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Drummer Kate Gentile’s new “Find Letter X” is inventive, powerful and forward-thinking – definitely one of the best releases of 2023 – and it’s one of the featured releases in this edition of One Man’s Jazz. English pianist Jasper Hoiby of Phronesis fame returns to the piano trio for a Continue Reading

Master saxophonist Oliver Lake has retired from playing (due to health reasons) but we can thank the saxophone gods that he was back in 2017 at a live gig in Luna, Sweden. Lake met Swedish pianist Mathias Landaeus and Danish drummer Kresten Osgood for a riveting spontaneous performance. The resulting Continue Reading

The music of Ornette Coleman continues to be a kind of Mt. Everest for saxophonists, and New York’s Ohad Talmor climbs the mountain on his new “Back To The Land”. Backed by an excellent band, his new album tackles Talmor’s arrangements of unreleased music from a rehearsal recording in the Continue Reading