Since I’m currently working my way through saxophonist and composer Henry Threadgill’s excellent autobiography “Easily Slip Into Another World, A Life In Music”, it should come as no big surprise that I’d be digging into Threadgill’s music, especially those earlier recordings that one tends to forget. The second hour kicks Continue Reading
August 3, 2023 #1319
Hour one of this episode features the Gard Nilssen Supersonic Orchestra, probably the most powerful large ensemble in Europe. The excellent drummer from Norway has assembled a 17-piece aggregation of Scandinavian all-stars and they take no prisoners…and nary one chordal instrument in sight. The second set is highlighted by more Continue Reading
July 27, 2023 #1318
Like so many editions of One Man’s Jazz, this one has “legs”. It finds its way to very different corners of the creative jazz world. Plenty of new releases to check out this week including the much-anticipated “Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy”, the discovered recording Continue Reading