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,
Jagged Spheres (Elias Stemeseder, Devin Gray, Anna Webber) – self-titled (self-released, 2013) Ches Smith’s Congs for Brums – Noise to Men (self-released, 2010) Thomas Borgmann – Boom Box Jazz (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011) Tomas Fujiwara Trio – Variable Bets (Relative Pitch, 2014)
Holus-Bolus – Altogether … All at Once Big Plastic Finger – Up from Under (Starry Night Records, 2014) Erik Hove Chamber Ensemble – Saturated Colour (2014) Ross Hammond & Grant Calvin Weston – Blues and Daily News (Prescott Recordings, 2014) Anna Webber – Third Floor People Don’t Need to Worry about Anything (NOWT Records) peeesseye
The exciting and fiery alto saxophonist Jim Hobbs is playing four nights at Douglass Street Music Collective starting Wednesday, August 20. Having developed a take-no-prisoners reputation with his playing and composing among numerous groups in Boston, this groundbreaking artist remains under-appreciated on the New York scene. Having led the Fully Celebrated for a number of
Ross Hammond’s Humanity Suite – self-titled (Prescott, 2014) [LP] Dave Rempis & Tim Daisy – Back to the Circle (Okkadisk, 2005) Dave Rempis Percussion Quartet – The Disappointment of Parsley (Not Two, 2009) Kendra Shank & John Stowell – New York Conversations (Montreux Jazz, 2013) Thumbscrew – self-titled (Cuneiform, 2014) Collective 4tet – Live at
Josh Sinton is an intrepid reeds player based in Brooklyn who leads the band Ideal Bread, among other groups. As one of the most active members of the Douglass Street Music Collective, he is well-known for his leading role within the musicians’ community, but has not been given the credit he deserves by the general
Interview Tomas Fujiwara on His Early Years as a Musician in New York City Videos Jim Hobbs Solo Live at Snug’s Jooklo Duo + Tamio Shiraishi Live at JACK Jooklo Duo + Steven Leffue, Jim Hobbs, and Stanley Zappa Live at JACK Ava Mendoza Trio Live at the Manhattan Inn Thollem McDonas and Brian Chase
Interview with Tomas Fujiwara, Oct 1, 2013, at his apartment in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY Cisco Bradley: You played with the Matana Roberts Quartet. I would love to hear about your involvement with that. Maybe I am wrong, but it was my impression that that band never recorded. Tomas Fujiwara: There actually is a record,
Features April Artist Feature: Patrick Breiner Reviews Nightshades by Matt Bauder and Day in Pictures Videos Andrew Drury’s Content Provider Live at Soup & Sound Andrew Drury’s Content Provider Live at Clemente Soto Velez (Arts for Art) Colonic Youth Live at Firehouse Space Andrew Drury’s Content Provider Live at Firehouse Space Allan Baker, Tim Dahl,
Tatsuya Nakatani – Nakatani Gong Orchestra (Taiga, 2013) [vinyl] Ras Moshe – Live Spirits, vol. 3 (Utech, 2006) Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey Duo – And Other Desert Towns (Relative Pitch, 2014) Dylan Ryan’s Sand – Sky Bleached (Cuneiform, 2013) Landon Knoblock’s CACAW – Stellar Power (Skirl, 2013) Wheelhouse – Boss of the Plains (Aerophonic, 2012) Ras
