Podcast appearances and mentions of Hamid Drake

E- und U-Musik, elektronische und akustische. Diamorphosis von Iannis Xenakis, Cello Concerto op. 10 von Maria Herz, Serpentine von Peaches, Information needed to create an entire body von Catarina Barbieri, Song for Johnny - in memory of Johnny Dyani von Irène Schweizer und Hamid Drake und Fury, eine Komposition für Kontrabass, von Rebecca Saunders

Tons of music continues to orbit around Sun Ra. Here some fascinating new and archival recordings. The playlist features James Brandon Lewis; Sun Ra Arkestra; Michael Sarian, Matthew Putman, Ledin Mola, Federico Ughi; Hamid Drake & Pasquale Mirra [pictured]. Detailed playlist at https://spinitron.com/RFB/pl/20316344/Mondo-Jazz [from "Remember Brooklyn and Moki" to "Love in Outer Space/Brown Rice"]. Happy listening!

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: vintage Roy Haynes (revisted); Sun Ra w. Walt Dickerson (piano/vibes duo); new jazz from Jesica Jones Quartet; Tajik Disco from Khurmo Shirinova; experimental electric(ish) jazz from Janel Leptin as well as Mendoza Hoff Revels and Drazek Fuscaldo (erstwhile Moca Sica, w. Hamid Drake, Tatsu Aoki, Thymme Jones, and Joshua Abrams);  new Pakistani vocal raga from Ustad Saami; Uzbek song from K. Khadzhiev; experimental pop from Asa Horvitz, Carmen Quill, Ariadne Randall & Wayne Horvitz; vintage North African music/songs, including  L'Orchestre National Mauritanien, Salim Halal (in Morocco). Dahmane el Harrache (Algerian cha'abi); Chef Nasro (Algerian Rai via  French cabaret); Cheikh Sabah (Arabo-Andalusian classical music from Morocco); new directions in Gnawa from Asma Hamzaoui & Bnat Tombouctou as well as Maalem Abdenbi El Meknassi; and of course, so much, much more...   Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/ via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online: PLAYLIST at SPINITRON: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/20260345/Conference-of-the-Birds and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/  Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks Find WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

DRED SCOTT “THE PACIFIC JAZZ GROUP” Los Angeles 2022Bernie's Tune, Nights At The Turntable, Utter ChaosEric Crystal (st) Dred Scott (p) John Wiitala (b) Smith Dobson (dr) VINCENT ARCHER “SHORT STORIES” New York, June 9, 2022Lighthouse, Mirai, Message to a friend, It takes two to know oneGerald Clayton (p) Vicente Archer (b) Bill Stewart (d) ROY CAMPBELL PYRAMID TRIO “ETHNIC STEW AND BREW” Chicago, IL, October 11 & 12, 2000Amadou diallo, Impressions of Yokohama (1)Roy Campbell (tp,flhrn,pocket-tp,perc) William Parker (b,perc,shakuhachi-fl-1) Hamid Drake (d,perc) Continue reading Puro Jazz 20 de febrero, 2025 at PuroJazz.

DRED SCOTT “THE PACIFIC JAZZ GROUP” Los Angeles 2022Bernie's Tune, Nights At The Turntable, Utter ChaosEric Crystal (st) Dred Scott (p) John Wiitala (b) Smith Dobson (dr) VINCENT ARCHER “SHORT STORIES” New York, June 9, 2022Lighthouse, Mirai, Message to a friend, It takes two to know oneGerald Clayton (p) Vicente Archer (b) Bill Stewart (d) ROY CAMPBELL PYRAMID TRIO “ETHNIC STEW AND BREW” Chicago, IL, October 11 & 12, 2000Amadou diallo, Impressions of Yokohama (1)Roy Campbell (tp,flhrn,pocket-tp,perc) William Parker (b,perc,shakuhachi-fl-1) Hamid Drake (d,perc) Continue reading Puro Jazz 20 de febrero, 2025 at PuroJazz.

Tributes to Thelonious Monk, Dutch novelist A.F.Th. van der Heijden, the Portuguese city of Guimarães, and much more in this intriguing playlist. The playlist features Funkwrench Blues, Grant Green Jr., Hamid Drake; Jamie Saft [pictured], Brad Jones; Xhosa Cole; Leiba Trio; Quispel Quintet; Randy Ingram, Drew Gress, Billy Hart. Detailed playlist at https://spinitron.com/RFB/pl/19891908/Mondo-Jazz (from "Indelicate Balance" to "Guimarães"). Happy listening! Photo credit: Ziga Koritnik 

Esta semana, en una nueva sesión de Rebelión Sónica, los invitamos a escuchar material del nuevo disco del súper grupo estadounidense PainKiller, “Samsara”. Editado el 15 de noviembre por el sello Tzadik Records, “Samsara” es el primer álbum que edita el trío original con el saxofonista John Zorn, el bajista Bill Laswell y el baterista Mick Harris en tres décadas. Formado originalmente en 1991, PainKiller es un trío legendario que forjó un lenguaje completamente único que combina jazz, metal, grindcore, ambient, dub y más. Tzadik señala: “Grabando de nuevo por primera vez en más de un cuarto de siglo, estos tres maestros músicos han ideado una nueva e intensa dirección musical. Mick Harris, interpretando su característica electrónica, ha creado un rico tapiz de ritmos y sonidos que han inspirado a Laswell y Zorn a alcanzar nuevas y emocionantes alturas. “Samsara” presenta a tres viejos amigos que exploran algunos sonidos nuevos y atrevidos”. Recordemos que los últimos discos editados por esta alineación, fueron el álbum en estudio “Execution Ground” de 1994 y el en vivo “Talisman: Live in Nagoya” publicado en 2002, pero grabado en 1994 en la ciudad japonesa que le da el nombre. Aunque posteriormente el trío original se había juntado para esporádicas presentaciones en vivo, los discos anteriores a “Samsara”, no incluyeron a Harris en la alineación: en “50th Birthday Celebration Volume 12” de 2015 estuvo Hamid Drake en la batería y en “The Prophecy: Live in Europe” de 2013, fue el músico japonés Yoshida Tatsuya el encargado de la percusión. Por este motivo, el regreso de la banda con personal original, es un hecho histórico para el mundo de la música experimental. Al final del programa, viajamos al pasado en la historia de Mick Harris, para escucharlo con su longevo proyecto de música electrónica Scorn, específicamente con música del álbum “Logghi Barogghi”, su quinto disco editado en 1996. Rebelión Sónica se emite por radio Rockaxis los jueves a las 10 y 22 horas, con la conducción y curatoría de Héctor Aravena.

