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Chris Lightcap

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Chris Lightcap is a bassist and composer with a wide-ranging performing and recording career. He has worked with Craig Taborn, Regina Carter, Marc Ribot, Glen Hansard, Mark Turner, John Medeski, Jason Moran, The Kronos Quartet, Tomasz Stanko, Chris Potter, Paul Motian, John Scofield, Dave Liebman, Paquito D’Rivera, Anthony Braxton, Joe Morris, Sheila Jordan, James Carter, Butch Morris, Ben Monder, Mary Halvorson, and many other artists. His playing is featured on over 80 albums and as a bandleader/composer he has produced six critically acclaimed albums of original music.

Album

Focus Out

Label: Irabbagast
Released: 2026
Track listing: Morning Star; Focus Out; Paper Planes; Evening Star; Indigo Stains; Prayer (for Reomi); Center Post.

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Paper Planes

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Label: Irabbagast
Released: 2026
Duration: 4:51

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Article: Live Review

Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2026

Read "Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2026" reviewed by Mike Chamberlain


Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville Victoriaville, QC May 11-17 2026 The theme of the 42nd edition of the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville was change. This was the third edition of the festival under the artistic and general direction of Scott Thomson. The 40th edition in 2024 was ...

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Article: Live Review

Big Ears 2026

Read "Big Ears 2026" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 26-29, 2026 Another year, another jam-packed festival lineup. The Spotlight presentations included SUSS Presents Across the Horizon, an ambient country experience; films and performances related to Ethiopia's musical legacy; and David Byrne's Who is the Sky? Polish pianist/composer Hania Rani offered an ambient concert and the ...

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Article: Album Review

Jon Irabagon: Focus Out

Read "Focus Out" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Jon Irabagon remains among the most uncompromising voices in contemporary jazz. A first-generation Filipino American from Chicago, he draws deeply from the AACM legacy--Anthony Braxton, Henry Threadgill, Muhal Richard Abrams--and his home city's tradition of bold, searching saxophone work. Since his 2008 Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition win, Irabagon has used his Irabbagast Records imprint to ...

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Article: Live Review

MetJazz 2026

Read "MetJazz 2026" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


MetJazz 2026 Teatro Metastasio e altre sedi Prato 16 febbraio--26 marzo 2026 La trentunesima edizione di MetJazz, il festival pratese organizzato dal Teatro Metastasio, era anche la prima dopo oltre vent'anni a non avere più come direttore artistico Stefano Zenni, ottimamente sostituito dalla coppia Enrico Romero e Giuseppe Vigna. Dopo l'anteprima ...

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Article: Live Review

Jon Irabagon al Torrione di Ferrara

Read "Jon Irabagon al Torrione di Ferrara" reviewed by Libero Farnè


Jon Irabagon's Rising Sun Quartet Torrione Jazz Club Ferrara 14 marzo 2026 Dai tempi della sua militanza nel gruppo Mostly Other People Do the Killing ad oggi Jon Irabagon ha confermato in vari contesti le intense e duttili doti tecnico-espressive del suo linguaggio. Nel 2022, l'ennesima nuova esperienza: il quartetto con ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Jon Irabagon: Self-Motivated And Inner-Directed

Read "Jon Irabagon: Self-Motivated And Inner-Directed" reviewed by Doug Collette


Self-motivated and inner-directed as he is, saxophonist/composer Jon Irabagon has navigated his career path with his very own sense of logic. And, peculiar as that may seem to some, his body of work is like a memorable improvisation, resolving itself at various junctures, just when those various vagaries would seem to preclude such action. So it ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

2025 Releases from Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Frank Gratkwski, Chad Taylor and more!

Read "2025 Releases from Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Frank Gratkwski, Chad Taylor and more!" reviewed by Jon Greenbaum


Host Jon Greenbaum focuses on new and recent releases in this survey of artists exploring the boundaries of improvisation and composition.PlaylistFrank Gratkowski “Wie Lieblich Schallt" from Frank Gratkowski's In Cahoots (Klanggalerie) 00:00:00 André Carvalho “Dente de Leite" from Of Fragility and Impermanence (Robalo Music) 00:08:02 Wadada Leo Smith Marcus Gilmore and Jakob Bro “Sonic ...


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