Mats Eilertsen: Rubicon (2016)

Mats Eilertsen: double bass
Eirik Hegdal: soprano and baritone saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet
Thomas T Dahl: guitar
Rob Waring: marimba, vibraphone
Harmen Fraanje: piano, fender rhodes
Olavi Louhivuori: drums
Trygve Seim: tenor and soprano saxophones

1. Canto (Mats Eilertsen) (05:33)
2. Cross the Creek (Harmen Fraanje) (02:18)
3. March (Mats Eilertsen) (8:03)
4. Balky (Mats Eilertsen) (06:44)
5. Lago (Mats Eilertsen) (06:57)
6. Blublue (Mats Eilertsen) (07:24)
7. Wood and Water (Mats Eilertsen, Eirik Hegdal, Rob Waring) (02:03)
8. September (Mats Eilertsen) (07:58)
9. Reminiscent (Mats Eilertsen) (04:35)
10. Introitus (Mats Eilertsen) (02:21)

 

John Coltrane: Alabama [Live]

John Coltrane: saxophone
McCoy Tyner: piano
Jimmy Garrison: bass
Elvin Jones: drums

Alabama is a John Coltrane composition that appears on his album Live at Birdland (1963). It was written in response to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963, an attack carried out by the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four little girls…

Dan McCarthy: Epoch (2019)

Dan McCarthy: vibraphone
Mark Feldman: violin
Ben Monder: guitar
Steve Swallow: bass

1. A Dream, Awake (4:20)
2. Fugitive Epoch (8:59)
3. Softly She Sings Her Song (6:01)
4. Desert Entrance (1:42)
5. Strange Medicine on the Desert (8:21)
6. A Dream, Asleep (3:57)

The Dave Pike Quartet: Pike’s Peak (1961)

Dave Pike: vibraphone
Bill Evans: piano
Herbie Lewis: bass
Walter Perkins: drums

1. Why Not (Dave Pike) (6:51)
2. In a Sentimental Mood (Duke Ellington) (6:37)
3. Vierd Blues (Miles Davis) (6:02)
4. Besame Mucho (Consuelo Velazquez) (6:57)
5. Wild Is the Wind (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) (9:33)