Miles Davis 3rd Quintet
Reference: Bitches Brew Live 1969 In Europe [2 CDs + 2 POSTCARDS]
(ALAY)
Documenting Miles Davis' 1969 "lost" third quintet live in Berlin, Stockholm and Rotterdam with Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette, this 2-CD set captures the post-In a Silent Way ensemble reshaping material headed toward Bitches Brew, balancing lyricism and abstraction through open forms, electric-piano clusters, volatile rhythmic invention and Davis' fiercely exploratory trumpet.

[ahmed] (Thomas / Grip / Gerbal / Wright)
Play Monk [2 CDs]
(Otoroku)
After six albums reimagining Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Pat Thomas, Joel Grip, Antonin Gerbal and Seymour Wright turn their transformative [Ahmed] project toward Thelonious Monk, atomising his compositions across two CDs into volatile, time-bending forms where piano, bass, drums and alto saxophone fracture and reassemble melody, rhythm and space through free jazz intensity, pulse and radical collective invention.

The Williams Tony Emergency w/ John McLaughlin / Larry Young
Emergency!
(ALAY)
A restored edition of Tony Williams Lifetime's incendiary 1969 trio debut with John McLaughlin on guitar and Larry Young on organ, documenting one of jazz-rock fusion's earliest and most audacious statements, where Williams' radical rhythmic designs, Young's dense harmonic force, and McLaughlin's searing electric vocabulary collide in urgent, psychedelic, genre-defying improvisation.

Marion Brown / Burton Greene Quartet
Reference: Capricorn Moon, Why Not & With Burton Greene Quartet [2 CDs + POSTCARD]
(ALAY)
Gathering key 1965-66 New York sessions, this 2-CD set traces alto saxophonist Marion Brown's emergence in the free jazz vanguard through Capricorn Moon, Why Not? and Burton Greene quartet recordings, with Alan Shorter, Bennie Maupin, Stanley Cowell, Henry Grimes, Sirone, Rashied Ali and others shaping music of lyrical urgency, open-form momentum and evolving collective freedom.

Tomeka Reid Quartet (w/ Roebke / Halvorson / Fujiwara)
Dance! Skip! Hop!
(Out Of Your Head Records)
Led by cellist Tomeka Reid, this longstanding quartet with Mary Halvorson on guitar, Jason Roebke on bass, and Tomas Fujiwara on drums delivers a rhythmically propulsive and structurally nimble set that balances grounded low-end drive with agile drumming, incisive guitar textures, and Reid's expressive counterpoint, channeling echoes of 1960s jazz while asserting an exuberant, and yes — danceable — release!

Gerry Hemingway / Izumi Kimura / Frank Gratkowski / Christian Weber
Live At Bau 4
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Gerry Hemingway leads a site-specific quartet with pianist Izumi Kimura, multi-reedist Frank Gratkowski and bassist Christian Weber, weaving composed structures, extended techniques, improvisational formations and wood-scrap percussion from Bau 4 itself into a tribute to the venue's founders, balancing melodic fragments, rhythmic propulsion, microtonal color and vivid ensemble transformation.

Paul Dunmall
Afraid To Speak
(Discus)
Returning to a stripped-down free-blowing setting, Paul Dunmall leads a responsive group with Corey Mwamba on vibraphone, Steven Saunders on electric guitar, Dave Kane on double bass, Miles Levin on drums and Xhosa Cole guesting on flute and piccolo, creating five incisive yet finely detailed improvisations of saxophone fire, resonant texture, electric abrasion and collective momentum.

Albert Ayler
Reference: Albert Ayler, Spirits & Spirits Rejoice [CD + POSTCARD]
(ALAY)
Uniting Albert Ayler's 1964 New York sessions for Spirits (Debut) and Spirits Rejoice (ESP, with Donald Ayler, Charles Tyler, Call Cobbs, Henry Grimes, Gary Peacock, Sunny Murray, Normand Howard and Earle Henderson, this remastered edition captures Ayler's volatile balance of spiritual song, sculptural horn lines, churning bass motion, ecstatic fanfare and free jazz intensity.

Camila Nebbia / Chris Corsano
Six or Seven Ways Towards Becoming Undone
(Relative Pitch)
A fierce, spontaneous duo of Camila Nebbia on tenor saxophone and Chris Corsano on drums, recorded in Berlin in 2025, merging Nebbia's searching lines, breath-driven textures and unstable lyricism with Corsano's explosive, highly detailed percussion language, moving between delicate abrasion, surging intensity, fragmented melody and raw improvised exchange.

Albert Ayler Quintet
Copenhagen, Bordeaux 1966 & Newport 1967 Live First Release
(ALAY)
Previously unreleased recordings from the Albert Ayler Quintet — captured in Copenhagen and Bordeaux during the 1966 Newport in Europe tour and at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1967 — present Ayler with Donald Ayler, Michel Samson, Bill Folwell, and Beaver Harris/Milford Graves in fiercely expressive performances, newly restored and mastered from rediscovered tapes.

Columbia Icefield (Wooley / Alcorn / Mendoza / Sawyer)
A Silence Opens
(Out Of Your Head Records)
A deeply elegiac final statement from Nate Wooley's Columbia Icefield, with Susan Alcorn's pedal steel, Ava Mendoza's guitar and voice, and Ryan Sawyer's drums joining Wooley's trumpet, amplifier, voice, whistling and footwork in music shaped by grief, memory and gratitude, responding to the deaths of Ron Miles and Alcorn through expansive, emotionally weighted improvisation.

Ran Blake
Voices
(Tzadik)
Ran Blake, in his 90s and still one of American music's most singular pianists, performs a solo program of jazz, folk, gospel, film noir and even holiday music, bringing his darkly lyrical, deconstructive approach to melodies reshaped through memory, silence and shadow, in a profound late-career statement of mystery, tenderness and deep patience.

Tom Challenger / Evan Parker
May Spring Last a Lifetime
(False Walls)
The first duo recording from tenor saxophonists Tom Challenger and Evan Parker, captured at Arco Barco in Ramsgate and later resequenced into six sections, reveals two deeply attuned improvisers using shared instrumental language to question control, memory, silence and exchange, expanding the sound of two tenors into a shifting field of breath, resonance, overlap and acoustic invention.

Doyeon Kim (w / Sorey / Maneri / Fraser)
Wellspring
(Tao Forms)
Seoul-born gayageum virtuoso and vocalist DoYeon Kim makes a striking bandleader debut with a quartet of Tyshawn Sorey on drums, Mat Maneri on viola and Henry Fraser on bass, merging Korean string and storytelling traditions with contemporary improvisation in a forceful, deeply expressive set of compositions and group interactions that move from bristling acoustic intensity to communal, humanist resonance.

Michael Foster / Christian Weber / Michael Griener
Selections From The Gutter
(Relative Pitch)
NYC saxophonist Michael Foster joins Swiss bassist Christian Weber and Berlin drummer Michael Griener for a visceral trio session of free improv charged with noir tension, drawing on American crime novelist David Goodis-inspired titles as the group moves through fractured momentum, suspenseful restraint and explosive exchanges shaped by deep rhythmic instinct and structural awareness.

Ballister + Luke Stewart
Clocking the Wheel
(Aerophonic)
Joining Dave Rempis on saxophones, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums with bassist Luke Stewart, this live Ballister performance from Roulette expands the trio's ferocious long-running rapport into a dense, high-velocity quartet, Stewart locking with Nilssen-Love in elastic propulsion as cello and saxophone surge through explosive, telepathic collective improvisation.

Myra Melford / Satoko Fujii
Katarahi
(RogueArt)
Myra Melford and Satoko Fujii meet in a rare two-piano encounter rooted in decades of friendship, their live performance unfolding as the heart-to-heart conversation suggested by the title, with both artists so deeply attuned that individual lines dissolve into a shared language of spontaneous form, lyrical intensity, emotional openness and beautifully balanced collective invention.

Bix Beiderbecke
Reference: Bix Beiderbecke, 1924 to 1928 [2 CDs]
(ALAY)
Gathering 45 small-group recordings from 1924-1928, this restored 2-CD reference traces Bix Beiderbecke's singular cornet and piano artistry alongside Frankie Trumbauer, Miff Mole, Don Murray, Tommy Dorsey, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti and others, revealing a poised, lyrical and formally lucid voice whose economy, harmonic curiosity and graceful invention helped shape early jazz beyond its dance-band conventions.

Pierre Favre Trio (Favre / Schweizer / Mraz)
Bird Food
(Songs)
Captured in 1968 in Zurich and long shelved before its recent discovery, this early trio session brings Pierre Favre, Irene Schweizer, and George Mraz together in a concise, fiery set of attentive free jazz, balancing Ornette Coleman's title piece with Schweizer's compositions, where dynamic interplay and acute listening reveal a nascent yet fully engaged collective voice.

Jurg Frey / Apartment House
Clarinet Quintet
(Another Timbre)
Composed between 2023 and 2025 after Jurg Frey withdrew from clarinet performance, this 54-minute chamber work places Heather Roche's clarinet within the string quartet of Mira Benjamin, Chihiro Ono, Bridget Carey and Anton Lukoszevieze, as Apartment House reveal a quietly extraordinary balance of stillness and motion, warm tonal color, intimate dialogue and a slow, organic passage toward unexpected transformation.

Jason Kahn / Phil Durrant / Mark Wastell / Caius Williams
Where The Stars
(Editions)
An electroacoustic quartet of Phil Durrant on amplified objects and electronics, Jason Kahn on voice, Mark Wastell on percussion, and Caius Williams on double bass, recorded in London in 2025, unfolding four extended improvisations where breath, resonance, friction, signal, and acoustic weight interact through restrained intensity, microscopic detail, and unstable collective form.

Trio San (Fujii / Saito / Oshima)
Hibiki
(Jazz Door)
Uniting the intersecting musical worlds of Satoko Fujii on piano, Taiko Saito on vibraphone and marimba, and Yuko Oshima on drums, this live debut from Trio SAN draws on their histories in duos and first European tour to shape a delicate yet resonant collective language of shifting timbres, prepared piano colors, ringing percussion, and freely developing melodic forms.

Greg Kelley / Yoona Kim
Distractions for Trumpet & Ajaeng
(Relative Pitch)
Bringing together Greg Kelley's extended-technique trumpet with Yoona Kim's non-traditional approach to the ajaeng, this Boston duo explores breath, bow, friction, resonance, and near-silence through taut improvisations where fragile tones, coarse strings, microscopic air bursts, and sudden ruptures forge a focused, unpredictable shared language.

Onilu (Chambers / Diehl / McIver / Villarreal
Jakuta's Dance
(577 Records)
A boundary-defying percussion quartet with the legendary Joe Chambers on vibraphone, drum kit and percussion, Kevin Diehl on sensory percussion drum kit, Craig McIver on marimba, vibraphone, drum kit and percussion, and Daniel Villarreal on drum kit, sensory percussion, bata okonkolo, conga, cajon and marimba, drawing on Yoruba-rooted ritual energy, avant-jazz, Latin folk and funk.

Hilary Jeffery (w/ Delius / Dunmall / Jeffery / Poulou)
Green Prism: Music by Keith Tippett
(Discus)
Rooted in Keith Tippett's late brass suite Winter's Welcome, Hilary Jeffery reimagines the material through multi-tracked brass, computer and improvisational expansions with Julie Tippetts' voice, Tobias Delius' tenor saxophone and clarinet, Paul Dunmall's saxophones and Eleni Poulou's synthesizer and music box, creating a prism-like tribute of resonant harmony, memory, song and exploratory transformation.

