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.

Performing thirteen selections from John Zorn's 2015 Bagatelles collection, pianist Brian Marsella delivers a dynamic solo recital that navigates angular, atonal forms and moments of striking lyricism, blending classical precision with jazz spontaneity to create an intimate, virtuosic, and emotionally resonant interpretation of Zorn's expansive compositional language.

Reuniting Bill Frisell, Kenny Wollesen, and Carol Emanuel as The Gnostic Trio, John Zorn presents a refined set of compositions that blend chamber minimalism, early music influences, and ambient textures, where delicate interplay, spacious forms, and a touch of electronics from Ikue Mori yield a serene, introspective, and subtly cinematic exploration of tone and atmosphere.

Recorded live at the Archipel Festival, this quintet of Nicolas Field, Thomas Florin, Jerome Noetinger, Fritz Welch, and Nate Wooley delivers an intense electroacoustic performance where composed frameworks erupt into explosive, immersive interactions, as voice, trumpet, piano, percussion, and electronics collide in dense, mutating textures that are disorienting, consuming, often volatile, yet consistently exhilarating.

The quartet of Floros Floridis, Ernesto Rodrigues, Guilherme Rodrigues, and Michael Vorfeld crafts a sparse and texturally open electroacoustic performance where pointillistic percussion replaces bass grounding, allowing clarinet-centered lines, subtle string interplay, and crackling electronics to unfold in shifting, time-dilated continuities in a refined, contemporary approach to free improv.

Bringing together an octet of long-associated improvisers led by violist Ernesto Rodrigues, this single extended work unfolds as a fluid, introspective collective statement of shifting timbres and spectral harmonies with moments of tension and release, forging a deeply personal and evolving free improv narrative shaped by continuity, interaction and shared intuition.

The Simulacrum ensemble expands its electroacoustic palette on Modeling Personas, bringing together a fluid septet of winds, strings, percussion, and extensive electronics in a dense and highly textural session where layered improvisations, shifting instrumental permutations, and rich sonic experimentation create a dynamic and immersive exploration of timbre, form, and collective interplay.

Expanding the Evil Clown universe with a humor-driven electroacoustic improvisation, the Neurodivergent Orchestra blends dense ensemble interplay, electronics, and an extraordinary array of instruments with fully improvised spoken-word banter, where playful, absurdist narrative threads intertwine with dynamic sonic exploration to create a richly textured, unpredictable, and engaging collective performance.

Expanding from the long-running Leap of Faith core duet, bringing together a sextet of reeds, brass, cello, bass, percussion, and electronics in a fluid electroacoustic improvisation where shifting instrumental doublings, richly varied global percussion, and evolving textures drive a continuous transformation of sonority, creating a deeply immersive and dynamically unfolding exploration of collective free improv.

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.

Presenting two extended solo performances recorded at Cafe Oto, cellist Hannah Marshall draws on classical training, theatre, and jazz to shape a deeply immersive free improv work, where patient explorations of tone evolve into tense constellations of harmonics and release through propulsive bowing, balancing immediacy, physicality, and a thoughtfully unfolding sonic narrative.

A debut release from New York-based duo Goal Weight, bassist Maggie Cox and violinist Jennifer Gersten deliver a wildly inventive session of acoustic string free improv, merging gut-strung resonance and prepared violin textures into a raw, playful, and sharply expressive dialog that balances abrasive sonorities with lyrical interplay and a mischievous, genre-defying spirit.

Inspired by Georges Perec's Espèces d'espaces, this quartet with Fie Schouten, Vincent Courtois, Sofia Borges, and Pierre Baux merges spoken voice, clarinet, cello, and percussion in a fluid free improv framework, shaping text into a sonic architecture where silence, gesture, and sound interact in a richly textured, theatrical exploration of space and narrative.

Recorded in Copenhagen studio and live settings, the trio of Anne Efternøler, Maria Laurette Friis, and Johanna Borchert craft an intimate free improv dialogue where voice, trumpet, flute, and prepared piano transform personal reflections on relationships and daily life into fluid, emotionally resonant textures, balancing vulnerability, abstraction, and a quietly life-affirming poetic interplay.

Framed as a shifting, dreamlike improvisation, this electroacoustic quartet led by violist Ernesto Rodrigues, with cellist Guilherme Rodrigues, Carlos Santos on electronics, and percussionist Monsieur Trinité, unfolds a fluid free improv session that dissolves into evolving textures, balancing tension, restraint, and collective interplay within an immersive sonic landscape.

