Documenting a ferocious live performance from the 2018 Victoriaville Festival with additional recordings from 2025, the trio of Merzbow (electronics), Mats Gustafsson (bass & baritone sax, electronics), and Balázs Pándi (drums) unleash a volatile collision of noise, free jazz intensity, and crushing rhythmic force of towering electronic textures, blistering sax blasts, and wildly inventive percussion.

Uniting saxophonists Bruce Coates and Paul Dunmall with bassist John Edwards, bassist Trevor Lines, and drummer Mark Sanders, this quintet session delivers an intense exploration of collective free improv, with intertwining reed lines rising over the dense resonance of dual basses and Sanders� fluid percussion, the ensemble shaping energetic and richly textured spontaneous interactions.

Captured live at Chicago's Hungry Brain in 2023, this cross-generational quartet brings pianist Marilyn Crispell together with the trio of Jason Stein (bass clarinet), Damon Smith (double bass), and Adam Shead (drums), unfolding two expansive collective improvisations that shift from fiery free jazz to lyrical and contemplative passages, balancing propulsion with fluid interplay and expressive dialogue.

Expanding the improvising trio of Adrian Northover (alto sax), Pierpaolo Martino (double bass), and Vladimir Miller (piano), this session adds Ansuman Biswas on voice, sarod, and percussion for lyrical chamber-like interplay and attentive collective improvisation unfold through airy textures, resonant strings, vocal timbres, and exploratory dialog bridging European free improv with world traditions.

The duo Nabelose — Elena Kakaliagou (horn, voice) and Ingrid Schmoliner (piano, voice) — present five song-oriented pieces balancing hypnotic rhythms and airy textures, blending poetic recitation, breathy horn timbres, prepared piano, and striking vocal explorations, joined by percussionist Els Vandeweyer and subtle electronics from Bilgehan Ozis to create an atmospheric sonic landscape.

Portuguese tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado leads his cross-generational quartet The Bridge — with pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, and drummer Gerry Hemingway — in three expansive performances that fuse the deep traditions of free jazz with spontaneous collective improvisation, balancing melodic soulfulness, structural interplay, and decades of shared creative experience.

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.

On her first solo piano recording, Brooklyn-based pianist and composer Eva Novoa explores an intimate and adventurous sonic palette across six original pieces, combining grand piano with Fender Rhodes, electric harpsichord, gongs, percussion, voice, and whistling, creating a rhythmically charged and cinematic performance that expands the expressive possibilities of the solo format.

Reissuing British pianist Keith Tippett quartet with vocalist Julie Tippetts, saxophonist Trevor Watts, and bassist Colin McKenzie for an intimate session blending composed miniatures with open improvisation, where piano, voice, reeds, and bass move between lyrical passages and exploratory free jazz interplay in a collaborative and expressive dialogue.

Recorded live in Krailing near Munich in December 2024, German multi-reedist Udo Schindler and pianist Uwe Oberg engage in a dynamic duo of free improv, moving from hushed chamber-like exchanges to dense, animated dialogues as Schindler's clarinets and alto flute weave intricate lines through Oberg's resonant piano textures in a richly interactive exploration of timbre, space, and spontaneous form.

Hungarian violist Szilard Mezei leads an octet of longtime collaborators — flute, reeds, bassoon, vibraphone, piano, bass, and drums — through a set of original compositions balancing chamber-like lyricism, shifting collective improvisation, and subtle references to figures like Cecil Taylor and György Szabados, the ensemble's deep familiarity yielding richly textured interplay and fluid movement between structure and spontaneous expression.

Recorded in Nanaimo, British Columbia in 2024, Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and Norwegian reedist Kjetil Moster unite for their first duo outing, navigating a dynamic spectrum from airy, conversational reed exchanges to ferocious bursts of fire music, their quicksilver interplay weaving humor, texture, and raw improvisational energy into a fiercely expressive and unpredictable sonic encounter.

Drawing musicians from across the Northeast, the 30-member Turbulence Orchestra and Sub-Units — directed by PEK — convenes for a sprawling 2-disc session of conducted large-ensemble free improv, first presenting six compact sub-unit improvisations before merging into a sweeping hour-long orchestral performance of shifting instrumentations, graphic cues, and evolving textures.

The Austrian trio The Thunks — pianist Elisabeth Harnik with percussionists Martin Brandlmayr and Didi Kern — present a live set of playful and unpredictable free improvisation recorded at the 2024 Konfrontationen Festival, where prepared piano, inside-the-piano textures, and fragmented percussion interact in shifting, swarm-like patterns of spontaneous collective exploration.

