Receiving all these great new releases these days must be like the falling of biblical manna. They just keep pouring in. This week features the first trio recording by pianist Kris Davis in ten years – “Run The Guantlet”. It’s on her own label, Pyroclastic, and of course it’s excellent. The potent avant garde scene of Chicago emerges on “Propulsion” in the form of a new quartet led by saxophonist Dave Rempis, while from Chicago’s NYC scene is exemplified in another “Live At Scholes Street Studio” session, this time with saxophonist Stephen Gauci with drummer Kevin Shea and bassist Adam Lane. Another Adam – O’Farrill –shows why he’s regarded as a new force on trumpet on his new “Hueso”. Debuting this week are saxophonists Soren Skov from Denmark, Katie Webster from Seattle and Germany’s Welf Dorr, and from Boston comes Porchbone, led by saxophonist Jorrit Dijkstra. The rest of the playlist has plenty of energy as well.
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00:00 Porchbone * Porchbone – Driff * # Two * USA
06:23 Host speaks
07:51 Porchbone * Porchbone – Driff * # One * USA
14:48 Laura Jurd & Paul Dunmall * Fanfares & Freedom – Discus * Toddle-Oddle * England
20:29 Welf Dorr Unit * Blood – Chant * Left Alone * Germany
27:53 Host speaks
30:32 Adam O’Farrill * Hueso – Food * Hueso * USA
36:28 Linda Sikhakhane * Iladi – Blue Note * Ecako * So. Africa
41:34 Nduduzo Makhathini * jNomkhublwane – Blue Note * Umlayez’oPhuthumayo * So. Africa
46:03 Ndabo Zulu * The African Symphony – Self-released * Isgelke * So. Africa
56:02 Host speaks
57:35 Stephen Gauci, Adam Lane & Kevin Shea * Live At Scholes Street Studio – Gauci Music * #1 * USA
1:06:02 Sonny Sharrock * Ask The Ages – Axiom * Many Mansions * USA
1:15:30 William Parker, Jon Irabagon & Andrew Barker * Bakunawa – Out Of Your Head * For Goya * USA
1:25:17 Lina Allemano’s Ohrenschmaus * Flip Side – Lumo * Heartstrings * Canada
1:29:56 Host speaks
1:32:22 Kris Davis Trio * Run The Gauntlet – Pyroclastic * Run The Gauntlet * Canada
1:46:17 Jason Stein * Anchors – Tao Forms * Crystalline * USA
1:53:40 The Who Trio * Live At Jazz Festival Willisau 2023 – Auricle * Angelica/Reimagining #6 * Switzerland
1:58:36 Host speaks
2:00:04 Soren Skov * Adrift – Frederiksburg * Reflections Of Rif * Denmark
2:09:10 Allison Miller’s Flux * Tomorrow Land – Enja Yellowbird * The Wayward Line * USA
2:18:30 Pedro Melo Alves * Condundrum Volume 1 – Clean Feed * March 4 2022 * Portugal
2:24:28 Host speaks
2:28:14 Propulsion * Propulsion – Aerophonic * Egression * USA
2:41:56 Fred Moten, Brandon Lopez & Gerald Cleaver * Fred Moten – Reading Group * The Abolition Of Art The Abolition Of Freedom The Abolition Of You And Me * USA
2:50:22 Host speaks
2:52:21 Katie Webster * Within The Garden We Planted – Self-released * The Mountains Are Weeping * USA