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![]() Friends & Neighbors (Roligheten / Johansson / Gronberg / Rune Strom / Ostvang): The Earth Is # (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Referencing 60s free jazz (the band's name is from an Ornette Coleman album) and structuring their tunes with melodic heads that develop into intricate structures giving the players room for impressive soloing, this is the 5th album from the Scandinavian quintet of Andre Roligheten (winds), Thomas Johansson (trumpets), Oscar Gronberg (piano), Jon Rune Strom (bass), and Tollef Ostvang (drums). |
![]() Block Ensemble (Ratkje / Joh / Pernille / Ingvaldsen / Rasmussent ...): Hugs and Bugs (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Conceived by saxophonist Kirstoffer Berre Alberts and Lasse Marhaug, who composed this large acoustic work for strings, percussion, blowing instruments, pipes (organ and accordion) and vocals, soliciting solo recordings created in isolation during the pandemic which they layered and blocked in the studio to create these two remarkable works of eccentric timbre, motion & pitch. |
![]() Ballrogg (Ellerhusen-Holm / Arntzen / Stackenas): Rolling Ball [VINYL] (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $22.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The Norwegian trio Ballrog, which started as the duo of Klaus Ellerhusen-Holm on clarinet and Roger Arntzen on double bass, then expanded with guitarist Ivar Grydeland, who is replaced by guitarist David Stackenäus, a perfect choice for the lyrical chamber approach of intertwining lines and fluid melodic statement, with a sense of "free chamber americana"; beautiful. |
![]() Alves, Pedro Melo Omniae Large Ensemble: Lumina (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Three expansive and stunning performances at Centro Cultural de Vila Flor as part of the Guimaraes Jazz 2020 festival by drummer and percussionist Pedro Melo Alves' expanded 23-piece Omniae Ensemble directed by Pedro Carneiro, adding electronics, voice and a diverse orchestration that gives his band both power but also flexibility to express an astonishing array of moods. |
![]() Zucker, Gabriel & The Delegation: Leftover Beats from the Edge of Time [2 CDs] (ESP-Disk -- USA ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Without bowing to genre restrictions, Gabriel Zucker's indie jazz orchestra The Delegation combines free jazz, chamber forms, avant song structures and experimental layering & transitions, as his large work in four sections of three movements each, explores time and the competing impulses of a backwards-looking nostalgia and a forwards-looking futurist belief in progress; innovative & stunning! |
![]() Lussier / D'Orion / Kuster / Tetreault : Printemps 2021 (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock This mercurial and impressive 2021 Victoriaville Festival concert brought together improvisers from three duos as a quartet: guitarist Rene Lussier, who has a long running duo with turntablist Martin Tetreault; Erick d'Orion on computer and electronics, who also has a experimental sound duo with Tetrault; and frequently collaborator with Lussier, drummer Robbie Kuster. |
![]() Crazy Doberman: "Everyone Is Rolling Down A Hill" ... [VINYL] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The Indiana collective Crazy Doberman in a 15-performer configuration including core members Tim Gick and Drew Davis, merging jazz and indescribable approaches to free improvisation with a mix of acoustic & electronic instruments, building their pieces from mysteriously cantankerous rumination to ecstatic grooves and much in-between. |
![]() Shelton, Skeeter / Hamid Drake: Sclupperbep [VINYL] (Two Rooms Records -- USA ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock After meeting in Detroit when tenor saxophonist & flutist Skeeter Shelton subbed for a sick player in a duo concert with drummer/percussionist Hamid Drake, the two found a bond through Shelton's father, Ajaramu Shelton, who had been one of Drake's mentor at Chicago's AACM; the concert was so successful that this recording was immediately planned, based around many of Shelton's themes. |
![]() Fraser, Nick Quartet: If There Were No Opposites (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock First recording in 2012 as a trio with saxophonist Tony Malaby as a guest, 9 years later Toronto drummer Nick Fraser's quartet with Malaby as a permanent member, Rob Clutton on double bass and Andrew Downing on cello show their long collaboration's strength in a set of improvisations plus compositions for Decidedly Jazz Danceworks and the DJD production, Juliet & Romeo. |
![]() Cherry, Don: Complete Communion & Symphony For Improvisers, Revisited (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Following a 1964 Albert Ayler tour, trumpeter Don Cherry remained in Europe, working on new concepts of improvising based on form itself, developing his concepts with saxophonist Gato Barbieri, vibraphonist Karl Berger & bassist J.F. Jenny Clark, composing two brilliant albums: 1966's Communion with Barbieri, Henry Grimes & Ed Blackwell; and in 1967 Symphony for Improvisers as a septet. |