Sie ist eine der grossen Persönlichkeiten des europäischen Jazz und eine Pionierin des Free Jazz. Als Irène Schweizer im Juli 83jährig starb, war das Medienecho gewaltig. Auch unzählige Musikerinnen und Musiker trauerten um ihre Freundin und Bühnenpartnerin und der Wunsch war stark, sie noch einmal gemeinschaftlich zu feiern. So lud Schweizers Label «Intakt» zu einer musikalischen Abschiedsfeier. Das traf auch beim Publikum einen Nerv: Innert weniger Stunden war der Abend am 4.November ausverkauft. Der Anlass war ja auch einzigartig: Sechzehn renommierte Musiker:innen aus dem In- und Ausland reisten extra an, um in bisher ungehörten Konstellationen Irène Schweizer zu ehren. Ein Abschied voller Grosszügigkeit, Zärtlichkeit - und auch der Schalk kam nicht zu kurz. Musik unserer Zeit zeigt mit Rüdiger Carl, Sarah Chaksad, Sylvie Courvoisier, Hamid Drake, Maggie Nichols, Lucas Niggli, Günter «Baby» Sommer, Co Streiff, Yves Theiler und Omri Ziegele einen Ausschnitt des dreistündigen Konzertabends.

As we are exploring how Jimi Hendrix has inspired the jazz world, this segment focuses on the connections between Hendrix and Miles Davis and musicians close to him. The playlist features, Gil Evans, Laurent Cugny; Mike Stern; Lonnie Smith, John Abercrombie, Marvin "Smitty" Smith; Daniele Sepe, Hamid Drake, Dean Bowman; Miles Davis; and Francis Lockwood Detailed playlist at https://spinitron.com/RFB/pl/19759068/Mondo-Jazz (up "1983 (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"). Happy listening!

mit Musik von und mit: Les Diaboliques, Irène Schweizer, Irène Schweizer und Hamid Drake, Patti Smith, Bikini Kill, Die Braut haut ins Auge und Mitgliedern der Band Pussy Riot. Die Ausstellung "Velvet Terrorism, Pussy Riot`s Russia" ist im Augenblick im Haus der Kunst zu sehen, diese Sendung enthält auch einen kurzen Audiomitschnitt der Eröffnung durch Andrea Lissoni

9e émission de la 59e session...Cette semaine, jazz modal et freebop! En musique: Eje Thelin Quintet sur l'album So Far  (Columbia, 1963); Yoshio Suzuki sur l'album Friends  (CBS/Sony, 1973); Frank London Elders sur l'album Spirit Stronger Than Blood (ESP-Disk', 2024); William Parker, Cooper-Moore, Hamid Drake sur l'album Heart Trio  (AUM Fidelity, 2024); Michel Pilz, Reiner Winterschladen, Frank Paul Schubert, Christian Ramond, Klaus Kugel sur l'album Yamabiko Quintet  (Nemu, 2023); Álvaro Torres Quartet sur l'album Live in Barcelona  (Fresh Sound, 2024)...

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PETER BERNSTEIN SIGNS LIVE ! PETER BERNSTEIN SIGNS LIVE ! Lincoln Centre, New York, January 4, 2015Let looseBrad Mehldau (p) Peter Bernstein (g) Christian McBride (b) Gregory Hutchinson (d) WILLIAM PARKER RAINING ON THE MOON New York, October 2, 2001Hunk pappa blues, Song of hope (lc vcl), James Baldwin to the rescue (lc vcl)Louis Barnes (tp) Rob Brown (as,fl-1) William Parker (b,doson'ngoni-2) Hamid Drake (d) Leena Conquest (vcl) MULATU ASTATKE & BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE TO KNOW WITHOUT KNOWING Melbourne & Collingwood, Australia, c. Continue reading Puro Jazz 17 de junio, 2024 at PuroJazz.

PETER BERNSTEIN SIGNS LIVE ! PETER BERNSTEIN SIGNS LIVE ! Lincoln Centre, New York, January 4, 2015Let looseBrad Mehldau (p) Peter Bernstein (g) Christian McBride (b) Gregory Hutchinson (d) WILLIAM PARKER RAINING ON THE MOON New York, October 2, 2001Hunk pappa blues, Song of hope (lc vcl), James Baldwin to the rescue (lc vcl)Louis Barnes (tp) Rob Brown (as,fl-1) William Parker (b,doson'ngoni-2) Hamid Drake (d) Leena Conquest (vcl) MULATU ASTATKE & BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE TO KNOW WITHOUT KNOWING Melbourne & Collingwood, Australia, c. Continue reading Puro Jazz 17 de junio, 2024 at PuroJazz.

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6e émission de la 59e session...Cette semaine, free jazz! En musique: Kenny Gill sur l'album What Was, What Is, What Will Be  (Raccoon, 1971); Joel Futterman sur l'album Inneraction  (JDF, 1984); Albert Beger, Ziv Taubenfeld, Shay Hazan, Hamid Drake sur l'album Cosmic Waves  (NoBusiness, 2024); Oliver Schwerdt, Barry Guy, Baby Sommer sur l'album Fucking Ballads (EUPHORIUM, 2024); Leo Genovese, John Lockwood, Nat Mugavero sur l'album The Art of Not Playing  (577, 2024); Matthew Shipp Trio sur l'album New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz  (ESP-Disk', 2024); Space sur l'album Embrace the Space  (Relative Pitch, 2024)...