[ahmed] (Thomas / Grip / Gerbal / Wright)
Play Monk [2 CDs]
(Otoroku)
After six albums reimagining Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Pat Thomas, Joel Grip, Antonin Gerbal and Seymour Wright turn their transformative [Ahmed] project toward Thelonious Monk, atomising his compositions across two CDs into volatile, time-bending forms where piano, bass, drums and alto saxophone fracture and reassemble melody, rhythm and space through free jazz intensity, pulse and radical collective invention.

The Williams Tony Emergency w/ John McLaughlin / Larry Young
Emergency!
(ALAY)
A restored edition of Tony Williams Lifetime's incendiary 1969 trio debut with John McLaughlin on guitar and Larry Young on organ, documenting one of jazz-rock fusion's earliest and most audacious statements, where Williams' radical rhythmic designs, Young's dense harmonic force, and McLaughlin's searing electric vocabulary collide in urgent, psychedelic, genre-defying improvisation.

Marion Brown / Burton Greene Quartet
Reference: Capricorn Moon, Why Not & With Burton Greene Quartet [2 CDs + POSTCARD]
(ALAY)
Gathering key 1965-66 New York sessions, this 2-CD set traces alto saxophonist Marion Brown's emergence in the free jazz vanguard through Capricorn Moon, Why Not? and Burton Greene quartet recordings, with Alan Shorter, Bennie Maupin, Stanley Cowell, Henry Grimes, Sirone, Rashied Ali and others shaping music of lyrical urgency, open-form momentum and evolving collective freedom.

Tomeka Reid Quartet (w/ Roebke / Halvorson / Fujiwara)
Dance! Skip! Hop!
(Out Of Your Head Records)
Led by cellist Tomeka Reid, this longstanding quartet with Mary Halvorson on guitar, Jason Roebke on bass, and Tomas Fujiwara on drums delivers a rhythmically propulsive and structurally nimble set that balances grounded low-end drive with agile drumming, incisive guitar textures, and Reid's expressive counterpoint, channeling echoes of 1960s jazz while asserting an exuberant, and yes — danceable — release!

Gerry Hemingway / Izumi Kimura / Frank Gratkowski / Christian Weber
Live At Bau 4
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Gerry Hemingway leads a site-specific quartet with pianist Izumi Kimura, multi-reedist Frank Gratkowski and bassist Christian Weber, weaving composed structures, extended techniques, improvisational formations and wood-scrap percussion from Bau 4 itself into a tribute to the venue's founders, balancing melodic fragments, rhythmic propulsion, microtonal color and vivid ensemble transformation.

Paul Dunmall
Afraid To Speak
(Discus)
Returning to a stripped-down free-blowing setting, Paul Dunmall leads a responsive group with Corey Mwamba on vibraphone, Steven Saunders on electric guitar, Dave Kane on double bass, Miles Levin on drums and Xhosa Cole guesting on flute and piccolo, creating five incisive yet finely detailed improvisations of saxophone fire, resonant texture, electric abrasion and collective momentum.

Albert Ayler
Reference: Albert Ayler, Spirits & Spirits Rejoice [CD + POSTCARD]
(ALAY)
Uniting Albert Ayler's 1964 New York sessions for Spirits (Debut) and Spirits Rejoice (ESP, with Donald Ayler, Charles Tyler, Call Cobbs, Henry Grimes, Gary Peacock, Sunny Murray, Normand Howard and Earle Henderson, this remastered edition captures Ayler's volatile balance of spiritual song, sculptural horn lines, churning bass motion, ecstatic fanfare and free jazz intensity.

Camila Nebbia / Chris Corsano
Six or Seven Ways Towards Becoming Undone
(Relative Pitch)
A fierce, spontaneous duo of Camila Nebbia on tenor saxophone and Chris Corsano on drums, recorded in Berlin in 2025, merging Nebbia's searching lines, breath-driven textures and unstable lyricism with Corsano's explosive, highly detailed percussion language, moving between delicate abrasion, surging intensity, fragmented melody and raw improvised exchange.

Albert Ayler Quintet
Copenhagen, Bordeaux 1966 & Newport 1967 Live First Release
(ALAY)
Previously unreleased recordings from the Albert Ayler Quintet — captured in Copenhagen and Bordeaux during the 1966 Newport in Europe tour and at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1967 — present Ayler with Donald Ayler, Michel Samson, Bill Folwell, and Beaver Harris/Milford Graves in fiercely expressive performances, newly restored and mastered from rediscovered tapes.

Columbia Icefield (Wooley / Alcorn / Mendoza / Sawyer)
A Silence Opens
(Out Of Your Head Records)
A deeply elegiac final statement from Nate Wooley's Columbia Icefield, with Susan Alcorn's pedal steel, Ava Mendoza's guitar and voice, and Ryan Sawyer's drums joining Wooley's trumpet, amplifier, voice, whistling and footwork in music shaped by grief, memory and gratitude, responding to the deaths of Ron Miles and Alcorn through expansive, emotionally weighted improvisation.

Ran Blake
Voices
(Tzadik)
Ran Blake, in his 90s and still one of American music's most singular pianists, performs a solo program of jazz, folk, gospel, film noir and even holiday music, bringing his darkly lyrical, deconstructive approach to melodies reshaped through memory, silence and shadow, in a profound late-career statement of mystery, tenderness and deep patience.

Tom Challenger / Evan Parker
May Spring Last a Lifetime
(False Walls)
The first duo recording from tenor saxophonists Tom Challenger and Evan Parker, captured at Arco Barco in Ramsgate and later resequenced into six sections, reveals two deeply attuned improvisers using shared instrumental language to question control, memory, silence and exchange, expanding the sound of two tenors into a shifting field of breath, resonance, overlap and acoustic invention.

Doyeon Kim (w / Sorey / Maneri / Fraser)
Wellspring
(Tao Forms)
Seoul-born gayageum virtuoso and vocalist DoYeon Kim makes a striking bandleader debut with a quartet of Tyshawn Sorey on drums, Mat Maneri on viola and Henry Fraser on bass, merging Korean string and storytelling traditions with contemporary improvisation in a forceful, deeply expressive set of compositions and group interactions that move from bristling acoustic intensity to communal, humanist resonance.

Michael Foster / Christian Weber / Michael Griener
Selections From The Gutter
(Relative Pitch)
NYC saxophonist Michael Foster joins Swiss bassist Christian Weber and Berlin drummer Michael Griener for a visceral trio session of free improv charged with noir tension, drawing on American crime novelist David Goodis-inspired titles as the group moves through fractured momentum, suspenseful restraint and explosive exchanges shaped by deep rhythmic instinct and structural awareness.

Ballister + Luke Stewart
Clocking the Wheel
(Aerophonic)
Joining Dave Rempis on saxophones, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums with bassist Luke Stewart, this live Ballister performance from Roulette expands the trio's ferocious long-running rapport into a dense, high-velocity quartet, Stewart locking with Nilssen-Love in elastic propulsion as cello and saxophone surge through explosive, telepathic collective improvisation.

Myra Melford / Satoko Fujii
Katarahi
(RogueArt)
Myra Melford and Satoko Fujii meet in a rare two-piano encounter rooted in decades of friendship, their live performance unfolding as the heart-to-heart conversation suggested by the title, with both artists so deeply attuned that individual lines dissolve into a shared language of spontaneous form, lyrical intensity, emotional openness and beautifully balanced collective invention.

Bix Beiderbecke
Reference: Bix Beiderbecke, 1924 to 1928 [2 CDs]
(ALAY)
Gathering 45 small-group recordings from 1924-1928, this restored 2-CD reference traces Bix Beiderbecke's singular cornet and piano artistry alongside Frankie Trumbauer, Miff Mole, Don Murray, Tommy Dorsey, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti and others, revealing a poised, lyrical and formally lucid voice whose economy, harmonic curiosity and graceful invention helped shape early jazz beyond its dance-band conventions.

Pierre Favre Trio (Favre / Schweizer / Mraz)
Bird Food
(Songs)
Captured in 1968 in Zurich and long shelved before its recent discovery, this early trio session brings Pierre Favre, Irene Schweizer, and George Mraz together in a concise, fiery set of attentive free jazz, balancing Ornette Coleman's title piece with Schweizer's compositions, where dynamic interplay and acute listening reveal a nascent yet fully engaged collective voice.

Jurg Frey / Apartment House
Clarinet Quintet
(Another Timbre)
Composed between 2023 and 2025 after Jurg Frey withdrew from clarinet performance, this 54-minute chamber work places Heather Roche's clarinet within the string quartet of Mira Benjamin, Chihiro Ono, Bridget Carey and Anton Lukoszevieze, as Apartment House reveal a quietly extraordinary balance of stillness and motion, warm tonal color, intimate dialogue and a slow, organic passage toward unexpected transformation.

Jason Kahn / Phil Durrant / Mark Wastell / Caius Williams
Where The Stars
(Editions)
An electroacoustic quartet of Phil Durrant on amplified objects and electronics, Jason Kahn on voice, Mark Wastell on percussion, and Caius Williams on double bass, recorded in London in 2025, unfolding four extended improvisations where breath, resonance, friction, signal, and acoustic weight interact through restrained intensity, microscopic detail, and unstable collective form.

Trio San (Fujii / Saito / Oshima)
Hibiki
(Jazz Door)
Uniting the intersecting musical worlds of Satoko Fujii on piano, Taiko Saito on vibraphone and marimba, and Yuko Oshima on drums, this live debut from Trio SAN draws on their histories in duos and first European tour to shape a delicate yet resonant collective language of shifting timbres, prepared piano colors, ringing percussion, and freely developing melodic forms.

Greg Kelley / Yoona Kim
Distractions for Trumpet & Ajaeng
(Relative Pitch)
Bringing together Greg Kelley's extended-technique trumpet with Yoona Kim's non-traditional approach to the ajaeng, this Boston duo explores breath, bow, friction, resonance, and near-silence through taut improvisations where fragile tones, coarse strings, microscopic air bursts, and sudden ruptures forge a focused, unpredictable shared language.

Onilu (Chambers / Diehl / McIver / Villarreal
Jakuta's Dance
(577 Records)
A boundary-defying percussion quartet with the legendary Joe Chambers on vibraphone, drum kit and percussion, Kevin Diehl on sensory percussion drum kit, Craig McIver on marimba, vibraphone, drum kit and percussion, and Daniel Villarreal on drum kit, sensory percussion, bata okonkolo, conga, cajon and marimba, drawing on Yoruba-rooted ritual energy, avant-jazz, Latin folk and funk.

Hilary Jeffery (w/ Delius / Dunmall / Jeffery / Poulou)
Green Prism: Music by Keith Tippett
(Discus)
Rooted in Keith Tippett's late brass suite Winter's Welcome, Hilary Jeffery reimagines the material through multi-tracked brass, computer and improvisational expansions with Julie Tippetts' voice, Tobias Delius' tenor saxophone and clarinet, Paul Dunmall's saxophones and Eleni Poulou's synthesizer and music box, creating a prism-like tribute of resonant harmony, memory, song and exploratory transformation.

