13 Feb

[ February 16th, 2024 release via Attaboygirl Records: Gordon Grdina’s The Marrow feat. Fathieh Honari ]

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Guitarist and oud master Gordon Grdina releases two diverse yet equally stunning new albums via his Attaboygirl Records label on February 16, 2024

Gordon Grdina’s The Marrow with Fathieh Honari melds Persian and improvised music with Hank Roberts, Mark Helias and Hamin Honar i, while Duo Work is an exhilarating improvisational meeting between Grdina and drummer Christian Lillinger

“The Marrow is] nothing short of extraordinary, genuinely pushing the envelope in terms of how far an artist can take both Middle Eastern maqam music and American jazz.” – New York Music Daily

06 Oct

[ October 13th, 2023 release via Adyhâropa Records: Quinsin Nachoff – Stars and Constellations ]

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Saxophonist/composer Quinsin Nachoff draws inspiration from mythology that seeks to make sense of the unfathomable cosmos on his new album Stars and Constellations, out October 13, 2023 via Adyhâropa Records. Uniting a chord-less jazz trio – Nachoff, bassist Mark Helias and drummer Dan Weiss – with both the Bergamot Quartet, and on one track by The Rhythm Method string quartet, the adventurous album dissolves any division between jazz and classical.

” There’s something strikingly inventive and vivid about Nachoff’s music… composed by a mind that continues to stretch beyond the comfort zone of any genre.” – Friedrich Kunzmann, All About Jazz

“Nachoff’s writing [is] shaped by an engagingly complex musical mind, a sensibility that guarantees the progress of each movement will contain a series of delights and surprises. It’s demanding contemporary music that succeeds at the trick of pulling you in.” – Michael Ullman, The Arts Fuse

13 Jun

[ June the 17, 2022 release on Attaboygirl Records: Gordon Grdina, Matthew Shipp, Mark Helias – Pathways ]

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release date: 17.06.2022 on Attaboygirl Records

“Never content to follow one musical shape, as if following the hard winds of wanted or unwanted change, Grdina’s unerring investigative prolificacy hits on a new geometry each time out.” – Mike Jurkovic, All About Jazz

Pathways (Attaboygirl Records) is the second release by Grdina, legendary pianist Matthew Shipp, and bass innovator Mark Helias. Since their 2019 initial meeting on Skin and Bones, these three extraordinary artists continue their musical evolution with a tightly coiled, laser focused recording full of abundant ideas packed into concentrated, intense bursts of creative energy.

24 Apr

[ April 24th self -release via Bandcamp: Mark Dresser & Mark Helias – the Marks Brothers ]

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release date: 24.04.2020 on bandcamp

This is not a secret here for those who are reading my reviews and articles for a while, or know my taste for the doble bass music, that if there is anything new about that subject I gotta know it sooner rather than later. In that case it is definitely later , I would say that it is even pretty damn late, as this material had been recorded in 2000 and this news via bandcamp subscription came to me daily like to all of you and to say it at least: Took Me by Surprise, but what a wonderful surprise is that: Mark Dresser & Mark Helias, two of the bassists I simply admire, together making sweet and gob-smacking recording under funky cinematic joke a like title: The Marks Brothers. Please follow an excellent Bill Showmaker essay on that session written at the date but freshly discovered by myself today. What a Real blast from the Past it is!