Silke Eberhard Trio – What a Beauty Being (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011) William Parker’s In Order to Survive – The Peach Orchard (AUM Fidelity, 1998) VAX – Count to VAX (self-released, 2014) Matt Nelson – Lower Bottoms (Tubapede, 2014) Jesse Stacken – Helleborus (Fresh Sound, 2014) Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um (Columbia, 1959)
Cecil Taylor – Air above Mountains (Inner City, 1973) [vinyl] William Parker Organ Quartet – Uncle Joe’s Spirit House (Centering, 2010) Raphe Malik – Consequences (Eremite, 1999) Thollem McDonas, William Parker, Nels Cline – The Gowanus Session (Porter, 2012) William Parker – Long Hidden: The Olmec Series (AUM Fidelity, 2006) The Element Choir & William
Frank Lowe Quartet – Out Loud (Triple Point, 2014) [vinyl] Cecil Taylor – 3 Phasis (New World, 1979) [vinyl] Taylor Ho Bynum & Tomas Fujiwara – Through Foundation (self-released, 2014) [vinyl] John Coltrane Quartet – Creation (Blue Parrot, 1965) [vinyl] John Coltrane – John Coltrane Quartet Plays (Impulse, 1962) [vinyl] Melodic Art-Tet (Brackeen, Abdullah, Parker,
William Parker – Wood Flute Songs: Anthology Live 2006-2012 (AUM Fidelity, 2013) [8 CDs] Swallow/Talmor/Nussbaum – Singular Curves (Avand, 2014) Vinnie Sperrazza – Apocryphal (Loyal Label, 2014) Revolutionary Ensemble – Beyond the Boundary of Time (Mutable Music, 2008) Paul Flaherty & Randall Colbourne – Ironic Havoc (Relative Pitch, 2014)
Loren Stillman & Bad Touch – Going Public (Fresh Sound, 2013) Tom Chang – Tongue & Groove (Raw Toast, 2014) Fay Victor Ensemble – The Freesong Suite (Greene Avenue Music, 2009) Matt Pavolka – The Horns Band (Fresh Sound, 2014) Michael Attias – Spun Tree (Clean Feed, 2012) Alon Nechushtan – Venture Bound (Enja,
William Parker – Wood Flute Songs, DiverseWorks (both sets) (AUM Fidelity, 2013) Mike Pride’s Scene Fucker #5 – The Ensemble Is an Electronic Device (Public Eyesore, 2005) Jeff Cosgrove, Matthew Shipp, William Parker – Alternating Current (Grizzley Music, 2014) Kris Davis Trio – Waiting for You to Grow (Clean Feed, 2014)
William Parker – Wood Flute Songs: Anthology Live 2006-2012 [discs 1-2 of 8: William Parker Quartet at Yoshi’s, Oakland, California, sets 1-2] (AUM Fidelity, 2013) Michael Attias – Renku in Coimbra (Clean Feed, 2009) Kali Z. Fasteau – Piano Rapture: New Works on Piano (Flying Note, 2014) Max Johnson – The Prisoner (No Business, 2014)
Saxophonist Tony Malaby is one of the standouts of a generation of jazz musicians who got going in New York in the mid-1990s. A bold and fiery player, Malaby has made an impact on the New York scene over the past twenty years. Tony and I had the opportunity to discuss his new record, Somos
Ross Hammond’s Humanity Suite – self-titled (Prescott, 2014) [LP] Dave Rempis & Tim Daisy – Back to the Circle (Okkadisk, 2005) Dave Rempis Percussion Quartet – The Disappointment of Parsley (Not Two, 2009) Kendra Shank & John Stowell – New York Conversations (Montreux Jazz, 2013) Thumbscrew – self-titled (Cuneiform, 2014) Collective 4tet – Live at
Interview with Matthew Shipp via email, March 14-20, 2014 For a Japanese translation, see here. Cisco Bradley: What new direction does Root of Things (Relative Pitch, released March 2014) represent for your trio with Michael Bisio and Whit Dickey? Matthew Shipp: I don’t know if new direction is the right term—maybe more intense integration is
