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"We all know that Gershwin was a brilliant composer, but these rare 1924 piano rolls reveal a dazzling pianist as well! He plays Rhapsody in Blue; Swanee, and Walkin' the Dog, while other performers do Let's Call the Whole Thing Off; An American in Paris (four hands); S'Wonderful; Oh, Lady Be Good; Embraceable You, and more!"

This is guitarist Jane’s excellent fusion band, consisting of Adam Holzman (keyboards), Bryan Beller (bass) and Chad Wackerman (drums) with guests including Alex Skolnick (guitar) & Theo Travis (reeds).

“I am normally not a big fan of vocals on fusion records but I am prepared to make an exception for this. Half the album is instrumental and the vocals tend to be fairly brief (and good). The quality of the music is as good as one would expect from the musicians involved. Getter plays some great...

Released on Proper, a great UK label who do an amazing job in terms of packaging, presentation and especially in terms of sonics. This is important, basic repertoire material. A great place to hear some of his best stuff and at a amazing...

Stan Getz - tenor saxophone
Ray Brown – bass
Ed Thigpen – drums
Jan Johansson - piano

“Live In Dusseldorf 1960 by the Stan Getz Quartet is an original master concert recording from March 28th, 1960, recorded at the Rheinhalle in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Stan Getz, born Stanley Gayetski (February 2, 1927-June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist. Playing primarily the tenor saxophone, Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, his prime influence being the

Excellent early bop recordings from the saxist with THE SOUND.

Just $3.00 per CD!
JSP Records are the best label overall I've encountered who work in the field of releasing CDs of old jazz and blues recordings. JSP's releases typically undergo extensive (and very expensive) careful and tasteful manual cleanup, and they have become rightly renowned for the highest possible sound quality considering the source material. These releases all come packaged in full jewel cases (no little paper sleeves here) and have full personnel and reasonable liner notes. Highly...

"Over the hour's worth of music and sound that makes In Stormy Nights, Ghost apply their folk sounds, improvisations and avant-garde constructions to a savage evocation. In the world we live in today, we can only imagine what this means. And we agree...

Great price on a excellent document by this long-standing Japanese new-psychedelic/progressive band. The CD is almost an hour long and the DVD is 90' and is in stereo and 5.1 surround...

"The Ghost LP is one of the most fabulous UK psych/prog albums. This Birmingham band featured guitarist Paul Eastment, previously in The Velvett Fogg. The album, originally released back in 1970 on the Gemini label in the UK and in 1971 on Exit/Ekipo...

"Ghost Harmonic are violinist Diana Yukawa and electronic pioneers John Foxx and Benge (John Foxx and the Maths). Working at Benge's MemeTune Studios in Shoreditch, London, they combined the purity of Yukawa's violin with the complexity and textured...

This is the 1st release by Ghost Rhythms, coming out in 2007, five years before Sept Cercles, what I had originally thought was their (awesome) debut.
I know the band has mixed feelings about this one and it's definitely not as assured as what came after, but this is still a very, very good electric jazz/avant progressive debut. If you have and love their others, you'll love this too.
On this release they are an octet and as the band said to me in their very first email, "Our music is a blend...

“Here are several pieces about imaginary mountains found on old maps.
It is dedicated to all who tried to climb their inner mountain, especially to Xavier Garnerin, writer, and friend.”

This is the fifth full-length from this fabulous band from Paris, who, for my money, are consistently one of the most exciting and interesting mid-sized, modern, electric jazz / jazz-rock ensembles out there. The writing and the playing from these folks is consistently exciting, engaging and tuneful....

Mysterious and beguiling...gloriously expansive and darkly cinematic...a highly enjoyable and melodic album intricate chamber jazz arrangements for...medium sized ensemble...” – Bird Is The Worm

Having so far self-released three studio efforts, French ensemble Ghost Rhythms present their first live album, and debut Cuneiform release, Live at Yoshiwara, recorded in front of a small audience just before Christmas 2018 at Les Frigos in Paris – in the very room...

