Ricardo Arias: transverse flute, soprano sax, kazoo
Mauricio Ramírez: percussion, drums and jaguar
Nicolás Eckardt: guitar & electric banjo
María "Mange" Valencia: soprano & bass clarinet, alto sax, shehnai

Excellent, entrancing album from Dur et Doux, interestingly featuring an ensemble from Bogota, Columbia. Not strictly acoustic, but certainly more acoustically based than many of the (great) noisy French bands they tend to release! Recommended.
“A creature of a strange...

Chad Fowler – sax, flute
George Cartwright – sax, guitar
Chris Parker – piano and keyboards
Kelley Hurt – vocals
Luke Stewart – bass
Steve Hirsh – drums

“Discover the masterful blend of blues, jazz, and soulful introspection in "Miserere". Created in Little Rock, Arkansas, "Miserere" bridges connections new and old, some spanning over three decades. This album presents a deep exploration of human vulnerability, grounded in southern gospel and jazz aesthetics.
Special.

"Misiani and his band, Shirati Jazz, did not invent benga, the energetic dance music of the Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania, but they were the ones who defined its modern form, with its hypnotic electric guitars and fabulously active bass, and made it...

PROMO

Previously unreleased live concert in fantastic sound, recorded September 2, 1974 by Radio Bremen. Missus Beastly went through a lot of stylistic and personnel changes during their career, and this set of very, very good and much more 'out' jazz/rock doesn't resemble anything else in their oeuvre.
With Eddy Maron-guitar (fresh from Dzyan), Jurgen Benz-saxes, Friedemann Josch-flute, Norbert Domling-bass and Lutz Oldemeier-drums.

Originally released in 1969, Missus Beastly, along with Xhol Caravan are considered one of the earliest underground bands. This is the first ever legitimate reissue of this album, and comes with the usual...

Very mellow, instrumental fusion/progressive from Finland, the group consists of: Keijo Hakala (bass), Timo Kajamies (keyboards), Jukka Pitkänen (trumpet, flugelhorn), Kimmo Pörsti (drums,percussion), Kari Rantakallio (sax, wind synthesizer), Tommi...

"Song for My Sister is the Note Factory’s first release since 1999’s Nine to Get Ready. Recorded February of 2002 in Roscoe’s home of Madison, WI, the lineup has changed with the addition of Corey Wilkes, Vijay Iyer, Vincent Davis, and Leon Dorsey...

Joni Mitchell-guitar, piano, vocals
Michael Landau-guitar
Russell Ferrante-keyboards
Larry Klein-bass
Vinnie Colaiuta-drums

Excellent quality radio broadcast sonics.

“By the time Joni Mitchell released her eleventh studio album, Wild Things Run Fast, in 1983, she’d sped her own way through a career marked by continual artistic evolution, with albums such as Ladies Of The Canyon, the game-changing Blue and the jazz-led Hejira reshaping all notions of singer-songwriter.

“Shadows and Light is Joni Mitchell's second live album, and it serves as a good retrospective of her jazzy period from 1975-1979. As expected, she assembles a group of all-star musicians including Pat Metheny (guitar), Jaco Pastorius (bass), Lyle Mays (keyboards), and Michael Brecker (saxophone) who give these compositions more energy than on the studio recordings. The musicians are given room to jam, and they sound terrific on uptempo songs such as "Coyote" and "In France They Kiss on Main Street."...

Matt Mitchell - piano, Prophet 6, electronics
Kim Cass - upright bass
Kate Gentile - drums, gongs, percussion
Ches Smith - vibraphone, glockenspiel, bongos, timpani, gongs, Haitian tanbou, percussion
Dan Weiss - tabla
Patricia Brennan - vibraphone, marimba
Katie Andrews - harp
Anna Webber - flute, alto flute, bass flute
Jon Irabagon - sopranino sax, soprano sax
Ben Kono - oboe, English horn
Sara Schoenbeck - bassoon
Scott Robinson - bass sax, contrabass

Oblong (tracks 1-12):
Matt Mitchell - piano, compositions
Kate Gentile - drums, percussion

Aplomb (tracks 13-24):
Matt Mitchell - piano, compositions
Ches Smith - drums, gongs, percussion, vibraphone, glockenspiel, tam-tam, timpani

“Oblong Aplomb is the much-anticipated follow up to Mitchell’s debut album Fiction (2013), the tour-de-force duo recording with longtime percussion counterpart Ches Smith. Oblong Aplomb not only takes the duo concepts initiated on Fict

Matt Mitchell: piano
Chris Speed: tenor saxophone, clarinet
Chris Tordini: bass
Dan Weiss: drums

"Matt Mitchell is one of the most in-demand pianists in jazz. As a member of Tim Berne's Snakeoil, the Dave Douglas Quintet, Rudresh Mahanthappa s Bird Calls, John Hollenbeck s Large Ensemble and Claudia Quintet +1, among many others, he has played an integral role on a huge swath of the most critically-acclaimed releases of the last few years. Highly regarded for bringing contemporary...

"Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds is Nicole Mitchell's second album for Chicago-based FPE Records. Recorded in May of 2015 at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, it features her longtime collaborators Renee Baker (violin), Tomeka Reid (cello, banjo), Alex Wing (electric guitar, oud) and Jovia Armstrong (percussion), along with new members Tatsu Aoki (bass, shamisen, taiko) and Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi). Also in the mix is Chicago artist, scholar and poet avery r young, who brings the her lyrics...

Mankwe Ndosi, voice
Nicole Mitchell, flute
David Young, trumpet
David Boykin, tenor saxophone
Tomeka Reid, cello
Justin Dillard, piano
Josh Abrams, bass
Marcus Evans, drumset
Avreeayl Ra, percussion...

Fabio Paolizzo VIVO (original electronic system)
Nicole Mitchell piccolo, flute, alto flute, vocals

“For many Black folks, the mythology of Medusa has been a fascinating tale because the image of a beautiful woman with snakes for hair could easily be seen as a European interpretation of a Black woman with dreadlocks. What if the story of Medusa illuminates European men's fear of the power of Black women?
Medusae is a symbol for a multitude of concepts which we bring together with our...

Camae Ayewa voice, texts, electronics
Nicole Mitchell flutes, electronics

“Shimmering columns of light will guide you, a grand synesthesia riding on a kaleidoscope, oscillating between hushed moments, where sound unfolds the firmament, unfurled like a cloak upon the shoulders of the real world. Listen: this is not a “track”, a circular appendage looped around a spindle and activated by some muscular stone on stylus. Too many people bled for the diamond there, too many questions remain...

“Roscoe Mitchell Orchestra performs two masterpieces for the Fault Zone Festival April 21 2022. Distant Radio Transmission Fault Zone and Sustain and Run Ii features Roscoe on Alto Sax, James Fei on Synth, vocalist Thomas Buckner and a stellar thirty piece orchestra.. Also from the festival is Cards in 3D colors a duet written by Mr Mitchell for Piano and Violin and two Pieces from Space Trio.”

“Recorded at home during the pandemic Roscoe Michell creates beautiful music that is simply at peace with itself.
On 19 newly recorded compositions Roscoe plays his own percussion array with articulate precision and creates hauntingly interesting atmospheres. He overdubbed saxophone on seven pieces thereafter. A wonderful release perfect to combat the tension of our times.”

"Live at the Burghausen Jazz Festival 2007. One of the great conceptualists and musical architects of the post-Coltrane era with his band of paired instrumentalists. Two drummers, two bassists, two terrific pianists, and the composer himself and young...

This work has the AEC reedman playing solos, duos, & trios with violin, drums, bass (Richard Davis), bull roarers & wind wands. [Victo]

“The first Piece 'Distant Radio Transmission' was first recorded as an improvisation by Roscoe Mitchell, Craig Taborn, and Kikanju Baku in 2013 and released as the third composition on Roscoe Mitchell Conversations I. It was then transcribed by Stephen P. Harvey in 2016 with further Transcription and Orchestration of air sounds for Strings by John Ivers in 2017 and finally then fully Orchestrated by Roscoe Mitchell in 2017. Here it is performed in 2019 by Mr Mitchell on Soprano Saxophone and the...

“This live date from the world famous Smalls Jazz Club is led by long-time Sun Ra bassist Tyler Mitchell, & features legendary saxophonist Marshall Allen in a deeply soulful journey into the music of Sun Ra.
This project is special to Tyler's heart - a journey into the music of Sun Ra, who's band Tyler has been a long-standing member. The miracle is Marshall Allen, who has somehow discovered the fountain of youth and in his late nineties is still inventive, spry as well as wise and beautiful...

“Mitten’s ‘post-minimal’ style is inspired by everyone from Wagner to Reich, and these grandly cinematic pieces are rich with pizzicato strings, sweeping violins, blaring trumpets and burbling modern woodwinds. His clever programming ensures you’re only occasionally reminded you’re not listening to a real, 100-piece orchestra.”-PROG MAGAZINE – March 2021

“The two-hour album comprises cinematic orchestral recompositions of all of the material contained on Twelfth Night's three seminal albums...