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Playlist for the Week of April 17, 2017

Kesivan & the Lights – Brotherhood (Sony/ATV, 2016) Bonnie Kane-Chris Welcome Duo – Sonic Dream Worlds (Starry Night, 2011) Four Letter Words – Radio Silence (Amalgam, 2017) Bobby Previte – Mass (Rare Noise, 2016) Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures – Glare of the Tiger (Rare Noise, 2017) Reflections in Cosmo – self-titled (Rare Noise, 2017) New

Playlist for the Week of April 10, 2017

David S. Ware Quartet – Wisdom of Uncertainty (AUM Fidelity, 1997) David S. Ware Quartet – Oblations and Blessings (Silkheart, 1996) William Parker-Stefano Scodanibbio Bass Duo – self-titled (Centering, 2017) Jeremiah Cymerman’s Bloodmist – Sheen (5049 Records, 2016) Mazur/Neuringer Duo – The Krakow Letters (Fortune, 2014) Tashi Dorji – Collected Works (Marmara, 2016) Jaimie Branch

Playlist for the Week of March 27, 2017

Chris Corsano, Sylvie Courvoisier, Nate Wooley – Salt Task (Relative Pitch, 2016) Mike McGinnis – Recurring Dream (Sunnyside, 2017) Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson – Crop Circles (Relative Pitch, 2017) Tashi Dorji – VDSQ Solo Acoustic, vol. 13 (VDSQ, 2016) [vinyl] Merzbow/Keiji Haino/Balazs Pandi – An Untroublesome Defencelessness (Rare Noise, 2016) Natura Morta – Environ

Letter to the Editor

To the Editor: Respect for your recent open invitation to address the socio-politics of the scene(s) at Jazz Right Now. In that invitation, you mention the recent “Robert Glasper controversy.” To (briefly) review: the pianist Glasper is a black man who said something misogynist and sexist in a recent interview. The interview was with the

Playlist for the Week of March 13, 2017

Anthony Braxton – Quintet (London) 2004: Live at the Royal Festival Hall (Leo, 2005) Whit Dickey, Mat Maneri, Matthew Shipp – Vessel in Orbit (AUM Fidelity, 2017) Cecil Taylor Workshop Ensemble – Legba Crossing (FMP, 1989) Cecil Taylor & Gunter Sommer – Riobec (FMP, 1989) Cecil Taylor & Paul Lovens – Regalia (FMP, 1989) Cecil

Jazz Woman, Me

Jazz Woman, Me by Fay Victor  www.fayvictor.com To be a woman in jazz when you want to be more or other than a standards singer or a pianist To be a woman in jazz and not constantly define yourself as such To be a woman in jazz with creative concepts that are accepted To be

Playlist for the Week of March 6, 2017

Anthony Burr & Skuli Sverrison – A Thousand Incidents Arise (Workers Institute, 2005) Karin Hellqvist/Keir Neuringer – Warsaw Autumn 2013 (Fortune, 2013) Daniel Sarid Trio – Loventuruos (Out Now, 2016) Rema Hasumi – Billows of Blue (Ruweh, 2017) Ballister (Rempis/Lonberg-Holm/Nilssen-Love) – Slag (Aerophonic, 2016) Triptych Myth (Cooper-Moore, Tom Abbs, Chad Taylor) – The Beautiful (AUM

Playlist for the Week of February 27, 2017

Tomas Fujiwara Trio – Variable Bets (Relative Pitch, 2014) Mat Maneri Quintet – Acceptance (Hat Hut, 1998) Quentin Tolimieri – Piano (pfMentum, 2016) Collective 4tet – Orca (Leo, 1997) Sandy Ewen, Damon Smith, Weasel Walter – Live in Texas (2016)

Playlist for the Week of February 20, 2017

Jake Wark, Drew Gress, Phil Haynes – Tremor (Corner Store Jazz, 2016) Alvin Fielder/Damon Smith Duo – Song for Chico (Balance Point Acoustics, 2015) Paul Hartsaw, Kristian Aspelin, Damon Smith, Jerome Bryerton – Ausfegen: Dedicated to Joseph Beauys (Balancing Point Acoustics, 2008) Steve Swell – The Loneliness of the Long Distance Improviser (Swell Records, 2016)

Steve Swell’s Nation of We with Strings Live at the Stone 2015-11-27

Band: Steve Swell‘s Nation of We: Jason Kao Hwang, Jake Sokolov-Gonzalez, Rosie Hertlein, Sarah Bernstein, Stephanie Griffin, Darius Jones, Chris Pitsiokos, Ras Moshe Burnett, Michael Foster, Dave Sewelson, Lewis Barnes, Matt Lavelle, Vincent Chancey, Joe Daley, Todd Nicholson, Chad Taylor Videographer: Don Mount [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab7MJ1eV2Ac&w=560&h=315]