Reviews, concert reports and
photographs of an extensive range of
improvised and jazz-related music

With its cover art and track titles a homage to hard boiled detective novelist/screenwriter David Goodis (1917-1967), perversely Selections from the Gutter’s vitality suggests Energy Music of the 1960s-1970s. Filtered through 21st Century sensibilities this variant of so-called Ecstatic Jazz features the go-for-broke improvising of players from three countries. Tenor/soprano saxophonist Michael Foster is an American who has worked with everyone from Lydia Lunch to John Blum; Swiss bassist Christian Weber with among others Alfred… Read More