Kaja Draksler and Susana Santos Silva, 'Moonrise,' Intakt ****

Avant today in One luv - track of the day - drawn from Grow to be released on Friday. Slovenian pianist Kaja Draksler in recent years has become one of the most highly rated European improvisers and clearly, old news - for instance, listen to the …

Published: 17 Oct 2022. Updated: 18 months.

Avant today in One luv - track of the day - drawn from Grow to be released on Friday. Slovenian pianist Kaja Draksler in recent years has become one of the most highly rated European improvisers and clearly, old news - for instance, listen to the pianist on Christian Lillinger's Open Form For Society Live - Draksler is a world class player. If you are into Kris Davis, Marilyn Crispell or Alexander Hawkins then certainly Draksler is in some kind of broad however general context idiomatically if not stylistically.

Draksler is in duo with a kindred spirit in Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva recording live in Copenhagen last year. Silva is a little Wadada Leo Smith like in the smears and fracturings delivered over the roiling ocean of sound from Draksler. The pair also worked together on 2015 album, This Love.

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Gigs ahead - recommended for the week beginning the 17th of October

Deschanel Gordon trio The Yard Manchester Monday Gary Willcox, Chris Batchelor, Julian Siegel, Gareth Williams, Oli Hayhurst East Side Jazz Club London, Tuesday Down For The Count Lawrence Batley theatre Huddersfield Wednesday Josh Kemp The White …

Published: 16 Oct 2022. Updated: 18 months.

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Deschanel Gordon trio The Yard Manchester Monday

Gary Willcox, Chris Batchelor, Julian Siegel, Gareth Williams, Oli Hayhurst East Side Jazz Club London, Tuesday

Down For The Count Lawrence Batley theatre Huddersfield Wednesday

Josh Kemp The White House Oxford Thursday

Clare Teal Seven The Regent Christchurch Friday

The Antidote 1000 Trades Birmingham Friday

Matt Carmichael City of Music Studio, Royal Concert Hall Glasgow Saturday

Natalie Williams' Soul Family Ronnie Scott's, London Sunday

Pianist Deschanel Gordon, photo: publicity shot, is playing Manchester tomorrow night with bassist Will Sach and drummer Will Cleasby