Playlist for the Week of November 24, 2014

Cecil Taylor – Air above Mountains (Inner City, 1973) [vinyl] William Parker Organ Quartet – Uncle Joe’s Spirit House (Centering, 2010) Raphe Malik – Consequences (Eremite, 1999) Thollem McDonas, William Parker, Nels Cline – The Gowanus Session (Porter, 2012) William Parker – Long Hidden: The Olmec Series (AUM Fidelity, 2006) The Element Choir & William

Cisco Bradley, November 30, 2014

Playlist for the Week of November 17, 2014

Frank Lowe Quartet – Out Loud (Triple Point, 2014) [vinyl] Cecil Taylor – 3 Phasis (New World, 1979) [vinyl] Taylor Ho Bynum & Tomas Fujiwara – Through Foundation (self-released, 2014) [vinyl] John Coltrane Quartet – Creation (Blue Parrot, 1965) [vinyl] John Coltrane – John Coltrane Quartet Plays (Impulse, 1962) [vinyl] Melodic Art-Tet (Brackeen, Abdullah, Parker,

Cisco Bradley, November 22, 2014

Playlist for the Week of November 8, 2014

Tomas Fujiwara Trio – Variable Bets (Relative Pitch, 2014) REVIEW Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defense – Moment & the Message (Pi, 2013) Carlo Costa Quartet – Sediment (Neither/Nor, 2014) REVIEW Eric Dolphy – Last Recordings (West Wind, 1996) [vinyl]

Cisco Bradley, November 15, 2014

Sediment (2014)

Carlo Costa Quartet Neither Nor Records (CD) Sediment is an interesting new foray into free improvisation, based around concepts percussionist Carlo Costa outlines to his bandmates. This certainly is no easy task, for free improvisation is a very difficult thing to do well. Getting the right balance of voices in any given ensemble takes a

Cisco Bradley, November 11, 2014

Variable Bets (2014)

Tomas Fujiwara Trio Relative Pitch (CD) Released December 2, 2014; recorded live by Jonathan Goldberger at Barbes, Brooklyn, September 11, 2013; mixed by Goldberger; mastered by Nate Wood at Kerseboom Mastering; produced by Tomas Fujiwara; artwork by Tetsuo Hasegawa; photography by Peter Gannushkin; art design & layout by Spl@T!; executive production by Kevin Reilly and

Cisco Bradley, November 10, 2014