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SHIHAB SAHIB
2020. Sahib Shihab was, in many ways, the Thelonious Monk of the baritone saxophone. Like Monk, he was an uncompromising individualist with an idiosyncratic, often quirky, approach to improvisation. And, in fact, Sh..
HUNTER RANDY
2016. Currently the jazz saxophone instructor at Emory University in Atlanta, Randy Hunter has been a professional musician and private saxophone instructor for more than twenty-five years. He authors a series of..
DEIRDRE CARTWRIGHT GROUP
2008. Tune up Turn on Stretch out, is a return to a more guitar centred sound for my group. Yes it's a case of me me me! Well with fantastic playing from Alison on double bass, Buster on drums and some original voca..
MAYERHOFER ANDREAS DIRT STREAM
2010. The 'chamber jazz' ensemble Dirt Stream II is 'working' on Puccini´s opera 'La Boh?me': being aware of neglecting the vocal parts, the arranger/composer Andreas Mayerhofer, tries an instrumental approach to t..
GASSELSBERGER MARTIN AND LINEC
2010. With the recording of the Cd „DEVIL MAY CARE“, Martin Gasselsberger and Hermann Linecker have re-animated a common project after quite a break (while). A long-term musical friendship connects these upper-austr..
NEHAN
2024. Nehan is a Japanese free improvisation and avant-garde rock quintet formed in August 2022. Their performances are initiated by a 9hz brain wave emitted from a testee who has been brought into a deep meditative..
TILLI LUCA
2024. This solo album could have been titled '16 Caprices for cello.' As in Paganini's 'Caprices,' all the techniques and virtuosity of the classical tradition are used here, expanded and enriched by the sounds and ..
BERTHER MARTINA / PHILIP
2023. Martina Berther and Philipp Schlotter have been active in pop and jazz music respectively, they played in bands and explored the outer fringes of sound art or composing music for film. Their first joint album,..
EMBER
2023. Here available on the CD-format, 'August In March' is the third full-length by the Brooklyn-based jazz trio featuring saxophonist/trumpeter Caleb Wheeler Curtis, bassist Noah Garabedian and drummer Vincent Spe..
OTWINOWSKI / SIKORSKI / W
2023. The trio is a perfect composition for broadly understood improvised music, sufficient in terms of a minimalistic approach and generally reflecting to the maximum what the musicians want to convey to the listen..
MYTHIC SUNSHIP
2022. 'Light/Flux' sees the Scandinavian outfit Mythic Sunship take their self-proclaimed 'Anaconda Rock' in a new direction. The band has previously incorporated elements from jazz, prog, psychedelic music as well ..
MYTHIC SUNSHIP
2022. 'Light/Flux' sees the Scandinavian outfit Mythic Sunship take their self-proclaimed 'Anaconda Rock' in a new direction. The band has previously incorporated elements from jazz, prog, psychedelic music as well ..
MANSOUR AHMAD
1971. Iranian born American guitarist and composer Ahmad Mansour attended Berklee College of music in the early eighties, also studying with John Abercrombie, Mick Goodrick and Ritchie Beirach before moving to New Y..
FREQUENCY DISASTERS
2020. Frequency Disasters comprises pianist, improviser and composer Steve Beresford, percussionist Valentina Magaletti and bass player Pierpaolo Martino. The trio offers a carnivalesque approach to improvisation, w..
DRAKO GIGANT
2019. Drako Gigant is an experimental heavy musical constellation from Athens Greece, formed in 2017 under the concept of exploring heavy music combined with elements of sonic textures like early industrial, ambient..
FRED CAPORALE
2016. Artist - Fred Caporale performing on Muted Pocket , flugelhorn & Recording Writer - 'The Homecoming' original debut CD. It features vocals and original lyrics by Melissa Curiale. Singing two of the eleven so..
SPOERRI BRUNO
2017. Housed in a heavy cardboard jacket and including new liner notes, this is a reissue of a highly sought-after electronic/sci-fi disco/proto-techno/ambient masterpiece by Swiss music pioneer and synth super wiza..
LAKE STREET DIVE
2014. Janice Misurell-Mitchell 'Vanishing Points' - music for solo, duo and quartet. Composer, flutist and vocal artist Janice Misurell-Mitchell takes a multi-faceted approach to composition. Drawing on traditiona..
MANNDORF ANDY
2011. Since the release of his trio CD “You break it – you own it” (2008), the audience and critics have discovered a “new” Andy Manndorff. “A paradigm change in the Manndorffian oeuvre” was stated: he wraps “his or..
GREG BURK TRIO [GREG BURK / ST..
2005. Featuring the renowned rhythm section team of electric bassist Steve Swallow and drummer/percussionist Bob Moses. The Rome-based pianist/composer's 482 Music debut, and follow-up to his first two well-received..
SEVAL [FRED LONBERG-HOLM / SOF..
2012. Computers ‘think’ in 1's and 0's. Humans... enjoy the concept of 2. Seval returns with its second record, 2; a record for humans. Leaner, meaner and harder than Seval's debut i know you, and this time on c..
DAVE REMPIS QUARTET [DAVE REMP..
1990. Document Chicago #5 Recorded October 6, 2003 live at 3030 in Chicago. After nearly four years of developing their voice as an improvising collective, Rempis (Triage, Vandermark Five, Thread Quintet, Territo..
MODO TRIO [CRAIG BRENAN / JEFF..
2006. '...a stroke of genius... The sheer beauty of 'Dream #8''s melody, the insistent head of 'Furious' and the unlikely dub closer 'No Harm' (with Saft on rhythm guitar!) are only a few of the highlights found on ..
NATTO QUARTET [PHILIP GELB / S..
2005. Critics called Natto Quartet's April 2003 debut, Headlands, 'exotic, equisitely crafted, and eye opening' (Signal to Noise) and 'music for our time' (AllAboutJazz.com), with The Wire's Bill Shoemaker noting, '..
JOEL FUTTERMAN / ALVIN FIELDER..
2001. This new recording by internationally acclaimed improvisational music artists pianist Joel Futterman, drummer Alvin Fielder, and reed player Ike Levin represents the first time these three veteran musicans hav..
VITCHEV HRISTO
2017. “Vitchev’s sophisticated and adventurous work is imbued with shimmering harmonies and lyrical improvisations.” – JAZZTIMES MAGAZINE 'Vitchev’s multihued compositions are like impressionistic sound paintings.'..
MCM
1989. Three of the world’s most respected musicians in Alex Masi, Randy Coven and John Macaluso live on one stage with the soul intention of creating a moment in time. “MCM : 1900 – Hard Times” is a window to what h..