Heroes Are Gang Leaders The Avant Age Garde I Ams of the Gal Luxury (Fast Speaking Music/Flat Langston’s Ark Eyes, 2015) BUY Highest Engines Near / Near Higher Engineers (Flat Langston’s Ark Eyes, 2016) BUY Review Heroes Are Gang Leaders (HAGL) is a New York based ensemble that was formed in the wake of the
Thumbscrew Convallaria (Cuneiform, 2016) In the world of creative music, rehearsal time is frequently a scarce commodity. For many bands, the task of learning new music before recording it can often be a challenge and a logistical nightmare. So in the summer of 2015, when guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Michael Formanek and percussionist Tomas Fujiwara,
Percussionist, guitarist and improvising composer Weasel Walter has been a crucial part of the New York creative music scene for the better part of the last eight years since planting roots here in 2009 and following lengthy stints in the Bay Area and Chicago. He’s part of a generation of musicians who, trawling the cut-out
The Out Louds Relative Pitch Records (CD/DL) Personnel Tomas Fujiwara (drums) Ben Goldberg (clarinet) Mary Halvorson (guitar) Track List Starry / False 4:23 Trout-Lily 5:48 False Goat’s-Beard 10:13 Yellow Queen 2:26 Obedience 5:54 Pink Home Run 7:26 Preference 4:09 Old Blush 3:08 Black Garlic 5:53 Nearly Wild 6:59 Pink Double Knock Out 1:34 Review The
Frantz Loriot Systematic Distortion Orchestra Out Now Recordings (CD) Personnel: Frantz Loriot (viola) Nathananiel Morgan (alto saxophone) Brad Henkel (trumpet) Joe Moffett (trumpet) Ben Gerstein (trombone) Sam Kulik (bass trombone) Sean Ali (bass, voice) Pascal Niggenkemper (bass) Carlo Costa (drums, percussion) Devin Gray (drums, percussion) Flin Van Hemmen (drums, percussion) Track Listing: Echo 9:50
Defunkt ESP-Disk’ (CD/DL) Personnel Joseph Bowie (lead vocals, trombone, percussion) John Mulkerin (trumpet) Bill Bickford (guitar) Ronny Drayton (guitar) Kim Clarke (bass) Kenny Martin (drums) Track List In the Good Times (7:16) Make Them Dance (6:58) Love You from Afar (11:22) Ooh Baby (7:52) The Eternal Triangle (7:36) Defunkt (7:20) Refuse to Love (8:03)
The Distance – Michael Formanek and Ensemble Kolossus ECM (2016) Personnel: Loren Stillman (alto saxophone, flute) Oscar Noriega (alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet) Chris Speed (tenor saxophone, clarinet) Brian Settles (tenor saxophone, flute) Tim Berne (baritone saxophone) Dave Ballou (trumpet) Ralph Alessi (trumpet) Shane Endsley (trumpet) Kirk Knuffke (cornet) Alan Ferber (trombone) Jacob Garchik (trombone)
Flin van Hemmen’s Drums of Days Neither/Nor Records (CD) Personnel: Flin van Hemmen (drums, piano) Todd Neufeld (guitar) Eivind Opsvik (bass) Special Guest: Tony Malaby (tenor & soprano saxophones on track 2) Special Guest: Eliot Cardinaux (poetry) Track List: Drums of Days I (8:40) Morsel! (1:28) Dream Tree (2:13) Aching Arches (16:38) Sensitive Chaos I
DAVID S. WARE / APOGEE Birth Of A Being (Expanded) AUM096/97 DSW-ARC01 Personnel: David S. Ware: tenor saxophone Cooper-Moore: piano, ashimba on * Marc Edwards: drums Original sessions produced by David S. Ware and Cooper-Moore; Recorded by Fred Seibert at C.I. Recording, NYC on April 14 & 15, 1977 This edition produced by Steven Joerg.
Mazur/Neuringer – Diachronic Paths Relative Pitch CD (2016) Recorded November 13, 2013 in Krakow, Poland Personnel: Keir Neuringer (alto saxophone) Rafal Mazur (bass guitar) Review Bass and Saxophone duo Mazur/Neuringer journey through an improvised song set that is at times equal parts playful, fierce and inventive. The duo of Philadelphia-based saxophonist Keir Neuringer and Polish bassist
