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Josh Levinson Sextet: Chauncey Street
Living for post-bop: File him with your oldschool favorites.
2012-03-19

Johnathan Blake: The Eleventh Hour
Not just any drummer: A tight, slick, prog-bopping urban-sang-froid.
2012-03-12

15 Questions to Sunna Gunnlaugs
It’s hard to imagine the kind of music that might emerge from someone who was raised in the isolated and glacial winters of Iceland and educated in the hustle and heat of New York City. It’s even harder to imagine ...
2012-03-08

2012

February

Undivided: Moves Between Clouds – Live in Warsaw

Yelena Eckemoff: Flying Steps

January

Dead Cat Bounce: Chance Episodes

Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones: Metamanoir

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The Rhys Anslow Project: Baby Steps

Benji Kaplan: Meditacoes no Violao

2011

December

Mike Longo Trio + 2: To My Surprise

Martin Moretto: Martin Moretto Quintet

Mats Eilertsen: Skydive

Neil Leonard: Marcel’s Window

November

Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Shoot!

Dark Loft: Dark Loft

Vince Mendoza: Nights on Earth

October

Scanner + David Rothenberg: You Can’t Get There From Here

Interview with Fjordne

Obadiah Parker: The Siren and the Saint

Duda Lucena: Live

September

The Bebop Trio: The Bebop Trio

August

Brains: Gristle and Skins

Mike Prigodich: A Stitch In Time

July

Andréa Wood: Dhyāna

June

Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society: Grass on Fire

Hammeriver: Hammeriver

Colorlist: The Fastest Way To Become The Ocean

Orchestre National de Jazz: Shut Up and Dance

Curtis Macdonald: Community Immunity

May

Steven Lugerner Septet: Narratives/ These Are the Words

Yellowjackets: Timeline

April

Soren Moller: Christian X Variations

Interview with Robert Miles

March

Todd Clouser: A Love Electric

Tytingvåg Ensemble: Let Go Instrumentals

Donny McCaslin: Perpetual Motion

Ben Kono: Crossing

January

15 Questions to E. Ryan Goodman

E. Ryan Goodman: Halves

Tupolev: Tower of Sparks

Jerome Sabbagh: I Will Follow You

Mouse on the Keys: Playing about architecture

Sameer Gupta: Namaskar

2010

December

Taylor Eigsti: Daylight at Midnight

Tommy Babin's Benzene: Your Body is Your Prison

Karl Seglem: Ossicles

Brandi Disterheft: Second Side

November

Interview with Karl Seglem

Interview with Lily Taylor

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Interview with Russ Sargeant

October

Jonathan Butler: So Strong

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Ex-Wise Heads: Celestial Disclosure

Glen Ackerman: The Glenious Inner Planet

September

Taal Tantra Experience: Sixth Sense

Festival Report/ Echtzeitmusiktage 2010 Part 2

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Interview with iambic

Cochemea Gastelum: The Electric Sound Of Johnny Arrow

Haruka Nakamura: Twilight

August

Jeffrey Roden: Bridge to the Other Place

Shigeto: Grandma's Words and Chili Paste

July

Interview with the Chicago Odense Ensemble

Interview with Nate Wooley

André Müller: Andremu

Interview with Philippe Petit

Roberto Badoglio: Re-Evaluation-Time

June

Daniel Schnyder: Worlds Beyond Faust

Maria Neckam: Deeper

Interview Haruka Nakamura

Concert Review/ Caspar Brötzmann Massaker

Dave Glasser: Evolution

May

Pablo Held: Music

Nels Cline Singers: Initiate

Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose: Bridge Carols

Shigeto: Semi-Circle EP

March

Concert Review/ Pat Metheny & Orchestrion

Soren Moller & Dick Oatts: "The Clouds Above"

February

Antonio Ciacca Quintet & Steve Grossman: "Lagos Blues"

Gabriel Riesco Project: "Sculptures in Time"

Marc Hannaford: "Polar"

January

Tony Wilson Sextet: "The People Look Like Flowers At Last"

James Moody: „Moody 4A“

Eddie the Rat: "Food for the Moon Too Soon"

2009

December

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Interview with Clang Sayne

November

Jamie Craig: "Illumination"

Leimgruber/Lehn: "Lausanne"

October

Drip Audio: "A very, very, very sad time"

Supersilent: "9" a Moog-trialogue

Concert Review/ Moritz von Oswald Trio

September

Count Basie Orchestra: "Swinging Singing Playing"

Workbench Recordings: Progressive Online Label for Folk & Jazz

Edmar Castaneda: "Entre Cuerdas"

Giuseppe Ieleasi: "(another) Stunt"

August

Harry Skoler: "Two Ones"

15 Questions to John Lindberg/ String Trio of New York

Charnett Moffett: "Art of Improvisation"

July

Interview with Capillary Action

CD Feature/ Sean Nowell: "The Seeker"

