Luther Gray, drums / Jim Hobbs, alto saxophone / Geoff Farina, guitar / Dan Littleton, guitar.

"'When I was younger most of my music listening involved a lawnmower and a Walkman. I've spent thousands of hours pushing a lawnmower listening to...

"Lazarus was founded by Peter Glatzl at the end of 1970 and they played many gigs in Austria with various line-ups until 1976. This amazing album was recorded in Vienna in 1973 in a professional studio for Rex Records. Only 15 sample copies were...

David Lazonby-saxes, Eddie Roberts-guitar, Simon Russell-bass & Gene Velocette-drums. "...an oasis among the pointless professionalism of big-label jazz."-Ben Watson/The Wire" [Slam]

Daunik Lazro-alto & baritone saxes, Joelle Leandre-bass, Paul Lovens-percussion & musical saw, Carlos Zingaro-violin. Recorded live 3/21/2001. "Instead of machine gunning the listener, letting him or her in on an inside joke, or testing their polemical...

"French progressive rock outfit Lazuli has very recently released a new, special album entitled Dénudé, meaning ‘stripped’ or ‘naked’, appropriate for these sixteen unplugged versions recorded in 2020, selected from the band’s first eight studio albums. These ‘undressed’ songs, acoustic or otherwise, are more direct, closer to their origins and the sensations felt whilst writing. Singer/composer Dominique Leonetti puts it this way: “One way to get closer to our listeners in these times of forced...

"Can it be possible that we've got to 2014 without me ever having heard a studio album by Lazuli? Yes, ladies and gents, that is possible, I can assure you. Whilst I vividly remember Lazuli live in Tilburg some years ago in 2007 at the Symforce...

Modern electric jazz from top French jazz trumpeter Eric Le Lann co-leading the band with legendary ex-Magma bassist Jannick Top with Damien Schmitt and Lionel Loueke plus many guests.

"...this Swiss combo mixes it up with the best of them...finds the unexpected and makes it feel like we’ve heard it forever." – New York City Jazz Record...

“Didn't realize the range of his writing, including a number of songs that were pop hits by others. Good Morning, Blues is a classic, as well as Bourgeois Blues. Some remarkable guitar playing as well. Recording quality is better than on another "definitive" Leadbelly collection, that’s just 2 CDs. Buy this 3CD one.”

“Bass and flute represent significant tonal contrasts and here, flutist Jerome Bourdellon and world-renowned bassist, composer and improviser Joelle LEandre divulge innumerable perspectives and quite a bit of food for thought on these duets. However, Bourdellon employs bass clarinet and bass flute on two tracks, as no other instruments are nestled into the mid-sections of the program and the artists follow similar modalities to complement and support each other.
Each piece presents a different ...

“Contrabassist Joélle Leandre and West Coast woodwind player Phillip Greenlief work out 11 different compositions between their two respective instruments and voices on That Overt Desire of Object. The flexibility and space that each provides the other seems to be reflected in the line note comments about the negative effects of greed. The title is a variation of the Luis Bu±uel movie That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), with a playing field that appears a bit more level when compared to the bassist's...

“Leap of Faith is the duo comprised of PEK on clarinets, saxophones and flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic and voice. The ensemble is based in Boston and dates back to the early 90s. They utilize a huge arsenal of additional instruments to improvise long works featuring transformations across highly varied sonorities.”

New solo album by Guy, who is the mastermind keyboardist/leader/composer of Nathan Mahl. [Xntrik]

"This is the sound of a band having fun… like a hot chainsaw through butter." – The Wire

"One of the UK’s most adventurous groups" – Jazzwise

"You’ll be hard pressed to keep the lid on this explosive tour de force of...

Sensible Shoes is the fourth album by this London quartet of dual alto saxes, Fender Rhodes & keyboards, bass and drums. It is a cataclysmic offering of jazz-rock, free-jazz, avant-skronk, funk-rock, art-noise and whatever else they can lay their hands on. A tremendously popular act at home in the UK, where they regularly play large-scale festivals and concert halls (as well as playing the typical club gigs that all musicians play), Sensible Shoes is their first recording to be released outside of the UK...

A truly great new studio release by the MIGHTY BIB!

"Easily the most adventurous and audacious outfit on today’s UK jazz scene, Led Bib has built a reputation over the course of seven albums for expansive improvisations and treks into genre-defying music of throbbing intensity. All Music Guide called their singular brand of jazz “explosive enough to blow up your speakers” while The Wire weighed in with: “This is the sound of a band having fun...like a hot chainsaw through butter.” For their...

The first album by one of the biggest bands of rock. It all started here. Ah, those innocent days, back when they would still credit Willie Dixon when they covered his songs! That wouldn't last! A great, heavy rock album....

"In the summer of 1993 Elena Ledda released one of her most accomplished albums, Incanti, on the French label Silex. Reissued ten years on, now a cornerstone of European folk music recording, it still sounds as fresh and inventive as ever...

This is ''an acoustic album of great distinction, originally recorded & released in 1988. Ledda's voice is the perfect union of strength & sweetness, & the use of musicians whose background was not exclusively traditional contributed to having a highly...

“Okkyung Lee's is perhaps the most harrowing of the Black Cross Solo Sessions stories. At the onset of COVID, the cellist was called to travel to Korea to be with her dying father. The trip was sudden and didn't allow her to bring her instrument, but once there she was unable to return to New York because of the stringent lockdown. For months she was stranded without her cello, unable to practice or make any music. This intense alienation took a long time to lift. Indeed, even after she made it back to...

"An important member of the downtown scene since 2000, Okkyung Lee has worked with Laurie Anderson, Evan Parker, Vijay Iyer, Thurston Moore, Butch Morris, Larry Ochs, Christian Marclay and John Zorn, among others. Her new project for Tzadik features...

Lee Pui Ming (piano, voice, body) + Joane Htu (voice, alto sax). "Improvised music using piano, objects, alto sax, voice and body. Music that is strange, expansive and elusive."

"A dark soundtrack-like work from Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari (AKA Lef), performed by an all-star band featuring American bassist Bill Laswell, Norwegian guitar visionary Eivind Aarset, Norwegian jazz trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer, thunderous Norwegian drummer Kenneth Kapstad (Motorpsycho), British saxophonist Rebecca Sneddon (Free Nelson Mandoomjazz) and Norwegian organist Ståle Storlokken (Supersilent, Motorpsycho)."

Karl Hjalmar Nyberg, saxofones / Andreas Skår Winther, drums, strings / Klaus Ellerhusen Holm, saxophone / clarinet / Michael Francis Duch, double bass.
"It may allude to the first name of Karl Hjalmar Nyberg, but the designation Mr K present us the duo founded by the mentioned saxophonist with drummer Andreas Skar Winther. The intended ambiguity of this project goes beyond this personal identity factor – it’s everywhere in the music. Mr. K covers all the possible approaches to improvisation, going...