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Highlights for this episode: new piano trio releases from Germany’s Felix Hauptman, Barber Mouse from Italy, and Sweden’s Lisa Ullen. Another trio, this one reeds/bass/drums, is Montreal trio Nebula. They’ve just released a freewheeling live concert done last year, while Vancouver’s Gordon Grdina’s Arabic-leaning Haram also hit the studio around Continue Reading

Trios have always been a popular format in jazz. This episode presents several different threesomes, but as you’ll hear, they are not all the typical piano/bass/drums. Two of those are definitely on the heavy side: Dave Rempis, Elisabeth Harnik & Michael Zerang and Survival Unit III with Zerang, Fred Lonberg-Holm Continue Reading

There’s a definite edginess to much of the music in this week’s One Man’s Jazz. It begins with music from some old friends, Finnish trio Black Motor, then with a freely improvised piece by pianist Anthony Coleman and drummer Brian Chase, to Kraft, a great quartet from Baltimore, then the Continue Reading