Arnan Raz: Full Track From The Album

A full track from the new album

Hello dear friends,

I am sharing with you a full length track from the forthcoming 2/2/2018 release "Chains Of Stories". I hope you like it.

Love,

Arnan

Anders Bergcrantz Quartet - In This Together (2017)

Anders Bergcrantz is widely considered to be one of the major voices of his instrument. He has performed and / or recorded with a diverse range of notable musicians, including Dave Liebman, Billy Harper, Victor Lewis, Billy Hart, Richie Beirach, Monica Zetterlund, The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Norrlandsoperans Symphony Orchestra, Adam Nussbaum, McCoy Tyner, Mike Brecker a.o.

Bergcrantz has won numerous awards and polls, including the 1995, 2007, “The Golden Record” which is the finest and foremost Swedish jazz award. In 1995 and 2008 he received “The Jazz Cat” in the category “Contemporary star of Jazz. Anders grew up into a musical family. His father Sven Bergcrantz (1931-1998) was a major voice of the jazz piano and Anders two older brothers, Håkan and Thomas played professionally for many years.

Anders Bergcrantz is long known to be a soloist capable of stunning physical power and broad emotional range in the tradition of trumpet stars like Woody Shaw, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan and Miles Davis and has strongly developed a deep and soulful individual voice of his own. Bergcrantz is performing all over the world as guest soloist and with his own constellations. He is active as a clinician / educator.

Wake Up

Other Bells

Emerald

Majoun

Hope

Aurora

Sapphire

McJolt

Ruby

In This Together

Axis

Flammable

Anders Bergcrantz: trumpet, flugelhorn

Richie Beirach: piano

Ron McClure: bass

Adam Nussbaum: drums

Mock Grandeur - 2 (WIDE EAR RECORDS 2017)

The Quartet Mock Grandeur with Benjamin Weidekamp and Christian Weidner on alto sax and Tobias Backhaus on drums plays sort of a conceptual music, with different combinations of the quartet but also some tunes featuring the whole group. An engaging music, soaked with Berlin Jazz Style attitude. READ MORE...

1. TS 02:07

2. #4 03:47

3. #21 03:19

4. BS 02:04

5. BCS 03:07

6. #17 02:14

7. CB 02:02

8. TC 02:20

9. CS 02:10

10. S 01:03

11. BC 02:09

12. STC 03:02

13. B 01:11

14. BCST 04:04

15. #20 03:26

16. #2 02:49

17. T 01:04

18. CBT 03:09

19. BST 03:05

20. C 00:51

21. #6 01:48

22. TSCB 02:04

23. #21-1 01:11

24. #7 01:08

25. BT 04:09

Sascha Henkel guitar/composition

Benjamin Weidekamp alto

Christian Weidner alto

Tobias Backhaus drums

Brad Linde's Gumshoe - Gumshoe (2017)

Brad Linde is a saxophonist, bandleader, and presenter in the Washington DC metro area. In 2010, he founded and began co-directing the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra - a 17-piece big band in residence at the historic club.

He was a participant in the Banff International Jazz and Creative Music Workshop 2013 and he studied with Barry Harris and Lee Konitz, among others. READ MORE...

1. Good Time Islands 08:08

2. Seeds Sown 11:28

3. For Valentine's Day 11:10

4. Banff 2013 14:13

5. Tomorrow Was Great 10:22

6. Death Knell (Tolls) 11:22

7. King Reason 07:37

8. And...Scene 03:21

Brad Linde's Gumshoe 

Recorded February 14, 2017 at Airshow Mastering/Allyworld in Takoma Park, MD

Engineered by Gantt Kushner

Mixed and Mastered by Charlie Pilzer

Artwork and Design by Matt Rippetoe at Sideman Creative, LLC.

Produced by Brad Linde

Brad Linde - alto and tenor saxophone

Patrick Booth - soprano and tenor saxophone

Erika Dohi - piano and Rhodes

Jonathan Taylor - drums and percussion

Playlist for Tom Ossana – The Thin Edge – December 20, 2017

http://www.kzmu.org/listen.m3u ~ Use this link to access the show online.

I’m wishing jazz lovers a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah and Happy New Year, especially to those of you who listen to and support the jazz programming on KZMU. Tonight's show is both jazzy and Christmassy. Instead of the usual summary, we'll include an abbreviated playlist. Stop right here if you're not fascinated with the details. For a detailed description of the show, go to Republic of Jazz and search for Tom O.

