One Man's Jazz

Sometimes it seems like a show almost programs itself. Lately, the quality of new releases is so good that tunes just fall into place. Ten seconds into “Sonic Mountains” from “Murasaki” (Jakob Bro, Wadada Leo Smith & Marcus Gilmore) and I knew this was the show’s closer, and the brilliant Continue Reading

Perhaps the theme for some of the new releases debuting in this show is “group dynamics”; not so much what happens in the studio but getting there.   No problem for Rodrigo Amado & The Bridge. The powerhouse Portuguese saxophonist just put out the call to the other members of the Continue Reading

Legends open and close this edition of One Man’s Jazz. Pianist Joachim Kuhn and drummer Daniel Humair are front and centre of a fine quartet led by Luxembourg saxophonist Maxime Bender‘s opening track, and the closing track features master trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith in a duet with pianist Sylvie Courvoisier, Continue Reading