"Jim O’Rourke first joined Mimir for Mimyriad in 1992. It was completed and released as the first Streamline CD in 1993. In 1998, a radically remixed and reedited version was issued as a limited-edition Streamline LP. This new CD release contains a...

I have rediscovered the pleasure & the emotion to play free again. This music is full of warmth, melody, energy & fantasy, with, of course, a Mediterranean soul... Pino Minafra-trumpet, Sandro Satta-alto sax, Georgio Occhipinti-piano, Vincenzo Mazzone-...

Peter Epstein – Alto Saxophone
Mitch Marcus – Tenor Saxophone
Mark Ferber – Drums
Sam Minaie – Acoustic Bass, Compositions

"Sam Minaie has quickly established himself as one of jazz's most exciting rising stars of both upright and electric bass. His compelling debut as a leader, Heyo!, features a band of heavyweight modern jazz innovators rollicking through mostly original compositions with fire, grit, and attitude, and a distinctive blend of jazz, rock, and world music that's as...

"This new CD, Fame, the first all sound poetry release on Pogus, consists of 20 new polypoems produced by noted Italian sound poet, scholar, and sound poetry archivist Enzo Minarelli between 2008 and 2010.
Since the early 1970s, Enzo Minarelli has...

This 1970 release was actualy the very first release on the audiophile Three Blind Mice Japanese jazz label.

It's a cross between modal jazz and early electric jazz and it features the first recordings as leader by saxist Kosuke Mine, who is...

Tito Pueblo-vocals
Bill Gilonis-guitar (of The Work)
Ilja Komarov-bass
Trixa Arnold-drums

"Tito Pueblo, aka Rob Murphy (Orchestre Murphy), has been responsible for some terrible lapses of judgement & taste. Here he gives us an album of post-Beatles pop songs that deal with the key issues of our times - drinking, sex, love, melancholy, obsession, & drinking. Expect fake French accordion, ludicrous cowboy songs & Flamenco rip-offs."-Chris Cutler

“Look Like is the first complete solo release from bassist and vocalist Kelsey Mines. A series of improvised solo-duets, Look Like explores how listening to our on-going internal dialogue helps us conjure honest, outward expressions.”

For a short period in the mid/late 50s, Charles seemed to be interested in combining spoken word with jazz and he released a couple of albums that did so as the opening track.
I love Charles, but as much as I do love Charles, these are some of the least enjoyable things that he did as far as my personal tastes go.
Having said all that, this is one of his earliest triumphs, and even if you skip the 12’ track with the spoken word, you still get nearly 50’ of fabulous 1957 Charles Mingus. Recommende

After an almost 4 year retirement due to mental exhaustion and possibly severe depression, Charles Mingus began to gradually find his musical feet and his way back into the music business in 1970. This session was one of his very first when he came...

This is two amazing shows in stupendous sound quality (those German engineers really know how to twiddle the knobs) from two incredible periods in Mingus’s career, with each show taking 2 CDs to present in full. And both are licensed and taken from the original tapes of Radio Bremen and neither one has been officially released before!

So, what are the truly legendary groups in jazz? Probably less than a dozen: Duke Ellington's Orchestra, The Hot Five with Louis Armstrong, The Charlie Parker...

This 1960 recording, his second on Candid, is absolutely one of the (many) great 60s Mingus recordings. This is one of the large number of totally fantastic jazz albums that were released by Candid during their short lived lifetime in 1960/1961 and is the first time this has been reissued from the original masters. Hugely personally recommended!

“At the time of this recording, Mingus had been working regularly with the piano-less quartet of Eric Dolphy, Ted Curson and Dannie Richmond. The same...

Charles McPherson, alto saxophone
Bobby Jones, tenor saxophone, clarinet
Jon Faddis, trumpet
John Foster, piano
Charles Mingus, bass
Roy Brooks, drums, saw

Recorded live on August 14-15, 1972 at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London, England.

