Three feature albums this week. Sure to be a best-of for 2020 Tim Berne’s Snakeoil on “The Fantastic Mrs. 10″. Berne has switched labels from ECM to Intakt, and added a guitarist to the quartet but the music is still as original and brilliant as always. Two ex-pat Canadian saxophonists, Continue Reading
February 6, 2020 #1138
February is Black History Month and shows this month will feature music from Christian McBride’s “The Movement Revisited – A Musical Portrait Of Four Icons”. Those icons of the civil rights movement are Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. There’ll be other material along Continue Reading
January 30, 2020 #1137
There’s definitely a European slant to this episode as a number of interesting recordings popped onto the OMJ radar. Bassist Jasper Hoiby, leader of the popular English trio Phronesis, has a new album of his own coming soon, so there’s a taste of that, as well as one from another Continue Reading