![]() Perelman, Ivo (Duos w/ Burrell / Crispell / Ortiz / Parks / Courvoisie / Fernandez / Taborn / Sanchez / Iyer): Brass And Ivory Tales [9-CD BOX SET] (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Price: $104.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Referring to the brass saxophone and the piano's ivory keys, Brazilian saxophonist based in New York City Ivo Perelman celebrates his 60th birthday with this 9-CD set of diverse approaches to sax & piano duos, performed with some of world's finest improvising pianists: Dave Burrell, Marilyn Crispell, Aaron Parks, Augusti Fernandez, Craig Taborn, Angelica Sanchez and Vijay Iyer. |
![]() Remote Viewers, The : The Remote Code [3 CDs] (Remote Viewers -- UK ) Price: $21.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Three CDs of three concerts at London's Iklecktik Club, presenting primarily compositions by David Petts plus collective improvisations, from Adrian Northover, David Petts, Caroline Kraabel and Sue Lynch on saxophones, John Edwards on bass and Rosa Theodora on piano, with Northover, Edwards & Petts adding percussion and electronics to their cryptically rich music. |
![]() Ward, Alex: Gated (Discus -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A stunning solo album showing the widely diverse interests of UK clarinetist and guitarist Alex Ward, recording in the studio in 10 multi-track pieces using clarinets, saxophones, guitars, keyboards, electric bass and assorted software instruments in a mix of pre-composed and improvised approaches, burning the spectrum from contemplative to aggressively assertive performance. |
![]() Tippett, Keith / Matthew Bourne: Aeolian [2 CDs] (Discus -- UK ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two generations of remarkable pianists--Keith Tippets and Matthew Bourne--performed a series of two-piano concerts between 2017 and 2019, also recording in the studio, as heard in this 2-CD release, the first a set of consequential piano duos recorded at Leeds Conservatoire in 2019, the 2nd disc a live performance at Daylight Music at Union Chapel, London, Tippetts' final public performance. |
![]() Zorn, John: Meditations On The Tarot (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The followup to John Zorns' 2019 CD The Hierophant, exploring the single Tarot card of the same name, this album performed by pianist Brian Marsella's Trio with Kenny Wollesen on drums and Trevor Dunn on bass, continues Zorn's exploration into the mystery of the occult through the remaining 13 cards, rendered as lyrical and sophisticated jazz compositions. |
![]() Smith, Wadada Leo / Henry Kaiser / Alex Varty: Pacifica Koral Reef (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 ![]() ![]() In Stock Interpreting trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith's Ankhrasmation graphic score--the term joining the Egyptian symbol for life, the Ethiopian word for leader and the universal term for mother--Smith and guitarists Alex Varty & Henry Kaiser use the rich combination of visual cues and musical notation to record this rapturous and unduplicable album of profound and engaging improvisation. |
![]() Umlaut Big Band: Mary's Ideas [2 CDs] (Umlaut Records -- Sweden / France / Germany ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Rare and newly discovered works from jazz composer and pianist Mary Lou Williams performed by the Umlaut Big Band in their series of portraits of forgotten jazz artist, here taking a broad look at the prodigious career of this essential and gifted pianist, composer & arranger, whose influence on swing and early be-bop deserves this fitting and inclusive overview. |
![]() ISM: Japanese Flower [VINYL] (Umlaut Records -- Sweden / France / Germany ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The ISM trio brings together Berlin, UK and Paris improvisers Antonin Gerbal (drums), Pat Thomas (piano) and Joel Grip (double bass) for their second album since 2015, recording live at Tokyo's Knuttel House in 2018 for two extended improvisations, collective pieces that unfold from lyrical beginning into tightly packed exchanges of exhilarating blooms. |
![]() Le Trio Expansible: L'Atelier de musique experimentale [CD w/ BOOK] (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Price: $23.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Exploring the history of improvisation in Montreal, Tour de Bras issues this unreleased 1973 recording from Le Trio Expansible of Yves Bouliane (Ensemble Supermusique) on double bass, Bernard Gagnon on guitar and Robert Marcel Lepage (Ambiances Magnetiques) on clarinet, including archival documents from the Experimental Music Workshop with texts by co-founder Raymond Gervais. |
