A little archival activity in this edition, featuring music from the free jazz scene in 70s Los Angeles. Paris-based record label, Dark Tree, has a “Roots” series with some of the very important artists of that time and still recognized today: Horace Tapscott, Roberto Miranda, John Carter, Bobby Bradford & Continue Reading
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July 21, 2022 #1265
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
July 14, 2022 #1264
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