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![]() Gratkowski / Uchihashi / Heather / Sundland: Frank Gratkowski's Entrainment (Klanggalerie -- Austria ) Price: $18.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A stunningly powerful quartet of electric jazz captured live at the 2022 Freejazz Festival in Saarbrucken, Germany between German alto saxophonist Frank Gratkowski (Skein), Japanese guitarist Kazuhisa Uchihashi (Ground Zero, Altered States), electric bassist Dan Peter Sundland and drummer Steve Heather, performing four assertive, charged and cathartic collective improvisations. |
![]() Shipp, Matthew: The Data [2 CDs] (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $26.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Recording in the Merkin Concert Hall on a Steinway Grand Piano, New York pianist Matthew Shipp's seventeen numbered tracks of "The Data" takes listeners through a virtual history of jazz and contemporary improvisation, from beautifully lyrical moments to rapidly complex matrices of expression, balancing his approaches into an absorbing and rewarding album. |
![]() Kahn, Jason / Ulrich Krieger: Eternal City (Editions -- Switzerland ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Eccentric and engrossing electroacoustic improvisation between Jason Kahn on electronics and Ulrich Krieger using his "acoustic electronic" reed setup, performing on tenor saxophone, contrabass clarinet, and the 15th century double reed crumhorn, processed through his amplification system to create exotic textures and expressions; a truly unique set of dialogs. |
![]() Kahn, Jason / Alice Hui-Sheng Chang: I Smile When The Sound Is Singing Through The Space (Editions -- Switzerland ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The second album from Swiss improviser Jason Kahn and Taiwanese experimental vocalist Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, in eight pieces of free vocal improvisation recorded during Jason Kahn's one-month artist residency in September 2023 at Ting Shuo Hear Say in Tainan, Taiwan, an unusual collaboration of idiosyncratic interactions using a wide spectrum of vocal techniques. |
![]() Gantar, Miha: New York City [5 CDs] (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $23.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 3rd box set from Slovenian pianist & composer residing in Amsterdam, Miha Gantar, in five CDs collaborating with NYC improvisors and contemporary players performing Gantar compositions and collective improv, in configurations from a quintet, two trios including one with bassist John Hebert & drummer Eric McPherson, a duo with tenor saxophonist Zoh Amba, ending with Gantar solo. |
![]() Nabatov, Simon Quartet feat. Ralph Alessi: Lovely Music (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock "Lovely" but also free to take some wild asides, Russian-American pianist Simon Nabatov's quintet with trumpeter Ralph Allessi, saxophonist Sebastian Gille, bassist David Helm and drummer Leif Berger pivots around melodic cores from Nabatov's alluring compositions as he explores themes of love, refraining from cloying approaches through sophisticated and often edgy direction for his players. |
![]() Sery, Christelle / Jerome Descamps: Te Ti'ama (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Translating to freedom, Te Ti'ama is the duo of French trombonist Jérôme Descamps and guitarist Christelle Séry, heard in eleven succinct improvisations that create a unique vocabulary of both active and spacious dialog, from pointillistic energy to introspective rumination, both improvisers favoring peculiar sonic events and techniques for moments of humor and awe. |
![]() Lewis, James Brandon Quartet: Molecular Systematic Music: Live [2 CDs] (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $29.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The first live recordings from 2021 in Switzerland of NY saxophonist James Brandon Lewis' Molecular concept of composition, inspired by molecular biology and yielding lyrical and sophisticated structures for his players, heard in nine compositions performed with the exemplary quartet of Brad Jones on bass, Chad Taylor on drums, Aruán Ortiz on piano and Lewis on tenor sax. |
![]() Houle / Gentile / Hawkins: Fatrasies (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The transatlantic trio of UK pianist Alexander Hawkins, NY drummer Kate Gentile and Canadian reedist Francois Houle are heard in four masterful spontaneous improvisations in their live performance at the 39th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, Houle performing on clarinets (sometimes two at a time) including the early, deep-note basset clarinet. |