![]() Schmoliner, Ingrid / Hamid Drake: Awon Ona [2 CDs] (Klanggalerie -- Germany ) Price: $22.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock An outstanding pair of concerts from Austrian pianist & vocalist Igrid Schmoliner and Chicago drummer & percussionist Hamid Drake, Schmoliner coming from a compositional/avant background, Drake merging jazz and world approaches to his playing, together creating something wonderfully informed and exciting, making their complex interplay radiantly lucid to their audience. |
![]() Yanagawa, Homei: Homura (Armageddon Nova -- Japan ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two extended pieces of solo free improvisation from Japanese alto saxophonist Homei Yanagawa, aka Yoshinori Yanagawa, who regularly performs solo, releasing this album 30 years after his first solo album in 1991, Ground and Figure, here recording in the studio for confidently active and diverse approaches to solo expression; engaging and absorbing work. |
![]() Le GGRIL: Sommes [3 CDs] (Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc -- Canada ) Price: $24.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A magnificent triple-CD set from the Quebec creative ensemble GGRIL performing the works of Frederic Blondy, Robert Marcel Lepage, Lisa Cay Miller, Malcolm Goldstein, Caroline Kraabel, Allison Cameron, Martin Arnold, Lori Freedman, Michel F. Cote, Jean Derome and Gus Garside, a significant and beautifully packaged release from one of Canada's most important new music groups. |
![]() Oki, Itaru Quartet: Live At Jazz Spot Combo 1975 [VINYL] (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $23.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Late Japanese free jazz trumpeter and flute player Itaru Oki--one of the significant and early free jazz players in Japan in the 1970s, moving to France in the mid-70s to seek more opportunities to play--recorded this concert at Jazz Spot Combon as part of his farewell tour, performing with winds player Yoshiaki Fujikawa, bassist Keiki Midorikawa ad drummer Hozumi Tanaka. |
![]() Mockunas, Liudas / Christian Windfeld: Pacemaker [VINYL LINOCUT ART] (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $32.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock An unusual sax and drum duo between Lithuanian saxophonist Liudas Mockunas, here performing on contrabass and prepared clarinet, tenor & soprano saxophones, with Christian Windfeld performing on prepared drum kit, drums, drums and cymbals, in two side-long improvisations, the first focusing on sonic subtlety, the second a rompingly idiosyncratic and energetic set. |
![]() Gjerstad, Frode / Kent Carter / John Stevens: Detail-90 [VINYL] (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $23.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The second incarnation of the Detail trio of saxophonist Frode Gjerstad and drummer John Stevens with Kent Cart taking the role of double bass, is heard in this studio recording from 1990 at NRK-studio in Stavanger, Norway, a superb example of the nearly telepathic freedom four years of playing together afforded them, as heard in two extended, energetic improvisations. |
![]() Vicente, Luis / Vasco Trilla: Made of Mist (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 ![]() ![]() In Stock Mist and mystery in pensive and meticulous improvisation from the Portuguese duo of trumpeter Luis Vicente and percussionist Vasco Trilla, their 2nd studio album after their 2019 Clean Feed release, exploring textures and timbres through extended techniques and detailed percussive interaction, as confident expressions rise and submerges in a wonderfully abstracted haze. |
![]() Allum, Jennifer / John Butcher / Ute Kanngiesser / Eddie Prevost: Sounds of Assembly (Meenna -- Japan ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Assembled in London to improvise music for Stewart Morgan's film Eddie Prevost's Blood, this release adds much more material beyond the soundtrack, in a superb example of free and charged creative improvisation seeking unique combinations of expression, from Jennifer Allum on violin, John Butcher on saxophones, Ute Kanngiesser on cello and Eddie Prevost on percussion. |
![]() Garcia, Violeta / Emilie Girard-Charest: Impermanence (Inexhaustible Editions/Tour De Bras -- Slovenia ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Slippery confluence to taut string friction in the duo of Argentinian cellist & improviser Violeta Garcia and Quebec cellist Emilie Girard-Charest, both bringing impressive improvisational resumes and classical grounding to their uniquely informed dialogs, heard in a five part album exploring a remarkable range of technical skill and expression. |
![]() Fujii, Satoko: Piano Music (Libra -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A stunning sound collage made from recorded fragments of Fujii's studio piano, captured inside and out using traditional piano sonorities and preparations that often microscopically detail the instrument, then edited into two electroacoustic compositions of startling and unexpected expansiveness and wonder; a unique and fascinating release in Fujii's large oeuvre. |
