"Since forming their duo Nabelose back in 2016 Ingrid Schmoliner and Elena Kakaliagou have consistently defied expectations, forging mercurial blend of meditative lyricism, spellbinding rhythm, and poetic wanderlust. The project illustr...

"The Thunks are Elisabeth Harnik (piano and objects), Martin Brandlmayr (drums), and Didi Kern (drums). Recorded by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (Radio Osterreich 1) at Konfrontationen Festival in Nickelsdorf, Austria 2024. Thr...

"The fiery Portuguese tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado returns with the sophomore album from his multigenerational quartet the Bridge, spanning modern jazz history with a deeply experienced line-up: German free jazz pioneer Alexander von...

"A cross-generational summit between the legendary pianist Marilyn Crispell (member of the Anthony Braxton Quartet and Reggie Workman Ensemble) and Midwest improvising trio of bass clarinetist Jason Stein, bassist Damon Smith, and drumm...

"To encourage you, here are seven CDs for the price of two: Frog, Bug, Guitar, Computer (featuring what it says in the title); Prime; GPS (Steve MacLean Ensemble's final CD),Year of the Dragon, (featuring Chris Cutler); Bridges (double ...

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Collecting 39 albums from FMR's releases of Norwegian saxophonist and free jazz innovator Frode Gjerstad. This box set is limited to 100 copies worldwide.

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"Peeter Uuskyla relentlessly bludgeons his drum kit (he calls this technique "banging out in trance"), and Peter Friis Nielsen's clanking bass guitar trades melody for rhythm. Brotzmann roars and shrieks in spectacular fashion, especial...

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I founded the septet - which appears on the present recording in an expanded octet formation - around 2010. On the one hand, I wanted to broaden the trio I was then running ...

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"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...

"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...

"In May of 2021, I opened Evil Clown Headquarters to other fully vaccinated musicians, and the first session of the new age was scheduled for the second set of the Expanse sound world. Michael and I both enjoyed the auspicious first set...

"The grapical score Dotolim was originally realized in 2009 and composed for the performance space Dotolim. The musicians, Jin Sangtae, founder of Dotolim, and Joonyong Choi also performed on the 2009 version of the score. While on tour...

"Theta Seven - OUA's seventh and final album - arrives a shade under 3 years since its predecessor. As with previous releases, basic tracks, either using simple compositional ideas or freely improvised, were recorded live in the studio ...

"I believe we have more than a book within each of us. Sometimes a day provides a sentence. An hour provides a paragraph. A week provides a comma, and a minute provides a whole page. As Wayne Shorter says 'Our instrument is our humanity...

"The residents of Scandinavia and those of coastal regions of Canada have more than a few commonalities. For one thing, they love seafood as well as the act of gathering it. And while this briny lust was not the sole rationale behind th...

The 2nd release from the transatlantic quartet of Oscar Jan Hoogland, Keefe Jackson, Jason Roebke and Mikel Patrick Avery blends witty originals with nods to Misha Mengelberg and Thelonious Monk, channeling the playful Amsterdam instant composition scene with Chicago's creative music community, recorded live at the 2022 Hyde Park Jazz Festival and at WNUR Studio.

"Somewhere between an ill-advised 3AM sandwich at the Kofte place where small-time mobsters talk shop and a grumpy trudge through snowy Moabit, struggling to open the studio doors, Pushovers was born. This duo recording reveals the deta...

The debut release from pianist Matthieu Mazue's trio with trumpeter Diego Hedez and drummer Francisco Mela presents a bassless format that opens the music's harmonic space, the three improvisers engaging in an agile and expressive dialogue where piano and drums shape the rhythmic core while trumpet moves freely through shifting textures, balancing structural clarity with adventurous modern jazz and free improv interplay.

"Originally released in late 1991, Mehead's sole album, was recorded at RMS Studios in Crystal Palace, London, and issued just a few months before the quartet's demise. This second edition of One Good Eye, has been remastered by enginee...