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This week features a pair of Polish trumpet players: Tomasz Dabrowski and Piotr Damasiewicz. Dabrowski’s group & album are called The Individual Beings, a phrase he learned from his mentor Tomasz Stanko, and he was able to use one of Stanko’s prized horns for the session. Damasiewicz frequently explores global Continue Reading

Highlights for this episode: new piano trio releases from Germany’s Felix Hauptman, Barber Mouse from Italy, and Sweden’s Lisa Ullen. Another trio, this one reeds/bass/drums, is Montreal trio Nebula. They’ve just released a freewheeling live concert done last year, while Vancouver’s Gordon Grdina’s Arabic-leaning Haram also hit the studio around Continue Reading

Trios have always been a popular format in jazz. This episode presents several different threesomes, but as you’ll hear, they are not all the typical piano/bass/drums. Two of those are definitely on the heavy side: Dave Rempis, Elisabeth Harnik & Michael Zerang and Survival Unit III with Zerang, Fred Lonberg-Holm Continue Reading