Jasper Høiby, Earthness, Edition ****

New in the 1 luv - track of the day - spot 'Earthness' has exploratory saxophone from Josh Arcoleo and like Josh and drummer Marc Michel back in the eco-focused Planet B line-up led by Jasper Høiby - one of the world's greatest jazz bassists of his …

Published: 9 Aug 2022. Updated: 19 months.

New in the 1 luv - track of the day - spot 'Earthness' has exploratory saxophone from Josh Arcoleo and like Josh and drummer Marc Michel back in the eco-focused Planet B line-up led by Jasper Høiby - one of the world's greatest jazz bassists of his generation whose pedigree lands in the lineage of the Belonging Band's Palle Danielsson, Arild Andersen and the great Israeli bassist Avishai Cohen. Drawn from September release What It Means To Be Human there is a very open feel to the ensemble sound within which Høiby's role is properly organic (meaning based on the raw material of ideas, staggering technique and the artistic means to deliver his inner vision). Arcoleo, championed early in his career by the late great Pee Wee Ellis, while very disciplined in delivering tightly coiled cell-like motifs that circle ominously also teeters on the brink of going free and a righteous anarchy. Michel plays time a bit but allows himself to go loose or more precisely take the beat so far behind the melodic line that it creates an illusion of timelessness that acts as an analogue to the transmission of humanity that Jasper is after. The bass don himself concentrates on collective action here at the heart of the sound. If Greta Thunberg needs a house band step forward these three to be first in the queue. Jasper Høiby, top. Photo: Edition

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Euro jazz clubs - coming up recommendations include Omar in Paris and Julia Hülsmann in Dortmund

Giovanni Mirabassi Trio Sunside, Paris Thursday 11 August Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few, Stadtgarten, Cologne Friday 19 Aug Orchestra Baobab, Porgy & Bess, Vienna Tuesday 30 Aug Fine guitarist Oumar Sow from the Youssou N'Dour band is to be …

Published: 8 Aug 2022. Updated: 19 months.

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Giovanni Mirabassi Trio Sunside, Paris Thursday 11 August

Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few, Stadtgarten, Cologne Friday 19 Aug

Orchestra Baobab, Porgy & Bess, Vienna Tuesday 30 Aug

Fine guitarist Oumar Sow from the Youssou N'Dour band is to be looking after the Senegalese world music icons on the road next year we believe. Dakar to the world for a new global generation of listeners ever on

Omar and QCBA Duc des Lombards, Paris Wednesday 7 September

Rymden, Bimhuis, Amsterdam Friday 9 September

Space Sailors (2020) was a stonking slab of prog jazz from e.s.t bass don Dan Berglund on 'The Life and Death of Hugo Drax' and not only but also Rymden know how to let their hair down where available and make their presence felt. With drummer Magnus Öström also an e.s.t alum on board plus keys boffin Bugge Wesseltoft injecting a certain dadjazz urgency the tracks grooved along merrily, it's as if the guys were tinkering on a clapped out engine in the garage and suddenly there is a mighty roar as the thing begins to work. Go Dutch

Julia Hülsmann quartet, Domicil, Dortmund, Thursday 22 September

An inspired booking by the Dortmund club - Julia Hülsmann is at her very best on The Next Door with her quartet which is a pristine, humane release that adds flesh to skeletal themes and new fire to the embers of the night. All four are in engrossing form with tenor saxophonist Uli Kempendorff, bassist Marc Muellbauer and drummer Heinrich Köbberling rippling ever outwards in expansive circles on pieces that include the Chopin inspired bossa nova 'Valdemossa' and a cover of Prince's 'Sometimes it Snows in April.'

Brandon Allen, top left, Omar, Quentin Collins. Photo: Tim Dickeson