New this week: pianist Angelica Sanchez with drummer Chad Taylor, cellist Christopher Hoffman, the German trio Dream Big Fish, saxophonist Caroline Davis with guitarist Wendy Eisenberg, singer Fay Victor tackling the music of Herbie Nichols, German trombonist Christof Thewes, saxophonists Kevin Sun & Trio, pianist Vijay Iyer and the veteran John Surman, and a strong trio from Portugal led by saxophonist Jose Lencastre.
00:00 Emanuele Passerini * Trio Geometrics – Dodicilune * Invocation Trayne * Italy
10:50 Host speaks
13:18 Angelica Sanchez & Chad Taylor * A Monster Is Just An Animal You Haven’t Met Yet – Intakt * Holding Space * USA
21:13 Fully Celebrated Orchestra * Stob Story – Relative Pitch * Grave Merchant * USA
26:38 Ches Smith * Laugh Ash – Pyroclastic * Remote Convivial * USA
30:51 Host speaks
32:39 Christopher Hoffman * Vision Is The Identity – Out Of Your Head * Farewell Forever * USA
36:44 Francois Carrier * Openness – FSR * Birds * Canada
43:30 Sam Weinberg Trio * Plays Quarter Notes And Other Notes – Self-released * Vatican Thirds * USA
48:02 This Celestial Engine * This Celestial Engine – Discus * Any The Wiser * England
53:38 Host speaks
56:00 Dream Big Fish * Dream Big Fish – Gateway Music * Abaca * Germany
1:03:03 Caroline Davis & Wendy Eisenberg * Accept When – Astral Spirits * Sequins * USA
1:06:32 Caroline Davis & Wendy Eisenberg * Accept When – Astral Spirits * How Insensitve * USA
1:09:56 Herbie Nichols * Herbie Nichols Trio – Blue Note * House Party Starting * USA
1:15:30 Host speaks
1:18:00 Fay Victor * Life Is Funny That Way – Tao Forms * Descent Into Madness * USA
1:27:47 Christof Thewes * Surreal Book H – Self-released * Heavy Rag Out * Germany
1:33:35 Alex Louloudis * Words – Off Record Label * Ochun’s Dance * USA
1:38:53 Host speaks
1:40:47 John Surman * Words Unspoken – ECM * Words Unspoken * England
1:47:07 Piotr Damasiewicz & Dominik Wania * The Way The Truth And The Life – Self-released * Only The Shoe Remains * Poland
1:52:29 Jim Baker, Steve Hunt & Jacob Heineman * Horizon Scanners – Clean Feed * The Ships * USA
2:00:39 Host speaks
2:01:56 Kevin Sun Trio * The Fate Of The Tenor – Endectomorph * Involuted Blues * USA
2:09:51 Vijay Iyer Trio * Compassion – ECM * Tempest * USA
2:16:08 Host speaks
2:17:22 Jose Lencastre, Vasco Trilla & Zbigniew Kozera * Chymeia – Phonogram Unit * Breath In * Porugal/Poland
2:24:07 Jonas Cambien * Macu Canu – Clean Feed * Once Low Now High * Norway
2:29:37 Michael Attias * Quartet Music Volume 1 LuMiSong – Out Of Your Head * NME * USA
2:40:12 Host speaks
2:42:17 Clarion Fracture Zone * Less Stable Elements – Rufus * They May Be Giants * Australia
2:50:32 Ivo Perelman, Chad Fowler, Reggie Workman & Andrew Cyrille * Embracing The Unknown – Mahakala Music * Self fulfillment * USA
2:57:30 Host speaks
2:58:24 Brandon Ross & Phantom Station * Off The End – Pi Recordings * I Can See All Of This * USA