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Tracks of the Week 19.01.25

Tracks of the Week
Benjamin Lackner plays the piano with a plangent grace at the head of a new ensemble on his latest album Spindrift for ECM Records. Only the trumpeter Mathias Eick remains from his debut ECM offering Last Decade, while the pianist also reconnects with Matthieu Chazarenc on drums who was a member of his earlier trio. Eick with the tenor...

Booker T & The Plasmic Bleeds – Ode to BC/LY . . . And Eye Know BO . . . da Prez

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The saxophonist Booker T. Williams is something of an underground legend. Hailing from Seattle and embarking upon New York City at the height of the downtown scene in the mid-seventies before touring throughout Europe and Japan, he appears to have jammed at various times with everyone from Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins and McCoy Tyner to Archie Shepp, Reggie Workman...

Eri Yamamoto Quadraphonic – Fly with the Wings

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Harking back to her studies at The New School in the mid-nineties, the Osaka-born pianist Eri Yamamoto recalls the legendary bassist Reggie Workman giving her a piece of advice. 'You know Eri, for your style playing in a trio will be best. Just stop practising now and go out, walk around the school and find a bassist and drummer'...