 6. -- <b>B+</b></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i> </i>The Modern Times: <i>This is the Modern Times</i> (Drabant)</b> Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, Januray 30., 2017. Originally graded 4,5 out of 6. -- <b>B+</b></span></span> </li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Matthew Shipp: <i>Piano Song</i> (Thirsty Ear)</b> Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, February 6., 2017. Originally graded 5 out of 6. -- <b>A-</b></span></span> </li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <b>Liza Mezzacappa: <i>avantNOIR</i> (Clean Feed)</b> Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, February 20., 2017. Originally graded 5 out of 6. -- <b>A-</b></span></span> </li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <b>Angles 9: <i>Disappeared Behind the Sun</i> (Clean Feed) </b>Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, February 27., 2017. Originally graded 5,5 out of 6. -- <b>A</b></span></span> </li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Atomic: <i>Six Easy Pieces</i> (Odin/Grappa) </b>Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, Feruary 27., 2017. Originally graded 5 out of 6. -- <b>A-</b></span></span> </li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <b>Harriet Tubman (feat. Wadada Leo Smith): <i>Araminta </i>(Sunnyside Records)</b> Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, March 6., 2017. Originally graded 5,5 out of 6. -- <b>A</b></span></span> </li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <b>Eivind Opsvik: <i>Overseas V</i> (Loyal Label)</b> Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, March 20., 2017. Originally graded 5 out of 6. -- <b>A-</b></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
20 engrossing and enjoyable albums, January 1st. - March 31st.:<br />
</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Angles 9: <i>Disappeared Behind the Sun</i> (Clean Feed)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Harriet Tubman (feat. Wadada Leo Smith): <i>Araminta</i> (Sunnyside Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">IDLES: <i>Brutalism</i> (Balley Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Trio 3 (Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman): <i>Visiting Texture</i> (Intakt Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jens Lekman: <i>Life Will See You Now</i> (Secretly Canadian) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lisa Mezzacappa: <i>avantNOIR</i> (Clean Feed) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Matthew Shipp Trio: <i>Piano Song</i> (Thirsty Ear)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">CP Unit: <i>Before the Heat Death</i> (Clean Feed)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Eivind Opsvik Overseas: <i>Overseas V</i> (Loyal Label) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Atomic: <i>Six Easy Pieces</i> (Odin)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lithics: <i>Borrowed Floors </i>(Water Wing Records, 2016)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Orchestra Baobab: <i>Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng</i> (World Circut Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Led Bib: <i>Umbrella Weather</i> (RareNoise Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Priests: <i>Nothing Feels Natural</i> (Dischord Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Miguel Zenón: <i>Típico</i> (Miel Music) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Spoon: <i>Hot Thoughts</i> (Matador)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bardo Pond: <i>Under the Pines</i> (Fire Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sunny Sweeney: <i>Trophy</i> (Aunt Daddy Records)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Microscopic Septet: <i>Been Up So Long it Looks Like Down to Me: The Micros Play the Blues</i> (Cuneiform Records) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Syd: <i>Fin </i>(Columbia)</span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-72260023124797236422017-02-03T11:53:00.001+01:002020-12-01T22:13:21.925+01:00Fave Jazz Recordings of 2016<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Below you'll find my picks of the best
jazz recordings of 2016. A tad late, I'll concede, especially considering some
publications seem to think the year ends in November. Then again, even those of
us who write about music professionally come across gems that for whatever
reason had slipped us by way into the following year and beyond. I'll also once
again note that the past year was an eventful one for me personally speaking,
so I did not get to play as much music as I normally would and will have to play
catch-up on several notable and/or hyped releases for a while yet. Still, with
a good few 2017 recordings having been moved to the front of the listening
queue already, I felt this was as good a point as any to post a 2016 list. You
may also want to have a look at <a href="http://perfectsounds.blogspot.no/2016/12/the-2016-npr-music-jazz-critics-poll.html"><span style="color: blue;">my NPR Jazz Critics Poll ballot</span></a>, which I posted
in late December.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br />
2016 may have been a rough year on several fronts, but musically there was a
lot to be elated by, such as Steve Lehman's Sélébéyone, the powerful beyond
jazz-and-hip hop meeting ground that more than any other project proved it is
more fruitful to ignore boundaries than to build walls between them. Then there
was veteran trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and his Golden Quintet who conjured up
America's National parks in their vast expanse and minute details, with
stirring bluesy undertones. Mary Halvorson took another step as a composer and
set up intriguing interplay between her often angular guitar patterns with
