Album Review: John Zorn's Olympiad - Curling (2026, Tzadik)
Two new takes on the minimalist game piece
Notes on the Program
Reviews and other music stuff by Jeff Sackmann
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Album Review: Pat Thomas & XT - Strata, Act (Joy Contemporary)* (2026; We Jazz)
Live performances that strain against every limitation
Cover Stories #2: Grey Funnel Line
An old sailor song, still giving us wings
Album Review: Joe Hertenstein Trio with Ray Anderson – The 7th Dinner Live (2025; Fundacja Słuchaj)
Crowd-friendly free jazz
Album Review: John Butcher – Away, I Was (2026; Relative Pitch)
Solo saxophone from a master of the form
Live Review: Alexander von Schlippenbach and Paal Nilssen-Love - Live at All Ears Festival, January 8th, 2026
A legend in Oslo
Cover Stories #1: I Can't Turn You Loose
The lives of an underrated soul classic
Album Review: @xcrswx – MOODBOARD (2025; Feedback Moves)
A sax/drums duo tries one-bit music
Album Review: Nene Heroine – 4 (2025; Mystic Records)
Polish post-rock with a dash of Sanborn
Album Review: Three-Layer Cake - Sounds The Color Of Grounds (2025; Otherly Love)
A bit of banjo punk