Tracks of the Week 16.03.24
When the baritone saxophone specialist and former Downtown stalwart Dave Sewelson and the visceral guitar virtuoso Ava Mendoza first conceived the idea of a duo album, the expectation was that they’d veer...
Ava Mendoza & Dave Sewelson – Of It But Not Is It
When the baritone saxophone specialist and former Downtown stalwart Dave Sewelson and the visceral guitar virtuoso Ava Mendoza first conceived the idea of a duo album, the expectation was that they’d veer...
Tracks of the Week 10.02.24
From ‘Old Shep’ and ‘Old King’ to ‘Cracker Jack’ and Campfire Songs with its crackling ode to an aeriform doggy, the small corpus of music about losing a pet has tended to...
Tracks of the Week 27.01.24
Back in 2008 as Jon Irabagon prepared for his first album as a leader, his plans were as simple as they were ambitious: to take his main three horns in the alto,...
Tracks of the Week 14.10.23
From the first Ayleresque thrum and steeped ritual of ‘Miserere’ to the wailing blues, doleful horns and overlayed piano on ‘Wonderful Words Of Life’ whose wispy middle section soon scrambles to a...