Duke Ellington Orchestra
From Fargo Live 1940
(ALAY)
A legendary 1940 live document of Duke Ellington's Blanton-Webster orchestra, captured in Fargo by Jack Towers and Richard Burris, with Ellington on piano, Johnny Hodges and Otto Hardwick on alto saxophones, Ben Webster on tenor, Harry Carney on baritone, Barney Bigard on clarinet, Rex Stewart, Ray Nance and Wallace Jones in the brass, Jimmy Blanton on bass, Sonny Greer on drums, and Ivie Anderson and Herb Jeffries on vocals.

Daniel Carter / Matthew Shipp / William Parker / Gerald Cleaver
Welcome Adventure! Vol. 1 [VINYL]
(577 Records)
After decades playing together, the quartet of Daniel Carter on tenor sax, trumpet & flute, Matthew Shipp on piano, William Parker on bass, and Gerald Cleaver on drums, release the first of two planned studio albums, with two extended and remarkably warm collective excursions bookending a shorter "Scintillate", in an exceptionally solid album of masterful modern jazz.

Daniel Carter / Leo Genovese / William Parker / Francisco Mela
Shine Hear Volume 2 [VINYL]
(577 Records)
Inspired by a poem Daniel Carter wrote about the transience and motion of modern life, the quartet of Daniel Carter on saxophone, Leo Genovese on piano, William Parker on bass, Gralla & Shakuhachi and Francisco Mela on drums & voice, turn in an ecstatic album of exotic collective improvisation in this second of two volumes from an excellent studio session.

Daniel Carter / Matthew Shipp / William Parker / Gerald Cleaver
Welcome Adventure! Vol. 2 [VINYL]
(577 Records)
The 2nd of two studio albums from the quartet of Daniel Carter on saxophone & flute, Matthew Shipp on piano, William Parker on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums, recordings from the same sessions as the 1st volume with five shorter works, as the long-time collaborators and friends show their nearly telepathic rapport in adventurous and masterful modern jazz.

Daniel Carter / Leo Genovese / William Parker / Francisco Mela
Shine Hear, Vol. 1 [VINYL]
(577 Records)
Inspired by a poem Carter wrote about New York's interminable motion, the quartet of Daniel Carter on saxophone, Leo Genovese on piano, William Parker on bass, Gralla & Shakuhachi and Francisco Mela on drums & voice, turn in an ecstatic album of exotic collective improvisation in this first of two planned volumes from an excellent studio session.

Henry Threadgill (Ross / Frisell / Besile-Che / Okazaki / Harris / Takeishi / Keren / Carlberg)
Listen Ship [VINYL]
(Pi Recordings)
Composer Henry Threadgill conducts a suite for six acoustic guitars and two pianos, bringing together Bill Frisell, Miles Okazaki, Brandon Ross, Gregg Belisle-Chi, Jerome Harris, Stomu Takeishi, Maya Keren, and Rahul Carlberg in an intricately orchestrated work whose intervallic syntax and meticulous counterpoint entwine with unexpected timbres to reveal his singular and sublime vision.

Tomeka Reid Quartet (w/ Roebke / Halvorson / Fujiwara)
Dance! Skip! Hop! [VINYL]
(Out Of Your Head Records)
Led by cellist Tomeka Reid, this longstanding quartet with Mary Halvorson on guitar, Jason Roebke on bass, and Tomas Fujiwara on drums delivers a rhythmically propulsive and structurally nimble set that balances grounded low-end drive with agile drumming, incisive guitar textures, and Reid's expressive counterpoint, channeling echoes of 1960s jazz while asserting an exuberant, and yes — danceable — release!

Sophie Agnel
Learning [VINYL]
(Otoroku)
Recorded in two powerful live sets at Café OTO, Sophie Agnel's first solo LP channels her post-recovery reinvention into a fiercely physical language for prepared piano, unleashing dense sound masses, interior textures, and sudden moments of clarity as she reshapes the instrument into a raw, personal terrain of gesture, resonance, and fearless exploration.

Sonic Youth
J'accuse Ted Hughes [VINYL]
(Sonic Youth Records)
The seventh entry in Sonic Youth's SYR series documents a pivotal experimental moment from the band's 2000 All Tomorrow's Parties performance, with Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley expanding a 20-minute "New Drone" into the voice-inflected J'accuse Ted Hughes, paired with a 2003 Echo Canyon studio work featuring Jim O'Rourke's bass, electronics and sound processing.

Joelle Leandre / Remy Belanger de Beauport
Jeux De Mains [VINYL]
(Tour de Bras)

Horatiu Radulescu
Clepsydra / Astray [VINYL]
(Edition Rz)
Romanian-French composer Horatiu Radulescu with 2 works from 1983: "Clepsydra" for 16 Sound Icons played on a sideway piano, and the 1984 work "Astray" for 6 saxophones and Sound Icons.

Billy Bang Survival Ensemble
Black Man's Blues [VINYL]
(NoBusiness)
Never before released material from 1977 of Billy Bang's seminal NY loft band, Survival Ensemble: 1 LP and a 40 page booklet of essays, images and flyers - essential!

The Group (Abdullah / Brown / Bang / Sirone / Hopkins / Cyrille)
Live [VINYL]
(NoBusiness)
A previously unreleased concert recording from 1986 of a group of leading out jazz artists (Billy Bang, Fred Hopkins, Andrew Cyrille, &c.) playing original compositions as well as a cover of Mingus' "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat".

Evan Parker / Barry Guy / Paul Lytton
Live at Maya Recordings Festival [VINYL 2 LPs]
(NoBusiness)
Superb improvisation from three masters - Evan Parker on sax, Barry Guy on bass and Paul Lytton on drums - performing at the Maya Recordings Festival, September 23 - 25, 2011 at Theater am Gleis, Winterthur, Switzerland.

Yes Deer
Get Your Glitter Jacket [VINYL]
(BeCoq)
The Norwegian & Danish freejazz-noise-rock trio Yes Deer of Anders Vestergaard on drums, Karl Bjora on guitar and Signe Dahlgreen on sax, in their second album of high energy, cacophonous and brutally joyful (they say "enthusiastic despair") collective improvisation.

Kan Mikami / John Edwards / Alex Nielson
Live at Cafe Oto [VINYL]
(Otoroku)
More typically a solo performer, Japanese bluesman Kan Mikami has created a distinctive path for his voice, guitar and poetic lyrics; here he is propelled in an improvisational setting with two powerful UK players--John Edwards on bass and Alex Neilson on drums--captured live at London's Cafe Oto for a growling concert of finesse and brusque attitude.

Daniel Carter / Tobias Wilner / Djibril Toure / Federico Ughi
New York United [VINYL + DOWNLOAD]
(577 Records)
An excellent blend of electronics and acoustics as saxophonist, flutist and trumpeter Daniel Carter meets sound artist Tobias Wilner from world-renowned electronic pop band Blue Foundation, with Wu-Tang Clan bass player Djibril Toure and drum wiz Federico Ughi rounding out this forward-thinking album of hazy and rhythmic electroacoustic environments.

Paul Flaherty / Gene Moore / Gene Janas / Federico Ughi
Morfina [VINYL + DOWNLOAD]
(577 Records)
First conceived during the 2016 Forward Festival when noise guitarist Gene Moore and NYC experimental bassist Gene Janas invited noted avant-garde drummer Federico Ughi for the second part of their set, the results being so impressive that they asked saxophonist Paul Flaherty to join them to record this album and to perform at the Forward Festival 2017.

Rachel Musson / Pat Thomas / Mark Sanders
Shifa: Live at Cafe Oto [VINYL + DOWNLOAD]
(577 Records)
"Shifa", or "Healing", is the London-based trio of saxophonist Rachel Musson, pianist Pat Thomas, and drummer Mark Sanders, here in a live concert at Cafe Oto in 2018 of two collective improvisations of arching sax lines, rolling and potent drumming, powerful block chords and intricate lines, from dark to joyful moments, an intoxicating tonic for the ears.

Judge Schreber's Avian Choir
Bleed [VINYL]
(Cort)
Saxophonist and composer Crowmeat Bob's ensemble, Judge Schreber's Avian Choir, is a project name he's used to present his large ensemble pieces involving composition, improvisation, and conduction, here in a conducted collaboration with 15 bowed string players, a heavy metal rhythm section and Bob's own overdubs on reeds and guitar.

Egil Kalman / Fredrik Rasten
Weaving a Fabric of Winds [VINYL]
(Shhpuma)
Swedish bass player Egil Kalman, here on modular syntheizer, joins Norwegian guitarist Fredrik Rasten, for a lovely album of drifting electronics and beautifully entwining acoustic guitar, unhurriedly developing environments of warm, slowly evolving chord structures that show influences from players like Catherine Lamb or the Wandelweiser collective.

Dave Tucker / Pat Thomas / Thurston Moore / Mark Sanders
Educated Guess Vol. 1 [VINYL]
(577 Records)
The "guess" was guitarist and electronics artist Dave Tucker's educated guess that these four musicians--himself, pianist/keyboardist Pat Thomas, guitarist Thurston Moore and drummer/percussionist Mark Sanders--would create someting extraordinary if he brought them together for a concert at London's Cafe OTO, this boundary-pushing album the indisputably successful result.

Zoh Amba / William Parker / Francisco Mela
O Life, O Light Vol. 1 [VINYL]
(577 Records)
New generation New York tenor saxophonist Zoe Amba, a Tennessee transplant whose spirit is illuminated with free styles that harken back to Ayler, recording in the studio with a trio of luminary players--William Parker on bass and Francisco Mela on drums--performing three Amba compositions, one featuring Amba on flute; the CD edition contains one bonus improvisation.

Daniel Carter / Evan Strauss / 5-Track / Sheridan Riley
The Uproar In Bursts Of Sound And Silence [COLORED VINYL]
(577 Records)
A collage of styles and experimentation developed over several years by bassist and multi-instrumentalist Evan Strauss, using long-form graphically notated conceptual compositions based on bird calls along with thematic material from Ursula K. Le Guin, expanded with narration and poetry from Daniel Carter and titled from an excerpt by Virginia Woolf.

Zoh Amba / William Parker / Francisco Mela
O Life, O Light Vol. 2 [VINYL]
(577 Records)
The second volume from the trio of Tennessee-to-NYC transplant Zoe Amba on tenor saxophone & flute, legendary double bassist William Parker and Francisco Mela on drums, performing three compositions by Amba recorded in the studio in NYC; emphatic free jazz with a powerful rhythm section elucidating Amba's spiritually fueled approach to compelling, lyrical improvisation.

Vathres
Liturgy of Lacuna [VINYL]
(thanatosis produktion)
Three expansive works from composer and keyboardist/pianist Alex Zethson, developing concepts from themes and motifs developed over more than a decade, recorded over two years with exceptional care as he and his collaborators create subtle and beautifully evocative sonic environments that seamlessly incorporate acoustic, electronic, drone and feedback elements.

[ahmed] (Thomas / Grip / Gerbal / Wright)
Play Monk [2 CDs]
(Otoroku)
After six albums reimagining Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Pat Thomas, Joel Grip, Antonin Gerbal and Seymour Wright turn their transformative [Ahmed] project toward Thelonious Monk, atomising his compositions across two CDs into volatile, time-bending forms where piano, bass, drums and alto saxophone fracture and reassemble melody, rhythm and space through free jazz intensity, pulse and radical collective invention.