CD Feature/ Kyle Eastwood: "Metropolitain"

June

CD Feature/ Tortoise: "Beacons of Ancestorship"

CD Feature/ Irene: "A Song for You"; Sophie Duner: "The City of My Dreams" & "The Rain in Spain"; Ruby Ruby Ruby: "The Shadow of Your Smile"

Concert Review/ The Necks

May

Concert Review/ SpokFrevo Orquestra

Concert Review/ Elephant9

CD Feature/ Mitch Marcus Quintet: "The Special"

Concert Review/ The Necks

Net Feature/ Wang Changcun: "The Klone Concerts"

April

CD Feature/ Branford Marsalis: "Metamorphosen"

CD Feature/ The Sea and Cake: "Car Alarm"

CD Feature/ POW Ensemble: "Homage To Hazard Live, Amsterdam 2008"

CD Feature/ Hugh Masekela: "Phola"

CD Feature/ Rent Romus: "Grid"; "You Can Sleep..."; "Prismatic Season"; "Thundershine"; "Slap"

March

Review/ Le Housetear: "Course de Danse"

Review/ Santiago Salazar: "Arcade"

CD Feature/ The Peggy Lee Band: "New Code"

CD Feature/ Tom James Scott: "School & Rivers"

CD Feature/ Alif Tree: "Clockwork"

CD Feature/ Bruno Råberg: "Lifelines"

February

CD Feature/ ICP Orchestra: "Live At The Bimhuis"

CD Feature/ Giuseppe Ielasi: "Aix"

CD Feature/ Jim McAuley: "The Ultimate Frog"

E. Ryan Goodman: Plain Moody Playing

Samarkande: Oblivious to the future

CD Feature/ Shahrokh: "Dripping Point"

Erik Friedlander: Overtaken by Memories

January

CD Feature/ Ensemble Phorminx: "Dal Niente"; The Epicureans: "Introducing"

CD Feature/ E. Ryan Goodman: "Under the Lamp"; James Beaudreau: "Fresh Twigs"

CD Feature/ Zeitkratzer with Carsten Nicolai, Terre Thaemlitz, Keiji Haino: "Electronics"

2008

December

CD Feature/ Monno: "Ghosts"

CD Feature/ Stardelay: "A New High-Fidelity Tripout"

15 Questions to Li Tieqiao

15 Questions to Thurman Barker

November

CD Feature/ Bill Evans Trio: "Sunday at the Village Vanguard"

Andrey Kiritchenko: 'Misterrious' Jazz on Spekk

Crouton Music: The End after a Decade of Audivisual Greatness

Chillumination: The Downbeat Revolution is coming Home

CD Feature/ Terminal Sound System: "Constructing Towers"

CD Feature/ Maninkari: "Art Des Poussieres”

Anatrofobia: 'Brevi Momenti di Presenza' continues the Osmosis

CD Feature/ "Blue" Gene Tyranny: "The Somewhere Songs/ The Invention of Memory"

Greg Kelley: Self-Hate Index needs no extended-extended Techniques

October

CD Feature/ Chris Pugh & Jack Gold: "Penumbra/Heqat"; Ghidra: "The Sound of Speed"; D.B.H.: "Wave the Old Wave"

CD Feature/ Bohren & Der Club of Gore: "Dolores"

Anthony Pateras: Tours with The Necks

Huntsville: Eco, Arches & Eras shows Janus Face

CD Feature/ Zavoloka: "Viter"

Musical Cities of the World: Beijing

September

CD Feature/ Jason Robinson: "Fingerprints"; Initial Conditions: "s/t"; Rick Helzer & John Stowell: "Friendship and Remembrance"

Tortoise: TNT Red-Hot Vinyl Repressing

CD Feature/ Ex-P: "Ancora Saigon" & "Carpaccio Existenziale"; I/O: "Polytone"

Review/ Don Caballero: "Punkgasm"

Review/ Dynamite Club: "Fusion Era"

CD Feature/ Tito Puente and His Orchestra: “Live at the 1977 Monterey Jazz Festival"

15 Questions to Cem Güney

August

Vassilis Tsabropoulos & Anja Lechner: "Melos" offers polychromatic music on ECM

Li Tie Qiao: Returns to China's Improvisational Heart

Review/ Treponem Pal: "Weird Machine"

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Richard Barbieri: Stranger Inside, Deep Moods Outside

Marialy Pacheco: "Mi Azul" presents a Cuban kind of blue

Jair-Rohm Parker Wells: Brotherly Love & Big World Poetry

Issa Bagayogo: Mali Koura blends Electronica with African Roots

July

CD Feature/ Aidan Baker & Jakob Thiesen: "A Bout de Souffle"

CD Feature/ Jean-Luc Guionnet & Toshimaru Nakamura: "Map"

Helge Lien Trio: Hello Troll! Hello Award!