![]() Flying Luttenbachers, The: Negative Infinity [VINYL] (ugEXPLODE / GOD Records -- USA ) Price: $22.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Adhering to the tenets of "Dissonance, Speed, Aggression, Weirdness, and Singularity", Weasel Walter leads his Flying Luttenbachers in their 15th album of no wave, punk jazz & brutal prog, Weasel switching to guitar and yielding the drum chair to Sam Ospovat, as the band rips through ridiculously complex twists and turns, even taking on Albert Ayler's strange '66/'67 musical suites. |
![]() Ongon: In Dispersione [VINYL] (Loup editions -- Italy ) Price: $20.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Antonio Bertoni's solo Ongon project, trying to remove the mistreatment that the Moroccan Gnawa Music suffers due to the heavy western productions, as he performs on the trance-inducing bass instrument guimbri, his hypnotic and exotic music set into a rich weaving of electronics, samples and concrete synthesis built ad hoc by Bertoni himself; reference Natural Information Society. |
![]() Ongon: Exuvia [WHITE VINYL] (Loup editions -- Italy ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock String player Antonio Bertoni (Leo Records, Astral Sprits) in his solo Ongon project seeks to bring back the shamanic elements of Moroccan Gnawa Music, particularly using the trance-inducing bass instrument guimbri, his hypnotic and exotic music set into a rich weaving of electronics, samples and concrete synthesis built ad hoc by Bertoni himself. |
![]() Futterman, Joel: Creation Series [5CD BOX SET] (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $49.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Five major works in a Creation Series concept from pianist Joel Futterman, each disc presenting from 2 to 4 parts in an ambitious and accomplished set of solo improvisations that start simply with monophonics and evolve into increasingly complex and inspired works of incredible creative control; a masterful release reflecting a lifetime of innovation and inventiveness. |
![]() Rivers, Sam Quartet (feat. Jerry Byrd / Rael Wesley Grant / Steve Ellington) : Archive series. Volume 5 - Undulation (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock During the early 80s saxophonist and wind improviser Sam Rivers formed his quartet around electric instruments, with the core rhythm section of drummer Steve Ellington and electric bass guitarist Rael Wesley Grant, the other lead instrument on guitar during that time, sometimes with Kevin Eubanks, and on this previously unreleased, superb live performance in Florence, Italy, guitarist Jerry Byrd. |
![]() Total Music Association: Walpurgisnacht (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The first two tracks of this album reissue & remaster the 1971 self-released album by the German free jazz band Total Music Association of Hans-Jorg Hussong on (saxophones), Wilfried Eichorn (clarinet & sax), Andreas Boje (trombone), Erich Schroder (viola), Helmut Zimmer (piano), Matthias Boje (double bass) and Rudi Theilmann (drums), along with a 1988 studio session. |
![]() Takagi, Mototeru Quartet: Live At Little John, Yokohama 1999 (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Three reed & wind players and a drummer from Japanese saxophonist Mototeru Takagi's collective free improvising quartet with fellow saxophonist Susumu Kongo, Nao Takeuchi on tenor sax plus flute & bass clarinet, and drummer Shota Koyama, recorded live in 1999 at Little John in Yokohama, Japan for three well-paced conversations of weaving winds and rhythmic intervention. |
![]() Oki, Itaru Quartet: Live At Jazz Spot Combo 1975 (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Late Japanese free jazz trumpeter and flute player Itaru Oki--one of the significant and early free jazz players in Japan in the 1970s, moving to France in the mid-70s to seek more opportunities to play--recorded this concert at Jazz Spot Combon as part of his farewell tour, performing with winds player Yoshiaki Fujikawa, bassist Keiki Midorikawa ad drummer Hozumi Tanaka. |
![]() Mezei, Szilard Tubass Quintet: Rested Turquoise (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Four double basses and a tuba, recorded in an arc to elucidate the sound of each instrumentalist, in Serbian improviser and composer Szilárd Mezei's deep-rooted Tubass Quintet, Mezei taking one of the double bass roles in place of his typical viola & violin work, as his compositions bring the deep instruments into both foundational and melodic territory. |