Blending classical cello lineage with fearless experimentalism, Daniel Levin presents a solo performance recorded at Dropa House in Antwerp, exploring the instrument's full expressive range through extended techniques, resonant bow work, and theatrical gestures using paper, chair, and stage, creating a fluid dialogue between structured tone, abstract texture, and the physical presence of sound.

Collecting every album Norwegian free jazz reedist Frode Gjerstad released on the UK's FMR Records, this monumental 39-CD limited box set documents decades of fiercely creative improvisation — ranging from intimate duos and trios to expansive ensemble sessions — capturing the Stavanger saxophonist's raw, high-energy style and deep engagement with the global free jazz and free improv community.

Recorded live at Tago in Quezon City, the trio of Swiss drummer Christian Bucher, Filipino bassist Simon Tan, and American expatriate alto saxophonist Rick Countryman deliver four extended collective improvisations, balancing Dolphy-inspired alto lines, resonant bass foundations, and fluid percussion in a dynamic set of spontaneous free jazz shaped through deep listening and long-standing musical rapport.

German reedist Udo Schindler (tenor saxophone, clarinet, piccolo flute, cornet) joins guitarist and electronics performer Andreas Willers for an exploratory duo session of free improvisation, blending extended reed techniques with prepared and processed electric guitar, the pair shaping evolving textures, subtle gestures, and dense timbral exchanges through attentive listening and spontaneous interaction.

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

Recorded at Edinburgh's Reid Concert Hall, this intimate duo from Scottish improviser Raymond MacDonald (alto & soprano sax, piano) and Irish soprano Cliona Cassidy blends free improvisation with chamber-like lyricism, as MacDonald's shifting reed and piano textures intertwine with Cassidy's operatically trained voice in a delicate dialogue of melodic fragments, wordless tones, and evolving sonic threads.

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.

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.

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

A chamber-like duo meeting clarinetist François Houle with pianist/composer Georg Graewe in ten concise pieces that balance compositional form and spontaneous interaction, moving between lyrical passages, angular exchanges, and playful references to historical dance forms in an intimate dialogue between clarinet and piano.

The seventh and final release from Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere blends krautrock pulse, psychedelia, textural improv, and free jazz into a vibrant studio construction, where Martin Archer and Jan Todd shape live ensemble recordings through collage, editing, and overdubs, guiding the music from luminous delicacy through darker passages before resolving in celebratory light.

Uniting the expressive voices of Maggie Nicols, Robert Mitchell (also on piano), and Alya Al-Sultani, this inventive trio setting transforms Mitchell's poetic reflections on humanity, awareness, and collaboration into exploratory and sometimes playful vocal exchanges, where free improv, spoken word, and song intertwine as the three performers clothe his evocative texts in spontaneous sound.

Composed for the Seoul experimental space Dotolim and originally realized in 2009, Jason Kahn's graphic score is revisited here with a new generation of Seoul-based experimental musicians, combining voice, electronics, tape devices, film projectors, and resonant objects in a subtle electroacoustic performance shaped by texture, space, and collective interpretation.

The Expanse Percussion Edition assembles a large electro-acoustic improvising ensemble led by David Peck and Michael Knoblach, blending horns, electronics, bass, and an enormous array of percussion into a long-form free improv performance where shifting textures, metallic resonances, and rhythmic explorations unfold through the Evil Clown aesthetic of constantly transforming sonorities.

Daniel Levin (cello) and Mat Maneri (viola) reunite for their second duo album, recorded at The Clubhouse in Rhinebeck, New York, in April 2021, where the long-standing collaborators delve into richly detailed dialogs that balance virtuosity, intimacy, and nuance, their closely intertwined strings navigating subtle textures, shifting timbres, and spontaneous forms in a deeply attentive exploration of improvised chamber music.

Recording in the studio in NYC in 2023, pianist Matthew Shipp presents ten concise improvisations, forcefully powerful statements from energetic complexities to contemplatively inventive abstractions, at times explicitly referencing jazz tradition with an innate lyricism, at times bulldozing through tradition to create something uniquely Shipp.

Recorded live at Vision Festival XXVI in Brooklyn, pianist Eri Yamamoto joins reedist Chad Fowler, bassist William Parker, and drummer Steve Hirsh for two expansive collective improvisations that unfold with strong lyricism and surging energy, balancing spiritual melodic phrasing, exploratory solos, and deeply responsive quartet interplay in a powerful document of contemporary free jazz.

