My choices for favourite recordings of 2020: Some years, it might be recordings by bassists, other years it was saxophones that dominated, this time around it’s a lot of fantastic drumming goin’ on. This past year of 2020 was a rich one for great releases. Despite the pandemic and its Continue Reading
December 31, 2020 #1185
Faced with the somewhat ominous task of doing the last show of of 2020 for Taint Radio, I thought I’d change things up a bit. You will hear the usual new releases (pianist Kari Ikonen from Finland, Sweden’s multi-reedist Alberto Pinton and trio, and American pianist Matt Piet), but also Continue Reading
December 24, 2020 #1184
Seems like there are always new recordings being issued by saxophonists, and this week’s edition of OMJ has a few — rising star Kevin Sun assembled his trio for a somewhat jet-lagged session in NY right after a residency in Beijing, but you wouldn’t know it; and L.A.’s Daniel Rotem Continue Reading