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BA Podcast 60: Tim Berne

Support Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Episode 60 of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with saxophonist Tim Berne. Links to listen: Osiris /...

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O’Neal’s Porch @ 20

Bassist William Parker had already been a key figure on the New York jazz scene for close to 30 years in 2001. His first record date was in March 1973, on saxophonist Frank Lowe‘s Black Beings. (An...

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The Tone World: Part 1

Bassist William Parker has a fairly epic box out this week. Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World is a 10CD set, with each disc featuring a different ensemble, many of which do not...

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Thumbscrew

Thumbscrew is the collaborative trio of guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Michael Formanek, and drummer Tomas Fujiwara. They have been working together as a unit since roughly 2011, releasing their...

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Winter & Spring

Discussed in this essay: William Parker Trio, Painter’s Spring (Thirsty Ear, 2000); William Parker Trio, Painters Winter (AUM Fidelity, 2021); Other Dimensions in Music, Live at the Sunset (Marge,...

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OGJB Quartet

The OGJB Quartet is an ensemble formed by alto saxophonist Oliver Lake, cornet player Graham Haynes, bassist Joe Fonda, and drummer Barry Altschul. (Disclosure: Graham Haynes has an album,...

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Soul Of Things @ 20

Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, who died in 2018 at 76, had an astonishing career. At 20, he formed the Jazz Darings, who adapted the innovations of Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, in the process...

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Willie Jones III

In the introduction to his 1985 book Rhythm-a-Ning, Gary Giddins writes, “When we talk about a renaissance in jazz, we are talking about a wealth of interesting music, not a broad-scaled awakening of...

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Spy Vs. Spy @ 35

John Zorn has been operating with total independence for over 30 years. In 1992, he started Avant Records, with distribution via the Japanese label DIW. Three years later, he launched Tzadik, which...

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Old & New Dreams

The other day, I was listening to Ornette Coleman’s first two albums, Something Else!!!! and Tomorrow is the Question!, and was struck for about the thousandth time since I first heard his music in...

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