Open to the Experience

This 68 minute set offers a selection of readily recognizable jazz varieties, from the work of sometimes austere northern Europeans like Nils Frahm, Jan Garbarek, and Bugge Wesseltoft to recognized American masters like Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, and Art Pepper. I was lucky enough to also rope in some new and newish releases from UK's brilliant Matthew Halsall; more from him on future shows.

Entertaining us on the roll towards home are Chris Coco and Mr. Signout as the flow carries us into less standard, more lightly jazz-inflected territory, and honestly, the transition seems natural to me ... here's hoping you're open to the experience also.

Speaking of which, there’s possibly a bit of prefiguring going on here, a subject in which perhaps Professor Ouija will eventually take an interest….