![]() Amado, Rodrigo Motion Trio / Alexander von Schlippenbach: The Field (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Portuguese tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado's Motion Trio with cellist Miguel Mira and drummer Gabriel Ferrandini in his bands 7th full album, recorded live at the 2019 Vilnius Jazz Festival in Lithuania performing with special guest, pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach, for an extended improvisation of masterfully evolving changes and dynamics. |
![]() Chrysakis, Thanos / Dawid Frydryk / Edward Lucas / Sue Lynch / Adrian Northover : Five Shards (Aural Terrains -- UK / EU ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The edges of electroacoustic improviser and composer Thanos Chrysakis' shards are sharpened by the quartet of Dawid Frydryk on trumpet & electronics, Edward Lucas on trombone, Sue Lynch on flute & tenor saxophone and Adrian Northover on soprano saxophone, as Chryaskis generates evocative sonic environments over which the four horns mysteriously interact. |
![]() Kolibri, Mara / Fredi Proll: Primus 17 (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A diverse set of conversations between Austrian improvisers, drummer/percussionist Fredi Pröll (Trio Now!, Lull) and free vocalist Mara Kolibri, recording in the studio for seven concise and far-ranging dialogs, from cantankerous interactions to controlled incoherence of absurdly implied vocalization punctuated with creative percussive reaction, often returning to lyrical jazz-influenced moments. |
![]() PLASMA 8 (Reuter / Krennerich): Porphyr (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Active since 2008, the PLASMA 8 duo of German pianist & vocalist Thomas Reuter and saxophonist Andreas Krennerich explore the geological deposits of porphyr, a hard igneous rock containing crystals, through free improvisation, expressed here in 20 concise interactions of piano keys & strings, soprano & baritone saxophones plus unusual vocal utterance. |
![]() Sung, You Jin / Vincent Laju: Kairos (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Exotic improvisation from Korean musician based in Berlin, You Jin Sung, performing on the gayageum, a large traditional Korean plucked zither sometimes augmented with electronics, in a duo with French cellist Vincent Laju, both performers using tension and space contrasted with moments of intensity through six improvisations of cross-cultural, contemporary conversation. |
![]() Zorn, John: Nostradamus: The Death of Satan (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The Simulacrum trio of John Medeski on organ, Kenny Grohowski on drums and Matt Hollenberg on guitar, with prior releases Inferno, Unspeakable Depravity..., Beyond Good And Evil and Baphomet, continue composer John Zorn's investigation on the dark side of swinging jazz merged with rock & compositional attitudes, as he explores the written works of Antonin Artaud. |
![]() Medeski, John: Crawlspace (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Music with "no restrictions, no guidelines, no imposed intention, no expectation" from keyboardist John Medeski, in an album that evolves static noise into rich and fascinating soundscapes, a blend of improvisation and composition using electric and acoustic keyboards, synthesizers, mellotron and early electronic gear, masterfully unfurled in riveting ways. |
![]() Harriott, Joe Quintet: Free Form & Abstract Revisited [2 CDs] (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two essential early 60s release from famed UK saxophonist Joe Harriott, an innovator bringing free jazz concepts to the British audience with his quintet of Shake Kane on trumpet & flugelhorn, Pat Smythe on piano, Coleridge Goode on double bass and Phil Seaman on drums, referencing the new forms of jazz from US artists like Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman. |
![]() Birchall, David / Adam Fairhall / Michael Perrett / Yoni Silver / Otto Willberg: Aggregate Glows In The Cold (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Three fully free studio improvisations recorded in Manchester from the quintet of David Birchall on electric guitar, Adam Fairhall on accordion, Michael Perrett on bass clarinet, Yoni Silver on bass clarinet and Otto Willberg on double bass, all masterful performers using a wealth of creative approaches to create unusual motion in rich sonic interaction. |
![]() Liuzzi / Massaro / La Volpe / Martusciello: Elica Multisensory Improvisation (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A fascinating Italian project using improv techniques on voice, bass clarinet, prepared guitars & banjos and live electronics, allowing each musician to generate sounds by using their senses to listen and reflect on the world around them, from Elio Martusciello (live electronics), Chiara Liuzzi (voice), Francesco Massaro (reeds & electronics) & Adolfo La Volpe (guitars & objects). |
![]() Rodrigues / Carvalho / Rodrigues / Valinho: Eclipse (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Emulating a solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse in two evolving improvised chamber works that take the quartet of Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, Mariana Carvalho on piano, Joao Valinho on percussion and Ernesto Rodrigues (switching from viola to harp & deploying electronics) through mysterious soundwork that move from darkness to light in detailed and subtle ways. |
