Improvisation takes center stage in this podcast, as we unwrap an adventurous new album by Bill Frisell that features the unusual trio of guitar, drums and pipe organ. William Parker leads his own unorthodox trio of duduk, ashimba and frame drum, while Daniel Carter leads his on both sax and trumpet, and Kris Davis's more conventional trio demonstrates the improvisational use of the prepared piano.
Mat Maneri and Lucian Ban revisit Bartók’s groundbreaking recordings of Eastern European folk music, while modernism meets Metal Machine Music in the new Merzbow/Nicholas Horvath duo. Timo Andres composes for Rachel Lee Priday, Jarrad Powell dreams of John Cage, Mick Barr finds grooves, and Gabriela Ortiz commemorates Mexico’s Glitter Revolution with Dudamel and the LA Phil. We close by revisiting two recording sessions by Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett from the same week in October 1974 that both became models for half a century of mainstream jazz.
