Nicole Mitchell Creates a Gracious Blend of Improvisation and Structure on ‘Maroon Cloud’
Jazz composer and flute virtuoso Nicole Mitchell has assembled a new quartet that makes beautiful but daring music with great transparency.
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John Zorn / Forro in the Dark: Forro Zinho: Forro in the Dark Plays Zorn
Here's the kind of covers album that deserves to become a future trend -- bands like Forro in the Dark performing the works of an artist like John Zorn.
John Zorn: Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula
The tide pulls the quiet surf back to the shore where John Zorn's Dreamers await with nine new compositions. Nice.
John Zorn: Simulacrum
Simulacrum is for those who were afraid John Zorn might be getting soft.
John Zorn: The Hermetic Organ, Vol. 3: St. Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield
In celebrating his 60th birthday, John returns to his first instrument.
Yoko Ono: Antony & Yoko / Yoko Ono & John Zorn
With a pair of singles, Yoko Ono furthers her case for artistic relevance as a proponent of fringe music that, like much of her back catalogue, was never intended for mass consumption.
Zion80: Adramelech: Book of Angels Volume 22
There’s nothing not to recommend about this release, which offers further evidence that virtually everything Jon Madof touches turns to sonic gold.
John Zorn: Myth and Mythopoeia
Myth and Mythopoeia holds the course for John Zorn's career -- presenting music that is as difficult to hear as it is rewarding to absorb. There's also one track here that can be preserved for the ages.
John Zorn: Fragmentations, Prayers and Interjections
A 46-minute experiment and an anticipation of more things to come rarely -- very rarely -- are so beautifully crafted.