The Williams Tony Emergency w/ John McLaughlin / Larry Young
Emergency!
(ALAY)
A restored edition of Tony Williams Lifetime's incendiary 1969 trio debut with John McLaughlin on guitar and Larry Young on organ, documenting one of jazz-rock fusion's earliest and most audacious statements, where Williams' radical rhythmic designs, Young's dense harmonic force, and McLaughlin's searing electric vocabulary collide in urgent, psychedelic, genre-defying improvisation.

Marion Brown / Burton Greene Quartet
Reference: Capricorn Moon, Why Not & With Burton Greene Quartet [2 CDs + POSTCARD]
(ALAY)
Gathering key 1965-66 New York sessions, this 2-CD set traces alto saxophonist Marion Brown's emergence in the free jazz vanguard through Capricorn Moon, Why Not? and Burton Greene quartet recordings, with Alan Shorter, Bennie Maupin, Stanley Cowell, Henry Grimes, Sirone, Rashied Ali and others shaping music of lyrical urgency, open-form momentum and evolving collective freedom.

Tomeka Reid Quartet (w/ Roebke / Halvorson / Fujiwara)
Dance! Skip! Hop!
(Out Of Your Head Records)
Led by cellist Tomeka Reid, this longstanding quartet with Mary Halvorson on guitar, Jason Roebke on bass, and Tomas Fujiwara on drums delivers a rhythmically propulsive and structurally nimble set that balances grounded low-end drive with agile drumming, incisive guitar textures, and Reid's expressive counterpoint, channeling echoes of 1960s jazz while asserting an exuberant, and yes — danceable — release!

Gerry Hemingway / Izumi Kimura / Frank Gratkowski / Christian Weber
Live At Bau 4
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Gerry Hemingway leads a site-specific quartet with pianist Izumi Kimura, multi-reedist Frank Gratkowski and bassist Christian Weber, weaving composed structures, extended techniques, improvisational formations and wood-scrap percussion from Bau 4 itself into a tribute to the venue's founders, balancing melodic fragments, rhythmic propulsion, microtonal color and vivid ensemble transformation.

Paul Dunmall
Afraid To Speak
(Discus)
Returning to a stripped-down free-blowing setting, Paul Dunmall leads a responsive group with Corey Mwamba on vibraphone, Steven Saunders on electric guitar, Dave Kane on double bass, Miles Levin on drums and Xhosa Cole guesting on flute and piccolo, creating five incisive yet finely detailed improvisations of saxophone fire, resonant texture, electric abrasion and collective momentum.

Albert Ayler
Reference: Albert Ayler, Spirits & Spirits Rejoice [CD + POSTCARD]
(ALAY)
Uniting Albert Ayler's 1964 New York sessions for Spirits (Debut) and Spirits Rejoice (ESP, with Donald Ayler, Charles Tyler, Call Cobbs, Henry Grimes, Gary Peacock, Sunny Murray, Normand Howard and Earle Henderson, this remastered edition captures Ayler's volatile balance of spiritual song, sculptural horn lines, churning bass motion, ecstatic fanfare and free jazz intensity.

Camila Nebbia / Chris Corsano
Six or Seven Ways Towards Becoming Undone
(Relative Pitch)
A fierce, spontaneous duo of Camila Nebbia on tenor saxophone and Chris Corsano on drums, recorded in Berlin in 2025, merging Nebbia's searching lines, breath-driven textures and unstable lyricism with Corsano's explosive, highly detailed percussion language, moving between delicate abrasion, surging intensity, fragmented melody and raw improvised exchange.

Albert Ayler Quintet
Copenhagen, Bordeaux 1966 & Newport 1967 Live First Release
(ALAY)
Previously unreleased recordings from the Albert Ayler Quintet — captured in Copenhagen and Bordeaux during the 1966 Newport in Europe tour and at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1967 — present Ayler with Donald Ayler, Michel Samson, Bill Folwell, and Beaver Harris/Milford Graves in fiercely expressive performances, newly restored and mastered from rediscovered tapes.

Columbia Icefield (Wooley / Alcorn / Mendoza / Sawyer)
A Silence Opens
(Out Of Your Head Records)
A deeply elegiac final statement from Nate Wooley's Columbia Icefield, with Susan Alcorn's pedal steel, Ava Mendoza's guitar and voice, and Ryan Sawyer's drums joining Wooley's trumpet, amplifier, voice, whistling and footwork in music shaped by grief, memory and gratitude, responding to the deaths of Ron Miles and Alcorn through expansive, emotionally weighted improvisation.

Ran Blake
Voices
(Tzadik)
Ran Blake, in his 90s and still one of American music's most singular pianists, performs a solo program of jazz, folk, gospel, film noir and even holiday music, bringing his darkly lyrical, deconstructive approach to melodies reshaped through memory, silence and shadow, in a profound late-career statement of mystery, tenderness and deep patience.

Tom Challenger / Evan Parker
May Spring Last a Lifetime
(False Walls)
The first duo recording from tenor saxophonists Tom Challenger and Evan Parker, captured at Arco Barco in Ramsgate and later resequenced into six sections, reveals two deeply attuned improvisers using shared instrumental language to question control, memory, silence and exchange, expanding the sound of two tenors into a shifting field of breath, resonance, overlap and acoustic invention.

Doyeon Kim (w / Sorey / Maneri / Fraser)
Wellspring
(Tao Forms)
Seoul-born gayageum virtuoso and vocalist DoYeon Kim makes a striking bandleader debut with a quartet of Tyshawn Sorey on drums, Mat Maneri on viola and Henry Fraser on bass, merging Korean string and storytelling traditions with contemporary improvisation in a forceful, deeply expressive set of compositions and group interactions that move from bristling acoustic intensity to communal, humanist resonance.

Michael Foster / Christian Weber / Michael Griener
Selections From The Gutter
(Relative Pitch)
NYC saxophonist Michael Foster joins Swiss bassist Christian Weber and Berlin drummer Michael Griener for a visceral trio session of free improv charged with noir tension, drawing on American crime novelist David Goodis-inspired titles as the group moves through fractured momentum, suspenseful restraint and explosive exchanges shaped by deep rhythmic instinct and structural awareness.

Ballister + Luke Stewart
Clocking the Wheel
(Aerophonic)
Joining Dave Rempis on saxophones, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums with bassist Luke Stewart, this live Ballister performance from Roulette expands the trio's ferocious long-running rapport into a dense, high-velocity quartet, Stewart locking with Nilssen-Love in elastic propulsion as cello and saxophone surge through explosive, telepathic collective improvisation.

Myra Melford / Satoko Fujii
Katarahi
(RogueArt)
Myra Melford and Satoko Fujii meet in a rare two-piano encounter rooted in decades of friendship, their live performance unfolding as the heart-to-heart conversation suggested by the title, with both artists so deeply attuned that individual lines dissolve into a shared language of spontaneous form, lyrical intensity, emotional openness and beautifully balanced collective invention.

Bix Beiderbecke
Reference: Bix Beiderbecke, 1924 to 1928 [2 CDs]
(ALAY)
Gathering 45 small-group recordings from 1924-1928, this restored 2-CD reference traces Bix Beiderbecke's singular cornet and piano artistry alongside Frankie Trumbauer, Miff Mole, Don Murray, Tommy Dorsey, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti and others, revealing a poised, lyrical and formally lucid voice whose economy, harmonic curiosity and graceful invention helped shape early jazz beyond its dance-band conventions.

Pierre Favre Trio (Favre / Schweizer / Mraz)
Bird Food
(Songs)
Captured in 1968 in Zurich and long shelved before its recent discovery, this early trio session brings Pierre Favre, Irene Schweizer, and George Mraz together in a concise, fiery set of attentive free jazz, balancing Ornette Coleman's title piece with Schweizer's compositions, where dynamic interplay and acute listening reveal a nascent yet fully engaged collective voice.

Jason Kahn / Phil Durrant / Mark Wastell / Caius Williams
Where The Stars
(Editions)
An electroacoustic quartet of Phil Durrant on amplified objects and electronics, Jason Kahn on voice, Mark Wastell on percussion, and Caius Williams on double bass, recorded in London in 2025, unfolding four extended improvisations where breath, resonance, friction, signal, and acoustic weight interact through restrained intensity, microscopic detail, and unstable collective form.

Trio San (Fujii / Saito / Oshima)
Hibiki
(Jazz Door)
Uniting the intersecting musical worlds of Satoko Fujii on piano, Taiko Saito on vibraphone and marimba, and Yuko Oshima on drums, this live debut from Trio SAN draws on their histories in duos and first European tour to shape a delicate yet resonant collective language of shifting timbres, prepared piano colors, ringing percussion, and freely developing melodic forms.

Greg Kelley / Yoona Kim
Distractions for Trumpet & Ajaeng
(Relative Pitch)
Bringing together Greg Kelley's extended-technique trumpet with Yoona Kim's non-traditional approach to the ajaeng, this Boston duo explores breath, bow, friction, resonance, and near-silence through taut improvisations where fragile tones, coarse strings, microscopic air bursts, and sudden ruptures forge a focused, unpredictable shared language.

Onilu (Chambers / Diehl / McIver / Villarreal
Jakuta's Dance
(577 Records)
A boundary-defying percussion quartet with the legendary Joe Chambers on vibraphone, drum kit and percussion, Kevin Diehl on sensory percussion drum kit, Craig McIver on marimba, vibraphone, drum kit and percussion, and Daniel Villarreal on drum kit, sensory percussion, bata okonkolo, conga, cajon and marimba, drawing on Yoruba-rooted ritual energy, avant-jazz, Latin folk and funk.

Hilary Jeffery (w/ Delius / Dunmall / Jeffery / Poulou)
Green Prism: Music by Keith Tippett
(Discus)
Rooted in Keith Tippett's late brass suite Winter's Welcome, Hilary Jeffery reimagines the material through multi-tracked brass, computer and improvisational expansions with Julie Tippetts' voice, Tobias Delius' tenor saxophone and clarinet, Paul Dunmall's saxophones and Eleni Poulou's synthesizer and music box, creating a prism-like tribute of resonant harmony, memory, song and exploratory transformation.

Duke Ellington Orchestra
From Fargo Live 1940
(ALAY)
A legendary 1940 live document of Duke Ellington's Blanton-Webster orchestra, captured in Fargo by Jack Towers and Richard Burris, with Ellington on piano, Johnny Hodges and Otto Hardwick on alto saxophones, Ben Webster on tenor, Harry Carney on baritone, Barney Bigard on clarinet, Rex Stewart, Ray Nance and Wallace Jones in the brass, Jimmy Blanton on bass, Sonny Greer on drums, and Ivie Anderson and Herb Jeffries on vocals.

The Remote Viewers
Winter Library Vol 1
(Remote Viewers)
The first volume in The Remote Viewers' Winter Library series, this live London quartet recording brings David Petts and Adrian Northover together with John Edwards and Steve Beresford, reworking material from The Remote Code into an acoustic chamber of tenor and soprano saxophones, resonant bass, objects and toys, balancing angular themes, brittle textures, oblique melody and free improvisational exchange.

+DOG+
To Share Forever With You
(Love Earth Music)
Love Earth Music label leader and sound artist Steve Davis' +DOG+ project is joined by a cast of noise and sound artists--Bobby Almon, Chuck Foster, Edward Giles, Jack Szymczak, LOB, Mackenzie Kourie, Ron Karlin--for a mix of rich sonic assaults, collage constructions and possibly some live captures, in an interesting and well-produced collection of diverse approaches to sound.