Estas dos palabras dan título a un álbum grabado por Ornette Coleman en doble cuarteto a finales de 1960 para el sello Atlantic. La obra —cuyo título completo es Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation— rompe las estructuras previas del jazzy apunta a un paroxismo nunca escuchado._____Has escuchadoAscension - Edition I (1965) / John Coltrane. John Coltrane, saxofón tenor; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bajo; Elvin Jones, batería; Archie Schepp y Pharoah Sanders, saxofón tenor; John Tchicai y Marion Brown, saxofón alto; Art Davis, bajo. Impulse (1987)Hello Chi (1970) / Art Ensemble of Chicago. Fontella Bass, voz; Lester Bowie, trompeta; Roscoe Mitchell, flauta y saxofón alto; Joseph Jarman, flauta y saxofón alto; Malachi Favors, bajo. FreeFactory (2010)Simple Like (1969) / Anthony Braxton. Leo Smith, trompeta y mult. instrumentos; Anthony Braxton, saxofón alto y mult. instrumentos; Leroy Jenkins, violín y mult. instrumentos; Steve McCall, percusiones. BYG Records (1969)Sunday Morning Church (2003) / William Parker. Billy Bang, violín; Hamid Drake, batería; William Parker, contrabajo. Thirsty Ear (2003)Truth Is Marching in (1966) / Albert Ayler. Albert Ayler, saxofón tenor; Don Ayler, trompeta; Michel Sampson, violín; Bill Folwell y Henry Grimes, bajos; Beaver Harris, batería. Impulse (1998)_____Selección bibliográficaANDERSON, Iain, This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007BRADLEY, Francis R., Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker. Duke University Press, 2021CARLES, Philippe y Jean-Louis Comolli, Free Jazz: Black Power. Traducido por Juan Giner. Anagrama, 1973JENKINS, Todd S., Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press, 2004JOST, Ekkehard, Free jazz: une étude critique et stylistique du jazz des années 1960. Outre Mesure, 2002KOLODA, Richard, Holy Ghost: The Life & Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler. Jawbone Press, 2022MAZZOLA, Guerino y Paul B. Cherlin, Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Jazz Towards a Theory of Collaboration. Springer, 2009ONSMAN, Andrys y Robert Burke, Experimentation in Improvised Jazz: Chasing Ideas. Routledge, 2019PARKER, William et al., Conversations. Rogueart, 2011—, Conversations II: Dialogues and monologues. Rogueart, 2015—, Conversations III: Dialogues and monologues. Rogueart, 2019—, Conversations IV. Rogueart, 2023PEYROU, Mariano, Free jazz: la música más negra del mundo. Anagrama, 2024RUSH, Stephen, Free Jazz, Harmolodics, and Ornette Coleman. Routledge, 2017SCHWARTZ, Jeff, Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge Music Bibliographies, 2018*SKLOWER, Jedediah, Free jazz, la catastrophe féconde: une histoire du monde éclaté du jazz en France (1960-1982). L'Harmattan, 2006SPICER, Daniel, Peter Brötzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution and the Politics of Improvisation. Repeater, 2024STEINBECK, Paul, Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago. The University of Chicago Press, 2017SZWED, John F., Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra. Duke University Press, 2020TONELLI, Chris (Chris J.), Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing. Routledge, 2019TOOP, David, En el maelström: música, improvisación y el sueño de la libertad antes de 1970. Caja Negra, 2018*WILMER, Val, As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977. Serpent's Tail, 2018 *Documento disponible para su consulta en la Sala de Nuevas Músicas de la Biblioteca y Centro de Apoyo a la Investigación de la Fundación Juan March

HORACE TAPSCOTT THE DARK TREE – LIVE “CATALINA BAR & GRILL” Hollywood, CA, Dec. 14-17, 1989Sketches of drunken MaryJohn Carter (cl) Horace Tapscott (p) Cecil McBee (b) Andrew Cyrille (d) FRED ANDERSON THE MILWAUKEE TAPES VOL 2. Milwaukee, WI, January or February 1980Bernice, Another PlanetBilly Brimfield (tp) Fred Anderson (ts) Larry Hayrod (b) Hamid Drake (d,tablas) MICHAEL ATTIAS QUARTET MUSIC VOL. Continue reading Puro Jazz 15 abril 2024 at PuroJazz.

HORACE TAPSCOTT THE DARK TREE – LIVE “CATALINA BAR & GRILL” Hollywood, CA, Dec. 14-17, 1989Sketches of drunken MaryJohn Carter (cl) Horace Tapscott (p) Cecil McBee (b) Andrew Cyrille (d) FRED ANDERSON THE MILWAUKEE TAPES VOL 2. Milwaukee, WI, January or February 1980Bernice, Another PlanetBilly Brimfield (tp) Fred Anderson (ts) Larry Hayrod (b) Hamid Drake (d,tablas) MICHAEL ATTIAS QUARTET MUSIC VOL. Continue reading Puro Jazz 15 abril 2024 at PuroJazz.

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Las buenas broncas son buenas broncas al igual que el primitivismo americano. Suenan: LCD Soundsystem: 45:33 (Pt. 2) Djo: End of Beginning Kim Gordon: BYE BYE Tierra Whack: MS BEHAVE Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar: Like That Drake: Back To Back Pusha T: The Story of Adidon Amaro Freitas: Encantados (feat. Hamid Drake, Shabaka & Aniel Someillan) Adrianne Lenker: Vampire Empire Jlin: The Precision of Infinity (feat. Phillip Glass) Kevin Coleman: Imaginary Conversations on Fish Hatchery Rd.

Composer, pianist, educator Angelica Sanchez in commentary alongside excerpts from performances with bassist Michael Formanek, drummers Billy Hart and Hamid Drake, composer/percussionist Susie Ibarra with violinist Jennifer Choi, and a solo at the tribute to jaimie branch. Sanchez returns to Roulette in a new trio with guitarist Brandon Ross and drummer Chad Taylor on 16 January 2024. https://roulette.org/ 

Composer, pianist, educator Angelica Sanchez in commentary alongside excerpts from performances with bassist Michael Formanek, drummers Billy Hart and Hamid Drake, composer/percussionist Susie Ibarra with violinist Jennifer Choi, and a solo at the tribute to jaimie branch. Sanchez returns to Roulette in a new trio with guitarist Brandon Ross and drummer Chad Taylor on 16 January 2024.