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.

Recorded on a Steinway in the gallery of Falmouth Arts Centre, pianist Mike Westbrook delivers an introspective solo exploration of the blues, revisiting its forms — eight, twelve, sixteen, and extended bar structures — through spontaneous variations that blur improvisation and instant composition, blending traditional feeling with modern harmonic invention and the ambient sounds around him.

A multidisciplinary project from trombonist and poet Steve Swell and vocalist/sound designer Ellen Christi, pairing a book of Swell's poems with a CD of performances by a stellar ensemble including Roy Campbell, Sam Newsome, William Parker, AJ Federico, and Tom Bruno, blending spoken word, improvisation, and textural sound design into a meditation on experience, spirituality, and creative expression.

An unconventional quartet led by guitarist and banjo player Brandon Seabrook with Henry Fraser on bass, Erica Dicker on violin, and Elias Stemeseder on piano & synth presenting Seabrook's mercurial compositions where chamber lyricism, folk inflection, and avant energy collide, blending cinematic textures with ferocious interplay and surreal narrative drive.

Multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter — performing on saxophones, flute, trumpet, and piano — joins drummer Steve Hirsh for a patient and deeply attentive duo session, their freely unfolding improvisations balancing Carter�s lyrical horn explorations with Hirsh�s fluid rhythmic pulse, creating a spacious, quietly swinging dialog that moves between meditation and intuitive co-creation.

Barcelona quartet Parminter — bass clarinetist Nana Rovira, keyboardist Ivan Santa, bassist Carlos Rodenas, and drummer Alessandro Campobasso — deliver melodic, rhythmically agile free jazz that balances lyrical themes with eruptive improvisation, their bass clarinet and electric keyboard tandem shaping a vibrant sound colored by progressive jazz-rock textures and diverse influences.

A deeply attentive duo of alto saxophonist Rob Brown and cellist Daniel Levin exploring an open language of gestural improvisation, where pitch often yields to texture, motion, and sonic interaction, the pair's long-standing musical trust guiding a fluid exchange that shifts from delicate, exploratory passages to energized bursts of intertwined strings, reeds and curious asides.

A series of succint conversations between long-time collaborators, saxophonist Ivo Perelman and pianist Matthew Shipp, each of twelve parts of their improvisation connecting through a shared approach and language, an unhurried but far-reaching set of dialogs from reflective to quick-witted exchanges in discourse that only two such masterful players could maintain.

A spirited duo between guitarist Ava Mendoza and baritone saxophonist Dave Sewelson, moving fluidly between free improv, soulful grooves, and song-based pieces — including compositions by William Parker — with Mendoza's blues-tinged electric guitar and Sewelson's gritty saxophone and vocals creating a raw, expressive dialog that shifts from earthy lyricism to fiercely charged abstraction.

Produced by Evan Parker and drawn from a shelved 1995 studio date, this first full release of the Kenny Wheeler Sextet captures the flugelhorn master at 65 balancing post-bop sophistication with open-ended improvisation alongside Ray Warleigh, Stan Sulzmann, John Parricelli, Chris Laurence and Tony Levin, in harmonically rich compositions that favor nuance, collective trust, and deeply lyricism.

Uniting Norwegian guitarist Tore Elgarøy with American experimentalist Henry Kaiser, this collaborative set unfolds as a cosmic free improv dialogue of layered textures, electric shimmer, and exploratory interplay, blending ambient atmospheres with rock-tinged abstraction in a fluid, intuitive exchange that highlights both players' distinct voices and shared appetite for sonic adventure.

Solo guitarist John Bruschini channels lessons from his tenure with Cecil Taylor into a series of sculptural improvisations that deconstruct and reconstruct melodic and harmonic ideas, presenting a reflective and adventurous exploration of the guitar's expressive possibilities shaped by an avant-garde lineage.

Recorded solo at Bruschini's Bru Note Studio in NYC (Jan-Feb 2008), this intimate set invites the listener into a "raw state" process of real-time composition, where construction/deconstruction cycles steer the guitar from groove and grit into textural free improv, revealing fresh techniques as motifs mutate, collapse, and re-form.

A 32-page, perfect-bound set of Weathers' 2019-2026 text and graphic scores — Fluxus-leaning activations, precise instruction pieces, and map-like prompts — distilling his place- and duration-focused intermedia practice into performance catalysts that reward free-improv-minded musicians, ensembles, and curious readers.