DKV Trio (Hamid Drake / Kent Kessler / Ken Vandermark) - Latitutde 41.88 (NOT TWO RECORDS 2017)

The DKV Trio is one of the most exciting ensembles working in contemporary improvised music. Featuring Hamid Drake (drums), Kent Kessler (bass), and Ken Vandermark, the band has been active since the mid 1990s and has released eleven recordings, including their most recent album, which came out in the autumn of 2016: Collider (that features the trio paired with the Scandinavian group, The Thing).

Their 2014 five CD box set, Sound in Motion in Sound, was reviewed by the Free Jazz Collective as follows, “They are tighter, more explosive, and ingenious than ever. Imagine every DKV Trio’s signature element coming together in a remarkably dazzling, fiery display of musical prowess. There’s an almost palpable quality to the way that the musicians meld their ideas and approaches together. There’s groove propelled by Drake’s funky, loose drumming, there’s melody in the bass lines, there’s dissonance and conflict in Vandermark’s fluid, mercurial playing.

This is a great recording by an unmistakable, intense group of musicians with a sound and feeling of their own. That much is clear now. I would even dare to call this album their best to date. Inspired, full of energy, harmonically, rhythmically, and even melodically rich, capable of wonderfully recreating the joy of listening to DKV Trio live.” 5 stars

2017 promises to be an exceptional year for the band: they will be releasing a new album on the label Not Two, have concerts scheduled in Canada during June, and will tour in Europe with Joe McPhee as a guest for the first time in their career.

01. Faster Than It Would Be (Hamid Drake, Kent Kessler, Ken Vandermark) 20:25

02. 20th Century Myth (Hamid Drake, Kent Kessler, Ken Vandermark) 17:33

03. Uncontrolled Writer (Hamid Drake, Kent Kessler, Ken Vandermark) 21:56

Ken Vandermark: reeds

Kent Kessler: bass

Hamid Drake: drums

Airto Moreira - Aluê (2017)

Aluê, seu primeiro trabalho após Live in Berkeley, de 2012, foi registrado num estúdio localizado numa fazenda, na paisagem verde do interior de São Paulo. Apoiado e construído com um time de grandes músicos (Carlos Ezequiel, José Neto, Sizão Machado, Vítor Alcântara, Fabio Leandro, Diana Purim e Krishna Booker), Aluê se apresenta como uma revisão inteligente e necessária de grandes momentos da carreira de Airto Moreira, retomando e relendo composições que evocam seu portentoso universo sonoro.

Não se trata apenas de seus ritmos, síncopes, cadências, diálogos, melodias, frases, gritos e texturas – mas também do que sua música disse e continua dizendo nos tempos estranhos em que vivemos, nos quais não podemos mais ignorar os avisos que o planeta envia a cada momento. De várias formas, essa mensagem sempre esteve na música desse catarinense, nascido em 1941 na pequena e charmosa Itaiópolis. A cada audição, Aluê nos traz lembranças, ressignificando experiências e emoções – algo como pegar uma canoa e atirar-se rio abaixo, enfrentando corredeiras rápidas e quedas perigosas, que se alternam com as águas mais calmas e límpidas cobertas por copas de árvores centenárias em meio à Mata Atlântica. É fato que a Mãe Terra sempre esteve presente na obra de Airto, sempre se manifestou nela inspirando seu sound design, sua marca registrada. READ MORE...

01 Aluê - Airto Moreira / Flora Purim 

02 Misturada - Airto Moreira

03 Rosa Negra - Airto Moreira

04 I'm Fine, How Are You? - Airto Moreira

05 Lua Flora - Flora Purim / José Neto

06 Não Sei Pra Onde, Mas Vai - Airto Moreira

07 Sea Horse - José Neto

08 Guarany - Airto Moreira

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José Neto (guitarra)

Diana Purim (voz)

Sizão Machado (contrabaixo)

Fabio Leandro (piano)

Vitor Alcântara (saxofones)

Carlos Ezequiel (bateria e produção)

Yoram Rosilio & the Anti RuBber brAiN fAct0rY - Anti RuBber brAiN fAct0rY & Mar0kAït (LFDS RECORDS 2017)

Free Jazz & Trad; Music from Morocco

Throughout the centuries each region, each town and sometimes even each village in Morocco have developed their own particular individual musical identities. Inspired by everyday life they give expression to major events of society recording and marking the identity of tribes and regions. They constitute an absolute traditional treasure, telling the tales of the different customs of people but also giving voice to their rebellious spirits and their magical and mystical visions of the world.

