Drummer Ches Smith is becoming rather unpredictable when it comes to his recordings – the next one is always different than the previous, not only musically but also personnel-wise. On his latest “Clone Row” he turns to the twin and often raunchy guitars of Mary Halvorson and Liberty Ellman. It’s an album sure to evoke reactions. Saxophonist Ivo Perelman has been doing that since the 1980s and his arrival from Brazil. Many of the prolific tenor player’s catalog were released on Leo Records, and now Perelman is making them all available on Bandcamp. German drummer Leif Berger’s new “Secret Normalization” brings a unique concept to the fore, while a new Nordic quartet emerges on ECM with its own sound. “Arcanum” is the result of a new quartet of Arve Henriksen (trumpet), Trygve Seim (saxophone), Anders Jormin (bass) & Markuu Ounaskari (drums). Another new quartet came together at the Brussels Jazz Festival this past January when Belgian pianist Bram De Looze used his artist-in-residence options wisely; he invited three of the genre’s finest to come and make some magic: cellist Hank Roberts, bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Joey Baron. And they did just that.
00:00 Cosmic Ear * Traces * We Jazz * Father And Son * Sweden
06:31 host speaks
09:07 Ivo Perelman * Brazilian Watercolor * Leo Records * The Boat * USA
17:01 Federico Calcagno * Mundus Inversus * KaE Records * The Hanged Man – Ego Sacrifice * Italy
22:43 Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation * This Time * Sunnyside * Conversation I * USA
26:25 host speaks
28:30 Ches Smith * Clone Row * Otherly Love * Clone Row * USA
35:31 Satoko Fujii’s This Is It! * Message * Libra * Cryptography * Japan
44:16 Potsa Lotsa XL * Amoeba’s Dance * Trouble In The East * Palmate * Germany
48:38 host speaks
49:30 Leif Berger * Secret Normalization * Klaeng * Narrow Sliver Interpreted * Through Our BiasGermany
56:10 Leif Berger * Secret Normalization * Klaeng * Biblically Accurate Hello Kitty * Germany
59:24 Tom Weeks Quartet * The Catbird Seat * Wolfsblood * Sitting In The Cat Bird Seat * USA
1:04:56 Anders Filipsen Trio * Aldebar Nights of Mangos * Ilk Music * Dark And Plenty Of Sun * Denmark
1:09:29 host speaks
1:10:48 Arve Henriksen, Trygve Seim, Anders Jormin & Markuu Ounaskari * Arcanum * ECM * Folkesong * Norway/Sweden/Finland
1:14:44 Arve Henriksen, Trygve Seim, Anders Jormin & Markuu Ounaskari * Arcanum * ECM * Pharao * Norway/Sweden/Finland
1:19:07 Arve Henriksen, Trygve Seim, Anders Jormin & Markuu Ounaskari * Arcanum * ECM * Old Dreams * Norway/Sweden/Finland
1:22:51 Ivo Perelman * The Edge * Leo Records * Clarinblasen * USA
1:28:33 host speaks
1:29:42 Dan Phillips Trio * Array In Brown * Lizard Breath * Dialectic * USA
1:37:23 Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation * This Time * Sunnyside * Conversation II * USA
1:42:59 Russ Johnson * Reveal * Self-released * Dog Gone It * USA
1:48:49 Steve Adams, Lisa Mezzacappa & Jason Levis * Never But Dream The Days * Queen Bee * Bury Me Avalanche * USA
1:59:07 host speaks
2:02:05 Bram DeLooze, Hank Roberts, Thomas Morgan & Joey Baron * Live at Brussels Jazz Festival * Challenge * Aneez * Belgium/USA