CD Feature/ Jon Regen: "Let It Go"

CD Feature/ Christian Weber: "Wacheturm Solo"

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Miles Davis: "Round about Midnight" returns on Vinyl

June

Thor's Rubber Hammer: Celebrate Noisy Improvisation on “Ecstatic Jazz Duos”

Roam the Hello Clouds: Free Electro-Jazz Textures at ABC Australia

CD Feature/ Tanake: "3ree"

May

CD Feature/ Poolplayers: "Way Below the Surface"

CD Feature/ Liar's Rosebush: "Circle the Squares"

15 Questions to Mark O'Leary

April

CD Feature/ Bill Laswell & Fanu: "Lodge"

Bullock, Coleman, Gross & Roden: Challenge $2.2 Million Work of Art

Toshimaru Nakamura: Learns English in "One Day"

CD Feature/ Thelonious Monk "Brilliant Corners – Keepnews Collection "

15 Questions to Maninkari

Anthony Braxton: Ghost Trance Music explained

Frivolous: Finds his Island of Sanctity

March

Net Feature/ Hans Carstens: "Aeroplane EP"

CD Feature/ Tangria Jazz Group: "Tangria Jazz Group"

CD Feature/ V.A.: "Signal to Noise Vol. 5"

CD Feature/ V.A.: "Signal to Noise Vol. 4"

February

CD Feature/ V.A.: "Monterey Jazz Festival: 50th Anniversary All-Stars"

CD Feature/ Jose Luis Redondo: "La reponse est aux pieds"

Bill Laswell & Fanu: Enter the "Lodge" at Karlrecords

CD Feature/ Kioku: "Both Far and Near"

James Beaudreau: Recording Session Revelations

January

CD Feature/ Valerie Joyce: "The Look of Love"

CD Feature/ Mersault: “Raymond & Marie”

Crouton Music: An Improvised Music Hub

2007

December

CD Feature/ C.O.M.A.: "Ornamental Urban Shrubbery"

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Between Silence 2

CD Feature/ Professor Nineteen: "Diversity of Flowers"

CD Feature/ McCoy Tyner: "Afro Blue"

November

CD Feature/ Marcos Fernandes & Bill Horist: "Jerks and Creeps"

CD Feature/ M. Baron, B. Denzler, J-L Guionnet, S. Rives: "Propagations"

CD Feature/ Tom Heasley & Toss Panos: "Passages"

October

CD Feature/ "F.S. Blumm meets Luca Fadda"

CD Feature/ Robert Vincs: "Devic Kingdom"

CD Feature/ Marc Hannaford: "The Garden of Forking Paths"

September

CD Feature/ 3Banditos: "Sympathy for the Donkey"

CD Feature/ Robert Anbian & The Unidentified Flying Quartet: "s/t"

August

Blowing the Horn

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Square Pusher: Tom Jenkinson Solo Bass Shows

Interview with Jair-Röhm Parker Wells/Luther Thomas/Tony Bianco

July

CD Feature/ Jake Playmo: "My Favourite Toys"

Interview with Sara Gazarek

June

15 Questions to Neil Haverstick/Stick Man

CD Feature/ Karl Seglem: "Urbs"

Signal Quintet: North American Tour a success

May

CD Feature/ Jim Ryan's Forward Energy: "FE3 Portland" & "FE3 Oakland"

CD Feature/ Agusti Martinez: "Are Spirits what I hear?"

CD Feature/ Michael Dessen: "Lineal"

CD Feature/ brekekekexkoaxkoax: "We used to be such good friends"

CD Feature/ If, Bwana: "Rex Xhu Ping"

CD Feature/ Marcos Fernandes & Mike Pride: "A Mountain is a Mammal"

April

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CD Feature/ V.A.: "The Sound 1"

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CD Feature/ Mad EP: "The Madlands Trilogy"

March

15 Questions to Jim Mcauley

CD Feature/ ARC Trio: "Triptych Mirror"

CD Feature/ Dave Brubeck, Anthony & Joseph Paratore: "Points on Jazz"

February

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CD Feature/ Cross Border Trio: "New Directions"

15 Questions to Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells

CD Feature/ Rent Romus' Lords of Outland: "Culture of Pain"

January

CD Feature/ Joseph Benzola: "Winter in America"

15 Questions to James Beaudreau

CD Feature/ Edoardo Ricci & Thollem Mcdonas: " SONOCONTENTODISTAREQUA"

2006

October

CD Feature/ Joseph Benzola: "Crippled Symmetry"

September

CD Feature/ James Beaudreau: "Java St. Bagatelles"

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CD Feature/ Pete Alderton: "Living on Love"

July

15 Questions to Iiro Rantala / Trio Töykeät

June

CD Feature/ Hands on Strings: "Offroad"

15 Questions to Rent Romus

May

Diaz-Infante / Fernandes / Montoya / Romus: "Reverberations from Spring Past"

2005

October

CD Feature/ Henschkeschlott: "Cafe Thiossane"