It’s remarkable how much variety exists in creative jazz improvisation. Listen to the artists in this playlist and I don’t think you’ll disagree. Highlights come from “Jazz Fest”, an album by trumpeter Peter Evans & bassist Petter Eldh where they invited a wide range of artists to join them in an imaginary European anything-goes festival of the past, or a previously unreleased album by the late pianist, Irène Schweizer, and her Hot Four ripping it up at an actual European festival in 1981. Then there’s the Nordic sounds of the popular Bugge Wesseltoft or the new kids on the block, the Bliss Quintet. Maybe some genre-stretching is your jones, so you’ll love “Unicorn And Flexibility” from the wild trio of Sylvain Darrifourcq, Manuel Hermia & Valentin Ceccaldi, or the vintage sounds of Strata-East founders Charles Tolliver & Stanley Cowell. Or the closer, a beautiful yet biting duet between pianist Izumi Kimura & drummer and lots-more Gerry Hemingway, might take you on a memorable ride. It’s all here in this edition of One Man’s Jazz.
00:00 Luke Stewart * Silt Remembrance Ensemble – Cuneiform * Chain Gang * USA
07:33 Host speaks
08:45 Peter Evans & Petter Eldh * Jazz Fest – More Is More * The Berm * USA/Sweden
12:40 Peter Evans & Petter Eldh * Jazz Fest – More Is More * Tony Tony Tony * USA/Sweden
16:01 James Brandon Lewis Quartet * Abstraction Is Deliverance – Intakt * Abstraction Is Deliverance * USA
22:04 Host speaks
23:30 Irène Schweizer * Irène’s Hot Four – Intakt * Freizeit * Switzerland
39:23 Juan Ibarra * La Casa – Self-released * Olvida Todo lo que Crees Saber * Uruguay
47:09 Andy Bey * Experience and Judgment – Atlanta * Being Uptight * USA
49:09 Host speaks
51:00 Bliss Quintet * Live At Nattjazz ‘24 – Jazzland * When In Michelbach * Norway
1:04:27 Eli Wallace, Pablo Vazquez & Marcelo Von Schultz * Siestas – 577 Records * Vacios Expectantes Espectros Infinitos Reflejos * USA/Argentina
1:11:45 Tom Weeks Trio * Pyramid II – Wolfsblood * I Hate You With A Passion (For Andre Nickatina) * USA
1:19:35 Host speaks
1:21:40 Darrifourcq/Hermia/Ceccaldi * Unicorn And Flexibility – Hector * Moustache Et Vernis Sans Cape Et Sans Collants * France/Belgium
1:29:17 Enemy * Fiend – Edition * Faster Than Light * England
1:35:03 Kai Craig * A Time Once Forgotten – Whirlwind * Lunations * England
1:40:22 Host speaks
1:42:03 Jane Ira Bloom * Songs In Space – Outline * Space Rangers * USA
1:46:18 Charles Tolliver & Stanley Cowell * Music Inc. – Strata-East * Ruthie’s Heart * USA
1:52:32 Marek Pospieszalski Octet * Now! – Instant Classic * Bios * Poland
1:59:33 Bugge Wesseltoft * Am Are – Jazzland * Render * Norway
2:08:31 Host speaks
2:12:46 Izumi Kimura & Gerry Hemingway * How The Dust Falls – Auricle * Entrainments I * Ireland/Switzerland
2:14:12 Izumi Kimura & Gerry Hemingway * How The Dust Falls – Auricle * Entrainments II * Ireland/Switzerland