Perturbations, pairing David Peck with engineer and electronic manipulator Joel Simches, presents its 10th set with a three-horn frontline of David Peck, Michael Caglianone, and John Fugarino, unfolding a spacious yet volatile free improv where frequent doubling across reeds, brass, percussion, and electronics meets Simches' real-time signal processing with textural disruption and transformation.

The Leap Of Faith Orchestra sextet — core duo David Peck and Glynis Lomon with brass regulars John Fugarino and Bob Moores, bassist Scott Samenfeld, drummer Jared Seabrook, and Joel Simches on real-time signal processing — navigates a sweeping long-form free improv marked by deep ensemble rapport, extensive instrumental doubling, and a vast array of acoustic and electronic timbres that continuously transform across a broad, vividly articulated sonic palette.

Turbulence — the horn-driven offshoot of the Leap Of Faith Orchestra led by PEK — convenes a trio of brass and reeds with John Fugarino and Bob Moores, powered by bassist Scott Samenfeld, drummer Jared Seabrook, for a dynamically shifting free improv that channels their Art Ensemble-inspired model into intricate counterpoint, dense textural layering, and expansive acoustic-electronic interplay.

The second edition of this essential box set corrects the recording date and resequences the performances, as the trio of guitarist Derek Bailey, saxophonist Evan Parker, and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Han Bennink are heard in an amazing evening of performance at 28 rue Dunois, in Paris, France, in duo and trio configurations, exploring material similar to Parker's "Topography of the Lungs".

Balancing clarity with a free-thinking spirit, vibraphonist Bobby Naughton leads his trio with bassist Joe Fonda and drummer Randy Kaye through original works alongside compositions by Anthony Braxton and Carla Bley, captured live at Charlie's Tap in Cambridge, MA in 1985, where lucid melodies, bowed bass lyricism and pointed drumming converge in a poised set that affirms Naughton's singular voice.

Emerging from a first-time meeting at the 2023 Catalytic Sound Festival in Chicago, pianist Erez Dessel convenes Ben Hall, Fred Jackson Jr., Mai Sugimoto and poet Marvin Tate for a volatile, story-driven set where probing vocals, twin woodwinds, driving drums and insistent piano collide in sharp-edged, quick-turn improvisations that balance chaos, lyricism and collective intensity in a gripping live debut.

Classically trained yet bound by neither jazz nor tradition, Lao Dan joins master percussionist Vasco Trilla at Old Heaven Books in Shenzhen, China for a fiercely attuned duo where tenor saxophone, DIY and Chinese flutes meet textured drums and percussion in seven spontaneous explorations that shift from meditative restraint to high energy abstraction in a uniquely expressive statement of free improvisation.

Recorded live at Elastic Arts in Chicago, Double Helix Quartet finds Fred Jackson Jr., Ishmael Ali, Bill Harris and Avreeayl Ra in compact, highly responsive conversation, as alto saxophone, cello, drums and flute intersect in rhythmic propulsion, textural depth and incisive group invention, yielding a vivid, incisive document of Chicago-led collective improvisation.

Blurring genre boundaries with stream-of-consciousness spontaneity, vocalist Carol Genetti and string player Peter Maunu shape a richly textured, improvised duo of deconstructed voice, electronics and processed strings, as violin, guitar and mandolin intertwine with haunting vocal abstractions in cinematic, quick-shifting explorations that move from delicate sound studies to deranged noise gestures.

Drawing from recordings made between 2000 and 2025 across Lithuania and Latvia, percussionist Arkady Gotesman assembles collaborators including Nate Wooley, Charles Gayle, Mark Sanders, Liudas Mockūnas, Martin Küchen and Ned Rothenberg for a focused set of duos, trios and solo works that trace three decades of chamber-improvised music shaped by fascinating structurs and a deep connection to Vilnius.

Bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa leads her Bay Area 5(ish) ensemble — with Aaron Bennett, Kyle Bruckmann, Mark Clifford, Brett Carson, Jordan Glenn and guest Fred Frith — through a meticulously structured yet explosively improvisational suite blending Braxtonian processional lines, chamber-textured atmospheres and surging free interplay into a dynamic, "tight-loose" exploration of contemporary creative jazz.

Inspired by Sol LeWitt's Incomplete Open Cubes, Bay Area duo B. — bassist Lisa Mezzacappa and drummer Jason Levis — translate the artist's serial logic into a system of modular compositions and improvisations, shaping asymmetrical grooves, bowed-bass textures and expanded drumset sonorities into a dynamic drums-and-bass dialogue that balances structural rigor with spontaneous interplay.

