Phillip Johnston: soprano/alto saxophone
Alister Spence: organ
Lloyd Swanton: bass
Nick Cecire: drums


“It is jazz played with some true wit… freely drawing on all styles of music to create quirky, cartoonish pieces, coloured with chirpy melodies and unexpected moments of poignancy.” – John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald

When composer / saxophonist / bandleader Phillip Johnston, leader of New York’s legendary jazz ensemble The Microscopic Sept

An extremely rare 1974 jazz/rock album featuring saxes, keyboards, guitar, bass and drums that I had never even heard of before. In addition to the original album, almost 40' of unreleased live stuff has been added in. The live stuff is only of pretty....

Solo album by former member of Tangering Dream. [Amp]

''Songs about a dog...This bizarre home-recorded gem offers a very private glimpse into the world of a mysterious woman from Japan known simply as Jon. Her strange childlike vocals and pump organ charm and enthrall on their own terms; Jon's fresh appro...

Larry Ochs - tenor and sopranino saxophones
Vladimir Tarasov - drums, percussion
Mark Dresser – basses

“Jones Jones is a funny name for an all-star band. To grant such distinctive musicians so anonymous, Google-proof a moniker is whimsical in the extreme. But, given its members' long and distinguished work in the service of music, this group should not be taken lightly or treated as a lark. There is humor in their work but also gravitas and depth and magic. Larry Ochs says: "The newest...

“Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) harnesses the gamut of raw, unadulterated emotions — suppressed feelings that we’ve all been allowed to “feel” again in the wake of a global pandemic. Born out of a live performance in fall 2019, during the last stop of his tour in Portland, OR, saxophonist Darius Jones renders a solo effort that evokes sadness, rage, and confusion, all the while still holding for glimmers of hope for the future.
With four of its five tracks on Alchemy, Jones selects...

"The intergenerational partnership of alto saxophonist Darius Jones and pianist Matthew Shipp seamlessly meshes the talents of two of the most restlessly inventive and gifted instrumentalists-composers-improvisers-leaders working today. This singular...

On this interesting but unfortunately out of print LP, the immortal drummer Elvin Jones teams up with four advanced but very different improvisers: Dave Liebman (doubling on soprano and flute), cornetist Terumasa Hino, pianist Kenny Kirkland and bassis...

Glenn is one of the pioneers of the wave of acoustic players who emerged post-Takoma Records in the 90s. He’s always a great listen!

“The Giant Who Ate Himself And Other New Works For 6 & 12 String Guitar is Glenn Jones at his most vivid, exploring memories old and new through beautifully woven threads of melody. His unparalleled skill and creativity exhibits the mastery Jones possesses of his craft, further cementing his position as a pillar in American Primitive guitar music. Recorded in New....

Most folks know Glenn Jones as guitarist extraordinaire for Cul de Sac, in which his idiosyncratic blend of surf, Middle Eastern, Americana and acid guitar innovations are a signature of the bands muchballyhooedsound, but few people are aware that long...

''British composer Jeremy Peyton Jone's vocal and theater music performed by his Ensemble Regular Music II. A music powerfully rhythmic, lyrical and dramatic. Voted in 1996 best cd in the category Modern Composition by The Wire Critics Choice poll.''...

“Trumpeter Sean Jones takes another step in his continuing development as a frontman and formidable presence on the modern jazz scene...an excellent and highly appealing outing...”-Jazztimes

“For his fifth recording on the Mack Avenue label, trumpeter Sean Jones has really stepped up his game as a composer of contemporary jazz music. He's raised the stakes by writing music that still reflects his love for hard bop, but has intensified it with a more intricate and involved thought process that...

Some of this COULD be a CHEER-ACCIDENT album. Some of it is much sparser and 3am solitude music, as Thymme says.

“The highly unanticipated followup to Career Move (1996)! Maybe as melancholic… same piano/same voice… sometimes with more instruments… but mostly just piano. 3am solitude music.”

“piano, vocals, drums, trumpet, synthesizer by thymme; bass and background vocals on "in some fictional place" are by dante kester and lori lechien, respectively; viola on "final meditation (again)"..

Really nice, Steve Reich-ian solo album by the leader of Cheer-Accident.

"Five piano “quartets” (recorded on 4-track) with hypnotically intertwining phrases."

This is the unreleased, fourth, 1974 Jonesy album, which includes a full story of the band by guitarist John Evan-Jones

"A legendary missing prog album, recently discovered on a dusty cassette and remastered in reasonable manner...

"This is the second full-length release by Jon Andreas Håtun aka Jono El Grande, a self-taught composer, musician, conductor and prankster who remains an outsider on the far margin of the Norwegian experimental music scene. When Frank Zappa asked Does...

"The Choko King by Jono El Grande features recordings from the period between 1995 and 2008, some of which pre-dates his first album by four years. This album offers an open door into Jono's surrealistic musical universe and is a rare gift to his...

"About half of this two-record set (now on 1 CD) features Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company in 1968, performing songs like "Down on Me" and "Piece of My Heart." The rest, recorded in 1970, finds her with her backup group, Full Tilt Boogie, mostly performing songs from I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! Joplin puts herself out on-stage, both in terms of singing until her voice is raw and describing her life to her audiences. Parts of this album are moving, parts are heartbreaking...

Great, archival, professionally recorded set of Janis along with her original band, a star-crossed, pivotal San Francisco psychedelic band, who were quite cool in a truly psychedelic, 1967/68 way, and who had the fortune of a star-singer as a integrated member of the band, and the GREAT mis-fortune to be in the way when the powers that be decided that she was the star and that 'those hippies' were holding her back. They weren't holding her back; they were her most sympathetic accompanists and here is a...

Kidd Jordan (tenor saxophone)
Joel Futterman (piano, curved soprano saxophone, Indian flute)
Alvin Fielder (drums)

“Three spirits (one now sadly departed) filled a New Orleans studio with the calmly ecstatic joy of creation in motion.”

“Jordsjø is a duo from Oslo, Norway inspired by old horror movies, German 70s synth music, Swedish prog, fantasy novels and Norwegian nature. After three cassette demos, the album “Jord” was what the band considers to be their first “proper” album. Up until that point, the band only sold homemade tapes to friends and a few die-hard collectors - but Jord got a bigger audience, also outside Norway.
The band has never been happy about the mix, done quickly with the intent of only a tape release – so...

The legendary Joseph Holbrooke trio is thought to be one of the first English free-jazz bands, forming in the early/mid 60s, and basically leaving no recorded traces before the three musicians involved all went on to well known careers. "Tzadik is prou...