Our inspiration comes from this wide multicolored repertoire and we have endeavored to respect, to the best of our ability, the shapes, structures, rhythms and intentions that we can feel in this music and to reproduce them with what makes us musical beings.

1. 3abidat 'Rma 13:07

2. Leïlaa Lill 11:35

Yoram Rosilio : Bass, flute, percussions, Direction

Nicolas Souchal : Trumpet, flute, percussions

Jérôme Fouquet : Trumpet, flute, percussions

Jean-Brice Godet : Clarinets, flute, percussions

Jean-Michel Couchet : Soprano Sax, Alto Sax, flute, percussions

Florent Dupuit : Tenor Sax, Bass Flute, Flute, Piccolo, percussions

Benoit Guenoun : Tenor Sax, Soprano Sax, flute, percussions

Paul Wacrenier : Piano, Vibes, Balafon, Flûte, percussions

Rafael Koerner : drums

Eric Dambrin : Drums, percussions

François Mellan : Soubasophone, flute, percussions (on 03 and 06)

Esperanza Spalding - Exposure & Undeveloped (2 CD) 2017

CD 1: Exposure

01. Swimming Toward the Black Dot

02. Public Trance It

03. Heaven in Pennies (feat. Robert Glasper)

04. Colonial Fire

05. Coming to Life (feat. Lalah Hathaway)

06. Geriment

07. I Am Telling You

08. The Ways You Got the Love (feat. Andrew Bird)

09. I Do

10. Double Jointed Canyon

Today's world has a way of teaching us that who we are is not good enough as it is. It tells us that we're better when we look our best. And that as artists, our work requires polish before it can be seen.

But the truth is, the creations that come from us are at their most powerful, at their most potent, the moment they surface.

In her new work entitled 'Exposure', composer, vocalist and bassist Esperanza Spalding will create an album of music in just 3 days, every second of the process broadcast live for a global audience.

The three-day livestream will begin on Facebook Live on September 12th, giving the audience a chance to see what it takes not just to create an album, but to create an album entirely composed on the spot.

Once the cameras start rolling, the audience will witness every second of Esperanza's process, including her eating and taking breaks to sleep in the studio. A monitor will also capture and show Esperanza the comments from the live audience, allowing them to participate in the creative process. Making it the first album ever created entirely on Facebook Live, not just for an audience, but with an audience, for an unprecedented 77 hour live feed.

After the record is finished, a limited edition 7,777 CDs will be released. The packaging of each CD will include a piece of the original notepaper Esperanza will have used to write the lyrics and music, allowing those who witnessed the process to own a piece of the creation itself, directly from the source.

Part of the theory behind Exposure comes from the idea that everything we've ever seen as people - anything we've ever seen, studied, heard, wished, read or thought - has been permanently captured by the mind. During Esperanza Spalding's Exposure, she'll aim to open this cache in her mind, allowing songs, lyrics, music and themes to develop spontaneously from the depths of her imagination and experience.

Esperanza says, "I foresee that creating before a live audience will add excitement and extra inspiration energy.  Knowing someone is watching and listening to what you're making seems to conjure up a sort of "can't fail" energy, the necessity to keep going because it's live draws up another depth of creative facility that can't be reached when you know you can try again tomorrow."

Having such limited time to write and record will also force us to rely on improvisation and first instinct. Not allowing us time to judge, second guess, question, or alter the initial hits of inspiration that drive the creation of each song.  

That means that the audience will get a record of the most potent, charged, fresh-from-the ethers-compositional, musical and lyrical content. Of course they will be formed into songs, but they'll carry the charge of the immediate, of the innately inspired artists co-creating in the room throughout the 3 day process.

CD 2: Undeveloped (Pre-exposure Practice)

01. Helluva

02. Tangerine

03. Word Jungle

04. Chelsea Mercy

05. Work of Art

06. Winning Machines

07. Trouble

08. 4th Grade

09. Whisper

10. Fittest

www.esperanzaspalding.com

Special Jazz Sextet - Projekt Elbląg (ALLEGRO RECORDS 2017)