Sigla: Av. Brasil (M. Lima/Antonio Cicero), Marina Lima, Todas, 1985 Sottosigla: A rã (João Donato), vari, Blue Note Trip 7: Birds/Beats, 2008 poi 1. Este amor (Caetano Veloso), Maria Gadú, Quem sabe isso pode ser amor, 2021 2. Guajiru (Tomaz Di Cunto, Leonardo Milan/Stefano Tirone), Toco, singolo nov 2023 3. Ancestral Infinito, Xênia França, Em nome da estrela (Grammy Latino 2023 miglior album pop contemporaneo in lingua portoghese), 2022 4. Coisa Maluca, Ana Franga Elétrico, Me chama de gato que eu sou sua, 2023 5. Dr. Sabe Tudo, Ana Frango Elétrico, Me chama de gato que eu sou sua, 2023 6. Ciranda da bailarina (Edu Lobo/Chico Buarque), Edu Lobo Oitenta, feat. Vanessa Moreno, 2023 7. Sem Fantasia, Chico Buarque feat. Monica Salmaso, Que tal um samba? Ao Vivo, 2023 8. Biscate, Chico Buarque feat. Monica Salmaso, Que tal um samba? Ao vivo, 2023 9. Injuriado, Chico Buarque feat. Monica Salmaso, Que tal um samba? Ao vivo, 2023 10. Shot in the Park, Ed Motta, Behind the Tea Chronicles, 2023 11. Me acalmo danando, Angela RoRo, Angela RoRo 1979 12. Encantados, Amaro Freitas feat. Hamid Drake, Shabaka Hutchings, Aniel Someillan, singolo novembre 2023

Shannon Barnett Quartet, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio, Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding, Melissa Pipe Sextet, Bellbird, Peripheral VIsion, The Titillators, Amaro Freitas, Dominique Fils-Aimé, Muriel Mwamba, and George ColemanPlaylist: Shannon Barnett Quartet - When Will The Blues Leave?Audrey Ochoa - Have A CryTSUYOSHI YAMAMOTO & Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio - Speed Ball BluesFred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding - LoroMelissa Pipe Sextet - In Due TimePeripheral Vision - Full Disclosure Comedy Vehicle (Live)The Titillators - Wigging OutAmaro Freitas, featuring Hamid Drake, Shabaka & Aniel Someillan - EncantadosDominique Fils-Aimé - To Walk A WayMuriel Mwamba - KALULUGeorge Coleman - Four

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8e émission de la 56e session...Cette semaine une pensée toute spéciale pour Peter Brötzmann! En musique: Last Exit sur l'album Iron Path  (Venture, 1988); Die Like a Dog Quartet sur l'album Little Birds Have Fast Hearts No. 1  (FMP, 1998); Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet sur l'album Stone/Water  (Okka Disk, 2000); Peter Brötzmann, Heather Leigh Murray, Fred Longberg-Holm sur l'album Naked Nudes  (Trost, 2023); Peter Brötzmann, Majid Bekkas, Hamid Drake sur l'album Catching Ghosts  (ACT Music, 2023)...

Die Jazz-Neuheitenschau | Heute mit: Peter Brötzmann, Majid Bekkas & Hamid Drake: Catching Ghosts | Lorenz Raab, Philipp van Endert & Franck Tortiller: Hope & Gratitude | Jochen Rueckert: With Best Intentions (Sendung am 15.6.23)

This week we focus on three fascinating releases which celebrate the genius and legacy of Don Cherry, after starting with a tribute to Led Zeppelin, Emma Rawicz's new project, one of the best piano trios I've heard in a long time, lead by a drummer, and new music by Michael Formanek. The playlist features Francesco Bearzatti; Emma Rawicz; Vinnie Sperrazza, Ethan Iverson, Michael Formanek; Peter Broetzmann, Majid Bekkas, Hamid Drake [pictured]; Kahil El'Zabar, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Dwight Trible, David Ornette Cherry; Jamie Breiwick; and Ken Vandermark. Detailed playlist at https://spinitron.com/RFB/pl/17298446/Mondo-Jazz (up to "Guinea"). Happy listening! Photo credit: Luciano Rossetti.

Presentata lo scorso anno in diversi importanti festival europei (Parigi, Berlino, Guimaraes, Lubiana, Skopje...), Turiya, la celebrazione di Alice Coltrane concepita da Hamid Drake, sabato 25 marzo arriva finalmente anche in Italia, grazie a Bergamo Jazz: per l'occasione Hamid Drake, uno dei più grandi batteristi del jazz contemporaneo e una lunga carriera di assoluto rilievo, è ospite di Jazz Anthology, assieme a Ludmilla Faccenda che ci aiuta nella conversazione, nel nostro auditorium Demetrio Stratos. Hamid Drake ci racconta che cosa hanno rappresentato e continuano a rappresentare per lui - che giovanissimo ebbe occasione di incontrarla - la musica e la spiritualità di Alice Coltrane, come ha creato Turiya - in cui si fondono musica, danza, canto, spoken word - e come ha scelto i performer che ha coinvolto; nell'ultima parte della trasmissione, Hamid Drake ci offre poi in diretta uno splendido esempio di canto legato ad una dimensione spirituale, accompagnandosi con un tamburo a cornice, strumento di cui è un virtuoso.

Dedicato ad Albert Ayler, registrato dal vivo a Berlino nel '93, pubblicato dalla Fmp, etichetta di riferimento dell'improvvisazione europea, Die Like a Dog è un album classico degli anni novanta, con un quartetto che riunisce all'insegna dell'improvvisazione tre continenti: il sassofonista Peter Brotzmann, caposcuola dell'improvvisazione europea, Kondo, giapponese, e gli americani William Parker al contrabbasso e Hamid Drake alla batteria. In queste due puntate troviamo Kondo con la sua tromba in quattro situazioni molto diverse: nell'improvvisazione radicale newyorkese della seconda metà degli anni settanta, nella sua musica elettrica degli anni ottanta-novanta, in Die Like a Dog in cui l'improvvisazione appare più vicina a quella del free jazz storico, e per finire in una situazione ulteriormente diversa, il live Eternal Triangle in trio con Massimo Pupillo, basso ed elettronica, e Tony Buck, batteria. Quattro situazioni che valgono come testimonianze della versatilità di Kondo, del suo talento che è consistito anche nell'essere pertinente, centrato, rispetto a contesti molto differenti. Recentemente pubblicato da I dischi di Angelica, Eternal Triangle è stato registrato nel maggio 2019 a Bologna nell'ambito del festival di Angelica. Kondo è mancato un anno e mezzo dopo, nell'ottobre 2020. Scrive Massimo Pupillo in una nota di copertina: "Non sapevamo certo che quel live sarebbe stato l'ultimo di Toshinori Kondo fuori dal Giappone e il suo ultimo concerto con una band".

