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The Other Tracks of the Week 08.06.24

The Other Tracks of the Week
Playing a French double manual harpsichord at the head of an ensemble, like gummy sap Léo Dupleix shapes pure intervals into sweet melodic patterns and shimmering harmonic planes. The clarinetist Harry Skoler assembles a winning rhythm section with Joel Ross on vibes, Dezron Douglas on bass and Johnathan Blake on drums as Red Brick Hill revisits childhood haunts and...

Tracks of the Week 05.11.22

Tracks of the Week
Following the delicate harmonies and swinging melodies of Mesmerism, the album of standards which Tyshawn Sorey released in the summer alongside the bassist Matt Brewer and pianist Aaron Diehl, the drummer returns to the repertoire for something more freewheeling in the form of a three-and-a-half hour live recording from a performance at The Jazz Gallery in New York. Enlisting...

Tracks of the Week 08.10.22

Tracks of the Week
"The men who placed themselves above the rest of society through guile, fortuitous outcome of circumstance and sheer brutality have developed two principal institutions to deal with any and all serious disobedience – the prison and institutionalized racism." So wrote the activist and revolutionary theorist George Jackson from the confines of San Quentin Prison, in the manuscript to his second...