steel guitarist Susan Alcorn's gliding lines, plus long time compatriots John
Hébert and Ches Smith returning by her side. And that's just three of the many
intriguing jazz albums I heard last year. Here's the list (an asterisk
denotes I've had a review of the recording published) <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">
The 15 best, more or less in order of preference:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Steve
Lehman & Sélébéyone: <i>Sélbéyone</i> (Pi Rcordings) *<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Wadada
Leo Smith Golden Quintet: <i>America's National Parks</i> (Cuneiform)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Mary
Halvorson Octet: <i>Away With You</i> (Firehouse 12)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Anna
Högberg Attack: <i>Anna Högberg Attack</i> (Omlott)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Jane
Ira Bloom: <i>Early Americans</i> (Outline) *<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Roswell
Rudd, Jamie Saft, Trevor Dunn, Balázs Pándi: <i>Strength & Power</i> (RareNoise)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Damana
(Dag Magnus Narvesen Octet): <i>Cornua Copiae</i> (Clean Feed)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Steve
Swell Quintet: <i>Soul Travelers </i>(Rogue Art) *<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Michael
Formanek Ensemble Kolossus: <i>The Distance</i> (ECM) *<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">James
Brandon Lewis Trio: <i>No Filter </i>(BNS Sessions)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Allison
Miller's Boom Tic Boom: <i>Otis Was a Polar Bear</i> Roayl Potato
Family)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Aruán
Ortiz Trio: <i>Hidden Voices</i> (Intakt Records) *<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Greg
Ward & Ten Tongues: <i>Touch My Beloved's Thought </i>(Greenleaf
Music) *<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Murray,
Allen, Carrington Power Trio: <i>Perfection</i> (Motema Music)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Henry
Threadgill Ensemble Double Up: <i>Old Locks and Irregular Verbs</i> (Pi
Recordings)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">15 more on heavy rotation:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Peter
Brötzmann, William Parker, Hamid Drake: <i>Song Sentimentale </i>(CD
version, Otorku) *<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Eric
Revis Trio: <i>Crowded Solitudes </i>(Clean Feed) *<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Jason
Roebke Octet: <i>Cineman Spiral</i> (NoBusiness Records) *<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Rodrigo
Amado Motion Trio: <i>Desire & Freedom</i> (Not Two)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Jasmine
Lovell-Smith's Towering Poppies: <i>Yellow Red Blue</i> (Paintbox)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Cortex: <i>Live
in New York</i> (Clean Feed) *<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Marylin
Crispell, Gary Peacock, Richard Poole: <i>In Motion</i> (Intakt)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Gutbucket: <i>Dance</i> (Gut
Records)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Bennett
/ Johnston/ Mezzacappa / Rosaly: <i>Shipwreck 4</i> (NoBusiness
Records) *<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Nick
Fraser Quartet: <i>Starer</i> (self-released)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Moskus: <i>Ulv
Ulv</i> (Hubro) *<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Tyshawn
Sorey Double Trio: <i>The Inner Spectrum of Variables </i>(Pi
Recordings)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span lang="NO-BOK">Julie
Kjær 3: <i>Dobbeltgænger</i> (Clean Feed)</span><span lang="NO-BOK"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Rich
Halley 5: <i>The Outlier</i> (Pine Eagle Recordings)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Nate
Wooley, Hugo Antunes, Jorge Queijo, Mário Costa, Chris Corsano: <i>Purple
Patio</i> (NoBusiness Records)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Other notable recordings I thoroughly
enjoyed:</span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Mark
Dresser Seven: <i>Sedimental You</i> (Clean Feed)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">JD
Allen: <i>Americana</i> (Savant Records)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Eve
Risser White Desert Orchestra: <i>Les Deux Versants Se
Regardent </i>(Clean Feed)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Harald
Lassen & LAB Trio: <i>Rainbow Session </i>(Hagen Recordings)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">I.P.A.: <i>I
Just Did Say Something </i>(Cuneiform) *<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Rønnings
Jazzmaskin: <i>Jazzmaskin! </i>(Losen Records)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Rudy
Royston Trio: <i>Rise of Orion</i> (Greenleaf Music)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Kenny
Barron Trio: <i>Book of Intuition</i> (Impulse/Universal) *<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Jonathan
Finlayson & Sicilian Defense: <i>Moving Still</i> (Pi
Recordings)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Momentum: <i>Momentum</i> (Clean
Feed)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Festen: <i>Festen</i> (Clean
Feed) *<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
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Project Trio: <i>Vol. II</i> (FMR Records)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
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James Argue's Secret Society: <i>Real Enemies</i> (New
Amsterdam)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Jeff
Lederer's Brooklyn Blowhards: <i>Brooklyn Blowhards </i>(Little
(i) Music)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Hanna