Nous recevons 4 messieurs : Christophe Cagnolari et Sekouba Bambino pour le projet Afriquatuors, puis Sorg et Napoleon Maddox pour l'album «Louverture» dédié à Toussaint Louverture. Nos premiers invités sont le musicien Christophe Cagnolari et le chanteur Sekouba Bambino d'Afriquatuors. Vidéo.  Afriquatuors est le tout premier (ou presque) ensemble de musique de chambre dédié aux musiques africaines. Il y résonne l'époque mythique des grands orchestres des 1960-80, quand furent inventés la juju music, la rumba électrique et le soukouss. En confiant à deux quatuors – l'un à cordes, l'autre à vent – l'audacieuse mission de faire groover ces musiques à danser, il s'agit de révéler le potentiel orchestral de ces classiques subsahariens, et de redécouvrir les voix de Ballou Canta, Sam Mangwana ou Sekouba Bambino quand elles se mêlent aux instruments aux instruments classiques européens. Dans cette rencontre, les guitares électriques deviennent pizzicati de violons, les mélismes musicaux mélodies de clarinettes, et les tambours des ports enfumés de la gold-coast caisses de violoncelles. Entre Paris et Brazzaville, Berlin et Lagos, Afriquatuors est une invitation à entrer dans plus qu'une chambre, une philharmonie panafricaines où l'on aurait enfin le droit de monter sur les tables. Titres joués, extraits de l'album d'Afriquatuors - Ballaké, chant Sekouba Bambino - Stabat Mater, chant Tina Kloutse  - Suite Lettre 1, chant Ballou Canta, Sam Mangwana - Amour Madidina, chant Ballou Canta.   ► Album Afriquatuors (Idol/La queue de la comète 2022). Puis nous recevons Sorg & Napoleon Maddox pour la sortie de l'album Louverture.      L'inlassable tandem franco-américain est de retour avec son 2ème album Louverture, un album-concept inspiré par le combat du général haïtien Toussaint Louverture. Voilà presque 10 ans que le rappeur Napoleon Maddox distille son flow aiguisé sur les productions du beatmaker Sorg. Leur 1er morceau Wild West (2013) a été récemment pitché par Netflix dans la série française «Braqueurs». Leur discographie comporte plusieurs EP's, un 1er album «Checkin Us» (2018), et de nombreuses collaborations avec des artistes de renommée tels que Gaël Faye, Hamid Drake, Marc Cary, Dobet Gnahoré, Cheick Tidiane Seck, etc. L'activiste et poète originaire de Cincinnati (Ohio), Napoleon Maddox, leader du groupe IsWhat?! et membre des groupes BadFat et Papanosh s'est récemment installé en France à Besançon, fief du producteur Sorg, notamment remarqué pour son remix de Rone Wave. Il s'agit dans cet opus d'ouvrir les portes de l'histoire, pour explorer et partager la vie de Toussaint Louverture autour des univers du jazz, de l'électro et du hip-hop. Le symbole fort de l'histoire de Louverture, général haïtien noir qui combattit pour les armées révolutionnaires françaises puis contre le rétablissement de l'esclavage avant de finir sa vie au Château de Joux emprisonné par Bonaparte, résonne tout particulièrement dans l'histoire commune des peuples afro-américains. À l'origine, Louverture de Toussaint était un projet de création scénique motivé par la résidence d'artiste associé du chanteur américain à Besançon, soutenu et co-produit par les SMAC La Rodia et Le Moloco. Napoleon Maddox, de son vrai nom, a choisi de s'inspirer de l'histoire du général haïtien pour créer un quartet aux cotés de Sorg, du multi-instrumentiste canado-haïtien Jowee Omicil, et du pianiste malien Cheick Tidiane Seck, finalement suppléé par le jazzman franco-haïtien Carl-Henri Morisset. La première de ce spectacle a eu lieu au Château de Joux sous la fenêtre murée de la cellule où est mort Louverture. Sorg & Napoleon Maddox décident alors d'en faire un album, intitulé sobrement « Louverture », où l'on retrouve les musiciens Jowee Omicil, Carl-Henri Morisset ou encore le rappeur Marc Nammour du groupe La Canaille. Le single et le clip éponyme «Louverture» filmé au Château de Joux, un titre jazzy et savoureux, marque le début de l'album. C'est un voyage dans le temps, avec des sons atmosphériques, qui fait écho avec l'histoire de cet incroyable combattant de la liberté. Titres joués extraits de l'album Louverture - Louverture - The Letter - Trayison Feat. Jowee Omicil - Bones Feat. Marc Nammour. ► Album  Louverture (Sans sucre records/L'Autre Distribution 2022).