Inspired by the 1960s Mission Rebels youth movement founded by his father, Rev. Jesse James, Bay Area guitarist David James leads an ensemble of trombone, clarinet, viola, bass, drums and voices in a socially resonant instrumental and song suite that blends chamber textures and improvisation into a reflective, community-rooted work of memory and tribute.

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.

Whisker — the Chicago duo of modular synthesist Ben Baker Billington and bassist Andrew Scott Young — expand their psychedelic, noise-forged language through collaborations with Chris Corsano, Lia Kohl and Norman W. Long, blending polyrhythmic free jazz propulsion, ambient cello-inflected drift and drum-machine-driven electronic abstraction into three high-voltage sessions.

Evan Lindorff-Ellery's cassette-length solo sessions, the inaugural release from Disseminated Light and Sound Recordings blend cymbals, electric guitar, digital piano, snare drum and activated objects into patient, textural improvisations that emphasize resonance, tactile surface and gradual transformation, masterfully shaped into an immersive study of sustained tone and subtle sonic decay.

Recorded outdoors along Stony Kill Creek in Wawarsing and in a Mt Tremper studio, Evan Lindorff-Ellery and Naomi Juniper blend acoustic guitar, voice and glass jar with electric guitar, piano and activated objects into intimate yet friction-laced improvisations that merge environmental presence with tactile surface work, balancing fragile song-forms against raw, textural interplay.

Recorded at Unison Arts in New Paltz in July 2025, Koyoltzintli and workshop participants perform an impromptu ensemble on pit-fired clay slabs alongside congas, whistles and voice, creating a raw, communal percussion work that transforms earth, breath and rhythm into brittle, resonant and spontaneously evolving sound.

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.

Bringing together Ziv Taubenfeld on bass clarinet and gongs, Helena Espvall on cello, and João Sousa on drums, this trio release weaves restless plucked figures, plaintive bowing, and propulsive percussion into searching improvisations that move from hushed lyricism to surging intensity, evoking dreamlike visions, winged melodies, and the fragile beauty of a song discovered in the act of becoming.

Marking a pivotal artistic evolution for saxophonist John O'Gallagher, this session draws on his deep study of John Coltrane and recent personal transitions to unite guitarist Ben Monder with master drummers Andrew Cyrille and Billy Hart in a fluid program of mostly first-take performances that balance composed structures and open improvisation through an organic, system-aware approach to free jazz expression.

Marking a pivotal artistic evolution for saxophonist John O'Gallagher, this session draws on his deep study of John Coltrane and recent personal transitions to unite guitarist Ben Monder with master drummers Andrew Cyrille and Billy Hart in a fluid program of mostly first-take performances that balance composed structures and open improvisation through an organic, system-aware approach to free jazz expression.

Bringing together the Rova Saxophone Group and the William Winant Percussion Group, Zorn's 1978 game piece Curling is realized in two Bay Area interpretations focused on sustained tones, restrained interaction, and subtle sonic collisions, transforming long-form minimalist gestures into hypnotic collective improvisations that explore the quietly unpredictable edges of his early compositional language.

Inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 Four Freedoms speech, trumpeter Dave Douglas shapes a dynamic quartet with pianist Marta Warelis, bassist Nick Dunston, and drummer Joey Baron into a vivid exploration of democratic interplay, where bold themes, elastic swing, and sharply responsive improvisation reflect four independent voices negotiating space, tension, and joy in real time.

Recorded in Easton, Bristol in 2024, the debut release from British duo David / David pairs David Croshaw's dynamic drumming with David Cooper's improvised electronics, capturing a series of volatile live encounters that blur structure and spontaneity through dense rhythmic interplay, fractured samples, and a kinetic balance between danceable momentum and chaotic sonic experimentation.

Improvisations recorded at various locations in Manchester between 2022 and 2023 bring together Francis Comyn's texturally driven percussion and Adam Fairhall's prepared electric and toy pianos in nine alloy-titled pieces that explore resonance, metallic timbre, and shifting rhythmic tension, resulting in a concise yet richly detailed dialog of tactile free improvisation balancing restraint, density, and finely tuned sonic interaction.