Paulsberg Quartet: <i>Eastern Smiles</i> (Odin) *<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
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Better: <i>OWT</i> (NoBusiness Records)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Vijay
Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith: <i>A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke</i> (ECM)
*<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Nakama: <i>Most
Intimate</i> (Nakama Records)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Thomas
Borgmann, Max Johnson, Willi Kellers: <i>One For Cisco</i> (NoBusiness
Records)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Matt
Brewer: <i>Unspoken</i> (Criss Cross)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Mats
Eilertsen: <i>Rubicon</i> (ECM)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">David
Helbock Trio: <i>Into the Mystic</i> (ACT)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Monkey
Plot: <i>Here I Sit, Knowing All of This</i> (Hubro) *<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Protean
Reality: <i>Protean Reality</i> (Clean Feed) *<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Avishai
Cohen: <i>Into the Silence</i> (ECM)</span></span></span></li>
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</span></span>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-87216060334938213232016-12-21T21:07:00.002+01:002020-12-01T22:13:47.163+01:00The 2016 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2016/12/21/506093073/the-2016-npr-music-jazz-critics-poll" target="_blank">The results for the 2016 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll</a> have just been posted online, won by Henry Threadgill's fascinating Ensemble Double Up album <i>Old Locks and Irregular Verbs</i>. A typically strong recording masterminded by an incomparable old master but one I nevertheless enjoyed a bit less than his Pulitzer Prizer winner <i>In For a Penny, In For a Pound</i>, and so it did not make my ballot. Still, out of the ten albums I voted for, four made the top 10, with a fifth in the top 15. None of the rest made the top 50.<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> Individual ballots can <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">be accessed <a href="http://hullworks.net/jazzpoll/16/index.php" target="_blank">here</a>, but I've also put m</span></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">y</span> own ballot is below<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">.</span> I will post more on these as well as a more comprehensive "jazz of 2016" list soon.</span><br />
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<span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> 1.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone: <i>Sélbéyone</i>
(Pi Rcordings)</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> 2.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quintet: <i>America's National Parks</i> (Cuneiform)</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> 3.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Mary Halvorson Octet: <i>Away With You</i> (Firehouse 12)</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> 4.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Anna Högberg Attack: <i>Anna Högberg Attack</i> (Omlott)</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> 5.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Jane Ira Bloom: <i>Early Americans</i> (Outline)</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> 6.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Roswell Rudd, Jamie Saft, Trevor Dunn, Balázs Pándi: <i>Strength &
Power</i> (RareNoise)</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> 7.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Damana (Dag Magnus Narvesen Octet): <i>Cornua
Copiae</i> (Clean Feed)</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> 8.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Steve Swell Quintet: <i>Soul Travelers </i>(Rogue Art)</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> 9.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus: <i>The Distance</i> (ECM)</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">10.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>James Brandon Lewis Trio: <i>No Filter
</i>(BNS Sessions)</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>Reissues / historical albums:</b></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">1.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span lang="NO-BOK">Peter Brötzmann, Fred Hopkins, Rashied
Ali:<i> Songlines</i> (Trost)</span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">2.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Arthur Blythe: <i>In the Tradition </i>/ <i>Lennox Avenue Breakdown</i>
/ <i>Illusions </i>/ <i>Blythe Spirit</i> (BGO)</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">3.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Tom Prehn Quartet: <i>Axiom</i> (Rune Grammofon)</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>Vocal album:</b></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone: <i>Sélbéyone</i> (Pi Rcordings)</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Anna Högberg Attack: <i>Anna Högberg Attack</i> (Omlott)</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>(no pick)</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-86584796105729087672016-12-02T22:53:00.002+01:002020-12-01T22:14:09.983+01:00Listening Booth: belated round-up of published reviews, mid April through November, 2016<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'm smack in the middle of paternity leave, which has left and still leaves little to no time for writing. Add to that, I had a very busy summer -- much of it on the road -- and as for the rest, between doing renovation work on the house as well as my professional writing gigs I've not been able to update the blog much at all this year. Still, I thought I had to do something and for now, posting the usual list of music I've reviewed during this period (well, up until I entered the leave period at least) will have to do.