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Bobby Previte / Jamie Saft / Nels Cline: Music from the Early 21st Century

Bobby Previte / Jamie Saft / Nels Cline: Music from the Early 21st Century

A power-trio of electric guitar, keyboards, and drums takes on the challenge of free improvisation—but using primarily elements of rock and electronica as strongly as the usual creative music or jazz. The result is focused.

The Jamie Saft Quartet Revives ’60s/’70s Spiritual Jazz on ‘Hidden Corners’

The Jamie Saft Quartet Revives ’60s/’70s Spiritual Jazz on ‘Hidden Corners’

Producer and pianist Jamie Saft convenes a band designed to create a current take on the "spiritual jazz" of the 1960s and 1970s, and the result is Hidden Corners.

The Jamie Saft Quartet Proves That New Is Old Is New Again on ‘Blue Dream’

The Jamie Saft Quartet Proves That New Is Old Is New Again on ‘Blue Dream’

The usually wildly eclectic keyboardist Jamie Saft uses his traditional acoustic jazz quartet to construct an argument that the old tools can be used in perfectly free, new ways.

John Zorn: Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula

John Zorn: Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula

The tide pulls the quiet surf back to the shore where John Zorn's Dreamers await with nine new compositions. Nice.
Wadada Leo Smith: Red Hill

Wadada Leo Smith: Red Hill

The out-trumpet icon teams with Jamie Saft, Joe Morris, and Balazs Pandi, making six bracing free improvisations that hark back to the 1970s and come fully up to date.
Plymouth: Plymouth

Plymouth: Plymouth

So long Slobber Pup, hello Plymouth. Actually, can we have Slobber Pup back now?

Slobber Pup: Black Aces / New Zion Trio: Chaliwa

Best Jazz of 2006

Bobby Previte: Coalition of the Willing