Debuts this week come from the dynamic duo from Finland, Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen. We Jazz just released an album of live performances by the saxophone/drums duet that shows off their flair and fire. English pianist Alexander Hawkins tapped free jazz great Evan Parker to feature in his large ensemble work, Togetherness Music. From Germany comes a hard-nosed session featuring saxophonist Frank Gratkowski, while similarly styled music from England arrives in the persons of Olie Brice and Eddie Prévost and one from Trevor Watts. From Italy you’ll hears the trio Bad Uok and quartet Ananasnna. The hugely influential guitarist Michael Gregory Jackson has released an earlier session featuring a fine ensemble from Denmark, and I missed “Astral Transference And Seven Dreams” by trumpeter Dan Rosenboom when it came out some years back – problem rectified.
00:00 Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen * Live Recordings 2019 – 2020 – WeJazz * Calling James * Finland
06:04 Host speaks
08:01 Michael Gregory Jackson & Art Ensemble SYD * Liberty – Gateway * Clarity 4 * USA/Denmark
16:33 Bruno Räberg Trio * The Prospector – Orbis * In Motion * USA
20:53 James Brandon Lewis Quartet * Molecular – Intakt * Breaking Code * USA
26:19 Host speaks
28:09 Dan Rosenboom * Astral Transference & Seven Dreams – Orenda * The Tears Of Venus * USA
38:53 Dan Rosenboom * Astral Transference & Seven Dreams – Orenda * Throwing Fire At The Sky * USA
44:17 Brian Jones, Adam Hopkins & Trey Pollard * Kaleidoscope Haze – Slang Sanctuary * November (For Paul Motian) * USA
51:21 Host speaks
52:28 Bad Uok * Lateless – Trouble In The East * 105 Part 3 * Italy
59:43 Michael Gregory Jackson & Art Ensemble SYD * Liberty – Gateway * Undercurrents (A Requiem For The Victims Of Hurricane Katrina * USA/Denmark
1:04:53 Host speaks
1:06:20 Alexander Hawkins * Togetherness Music – Intakt * Leaving The Classroom Of A Beloved Teacher * England
1:14:43 Jane Ira Bloom & Mark Helias * Some Kind Of Tomorrow – Self-released * Pros And Cons * USA
1:20:28 Christof Thewes Undertone Project * Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures At An Exhibition – Self-released * The Old Castle * Germany
1:26:12 Host speaks
1:27:38 Olie Brice & Eddie Prévost * The Secret Handshake With Danger Volume One – 577 Records * Door #2 * England
1:44:38 Tomasz Stanko Quintet * Music For K – Power Bros. * Cry * Poland
1:53:12 Host speaks
1:54:41 Lenny Pickett & John Hadfield * Heard By Others – Orenda * Fractured Water * USA
1:59:30 Emanuele Parrini Quintet * Digging: Reflections On Jazz And Blues – Longsong * San Frediano * Italy
2:06:16 Host speaks
2:07:30 Cowboys & Frenchmen * Our Highway – Outside In * American Whispers: Streams – An Old Church * USA
2:17:30 Ananasnna * Veloci Come In 500 – Auand * Gran San Bernardo * Italy
2:23:21 Trevor Watts * A World View – Fundacja Sluchaj * Indian Hills * England
2:30:50 Host speaks
2:32:42 Aki Takase, Christian Weber & Michael Griener * Auge – Intakt * The Pillow Book * Germany/Switzerland
2:39:11 Frank Gratkowski & Achim Kaufmann * Flatbosc And Cautery – NoBusiness * Tenuous Links Beyond * Germany
2:46:42 Host speaks
2:48:00 Pharoah Sanders * Karma – Impulse * The Creator Has A Master Plan * USA