This episode is loaded with music from new releases. From Germany you’ll hear the duo of bassist Meinrad Kneer & pianist Albert van Veenendal, solo piano from Georg Ruby the founder of JazzhausMusik, and Organic Soulfood, the trio led by saxophonist Daniel Erdmann. From the Far East, music from drummer Sabu Toyozumi, bassist Richard Bates & saxophonist Rick Countryman, while from North America there’s a whole bunch: James Brandon Lewis’ latest quartet offering, a pair by drummer Phil Haynes reuniting with guitarists, two albums from 577 Records by the Eva Novoa/Masa Kamaguchi/Gerald Cleaver Trio and a new quartet called Makeshift Spirituals. Drummer William Hooker‘s historical music from a 1977 performance with saxophonists Alan Braufman & David S. Ware, and there’s a look at a renaissance for Strata-East Records.
00:00 Mikko Innanen, Cedric Piromali & Stefan Pasborg * Can You Hear It? – Clean Feed * Pratsch * Finland/France/Denmark
05:21 Host speaks
08:11 James Brandon Lewis Quartet * Abstraction Is Deliverance – Intakt * Polaris * USA
15:58 Eunhye Jeong & Michael Bisio * Jeong-Bisio Duo – ESP-Disk * Point Expands To World * USA
20:30 Jim Hobbs & Timo Shanko * The Depression Tapes – Relative Pitch * The Slow Ascent * USA
26:54 Host speaks
28:46 Daniel Erdmann’s Organic Soulfood * Into The Sweet Unknown – BMC * Souvent Mais Peu A la Fois * Germany
34:39 Roberto Cassani & Graeme Stephen * Pictish Spaghetti – 577 Records * The Last Day Of Primary School * Italy/Scotland
42:11 Clifford Jordan * Glass Bead Games – Strata-East * John Coltrane * USA
48:52 Host speaks
51:51 Pharoah Sanders * Izipho Zam (My Gifts) – Strata-East * Prince of Peace * USA
1:00:37 Meinrad Kneer & Albert Van Veenendal * The Munderkingen Sessions Part 2 – Evil Rabbit * Kondensationkern * Germany
1:05:00 Sabu Toyozumi, Richard Bates & Rick Countryman * The Separation Of Sound And Space – Self-released * Vibration Needs Room To Unfold and Matter To Modulate * Japan/Philippines
1:13:06 Host speaks
1:16:13 Phil Haynes & Ben Monder * Transition(s) – Corner Store * Too Easy * USA
1:22:58 Phil Haynes, Drew Gress & Steve Salerno * Return To Electric – Corner Store * Spell * USA
1:28:50 Eva Novoa, Masa Kamaguchi & Gerald Cleaver * Eva Novoa Masa Kamaguchi & Gerald Cleaver Volume 2 – 577 Records * Mucho Masa * USA
1:35:06 Host speaks
1:37:01 William Hooker, Alan Braufman & David S. Ware * A Time Within: Live at the New York Jazz Museum January 14 1977 – Valley Of Search * Movement 3 * USA
1:45:57 Quantum Blues * Quantum Blues – Ropeadope * Mamma’s Blues * USA
1:52:01 Makeshift Spirituals * Volume One – 577 Records * Alex Reassuring Witch Doctor Part 3 * USA
2:01:44 Host speaks
2:04:06 Georg Ruby * Soliloquies – Jazzhausmusik * Donderdag * Germany