This week’s One Man’s Jazz features music from new releases by Austrian pianist Elias Stemeseder, Barbara Bruckmüller’s big band (she’s also from Austria), New York’s WeFreeStrings, guitarist Miles Okazaki’s Trickster, bassist Billy Mohler‘s new quartet, Swiss tenor player Fabian Willmann and poet Fred Moten with Brandon Lopez and Gerald Cleaver. Continue Reading
May 5, 2022 #1254
Two previously unreleased recordings are featured in this episode, and both are from two of the giants of jazz: the free spirit of free jazz Albert Ayler and the indefatigable Charles Mingus. Both albums are from the 70s – Ayler in France (in his last recorded performance) and Mingus’ Lost Continue Reading
April 28, 2022 #1253 Celebrating International Jazz
This episode of One Man’s Jazz has a decidedly international theme. Given that International Jazz Day takes place two days after this show, I loaded up. Not that that’s particular unique. I’ve been including music by artists from many lands over these past years, and I have no plans to Continue Reading