Developed through remote, spontaneously layered exchanges between the Philippines, Malaysia, and Minnesota, Rick Countryman's alto flute, replacing his customary alto saxophone, joins Richard Allan Bates' electric bass and effects and Steve Hirsh's reflective drumming in an organically connected improvisation of spacious textures, subtle rhythmic tension, and lyrical interaction.

Drummer/percussionist, trombonist, pianist and importantly here, composer, Tyshawn Sorey in an amazing and ambitious work "Pillars", assembling an ensemble of virtuosic NY performers (Joe Morris, Todd Neufeld, Ben Gerstein, Stephen Hayes, Zach Rowden, Carl Test, Mark Helias) as he references Tibetan rituals, Stockhausen, and Anthony Braxton, and much more.

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.

The sixth entry in Ivo Perelman's expanding Duologues series, and the sixth album in Squidco's digital label Squid Note Records, pairs his searching tenor saxophone with Damon Smith's commanding double bass, a freely improvised exchange of raw physical immediacy and deep listening, where intertwining lines, extended techniques and spontaneous form turn dialogue itself into the core of the music.

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.

Blending acoustic guitars, clarinets, accordion, voice and found objects, Barry Chabala and Clara Byom craft a deeply intuitive duo session that moves between unedited studio improvs and expanded "extractions," weaving folk-inflected fragments, graphic score realizations and haunting textures into a raw yet lyrical free improv language shaped by trust, contrast and evolving interplay.

Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet — Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams — captured during its 1967 European tour in Antwerp, Copenhagen, and Paris, presenting three CDs of adventurous post-bop improvisation, rhythmic elasticity, and collective interplay as the ensemble transforms familiar compositions into fluid, unpredictable performances.

Drawing on his work with Annea Lockwood documenting the Columbia River, trumpeter Nate Wooley creates Memorial, combining trumpet, field recordings, and generated voice to reflect on the submerged Kettle Falls, once a vital gathering place for Indigenous peoples, exploring the relationship between sound, memory, and landscape, and the persistence of what remains beneath the altered river.

"An Imagisist Experiment at Welcome to Silkeborg�s Lab is a 2026 free-improvisation album by Portuguese duo Welcome to Silkeborg, comprising Tiago Varela and Monsieur Trinite. Released by Lisbon�s Creative Sources,it continues a duo pro...

"Keith Tippett was just twenty-one when his group recorded the first of these sets for BBC's Jazz Workshop on May 21st 1969, three months before the recording of his first album, You Are Here -- I Am There. The CD is noteworthy for the ...

"The musical friendship between Swiss saxophonist Co Streiff and American trumpeter Russ Johnson, which has developed through various musical collaborations, dates back to 2004. Their experiences-Streiff as the bandleader of various gro...

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"Prelude to a Kiss and More shows Irene Schweizer at the height of her powers, in February 1986 in Zurich. With her exuberance, her improvisational skill, her powerful touch and her sense of style, this recording documents a climax in t...

"At the moment of creation, the genius knows nothing. Everything must, in fact, arise from nothing."-Willi Baumeister

Recorded at Villa Waldberta in Germany in 2021, this three-CD set brings together Udo Schindler on bass clarinet, sopranino saxophone, and tuba, Nicola L. Hein on electric guitar and devices, and Nikolaus Neuser on trumpet, presenting two discs of intimate duo improvisations followed by a third of expansive trio interplay, exploring acoustic and electronic textures through spontaneous musical dialogue.

"Taking up some threads from my thoughts in the previous three entries, Jardin Semantique - recorded in Lisbon this past February - finds Ernesto Rodrigues (on viola only) in the musical company of Joao Silva (trumpet) and Carlos Santos...

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"Fragments of the Unseen suggests a completely different kind of free improvisation. It is the second album of the chamber, acoustic, free improvising quartet of violist Ernesto Rodrigues, cellist Guilherme Rodrigues, their frequent col...

"A" rather intense quintet rooted in the world of the Rodrigues father-and-son duo (Guilherme on cello, and Ernesto on viola and "crackle box"), joined by the ethereal wind player Chris Jonas (soprano sax), pianist Irene Aranda-who weav...

"Following two electrifying studio albums and a live recording, the "supergroup-three musicians who are among the most exciting and active that the European avant-garde has to offer" (Jazzthetik) presents another thrilling album Kompres...