![]() Leap Of Faith: Scrying (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock "The Evil Clown Roster is large, currently roughly 50 players, and the level of participation varies greatly. Some excellent players are very busy and can be somewhat hard to book. One such player is Melanie Howell-Brooks, who bought my ... |
![]() Turbulence Orchestra: Jet Stream (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock One of the largest ensembles in the Boston collective roster, this exotic Turbulence Orchestra set is orchestrated with 4 brass horns--Bob Moores, Eric Dahlman & John Fugarino on trumpets, Duane Reed on double bell euphonium; two winds--David Peck on clarinets, saxophones & flute and Dennis Livingston on flute & recorders-- plus the rhythm section of Scott Samenfeld on bass & Michael Knoblach on drums. |
![]() Rempis, Dave / Tashi Dorji Duo: Gnash (Aerophonic -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Beginning their tours as a duo in 2017 and expanded into the trio Kuzu, Bhutanese improvising guitarist Tashi Dorji and Chicago saxophone improviser Dave Rempis recorded these four exotically powerful dialogs after their 2023 tour, performing at The Sugar Maple, in Milwaukee, Rempis on multiple saxophones including the soprano sax that the late Mars Williams gifted to him. |
![]() Ahmed (Thomas / Grip / Gerbal / Wright): Wood Blues [VINYL 2 LPs] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $29.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A rollicking album of hard blues from the أحمد [Ahmed] quartet of Pat Thomas on piano, Joel Grip on double bass, Antonin Gerbal on drums and Seymour Wright on alto saxophone, performing live in 2022 as part of the Counterflows Festival at The Glue Factory in Glasgow, for a hard driving, upbeat performance in front of an enthusiastic audience. |
![]() Davis, Caroline / Wendy Eisenberg: Accept When [VINYL] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Based on a growing friendship and friendly improvisations developed between 2022 & '23, New York guitarist Wendy Eisenberg and saxophonist and activist Caroline Davis developed this set of ten songs--poignant, expressive, deeply personal, unconventional, illusory--performed with drummer Greg Saunier, reminding of the early Downtown NY scene in their confident fragility; beautiful. |
![]() Pavone, Jessica: Reverse Bloom (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Four fascinating works of string intersection from New York composer and violist Jessica Pavone, recording in the studio with the trio of violinists Aimre Niemann (Du.0 (do-point-oh)) and Abby Swidler (Xanthoria Quartet), Pavone's compositions creating wonderful psychoacoustic intertwining of texture and tone that slowly and beautifully blossom. |
![]() Davis, Anthony / Kyle Motl / Kjell Nordeson: Vertical Motion [VINYL] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Bassist Kyle Motl organized this 2018 studio session with pianist Anthony Davis and drummer Kjell Nordeson in San Diego, Nordeson and Motl having worked together for several years, their session with Davis focused on the pianist's literary-influenced compositions, the synergy in their trio playing of energetic and introspective interaction absolutely exemplary. |
![]() Reed, Mike: The Separatist Party (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Transforming a sense of isolation and separation into exuberant and pointed expression, drummer Mike Reed brings together this hybrid sextet of Chicago players, including cornetist Ben LaMar Gay, poet and spoken word artist Marvin Tate (D-Settlement), and members of Bitchin Bajas (Rob Frye, Cooper Crain, and Dan Quinlivan), for 9 heartfelt, intensely passionate pieces. |
![]() Reed, Mike: The Separatist Party [VINYL] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Transforming a sense of isolation and separation into exuberant and pointed expression, drummer Mike Reed brings together this hybrid sextet of Chicago players, including cornetist Ben LaMar Gay, poet and spoken word artist Marvin Tate (D-Settlement), and members of Bitchin Bajas (Rob Frye, Cooper Crain, and Dan Quinlivan), for 9 heartfelt, intensely passionate pieces. |
