Reconfiguring the long-running Conference Call quartet with pianist Uwe Oberg alongside tenor saxophonist Gebhard Ullmann, bassist Joe Fonda and drummer/bugler Dieter Ulrich, this first New Conference Call release moves through intricate compositions, spacious collective improvisation and volatile free-jazz exchanges, including tributes to Joe Maneri, Ornette Coleman and Jim Pepper.

"Tres Hongos convene for a striking trio recording that thrives on sharp turns, intricate interplay, and restless momentum. Wick's searching trumpet lines weave through Riordan's fractured piano gestures while Rosaly shapes the music wi...

"Swiss guitarist Florian Stoffner brings a deeply personal approach to free improvisation. This solo release expands on the exploratory drive that has shaped his work as both a bandleader and collaborator. Drawing on the subtle command ...

"Friends and colleagues since the late 1970s, Evan Parker and John Zorn are two of contemporary music's most uncompromising saxophone innovators, and here they collaborate on a surprising and long overdue studio project. Recorded in New...

"This collaboration brings together Catherine Sikora's saxophone and Finola Merivale's compositions for field recordings and electronics. Sikora's incisive, texturally rich playing unfolds against Merivale's carefully shaped sonic envir...

"This quartet brings together four distinct voices from the international improvised music community. Heavy Handed unfolds as a vivid dialogue of strings, winds, and breath, where extended techniques and close listening shape a constant...

"Recorded over two days in the Lutheran church of Bon Secours in Paris, Etats de lieux finds Bruno Chevillon in dialogue with a space - the resonance of old stone, the hum of the city outside, the physics of a double bass pushed hard ag...

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