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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...

E L U C I D – REVELATOR

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Barrelling out of the gates on 'The World Is Dog' with the snapping bark of a canine but a gruffer palate, the Armand Hammer rapper Elucid sets forth his most sonically diverse record to date, where hyperventilating sirens, ping-ponging kicks and claves plus the odd reggae undercurrent are provided by producers like Jon Nellen, August Fanon, Child Actor, the...