<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith:<i> A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke</i> (ECM) </b>-- Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, April 11., 2016. Originally graded 4 out of 6.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Coathangers: <i>Nosebleed Weekend</i> (Suicide Squeeze)</b><b> </b>-- Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, April 18., 2016. Originally graded 5 out of 6.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Eric Revis Trio: <i>Crowded Solitudes</i> (Clean Feed)</b><b> </b>-- Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, April 25., 2016. Originally graded 5 out of 6.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Kenny Barron Trio: <i>Book of Intuition</i> (Impulse!)</b><b> </b>-- Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, April 25., 2016. Originally graded 4,5 out of 6.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Beyoncé: <i>Lemonade </i>(Parkwood/Columbia)</b><b> </b>-- Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, May 2., 2016. Originally graded 5 out of 6.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Snarky Puppy: <i>Culcha Vulcha</i> (GroundUP Music/Decca)</b><b> </b>-- Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, May 30., 2016. Originally graded 3 out of 6.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Jane Ira Bloom: <i>Early Americans</i> (Outline Records)</b><b> </b>-- Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, June 13., 2016. Originally graded 5 out of 6.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Festen: <i>Festen</i> (Clean Feed)</b><b> </b>-- Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, June 20., 2016. originally graded 4,5 out of 6.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Cortex: <i>Live In New York</i> (Clean Feed)</b><b> </b>-- Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, August 8., 2016. Originally graded 5 out of 6.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone: <i>Sélébéyone</i> (Pi Recordings)</b><b> </b>-- Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, August 29., 2016. Originally graded 6 out of 6.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Peter Brötzmann, William Parker, Hamid Drake: <i>Song Sentimentale</i> (CD version, Otoroku)</b><b> </b>-- Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, September 19., 2016. Originally graded 5 out of 6.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Drive-By Truckers: <i>American Band</i> (ATO Records)</b><b> </b>-- Reviewed for Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, October 3., 2016. Originally graded 5,5 out of 6.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Bennett, Johnston, Mezzacappa, Rosaly: <i>Shipwreck 4</i> (NoBusiness)</b> -- Reviewed for Jazznytt, #240</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>I.P.A.: <i>I Just Did Say Something</i> (Cuneiform Records)</b> -- Reviewed for Jazznytt, #240</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Jason Roebke Octet: <i>Cinema Spiral</i> (NoBusiness Records)</b> -- Reviewed for Jazznytt, #240</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Greg Ward & Ten Tongues: <i>Touch my Beloved's Thought</i> (Greenleaf Records)</b> -- Reviewed for Jazznytt, #240</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Nasjonale natur-verk": interview with Wadada Leo Smith, published in Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, October 17., 2016.</span></span></li>
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As we're entering poll and year-end lists season, I'm currently revisiting a good deal of the music that has caught my attention throughout this past year, as well as stuff that for various reasons I have not had the time or opportunity to dig into at all. I hope to add a list of some of the most notable of these releases in the coming week, possibly with a comment or two on at least a couple of them.<br />
<br /></span></span>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-69803481615833123042016-10-14T13:58:00.001+02:002020-12-01T22:14:29.065+01:00Wadada Leo Smith interview teaser<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This past summer, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with legendary trumpeter, composer and band leader Wadada Leo Smith. Our conversation covered among many other topics his experience with the AACM, his thoughts collaboration and some of the particulars around his writing and creative process, the blues, his then upcoming album <i>America's National Parks</i> (out today on Cuneiform), politics, and nature.<br />
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The resulting piece will be published in the Norwegian weekly music supplement <a href="http://www.klassekampen.no/musikkmagasinet" target="_blank">Musikkmagasinet</a>, but here's an audio teaser, with mr. Smith discussing the blues as free music, and including excerpts from to tracks off his new album, respectively "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" and "The Mississippi River: Dark and Deep Dreams Flow the River - a National Memorial Park c.5000 BC."<br />
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Have a listen <a href="https://soundcloud.com/perfectsounds/wadada-leo-smith-interview-teaser" target="_blank">here</a>!</span></span>Chris Monsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521041597931478231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11832222.post-9504307188693154512016-04-21T00:00:00.000+02:002016-04-23T00:29:10.101+02:00RIP Prince Rogers Nelson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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