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Mary Halvorson – ‘Cloudward’ (2024)

Mary Halvorson – ‘Cloudward’ (2024)

‘Cloudward’ offers a rare chance to see how Mary Halvorson’s music evolves when everything else is kept the same.

Illegal Crowns [Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson, Taylor Ho Bynum + Benoît Delbecq] – ‘Unclosing’ (2023)

Illegal Crowns [Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson, Taylor Ho Bynum + Benoît Delbecq] – ‘Unclosing’ (2023)

Illegal Crowns’ new album ‘Unclosing’ is maximal jazz from a band full of advanced composers and prodigious improvisers.

Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double – ‘March On’ EP (2023)

Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double – ‘March On’ EP (2023)

Musicians capable of anything deserve to play in a setting where anything goes. Thankfully, Tomas Fujiwara is allowing us to hear that with ‘March On.’

Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant – ‘Séances’ (2022)

Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant – ‘Séances’ (2022)

Getting it right instead of getting it sooner paid off handsomely for Trevor Dunn and his Trio-Convulsant on ‘Séances.’

Thumbscrew – ‘Multicolored Midnight’ (2022)

Thumbscrew – ‘Multicolored Midnight’ (2022)

Thumbscrew continues to perform greater than the sum of its considerable parts, as ‘Multicolored Midnight’ retains all the freshness of their first time together.

Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double – ‘March’ (2022)

Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double – ‘March’ (2022)

Tomas Fujiwara’s twin trios double the chops and double the fun with the welcome Triple Double followup, ‘March.’

Sylvie Courvoisier + Mary Halvorson – ‘Searching for the Disappeared Hour’ (2021)

Sylvie Courvoisier + Mary Halvorson – ‘Searching for the Disappeared Hour’ (2021)

Highly individual artists on their own when they got together the first time, Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson forge a highly individual piano/guitar duo for ‘Searching for the Disappeared Hour.’

Ben Goldberg – ‘Everything Happens To Be.’ (2021)

Ben Goldberg – ‘Everything Happens To Be.’ (2021)

Even the most forward-thinking musicians dig simply constructed chorales. Ben Goldberg is another one who does, but for ‘Everything Happens To Be.,’ he also digs deeper.

Thumbscrew – ‘Never Is Enough’ (2021)

Thumbscrew – ‘Never Is Enough’ (2021)

The highly distinctive musical personalities of Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek and Tomas Fujiwara and their superhuman telepathy are the only ingredients that carry over from one Thumbscrew album to the next. ‘Never Is Enough’ is full of new daring feats by this amazing trio.

Susan Alcorn – ‘Pedernal’ (2020)

Susan Alcorn – ‘Pedernal’ (2020)

We’ve known for a long time that Susan Alcorn is an amazing pedal steel guitarist. With ‘Pedernal,’ we now know that she is an amazing all-around artist, too.