• Chris Abrahams/Mark Wastell
• AMM (Prevost/Rowe/Tilbury)
• Luciano Biondini/Lucas Niggli/Michel Godard
• Marion Brown
• Sylvie Courvoisier Trio (w/ Gress/Wollesen)
• Mary Halvorson Amaryllis
• Steve Lacy
• Dominic Lash/Mark Wastell
• James Lewis Brandon Quartet
• Angelika Niescier
(Niescier/Adasiewicz/Mitchell/
Reed/Rempis/Stewart)
• Adam O'Farrill (O'Farrill/Rogers/Stinson/Holzman)
• Pauline Oliveros/Mia Masaoka/Issui Minegishi
• Tomeka Reid Quartet (w/ Roebke/Halvorson/Fujiwara)
• Marta Sanchez
• Triple Point (Jonas Braasch/Pauline Oliveros/Doug Van Nort)
• Uebele/Rodrigues/Rodrigues
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Abrahams, Chris / Mark Wastell: Two Thousand Sacred Steps
(Confront)
Expanding their earlier duo work into a live setting, pianist Chris Abrahams and percussionist Mark Wastell engage in a patient, textural session of free improv, where rippling piano figures and resonant cymbal washes unfold in a deeply attentive dialog, shaping a meditative, slowly evolving sound world defined by subtle interplay, spatial awareness, and restrained, ritual-like intensity.
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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.
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Biondini, Luciano / Lucas Niggli / Michel Godard: Fables of Time
(Intakt)
Accordionist Luciano Biondini, tubist and serpent player Michel Godard, and percussionist Lucas Niggli weave composition and free improv into a richly expressive dialogue drawing on Mediterranean lyricism, early music, and contemporary jazz, where original pieces, Radiohead and Monteverdi reinterpretations, and spontaneous interplay unfold with poetic depth, wit, and an ever-shifting sense of narrative.
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Brown, Marion: Awofofora [VINYL]
(AGUIRRE RECORDS)
An overlooked 1976 session led by Marion Brown on alto sax with a rhythmically driven ensemble including Ambrose Jackson, Billy Patterson, Rene Arlain, Fred Hopkins, Ed Blackwell, Jumma Santos, and Chris Henderson, merging funk and Afro-Caribbean grooves with free jazz principles through layered rhythms, collective improvisation, and Brown's distinctive, lyrical tone.
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Courvoisier, Sylvie Trio (w/ Gress / Wollesen): Eclats - Live in Europe
(Intakt)
Captured during a European tour, the trio of pianist Sylvie Courvoisier with bassist Drew Gress and drummer Kenny Wollesen presents a finely honed language shaped through deep trust and evolving interplay, where Courvoisier's compositions unfold with precision and openness, balancing intricate detail, shifting textures, and spontaneous free improv with subtle complexity and vivid expressiveness.
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Halvorson, Mary Amaryllis: About Ghosts
(Nonesuch)
Expanding her Amaryllis ensemble with the addition of saxophonists Immanuel Wilkins and Brian Settles, guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson presents eight new works, balancing spectral beauty and sly unease as vibraphone, layered brass, flexible grooves, and her singular harmonic distortions cohere into a richly orchestrated and restlessly inventive large-ensemble statement.
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Halvorson, Mary Amaryllis : About Ghosts [VINYL]
(Nonesuch)
Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
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Lacy, Steve: The Straight Horn Of Steve Lacy [VINYL COLORED]
(Ojo de Mujer)
A 1962 quartet session on Candid — then directed by Nat Hentoff — featuring Steve Lacy on soprano sax with Charles Davis on baritone sax, John Ore on bass, and Roy Haynes on drums, interpreting two pieces by Cecil Taylor, three by Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Parker's "Donna Lee" in a focused, where incisive lines and lyrical restraint reveal a forward-thinking voice of free improv.
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Lash, Dominic / Mark Wastell: Polyvalent Creativity
(Confront)
Bringing together two prolific figures in the UK's improvised music community, guitarist Dominic Lash and drummer/percussionist Mark Wastell explore a stripped yet expansive duo format that nods toward free jazz, where a seemingly conventional setup gives way to a language rooted in texture, gesture, and sonic detail rather than pulse or harmonic progression.
