Post Tagged with: "Improvised Music"

Tomeka Reid Quartet - '3+3' (2024)

Tomeka Reid Quartet – ‘3+3’ (2024)

Emphasizing a loosely-structured, open approach, the Tomeka Reid Quartet builds on the success of the prior two outings with ‘3+3.’

Thollem - 'Worlds In A Life, Two' (2024)

Thollem – ‘Worlds In A Life, Two’ (2024)

In creating ‘Worlds In A Life, Two’ on the fly, Thollem put the impulsiveness into this recycled music that you can’t get by pondering over it too long.

Oceans And [Tim Berne, Hank Roberts + Aurora Nealand] - 'Lucid/Still' (2024)

Oceans And [Tim Berne, Hank Roberts + Aurora Nealand] – ‘Lucid/Still’ (2024)

‘Lucid/Still’ captures a live performance of Tim Berne, Hank Roberts and Aurora Nealand’s unique brand of improvised chamber music.

Simon Hanes - 'Tsons of Tsunami' (2024)

Simon Hanes – ‘Tsons of Tsunami’ (2024)

By harnessing his love for surf rock and other, disparate music forms all at once, Simon Hanes and his Tsons of Tsunami is making the case for why we should enjoy this audacious mixture of styles, too.

Ivo Perelman, Barry Guy + Ramon Lopez - 'Interaction' (2024)

Ivo Perelman, Barry Guy + Ramon Lopez – ‘Interaction’ (2024)

‘Interaction’ really all of one big collection of amazing moments, a continuum of passion and a brainstorm of original ideas filtered through three highly trained instruments.

Sunny Five [Tim Berne, David Torn, Ches Smith, Devin Hoff + Marc Ducret] - 'Candid' (2024)

Sunny Five [Tim Berne, David Torn, Ches Smith, Devin Hoff + Marc Ducret] – ‘Candid’ (2024)

In the end, the Sunny Five’s ‘Candid’ is a jam record but in this case, the jams expose just how scary talented this assemblage truly is.

Asteroid Ekosystem - 'Live' (2023)

Asteroid Ekosystem – ‘Live’ (2023)

‘Live’ proves that adding Ed Kuepper to a very good acoustic jazz piano trio transforms Asteroid Ekosystem into an experimental, improvisation-heavy rock outfit.

Ivo Perelman, Nate Wooley, Mat Maneri + Others - 'Seven Skies Orchestra' (2023)

Ivo Perelman, Nate Wooley, Mat Maneri + Others – ‘Seven Skies Orchestra’ (2023)

Ivo Perelman and cohorts prove that sax, trumpet, vibes and stringed instruments can coalesce around spontaneous ideas, if you get the right guys together.

André 3000 - 'New Blue Sun' (2023)

André 3000 – ‘New Blue Sun’ (2023)

André 3000 didn’t enter the studio intending to make an ‘Alice Coltrane’ or ‘Jon Hassell’ album, he simply followed his muse. If only more high profile artists did this.

Trio San [Satoko Fujii, Taiko Saito + Yuko Oshima] - 'Hibiki' (2023)

Trio San [Satoko Fujii, Taiko Saito + Yuko Oshima] – ‘Hibiki’ (2023)

Satoko Fujii, Taiko Saito and Yuko Oshima are three wellsprings of creativity who as Trio San joined forces to find new ways to make uncommonly compelling music.