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There's a punishing tenor to the new trio album by Camila Nebbia, Kit Downes and Andrew Lisle which stretches beyond the brassy and gruff yet still resonant tone of the topline saxophone. The musicians are no strangers to the format. Nebbia's penchant for collaboration includes several diverse trio albums over the past couple of years, for instance on Diminished Borders...

'Where your attention is, that becomes lively' is just one of the quotes or aphorisms which David Lynch tends to fall back upon whenever he is asked to explain the nature of ideas or creativity or in his own inimitable helium-winged Midwestern way, the consuming happenstance of 'catching the big fish'. Lynch with his longtime collaborative partner Chrystabell are...

The jazz veterans Andrew Cyrille and Bill Frisell have many feathers in their well-worn caps, whether one plucks at the percussionist's iconic sets of the early sixties with Walt Dickerson and Ahmed Abdul-Malik, his pioneering free jazz alongside Cecil Taylor and Milford Graves, or the guitarist's cultivation of the ECM sound during the eighties. They have also done more...