This new my release didn’t come across my radar until this week. Listening to CD now… sounds great.
New today!
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Some fusion featuring guitarist Tommy Bolin, who I would not classify as jazz, or jazzy. Still the dude has some chops. A favorite cut is Stratus.
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Terumasa Hino’s Aftershock
https://tidal.com/browse/album/45581443
Great album with fantastic sound, available on Tidal. Currently the Venus SACD or LP is very pricey. Give the Tidal version a shot.
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I’m currently listening to it on Qobuz but will try it on Tidal too.
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It is a great album. I have the SACD (waiting for a PST one of these days 
In the meantime, I plan to rip the DSD layer.
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What a great start with the bass on the 1st track.
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The bass player on Ode to a Living Tree is Fred Hopkins, typically associated with the Chicago based trio AIR. Associated with the AACM, AIR is comprised of Fred, Steve McCall, and Henry Threadgill.
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If you enjoyed Ode to the Living Tree I highly recommend Air’s Open Air Suit, The opener with Steve McCalls lead in followed by Fred’s bass line are unforgettable: Card Two: The Jick or Mandrill’s Cosmic Ass, and naturally we have Henry Threadgill. This has been part of my core collection going back to 1978, I continue to enjoy it to this day.
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A nice piano trio outing. The vocalist, Carly Johnson, is the daughter of an old, old friend of mine.
Kurt Elling “1619 Broadway–The Brill Building Project”
I missed this one’s release entirely and made up for it by ordering it this week.
An ambitious conception well-executed.
Joe Lovano “Tenor Legacy” Blue Note cd
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Thollem Duncan (p), Alex Cline (d), Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar), Thollem’s Astral Travelling Sessions with Susan Alcorn recently released on Astral Spirits.
Thollem Duncan is a new pianist to me of the “Cecil Taylor” school to my ear. A brief bio from Discogs:
Pianist/vocalist/composer/improviser, recipient of the 2006 National Endowment of the Arts Meet The Composer grant, was born Feb. 23, 1967 in the San Francisco Bay Area of Irish and Cherokee descent. He is presently living in Prague. He began his musical training as a young child rigorously studying the keyboard repertoire of European composers from the renaissance to the 20th century. After graduating with degrees in both piano performance and composition he chose to become homeless for several years, opting to wander and live out of a backpack, rather than pursue a career as a concert pianist with a suit and tie. It is because of these dichotomies and rich, wildly disparate experiences that his music is so dynamic and appeals to such a wide variety of audiences.
His travels as a performer have covered much of the North American continent and Europe. He has performed extensively as a soloist as well with groups. He is a founding member of several innovative ensembles, and is responsible, in full or in part, for many albums of original music, with Edgetone Records and Pax Recordings as well as some self released.
Thollem has performed in theaters, art galleries, universities, elementary schools, concert halls, jazz clubs, rock clubs, festivals, warehouses, house concerts, streets, forests, the Shoshone Desert at the Nevada nuclear test site, on television, radio, in circuses, and riots. He has performed piano concertos with symphonies, played in many free improv groups, West African drumming troupes, and Javanese gamelan ensembles, all the while working as an accompanist and a composer for opera and modern dance.
Currently Thollem primarily plays his own comprovisations which he calls post-classical circus punk world jazz free music, for people and everyone else. His music whispers/screams, “there are as many worlds in a life as there are lives in the world”.
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Crucial, probably their best.
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