Playlist for June 27, 2016

Waterland Ensemble – Domesticated Doomsday Machine (1977) [vinyl] Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet – Tension! (L&R, 1979, recorded 1963) [vinyl] David Boykin Trio – Live at Dorchester Projects (Sonic Healing Ministries, 2013) [vinyl] Aaron Lumley – Wilderness (Ontario Arts Council, 2013) Borgmann/Morris/Charles Trio – The Last Concert – Dankeschon (Silkheart, 1999) Various – Vision Volume One: Vision

Album Review: The Distance (2016) by Michael Formanek & Ensemble Kolossus

The Distance – Michael Formanek and Ensemble Kolossus ECM (2016) Personnel: Loren Stillman (alto saxophone, flute) Oscar Noriega (alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet) Chris Speed (tenor saxophone, clarinet) Brian Settles (tenor saxophone, flute) Tim Berne (baritone saxophone) Dave Ballou (trumpet) Ralph Alessi (trumpet) Shane Endsley (trumpet) Kirk Knuffke (cornet) Alan Ferber (trombone) Jacob Garchik (trombone)

Album Review: Drums of Days (2016) by Flin van Hemmen

Flin van Hemmen’s Drums of Days Neither/Nor Records (CD) Personnel: Flin van Hemmen (drums, piano) Todd Neufeld (guitar) Eivind Opsvik (bass) Special Guest: Tony Malaby (tenor & soprano saxophones on track 2) Special Guest: Eliot Cardinaux (poetry) Track List: Drums of Days I (8:40) Morsel! (1:28) Dream Tree (2:13) Aching Arches (16:38) Sensitive Chaos I

Album Review: Birth of a Being by David S. Ware’s Apogee

DAVID S. WARE / APOGEE Birth Of A Being (Expanded) AUM096/97 DSW-ARC01 Personnel: David S. Ware: tenor saxophone Cooper-Moore: piano, ashimba on * Marc Edwards: drums Original sessions produced by David S. Ware and Cooper-Moore; Recorded by Fred Seibert at C.I. Recording, NYC on April 14 & 15, 1977 This edition produced by Steven Joerg.

Album Review: Diachronic Paths (2016) by Rafal Mazur-Keir Neuringer Duo

Mazur/Neuringer – Diachronic Paths Relative Pitch CD (2016) Recorded November 13, 2013 in Krakow, Poland Personnel: Keir Neuringer (alto saxophone) Rafal Mazur (bass guitar) Review Bass and Saxophone duo Mazur/Neuringer journey through an improvised song set that is at times equal parts playful, fierce and inventive. The duo of Philadelphia-based saxophonist Keir Neuringer and Polish bassist

OutNow Recordings New Releases 2016

OutNow Recordings has five new releases in 2016: Yoni Kretzmer – FIVE In Five, Kretzmer aimed to capture a horn sound reminiscent of the late 60’s Blue Note Records era and give it a current day and personal interpretation. The band is horn heavy and exploits the fullness of each instrument. Joining Kretzmer are some

Album Review: The Dreemzboat! (2016) by Pulcinella

Pulcinella – The Dreemzboat! Personnel: Colin Sanderson (electric guitar) Paul Feitzinger “Clambo” (drums) Andrew MacLarty “Captain Careful” (modular synth and lead vocals on the track “Varying Intensities (feat. Orgasm Avenue)”) Jodi Gay-Cooper – (electric guitar on track three “Varying Intensities (feat. Orgasm Avenue)”) Track Listing: I Never Said You Could Stop Doing That Puls’d Tydez

May Artist Feature: Saxophonist Louise D.E. Jensen

  Louise Dam Eckhardt Jensen is a fiery alto saxophonist originally from Denmark who spends a good portion of each year in New York. Over the past decade, she has worked with figures such as Peter Evans, Tom Blancarte, Weasel Walter, Brandon Seabrook, Kevin Shea, Erica Dicker, Matt Nelson, and many other figures on the

Playlist for the Week of May 23, 2016

Kali Z.Fasteau – Intuit (Flying Note, 2016) Daniel Levin & Mat Maneri – The Transcendent Function (Clean Feed, 2015) Taylor Ho Bynum-Tomas Fujiwara Duo – True Events (482 Music, 2007) Defunkt – Channel Zero (ESP-Disk’, 2016) Jungle: Mat Walerian, Matthew Shipp, Hamid Drake – Live at Okuden (ESP-Disk’, 2016) Paradoxical Frog – self-titled (Clean Feed,