![]() Gardin, Per / Vasco Trilla: Singularity (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Swedish saxophonist Per Gärdin on alto and soprano, and Spanish percussionist Vasco Trilla performing primarily on timpani & gongs, along with clock chimes, metronomes and a drum set, recording in the studio between 2020 & 2021 in both Stockholm and Barcelona, the two favoring spacious environments for their improvisations as they expand and dissipate energy in perceptive ways. |
![]() PEK Solo : Semantic Notions [3 CDs] (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $29.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A mammoth undertaking by Boston multi-instrumentalist David Peck, 3 CDs of studio improvisations about language, one part per CD, performed on a vast array of reeds, percussive instruments and unusual sound sources, with drummer Yuri Zbitnoff joining for intermediate mixes, resulting in a multi-layered and unique sonic universe of depth and dexterity. |
![]() Grid Mesh (Thewes / Schubert / Willers / Kellers): Four (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Though listing four tracks, this is an indexed continuous concert from the German Grid Mesh quartet of Christof Thewes on trombone, Frank Paul Schubert on alto & soprano saxophones, Andreas Willers on electric guitar and Willi Kellers on drums & percussion, performing at Spielraum Schiffweiler-Heiligenwald in Germany in 2020 for a wildly buidling concert of free collective force. |
![]() Omegatre (Colafiglio / Romano / Cicala): Terre Rare (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Since 2005 Italian guitarist Tommaso Colafiglio has led the Omegatre trio, composing and arranging all works on this album with drummer & percussionist Leo Cicala, peformed with Paolo Romano on double bass and electric bass, presenting seven electric jazz compositions that flow with the sophistication and grace each brings through years of collaborative and independent evolution. |
![]() EUPHORIUM_freakestra : Soundz Offfe Drzk Wahuh [2 CDs] (Euphorium -- Germany ) Price: $18.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock In many ways a prelude to the EUPHORIUM_freakestra to come, this double album of Oliver Schwerdt's open-minded ea-improv big band was recorded in Eisenach, Germany in 2000, in Bellers, Germany in 2001 and finally in Leipzig in 2001 & 2002; despite the vastly different band configuration the concepts of the Freakestra are clear in these spectacular recordings. |
![]() EUPHORIUM_freakestra: Dal Ngai (Euphorium -- Germany ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock An early EUPHORIUM_freakestra performance recording at naTo, in Leipzig, Germany, in 2002 and 2003, in an 11-piece electroacoustic band that includes electric guitar, a full brass and horn front end, synth, electric bass, drummers including Gunter Baby Sommer and a percussionist, in a great blend of funky electronics and powerful free improvisation. |
![]() New Old Luten Quintet: Tumult! (Euphorium -- Germany ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A tumultuously wonderful free jazz epic recorded in Leipzig in 2013 from original New Old Luten founders, saxophonist & clarinetist Enrst-Ludwig Petrowsky and drummer Christian Lillinger, the band configured as a quintet with Elan Pauer taking on the piano role plus percussives, and the dual and powerful double bassists John Edwards and Robert Landfermann. |
![]() New Old Luten Quintet: Krawall! (Euphorium -- Germany ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock One year after the 2013 recording by New Old Luten Quintet, Tumult!, the exceptional free jazz grouping of Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky on sax & clarinet, Elan Pauer on grand piano & percussion, John Edwards & Robert Landfermann on double bass and Christian Lillinger on drums, took the stage at naTo, in Leipzig to record this energetic and strongly percussive followup. |
![]() Schwerdt, Oliver: Prestige / No Smoking [2CDs] (Euphorium -- Germany ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A double CD of pianist, Euphorium label-leader and EUPHORIUM_freakestra leader Oliver Schwerdt in a double CD of solo recordings in the studio in Leipzig, 3 extended improvisations and 1 concise piece titled "Prestige" I & II and "No Smoking" I & II, remarkably concentrative work displaying an acute and extraordinarily inventive approach to improvisation. |
![]() Schwerdt, Oliver: Storming Bauhaus [2 CDs] (Euphorium -- Germany ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Eschewing his many monikers (Birg Borgenthal, Elan Pauer and Ra Ra da Boff) pianist Oliver Schwerdt steps away from EUPHORIUM_freakestra, uses his given name, and takes the stage of the Bauhaus building in Dessau where such legends as Fred van Hove and Alexander von Schlippenbach have played, to record these four exemplary and extended, kinetic & free solo piano improvisations. |