"Quite often, we...don't remember our dreams, but dreams always...do remember us."

“[This] is music made at a high level, but with an accessibility and humor that makes it cracking entertainment as much as high art.” – The Big Takeover

Spectral Music is Ghost Rhythms’ second release on Cuneiform Records after 2019’s Live at Yoshiwara, a live album consisting almost entirely of new material, and is their sixth full-length studio effort…

"Where the free jazz caravan dropped off a Sonny Sharrock-like guitar tone near a Williamsburg indie rock spot with instructions to respect the spaces around and between the notes, you will find the duo Giant Dwarf. On their Engine Studios debut...

"Gibbs music is full of intriguing inner detail that does not deflect from the ultimate destiny of his pieces." – BBC Music Magazine

"Mike Gibbs' ingenious arrangements suggest a pop art incarnation of a traditional big band...

“Michael Gibbs is a composer, conductor, arranger and producer as well as a trombonist and keyboardist, known for his collaborations with Gary Burton, and for his ability to utilize rock elements in orchestral jazz.
Festival '69 is an historic concert performance, previously unreleased, providing unique insight into Gibbs' artistry prior to his recording career proper (his debut album was released in 1970).
Assembling a big band boasting the cream of contemporary British Jazz, Gibbs connected...

“The music of Michael Gibbs remains woefully under-recorded, even as the composer hits his mid-70s.... Inspired by Olivier Messiaen as much as Gil Evans, his music is luxurious, complex but accessible, and driven by rock rhythms and electric...

“So much came from my association with Mike... He went from being my hero to a friend, and he’s always been my teacher... I’ve always fantasized about doing something with him adapting some of my music.” – Bill Frisell....

Wonderful, archival (yes, the 90s is now 'archival') Brit-jazz release as 7 John Scofield compositions (and 4 from Gibbs) are given the Gibbs band-arrangement treatment. Especially notable for fans of guitarist Scofield, who plays wonderfully here!

"Another unique Dusk Fire celebration of British jazz heritage on this first ever release of recordings taken from composer Mike Gibbs and guitarist John Scofield's 1991 band tour.
Featuring the talents of Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Steve...

Paul Dunmall, border pipes (track 1, 5), sop saxe (2, 8, 9), tenor comemeuse (3) double bamboo pipe (4), tenor sax (6), soprano comemeuse (7)
Philip Gibbs acoustic & electric guitars

The instrumentation sometimes suggests a folk approach, without being "folky" per se.

"This features the guitar in the most unlikely pairs with cornemeuse, tenor and soprano saxophone, and border pipes. Unlike Paul Dunmalls previous duo with Paul Rogers, Folks is completely open though each...

Since 1973 Jon Gibson has been making startlingly beautiful solo music for saxophone and flute that owes nothing to the jazz tradition. One of the original musicians for the first generation minimalists, Jon is the only player to have been a member of ...

A lost relic of the late days of the initial burst of American minimalism found and presented to the world! "Jon Gibson (b. 1940) is one of the less frequently mentioned pioneering composers of minimal music and is probably best known as a founding member of the Philip Glass Ensemble. Gibson also holds the unique distinction of having performed with Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and La Monte Young (as a member of the Theatre of Eternal Music), in addition to Glass, the four composers widely regarded as the...

Strangely enough, this new ambient / electronic album (and even more so, The Evening Falls, the previous one by KJG) reminds me, more than anyone else I've heard, of the electronic music of Piero Milesi!

"A piece of intricate scales and moods, by turn streaming with the quiet flow of a small meandering rill, then suddenly veering off into an oceanic kind of tumult, In The Fields Of Nothing was conceived as a proper film soundtrack with its rhythmic ebb-and-flow and deep sense of immersion...

Strangely enough, this ambient / electronic album reminds me, more than anyone else I've heard, of the electronic music of Piero Milesi!

