Featured this week are new releases from Germany (drummer Joe Hertenstein’s Future Drone, the Blumer-Morgenthaler Quartet, & the Schlippenbach-Walsdorff Quartet) and a preview of bass clarinetist Ziv Taubenfeld’s November release, “Song Of The Weeds” with his fellow Lisbon residents. There’s a track from Satoko Fujii’s Orchestra Nagoya, another of her Continue Reading
September 17, 2026 #1479
The deep creative music scene in Germany reaches out to many artists, and three of the new releases in this week’s show have a Berlin reference point. Saxophonist Camila Nebbia makes that city her home base now; her new “Limbo” features a strong quintet whose members, like the native of Continue Reading
September 10, 2026 #1478
SEPTEMBER 10, 2026 #1478 Bassist Stephan Crump began looking at bird’s nesting practices after being asked if he was enjoying being an empty-nester since his two boys were not home anymore; that led to his new and striking album, “Passerine”. The master trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith was guided Continue Reading