A project focused on improvisation & electronic work. Improvisations are made with electroacoustic devices by the duo K.K. Roll & clarinet & X. Charles. [Potlatch]

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My favorite early Sonny albums, this stripped-down format leave room for everyone: Sonny Rollins-tenor sax, Oscar Pettiford-bass, Max Roach-drums to just play their asses off (mind you, in a 1958 kinda way).

"This ranks highly amongst Rollin's...

This 1956 release finds Sonny with a great band, including my perennial favorite under acknowledged trumpeter Kenny Dorham plus pianist Wade Legge, bassist George Morrow and always excellent drummer Max Roach. This features a 27' medley of Charlie...

This is three 1957-1958 classics by Sonny and with some of his strongest releases from the late 50s. You get a the classic albums, Freedom Suite, A Night at the Village Vanguard and Newk's Time.

Great early Sonny. With J.J. Johnson, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Paul Chambers & Art Blakey. [Blue Note]

We got a tremendous buy on small-ish quantities of the famous Blue Note label. These import versions (which include the full liner notes ...

"Digits: they're not just 0 and 1 anymore. For Neil Rolnick's second outing on Innova, he has once again surrounded himself with some of the best performers of new music, and integrated their musicality with the world of digital sampling and processing...

A very little known, but very high quality fusion album from 1978 from the one-time guitarist of Boston's 'beloved-but-never-quite-famous ' artsy rock outfit Orchestra Luna. This is totally different and will especially appeal to guitar head fusion fans..

Traditional and original compositions based on the music of Southern Italy. "The inspiration is born from the musical patrimony of the south Italy, but evolve with the wide breath of an authentic world music." [Sottosuono/Felmay]

Previously unreleased concert recorded by Jacky Barbier at "L'Ouest de la Grosne" on April 22nd, 1978. David Rose was an American fusion violinist who is best known for his tenure with the excellent French progressive band Transit Express and his own s...

There are a lot of younger guitarists mining the 'American primitive guitar' esthetic right now, some of them adding very modern things to it and some of them playing it rather straight. Of all these (very fine) players, I have yet to hear one who nail...

''Yes, we're still shopping - this is an unexpurgated copy of the Victoriaville concert (Radio recording) with group: Lauren Newton, Joelle Leandre, Otomo Yoshihide and Chris Cutler. In my opinion the wildest and most dizzying version on record. Unfold...

''Subtitle: The dynamic of rogue counterpoint. Jon, alone, with some of his interactive, midified, altered and invented instruments (eg the whipolin, a disembowelled cello, fitted with a variety of not exactly centred hurdy gurdy type wheels made of va...

Scott Rosenberg (tenor and baritone saxophone), Jim Baker (piano, analog synthesizer, aluminum foil), Anton Hatwich (bass), Tim Daisy (drums).

"Scott Rosenberg, called "one of the best creative saxophonists in America" by the All Music Guide...

"David Rosenboom (b. 1947), who has been widely acclaimed as a pioneer in American experimental music since the 1960's. He is a composer, performer, conductor, interdisciplinary artist, author, and educator having explored ideas in his work about the...

While they last, this is $6.00 off the usual price. And it's a great album.

I've been following the work and albums of composer and pianist Michele Rosewoman for 20 years, ever since hearing her album "Quintessence" and it blowing me away....

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Clocks - for clarinet, piano, percussion / "L'Eternal Retour" - for violincelissimo ensemble / "Florilegium" - concerto #4 for flute and flute orchestra / "Spirit of Elements" - symphony #3 [Electrecord]

''Rothenberg, in solo with his clarinet, piano, percussion, voice, continues his musical adventure thru the music of the world with chanting melodies, virtuosity and respect for the sources.'' [Felmay]

Ned may be the finest solo performer on woodwinds I have had the pleasure of seeing. There's no way a record can capture everything, but this does a pretty good job! "Solo recordings of reed instruments ...reach... from Coleman Hawkins’s Picasso‚ to...

"Internationally acclaimed for his solo music since the late ’70s, Ned Rothenberg is one of the world’s most original voices on the shakuhachi. A student of two of the foremost masters of the instrument, Yamaguchi Goro and Yokoyama Katsuya, his style...

"Since the early 1980s Ned Rothenberg has been forging some of the most original solo saxophone music in the world. Drawing upon classical, jazz, improvisation and world music traditions his solo performances are passionate, virtuosic and hypnotic...