"On The Evening Falls, he deviates from his more beat-infused work and explores vast aural landscapes with an intricately woven tapestry of swelling string drones, shimmering pedal steel, and minimalist piano motives. The first strictly ambient solo offering from this incredibly versatile composer and musician reveals a delicate sense for rich, ruminant...

Matt Otto - Tenor Saxophone
Storm Nilson - Guitar
Adam Benjamin - Piano
Tomas Fujiwara - Drums
Richard Lloyd Giddens, Jr. - Bass

"Although Giddens conceived this recording as a showcase for each musician, what one notices immediately is the brilliant sound that each musician has on his instrument thus achieving the beautiful sound the band creates as a whole. Their ensemble performance has a strength, maturity and cohesiveness that derives from knowing one another well, and...


“THE GIFT first made an impact on my musical consciousness when I heard the majestic CD "Awake And Dreaming" thirteen years ago. That fabulous debut immediately made me their devoted fan. Ever since I always can rely upon Mike Morton and cohorts, because they deliver the top notch records again and again. Their latest disc 'Antenna' (2019) is no exception. Based on a scheme of clever variations, the emotion laden melodious music sounds like a medley of contrasting influences superbly glued together...

If you like Ethiopian pop music, Gigi, who is a fine vocalist (and also the wife of Bill Laswell) is one of the bigger names to emerge in the 00s from the scene.

This features modern production and dance grooves, married to the unusual scales...

“For fans of Gil Evans, Miles Davis & Jazz! "Monday Nights" is not only the first studio recording of the Gil Evans Orchestra in over forty years, it also offers some of the most audacious and electrifying music of the new millennium.
The late Gil Evans was one of the most respected orchestrators in jazz history and his fabled collaborations with Miles Davis, including "Birth of the Cool," "Sketches of Spain" and "Porgy and Bess," set the gold standard for modern jazz arranging.
Accordingly...

This was recorded with Vuh leader Florian Fricke & Daniel Fichelscher (Popol Vuh and Amon Duul II), & is much in the style of the great, mid 70's Vuh CDs.

Brand new, ultimate Garden Of Delight reissue of this classic, early German prog album from 1971, originally released on BASF. Pretty much universally agreed upon as a must-own classic!

"Here's a long time krautrock classic. Gila impress us with a dynamic, intense and imaginative communication between spacey rock improvisations, lengthy psych guitar solos accompanied by luminous electric organ chords. "Agression" is a cosmic krautrock jamming, strictly instrumental (as the rest of the album)...

Conny Veit (guitar, vocals)
Fritz Scheyhing (keyboards)
Walter Wiederkehr (bass)
Daniel Alluno (drums)

Gila released only 2 albums in their short lifetime; their s/t 1st aka Free Electric Sound and Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee.
This is a extraordinarily valuable archival release of an excellent quality, previously unreleased, live '72 concert by the original line up of Gila, & featuring all previously unheard material in the style of their excellent, freaky, psychedelic first

"New Orleans barrelhouse piano, the Impressionism of Ravel, and Duke Ellington's jaggy solo-piano sound form the bedrock of Lafayette Gilchrist's style at the keyboard. But if there's one big influence on the way he thinks about rhythm, it's the deeply swinging 'pocket' of a classic go-go beat." - Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times

"Lafayette Gilchrist has dug deep into [jazz piano] history... he's tapping into jazz's spiritual, historical and cultural roots. He's an old soul at ease in the...

“The world-renowned pianist & composer leads a sextet through 5 riveting compositions that exemplify why he's one of the most iconoclastic jazz musicians of his generation. "Now" drummer Eric Kennedy & bassist Herman Burney, are joined by Brian Settles (tenor sax), Christian Hizon (trombone), & Kevin Pinder (percussion), resulting in a meatier, grittier sound articulating Gilchrist's brooding, urban gothic take on modern jazz that subtly coalesces barrelhouse blues, stride piano, post hard-bop, hip-hop...