Yet another interesting album from Allegro Records released this year (check also “Afreakan Project” and “Facing The Challenge”) and again it is pleasent surprise. Surprise because though musicians are not from first ranks of Polish jazz yet they deliver very good music indeed. All compositions are by Bartek Krzywda while all members of the sextet taking part in this project are from Elbląg (or connected to this city). It is astonishing that so many fantastic musicians live in this relatively small city and that they managed to join their forces to deliver such a palatable dish. As far as regular members of this sextet are concerned I want to single out Marcin Gawdzis, the outstanding trumpeter, that should be much better known on Polish scene. Melodic lines as supplied by his instrument underline catchy Krzywda compositions and saturate music with lyricism and levity. But other players input is of no less quality be it Szymon Zuehlke on tenor saxophone, Artur Olewniczak on trombone or rhythm section: Janusz Mackiewicz on double bass and Grzegorz Sycz on drums. A lot of spice is added by guests’ appearance: soprano saxophone by Przemek Dyakowski is an outstanding counterpoint to Gawdzis’ trumpet, Jerry Goodman violin sounds other-worldly and hauntingly beautiful (like on “The Heart On A Plate”) and finally well-known guitar of Jarek Śmietana. All in all, this is definitely worthy debut by Special Jazz Sextet, a tribute both to jazz and to city of Elbląg (from which also come from Jerzy Małek whose excellent album “Air” is our October Album Of The Month). Maciej Nowotny

1. Maciek 7:32

2. Obierek / A peel 8:44

3. Prusacy / Prussians 9:23

4. Idzie Szwed / Swede goes 6:55

5. Stary kapeć / An old sleeper 7:32

6. Serce na talerzu / The Heart on a plate 6:52

7. Klamerka / A buckle 6:10

8. Szymek  8:10

Bartek Krzywda /keyboards/

Szymon Zuehlke /tenor saxophone/

Marcin Gawdzis /trumpet/

Artur Olewniczak /trombone/ 

Janusz Mackiewicz /double bass/ 

Grzegorz Sycz /drums/

special guest

Przemek Dyakowski /tenor saxophone/

Carmen Lundy - Code Noir (AFRASIA PRODUCTIONS 2017)

Never one to limit her creative journeys, Lundy explores the realms of Jazz, Blues, Brazilian Samba and Pop with a multitude of messages that reflect not only the complexities of her own mindset, but the disparity of the world at large. Poignant, heartfelt, joyous, shocked, saddened and impassioned are just a few of the emotions conveyed by this wonderfully evocative singer on CODE NOIR in a highly personal musical voyage.

Another Chance

Live Out Loud

Black And Blues

Whatever It Takes

Afterglow

Second Sight

The Island, The Sea, And You

I Keep Falling

I Got Your Number

You Came Into My Life

Have A Little Faith

Kumbaya

Carmen Lundy: vocals, keyboards, guitar, background vocals

Patrice Rushen: piano

Ben Williams: acoustic and electric bass

Kendrick Scott: drums, percussion

Jeff Parker: electric guitar

Elisabeth Oei: background vocals track 7

Mike Reed - Flesh & Bone (482 MUSIC 2017)

"A multithreat musician who thrives as soloist, bandleader, presenter and global talent scout, Reed has emerged as a center of gravity for music in Chicago (and beyond)." - Howard Reich, The Chicago Tribune

It was the most terrifying moment of Mike Reed's life.

The Chicago drummer-impresario, who founded the Constellation arts center and produces the Pitchfork Music Festival, was touring Europe six years ago when he and his band stumbled into a neo-Nazi rally.

Or, more precisely, were lured into it: The conductor on the train Reed and colleagues boarded in the Czech Republic told the musicians they needed to transfer at a particular stop they hadn't intended on. Figuring the conductor must know best, they did what he suggested, arriving in the small town of Prerov.

This not only was the wrong station for their ultimate destination, but it was ground zero for right-wing, anti-gypsy marchers convening by the hundreds in a long-planned demonstration — which led the musicians to believe the conductor had sent them into danger intentionally.

Suddenly, "You hear these explosions going off … and see these people amassing," recalls Reed, of the tumultuous events of April 4, 2009.

Soon, "You're seeing a full-on riot breaking out. These people came ready: They had their gas masks ready. They had their Molotov cocktails ready to throw. It was crazy."

In a band staffed by two African-Americans (Reed and saxophonist Greg Ward) and two white musicians (tenor saxophonist Tim Haldeman and bassist Jason Roebke), the jazz musicians instantly realized they would not be looked upon kindly by the rioters.

"We freeze as the skinheads swarm from every direction," writes saxophonist Ward of the experience, on www.mikereed-music.com. "Armed with stones, petrol bombs and firecrackers, they attack the riot-gear clad police. … We all jump on to the train tracks and begin running for our lives out of the station."