![]() Gargaud, Guillaume / Eero Savela: Syyspimee (Ramble Records -- Australia ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A truly lovely and intimate duo album between French guitarist, composer and improviser Guillaume Gargaud and Finnish trumpet player Eero Savela, their second album after their 2020 release Helsinki, expanding their conversation in relaxed and filtered jazz that balances abstraction and lyricism with a natural pace and sophistication. |
![]() Edwards, John / Emil Karlsen / Dominic Lash: Action Theory (Spoonhunt -- UK ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A new take on the classic guitar, bass & drums trio line-up, bringing together three generations of improvising musicians--John Edwards on double bass, Emil Karlsen on drums and Dominic Lash, more typically a double bassist, here on a Telecaster electric guitar--in five studio recordings of great intensity and varying direction fueled by a minute attention to detail. |
![]() Carter, Daniel / Matthew Putman / Federico Ughi: Stream of a Dream (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 ![]() ![]() In Stock After participating together in many groups over more than a decade, this is the first time these three improvisers and core performers on the 577 label--Daniel Carter on saxophone, trumpet & clarinet, Matthew Putman on piano and Federico Ughi on drums--have come together as a trio, captured live at the 2024 Forward Festival in Brooklyn for three extended, dexterous conversations. |
![]() Ayler, Albert: Live Greenwich Village To Love Cry, Revisited (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Bringing together two contrasting Impulse! albums from Aylers late 60's output: the exemplary free jazz release Live Greenwich Village in two sessions with core Ayler associates, brother Donald, Michael Sampson, Henry Grimes, Beaver Harris, &c.; then Ayler's challenging attempt to reach a more popular following in Love Cry, with Milford Graves taking the drummers chair. |
![]() Little, Booker: Out Front To And Friends, Revisited (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The lesser known hard bop trumpeter Booker Little died at just 23, but left a legacy in these two sextet albums that balance lyricism with freedom — Out Front and Booker Little and Friend — the former recorded with Eric Dophy and Max Roach, and the latter with George Coleman & Julian Priester, both albums with legendary players including Ron Carter, Reggie Workman, Art Davis, Don Friedman &c.. |
![]() Borca / R. Brown / W. Parker / Workman / Nicholson / Murphy / Ibarra / Taylor-Baker: Good News Blues (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A vital member of groups led by Jimmy Lyons, Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, Joe Morris and William Parker, bassoonist Karen Borca is heard in two Vision Festival performances under her own name performing her own compositions in trio, quartet and quintet formations with luminaries Rob Brown, William Parker, Reggie Nicholson, Susie Ibarra, Todd Nicholson, Paul Murphy and Newman Taylor-Baker. |
![]() Beger / Taubenfeld / Hazan / Drake: Cosmic Waves (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two studio sessions of ebullient improv from the quartet of Israeli tenor saxophonist Albert Beger, bass clarinetist Ziv Taubenfeld, double bassist & guimbri player Shay Hazan, and Chicago drummer Hamid Drake, from hard-blowing collective interplay to introspective discourse, ending with Beger's reflective composition "Astral Visit"; a perfectly balanced album of modern jazz. |
![]() Bailey / Toyozumi: Breath Awareness (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Derek Bailey's 1987 trip to Japan yielded a number of important recordings, including a duo with Mototeru Takagi, a trio with Sabu Toyozumi & Peter Brötzmann, and this concert at IMAI-Tei with Toyozumi, one of the first generation Japanese free improvisers and the only non-American to become a member of the AACM; here in three duos and Bailey's solo "Diaphragm". |
![]() Brotzmann / Kondo / Toyozumi: Complete Link (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Trumpeter Toshinori Kondo and drummer Sabu Toyozumi, who originally worked together in the band EEU, first played with saxophonist Peter Brotzmann as a trio in 2014, this live recording at Roppongi Super Deluxe in Tokyo captured two years later in a wild collective free jazz outing, Kondo augmenting his horn with electronics, as they explode three super-charged improvisations! |
