Tag: Michael Bisio

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

Introduced by a deft clangour of gongs and chimes then a few drum rolls which might suggest something in the spiritual jazz vein, the bassist Michael Bisio's new album NuMBq proves something else entirely. From the moment those drums taper off and Marianne Osiel blows the first notes of her cor anglais or English horn - a sound which...

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...