New music from Vega Trails. It’s a group put together by Portico Quartet bassist Milo Fitpatrick and takes a jazz-inflected, chamber music approach to cinematic compositions.
Playlists
Thursday, Apr 17, 2025 – Echoes Program 2515D
Tag: Jazz
Coming Up
Thursday, Apr 17, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
New music from Vega Trails. It’s a group put together by Portico Quartet bassist Milo Fitpatrick and takes a jazz-inflected, chamber music approach to cinematic compositions.
Reviews & Commentary
Big Ears Festival 2025 – A Musical Journey
Big Ears Festival 2025 is upon us and decisions must be made. Echoes host John Diliberto plots his path through the most Echoes-centric Big Ears ever with Steve Roach centering it all.
Living Room Concerts
In Concert: Olafur Arnalds – Live on Echoes 2011
Ólafur Arnalds and his ensemble performed live on Echoes back in 2011, playing music from the album he had just released at the time, “And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness.”
News
Jamie Muir, King Crimson Percussionist, RIP
Sonic percussion iconoclast Jamie Muir leaves the planet at 82. A veteran of Britain’s free-jazz scene and percussionist for King Crimson, he left an indelible mark.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Feb 25, 2025 – Ambiences in Black
It’s Ambiences in Black when we turn the Echoes prism onto the African and black influences in ambient music. They come from many sources, jazz, R&B, Hip-hop and Africa itself.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Amon Tobin Lost Interview
Coming Up
Thursday, Jan 23, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by the Fractal Sextet, a improvisational fusion project from guitarist Jon Durant. Their album is Sky Full of Hope. We’ll also hear from Christoph Pabst.
Playlists
Thursday, Dec 19, 2024 – Echoes Program 2451D
Many musicians who lit up the Echoes sky left us this year. They may have left the planet but their music remains. John Diliberto remembers, with Echoes in Memoriam.
News
Indian Tabla Master Zakir Hussain 1951-2024 R.I.P.
Zakir Hussain, the master of the tabla and a world fusion explorer with John McLaughlin’s Shakti, Mickey Hart’s Planet Drum has died at the age of 73.