Results for "Michael Bisio"

Michael Bisio

Michael Bisio invariably astounds audiences with the beauty of his tone and the intensity of his very personal musical language. His music has received 4 stars from DownBeat, Jazz Times states his music "resonates with intelligence, emotional depth and probing virtuosity." Journalist Paul DeBarros in Signal to Noise notes; "For years free improvisers have explored the tactile aspect of performance, in which the nature of the encounter between the player and the instrument becomes the subject of the music itself. Bisio is one of the few musicians that has managed to meld this high-concept sense of physicality with the soulful charge of jazz. His fiddle-high, scraped overtones create a tangled choir that is impossible to resist; his expressiveness with the bow is unmatched. Having whirled the listener into a transportive state, he gently shows them the way out..."

NuMBq

By Michael Bisio

Label: Mahakala Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Elegy For MG; Broken Waltz; Going Home/Amazing Grace; AC 2.0NU; Vib Gyor; Medicaid Melancholy; Densities Roy G Biv; Improv #1091.

Steve Lehman, Nels Cline, Satoko Fujii & Hobbs/Shanko

by Maurice Hogue
March 24, 2025

It's not easy to find a more accomplished figure in creative music than Anthony Braxton. Alto saxophonist Steve Lehman knows that, and he honours his one-time mentor with a bristling new live album, The Music Of Anthony Braxton, destined for 2025 best-of lists. This recording is a reminder of Lehman's fearlessness. There are other excellent new ...

Michael Bisio, Fred Moten/Brandon Lopez & Rainer Brüninghausen

by Maurice Hogue
February 24, 2025

There seems to be a bit of growing trend to exploring the confluence of poetry and jazz, and this is right down my alley. New York poet Fred Moten and bassist Brandon Lopez have released two albums with Gerald Cleaver that feature stirring free improvisation in lockstep with Moten's political and questioning words. Now Moten and ...

New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz

By Matthew Shipp

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2024
Track listing: Primal Poem; Sea Song; The Function; Non Circle; Tone IQ; Brain System; Brain Work; Coherent System.

Ivo Perelman: What A Year In Music

by Mark Corroto
September 29, 2024

There is an adage in the music world that one is damned to be a completist. Ever since performances have been captured on cylinders, records, and now digitally, music devotees have endeavored to collect entire catalogs of their favorite musicians or ensembles. Think about the obsessive hunters of 78 rpm blues records from backwoods artists of ...

Matthew Shipp: New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz

by Mark Corroto
April 4, 2024

Jazz fans are much like baseball geeks; they collect facts and statistics. The baseball fan will know a player's numbers such as on base percentage, at bats, home runs and stolen bases, whereas the jazz fan, maybe better said the jazz fanatic, will note recording dates and lineups, titles, releases and recording engineers. The baseball fan ...

Matthew Shipp Trio: New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz

by Karl Ackermann
March 25, 2024

Matthew Shipp with bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Newman Taylor Baker, issue their fifth album as the most enduring of Shipp's various trios. New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz is another vehicle for the pianist/composer in which to express his singular, intricate vision. The perpetual sea-change artist believes that this album is a substantial leap ahead ...

Paul R. Harding / Michael Bisio / Juma Sultan: They Tried to Kill Me Yesterday

by Mark Corroto
March 4, 2024

When we speak of poetry and music, should we ask the chicken and the egg question? As in, which came first? Certainly there was music before spoken word, for imitations of bird calls and other nature sounds will have predated language. So, it's settled, right? Maybe, but not so fast. They Tried to Kill Me Yesterday ...

Rich Halley: Fire Within

by Troy Dostert
February 10, 2024

The cover and title of Rich Halley's latest, Fire Within, have a menacing edge, alerting us to the incendiary qualities that are always a part of the tenor saxophonist's music. But one of the remarkable things about Halley's output is that it is never one-dimensional; there are abundant nuances and surprises to keep a listener engaged, ...