Check out Sound and Fury for new posts featuring the music of Marty Ehrlich, John Carter and Enrico Rava - both concerts and albums.

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You are invited to visit Sound & Fury to hear recently added concerts by Cecil Taylor, Wynton Kelly Trio with Wes Montgomery and Marilyn Mazur, and many more…

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Please visit Sound and Fury to check out two new artist profile/concerts posted this week - a wonderful 1984 concert by Jan Garbarek with a choir and his quartet & a 1983 concert by Wadada Leo Smith featuring Marty Ehrlich. Download the concert and Enjoy!

Visit SOUND AND FURY for the new post featuring the DKV Trio. You can get there by clicking here. Enjoy the show!

SOUND and FURY has a new entry. Check out the Louis Sclavis post and enjoy the show!

There are dozens of shows in the works… you'll like what you hear! Check it out here.

A while ago I began putting together what has only recently developed into a music blog of mini-profiles of musicians that I find interesting, exciting, curious. I include an mp3 file of a concert by the profiled artist. So far, it has been devoted exclusively to jazz/improv musicians but all are artists who are special to me.

You can find it here.

When I was in Montreal last week I picked up a recording I have been anticipating for months, almost a year. Michael Bates and his ensemble Outside Sources finally released their third album. This one is called Clockwise and is on Dave Douglas's Greenleaf Music label. I'm thrilled to report it is as outstanding as I hoped it would be. This has vaulted into the number one position on my top ten list for 2008 with little chance of being dethroned before year's end…

Look for the last four shows in the Dennis Gonzalez series during my turn in schedule throughout the remainder of 2008. I'll be covering his recordings with European musicians on the next episode…

Also, in early 2009 look for a four part series on Irish guitarist Mark O'Leary. I'm in the midst of conducting an interview with O'Leary by email. You'll hear music from all of his Leo and FMR recordings among others…

NOW'S THE TIME airs Thursday nights from 8:30 to 10:00pm (E.S.T. -5) on CKCU-FM 93.1 in the Ottawa region and at ckcufm.com everywhere else.

Last Thursday night I presented the third part of my six-part series on the music of Dennis Gonzalez. This episode covered his recordings on the Silkheart label out of Sweden. I played from five recordings - four led by Dennis Gonzalez and one led by Charles Brackeen. All of the recordings were made between 1986 and 1989. Once again, I played longer tracks and included several part from the email interview I conducted with DG.

Here is the playlist:

ARTIST / ALBUM / TRACK
Set 1
1. Dennis Gonzalez New Dallas Quartet - Stefan - Enrico

Set 2
1. Dennis…

My fellow IMC'er Andrew Forbes offered up a show of music he described this way: "The most recent edition of Now's the Time was dedicated to noise – the sound of sound – and to those sonic manipulators whose mission is to scrape music clean to the bone so that it might be re-imagined."

Andrew will be leaving us (geographically speaking) to move to a location three and a half hours from Ottawa (and the NTT studios) but, thanks to the miracles of today's technology, he will continue his turn in the five-man rotation. He is making the move for…