"As the battle between the overly cerebral and doggedly hidebound continues to rage in the jazz landscape, a battle-tested warrior has returned, armed with whimsy and melody, to give succor to a populace starving for memorable sounds: D...

""An exploration of buildings emptied of their activities, a crossing of spaces abandoned by their occupants, a drift through the ghostly trace of a vanished presence, a testimony to the general deterioration underway that also applies ...

'Composer, alone' is a collection of twelve solo piano pieces by Swiss composer Jurg Frey, performed by Dutch pianist/composer Reinier van Houdt. It is the sequel to the 2022 triple album 'lieues d'ombres' (elsewhere 020-3) and the thir...

"The Siwnin Sails" is a solo album consisting of eight songs written and composed by Shoko Numao, an emerging Japanese singer-songwriter. Numao studied vocal and composition focusing on jazz at Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland,...

"Samuel Reinhard returns to elsewhere music with "For 10 Musicians," a four-part ensemble piece recorded in 2025 at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. As in Reinhard's previous work, the players are instructed to play as q...

"'SOVT' is an album containing one 55-minute piece, written for piano by Sarah Hennies in 2017. SOVT stands for Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract which refers to vocal exercises that strengthens the voice by helping the vocal cords vibrate more...

A profoundly personal solo recording from Ken Vandermark on tenor and baritone saxophones and clarinets, captured live at Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago in March 2025, performing a suite dedicated to Joe McPhee that interlaces composed and freely improvised works — each named for symbolic flowers — into a deeply expressive tribute of melody, emotion, and inventive clarity.

"Mare Crisium, for six electric guitars, premiered at Main Drag Music in Brooklyn on June 19, 2025. Compositional strategies include difference tone effects, shifting dronalities, algorithmic instruction sets, graphic notation, overtone...

This disc is about a lot of things. But what is music actually about? In my next life, maybe I'll be a musical semiotician and try to answer this question. But one thing I can say this disc is about is 1947 Steinway Model M Grand Piano....

"The strike of a string, a sudden atonal spark, a jarring rhythmic motif -- in the hands of some this could be a recipe for an improvised disaster. However, under the guidance of two restless and experimental master chefs, the result is...

Recording in the studio in Milan, the trio of Riccardo Luppi on tenor & soprano saxophones and flutes, Simone Massaron on guitar & electronics, and Daniel Studer on double bass engage in a textural and exploratory dialogue, blending extended techniques, electronic manipulations, and spontaneous interplay across seven distinct ""Takes", each offering a unique approach to collective free improvisation.