August 20, 2020 #1166

More new music from very recent Clean Feed releases (Roots Magic & WHO Trio) and Audio Cave (Hunger Pangs, Diomede & O.N.E. Quintet) highlights this episode of One Man’s Jazz. Chicago saxophonist Max Bessensen drops his debut “Trouble” and a couple of interesting ensembles from Italy (Livio Bartolo Variable Unit Continue Reading

August 13, 2020 #1165

So much amazing music this episode!  The summer releases from Clean Feed are out and two of them debut:   the blistering Larry Ochs-Aram Shelton Quartet and a second album from Martin Kuchen and the Landaeus Trio.  Then how to describe the Mat Walerian Okuden Quartet with the multi-reedist leading Matthew Continue Reading

August 6, 2020 #1164

August has arrived, and with it, some excellent new recordings that I immediately placed on my potential favourites of 2020. One comes from the trio of saxophonist Jason Robinson, bassist Bruno Räberg & drummer Bob Weiner. The “Urgency Of Now” has all the ingredients for a most memorable recording.   Another Continue Reading