15 Feb

[ February the 21st, 2025 release via Irabbagast Records: Jon Irabagon – Server Farm ]

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Out on  February 21, 2025, on Irabbagast Records
Server Farm charts the tension between humans and the virtual with a phenomenal band featuring Mazz Swift, Peter Evans, Miles Okazaki, Wendy Eisenberg, Matt Mitchell, Michael Formanek, Chris Lightcap, Dan Weiss and Levy Lorenzo.

“As a strikingly original player with an imaginative vision, Irabagon keeps his music refreshingly focused but also bursting with freedom.” – Filipe Freitas, JazzTrail

“Irabagon is one of the most exciting talents to enter jazz in the new millennium… No other current saxophonist encompasses his mix of explosive energy, stylistic diversity, lethal chops and radical ideas.” – Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes

“Visceral clamour meets groove…. Server Farm moves nimbly between extremes of structure and texture. The beauty lies where the layers intersect.” – James Hale, DownBeat

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12 Aug

[ 28th of August,2020 release on Palmetto Records: Matt Wilson Quartet – HUG! ]

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release date: August 28, 2020 via Palmetto

“…a ray of sunshine from Matt Wilson.” – Nate Chinen, WBGO “Take Five”

“Between the plague and politics, 2020 seems like a good year, if you tote a pitchfork and walk on cloven hoofs.  The rest of us could use some lifting up, and no one’s better suited to that job than Matt Wilson.” – Bill Meyer, DownBeat

A new Matt Wilson album isn’t so much a snapshot capturing the drummer at a particular moment in time. Rather, his recordings are more like a musical family tree, vividly illustrating the web of relationships that manifest in his music. A creative force since the 1980s, he embodies a verdant and radically unbounded aesthetic, and Hug embraces some of his deepest nourishing roots. Featuring Wilson’s long-running quartet with saxophonist Jeff Lederer, cornetist Kirk Knuffke and bassist Chris Lightcap, Hug documents one of jazz’s most potent and expressive working bands exploring a typically far-flung Wilsonian program.

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