Recorded live in Lisbon, violist Ernesto Rodrigues joins vocalist Maria Radich and violinist Maria do Mar in a free improv trio where close-range string interplay and crackle box electronics create high-register tension, while voice moves within the texture through whispers and cries, shaping an intimate, spatially focused performance balancing density, restraint, and evolving interaction.

Blending solo and ensemble free improv, percussionist Vasco Trilla joins Vilhelm Bromander, Alex Zethson, and Martin Kuchen in a Stockholm session where drones, elastic bass textures, and intricate percussive detail evolve through responsive interplay, culminating in a resonant solo performance that reflects a dynamic exploration of texture, tension, and transformation.

Blending avant-garde sensibilities with groove-driven electric jazz, guitarist John Bruschini leads a New York quintet through compositions that shift from soulful ballads to funk-infused energy, balancing expressive lyricism and dynamic interplay with a flexible ensemble that bridges fusion, improvisation, and melodic depth.

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.

Recorded live at the 2025 Konfrontationen #45 in Nickelsdorf, this quintet of viola, cello, alto saxophone, piano, and percussion unites frequent Creative Sources players Ernesto Rodrigues, Guilherme Rodrigues, and Nuno Torres with legendary free jazz pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach and drummer Willi Kellers, in a dynamic convergence of textural string abstraction and energetic free jazz interplay.

Recorded live at Kaleidophon Festival in Ulrichsberg, Austria, the trio of Urs Leimgruber on soprano saxophone, Jacques Demierre on amplified spinet, and Thomas Lehn on analogue synthesizer engages in a tense, hyper-attentive electroacoustic exchange, where dense textures, volatile interactions, and precise collective listening shape an ever-shifting dialog rooted in European free improv.

Blending Afro-Puerto Rican rhythms with modern jazz and exploratory improvisation, guitarist Gabriel Vicens leads a sextet of guitar, saxophone, piano, bass, drums, and percussion — performing lyrical and sophisticated compositions that move through propulsive, textural, and meditative passages, balancing ancestral pulse, temporal reflection, and avant-garde expression.

Centering the lyrical interplay of piano and violin, Marc Copland and Mark Feldman lead two rhythm sections with Drew Gress (bass), the late Anthony Pinciotti (drums) or Felix Henkelhausen (bass), and Jonas Burgwinkel (drums), through intimate, textural performances balancing standards and originals with subtle, exploratory improvisation.

Uniting legendary tenor saxophonist Don Dietrich with cellist Camille Dietrich, this fierce duo performance surges with overwhelming intensity, as lung-shaking sax eruptions collide with raw, textural cello force to engulf the sonic space in dense, high-velocity, noise-driven free improv, captured live at the 2025 Ear We Are festival in Biel, Switzerland.

A compelling issue of Musicworks spotlights Montreal artist Quinton Barnes and his hybrid of free jazz, drone, and experimental R&B, alongside features on composer Corie Rose Soumah and writer/musician DeForrest Brown, Jr., with additional artist profiles, festival coverage, and reviews of contemporary experimental music.

A tribute to NY reedist & wind player Mark Whitecage, who passed away in March 2021, in a concert at Rochester's BopShop in 2018 by the band he is probably best known for: Nu Band, with trumpeter Thomas Heberer taking Roy Campbell's original seat, plus Lou Grassi on drums and Joe Fonda on bass, a great concert blending modern creative jazz with passionate playing and a bit of hard bop.

Reuniting after years apart, saxophonist Dave Rempis, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, and drummer Frank Rosaly revive The Outskirts with a dynamic balance of modular compositions and open-ended improvisation, joined on one disc by pianist Marta Warelis, resulting in two contrasting live sets that move fluidly between structured ideas and spontaneous interplay in an expansive program of ensemble-driven free improv.

Exploring the fluid coordination and shifting forms of collective motion, pianist Magda Mayas leads her octet Filamental — featuring Zeena Parkins, Rhodri Davies, Aimée Theriot, Anthea Caddy, Angharad Davies, Christine Abdelnour, and Michael Thieke — in an intricate program of ensemble-driven free improv where shared memory, evolving textures, and intuitive interplay coalesce into dynamic, murmuration-like structures.

Bringing together Fred Frith's extended electric guitar vocabulary with Karen Stackpole's richly resonant world of gongs and metals, this intimate duo session unfolds as a deeply textural dialogue where harmonic overtones, shimmering percussion, and transformed string sonorities intertwine, blurring the boundaries between instrument and resonance in a fluid, exploratory program of free improv.

