Bassist Luke Stewart continues his winning ways on the upcoming release “The Order”. In the midst of preparing for a live show with his Remembrance Quintet, he changed his plans to a combination of the front line of the quintet and his Silt Trio (2024’s “Unknown Rivers” is a must-have), then after the very successful live gig and recording, he put his sound engineering skills to work to finish “The Order”. It’s the feature music in this edition. Italian bassist Silvia Bolognesi teaches at the academy in Siena, Italy and during one semester focused on Gil Scott-Heron’s music and politics with her ensemble class which shared her enthusiasm about Scott-Heron. The result was a live recorded performance with the students and singer-poet Eric Mingus. “Is That Jazz?” keeps Gil-Scott Heron front and center. As usual, the international scene delivers some new and interesting music: England’s Alexander Hawkins delivers a new solo recording for Intakt Records, the Evans-Robson Quartet prepares for a continent-wide tour of Australia with their new “Zenith”, pianist Eli Wallace hooks up with two Buenos Aires musicians for “Siesta”, plus two freer albums from Italy led by saxophonist Andrea Ciceri & cornetist Gabriele Mitelli. You’ll also hear music from three noted releases from Strata-East.
00:00 Jakob Bro Large Ensemble * New Morning – Loveland * And They All Came Marching Out Of The Woods * Denmark
05:18 Host speaks
08:09 Luke Stewart Silt Remembrance Ensemble * The Order – Cuneiform * Commandments * USA
15:03 Adam O’Farrill * For These Streets – Out Of Your Head * Late June * USA
24:26 Charles Tolliver All-stars * Paper Man – Black Lion * Lil’s Paradise * USA
31:23 Host speaks
33:34 Cecil McBee * Mutima – Strata-East * From Within * USA
44:56 Shamek Farrah * First Impressions – Strata-East * Umojah Suite * USA
52:15 Andrea Ciceri & Esatonic * Fisse – Aut Records * Miraggio * Italy
1:00:33 Host speaks
1:03:43 Silvia Bolognesi & Eric Mingus * Is That Jazz? – Fonterossa * The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Part 4 * Italy
1:04:35 Silvia Bolognesi & Eric Mingus * Is That Jazz? – Fonterossa * The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Part 5 * Italy
1:07:00 Silvia Bolognesi & Eric Mingus * Is That Jazz? – Fonterossa * Shut ‘Em Down/Conduction Moment * Italy
1:14:14 Marty Ehrlich’s Exaltation Trio * This Time – Sunnyside * Twelve For Black Arthur * USA
1:19:52 Host speaks
1:21:49 Alexander Hawkins * Song Unconditional – lntakt * Satin Antiphonal * England
1:26:51 Larry Ochs, Joe Morris & Charles Downs * Every Day All The Way – ESP-Disk * Yay Hiddee Yonk Yo * USA
1:34:05 Eli Wallace, Pablo Vazquez & Marcelo Von Schultz * Siesta – 577 Records * Volar. No Sos El Laberinto * USA/Argentina
1:42:41 Host speaks
1:45:06 Gabriele Mitelli * Three Tsuru Origami – We Insist! * The King And The Challenge * Italy
1:51:07 Enemy * Fiend – Edition * Fiend Bypass * England/Sweden
1:57:02 Loot * Loot – ICP * Tilted Television * Netherlands
2:01:21 Host speaks
2:02:47 GPS * Directions & Destinations – 577 Records * I Told Me So * USA
2:06:42 GPS * Directions & Destinations – 577 Records * Cosa Rara * USA
2:11:46 Cosmic Ear * Traces – We Jazz * Traces of Codona And Mali * Sweden
2:19:05 Host speaks
2:20:53 Evans-Robson Quartet * Zenith – Self-released * For Archie * Australia