“This is Mingus and his sextet at Ronnie Scott's club, recorded over two nights in 1972. This set is somewhere between four and five "stars" depending on the tune.
There's nine performances of tunes like (the 35 minute) "Fable

Thierry Payssan – keyboards
Jean-Luc Payssan – guitars, vocal
Eric Rebeyrol – bass
Charly Berna – drums

This very long lived, mostly instrumental French band are still led by the Payssan brothers and are enjoying 35 years of activity with this new release.
As a little birdie said to me, “Quick thing. When you put the minimum vital on your site, say somehow that the first vocal cut is NOT representative of the rest of the really, really strong disc”, and as always, one should..

Some of you who are fans of US space music will remember synthesist Chuck van Zyl, who released music under the name Xile, his own name, and in collaboration with The Nightcrawlers, among others. For almost 25 years he has hosted "Stars End", a program...

Either a very long CDEP or a short album (35), this is a really wonderful first release by a female singer/composer named Kelsey Michael, plus trombone, trumpet, sax, piano, bass, drums, & electronics (which are very subtle). The effect is kinda like a...

"The six musicians from Oberhausen released their only LP in 1978. Symphonic rock. The LP "Fly away" was released in two different covers: initially (and that’s the version of this CD) with the legendary bull-headed creature from ancient Crete and, subsequently, with a rather plain airplane. The overall circulation was 1000 copies. The six musicians from Oberhausen played symphonic rock in the style of early Genesis or Yes, which, at a time when punk rock hit the scene, was a bit outdated and bound to...

I've had the great pleasure of seeing this band twice and they are extremely entertaining as well as magnificent players/improvisors. And Phil is always a great hoot to see live! Phil Minton (voice), John Butcher (soprano & tenor saxophones), Veryan...

“Phil Minton is a jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter. He is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's group, Daniil Kharms and Joseph Brodsky with Simon Nabatov, and extracts from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake with his own ensemble. Minton is perhaps best known, however, for his completely free-form work, which involves "extended techniques" that can be as unsettling as they can be mesmerising. His vocals...

Phil Minton: Voice
Veryan Weston: Piano, Organ, Voice

"Phil Minton and Veryan Weston, friends for many years, wrote a vocal project for a six-member choir on the topic of anarchism back in 1993. In the middle of the project stood the life...

"Unlike Bob Mintzer's '80s offerings on Cheetah (Source and Papa Lips), the band used on this session is a quartet made up of star talent: bassist Eddie Gómez, the elegant pianist Steve Kuhn, and drummer Steve Gadd. On first glance it might appear that Gadd is out of place among these more subtle members of the rhythm section. Being a consummate professional as a studio musician, Gadd is an excellent jazz drummer adding grace, subtlety and tension to a very sophisticated rhythm section...

“Was there ever a more paradoxical band than the Minutemen? Comprising Dennes D. Boon, Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley, all natives of working class seaport San Pedro.
Forever jocular and unpretentious to a fault, the Minutemen were alt-rock's blue-collar, union heavies of the 80s underground while also profoundly avant-garde. This was the age of Reagan, ripe for tearing apart and kicking the crap out of, but rather than get lost in a verbal revolt and a street riot, the Minutemen made their own...

For whatever reason, Orquestra Mirasol changed their name to Mirasol Colores with this, their third album. This was originally released in 1977, and, like almost all electric jazz/rock in 1977, it's beginning to run a little bit low on steam...

"The music is both entertainingly accessible and startlingly inventive, filled with more sonic details than can be grasped in a single listen." – All Music Guide

Over a nearly 35 year-long career, Miriodor have...

Great sounding live, archival release from the period when Miriodor were a trio ("Miriodor" and "3rd Warning"). Both of these albums are unfortunately out of print at this time, so it's also the only way to currently hear this period of the band's...

Bernard Falaise guitars, keyboards, turntable
Pascal Globensky keyboards, synths, piano
Rémi Leclerc drums, percussion, electronics
Nicolas Lessard bass, double bass, keyboards

"With a career going back over 30 years, French-Canadian band Miriodor have carved out an instantly recognizable sound that straddles avant rock and jazz...Miriodor have a wonderful sense of melody to counter their more experimental tendencies, and [the band] pulls off the ha