Reed player Mat Walerian's 4th album as a leader, in a quartet with Matthew Shipp on piano, William Parker on double bass & shakuhachi, and Hamid Drake on drums, the name "Okuden" meaning "inner teachings, as Walerian's compositions vary from a fully free introspective opener to joyful jazz idiom, a perfect set for this versatile and enlightened set of musicians.

"The titles are taken from *Samtliche Gedichte* by H.C. Artmann (1921-2000) (published by JUNG UND JUNG / 2003) and, due to their linguistic distinctiveness and phonetic nuances, are difficult or nearly impossible to translate into Engl...

"With the rare format of a violin and percussion duo, the partnership between Maria do Mar and Cesar Burago focuses on detail, nuance, and subtlety within a context of structured or spontaneous improvisation and an exploration of the tim...

British pianist Alexander Hawkins joins harpist Rhodri Davies, drummer Hamid Drake, flutist Nicole Mitchell, and turntablist Matthew Wright in an imaginative quintet blending acoustic improvisation with synthesizers, sampling, and electronic manipulation, transforming nine compositions and collective explorations into richly layered music shaped through spontaneous interaction and inventive studio post-production.

"Kevin wrote three chords for the three of us, we chose a chord that was ours and played it and then we shared them. This music points towards music being intimate communication, a moment to tap into. Three chords a tie that binds."-Edi...

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Bassist and vocalist Bishu Chattopadhyay leads a nine-piece ensemble featuring Rez Abbasi, Esteban Castro, Birsa Chatterjee, and Mir Naqibul Islam through nine compositions blending contemporary jazz, Indian musical traditions, free improvisation, and structured ensemble writing, reflecting themes of memory, migration, and cultural identity through shifting melodies and open-ended musical forms.

"Founded in 1965, AMM would spend nearly six decades pursuing and perfecting their art of live, improvised performance. In its early beginnings, AMM was a collective of London jazz musicians looking to break into new frontiers, includin...

Following up their 2015 Not Two album "This is Our Language", the quartet organized by tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado with Joe McPhee on soprano saxophone and pocket trumpet, Kent Kessler on double bass, and Chris Corsano, a superb album of intense communication and soloing from a collective that merges free and lyrical playing, from ballads to full-on fury.

Satoko Fujii's Orchestra Tokyo honors Natsuki Tamura's father, artist and educator Ichiji Tamura, in a live-recorded double album featuring compositions by Fujii and Tamura inspired by his paintings, alongside Fujii's arrangement of Ichiji's "Kappa Ondo," blending adventurous large-ensemble improvisation, bold orchestration, and Japanese folklore in a deeply personal musical tribute.

Recorded live in 1977, this previously unreleased concert unites Don Cherry, Collin Walcott, and Leon Thomas in their only documented performance together, joined by Oregon members Glen Moore, Paul McCandless, and Ralph Towner, blending free jazz, African and Indian traditions, spiritual vocals, and expansive improvisation in a remastered edition.

Recorded live in 1977, this previously unreleased concert unites Don Cherry, Collin Walcott, and Leon Thomas in their only documented performance together, joined by Oregon members Glen Moore, Paul McCandless, and Ralph Towner, blending free jazz, African and Indian traditions, spiritual vocals, and expansive improvisation in a remastered edition.

Drummer and composer John Hollenbeck leads GEORGE with Anna Webber on saxophone and flutes, Sarah Rossy on voice and synthesizer, and Chiquita Magic on synthesizers and voice, blending intricate rhythms, electronic textures, and adventurous vocal interplay in compositions exploring the tension between consonance and dissonance, stability and uncertainty, and the search for harmony.

Drummer and composer John Hollenbeck leads GEORGE with Anna Webber on saxophone and flutes, Sarah Rossy on voice and synthesizer, and Chiquita Magic on synthesizers and voice, blending intricate rhythms, electronic textures, and adventurous vocal interplay in compositions exploring the tension between consonance and dissonance, stability and uncertainty, and the search for harmony.

Continuing a decade-long collaboration, clarinetist Michael Thieke and percussionist Luigi Marino explore the intersection of acoustic resonance, handmade electronics, and environmental sound through four inventive improvisations, employing multiphonics, bowed cymbals, feedback circuits, and skylark field recordings to create an intimate dialogue between instruments, technology, and the natural world.