Allan Zane / Carl Kruger
Model Collapse
(Love Earth Music)
Allan Zane and Carl Kruger craft an album of "wet ambient music" inspired by Roland Kayn, featuring fluid textures and evolving soundscapes that pay homage to the German composer and electronic music pioneer innovative approach to ambient composition, here in an immersive auditory experience of deep-water, subtle transitory and aqueous sound.

+DOG+
Peace
(Love Earth Music)
A long-running experimental noise unit led by Steve Davis and featuring Lob Instagon, +DOG+ craft a subtle and textural set of eighteen lo-fi electroacoustic improvisations recorded in Massachusetts, California, and Rhode Island, blending electronics, field recordings, and minimalist structures with a calm, intimate, and exploratory aesthetic.

United States of America Triptych (II)
Andrea Belfi, David Grubbs, David Maranha, Pete Simonelli play Ten Intrusions
(Bolt)
Andrea Belfi (percussion), David Grubbs (guitar), David Maranha (organ), and Pete Simonelli (voice) perform "Ten Intrusions", following the model set by Harry Partch's 1949-1950 composition "Eleven Intrusions".

Hugo Blouin / Claude Bourque / Paul Gregoire
L' Ossuaire [2 CDs]
(Tour de Bras)
Recordings of an installation piece built in Iles-de-la-Madeleine in the summer of 2013, a large sculpture made of resonant metal pipes with propane torches and whale bones, used as a huge musical instrument allowing three people to play simultaneously from different sides.

Jean-Philippe Gross / Golden Oriole
Optical Cadillac / Golden Oriole [VINYL 10-inch]
(BeCoq)
A split 10" vinyl album of two very different works: first French sound artist Jean-Philippe Gross in a sonic assault of garish rhythmic electronic persistence and noise; then the Golden Oriole instrumental rock duo of Kristoffer Riis on guitar and Thore Warland on drums in a compelling work of grooving structure with diverse percussive interaction.

Richard Comte
Travel Patterns [CD EP]
(nunc.)
An album of languorous guitar motifs, slowly unfolding in a mesmerizing haze intended to accompany a traveller as landscapes pass, contemplative daydream listening as a mesmeric addition to one's environment in momentum, presented in four "Patterns" that allow the rich tones and harmonics of French electric guitarist Richard Comte to ring out a rich journey.

Richard Comte
Derive de la base et du sommet
(nunc.)
Translating to "Base and vertex drift", French guitarist Richard Comte (Hippie Diktat, Vegan Dallas) present four darkly ominous solo works on electric guitar through slowly shifting chords and deep reverberation, punctuated with ringing tones and light moments that peer through sonic clouds, his ambience a backdrop to alternations of lucidity and submersion.

Ego Death / Astro
Crossing The Line Between Life And Death
(Love Earth Music)
A split release between two noise artists from opposite sides of the planet: first Greek sound artist Manos Michaelides, aka Ego Death, in a brutal assault of abrasive sound recorded over a decade; then an amalgamation of a live recording from Hiroshi Hasegawa (C.C.C.C.) performing at IAF shop in Fukuoka, Japan and in the studio at Koenji-Minami Studio, in Tokyo, Japan.

L'eclipse Nue
Faces From Dreams
(Love Earth Music)
Eight illusory and ethereal sound and noise works from Daniel Sine, aka Le Chien Nu, from beautiful sonic environments to raspy nightmares, putting special emphasis on the latter, with enough diversity between each work to make a complete REM cycle of unsettling sleep offset by moments of beauty.

Modelbau
Inlets
(Love Earth Music)
A journey through drone, abstract sound and concrete elements from Netherlands sound artists and writer Frans de Waard (Vital Weekly), mixed from recordings sessions in 2022 and sourced from small electronics, shortwave radio, aqueous recordings, iPad synths, Walkman and "whatever else", the work suggesting 11 movements through various textures and sonic environments.

+DOG+
The Family Music Book Vol. 4 [2 CDs]
(Love Earth Music)
Two CDs presenting a series of recordings captured live in venues throughout northeast America between 2021 and 2023, led by +DOG+ sound artist Steve Davis with Bobby Almon, Chuck Foster, Edward Giles, Jack Szymczak, LOB, Mackenzie Kourie, Ron Karlin, at venues and festivals including Sonorium at SATV, Buddyfest, Milwaukee's Jazz Gallery Center, &c. &c.

Chefkirk
Giant Size
(Love Earth Music)
Eight distinctive works for electronics and sound from the alter ego of Roger H. Smith, using noise, percussive elements and unusual synthetics, layered around static and arpeggiated rhythms and punctuated with strange asides, the works run from 3:14 to 18:37 and were developed over a year and half; an excellent introduction to the sonic diversity Chefkirk revels in.

Midnight Only (RJ Myato / Jabe Ledoux)
Midnight Only
(Love Earth Music)
An album of dense electronics, drums and gongs from Vermont drummer and experimenter Jabe Ledoux, aka Jo Bled, and Pittsburgh noise artist RJ Myato, co-founder of NNN Coalition and curator of Enforced Existence label, in three works from assertive jumbles of sound, to buzzy drones with muted percussion and ending with an ocean of blurred and swooping harmonics.

Andrew Weathers
Two Recordings
(Editions Glomar)
Two extended performances from Los Angeles and Colorado Springs by the West Coast ensemble of Andrew Weathers (tenor saxophone, mixer), Angel Lin (percussion), Ethan Marks (trumpet), and Mar Perez (trombone), freely improvising with resonance and experimental techniques to craft immersive soundscapes that blur the line between instrumental performance and environmental noise.

E.O.C. (Engineering Of Consent)
Dreams
(Love Earth Music)
An enigmatic electroacoustic project from Mexico City, E.O.C. (Engineering Of Consent) crafts layered, dramatic, and immersive soundscapes that blend dark ambient, noise, and experimental textures into a compelling exploration of human nature, perception, and the subtle forces shaping collective experience.

Modelbau
1x33.3
(Love Earth Music)
Recorded in March 2024 using an 8-track borrowed from Peter Duimelinks, Frans de Waard's Modelbau project presents a dark drone piece that envelops listeners in rich, immersive textures, exemplifying his adept manipulation of lo-fi equipment to create profound ambient soundscapes.

+Felladog+
+Felladog+
(Love Earth Music)
A high-decibel collaboration between harsh noise veteran Steve Davis (+DOG+) and Cleveland sound artist Jim Fellahean Szudy (Fellahean), recorded in Massachusetts and Ohio, blending subterranean industrial textures with metal scraping, low drones, and brutal sonic ruptures across 14 dynamic tracks, delivering an hour of immersive and confrontational electro-industrial experimentation.

TJ Borden / Steve Flato
In the Garden of Eating
(Full Spectrum)
Taking ironic inspiration from Stockhausen�s conceptual extremes, cellist Tyler J. Borden and guitarist Steve Flato fuse cello, microtonal guitar, modular synth, Gizmotron, and electronics in an absurdist yet introspective performance score, immersively weaving subtle textures and just-intonation harmonies shaped by physical and psychological excesses around food and discomfort.

+DOG+
The Light Of Our Lives [2 CDs]
(Love Earth Music)
A two-CD immersion in live experimental noise by +DOG+'s Steve Davis and core collaborators, documented across multiple U.S. cities in 2024-25, weaving together feral improvisation, layered electronics, ambient detours, and cathartic sonic eruptions into a raw and immersive journey through texture, intensity, and collective sound exploration.

S*Glass
Benign Neglect
(Public Eyesore)
Founding member of Bren't Lewiis Ensemble and Glands of External Secretion, and longtime driver of Bananafish magazine, Seymour Glass (as S*Glass) presents three 20-minute works of surrealist musique concrète, layering loops, cassettes, objects, organ, voice, and field recordings into unsettling yet strangely meditative sound collages that conjure fever dreams and altered states.

Machinefabriek
Samen
(Machinefabriek)
Collecting Machinefabriek works from singles, EPs and compilations released between 2015 and 2025, Rutger Zuydervelt presents a 17-track, 76-minute continuous mix that serves as both a personal selection of favourites and an inviting entry point into his immersive world of ambient detail, drone, field recordings and electro-acoustic texture.

Sheer Anxiety
If You Want Blood You've Got It
(Love Earth Music)
The Boston duo of Chris Strunk on snare drum and percussion and Andrea Pensado on electronics and voice unleash six live performances from 2018-2025, forging a raw and volatile language of harsh electronics, extreme vocal force, rattling percussion, snare-driven impact and free improvisational tension rooted in noise, physicality and underground experimental performance.

Dysmorfic +DOG+
To The Usual Atomic Rhetoric Vol. 1
(Love Earth Music)
Italian avant-grind duo Dysmorfic pair Davide Buccedi's volatile drumming with Tom Conte's fretted and fretless bass, then fold in Steve Davis' +DOG+ electronics for five compact assaults where grindcore velocity, prog-jazz dislocation and harsh ambient noise collide, turning riffs into unstable events and brief tracks into dense, abrasive miniatures of rhythm, texture, tension, resistance, and rupture.

Blanketship
The Sound of Fun Surrounds You / Klangwunder
(Gigante Sound)
Two EPs in one CD, 1st Blanketship's wonderful plunderphonic collage "The Sound of Fun...", and then a 35 minute work for People Like Us' WFMU radio show that ran in May 2008.

Morton Feldman / GBSR Duo w/ Taylor MacLennan
Trios [6 CD BOX SET]
(Another Timbre)
Spanning Morton Feldman's three expansive trios for flute, piano, and percussion, these performances by the GBSR Duo with Taylor MacLennan immerse the listener in an extended temporal field where quiet intensity, precise timbral balance, and fragile rhythmic relationships unfold with hypnotic patience, transforming duration itself into an expressive element of listening, presence, and sustained attention.

John Cage (Wegmann / Debacker)
Two2 (1989) for 2 Pianos
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Judith Wegmann and Marlies Debacker perform John Cage's 1989 Two2, a late work for two pianos whose thirty-six short lines unfold through independent tempi, shared pauses and resonant decay, allowing the duo's deep experience in composed and improvised music to shape a live performance of patient asymmetry, concentrated listening and quietly radical spaciousness.

Klaus Lang / Apartment House
Geschrieben In Wasser
(Another Timbre)
Klaus Lang's chamber works for Apartment House trace a patient, inwardly focused music of sustained tones, structural clarity and lyrical restraint, drawing from Pre-Raphaelite poetry, Basho's autumnal imagery and Keats' epitaph as clarinets, strings, piano and electric organ reveal slowly shifting architectures where beauty, stillness and sound become forms of quiet protest.

Tyshawn Sorey
Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)
(DaCamera Editions)
Composed and conducted by Tyshawn Sorey, this expansive work presents a luminous, long-form meditation inspired by Morton Feldman's Rothko Chapel, blending voice, strings, keyboards and percussion into a deeply contemplative soundscape of spiritual fragments, sustained tonal color and quiet emotional intensity, realized by soloists Davóne Tines, Kim Kashkashian, Sarah Rothenberg, Steven Schick and the Houston Chamber Choir.

Terry Riley played by John Tilbury
Keyboard Studies
(Another Timbre)
There is uncertainty of when pianist John Tilbury recorded these three solo keyboard works by his associate and friend, legendary minimalist composer Terry Riley, performing "Keyboard Study #1" and #2, along with "Dorian Reeds" using piano, electric organ, harpsichord & celesta, captured with excellent quality in superb performances from Tilbury at the height of his powers.

