"In 2018 John Tilbury became reluctant to take on more concerts. He lives in Deal on the Kent coast, 80 miles from London, and doesn't have a car, so, although he was still in demand as a performer, at the age of 82, he decided to end h...

"Composed during the height of the Covid pandemic, After the Storm imagines a better world once the pandemic had passed.

"I was dreaming that the world would finally find complete peace after the pandemic," she s...

"Alive With Ghosts Today is Chris Potter's new suite inspired by the story of the abolitionist John Brown. Potter, widely regarded as one of the most influential improvisers and composers of his generation, traces Brown's 1859 raid on H...

"577 Records is proud to welcome the adventurous Japanese ensemble K Trio to the label's roster with their remarkable new album, Parientes De La Vida.

K Trio reminds us what experimental music can be at its most vital: pure ri...

By the mid-'60s, free jazz was in full swing. The precedents had been established: Ornette Coleman validated outside-the-chords, freeassociative improvising; Coltrane's Ascension, Om, and Meditations created a blueprint for horn-rich, e...

"The second volume in the Reference series from AlAy, the Basel imprint curated by Werner X. Uehlinger, gathers twenty two sides that document one of the great partnerships of modern jazz: trumpeter Fats Navarro and composer, arranger a...

"This collection brings together 8 of the finest albums jazz multi-instrumentalist Jaki Byard recorded as a leader between 1960 and 1966.

Born June 15, 1922, John Arthur "Jaki" Byard was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist,...

"Born 17 August 1918, Ike Abrams Quebec was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He began his career in the big band era of the 1940s, then fell from prominence for a time, before launching a comeback in the years prior to his death in 1...

"Mnemonists, on the first album called Mnemonist Orchestra, is U.S collective of avant-garde musicians from Colorado, led by Mark Derbyshire and William Sharp. Their music is a mixture of modern classical, experimental sounds, noise, in...

"Rabbit Rabbit Radio is the song-spinning duo of Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi. Collectively, they are founding members of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat, 2 Foot Yard, Causing a Tiger, The Book of Knots, and Fred Frith's Cosa B...

"On May Day, 2026, I organized and presented a set of songs I associate with the labor movement at the Atomic Cafe in Biels, Switzerland. There are original songs and parodies as well as material by Utah Phillips, Merle Haggard and oth...

"It's raining. Fifteen people and a dog crowd into a food tent listening to amplified sitar. They're totally silent for almost twenty minutes of sonic exploration and ambient interpolation. With a few barks and eager applause the last t...

"Simulacrum is an offshoot of Metal Chaos Ensemble that was conceived just prior to the Virus shutting things down. The ensemble originally featured 3 core members: PEK on all my stuff, Eric Woods on analog synth, and Bob Moores on spac...

"I formed Turbulence in 2015 as I started to assemble players for the Leap of Faith Orchestra. Turbulence, the extended horn section for the Orchestra (along with guests on other instruments), also records and performs as an independent...

"Albey onBass and his wife Jane SpokenWord were associated with Cecil Taylor's final trio. Following Cecil's passing they were in Boston for about a year in 2017-2018 and Albey performed a dozen or so times with Leap of Faith, Metal Cha...

"It is a startling showcase for one of the boldest and most challenging comedians of all time. Lenny Bruce was a stand-up comedian, satirist and social observer who was one of the first really controversial figures of stand-up comedy, a...

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