One Man's Jazz

Many of us have favourite places, like a bakery that sold amazing bagels, or a record store that seemed to carry everything you ever wanted in music. And then it closes, and there’s nothing to replace it. It almost feels like that for me with the closing of Clean Feed Continue Reading

Acclaimed trumpeter Ralph Alessi is back with his fifth release for ECM Records, and “A Sun That Never Sets” finds Alessi in his usual fine form, leading a strong quintet through his finely crafted compositions; and there’s a change too. He’s swapped out saxophonist Ravi Coltrane for a trombonist, who Continue Reading

This episode features some of the avant garde and free jazz music that you find on the Polish Fundacja Sluchaj label (FSR). It consistently releases leading artists of those genres, artists who are committed to originality, creativity and spontaneity. You’ll hear a brilliant debut from English bassist Barry Guy and Continue Reading