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Lewis, James Brandon Quartet: Abstraction Is Deliverance
(Intakt)
A powerful quartet session led by James Brandon Lewis on tenor sax with Aruán Ortiz, Brad Jones, and Chad Taylor, blending lyrical melodic clarity with dynamic, responsive interplay, where rich tonal expression and groove-sensitive improvisation draw from the lineage of John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and David S. Ware while forging a deeply personal, contemporary voice.
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Niescier, Angelika (Niescier / Adasiewicz / Mitchell / Reed / Rempis / Stewart): Chicago Tapes
(Intakt)
Marking her return to Chicago, German alto saxophonist Angelika Niescier reunites with a powerhouse sextet of the city's improvisers, including Nicole Mitchell, Dave Rempis, and Jason Adasiewicz, for a high-velocity session of free improv, where fierce interplay, shifting textures, and spontaneous structures bridge European and AACM-informed traditions with raw, contemporary energy.
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O'Farrill, Adam (O'Farrill / Rogers / Stinson / Holzman): Elephant
(Out Of Your Head Records)
Leading his new quartet Elephant, trumpeter Adam O'Farrill presents a forward-looking jazz session of original compositions that shift fluidly between rhythmic drive and abstraction, where contrasting textures, layered structures, and expressive interplay animate a dynamic ensemble sound shaped by subtle electronic elements and a contemporary, cross-genre sensibility.
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O'Farrill, Adam (O'Farrill / Rogers / Stinson / Holzman): Elephant [VINYL]
(Out Of Your Head Records)
Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
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Oliveros, Pauline / Mia Masaoka / Issui Minegishi: Two Days In Dreamland [2 CDs]
(Important Records)
Two days across 2 CDs capture trio sessions featuring Pauline Oliveros on Roland V-accordion, Miya Masaoka on 21-string koto, and Issui Minegishi on ichigenkin (a single-string koto), in a richly textured and immersive dialogue of cross-cultural instrumentation unfolding with patient sensitivity and Deep Listening, where expressive interplay balances tradition, experimentation, and sonic intimacy.
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Reid, Tomeka Quartet (w/ Roebke / Halvorson / Fujiwara): Dance! Skip! Hop!
(Out Of Your Head Records)
RESTOCKED - 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!
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Reid, Tomeka Quartet (w/ Roebke / Halvorson / Fujiwara): Dance! Skip! Hop! [VINYL]
(Out Of Your Head Records)
RESTOCKED - Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
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Sanchez, Marta : For The Space You Left
(Out Of Your Head Records)
Drawing from periods of isolation spanning a 2017 residency and the early pandemic, pianist Marta Sanchez presents a solo prepared piano work that transforms the instrument into a layered, multi-voiced sound world, where interlocking rhythms, fragile textures, and introspective passages of free improv reflect contrasting emotional states shaped by solitude, vulnerability, and a deeply internal creative process.
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Sanchez, Marta : For The Space You Left [VINYL]
(Out Of Your Head Records)
Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
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Triple Point (Jonas Braasch / Pauline Oliveros / Doug Van Nort): Empac Sessions
(Important Records)
An active trio session at EMPAC from Jonas Braasch on soprano saxophone, Pauline Oliveros on V-accordion, and Doug Van Nort on GREIS electronics engage in a free improv dialog where acoustic, physically modeled, and electronic sound sources continuously merge and diverge, Van Nort's real-time processing reshaping the ensemble's output as Oliveros bends timbral models and Braasch explores extended techniques.
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Uebele, Gerhard / Ernesto Rodrigues / Guilherme Rodrigues : Solitude
(Creative Sources)
A Berlin-recorded trio of violin, viola, and cello with voice, where Gerhard Uebele, Ernesto Rodrigues, and Guilherme Rodrigues shape twelve concise movements of hushed, textural free improv, blending extended string techniques and subtle vocalizations into a fragile, reductionist sound world of intimate interplay, suspended time, and finely detailed sonic nuance.
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