![]() Big Bend RTS & Samuel Blaser: Aquarelle (PGP RTS -- Serbia ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Originally formed in 1948 under the name Radio Belgrade Entertainment Orchestra and transformed into a jazz big band in 1954, this enduring orchestra has invited some of the most legendary jazz performers as soloists and collaborators, here with Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser for an album of Blaser original compositions & arrangements performed under the direction of Ivan Ilic. |
![]() Joonyong, Choi / Devin DiSanto : Strange Skills (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The first collaborative work by Seoul-based electronic, sound and noise artist Choi Joonyong and NY-based experimental artist Devin DiSanto in five recordings from Third Hand in Seoul, South Korea, where the two literally are heard "Taking Apart a Piano", "Wrapping a Piano in Foil and Vibrating the Case", or recording according to the title: "Spray, White Noise and a Bowling Ball". |
![]() Sunny Five (Berne / Ducret / Torn / Hoff / Smith): Candid (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A mercurial album of electronic and acoustic collective free improv from the masterful quintet of Tim Berne on alto sax, David Torn and Marc Ducret on electric guitars, Devin Hoff on electric bass and Ches Smith on drums & electronics, the band intertwining and bending sound to the evolution of their improvisations, which twist and turn in alien jazz soundscape. |
![]() Borderlands Trio (Stephan Crump / Kris Davis / Eric Mcpherson): Rewilder [2 CDs] (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $31.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Seven years into their collaboration, the creative and innovative piano trio initiated by bassist Stephan Crump with pianist Kris Davis and drummer Eric McPherson explore spontaneous free playing on a double CD of lyrically inclined, inventive interplay, borrowing from jazz, contemporary forms and sometimes funky grooves with a patiently rewarding approach to conversation. |
![]() Democ, Adrian: Piano (elsewhere -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Three meditative pieces by Eastern European composer Adrian Demoč, recorded at Czech Radio Ostrava and performed by Miroslav Beinhauer: 'Ma fin est mon commencement' and 'Gebrechlichkeit' which both provide flexibility to the performer; 'A Luca Marenzio ll', a reinterpretation of a previous trio work pivoting around the cello, uniquely interpreted here by Beinhauer. |
![]() Reinhard, Samuel : For Piano and Sho (elsewhere -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two studies in the elongation of piano decay complemented by the harmonics and texture of the shō (a Japanese free reed instrument) using stillness and repetition in a two part extended work by NY-based Swiss comoposer Samuel Reinhard, performed by Copenhagen pianist Paul Jacob Fossum and Japanese Gagaku musician Haruna Higashida; an album of beautifully meditative pools of sound. |
![]() Halvorson's, Mary Amaryllis: Cloudward (Nonesuch -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The second release from NY guitarist Mary Halvorson's Amaryllis band of Halvorson, Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O'Farrill (trumpet), with Laurie Anderson on violin featured on one track, for eight exquisitely optimistic, diverse and genre-merging Halvorson compositions. |
![]() Leap Of Faith: Graviton Propagates (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock With two trumpeters--space trumpeter Bob Moores and slide trumpeter John Fugarino — and the exotic guzheng work of Jiaxin Wan — this edition of the Boston Based collective Leap of Faith with David Peck on reeds, winds, synth and percussion and Glynis Lomon on cello and aquasonic, hearkens to their Leap of Faith Chinese Orchestra as the quintet pursues Peck's broad palette improv concept. |
![]() Turbulence Orchestra: Gust Loads (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Turbulence, the extended horn section for the Boston-based collective Leap of Faith Orchestra using label leader David Peck's Broad Palate Concept for large interactive improvisations, here in a 2023 session with three trumpets, trombone, two flutes, two saxophones, the Evil clown percussion arsenal, and two performers using real time signal processing. |
![]() Dean, Elton (w/ Dunmall / Watts / Rogers / Levin): Elton Dean's Unlimited Saxophone Company (Ogun -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Elton Dean's 1989 performance at the Covent Garden Jazz Saxophone Festival in London is reissued, bringing to light the powerful performance from saxophonists Dean on alto sax & saxello, Paul Dunmall on tenor & baritone saxophones, Trevor Watts on alto saxophone, Simon Pickard on tenor saxophone, plus the rhythm section of Paul Rogers on double bass and Tony Levin on drums. |