Approaching their 50th anniversary, the Rova Saxophone Quartet - Bruce Ackley, Steve Adams, Larry Ochs, and Jon Raskin - presents five adventurous works recorded in 2025, combining compositions by Steve Adams and Jon Raskin with commissioned pieces from John Butcher, Gino Robair, and Miya Masaoka, exploring extended techniques and imaginative approaches to contemporary saxophone music.

Recorded at Chicago's Hungry Brain in December 2025, the long-running quartet of saxophonist Dave Rempis, pianist Jim Baker, bassist Joshua Abrams, and drummer Avreeayl Ra presents its 5th album, a 2-CD tribute to the city's creative music community and the legacy of Fred Anderson's Velvet Lounge, channeling the shared history into expansive, deeply rooted collective improvisation.

Recorded live in Bordeaux, France, in 1999, this previously unreleased performance joins pioneering free jazz drummer Sunny Murray with saxophonist and vocalist Arthur Doyle and trumpeter Rasul Siddik in four expansive improvisations, including Doyle's "African Express" and Don Cherry's "Complete Communion," exploring fierce collective interplay and expressive freedom.

A companion release to New Light, this previously unissued 1999 Bordeaux concert recording reunites free jazz drummer Sunny Murray, saxophonist and vocalist Arthur Doyle, and trumpeter Rasul Siddik for five adventurous improvisations, including Doyle's "Goverey," navigating turbulent collective exchanges, fractured melodies, and open-ended rhythmic exploration

A companion release to New Light, this previously unissued 1999 Bordeaux concert recording reunites free jazz drummer Sunny Murray, saxophonist and vocalist Arthur Doyle, and trumpeter Rasul Siddik for five adventurous improvisations, including Doyle's "Goverey," navigating turbulent collective exchanges, fractured melodies, and open-ended rhythmic exploration.

Tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis leads his six-piece Red Lily ensemble in Calling Antonin, a tribute to Czech composer Antonín Dvořák, reimagining his American-period compositions through original works and variations that blend jazz improvisation with chamber music, featuring Kirk Knuffke, Melanie Dyer, Tomeka Reid, Joshua Abrams, and Chad Taylor in a richly melodic and rhythmically dynamic exploration of musical heritage.

Tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis leads his six-piece Red Lily ensemble in Calling Antonin, a tribute to Czech composer Antonín Dvořák, reimagining his American-period compositions through original works and variations that blend jazz improvisation with chamber music, featuring Kirk Knuffke, Melanie Dyer, Tomeka Reid, Joshua Abrams, and Chad Taylor in a richly melodic and rhythmically dynamic exploration of musical heritage.

Composer and reedist Henry Threadgill reconvenes his long-running Zooid quintet with Liberty Ellman on acoustic guitar, Jose Davila on tuba and trombone, Christopher Hoffman on cello, and Elliot Humberto Kavee on drums, extending his interval-based language through shifting meters, compact forms, and non-hierarchical interplay in music that balances structural rigor with elastic, conversational improvisation.

A 7" limited vinyl picture disc made to celebrate legendary European Free Jazz bassist Barry Guy's 70th birthday, with Guy providing "acoustic sounds" along with his collaborating frogs, Wasserfrosch (Rana Esculenta) and Laubfrosch (Hyla Arborea), side A presenting Frogs & Barry Guy, and side B, Barry Guy & Frogs; quirkly and wonderful free improv.

Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith assembles recordings from 2017-2022 with Sylvie Courvoisier, Marcus Gilmore, Bobby Naughton, Lamar Smith, Bill Laswell, Melvin Gibbs, Pheeroan akLaff, and percussionists, moving between intimate acoustic improvisation and electrified ensemble exploration, with layered bass, distorted guitar, and expansive rhythms shaped through inventive studio composition.

Violinist and composer Jason Kao Hwang reunites his Human Rites Trio with bassist Ken Filiano and drummer Andrew Drury for four extended compositions blending structured passages with intuitive free improvisation, where expressive violin, resonant bass, and an expansive array of percussion create shifting moods, intricate rhythms, and dynamic collective interplay balancing composition and spontaneity.

