2016

Playlist for the Week of December 12, 2016

Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet – Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths (Hat Hut, 2008) Quentin Tolimieri – Piano (pfMentum, 2016) Sean Ali – My Tongue Crumbles After (Neither/Nor, 2016) Adam Caine Trio – Thousandfold (No Business, 2009) Jaap Blonk & Damon Smith – Hugo Ball: Sechs Laut-und Klanggedichte, 1916 (Balance Point Acoustics, 2010) [cassette] Dustin Carlson –

Freedom Principle

A Review by John Morrison “The Freedom Principle” is a common thread that runs through Black life in America. In the abstract, it is the collective/culminating desire for autonomy and self-determination in an oppressive society. This principle lives as a historical continuum, manifesting itself in our collective cultural, political and spiritual moods, challenging the dominant

December Artist Feature: Amirtha Kidambi

Amirtha Kidambi is on the cutting edge of a wide range of music that includes free improvisation and jazz, experimental music, and new music. She is a soloist, collaborator, and ensemble member in a number of groups including the early music-inspired dark folk band Seaven Teares, Mary Halvorson‘s newest quintet Code Girl, analog percussion and

Best Live Concerts of 2016

Editor’s Picks (chronological order) Matana Roberts, Fay Victor, Liberty Ellman, Shayna Dulberger, Qasim Naqvi – The Stone, January 15 review Craig Taborn-Mette Rasmussen-Ches Smith – The Stone, January 27 review Farmers by Nature: Craig Taborn, William Parker, Gerald Cleaver – The Stone, January 30 review Heart of the Ghost: Luke Stewart, Jarrett Gilgore, Ian McColm

Best Records of 2016

Moor Mother – Fetish Bones (Don Giovanni) review | interview Anthony Braxton – 3 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011 (Firehouse 12) Ches Smith-Craig Taborn-Mat Maneri – Bells (ECM) Taylor Ho Bynum – Enter the PlusTet (Firehouse 12) Anais Maviel – Houle (Gold Bolus) review Tom Rainey Trio – Hotel Grief (Intakt) interview Rafal Mazur-Keir Neuringer Duo – Diachronic Paths (Relative