Totally SMOKIN' electric jazz trio set from this band of equals. Grimes and Chad sound great together and this is one of the best things I have heard out of Ribot. Includes two late period Coltrane tracks (Sun Ship & Dearly Beloved), two by Ayler...

Herb Robertson - Trumpet, Little Instruments; Jason Ajemian - Bass: Andrew Barker - Drums; Edward Ricart - Guitar.

Ed's a pal from the DC-scene, although he's blown this coop for Yellow Springs, OH. While he was here, he enlivened DC greatly...

Paolo Ricca : Fender Rhodes piano
Diego Mascherpa : clarinet
Andrea Manzo : bass
Maurizio Plancher : drums
with
John Etheridge : guitar

This will bring a smile to the face of anyone who enjoyed Perigeo, Bella Band, and other classic era Italian jazz/rock bands.

"The Paolo Ricca Group is the band formed by the pianist, keyboardist and composer Paolo Ricca in 2006. The new cd "Mumble", came out in 2018 and sees beyond the consolidated basic training (which include

"React is the third collaboration between American ambient pioneer Robert Rich and Ian Boddy and is a record of their June 2007 performance at the Star’s End Radio Show 30th Anniversary Celebration Concert in Philadelphia. The album is released in a...

“It’s not a novelty that Canadian-born, New York-based trumpeter Stephanie Richards is a risk-taking artist, considering she has worked with giants of the improvised new music such as Anthony Braxton and Henry Threadgill as well as Kanye West and The Pixies, references in the contemporary rap and indie-rock genres, respectively.
In collaboration with the electronics wizard Dino J.A. Deane, whom she met through the late 'conduction' pioneer Butch Morris, Richards releases her first solo record...

I don't know anything about the background of this 4-piece Italian band, other than my talking to my pal Ken one day about if anything good had come out of Italy, and him saying "I got this good record by this band I never heard of called Riddle". They...

This is one of those recordings that arrived unannounced in the mail. I knew Lesli Dalaba, of course, but the others were new to me. The project is Eric Glick Reiman's and I found it immediately intriguing. There seemed to be something quite subtle goi...

Excellent modern jazz from this Quebecois saxaphonist & his rhythm section who are neither avant gardists nor neo conservatives. [Victo]

"EvoRevolution - the seventh full-length album by Italian bassist and composer ALBERTO RIGONI. After the release of six albums between 2008 and 2017, Italian bassist and composer Alberto Rigoni (soloist, co-producer of Vivaldi Metal Project, founder of Bassists Alliance Project, ex-Twinspirits) is now going to release "EvoRevolution", an Instrumental Prog/Rock/Ambient concept album which features worldwide known drummer Marco Minnemann (The Artistocrats, Paul Gilbert).
"EvoRevolution" consists...

Originally released in 1975, this is a classic progressive rock album that is very much of the time and the scene. It was a double-album with gatefold sleeve and giant 24 page booklet (all of which are reproduced in this package) the album is even...

“Airbag co-founder, songwriter and lead guitarist, Bjorn Riis is ready with a new studio album titled “Everything to Everyone”. It features six striking tracks, all dealing with human emotions and the fear of losing one self in the constant effort to meet every, often perceived, expectation. “I was inspired by Dante’s Inferno when I started to write. A bit pretentious perhaps, but I’ve always been fascinated by that very personal journey and the search for some kind of piece or redemption, while being...

“Gyan Riley is a virtuoso guitarist and composer living in Brooklyn whose unique work expands the rich legacy of classical guitar music with influences from minimalism, flamenco, bossa nova, collection of music for solo guitar. Fluid, compelling, and beautiful, this is music you will return to again and again.”
Gyan Riley: Guitar

"A reissue of a recording first released in 1983, For Four on Two Two is Howard Riley's ninth solo piano album (he made roughly one a year from 1972 onwards) and, as Dave Ilic pointed out in his original liner-note (expanded by a Wire article in autumn 1983), it is a prime example of the power and vitality consequent upon Riley's 'orchestral-style use of the piano'. Riley himself, in the above-mentioned article, throws more light on his approach: 'playing in groups – you were expected to fulfil a...

Recorded live in the fine acoustics of the Holywell Music Room. "Musically the objective is spontaneity. With this in mind, there is no prior discussion or rehearsal. This recording contains all the music we played on 13th March, 2002..."-Howard Riley ...

"One of the most influential musicians on the planet, Terry Riley is the father of both minimalism and the downtown scene, having incorporated improvisation into his work from as far back as the early 1960s. This project, a musical dream diary, was...

Organum for Stefano, the third record that I Dischi di Angelica dedicates to the work of Terry Riley, represents a significant example of "coming full circle": indeed, in 1997 AngelicA Festival organized a concert in Bologna for Terry Riley and Stefano Scodanibbio -- it was their first tour together, and the beginning of a collaboration that would last for years, promoting their first album Lazy Afternoon Among the Crocodiles, recorded in the Shri Moonshine studio in Riley's home between 1994 and 1995...

A series of pieces for guitar, multiple guitars, and guitar in ensemble, performed by David Tannenbaum with Gyan Riley-guitar, Tracy Silverman-violin & William Winant-percussion. Beautiful, & very different for Terry. [New Albion]

“The Lion's Throne bears witness to the performances that the legendary composer Terry Riley and Italian singer Amelia Cuni did together in the United Kingdom and Italy between 1999 and 2006. Riley, whose remarkable body of work seamlessly integrates a lifetime of devotion to Indian classical music into the western classical tradition, collaborates with Cuni, a singer trained in Dhrupad who, like Riley, experiments with Indian singing in a variety of ways.
In these recordings, Riley plays piano or...

"Way Out Yonder is the second live release from The Rileys, the duo comprised of iconic American composer and minimalist pioneer Terry Riley and his guitarist / composer son Gyan Riley. The album is comprised of spontaneous improvisations and compositions by both Terry and Gyan, captured at three performances in Canada, Japan and the US, and features the elder Riley on piano, voice, melodica and electronics. The album artwork was created by Barbara Falconer, who also painted the cover of Riley’s landmark...

"Ring is probably one of the oldest Japanese Progressive rock bands, that existed prior to the golden age of the local scene, that took place during the Eighties. Jointly published by the Musea and Poseidon labels, "The Empire Of Necromancers" was init...

Eve Risser prepared upright piano, composition

"In “Après un Rêve” the upright piano isn’t the alternative resource when some particular venue (here the FGO Barbara, in Paris) doesn’t have a grand piano and can’t afford the rental of one: it has it’s own mechanical properties and capacities, making it a valuable performing instrument and not just a surrogate. Known for her very personnal views in what concerns the preparation of a piano, French composer and improviser Eve Risser started a...

Eve Risser piano
Kaja Draksler piano

"‘To Pianos’ can read as a dedication: an act of celebration of the instrument. But being a pianist, I also read the phrase as something of a supplication. We’ve each hopefully made some kind of peace with our own instruments at home – and if we’re lucky, we may even love them. But whenever we travel to perform, we’re at the mercy of the particular piano we find at the other end. Whatever cosmic force controls this particular lottery, sometimes you just....