A deeply personal collaboration between pianist Sonelius Smith and bassist Adam Kahan, bringing together recordings from 2023-2026 that move between intimate jazz trio explorations and expanded ensembles with tenor saxophone, trumpet, and flute, combining original compositions and spontaneous improvisation with inventive interpretations of jazz standards by Wayne Shorter, George Gershwin, and Sidney Bechet.

An eight-member Philadelphia ensemble led by percussionist Kevin Diehl brings together tenor saxophones, flute, trumpet, clarinets, guitars, bass, and Afro-Cuban percussion in a double album of adventurous collective improvisation, blending graphic scores, structured compositions, free jazz, and layered rhythmic exploration into an expansive dialogue between form and spontaneity.

Drummer Joe Hertenstein joins Anthony Coleman on Hammond B3 organ and Jon Irabagon on tenor saxophone for a dynamic live performance at Vienna's Porgy & Bess, exploring four original compositions built on riffs, melodic fragments, and open-ended structures, with the trio transforming Hertenstein's material through adventurous collective improvisation, rhythmic interplay, and richly contrasting textures.

Drummer Jonathan Delazer leads the Göttliche Skizzen trio with Tobias Delius on tenor saxophone and clarinet and Jakob Obleser on double bass in eight original compositions that intertwine microtonal experimentation, free improvisation, and contemporary chamber jazz, drawing on medieval musical traditions, European folk rhythms, and glissando techniques in a fluid exploration of melody, texture, and rhythmic form.

Viennese saxophonist Sophie Hassfurther leads an octet blending contemporary jazz, chamber music, and free improv across ten original compositions inspired by ideas of empathy, identity, and transformation, weaving intricate horn arrangements, shifting rhythmic patterns, and expressive solos into richly layered ensemble passages that balance composed structures with spontaneous and collective exploration.

Berlin-based saxophonist Gebhard Ullmann joins longtime collaborator Steve Swell on trombone with a newly assembled rhythm section of bassist Joe Morris and drummer Charles Downs for a set of instant compositions, combining Ullmann's tenor saxophone and live electronics with the quartet's collective improvisational interplay, drawing on their extensive experience in avant-garde jazz and free improvisation.

An extraordinary 1979 recording of Cecil Taylor's Unit performing live with Jimmy Lyons on alto saxophone, Ramsey Ameen on violin, Alan Silva on bass and cello, and Jerome Cooper on drums, capturing a rare quintet configuration in a powerful exploration of free jazz, collective improv, and expansive compositional structures, previously unissued and originally intended for NPR's Jazz Alive program.

An adventurous quartet of European improvisers — Philipp Wachsmann on violin, Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg on voice, Pascal Marzan on 10-string microtonal guitar, and Lawrence Casserley on signal processing — come together for three collective improvisations that merge extended techniques, vocal improv, microtonal textures, and electronic transformations into richly detailed, constantly evolving soundscapes.

The second collaboration between Ukrainian sound artist Tungu and guitarist Henry Kaiser, layering field recordings, samples and electronics with Kaiser's exploratory guitar across ten shifting electroacoustic environments, moving from atmospheric drift to fractured abstraction, with cellist Hui-Chun Lin joining the extended "Shadows That Slowly Catch Up."

Vocalist Tenko, pianist Satoko Fujii and no-input mixing-board pioneer Toshimaru Nakamura form Ten-Toh-Maru for three extended free improvisations balancing wordless vocal expression, resonant and percussive piano textures, and finely controlled electronic feedback, unfolding through patient collective listening into sparse, ritualistic, abrasive and dreamlike sound environments.

Bringing together DC double bassist Luke Stewart with Chicago mainstays Edward Wilkerson Jr., Ken Vandermark, Jim Baker and Avreeayl Ra, the Exposure Quintet blends collective improvisation with field recordings and samples, creating spacious, exploratory music combining saxophones, clarinets, strings, keyboards, bass and percussion with a strong sense of place.

The second duo album from French harpist Helene Breschand and New York guitarist Elliott Sharp, pairing harp and guitar in an angular, hard-edged exchange that moves freely between composed and improvised forms, with Sharp's extended sonic language and Breschand's theatrical, Dada-tinged vocal presence giving the music a restless, expressionistic character.

