January 25, 2024 #1344

Genre-stretching albums dot this episode’s playlist that should evoke some deep thinking. Vocalist Amirtha Kidambi and her Elder Ones band espouse protest and change in their music, heightened by the George Floyd murder in 2020. The Ewart/Asplin/Ricks Trio, featuring AACM master reedist and sometimes poet, Douglas Ewart, combine free improvisation, Continue Reading

January 18, 2024 #1343

Highlight tracks in this edition include tuba master Joseph Daley’s second volume of his “Tuba Chronicles”, a similar second volume of “Causa Y Effecto” by drummer Francisco Mela and saxophonist/flautist Zoh Amba, pianist Eva Novoa’s new trio with bassist Drew Gress and drummer Devin Gray, and Quiet Tree, a trio Continue Reading

January 11, 2024 #1342

As usual, this week’s edition of One Man’s Jazz has some interesting new albums to introduce. James Brandon Lewis is one of the most in-demand, most popular saxophonists on the planet with frequent new releases coming out. Orientation Of We is a quartet of Lewis, trumpeter Michael Irwin, bassist Max Continue Reading