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Ouroborosuite
Label: Ex-tol Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: Snake in the Grass; Find Your Friends and Hold On; Dystopian Bulgar; What Have They Done
Now?; Awaken!; Force Beyond Control; A Vision for Afterwards.
Collin Sherman: Ouroborosuite
by Dan McClenaghan
The first sentence in multi-instrumentalist Collin Sherman's liner notes for his 2026 CD Ouroborosuite says: “The United States is eating itself." Ouroboros, the image of a snake eating its tail, is historically seen as a symbol of eternal, cyclical renewal. Sherman is using it as a symbol of self-destruction, specifically to the United States in 2026, ...
Life Eats Life
Label: Ex-tol Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Kepler-10b Prehistory; Life Eats Life; Requiem; Scarcity of Abundance; Hungrily They Wait;
Action, Unrest.
Collin Sherman: Life Eats Life
by Dan McClenaghan
Collin Sherman, a multiple reedman, has a day job in Manhattan. But on nights and weekends, he sheds the work clothes and switches into his idiosyncratic original voice in the creation of music. Life Eats Life is a solo effort. He plays and records all the instruments in his living room for his albums. Then he ...
String Planes
Label: Ex-tol Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Slipping Through the String Plane, pt. 1; Slipping Through the String Plane, pt. 2; Desert
Resurrection; Pulsebow; Crisis Walk; In Limine Fortunae.
Noir
Label: Ex-tol Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: For Feldman; On the Rocks; Noir; Actual Malice; Midnight Din; Blue Kilter.
Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Dan McClenaghan
These recordings are 2024's best of the best. If the business of jazz is a rough go, the art of jazz thrives. Click on the album titles to see the full reviews. Bill AnschellImprobable Solutions Origin Records David FriesenThis Light Has ...
Collin Sherman: Noir
by Dan McClenaghan
Making music is most often a collaborative affair. Big bands, duos, trios, quartets and quintets--take your pick. Miles Davis (or any other of your favorites) calls his guys into the studio or to the stage where they bump elbows and trade riffs, drawing their individual personalities out to form a collection of sound waves to craft ...
String Planes
by Dan McClenaghan
Collin Sherman takes the 'A' train to his day job in Manhattan. Billy Strayhorn, the writer of the tune “Take the 'A' Train" that was made famous by the Duke Ellington Orchestra, must be smiling. Do the seeds of Sherman's compositions germinate during these forty-five-minute rides? Possibly, though his music has no resemblance to Ellington's or ...