Marking three decades of collaboration, tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman and pianist Matthew Shipp distill their remarkably intuitive improvisational language across two Park West Studios sessions recorded weeks apart, their spontaneous exchanges moving through melody, silence, density, rhythmic momentum and abrupt shifts of register with the immediacy of a conversation shaped by years of shared musical experience.

Satoko Fujii's Orchestra Berlin with saxophones, trumpets, trombone, synthesizer, bass and dual drums builds a five-part suite from cued fragments, collective improvisation and open-form structures, balancing composed materials with spontaneous ensemble invention, including a striking section performed with newspapers that extends Fujii's ongoing exploration of freedom within large-ensemble composition.

Composed by Satoko Fujii to celebrate the 20th anniversary of a beloved Nagoya arts cafe, this four-part suite for her 16-member Orchestra Nagoya combines adventurous arrangements, expressive solo improvisations, and powerful brass and reed passages, blending free jazz with infectious rhythmic grooves in a joyful, forward-looking celebration of community and creative collaboration.

Marking 40 years since its 1985 ZTT release, Andrew Poppy's landmark The Beating of Wings returns newly remastered by Stephan Mathieu, presenting four prescient post-minimal works where Poppy's piano, keyboards, voice and sampler, Glyn Perrin's electric piano, orchestral winds, brass and strings, guitar, bass, Fairlight and drum machine merge acoustic composition with the studio as a compositional instrument.

A powerful, spiritual and warmly dynamic album of international and cross-cultural free improvisation meticulously recorded live at Jazzfest Berlin in 2022 from the trio of German reedist Peter Brötzmann on tenor saxophone and clarinet, Chicago drummer/percussionist Hamid Drake, and Moroccan guembri player and vocalist Majid Bekkas.

NYC electronic composer and improviser Ikue Mori gathers music created from 2016-2025 into an imaginative CD/DVD work pairing her intricate electronic worlds with handmade dolls, puppets, animation and miniature sets, joined on pieces by Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura, Koichi Makigami, and Zeena Parkins in eight pieces moving through fantasy, science fiction, Japanese ghost imagery and detailed electroacoustic sound.

Recorded live at Cafe Oto, this first-time quartet of percussionists Paul Lytton and Eddie Prevost, trumpeter Nate Wooley and saxophonist Seymour Wright brings together overlapping histories of long-standing, renewed and entirely new collaborations, using those contrasting degrees of familiarity to shape a freely improvised performance of shifting alliances, layered interaction and distinct individual voices.

Reuniting after a nine-year hiatus, Marteau Rouge — Jean-Francois Pauvros, Jean-Marc Foussat and Makoto Sato — joins longtime associate Daunik Lazro on tenor saxophone for a live Montreuil performance of seven compact improvisations, merging distorted guitar, Synthi AKS electronics, percussion, voices and toys with Lazro's incisive tenor in a volatile mix of free jazz, noise and free rock.

A five-CD survey of Jon Rose's Rosenberg Museum, the violinist's decades-long Gesamtkunstwerk of invented, altered and repurposed string instruments, documenting a practice that treats the violin as a limitless field for acoustic experiment, cultural critique and sonic invention, with John Oswald contributing to this expansive archive of new instruments, new sounds and unstable musical histories.

French electronic music pioneer Eliane Radigue performs her three-part composition Triptych, recorded in her Paris studio and inspired by Tibetan Buddhism and the elemental forces of water, air, fire, and earth, presenting a patient, immersive work of sustained electronic tones and subtle transformation, here issued as a double LP with the complete pieces preserved without editing or cuts.

Jessica Pavone expands her long-running solo viola practice with effects and guest contributions from Fred Frith on guitar and Joe Lally on bass, using open-string resonances, electronic texture, and remotely developed collaborative material to create a set of compositions that balance solitude, resonance, and carefully structured interaction.

A singularly beautiful and quirky album of electroacoustic improvisation from long-time collaborators and organizers of Japan's "Meeting at Off Site", Tetuzi Akiyama on acoustic guitar and Toshimaru Nakamura on no-input mixing board, their second duo album since 2009's Semi-Impressionism on the Spekk label, here recording in the studio for five dialogs of lovely eccentricity.

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.