![]() Salter Ensemble (Belorukov / Harnik / Kocher / Grom / Beiner / Klammer / Kutin / Lang / Tomazin / Badrutt): Tri Dela (Bruit Editions / Zavod Sploh -- Slovenia ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Operating on the border between free improvisation and composition, the international electro-acoustic ensemble Šalter Ensemble present three incredible works composed by members of the ensemble -- Tomaž Grom; Jonas Kocher & Gaudenz Badrutt; and Elisabeth Harnik -- developed with the full ensemble, incorporating jazz, free improvisation, electronics & sound art. |
![]() Oxley, Tony Quintet: Angular Apron (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock British percussionist Tony Oxley returned to this piece multiple times after debuting it in the early 1970s, drawing on both European improv and contemporary composed music, heard in this previously unreleased 1992 live performance with the superb quintet of legendary trumpeter & flugelhornist Manfred Schoof, UK pianist Pat Thomas, US bassist Sirone and UK saxophonist Larry Stabbins. |
![]() Musicworks: #148 Summer 2024 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Summer 2024 issue of Canada's new music magazine, with composer & sound designer Stefana Fratila on the cover; plus articles on Evan Parker & Matthew Wright; Big Ears review; Filipino-Canadian composer Juro Kim Feliz; Brunswick composer & sound artist Charles Harding; the Canadian Afro-Cuban duo behind the ensemble Okan; plus album reviews, essays and a CD of tracks from artists in the magazine. |
![]() Euro Herc: Segnali [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Italy ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock "Turning discarded sounds into a form of stumbling poetry", Christian Schiefner (aka Chemiefaserwerk) and Michal Fundowicz (aka Turmeric Acid) use cassette tapes, objects and field recordings (eg. a kitchen timer, a kalimba pattern, a Polish instructional tape, Croatian field recording) to create fascinating transformations of sonic environments in two engaging aural journeys. |
![]() Jackson, Tom / T.J. Borden: Parr's Ditch (Confront -- UK ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock London clarinetist Tom Jackson, active in both free improvisation and contemporary classical music, meets with cellist Tyler J. Borden, who concentrates on the extremes of his instrument through unusual and extended techniques, interpret one of London's "lost rivers"--Parr's Ditch--in three extended, interpretative improvisations of powerful impressions. |
![]() Leap Of Faith: Scrying [Used Item] (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $6.00 ![]() ![]() In Stock CORNER CUT ON SLEEVE |
![]() Lisle, Andrew / Dirk Serries: Vectorial Spaces [CD EP] (Confront -- UK ) Price: $11.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A three-part construction of intense and highly textured drone, waves of sound and spacial tension through the innovative use of snare, cymbals and a bowed acoustic guitar, from the duo of chameleonic Belgian improviser and experimental guitarist Dirk Serries (vidnaObmana, Fear Falls Burning, A New Wave of Jazz) and collaborative UK drummer/percussionist Andrew Lisle. |
![]() Ristic, Manja / Joana Guerra / Veronica Cerrotta: Slani pejzazi [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Italy ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock TSSS Tapes brought together these three performers -- Belgrade violinist and sound artist Manja Ristić; Lisbon exploratory improviser and cellist Joana Guerra; and Argentine pianist and sound artist living in Rio de Janeiro, Veronica Cerrotta -- developing these two intensely detailed compositions of acoustic performance, field recordings and acousmatic sound. |
![]() Sea Trio, The (Satoh / Yoshihide / Turner): Live in Munich & Bonn [2 CDs] (Confront -- UK ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Their second recording after their 2015 trio album Live at Hall Egg Farm on Doubtmusic, the now properly named Sea Trio of Masahiko Satoh on piano, Otomo Yoshihide on electric guitar and Roger Turner on drums & percussion reunite for two impressive 2023 concerts of masterful and often fiery free improvisation, captured in Munich and Bonn, Germany. |