Eric Dolphy enthusiasts take note. November 23rd sees the release of Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions , via Resonance Records. Spread over three discs, the set includes both the Conversations and Iron Man studio albums, along with 85-minutes […]
Category: Jazz
Playing Changes with Nate Chinen :: The AD Interview
Spiritual Jazz Sunday
The following began as a set I compiled on CD-R for personal listening on – as the title suggests – Sundays. Over time I shared it with a few friends […]
Don Cherry & The Organic Music Theatre: RAI Studios, Italy, 1976
Transcendental. Spiritual. Ritual. Supernatural. Recorded in 1976, live at RAI Studios in Rome, Italy, we find the chameleonic Don Cherry with the Organic Music Theatre as they run the voodoo […]
Alice Coltrane :: Jaya Jaya Rama
The humidity continues to linger, so we’re choosing to sweat it out with this fierce slice of late night free jazz. “Jaya Jaya Rama,” the closing number to Alice Coltrane’s […]
Abstract Truths: An Evolving Jazz Compendium – Volume Six
Volume Six of Abstract Truths, An Evolving Jazz Compendium . If unfamiliar with the series, please first read here per its genesis and intention. We return with Los Angeles selector Phil Cho, who can most readily be found in the […]
The Aquarium Drunkard Guide To ECM Records
Founded by Manfred Eicher in Germany in 1969, ECM Records (Editions of Contemporary Music) has spent nearly 50 years assembling one of the strongest catalogs in musical history. Marked by […]
Mattson 2 Play ‘A Love Supreme’ :: The AD Interview
John Coltrane’s vaunted A Love Supreme is a record with baggage. And while almost none of it is negative, the price of absolute reverence can be untouchability, or worse, mass appeal. And while […]
Charles Mingus :: Live at Montreux, 1975
These days, when Charles Mingus is remembered, it’s primarily for records like Mingus Ah Um, Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus or The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. All great records, […]
David Darling :: Cycles
Last year witnessed the opening of the hallowed digital vaults of the ECM label. Long a holdout from digital platforms, the Berlin based ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) was founded in […]
Abstract Truths: An Evolving Jazz Compendium — Volume Five
Volume five of Abstract Truths . If unfamiliar with the series, please first read here about the its genesis and intention. Bringing us this look at the contemporary Chicago jazz scene is Scottie McNiece, head of […]
Abstract Truths: An Evolving Jazz Compendium — Volume Four
Volume four of Abstract Truths . If unfamiliar with the series, please first read here about the its genesis and intention. For this installment we tapped bay area record collector/muso David Katznelson. Katznelson likens the genre […]
Joe Henderson & Alice Coltrane :: The Elements / World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
The new reissue label Jazz Dispensary did us all a favor this year by bringing, The Elements , Joe Henderson and Alice Coltrane’s lone collaboration, back to the marketplace, rescuing it […]
Abstract Truths: An Evolving Jazz Compendium — Volume Three
Volume three of Abstract Truths . If unfamiliar with the series, please first read here about the its genesis and intention. For this installment our friend, record collector and audio archeologist Eothen Alapatt, of Now Again Records , is […]
Nina Simone :: A Very Rare Evening
Nina Simone would have been 84 this week — as such, fans the world over have been celebrating the iconoclast’s deep and dynamic catalog. Incredibly, a new highlight of Simone’s career surfaced […]