Echoes host John Diliberto has picked his Top 25 albums of 2015. They range from dream pop to sequencer dervishes to ambient chamber music to fusion and beyond.
Best Of
John Diliberto’s Top 25 Albums for 2015
Tag: Fusion
Playlists
Wednesday, August 5th, 2015-Echoes Program 1531C
Jeff Oster has taken his trumpet and flugelhorn into New Age and ambient directions over the years. On his new album, Next, he explores some ambient jazz. He talks about tone, funk and ambience on Echoes.
Reviews & Commentary
Wadada Leo Smith Live
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith was a founding member of the AACM and he brings that sense of jazz freedom and possibilities to bear in a live performance at Philadelphia’s Clef Club with his Golden Quartet.
Playlists
Tuesday, May 19th, 2015-Echoes Program 1520B
Jeff Oster has taken his trumpet and flugelhorn into New Age and ambient directions over the years. On his new album, Next, he explores some ambient jazz. He talks about tone, funk and ambience on Echoes.
Best Of
John Diliberto’s Top 10 CDs 2013
This was one of the hardest lists ever to compile. It’s different from 25 Essential Echoes CDs of 2013, which is our picks of the best music played on Echoes. And it’s also different from The Best of Echoes 2013 Listener Poll results. These are my picks from all the music I heard in what…
Program Highlights
New Music: Azam Ali and Loga R. Torkian & Roger Eno
Hear new music from Azam Ali & Loga R. Torkian tonight on Echoes Azam Ali & Loga R. Torkian, both play in the Persian Electronica band Niyaz, but you may also remember them from Ali’s group, Vas, and Torkian’s band, Axiom of Choice. They’ve just released a new CD called Lamentation of Swans: A Journey…
CD of the Month
Eastern Moods for Echoes October CD of the Month
You can trace many movements in modern music back to The Beatles, and they are at the roots of Hans Christian and Harry Manx. Not The Beatles of “She Loves You,” but the eastern-influenced Beatles of “Tomorrow Never Knows” and especially “Within You Without You.” Musicians like the German-born Christian and English-born Manx were inspired…
Reviews & Commentary
From Miles in space to Jazz for the Deaf: Ben Neill and Mörglbl
Two distant jazz mutations from opposite directions when Ben Neill and Mörglbl hit Philadelphia. I caught two very disparate shows in Philadelphia this weekend, both drawing upon elements of jazz, but ultimately having little to do with jazz at all. First up was Ben Neill, performing at Saturday, May 16 at The Gatherings concert series. …