"You inspire us to work hard to improve the service we do for the music community." In this episode of MFM Speaks Out, Dawoud Kringle offers a retrospective of the progress of the MFM Speaks Out podcast in 2022. The guests mentioned, and / or whose music was included, include Ken Butler, Ariel Hyatt, Neel Murgai, Banning Eyre, Baba Don Eaton Babatunde, William Parker, Bruce Lee Gallanter, Jeff Slatnick, Hubert Howe, and April Centrone.The progress and accomplishments of MFM as a whole during the year 2022 were also briefly discussed. Topics discussed:Our guest for episode 35 in January was musician, experimental musical instrument builder, and visual artist Ken Butler. He builds hybrid musical instruments and other artworks that explore the interaction and transformation of common and uncommon objects, altered images, sounds and silence.He is internationally recognized as an innovator of experimental musical instruments created from diverse materials including tools, sports equipment, and household objects.February's episode 36 featured Ariel Hyatt. Ariel is a digital marketer, writer, and teacher who assists independent musicians in career development. She is the author of Music Success in 9 Weeks, Cyber PR For Musicians, Crowdstart, and other books. Hyatt worked at New York City's WNEW-FM, and the What Are Records? record label. She moved to Boulder CO, where she managed and handled publicity for the funk band, Lord of Word. She is also the founder and owner of the New York-based public relations firm Cyber PR. Her clients included the Toasters and George Clinton.Neel Murgai was our 37th guest in March. Neel is a sitarist, overtone singer, percussionist, composer, teacher, and Co-Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Raga Massive, a raga inspired musician's collective.Banning Eyre is a writer, guitarist and producer, and the senior editor and producer of the public radio program Afropop Worldwide.  He has traveled and done music research in over 20 African countries, as well as in the Caribbean, South America and Europe. His latest initiative is the launch of Lion Songs Records, an independent label dedicated to uplifting overlooked, mostly acoustic music from the African universe. He is the author of several books, and the co-author of AFROPOP! An Illustrated Guide to Contemporary African Music. Eyre is a contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and his writing has been published in Billboard, Guitar Player, Salon, the Boston Phoenix, College Music Journal, Option, The Beat, Folk Roots, Global Rhythm, and other publications. He also has a background in technology, and worked for 10 years as a software technical writer. Eyre is also on the Advisory Committee of Musicians for Musicians.  Baba Don Eaton Babatunde. He is a percussionist and master of African Drumming and the rhythms of the African Diaspora in the Americas. Baba Don has performed and recorded with Abidun Oyewole and The Last Poets, Pattie Labelle, Joe Henderson, Donald Brown, Jason Linder, Tyrone Jefferson, Tevin Thomas, James Spaulding, Ron Carter, George Clinton, Pharaoh Sanders, the Metropolitan Orchestra, Bill Laswell, and Philycia Rashadto name a few. His work with dance companies and choreographers includes The Dance Theatre of Harlem, Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, Maurice Hines, Gregory Hines, Andy Williams, Chuck Davis Dance theatre, Frank Hatchet, Geoffrey Holder, Louis Johnson, and Pyramid Dance Company.Episode 40 featured free jazz bass master William Parker. He has also performed and recorded with Cecil Taylor, Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey, John Zorn, Hamid Drake, Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves, Oliver Lake, Daniel Carter, Billy Bang, Andrew Cyrille, Matthew Shipp, Roy Campbell, Warren Smith, Joe McPhee, Roscoe Mitchell, Jemeel Moondoc, Joe Morris, Steve Swell, David S. Ware, Leena Conquest, and many others. He was the leader of the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra and In Order to Survive, a member of the Other Dimensions in Music cooperative, and co-founder of the musician's non-profit organization Arts For Art. Our guest for episode 41 was Bruce Lee Gallanter, the owner and proprietor of Downtown Music Gallery (DMG), a Manhattan based music store that specializes in new, used, hard to find, and out of print CDs, Vinyl, DVDs, and books. DMG was started in 1991 by David Yamner & Steve Popkin, with Gallanter working for the store. They remained in their first location on east 4th street in Manhattan for 12 years until 2003, and started having weekly free concerts, an idea that Gallanter had started with Manny Maris when they worked at Lunch For Your Ears. Gallanter became the owner in 1997. Around the time. he and Emperor Mike started the DMG newsletter, In 2003, they moved into a new store on the Bowery, not far from St. Marks Place, Tower Records, and Other Music.Jeff Slatnick was our 42nd guest. Jeff has been an employee and later the owner of Music Inn for over 54 years. Music Inn is one of the oldest music stores in New York City (second in longevity only to Sam Ash). It is a landmark music store in the West Village of NYC specializing in imported world and western instruments, rare and exotic music items, and records. Music Inn has been described as “a museum, rich with music history from around the world.” Music Inn is also the headquarters of Limulus, a company that designs and manufactures unique solid body string instruments. Hubert Howe graced the annals of our podcast as our 43rd guest. Hubert was one of the first researchers in computer music, and became Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music studios at Queens College in New York, where he was also Director of the Aaron Copland School of Music from 1989 to 1998, 2001 to 2002, and Autumn 2007. He taught at the Juilliard School from 1974 through 1994. In 1988-89 he held the Endowed Chair in Music at the University of Alabama. He has been a member of the Society of Composers, Inc. , President of the US section of the League of Composers / International Society of Contemporary Music, a member of the International Computer Music Association, and directed the International Computer Music Conference at Queens College, a member of Society for Electro-Acoustic Music, a member of BMI, and the American Composers Alliance since 1974 and served as their President from 2002 to 2011. He is a member of the New York Composer's Circle and has served as Executive Director since 2013. In 2009, he founded the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, and he continues as Director.Our final guest for for 2022 was April Centrone. April Centrone is a multi-instrumentalist (specialising in the riqq, darbuka, frame drum, trap drum, and oud), co-founder of the New York Arabic Orchestra, teacher, composer, film producer and director, and music therapist. She is a Carnegie Hall World Explorer musician and educator, business owner and founder of 10PRL, arts/film/event space on the Jersey Shore. Shehas performed in venues such as the United Nations, NYC Opera House, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and has toured throughout Europe, the Americas, Middle East and Far East.Music on this episode:"Aurora" by Adam Reifsteck / Sonic Fear"Building a Desert Blizzard" by Ken Butler"Bagheshri Unbound" by Neel Murgai"Today is a New Day" by Voyagers"25 Years" by Abiodun Oyewole, featurning Baba Don Eaton"Give Me Back My Drum" by William Parker"Warm Arms to Hold You" by Dawoud the Renegade Sufi (a.k.a. Dawoud Kringle)"Inharmonic Fantasy No. 7" by Hubert Howe"New Moon" by April Centrone"Welcome New Iran" by SoSaLa (a.k.a. Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi)(All music used by permission)

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Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show. COLIN STETSON Colin Stetson was born and raised in Ann Arbor, spent a decade in San Francisco and Brooklyn honing his formidable talents as a horn player, eventually settling in Montreal in 2007. Over the years he has worked extensively, live and in studio, with a wide range of bands and musicians including Tom Waits, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, TV On The Radio, Feist, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Bill Laswell, Evan Parker, The Chemical Brothers, Animal Collective, Hamid Drake, LCD Soundsystem, The National, Angelique Kidjo, Fink, and David Gilmore. Meanwhile he has developed an utterly unique voice as a soloist, principally on saxophones and clarinets, his intense technical prowess matched by his exhilarating and emotionally gripping skills as a songwriter. Stetson's astounding physical engagement with his instruments (chiefly bass and alto saxophones) produces emotionally rich and polyphonic compositions that transcend expectations of what solo horn playing can sound like. Stemming from that approach and aesthetic, he has been contributing regularly to the world of film, TV, and game scoring over the past decade with such titles as Hereditary (2018), The First (2018), Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018), Color Out of Space (2019), Barkskins (2020), Mayday (2021), Among The Stars (2021), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022), The Menu (2022), and Uzumaki (2023). TIMOTHY WILLIAMS Timothy Williams is a multi-award-winning composer best known for his work on Pearl, Finding You, Brightburn, and Get Out! Williams' films includes A24's Pearl, co-scored with Tyler Bates, Gravitas' The Swearing Jar, Roadside Attractions' Finding You, Screen Gems' Brightburn, directed by David Yarovesky, We Summon The Darkness, directed by Marc Meyers, which won best score award at ScreamfestLA; Wild Horses, directed by Robert Duvall; I.T., directed by John Moore, and Red Sky, for which Tim Williams was nominated Best Composer by Motion Picture Sound Editors and best score at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards. Williams has written additional music for the Academy Award® and Golden Globe® winner Get Out!, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, Hobbs and Shaw, Deadpool 2, 300, Watchmen, Super, Sucker Punch, and The Spy Who Dumped Me. Television work includes co-scoring AMC/Shudder Creepshow with Tyler Bates, Disney Junior's Piney, the Fox pilot Richard Lovely, and additional music on Fox's The Exorcist (S2), ABC's Missing and Comedy Network's Sym-Bionic Titan. A graduate of the National Film and Television School, Williams has received two Motion Picture SE Golden Reel Award nominations (Red Sky), four Thea Award wins, 10 ASCAP Plus Awards and won best score at the 24FPS Festival (Butterfly Circus), best score at ScreamfestLA 2019 (We Summon The Darkness) and best soundtrack nomination at the HMMA Awards (Red Sky). Tim has had multiple soundtracks released by Milan Records, Lakeshore Records, Varèse Sarabande and MovieScore Media.

