A Mirror to Machaut isn’t Samuel Blaser doing a quick follow-up to As The Sea issued a mere five months ago. Rather, it’s the successor to his 2011 Third Stream collaboration with the late, great Paul Motian, Consort In Motion You May Also Like: Bobby Previte – Mass (2016) DavidRead More

Drew Gress is a first-call bassist and has certainly earned the caché to have first-call players on his own albums. You May Also Like: Tim Berne’s Hardcell [Berne, Craig Taborn + Tom Rainey] – ‘Sensitive’ (2021) Tim Berne’s Hardcell [Berne, Craig Taborn + Tom Rainey] – ‘The Cosmos’ (2020)

The competing tubas heard on the opening seconds of Jason Robinson’s new big project Tiresian Symmetry made me instinctively utter three words: Very Very Circus. You May Also Like: Henry Threadgill Zooid – ‘Poof’ (2021) Liberty Ellman – ‘Last Desert’ (2020) Jason Stein Quartet – Lucille! (2017)