Wooden Cities
WORK
(Infrasonic Press)
Opening with an adaptation of Cornelius Cardew's "Red Flag", the Buffalo-based new music ensemble Wooden Cities Brendan Fitzgerald introduces the first of a trilogy of albums, a set of narrative works that confront topics of work, labor, commodity, and justice through a blend of composition and improvisation, including works by Cardew, Julius Eastman, and Frederic Rzewski.

Laura Cetilia
Gorgeous Nothings
(elsewhere)
Three intimate chamber works from composer-cellist Laura Cetilia unfold in finely sculpted layers of cello, voice, violin, and vibraphone, blending delicate harmonics, quiet resonance, and attentive presence into a spacious, quietly immersive soundworld that bridges classical lineage with exploratory clarity and luminous restraint.

John Zorn (w/ Julian Lage / Gavin Riley)
Seven Sonnets
(Tzadik)
John Zorn continues his lyrical acoustic guitar writing with a Shakespeare-inspired book of seven intimate compositions for Julian Lage and Gyan Riley, whose long collaboration as interpreters of Zorn's music brings warmth, precision and conversational clarity to pieces that draw on early music, minimalism, contemporary classical forms, folk, jazz and soundtrack-like atmosphere.

Horatiu Radulescu
Clepsydra / Astray [VINYL]
(Edition Rz)
Romanian-French composer Horatiu Radulescu with 2 works from 1983: "Clepsydra" for 16 Sound Icons played on a sideway piano, and the 1984 work "Astray" for 6 saxophones and Sound Icons.

Horatiu Radulescu
20 Jahre Inventionen
(Edition Rz)
Horatiu Radulescu's String Quartet No 4, opus 33 (1976-87) performed by the Arditti String Quartett at IRCAM/Centre Pompidou Paris in 1996.

Klaus Lang / Arditti String Quartet
20 Jahre Inventionen III
(Edition Rz)
The string quartet sei-jaku by German composer Klaus Lang, documented on this CD, was performed on June 30, 2002 in the Grober Sendesaal of the SFB Berlin by the Arditti String Quartet during the festival Inventionen 2002.

Klaus Lang
Trauermusiken
(Edition Rz)
Two compositions by the young Austrian composer/organist Klaus Lang, who currently lives in Berlin, Germany.

John Cage / Domencio Scarlatti
Changes
(Hat [now] ART)
Pianist Pi-Hsien Chen performs both the playful and quirky sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti juxtaposed to John Cage's I Ching developed compositions, "Music of Changes", which complement each other in unexpected and sublime ways.

Morton Feldman played by John Tilbury & Philip Thomas
Two Pianos And Other Pieces 1953-1969 [2 CDs]
(Another Timbre)
"Two Pianos" is one of Morton Feldman's most experimental and radical works, performed here by John Tilbury & Philip Thomas; plus lesser known works including 'Piece for Four Pianos', 'Between Categories', 'False Relationships and the Extended Ending' and 'Two Pieces for Three Pianos'.

Tom Johnson / Samuel Vriezen
The Chord Catalogue. Within Fourths/Within Fifths
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)
Pianist Samuel Vriezen performs Tom Johnson's work presenting what Johnson describes as a natural phenomenon within a musical scale: progressions in 1 to 5 voices of all possible combinations of notes with each voice being limited to 3 steps, a perfect 4th or a perfect 5th.

Luigi Nono / Jurg Frey
Works For Violin Duos
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)
Two works from two distinctive composers from different periods--Jurg Frey and Luigi Nono--both for two violins, Frey using the two violins in parallel to emphasize their distinction; Nono using powerful gestures of divergence and contrast in a dream-like duo.

Leo Cicala
Punto Di Accumulazione
(Creative Sources)

John Cage
Klang der Wandlungen [3 CDs]
(Edition Rz)
An impressive triple-CD box with recordings of some late works by John Cage, including "Seventy-Four for Orchestra, 1992", "103 for Orchestra, 1991, part 1 & 2", In a Landscape fur Harfe", "Postcard From Heaven fur Eine Bis Zwanzig Harfen", and some of "The Harmony of Maine"; including a 32 page booklet with photos and liner notes by Jakob Ullmann.

Morton Feldman
Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello
(Another Timbre)
Morton Feldman's final composition, originally premiered in 1987, here performed by pianist Mark Knoop, violinist Aisha Orazbayeva, violist Bridget Carey, and cellist Anton Lukoszevieze, recording a year after their successful performance at London's Cafe Oto, maintaining focus and concentration on this large, unhurried work of micro-variations.

Tim Hodgkinson / Jason Alder / Chris Cundy / Yoni Silver / Heather Roche / Shadanga Duo / Thanos Chrysakis
Music For Bass Clarinets
(Aural Terrains)
A live performance at London's Cafe OTO from composer Thanos Chrysakis, performing compositions focused on the deeper reeds from composers Christian Wolff, Iancu Dumitrescu, Hannes Kerschbaumer, Georges Aperghis, and Chrysakis himself, in configurations from solo to quintet, with Tim Hodgkinson, Jason Alder, Chris Cundy, Heather Roce, Yoni Silver, and Shadanga Duo.

Marc Sabat / Harmonic Space Orchestra
Gioseffo Zarlino (2015/2019)
(Sacred Realism)
The third in a series of pieces inspired by ideas in the history of music theory, from composer Marc Sabat and inspired by Renaissance Italian Composer/Theorist Gioseffo Zarlino, performed in a 9-piece ensemble that cycles through voices, strings, harp, and flute, with instruments entering cycles at midpoints of prior loops to create weaving and graceful intersections.

Gerard Grisey / Iancu Dumitrescu / Niels Christian Rasmussen / Thanos Chrysakis / Salvatore Sciarrino / Lori Freedman / Tim Hodgkinson
Music for Violas, Bass Clarinets & Flutes
(Aural Terrains)
Compositions for violas, bass clarinets and flutes performed by Vincent Royer, Jill Valentine, Jason Alder, Chris Cundy, Tim Hodgkinson, Yoni Silver, Lori Freedman, Carla Rees, Karin de Fleyt, Thanos Chrysakis, Katrina Lauder, with compositions from Gerard Grisey, Iancu Dumitrescu, Thanos Chrysakis, Niels Rasmussen, Salvatore Sciarrino, Lori Freedman, and Tim Hodgkinson.

Morton Feldman / Apartment House
Piano and String Quartet
(Another Timbre)
Inspired by the broadcast performance by The Apartment House ensemble of three works by Morton Feldman, Another Timbre requested that they record the exceptional late work of the minimalist composer, Piano and String Quartet, captured at Henry Wood Hall two months later in a stunning interpretation of this enigmatic work of sensually dissipating motion.

Morton Feldman / Apartment House
Violin and String Quartet [2 CDs]
(Another Timbre)
One of New York School minimalist composer Morton Feldman's later works, this extended composition spread across two CDs invokes waves of beautifully suspended, weaving strings from four violinists and cello, performed by the UK Apartment House ensemble violinists Mira Benjamin, Chihiro Ono, Amalia Young & Bridget Carey and cellist Anton Lukoszevieze.

CALATO / John Cage
Variations + Four6
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Calato, the quartet of Javier Areal Vélez, Jorge Espinal, Agustín Genoud and Pablo Verón based in Buenos Aires, formed in 2010 as an improvisation and experimental composition group exploring music notation and graphic scores in convergence with free improvisation, performing on prepared electric guitars, drums, sampler and amplified voice, here taking on two works by John Cage: Variations I-III, and Four6.

Andre Duchesne
Ch'val
(Ambiances Magnetiques)
Montreal composer, guitarist and arranger Andre Duchesne developed the pieces on this solo album as a tribute to his sister Carole, "the one who dreamed of horses," who passed in 2010, his pieces incorporating elements of rock, improvisation and compositional forms, a sincere tribute developed by recording daily over a month as a virtual rock band of guitar, bass and drum programming.

J. Gregg J. / David Van Auken
Lunar Prairie [CD w/ DOWNLOAD]
(IntangibleCat)
After meeting through mutual esteem of their individual SoundCloud presences, these Oregon string players met to develop their compellingly engaging work in rehearsal, David Van Auken's guitar arrangements the perfect canvas for the sitar melodies of J.J. Gregg; after touring together they went into the studio for this album's 8 tracks, plus two live recordings.

Electric Bird Noise / Derek Roddy
8-10-22 [CD EP]
(Silber Media)

With snaking guitar lines and psychedelic drumming, the collaboration of Myrtle Beach experimental guitarist Brian McKenzie (Electric Bird Noise) and extreme metal drumming virtuoso Derek Roddy creates a mesmerizing fusion of looping sustain, hypnotic textures, and dynamic percussive energy, captured live in an unfiltered improvisational session that pulses with atmospheric tension and spontaneous synergy.

Henry Kaiser / Kurt Newman
After
(Fractal)
Guitarists Henry Kaiser and Kurt Newman engage in free improvisations inspired by classic songs they love — not covers, but intuitive commentaries recorded after listening to tracks by Pink Floyd ("See Emily Play"), The Who, ZZ Top, Fleetwood Mac, Richard Thompson, &c. — creating spontaneous, exploratory duets that reinterpret familiar sonic memories through raw, imaginative abstraction.

John Zorn
The Song of Songs [CD + CD BOOK]
(Tzadik)
A rich all-vocal rendering of the Bible's sensual Song of Solomon, featuring five distinguished female voices with narration by Barbara Hannigan and Mathieu Amalric, and guided by Jeremy Fogel's new translation, this lush limited-edition CD book highlights one of Zorn's most evocative and beautifully realized creations in a single extended work.

Loco Takayanagi Y Les Pobres
El Pulso
(Jinya Disc)
One of the strangest items in the Takayanagi (New Direction Unit) discography:- an acoustic guitar nontet playing covers of South American tango, milonga, vals, rumba, &c.

Regler
Regel #4 (HNW)
(Rapid Moment / At War With False Noise / Decimation Sociale / Pilgrim Talk)
Anders Bryngelsson and Mattin make up Regler, a project of varying genres performed on rock instruments, following sets of rules to create conceptual sound works; Regler #4 deals with harsh noise walls, generating a 30 minute piece of thick, savage sound.

Rotem Geffen
The Night Is The Night
(thanatosis produktion)
Singer, songwriter and pianist Nelly Klayman-Cohen, aka Rotem Geffen, explores the fringes of dreamy pop music with lyrics in German, English and Hebrew that explore themes of memory, love, grief, loss, and the night as a vibrating room, with collaborators including Alexander Zethson on keyboards, Isak Hedtjar on clarinets and winds, Vilhelm Bromander on double bass, &c.

Zoh Amba
Eyes Full
(Matador)
Zoh Amba turns away from the ecstatic saxophone improvisations that first brought them attention, taking up voice and acoustic guitar for a raw singer-songwriter album of blues-tinged Appalachian folk, joined by longtime collaborator Kevin Hyland on electric guitar and Dirty Three drummer Jim White, whose loose, intuitive pulse supports songs of tenderness, hardship, and spiritual searching.

Zoh Amba
Eyes Full [VINYL]
(Matador)
Zoh Amba turns away from the ecstatic saxophone improvisations that first brought them attention, taking up voice and acoustic guitar for a raw singer-songwriter album of blues-tinged Appalachian folk, joined by longtime collaborator Kevin Hyland on electric guitar and Dirty Three drummer Jim White, whose loose, intuitive pulse supports songs of tenderness, hardship, and spiritual searching.

