Rabble Without A Cause, May 28: New releases featuring drummers
New releases from Adam Rudolph & Billy Hart; Phil Haynes; Gerald Cleaver and others
On Wednesday night’s show I will be featuring new releases of drummers - a very percussion-heavy playlist.
Billy Hart, at 84 years-old, is a jazz legend. He has a new album out with his quartet on ECM records, that I featured on In A Mellow Tone on May 14. Tonight we will hear another new release with Adam Rudolph and Dave Liebman - Beingness.
On this recording, Adam Rudolph plays: handrumset (kongos, djembe, tarija), piano, thumb pianos, keyboards, gongs, dakha de bello, live electronic processing, and percussion. The album was recorded live in concert at The Stone in New York City on March 31 and April 1, 2023. The music was spontaneously composed by Dave Liebman, Adam Rudolph, and Billy Hart. In the album notes, Adam Rudolph writes:
Beingness is the source of inspiration which moves silence towards its manifestations as form in sound. Each gesture animates in the infinite space between thought and non-thought awareness. The fluidity of spontaneous sonic projections reflect the essential being of nature, which is change.
The show will also feature Gerald Cleaver, the Detroit-based drummer in a new release from Eva Novoa’s trio:
Eva Novoa - Piano, Fender Rhodes, Chinese Gongs & Whistling
Masa Kamaguchi - Bass
Gerald Cleaver - Drums
The group has performed live in NYC since 2017. Their first recording (Vol. 1) was released in 2023. We will hear from the new release, Vol. 2.
Phil Haynes is a prolific drummer, appearing on over 85 albums. We will hear tracks from two of his new releases - Transition[s] and Return to Electric.
Pianist Satoko Fujii appeared recently in Ottawa - I featured some of her music on Rabble Without a Cause on April 2. Unfortunately, I was out of town and not able to catch the show. Her group, This is It! includes Natsuki Tamura on trumpet and Takashi Itani on percussion. We will hear a track that features Itani prominently from their new release Message. Here is a video of a performance of the trio.
We will also hear a track from the reunited Fire and Flux. Benjamin Kates on alto saxophone and Richard Gilman-Opalsky on drums, first played together in 1998. In 2024, they reunited for a live performance at Dumb Records.
We will end the show with an excerpt from the new release, “Temple of Muses” from Stian Larsen, Colin Webster, Ruth Goller and Andrew Lisle. Drummer Andrew Lisle is from Leeds in the U.K.
Here he is playing with Colin Webster in 2019.
You can listen to the show live on Wednesday at 11 p.m. either at 93.1 FM on the radio dial (in the National Capital Region) or through live streaming at CKCUFM.com. The show is also available for on demand streaming.