NEW Slimmed down COB (2 hours weekly): This week: Donald Smith; Tausi Women's Taraab Orchestra; Szilárd Mezei Vocal Ensemble; Kendang Kempul Modern; Rita Abatsi; S. Sowmya; Khjaled Turki; Radha Jayalakshmi; Alhaji Waziri Oshomah; Hamid Drake and Bindu; Frank Mimita; Amanda Cabral; much more... Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program on WRFI at our new time Sundays 7:00-9:00PM (New York time) or tomstream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online: via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/ via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. PLAYLISTS at SPINITRON: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/16068975/Conference-of-the-Birds and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/  We will continue to update playlists at confbirds.blogspot.com 24-48 hours of the program's posting  online. Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR Contact: confbirds@gmail.com

"Music is Defined as Anything that is Beautiful, and What Makes Something Beautiful is Music"Our guest for this episode of MFM Speaks Out is free jazz bass master William Parker. Parker was born in the Bronx, New York City, and grew up in the Melrose housing project. His first instruments were the trumpet, trombone and cello. Parker had no formal training as a classical player, but in his youth studied with Jimmy Garrison, Richard Davis and Wilbur Ware.In the 1980s, he first came to public attention playing with Cecil Taylor. He has also performed and recorded with Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey, John Zorn, Hamid Drake, Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves, Oliver Lake, Daniel Carter, Billy Bang, Andrew Cyrille, Matthew Shipp, Roy Campbell, Warren Smith, Joe McPhee, Roscoe Mitchell, Jemeel Moondoc, Joe Morris, Steve Swell, David S. Ware, Leena Conquest, and many others. He also led several groups, such as the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra and In Order to Survive.His discography is extensive, with dozens of albums as a leader and co-leader, and with the aforementioned artists. They received very favorable reviews from publications such as Downbeat, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, Parker is a prominent musician in the New York City experimental jazz scene, where he leads a number of groups and is associated with the Vision Festival, organized by his wife, dancer / choreographer Patricia Nicholson. He is also a member of the Other Dimensions in Music cooperative, and co-founder of the musician's non-profit organization Arts For Art. He has performed at many prestigious venues and music festivals around the world. In addition to double bass, Parker also plays trumpet, tuba, bamboo flutes, shakuhachi, flute, double reeds, Kora, gembri, and donso ngoni.In 2006, Parker was awarded the Resounding Vision Award from Nameless Sound. In March 2007, his book of political thoughts, poems, and musicological essays, Who Owns Music?, was published by Buddy's Knife Jazzedition in Cologne, Germany.  In June 2011, Parker's second book, Conversations, a collection of interviews with notable free jazz musicians and forward thinkers, mainly from the African-American community, was published by RogueArt. Parker is frequently noted for his community dedication, mentorship, and status as "unofficial mayor of the New York improvisational scene." The Village Voice named him "the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time" and Downbeat has called him "one of the most adventurous and prolific bandleaders in jazz."Topics discussed:His beginnings as a musician and what led him to free jazz, his work with Cecil Taylor, Roy Campbell, Hamid Drake, Jimmy Garrison, and many others, his work and long association with Arts for Art (AFA), the Vision Festival, the Other Dimensions in Music Cooperative, AFA's kinship with other musician's organizations, his thoughts on hip hop, social media, and modern music technology, racism in America, the spiritual essence of music (especially free / improvised music), the future of free jazz, and his experience, thoughts, and advice about the political and economic climate of the the music business.Music on this episode:"Give Me Back My Drum""It's A Great Day to Be Dead""Canyons of Light"All Music by William Parker

"Everybody Takes You Just Take More" by Holy Scum from Strange Desires; "Marwees" by Automatisme and Stefan Paulus from Gap Void; "Coca Cola Blues" by The Holydrug Couple from SBXV Todo Muere; "Where They Found It" by Adam Shepherd from Live from the O Horizon; "The Place" by MONO from My Story, The Buraku Story; "Hypnagogic City Tour" by Acid Twilight from Mustang Zodiac; "Erased" by Ty Segall from Harmonizer; "Astral Walk" by Brandon Coleman featuring Keyon Harrold, Ben Williams and Marcus Gilmore from Interstellar Black Space; "SHTWRLDS (Certification)" by Jeff McLeod from SHTWRLDS; The title track from From the River to the Ocean by Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake.

Much the way Marc Maron is late to the party when it comes to appreciating Seth Putnam's vast oeuvre, I have been late to the party when it comes to contracting you-know-what. I was not, however, about to let omicron ba.2 prevent me from completing episode 102 of this program, and if you think I'm the sort of person who is above milking this scenario in order to ensure a few extra listeners, you clearly don't know me at all (in fact, I think it's fair to say you're not only late for the party but you've arrived after the punishers / things-that-wouldn't leave have up and left).This week's show features new stuff from Blackhaine, Warthog, Michael Morley, Aaron Turner, Devin Brahja Waldman & Hamid Drake, Ale Hop (with Raul Jardin and Sukitoa o Namu) and for the second time in a month includes something from from someone on the Institute family tree (the stump, if you will). That probably won't happen a third time this month but who can really say what the future holds (I could hazard a guess but I'm petty enough to milk the suspense. By any means necessary / whatever it takes in the online radio game.

In this episode Guadelupe meets Nigeria; Japan & Italy meet Brazil; Germany meets South Korea; and many more transnational encounters from the Global Jazz Village. The playlist features Magic Malik; Michael Blake; Kansas Smitty's; David Murray, Brad Jones, Hamid Drake; Jun Miyake; Potsa Lotsa Xl, Youjin Sung; Yu Nishiyama; Tommaso Moretti, Ben Lamar Gay; Chiara Izzi, Andrea Rea. Detailed playlist at https://spinitron.com/RFB/pl/15927214/Mondo-Jazz (up to "Samba in Preludio") Happy listening!