Albert Ayler Quintet
Copenhagen, Bordeaux 1966 & Newport 1967 Live First Release
(ALAY)
Previously unreleased recordings from the Albert Ayler Quintet — captured in Copenhagen and Bordeaux during the 1966 Newport in Europe tour and at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1967 — present Ayler with Donald Ayler, Michel Samson, Bill Folwell, and Beaver Harris/Milford Graves in fiercely expressive performances, newly restored and mastered from rediscovered tapes.

[ahmed] (Thomas / Grip / Gerbal / Wright)
Play Monk [2 CDs]
(Otoroku)
After six albums reimagining Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Pat Thomas, Joel Grip, Antonin Gerbal and Seymour Wright turn their transformative [Ahmed] project toward Thelonious Monk, atomising his compositions across two CDs into volatile, time-bending forms where piano, bass, drums and alto saxophone fracture and reassemble melody, rhythm and space through free jazz intensity, pulse and radical collective invention.

[ahmed] (Thomas / Grip / Gerbal / Wright)
Sama'a (Audition) [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Otoroku)
Reimagining and transforming Ahmed Abdul-Malik's Jazz Sahara in their first studio session, the [Ahmed] quartet of Pat Thomas, Joel Grip, Antonin Gerbal, and Seymour Wright ignite four compact, single-take explorations that fuse percussive intensity, kaleidoscopic group interplay, and a fearless reshaping of tradition into dizzying, future-leaning improvisation.

Art Edmaiston / Chad Fowler w/ Bob Moses / Damon Smith / Clifford Jackson
Memphis Mandala
(Mahakala Music)
Recorded live at Crosstown Arts in Memphis in March 2024, this concert brought together Art Edmaiston, Chad Fowler, Ra Kalam Bob Moses, Damon Smith and Clifford "Pee Wee" Jackson for a spiritually charged free jazz session that channels a deep Southern lineage, blending blues-rooted intensity with fearless collective improvisation into a cohesive, dramatic and wholly spontaneous performance.

Eri Yamamoto / Matthew Shipp
Horizon
(Mahakala Music)
A deeply personal collaboration between pianists Eri Yamamoto and Matthew Shipp, recorded live in the studio with Yamamoto in the left channel and Shipp in the right, as Yamamoto marks thirty years in New York with a set of original compositions for this occasion, their distinctive voices intertwining in an elegant, searching, and harmonically rich conversation of friendship, individuality, and creative life.

Joe Morris
Perpetual Frontier The Properties of Free Music [BOOK]
(Riti Publishing)
Joe Morris wrote this book to discuss aspects of free music, including responses to his questionnaire written by Joe McPhee, William Parker, Jamie Saft, Ken Vandermark, Marilyn Crispell, Nate Wooley, Jack Wright, Matthew Shipp, &c.

Manuel Linhares
Atlantico
(577 Records)
Vocalist and composer Manuel Linhares brings together a transatlantic ensemble with Glenn Zaleski, Or Bareket, Keita Ogawa, David Binney, Gil Silva, Hugo Caldeira, Felipe Jose and Antonio Loureiro, shaping jazz-rooted songs that move between New York urgency and Porto melancholy, blending Brazilian rhythmic language, avant-garde texture, folk and pop fragments into a fluid meditation on oceanic distance, memory and change.

Miles Davis 3rd Quintet
Reference: Bitches Brew Live 1969 In Europe [2 CDs + 2 POSTCARDS]
(ALAY)
Documenting Miles Davis' 1969 "lost" third quintet live in Berlin, Stockholm and Rotterdam with Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette, this 2-CD set captures the post-In a Silent Way ensemble reshaping material headed toward Bitches Brew, balancing lyricism and abstraction through open forms, electric-piano clusters, volatile rhythmic invention and Davis' fiercely exploratory trumpet.

Tomeka Reid Quartet (w/ Roebke / Halvorson / Fujiwara)
Dance! Skip! Hop!
(Out Of Your Head Records)
Led by cellist Tomeka Reid, this longstanding quartet with Mary Halvorson on guitar, Jason Roebke on bass, and Tomas Fujiwara on drums delivers a rhythmically propulsive and structurally nimble set that balances grounded low-end drive with agile drumming, incisive guitar textures, and Reid's expressive counterpoint, channeling echoes of 1960s jazz while asserting an exuberant, and yes — danceable — release!

AMM (Prevost / Rowe / Tilbury)
Phlegm
(Matchless)
A late-period live recording from AMM — Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe, and John Tilbury — capturing their refined electroacoustic free improv language of near-silence, where percussion, electronics, and piano dissolve into a shared sonic field shaped by extreme restraint, microscopic detail, and a collective focus on texture, duration, and deep listening.

Morton Feldman / GBSR Duo w/ Taylor MacLennan
Trios [6 CD BOX SET]
(Another Timbre)
Spanning Morton Feldman's three expansive trios for flute, piano, and percussion, these performances by the GBSR Duo with Taylor MacLennan immerse the listener in an extended temporal field where quiet intensity, precise timbral balance, and fragile rhythmic relationships unfold with hypnotic patience, transforming duration itself into an expressive element of listening, presence, and sustained attention.

Ivo Perelman (w/ Marc Ribot / Elliott Sharp / Joe Morris)
Trifecta [3 CDs]
(Mahakala Music)
Uniting tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman with three distinct guitar voices — Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, and Joe Morris — this 3-CD set presents three separate duo encounters recorded at Park West Studios in Brooklyn, highlighting contrasting improvisational languages while exploring timbre, interaction, and the expressive possibilities of the guitar in free improv contexts.

Cecil Taylor Unit (w/ Lyons / Silva / Cooper / Murray)
Live At Fat Tuesday's February 10, 1980 First Visit [CD + POSTCARDS]
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
The 2nd night of the superb, extended live performance from 1980 at NYC's Fat Tuesday jazz club, from the outstanding sextet of forward-thinking free improvisers, Jimmy Lyons on alto sax, Ramsey Ameen on violin, Alan Silva on double bass & cello, Jerome Cooper on drums & African Balaphone and Sunny Murray on drums, led by Cecil Taylor on piano in an ecstatic concert never previously released.

Eliane Radigue
Asymptote Versatile (1963-64)
(Amgen Records)
An historic world-premiere recording of Éliane Radigue's earliest surviving work, performed at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, where a stellar ensemble realizes her flexible "sonic proposition" through evolving textures, mathematical spirals and dynamic transformations that foreshadow her later visionary soundworld.

Peter Brotzmann / Steve Hubback
Treforest 82
(FMR)
A previously unreleased duo encounter pairing Peter Brötzmann's ferocious saxophone with Welsh percussionist Steve Hubback's compact and inventive drum setup, captured at the 1982 Treforest festival in the UK in a brief but explosive burst of free improv where probing textures erupt into cathartic climaxes through raw, intensely focused interplay.

Derek Bailey / John Stevens
The Duke of Wellington
(Confront)
Seminal figures in the evolution of free or nonidiomatic improvisation, guitarist Derek Bailey and percussionist/pocket trumpeter John Stevens are heard in a 1989 London performance vividly captured by Michael Gerzon at The Duke of Wellington, their restless and enthusiastic interplay shifting from angular invention to lyrical reflection in a compelling document of their remarkable rapport.

Evan Parker / Joelle Leandre
Long Bright Summer
(RogueArt)
Drawing on decades of fearless improvising, saxophonist Evan Parker and bassist Joëlle Léandre engage in an intense and unfiltered acoustic dialogue recorded live in France, their shared language enabling lightning reactions, extended techniques, surges of density and flow, hushed textural intimacy, and moments where Léandre's wordless voice merges seamlessly into their spontaneous interplay.

Teiku (Harlow / Taylor / Shahid / Formanek / Leafar)
Teiku
(577 Records)
Teiku, a Talmudic acronym that roughly translates to "unanswered question", was co-founded by pianist Josh Harlow and percussionist Jonathan Barahal Taylor to explore each of their family's unique Passover vocal melodies through improvisation and sonic exploration, performed in a quintet with Art Ensemble/Sun Ra bassist Jaribu Shahid and reedists Peter Formanek & Rafael Leafar.

Byron Coley / Mats Gustafsson / Thurston Moore
Now Jazz Now: 100 Essential Free Jazz & Improvisation Recordings (1960-80) [BOOK]
(Ecstatic Peace Library )
Drawing from deeply personal listening histories, this richly illustrated volume assembles 100 essential free jazz and improvisation recordings from 1960-80, presenting album art, notes, and reflections that frame the music as non-hierarchical and interlinked, offering an immersive guide for adventurous listeners interested in the lineage, spirit, and lived culture of creative freedom.

Steve Lacy Three
Live Lugano 1984 - First Visit [CD + 2 POSTCARDS]
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Recorded live in Lugano in 1984, Steve Lacy's trio with guitarist Barry Wedgle and bassist Jean-Jacques Avenel reimagines his compositions in an intimate and transparent setting, where Lacy's masterful soprano saxophone carves precise yet expressive lines, drawing on influences from poetry, Monk, and visual art to create a striking balance between structure and improvisation.

Karl Evangelista's Apura + Andrew Cyrille
Bukas
(577 Records)
West Coast Bay Area guitarist Karl Evangelista leads his Apura ensemble — Lisa Mezzacappa (bass), Francis Wong (tenor sax), Rei Scampavia (keys, electronics), and Lewis Jordan (alto sax) — joined by drum legend Andrew Cyrille in a powerful statement of free improvisation, blending expressive intensity and forward-looking vision with deeply rooted passion and creative openness.

Albert Ayler with Don Cherry
1964 Recordings First Visit Completed [2 CDs + POSTCARDS]
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Four sets of recordings from September, 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark from a week performing live at Club Montmarte, and a recording in Hilversum, The Netherlands for VARA Radio, collecting and remastering these vital recordings from tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler's most vital free jazz quartet with Don Cherry on cornet, Gary Peacock on double bass and Sunny Murray on drums.

Albert Ayler Trio
Prophecy Live, First Visit
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Recorded live at New York City's Cellar Café in June 1964, this essential document captures Albert Ayler, bassist Gary Peacock, and drummer Sunny Murray in a pivotal moment of spiritual free jazz, expressing motifs like 'Ghosts' and 'Spirits' into an ecstatic, ever-evolving language, with this remastered edition offering a refined perspective on a landmark session that shaped Ayler's uncompromising vision.

Eri Yamamoto Quadraphonic
Fly With The Wings
(Mahakala Music)
A warm and lyrical new quartet from pianist, vocalist, and melodica player Eri Yamamoto alongside Chad Fowler on alto sax & flute, Kevin Thomas on bass, and longtime collaborator Ikuo Takeuchi on drums, blending groove-driven jazz, free improvisation, and tender balladry with Yamamoto's distinctive touch, highlighted by playful interplay, beautiful melodies, and a soulful, unhurried charm.

Fieldwork (Iyer / Lehman / Sorey)
Thereupon
(Pi Recordings)
Seventeen years after their last recording, the New York trio of Steve Lehman (alto saxophone), Vijay Iyer (piano, Rhodes), and Tyshawn Sorey (drums) reunite with dense, high-impact compositions and fearless interplay, blending complexity with groove as they reaffirm their status as one of the most vital ensembles in contemporary improvised music.

