February 19, 2026 #1450 Golden moments happen on a new recording called “Hz of Gold”, recently released by drummer Devin Gray, saxophonist Frank Gratkowski & multi-instrumentalist Andrea Parkins. They have been meeting a couple of times each year to create highly charged free improvisational music. This 2021 session captures the Continue Reading
February 12, 2026 #1449
Female power highlights the new albums sampled in this edition: Danish saxophonist Signe Emmeluth now living in Norway, joined by her Scandinavian quartet, Amoeba, talks up love on their new release “With Love”, while the heralded composer/arranger/conductor Maria Schneider laments on the lack of dialogue with her new EP “American Continue Reading
February 5, 2026 #1448
German saxophonist Philipp Gropper & his band, Philm, are back recording. After a seven-year hiatus from the recording studio, Gropper, Elias Stemeseder, Robert Landfermann & Leif Berger have released two distinctly different albums that show the judges were bang-on when they selected Philm as the outstanding group in the first Continue Reading