..Nell'ultima puntata del nostro omaggio - attraverso gli album pubblicati dalla intakt - a Irene Schweizer per i suoi ottant'anni, consideriamo uno degli esempi del suo piano-solo, l'album Many and One Direction, registrato nel '96 (numero di catalogo 044); tocchiamo il suo sodalizio con la sassofonista svizzera Co Streiff, con l'album Twin Lines, registrato fra il '99 e il 2000 (numero 073); con l'album Willisau and Taktlos (con il sassofonista Fred Anderson e il batterista Hamid Drake) ricordiamo l'interesse di Irene Schweizer alla collaborazione con musicisti dell'avanguardia afroamericana (numero 104); e segnaliamo la continuità della sua passione per la formula del duo con batteristi con il secondo dei tre album con Pierre Favre, registrato nel 2003 (numero 084), e con il più recente album della Schweizer pubblicato dalla Intakt, il duo con Hamid Drake intitolato Celebration, registrato dal vivo al festival austriaco di Nickelsdorf nel 2019 e pubblicato quest'anno (numero 363).

Dalla Gran Bretagna e dall'anno prima della pandemia due novità che testimoniano della vitalità dell'ambito della free music. Riferimento a Londra per il jazz d'avanguardia e la musica improvvisata, il Café Oto ha anche una attività discografica, con l'etichetta Otoroku; in due cd di circa 50 minuti ciascuno Some Good News documenta una serata al Café Oto del luglio 2019 con l'intenso flusso senza soluzione di continuità dell'improvvisazione di Orphy Robinson, marimba ed elettronica, Pat Thomas, piano ed elettronica, William Parker, contrabbasso e altri strumenti, Hamid Drake, percussioni, e della vocalist Elaine Mitchener. La Cadillac è una etichetta con una storia gloriosa e ormai antica, che dopo la morte del leggendario John Jack che l'aveva fondata nel 1973 è stata presa in mano da Mike Gavin, che sta facendo un eccellente lavoro con ristampe del catalogo storico, inediti provenienti dall'archivio (si veda la puntata di Jazz Anthology dell'ottobre 2018 dedicata a The Last Night at the Old Place, di Mike Westbrook) e nuove incisioni; nel giugno 2019 Evan Parker ha tenuto con Alexander Hawkins al piano, John Edwards al contrabbasso e Paul Lytton alla batteria uno dei suoi appuntamenti mensili al Vortex, altro club londinese di riferimento, e il giorno dopo con questo eccellente quartetto - con cui è al sax tenore - ha inciso questo album, che poi, ormai in tempi di pandemia, ha preso come titolo All Knavery and Collusion, ispirato dal Diario dell'anno della peste di Defoe.

Angelica è una rassegna bolognese che da trent'anni in primavera propone un ampio cartellone dedicato a forme molto varie di avanguardia musicale. Già in passato Angelica ha pubblicato degli album, ma adesso la sua attività discografica sembra aver innestato un'altra marcia, con una nutrita serie di uscite e - forte di un archivio di registrazioni che testimonia della qualità della sua programmazione - con un livello molto alto delle proposte. Apriamo la puntata con un doppio cd prezioso per più di un motivo: At Angelica 2000 Bologna di Cecil Taylor, che documenta il solo dello straordinario pianista afroamericano nel 2000, ma anche la rara conversazione in pubblico alla quale Taylor si era concesso nella stessa occasione, di cui viene fornita la registrazione corredata di minuziosa trascrizione in inglese con traduzione in italiano. Passiamo in rassegna poi due album di due maestri afroamericani del post-free: il Duo (2018) del sassofonista Anthony Braxton con l'arpista Jacqueline Kerrod, e Splatter di Roscoe Mitchell, che presenta due esibizioni del 2017 di Mitchell, una delle quali con l'Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna; e due di due capiscuola della free music europea: Rituals of Transition del compianto Misha Mengelberg (piano solo in diverse occasioni nel nuovo millennio, fra cui Bologna 2002), e The Catch of A Ghost cointestato al sassofonista tedesco Peter Brotzmann, al marocchino Moukhtar Gania e al chicagoano Hamid Drake, e registrato ad Angelica nel 2019.

Composer, poet, activist, organizer, author, educator, bandleader, and one of the world's most celebrated jazz and new music bass players tells the tale richly illustrated with concert excerpts dating to 1990. Projects and people featured here include: Hamid Drake, Conrad Bauer, Roy Campell, Rob Brown, Jackson Krall, Matthew Shipp, Organic Orchestra, Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, and dozens more in the ensembles. Find the full concert recordings at roulette.org/archive.

Welcome to the completely re-imagined bonus show for members of The Jazz Session! I'm really happy with how this turned out, and this is the general smorgasbord format I'll be using going forward. This episode is going out on the main feed, too, as a means of encouraging YOU to support The Jazz Session. In this episode: Dan Rubright reviews his Winter JazzFest experience, including sets featuring: Matthew Stevens, Aaron Parks, Tommy Crane, Taylor Eigsti, Carmen Staaf, Jenny Scheinman, Allison Miller, Mathias Eick, Dave Liebman, Adam Rudolph, Hamid Drake, and more. Dan also gives a few tips for folks who want to catch the festival in 2020. In an extra segment not heard on TJS #472, bassist Tim Lefebvre talks about some of the many projects he's involved with as both a player and producer, and also about the role of a producer in the modern era. And finally I talk about Samm Henshaw, a British soul singer who's on heavy rotation in my house these days.

Welcome to the completely re-imagined bonus show for members of The Jazz Session! I'm really happy with how this turned out, and this is the general smorgasbord format I'll be using going forward. This episode is going out on the main feed, too, as a means of encouraging YOU to support The Jazz Session. In this episode: Dan Rubright reviews his Winter JazzFest experience, including sets featuring: Matthew Stevens, Aaron Parks, Tommy Crane, Taylor Eigsti, Carmen Staaf, Jenny Scheinman, Allison Miller, Mathias Eick, Dave Liebman, Adam Rudolph, Hamid Drake, and more. Dan also gives a few tips for folks who want to catch the festival in 2020. In an extra segment not heard on TJS #472, bassist Tim Lefebvre talks about some of the many projects he's involved with as both a player and producer, and also about the role of a producer in the modern era. And finally I talk about Samm Henshaw, a British soul singer who's on heavy rotation in my house these days.