Angles 11
Tell Them It's The Sound Of Freedom
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
Martin Küchen's Angles returns as an 11-piece — two trumpets, expanded reeds, vibraphone and amplified violin, Fender Rhodes/synth, and a three-drummer engine — lifting songful, anthemic themes into free, melody-rich interplay and propulsive grooves, the ensemble shifting from playful exchanges to surging peaks as its close-knit rapport balances warmth, bite, and momentum.

Webber/Morris Big Band
Unseparate
(Out Of Your Head Records)
Five years after their debut, co-leaders Anna Webber and Angela Morris return with a 19-piece large ensemble recording that showcases their next-level compositional voices, unfolding through the "Just Intonation Etudes for Big Band" suite and a series of richly orchestrated works that balance drones, contrapuntal density, rhythmic blasts, and lyrical themes in an adventurous exploration of sound and structure.

Davis / Ferrari / Mazza
Things Of This Nature
(Mahakala Music)
The quartet Things Of This Nature — Caylie Davis (trumpet), Chris Ferrari (woodwinds), Shogo Yamagishi (bass), and JJ Mazza (drums) — brings together a young generation of New York improvisers whose tight ensemble interplay, bold free jazz sensibility, and energetic collective approach draw deeply from the tradition while pushing their music toward fresh and expressive terrain.

Marion Brown
Capricorn Moon To Juba Lee (remastered)
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Merging and remastering two essential albums from free jazz saxophonist Marion Brown: his 1966 ESP album "Marion Brown Quartet" with trumpeter Alan Shorter, bassist Reggie Johnson and percussionist Rahied Ali; and his 1967 Fontana album "Juba-Lee" in a septet with Reggie Johnson, drummer Beaver Harris, pianist Dave Burrell, trombonist Grachan Moncur III & saxophonist Bennie Maupin.

John Coltrane Quartet (w/ Tyner / Garrison / Jones)
Impressions From Graz 1962, Revisited [2 CDs]
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Expanding and remastering the 2019 single CD of John Coltrane's Quartet from its European tour in the fall of 1962, with McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on double bass, and Elvin Jones on drums, performing at Stefaniensaal in Graz, Austria, beautifully recorded by ORF Steiermark and now presented in both volumes, showcasing Coltrane's lyrical roots and growing free inclinations.

Frode Gjerstad / Alexander von Schlippenbach / Dag Magnus Narvesen
Seven Tracks
(Relative Pitch)
A dynamic trio session from Frode Gjerstad on alto sax & clarinet, Alexander von Schlippenbach on piano, and Dag Magnus Narvesen on drums & percussion, their first collaboration unfolds in seven spontaneous improvisations that balance fierce intensity with lyrical openness, revealing a seasoned interplay that blends deep exploration with collective free jazz sensibility.

Tomas Fujiwara
Dream Up
(Out Of Your Head Records)
Recorded at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, drummer and composer Tomas Fujiwara introduces his Percussion Quartet with Patricia Brennan on vibraphone, Tim Keiper on African strings and percussion, and Kaoru Watanabe on Japanese drums and flute, blending global traditions into vivid, imaginative works that traverse groove, texture, and color with striking originality and depth.

Joe McPhee / Steve Swell / Mark Tokar / Klaus Kuge
Spontaneous Convergence
(Not Two)
Recorded live at the Alchemia Club in Krakow, Joe McPhee (reeds) and Steve Swell (trombone) join Mark Tokar (bass) and Klaus Kugel (drums) for a sharply interactive quartet session that moves from tight, prickling exchanges to wide-open collective surges, anchored by the twenty-eight-minute "Joy And Imagination Are Uncontainable."

Pierre Favre Trio (Favre / Schweizer / Mraz)
Bird Food
(Songs)
Captured in 1968 in Zurich and long shelved before its recent discovery, this early trio session brings Pierre Favre, Irene Schweizer, and George Mraz together in a concise, fiery set of attentive free jazz, balancing Ornette Coleman's title piece with Schweizer's compositions, where dynamic interplay and acute listening reveal a nascent yet fully engaged collective voice.

Rob Brown / Brandon Lopez / Juan P. Carletti
Walkabout
(Mahakala Music)
An energetic trio session of collective free improvisation from NY alto saxophonist Rob Brown, bassist Brandon Lopez, and drummer Juan Pablo Carletti, recorded in the studio and driven by an intense energy that maintains a powerful swing, with Brown's incisive phrasing, Lopez's commanding bass, and Carletti's dynamic percussion merging into a spontaneous and deeply expressive musical force.

Joseph Holbrooke (w/ Derek Bailey / Gavin Bryars / Tony Oxley)
Last Live 2001 - In Memoriam Derek Bailey And Tony Oxley [2 CDs]
(Tzadik)
The legendary trio Joseph Holbrooke — guitarist Derek Bailey, bassist Gavin Bryars, and drummer Tony Oxley — reunited after decades for one final performance in 2001, captured in this historic live recording that highlights their uncompromising commitment to free improvisation, the set resonating with both the radical spirit of their 1960s origins and the profound artistry of three pioneering voices in avant-garde music.

Peter Brotzmann w/ Peter Uuskyla / Peter Friis Nielsen
Flying Feathers
(FMR)
Blazing through a set of raw, high-intensity free jazz, Peter Brötzmann joins Danish bassist Peter Friis Nielsen and Estonian drummer Peeter Uuskyla for a ferocious trio session where roaring saxophone and tarogato collide with clanking electric bass and trance-like percussion, balancing relentless energy with occasional lyrical openings in this fiercely driven improvisational encounter.

Anthony Braxton
Solo Bern 1984 First Visit
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Thirteen years after his breakthrough solo saxophone album For Alto, Anthony Braxton is heard in an inventive solo concert on the same instrument, performing at the Altes Schlachthaus Theatre in Bern, Switzerland for a set of original numbered compositions, the standards "Alone Together" and "I Remember You", and two Coltrane pieces: "Giant Steps" and "Naima".

Eva Novoa Trio (w/ Carter / Mela)
The Freedom Suite, Vol. 2 [VINYL]
(577 Records)
Brooklyn pianist Eva Novoa joins saxophonist Daniel Carter and drummer Francisco Mela for the second volume of The Freedom Suite, a set of twelve pieces blending piano, Rhodes, harpsichord, gongs, and vocals with Carter's multi-reed brilliance and Mela's Cuban-inflected drumming, creating an urgent, intimate, and fluidly improvised dialogue of words, sound, and fearless imagination.

Cecil Taylor Unit (w/ Lyons / Silva / Cooper / Murray)
Live At Fat Tuesday's February 9 - First Visit Archive [CD + POSTCARDS]
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
A superb and extended live performance from 1980 at NYC's Fat Tuesday jazz club, from the outstanding sextet of forward-thinking free improvisers, Jimmy Lyons on alto sax, Ramsey Ameen on violin, Alan Silva on double bass & cello, Jerome Cooper on drums & African Balaphone and Sunny Murray on drums, led by Cecil Taylor on piano in an ecstatic concert never previously released.

Ellery Eskelin Trio New York
About (or On), First Visit [2 CDs]
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Reuniting for two powerful studio sessions recorded in 2011 and 2013, tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin, organist Gary Versace, and drummer Gerald Cleaver form Trio New York, navigating an intuitive path between free improvisation and jazz standards with soulful depth, rich allusions, and a shared language that reimagines the classic organ trio.

Alan Niblock / John Butcher / Mark Sanders
Tectonic Plates
(577 Records)
A formidable trio debut from Irish double bassist Alan Niblock with British improvisers John Butcher on saxophones and Mark Sanders on drums and percussion, recorded live at The Black Box in Belfast and unfolding across five tectonically inspired pieces that channel collective intuition, dynamic interplay, and seismic shifts of intensity and form.

Henry Threadgill
Listen Ship
(Pi Recordings)
Composer Henry Threadgill conducts a suite for six acoustic guitars and two pianos, bringing together Bill Frisell, Miles Okazaki, Brandon Ross, Gregg Belisle-Chi, Jerome Harris, Stomu Takeishi, Maya Keren, and Rahul Carlberg in an intricately orchestrated work whose intervallic syntax and meticulous counterpoint entwine with unexpected timbres to reveal his singular and sublime vision.

Oliver Lake / Fred Hopkins / Phillip Wilson / Baikida Carroll / Michael Gregory Jackson
Rivbea Live! Series, Volume 4
(NoBusiness)
Recorded during the mid-1970s loft-jazz flowering at Studio Rivbea in New York City, this live session finds Oliver Lake leading a volatile ensemble with Baikida Carroll, Michael Gregory Jackson, Fred Hopkins, and drummers Phillip Wilson and Jerome Cooper, blending post-BAG urgency, searching improvisation, and sharp ensemble interplay into a raw, idealistic document of creative rebirth.

Mats Gustafsson / Ken Vandermark / Tomeka Reid / Chad Taylor
Pivot
(Silkheart)
Four master improvisers (Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Tomeka Reid, Chad Taylor) from overlapping creative circles engage in a set of powerful interactions, where dense low-end reeds, lyrical cello, and rhythmic elasticity create shifting terrain; through deep listening and long-forged connections, they navigate spontaneous form with urgency, restraint, and a shared sense of sonic purpose.

Georg Graewe / Brad Jones / Hamid Drake
More Than Anything
(Random Acoustics)
A long-awaited reunion between pianist Georg Graewe and drummer Hamid Drake, joined for the first time by bassist Brad Jones, captured live at the 2024 Konfrontationen Festival in Austria in three expansive improvisations, the trio's chemistry igniting in deep rhythmic interplay, fluid abstraction, and Graewe's seamless movement between jazz traditions and contemporary sensibilities.

Last Dream of the Morning (John Butcher / John Edwards / Marc Sanders)
Sharp Illusion
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
The third release from the trio of John Butcher, John Edwards and Mark Sanders captures a live performance in Lublin that unfolds across four extended improvisations, balancing explosive collective energy and deep listening restraint as saxophones, bass and percussion interweave in a fluid, highly responsive dialogue shaped by decades of shared experience within the UK and European free improv community.

Marty Ehrlich / Julius Hemphill
Circle the Heart [CD + DOWNLOAD]
(Relative Pitch)
An archival recording from 1982 at The Piedmont Center For The Arts in Worcester, MA captures visionary saxophonist Julius Hemphill and multi-reedist Marty Ehrlich in a deeply intuitive exchange across soprano and alto saxophones, flute, and bass clarinet, blending open exploration with blues-rooted lyricism as their long-standing creative dialogue unfolds in richly expressive improvisation.

Thelonious Monk with Sonny Rollins
1953 To 1957 Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Restoring and remastering three key sessions documenting the evolving creative relationship between Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins, alongside artists including Julius Watkins, Ernie Henry, Oscar Pettiford, and Max Roach, in a vital revisitation of formative collaborations that highlight Monk's unique brilliance and Rollins' early improvisational voice within shifting post-bop ensembles.

Taborn / Cline / Gilmore
Trio of Bloom
(Pyroclastic Records)
A formidable first meeting between keyboardist Craig Taborn, guitarist Nels Cline, and drummer Marcus Gilmore, where three singular voices of modern creative music converge in assertive, Downtown-NY-steeped, genre-defying interplay — originals, reimagined works, and spontaneous improvisations blooming into a vibrant, exploratory dialogue of texture, rhythm, and imagination.