


PNL label released their Ada, a 1-track (33 minutes) CD featuring Brotzmann on alto & tenor saxes, clarinet & tarogato, Lonberg-Holm on cello & electronics, and Nilssen-Love on drums. Mostly improvised, these eleven tracks were recorded on may 2010 at St Peter's Church Whitstable.Īda Trio is a new notable project, created by Fred Lonberg-Holm, Peter Brotzmann and Paal Nilssen-Love. The Bleeding Edge, released by PSI, is an album featuring the trio of Evan Parker (soprano & tenor saxes), Okkyung Lee (cello) and Peter Evans (trumpets). Six tracks for over 40 minutes, recorded on january 2011 2) Orange Afternoons, another informal session in Brooklyn yielded six new Douglas compositions for a quintet with Ravi Coltrane (sax), Vijay Iyer and Linda Oh (both on piano) and Marcus Gilmore (drums), featuring collective music alternating several solos, recorded on march 2011 3) Bad Mango, performed with So Percussion group, with Dave on trumpet, Eric Beach (estey organ, Ableton, musical saw, toys, metronomes, shruti box, crotales), Adam Sliwinski (marimba, toys, concert bass drum, glockenspiel), Jason Treuting (drumset, melodica, deskbells) and Josh Quillen (korg synthesizer, vocoder, kick drum, snare drum, ride cymbal). Sam Rivers died of pneumonia on december 26 in Orlando (Florida) at 88.Īfter Spirit Moves and United Front, Dave Douglas' projects Brass Ecstasy continues with Three Views, a 3CD set released by Greenleaf, that collects: 1) Rare Metals, an informal studio followup to the live United Front, utilizing the same personnel but adding 5 new compositions and a new arrangement of Billy Strayhorn's Lush Life. News of Jazz Music New book by Piero Scaruffi: A History of Jazz Music
