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A couple more new Clean Feed releases for your ears this week – saxophonist Yaroslav Likhachev and his quartet from Cologne Germany start things off with the Italian trio, Fade In, following shortly after. Also new this week, saxophonist Rick Countryman (Manila) and drummer Christian Bucher (Switzerland), the duo I Continue Reading

The steady stream of interesting new releases continues, pretty much unabated, and this episode of OMJ digs into some. Wadada Leo Smith entertains a quartet of the finest drummers on his 5-cd set of duo performances on his “The Emerald Duets”, while new names like Trio Xolo, pianist Meg Morley Continue Reading

All kinds of new albums to preview this week: saxophonist Caleb Wheeler Curtis, the Austrian quintet Memplex, French bassist Hubert Dupont & a new trio called Sirocco, a bristling take on Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman” by New Zealand’s Trioglodytes,  Brisbane’s Impulse Orchestra, Venezuelan guitarist Juanma Trujillo, and four musicians from Continue Reading