May 19, 2022 #1255 (Should have been played on May 12).

This week’s One Man’s Jazz features music from new releases by Austrian pianist Elias Stemeseder, Barbara Bruckmüller’s big band (she’s also from Austria), New York’s WeFreeStrings, guitarist Miles Okazaki’s Trickster, bassist Billy Mohler‘s new quartet, Swiss tenor player Fabian Willmann and poet Fred Moten with Brandon Lopez and Gerald Cleaver. Continue Reading

May 5, 2022 #1254

Two previously unreleased recordings are featured in this episode, and both are from two of the giants of jazz: the free spirit of free jazz Albert Ayler and the indefatigable Charles Mingus. Both albums are from the 70s – Ayler in France (in his last recorded performance) and Mingus’ Lost Continue Reading