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Whether the enforced solitude of the coronavirus pandemic compelled a desire for oral communication, encouraged artists sans collaborators to sit down with the written word or simply gave everybody plenty of time in which to try out new stuff, coming out of the back end there has been a profusion of vocal or spoken word jazz from William Parker...

The prolific Ivo Perelman seems to have done it all, but in fact the free saxophonist and Matthew Shipp collaborator has worked with only two vocalists during the course of his long career: his compatriot Flora Purim who was already a Brazilian hero and a fusion icon when she brought her steep range and airy bossa nova and jazz...

Allen Lowe's short bio says that the veteran saxophonist and guitarist 'spans the history of jazz in his music in a way that few have'. While sharing bebop idioms and offering an especially gritty take on the avant-garde, some of his earliest records incorporated not only roots music in the form of nascent jazz and blues but tango theatrics...