The trio Hearsay — turntablist Allen Moore, cellist/guitarist Ishmael Ali, and drummer Bill Harris — craft a restless and texturally rich improvisational set that bends time through fractured grooves, looping vinyl gestures, and agile acoustic interplay, balancing rhythmic tension, abstract sound manipulation, and aural exploration with striking restraint and spontaneity.

The 2nd REMEDY release unites the core trio of Thomas Heberer, Joe Fonda and Joe Hertenstein with trailblazing pianist Aki Takase in a quartet session balancing composed frameworks and collective improv, weaving trumpet, piano, bass, flute & percussion into a fluid, conversational interplay that blends structural clarity with spontaneity shaped by the shared history of Berlin's experimental jazz community.

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.

Uniting pianist Agustí Fernández, cornetist Artur Majewski, saxophonist Albert Cirera and drummer Ramon Prats, this fully free studio session unfolds across ten connected improvisations, weaving piano, brass, reeds and percussion into a responsive dialogue of shifting textures and momentum, from deep-listening introspection to ecstatic interaction, balancing risk and cohesion as compelling spontaneous composition.

The debut from the duo Flöjter brings together Mats Gustafsson and Delphine Joussein, both collaborators in Fire! Orchestra and Nout, in a wild live encounter expanding the sonic possibilities of the flute, weaving extended techniques, electronics, organ, harmonica and voice into a volatile, exploratory dialogue that moves between raw texture, rhythmic drive and spacious abstraction.

Interpreting selections from John Zorn's expansive Bagatelles cycle, this quartet led by pianist Kris Davis brings together guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Kenny Wollesen in a fluid, richly expressive reading of Zorn�s compositions, balancing intricate written forms with lyrical improvisation while weaving delicate ensemble interplay and adventurous harmonic motion.

Composed and led by cellist Ishmael Ali, this wide-ranging studio set moves between raw solo explorations, collaborative improvisations and groove-driven ensemble pieces, blending cello, voice and electronics with a multi-generational Chicago lineup to create an eclectic yet cohesive sound world that balances experimental risk, melodic intimacy and playful collective interaction.

Composed and led by cellist Ishmael Ali, this wide-ranging studio set moves between raw solo explorations, collaborative improvisations and groove-driven ensemble pieces, blending cello, voice and electronics with a multi-generational Chicago lineup to create an eclectic yet cohesive sound world that balances experimental risk, melodic intimacy and playful collective interaction.

The duo of improvisers Stuart Wilding and Mike Adcock transform an array of percussion, prepared objects, piano and unconventional instruments into a playful yet deeply attentive dialogue of texture, shaped by the natural resonance of Whiteshill Village Hall, balancing spontaneity, humor and focused listening in an intimate exploration of improvised sound.

French trumpeter and flugelhornist Aymeric Avice joins D.C./NY/Chicago artists Luke Stewart on double bass & mbira and Chad Taylor on drums & mbira for a richly conversational trio session that moves from delicately textured mbira duets to expansive improvisations rooted in the evolving language of jazz, spontaneously blending lyrical elements into a deeply interactive and forward-looking album.

Expanding his In Cahoots quartet into a quintet with Ingrid Laubrock on tenor & soprano sax, composer Frank Gratkowski joins Philip Zoubek on piano & synthesizer, Robert Landfermann on bass, and Dominik Mahnig on drums to perform his fluid compositions that blur the line between writing and improvisation, weaving microtonal nuance, extended techniques with interactive interplay in an important contemporary jazz statement.

Steve Beresford on prepared piano, electronics, & objects joins Pierpaolo Martino on double bass & electronics and Mark Sanders on drums for a fiercely interactive trio set of elastic rhythms and textured harmony, balancing grounded resonance with agile percussion and playful disruption, recorded at the 2024 Bari in Jazz Festival in sharply conversational, risk-embracing improvisation.

Reviving Cecil Taylor's legendary Unit concept, this searing New Unit performance with Okkyung Lee (cello), Tony Oxley (electronics), Harri Sjostrom (soprano and sopranino saxophones), and Jackson Krall (drums) documents the final concert of Taylor's life in a nearly eighty-minute fusion of music and spoken word, recorded live on April 23, 2016, at the Whitney Museum in New York City.

Drummer Steve Hirsh, guitarist Matt Hollenberg, and baritone saxophonist Dave Sewelson forge a volatile trio language that blends avant-rock intensity, free-jazz elasticity, and raw electric blues impulses, channeling tightly focused improvisations where ferocious energy, abrupt shifts, and deep mutual trust drive the music beyond genre boundaries into a space that feels both unruly and sharply intentional.