Remastered and researched edition by Mark Powell (with a good history of the band) and nice package design by Phil Smee with some astonishingly goofy photos. Giles, Giles & Fripp's only album is a weird trainwreck combining 60's psychedelic pop songs...

Gilgamesh was Canterbury keyboardist Alan Gowen's first professional band that he led, before he joined National Health. This was their 1st, which is a fine album very much in the Canterbury jazz/rock/Hatfield and the North mold, but with their own...


"The second solo album by the Pink Floyd guitarist/vocalist, originally released in 1984."

“The first from Bill for a long time, this is an abstract aural collage recorded between 2003 and 2006, over long distances by mail, that operates somewhere between soundscape and radio art, assembling environmental recordings, bits of broadcasts and other modified found sound into a very personal sound diary or imaginary journey.”-Chris Cutler

"Bill Gilonis (of the great post Henry Cow band, The Work) and Chantale Laplante worked on Zürich-Bamberg intermittently for three years. The CD comprises...

Jef Gilson is known to most here - if he is known at all - for having co-starred on a number of early and very rare albums featuring Christian Vander. But that's not all he has done, and here's your chance to fill in the gaps!...

As of this writing (12/2010), which is Gordon's brand new album, available in limited quantities at this special price. Many people rave about guitarists like Steve Hackett, Steve Howe and Anthony Phillips, but I think Gordon Giltrap is one of the most..

“Anyone who asks me knows, that I think that Gordon Giltrap is one of the best acoustic guitar players in the world.
He gave me lots of hints on how to approach the acoustic guitar as opposed to the electric guitar.
He was always way ahead of his time. His concerts and playing are breathtaking. He's also very witty, and I love the fact that he has not cut his hair!”-Ritchie Blackmore

“The Legend that surrounds Gordon Giltrap has been built on 40 years of instrumental experimentation

"This album recorded with Ray Burley has been completely re mastered and re packaged and is re issued with 2 bonus tracks. The stylish production includes several new pictures of Raymond and Gordon and informative booklet notes provided by Paul Fowles...

Second release by this power trio from Holland playing a fun, intense, retro progressive hard rock/stoner rock outfit.
You know whether or not this is for you!

"Giobia celebrate a intense neo-psychedelic-rock, who is deeply inspired by the sound of the late sixties. Next to Guitars, Bass, Drums and Organ they use Sitar, Bouzuki, vintage Keyboards and Effects to create a colorful and swirling sound. Their vocals are often in the background to produce a more far out atmosphere. All that filled with love and passion for their music. Giobia's new album "Magnifier" is ready to suck you into a lysergic vortex of exotic mantras and Sabbathian rituals. The sound of the...

“An incredible and historical document from the Italian Progressive Rock scene of the early 70s (recordings from 1971-1973) by a six-piece band from Savona ‘Il Giro Strano’.
The band was formed by young musicians active in Liguria during the the 60s and 70s previously members of locally established bands such as: One Way, Voodoo, Tramps and others. In those days, the band had no chance of releasing any album, however, they left various tape recordings on reels and audio cassettes, preserving a...

''Gisburg is an extraordinary young vocalist and composer, with influences ranging from Schoenberg to Jazz to Fluxus. She has worked with Anthony Coleman, Marc Ribot, John Zorn and others in New York City. She creates a unique compositional style that ...

''Gisburg is an extraordinary young vocalist and composer, withinfluences ranging from Schoenberg to jazz to Fluxus. She has performed in an ensemble of Dieter Schnebel and in the vocal duo Alli Gaa in Berlin, and worked with Anthony Coleman, Marc Ribo...

''This recording couples two masterful compositions ontoone disc. Her heartfelt opera for solo voice about the ups and downs of doomed and obsessive love is one of her most personal and striking compositional statements to date, a powerful combination ...