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Two albums debuting in this week’s edition of One Man’s Jazz are celebratory in nature. The wildly eclectic and powerful Dutch Ensemble Spinifex hits its 20-year mark with the release of “Maximus” next month, while the funkified, brass band-like, New Orleans flavoured Revolutionary Snake Ensemble’s “Serpentine” marks the 35th year Continue Reading

Sometimes it seems like a show almost programs itself. Lately, the quality of new releases is so good that tunes just fall into place. Ten seconds into “Sonic Mountains” from “Murasaki” (Jakob Bro, Wadada Leo Smith & Marcus Gilmore) and I knew this was the show’s closer, and the brilliant Continue Reading

Perhaps the theme for some of the new releases debuting in this show is “group dynamics”; not so much what happens in the studio but getting there.   No problem for Rodrigo Amado & The Bridge. The powerhouse Portuguese saxophonist just put out the call to the other members of the Continue Reading