#5131, Not Quite Jazz
In this edition of New Sounds, delve into jazz-adjacent music and hear musicians who wander far away from its traditional roots. From carefully structured avant-garde to improvisational music experiments, each record offers a distinct lens for your point of view.
The complex melodies in The Lounge Lizards’s “Bob the Bob” and “Bob the Bob Home” sound conversational, anchored in repeating polyrhythms, gaining new meaning at each turn. The experimental collective SML’s “Mouth Words” begins with spoken words that soon yield to expansive chords, combining sampling and synthesis techniques with the familiar sounds of the saxophone, drums, and bass guitar. In contrast, filmmaker and composer Bruno de Almeida’s “Parallax View” from his Cinema Imaginado anthology provides a soundtrack for dreams and life alike, with dark yet warm cornet phrases and eerie electronic textures.
Later, Pharoah Sanders’ and Bill Laswell’s “Gamaka” fuses the electronic music of the early 2000s with the mellow tone of the cornet, played by the same cornetist from the previous track, Graham Haynes. With Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, Patrick Shiroishi’s “Dance Of The White Shadow And Golden Kite”, the line between jazz and electronic music becomes even blurrier, thanks to sensory percussion elements and effervescent guitar tapestries joining the mix. By the end of the show, David Binney, Henry Solomon, and Mateo Ottonello cement us fully in the gray area of jazz with their take on fusion music interwoven with Uruguayan candombe rhythms. - Sırma Munyar
Program #5131, Not Quite Jazz (First aired 4/15/26)
ARTIST: Bruno de Almeida
WORK: Parallax View (feat. Graham Haynes & Mário Franco)
RECORDING: Cinema Imaginado, Vol. 4
SOURCE: BA Music
INFO: https://brunodealmeida.bandcamp.com/album/cinema-imaginado-volume-4
ARTIST: The Lounge Lizards
WORK: Bob the Bob
RECORDING: Voice of Chunk
SOURCE: Strange and Beautiful Music
INFO: https://johnlurie.bandcamp.com/album/voice-of-chunk
ARTIST: SML
WORK: Mouth Words
RECORDING: How You Been
SOURCE: International Anthem
INFO: https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/how-you-been
ARTIST: Bruno de Almeida
WORK: Parallax View (feat. Graham Haynes & Mário Franco)
RECORDING: Cinema Imaginado, Vol. 4
SOURCE: BA Music
INFO: https://brunodealmeida.bandcamp.com/album/cinema-imaginado-volume-4
ARTIST: Pharoah Sanders & Bill Laswell
WORK: Gamaka
RECORDING: With a Heartbeat
SOURCE: Douglas Music
INFO: https://www.pharoahsanders.com/heartbeat
ARTIST: Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, Patrick Shiroishi
WORK: Dance Of The White Shadow And Golden Kite
RECORDING: Speak, Moment
SOURCE: Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, Patrick Shiroishi under exclusive license to AKP Recordings
INFO: https://daveharringtonmaxjaffepatrickshiroishi.bandcamp.com/album/speak-moment
ARTIST: Henry Solomon, David Binney, Matteo Ottonello
WORK: A Los Maestros
RECORDING: Buscando el Sol
SOURCE: Little Butterfly Records
INFO: https://littlebutterflyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/buscando-el-sol