Recorded in Chicago between 1925 and 1928, these seminal Hot Five and Hot Seven sessions led by Louis Armstrong capture a transformative moment in early jazz, where his virtuosic phrasing, rhythmic innovation, and charismatic presence redefine the music's expressive scope, presented here with exceptional restoration and mastering, and accompanied by two postcards detailing recording sessions and personnel.

Recorded across three continents and completed in New York, this double-disc work led by Bill Laswell and conceptualist P.ST draws on René Daumal's unfinished allegorical novel to shape a richly textured electroacoustic narrative, where voice and instrumentation unfold alongside layered improvisation and cinematic abstraction, as Henry Kaiser contributes extended solo guitar meditations.

Recorded across three continents and completed in New York, this double-disc work led by Bill Laswell and conceptualist P.ST draws on René Daumal's unfinished allegorical novel to shape a richly textured electroacoustic narrative, where voice and instrumentation unfold alongside layered improvisation and cinematic abstraction, as Henry Kaiser contributes extended solo guitar meditations.

Recorded live at Rote Fabrik, in Zurich, this 2-CD set from Pat Thomas with XT — Seymour Wright and Paul Abbott — reimagines free improv through a fluid integration of acoustic and electronic sound, where real and "imaginary" instruments dissolve boundaries of form and timbre, unfolding as a complex, evolving suite that draws on ea traditions while pushing toward a synthetic, genre-defying future.

"Pianist Pat Thomas, saxophonist Seymour Wright, and drummer Paul Abbott deliver a remarkable set of new music, each, re-imagining improvisation and synthetic ideas with acoustic and electronic tools. This monumental new suite Strata,...

Recorded at the Holy Trinity Anglican church in York, Western Australia, this solo work from Laura Altman explores the interplay of instrument, environment, and intervention, as clarinet, voice, tapes, and small objects interact with feedback and resonant space to create a delicate yet expressive sound world where shifting timbres, silence, and acoustic response blur the boundaries between source and surroundings.

Drawing from Evil Clown's ever-evolving Turbulence ensemble, this septet session led by PEK assembles a dense horn front line with an expansive rhythm section, navigating a broad palette of textures through constant instrument shifts, where reeds, brass, electronics, and an array of percussion converge in a richly varied and continuously transforming program of ensemble-driven free improv.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Beginning with recordings of an electric induction cooktop made in his kitchen, French sound artist Éric La Casa constructs an electroacoustic work from improvisations and environmental sounds, which Spanish composer Francisco López then transforms into a dense studio mutation, the two discs tracing a dialogue of listening, transformation, and immersive sonic textures drawn from everyday objects and resonant spaces.

Featuring Mexican flutist Wilfrido Terrazas performing works by Greek composer Thanos Chrysakis, this solo recital explores the expressive breadth of standard, alto and bass flutes through extended techniques, circular breathing, and richly layered timbres, as Chrysakis' compositions unfold as immersive sonic environments where breath, resonance, and subtle transformations.

A 7-CD retrospective from guitarist and composer Steve MacLean collecting decades of inventive work, from chamber jazz-rock and electronics to playful sound experiments, including Frog, Bug, Guitar, Computer, the Steve MacLean Ensemble�s GPS, the Chris Cutler-featured Year of the Dragon, the double-CD Bridges, Ordinary Objects and Other Distractions, and the long out-of-print Radial Circuit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Exploring the volatile meeting point of acoustic percussion and electronics, Jordan Topiel Paul uses amplified snare drum to generate rattling friction, taut rhythmic fragments, and metallic resonance while Bryan Eubanks' modular synthesis answers with unstable pulses and evolving textures, the duo constructing a tense and detailed electroacoustic dialog where rhythm, noise, and timbre continually blur and reform.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Originally released in 1991, this remastered edition of Mehead's sole album presents the South London quartet's inventive blend of experimental rock, tape collage, and off-kilter rhythms, with trumpet, guitar, bass, drums, and vocals shaping spacious, intuitively composed pieces that balance live studio spontaneity with layered textures and quietly subversive sonic exploration.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Baritone saxophonist Dave Sewelson leads this collective quartet of New York associated players Steve Swell on trombone, William Parker on bass, abd Marvin Bugalu Smith on drums, a masterful example of modern creative jazz with a strongly lyrical attitude, through two extended improvisations and ending with a shorter "Reflections"; exemplary free jazz.

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.