Excitingly loud and proud new music from Sons of Kemet, The Hedivg Mollestad Trio, Nels Cline Singers, and another preview of the forthcoming Ceramic Dog LP. Plus Beefheart’s Decals 50 years on, super-(supper?) group Three-Layer Cake, Broken Shadows, Julius Hemphill with Abdul Wadud, Wally Shoup with Brent Arnold, Pat Metheny with Ornette Coleman, and percussion work from Chris Corsano and Chris Oppermann.
Photo credit: Shabaka Hutchings by Tore Sætre / Wikimedia; Hedvig Mollestad and Nels Cline by Hreinn Gudlaugsson via Wikipedia; Broken shadows by Eckhard Derschmidt via Intakt Records; Julius Hemphill by Brian McMillen; Wally Shoup by Peter Gannushkin via Earshot Jazz; Chris Corsano by Cheryl Gorski via the artist.