![]() New Old Luten Septet: Remmidemmi! (Euphorium -- Germany ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock This evolutionary project titled as "loud, colorful hustle & bustle" started with the trio of wind & reed player Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, pianist Elan Pauer and drummer Christian Lillinger (Radau!), then expanded to a quintet with two double bassists-John Edwards & Robert Landfermann--and here as a septet with saxophonist Urs Leimgruber and trumpeter Axel Dšrner. |
![]() New Old Luten Quintet: Rabatz! (Euphorium -- Germany ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The second step in this evolutionary project, the title referring to "noisy bustle; Riot" started with the trio of wind & reed player Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, pianist Elan Pauer and drummer Christian Lillinger (Radau!), then expanded to this quintet with two double bassists-John Edwards & Robert Landfermann--captured live at naTo/ in Leipzig, Germany in 2015. |
![]() Euphorium_freakestra: Grande Casino [3 CDS] (Euphorium -- Germany ) Price: $24.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A truly diverse set of improvisations, from solo work to large scale ensemble, as Euphorium_Freakestra are joined by European Free Jazz legends, drummer Baby Sommer and double bassist Barry Guy, in a band with leader & pianist Oliver Schwerdt, plus Bertrand Denzler, Burkard Beins, John Eckhardt, Pierre-Antoine Badaroux, Patrick Schanze, Daniel Beilschmidt & Freidrich Kettlitz. |
![]() Schwerdt, Oliver / Baby Sommer / Barry Guy: One For My Baby And One More For The Bass [2 CDs] (Euphorium -- Germany ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A trio sounding much larger than its three contributors--Oliver Schwerdt on grand piano, percussion & little instruments, Baby Sommer on drums, cymbals & percussion and Barry Guy on double bass--captured in concert at naTo, in Leipzig, Germany in 2019 for a joyful and assertive album of collective free improv that merges contemporary, free and jazz idioms seamlessly. |
![]() Genovese, Leo / Mariano Otero / Sergio Verdinelli: Trio Sin Tiempo: Ritmos de Agua (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 ![]() ![]() In Stock A lyrical piano trio album from three seasoned Argentinian-born improvising musicians -- Leo Genovese on piano, Mariano Otero on bass and Sergio Verdinelli on drums -- each contributing compositions to the album, along with one piece by Luis Alberto Spinetta, with whom Verdinelli has performed extensively; a lovely and sophisticated album of modern jazz. |
![]() Carter, Daniel / Matthew Shipp: Dark Matrix (Not Two -- Poland ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A meeting in the studio of long-time friends and collaborators, pianist Matthew Shipp and Daniel Carter performing on alto, tenor & soprano saxes, clarinet & trumpet, having played together in many groupings this is only their first duo recording, in a thoughtful set of free improvisations with an innate lyricism and beautiful sense of pacing; masterful and evolved. |
![]() Zorn, John (Lage / Frisell / Riley): Virtue (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Following up "Nove Cantici Per Francesco D'Assisi" with the three acoustic guitars of Bill Frisell, Gyan Riley and Julian Lage, "Virtue" is inspired by Julian of Norwich, one of the founders of Christian mysticism, portrayed through twelve succinct Zorn compositions of beautifully lyrical contrapuntal interplay and transcendental reflection. |
![]() Dahlgren, Chris & Lexicon: Mystic Maze (Jazzwerkstatt -- Germany ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock 12 compositions from bassist Dahlgren in a quintet including Gebhard Ullman performing works using a compositional matrix system and narrative from critiques written against Bela Bartok. |
![]() Eriksen, Espen Trio: Never Ending January (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Since 2007 the Norwegian jazz piano trio of Espen Eriksen (piano), Lars Tormod Jenset (double bass) and Andreas Bye (drums) have released three albums of lyrical and beautifully paced music, evolving their style through tours and festivals. |
![]() Nebbia, Camila / Angelica Sanchez: In Another Land, Another Dream [Used Item] (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Reordered on 1/10/2025 An intimate duo at Brooklyn's IBeam performance venue in November 2023 between visiting Argentine-born, Berlin-based tenor saxophonist Camila Nebbia and New York pianist Angelica Sanchez, performing six freely improvised and sophisticated dialogs that highlight the implicit lyricism of each player and the finesse of their virtuosic skills in subtle expression. |
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