Legendary Japanese guitarist Keiji Haino and London drummer/percussionist Steve Noble meet live at Cafe OTO in 2012 for a volatile duo performance moving between near-silence, blues-tinged reflection, dense feedback and explosive free improvisation, with Haino on electric guitar, electronics and wooden flute against Noble's expansive percussion setup, balancing raw intensity with spacious, highly responsive interplay.

Closing Christian Wolfarth's three-part 39 cycle, this solo work for percussion and field recordings transforms numerical constraints, repetition and chance into a spare study of resonance, texture and silence, where skin, metal and environmental sound gradually blur the line between composed structure and pure sonic perception.

Composer and reedist Henry Threadgill reconvenes his long-running Zooid quintet with Liberty Ellman on acoustic guitar, Jose Davila on tuba and trombone, Christopher Hoffman on cello, and Elliot Humberto Kavee on drums, extending his interval-based language through shifting meters, compact forms, and non-hierarchical interplay in music that balances structural rigor with elastic, conversational improvisation.

A remarkable 1967 Radio Bremen session uniting leading figures of emerging European free improvisation, with Alexander von Schlippenbach, Irène Schweizer and Fred van Hove on piano; Peter Brötzmann and Gerd Dudek on saxophones; Manfred Schoof and Manfred Miller on brass; three bassists; and Sven-Åke Johansson, Jaki Liebezeit and Mani Neumeier on drums and percussion.

A four-CD survey of Sonny Rollins' formative Prestige years, collecting eight albums recorded from 1951-1956, with Rollins' tenor saxophone joined by Miles Davis on piano, Clifford Brown and Kenny Dorham on trumpet, John Coltrane on tenor, Thelonious Monk, Red Garland and Tommy Flanagan on piano, and rhythm sections featuring Max Roach, Art Blakey, Philly Joe Jones and others, tracing Rollins' rapid emergence as one of modern jazz's defining improvisers.

A massive archive of drone & ambient composer Phill Niblock's films and music, from recordings made between 2013 and 2016 in festivals and studios around the world, orchestrated with primarily acoustic instruments using rich and closely related harmonics, paired with moving images of people from around the world engaged in work; hypnotic and engrossing.

Pianist Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet with Mary Halvorson on guitar, Ingrid Laubrock on tenor and soprano saxophones, Tomeka Reid on cello, and Lesley Mok on drums, continuing Melford's Cy Twombly-inspired balance of cellular composition, collective improvisation, lyricism, counterpoint, and rhythmic momentum in a richly interactive studio recording.

Marty Ehrlich directs a rotating cast of leading reed players through the forty known saxophone quartet compositions of Julius Hemphill, combining works written for the World Saxophone Quartet with previously unrecorded pieces recovered through Ehrlich's archival research, revealing Hemphill's singular language of layered counterpoint, blues-rooted melody, rhythmic invention, and chamber precision.

In their first meeting, drummer Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Pat Thomas deliver a fiercely dynamic live improvisation at Cafe OTO, moving through dense clusters, inside-piano resonance, metallic percussion, brushes, string slides and sudden silences with remarkable precision, building a volatile dialogue that shifts between thunderous rhythmic density, delicate texture and sharply focused spontaneous interplay.

Launching Sylvaine Helary's tenure as artistic director of the Orchestre National de Jazz, this expansive 17-piece ensemble revisits twelve Carla Bley compositions through Remi Sciuto's inventive arrangements, blending brass, reeds, strings, rhythm section and improvising soloists in a vivid orchestral tribute that preserves Bley's wit, formal daring and stylistic breadth through new contemporary perspectives.

Meeting in the studio in Germany, Fred Frith's electric guitar & effects combine with Johannes Tonio Kreusch's classical & prepared guitars and brother Cornelius Claudio Kreusch's piano & keyboards in an expansive trio improvisation balancing drones, atmospheric textures and volatile interaction, moving fluidly between meditative restraint, abstract sound exploration and explosive free improv.

Meeting in the studio in Germany, Fred Frith's electric guitar & effects combine with Johannes Tonio Kreusch's classical & prepared guitars and brother Cornelius Claudio Kreusch's piano & keyboards in an expansive trio improvisation balancing drones, atmospheric textures and volatile interaction, moving fluidly between meditative restraint, abstract sound exploration and explosive free improv.