A plainclothes officer came to their rescue, hid them in a small room in a nearby apartment and left the musicians to ponder what might come next. Reed and colleagues naturally felt helplessness and fear.

"We can't do anything," recalls the drummer. "We don't have the Internet. Who are we going to call? Anyone we know is at least hundreds of miles away."

Eventually, police escorted Reed and his People, Places & Things band onto a train out of town, though the musicians faced another threatening encounter with skinheads who had boarded, too. Once again, they were saved from attack and eventually made it safely to Krakow, Poland.

Reed has been pondering this close call ever since and, perhaps not surprisingly, decided to deal with it through art. "Flesh & Bone," a jazz suite with text, will have its world premiere Friday night at the Art Institute of Chicago's Fullerton Hall, performed by Reed and an expanded version of People, Places & Things that will include cornetist Ben Lamar Gay and bass clarinetist Jason Stein, plus Marvin Tate and Kevin Coval performing text.

Reed hastens to note, however, that "Flesh & Bone" will not be a musical re-creation of the original event or of the way he felt as it unfolded. Instead, the piece will serve as a gateway for his thoughts on art, race, culture and a great deal more.

"It doesn't have to be about this event," says Reed. "The event is the spark on how we converse and reflect. … It's a parable on what it's like to be confined in these situations."

Yet this encounter did not happen in a vacuum. In a way, it was born of ancient prejudices and, not surprisingly, evoked for Reed America's own battles with racism. While Reed and friends were in hiding, he wondered what this brush with danger told him about the brave souls who faced down institutionalized racism during the civil rights battles of an earlier era.

"At one point, while cowering in a 12x12 room," Reed writes on his website, "I asked Greg and myself: Would we have had the courage to march in Selma or even Chicago?"

Those who did, Reed believes, showed a kind of mettle that surpassed anything he and his colleagues had to muster, in part because the civil rights warriors stepped directly and heroically into harm's way.

"It made me think: I got thrown into this, and I'm scared," says Reed. "There's no real courage here, not like sitting in a lunch counter. I can't imagine that. … I don't know that I would have that courage."

How Reed reconciles all of these conflicting thoughts and themes are what "Flesh & Bone" is all about. Musically, he says, the piece is built partially on motifs the musicians played during their 2009 European tour. Textually, the opus will include quotes from James Baldwin and others, as well as phraseology conceived by Tate and Coval, who will be "authors of their own solos," as Reed puts it.

By expanding People, Places & Things with the two additional horns, Reed says he's referencing the small-group work of Duke Ellington, which has been a source of fascination for him in recent years.

Exactly how all of this comes together — and how well — won't be apparent until Friday night. But considering the ingenuity and depth of Reed's music with People, Places & Things and other projects, "Flesh & Bone" holds great promise.

And though Reed believes this "may be the most risky thing I've done," in that "I'm exposing a lot of myself and my process and inviting a lot of people to it," he doesn't want his audience to be scared off by the subject matter.

Listeners "don't have to know all this stuff," he says, referring to the story of what happened and its implications.

"The layers are there (to experience), if you want to. But you can come and think: This is really cool. … I don't know what it's about. I don't need to know."

But who wouldn't want to?

1. Voyagers 03:19

2. First Reading: SF Sky 01:46

3. Conversation Music 05:18

4. A Separatist Party 03:30

5. The Magic Drum 01:27

6. My Imaginary Friend (Tyshawn Sorey) 07:19

7. I Want to Be Small - For Archibald Motley 03:52

8. Second Reading: Me Day 01:25

9. Watching the Boats 04:25

10. Call Off Tomorrow (My Life Up Until the Present) 04:56

11. Scenes From The Next Life 03:33

Greg Ward - alto saxophone

Tim Haldeman - tenor saxophone

Jason Roebke - bass

Mike Reed - drums

Ben Lamar Gay - cornet

Jason Stein - bass clarinet

Marvin Tate - words

Recorded by Nick Broste, February 2016

Additional Recording by: Sima & Liam Cunningham at Foxhall Studio, Mike Reed field recordings.

Mastered by Dave Zuchowski

All compositions by Mike Reed, All words by Marvin Tate

Original Art Work by Nicholas Kashian

Produced by Mike Reed

Executive Produced by Mike Lintner

Special Thanks to George Lewis, Wadada Leo Smith, Kevin Coval, Naomi Beckwith, Amy Mooney, John Corbett, Sima Cunningham, Alyssa Martinez, Brett Swinney, Jeff Albert, Marcello Bennetti, Wojciech Jusczak