Mahakala Music is a small label based in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It was started by saxophonist Chad Fowler, and focused on improvisers with ties to the American southern states, but has begun to spread its wings. This episode features several new albums from Mahakala: Doplarians, Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp, Continue Reading
February 25, 2021 #1193
There’s been much speculation that when this infernal pandemic is under control and life gets back to as normal as possible that there may well be a true renaissance in the arts. Wouldn’t it be something if we had the emergence of a new loft scene with jazz musicians creating Continue Reading
February 18, 2021 #1192
From the opening piece by master drummer Ra Kalam Bob Moses and a dynamite Danish band to the closer by a 1990 free jazz trio from Japan, this show really touches so many nooks and crannies of improvised music. There’s a killer big band from Norwegian drummer Gard Nilssen’s Supersonic Continue Reading