Jazz Alchemist Radio with Dizzy and others

Tune in tonight to www.radiofrycz.pl (or use the facebook player) at 8 pm CET. We'll listen through couple of lately reviewed cds as well as celebrate the anniversary of Dizzy Gillespie's birthday (21 Oct 1917).

Among the presented cds you can find some medium to big ensemble surprises of the year.

The multistylistic Eivind Opvik - Overseas IV, the wonderfully abstract Little Red Big Bang and the raw, jazz meal of  Ken Vandermark Resonance - What Country Is This?. 

1. Dizzy Gillespie - Swing Low Sweet Charriot
2. Litlle Red Big Bang - Why Do I Have to Care
3. The Thing - Awake Nu
4. Eivind Opsvik - Nineteen to the Dozen
5. Little Red Big Bang - Vonwohin
6. Dizzy Gillespie - He Beeped when he shoulda bopped
7. Eivind Opsvik - Michelle Marie
8. Dizzy Gillespie - Oh Lady Be Good
9. Lambert Hendricks & Ross - A Night in Tunisia
10. Little Red Big Bang - Weird Blues
11. Ken Vandermark Resonance - Open Window Theory (for Fred Anderson)
12. Eivind Opsvik - 1786
13. Little Red Big Bang - Will We Ever Meet Again

Jazz Alchemist Radio 22.10.2012 with Dizzy, Overseas, Red Big Bang and Resonance by Jazzowy Alchemik on Mixcloud

Eivind Opsvik - Overseas IV [Loyal Label]

Kenny Wollesen - drums, cymbals, timpani, vibraphone, marching machine
Jacob Sacks - harpsichord, fartisa organ, piano
Tony Malaby - saxophone
Brandon Seabrook - electric guitar, mandolin
Eivind Opsvik - bass


Loyal Label 2012

I'm not sure how to begin this review and I'm lost in a search of words to describe Overseas. In the field of creative music dozens of brilliant have emerged over the decades but only few have managed to establish themselves as creative composers. Eivin Opsvik's music reminds, not because of its contents, but rather it's scope and broadness of musical vision and idiosyncracy - the music of Henry Threadgill and his ability to interweave elements seemingly incoherent and un-fitting.