“Darryl Way is a co-founder of CURVED AIR, a trailblazing rock violinist and composer.
“Destinations” is the new studio album by Darryl Way and features ten new rock instrumentals, with a variety of influences and sound effects enriching the style and delivery of the pieces.”

“I was very happy to see We Are Kin announce their new album recently. “…and I know…” was such a joy back in 2016, and I found myself listening to it quite often. It was simply different than anything else released that year.
The band hails from the UK. The lineup includes Emma Brewin-Caddy on vocals, Gary Boast on drums and sound design, Lee Braddock on bass, and Daniel Zambas on keys and vocals. These musicians produce a true flow of music that does not try to “one up” other band members....

A truly fabulous medium large band (usually 7-10 pieces) including several members of Karmic Juggernaut, as well as guitarist Tom Monda, from Thank You Scientist and is led by bassist and composer Cody McCorry.
The music is nothing like K.J., as it’s all instrumental and is much closer to Zappa-style jazz/rock; in fact comparisons to FZ’s ‘Petit Wazoo’ are very reasonable and apt. And, as they themselves say, “A genuinely fun-loving experimental ensemble from New Jersey.”
I’ve seen them play...

"The shifts in Weather Report's personnel come fast and furious now, with Narada Michael Walden and Chester Thompson as the drummers, Alex Acuna and Don Alias at the percussion table, and Alphonso Johnson giving way to the mighty, martyred Jaco Pastorius. It is interesting to hear Pastorius expanding the bass role only incrementally over what the more funk-oriented Johnson was doing at this early point -- that is, until "Barbary Coast," where suddenly Jaco leaps athletically forward into the spotlight...

I'm a big Weather Report fan of their earlier period, although after a certain point, they lose me a little bit (but then again, most fusion going into the late 70s loses me a bit). But this is an wonderful archival release (released for the very first...

This represents in my mind the very last great era of this great band.

"By September of 1978 Weather Report's headlining status afforded them the opportunity to play a very long set amounting to two hours in length. Given the previous year's success with the poll winning "Heavy Weather" album one might have expected them to concentrate on this more or less exclusively, but instead, fans were treated to material from right across the bands career and solo spots by everybody. "Black Market" opens...

Includes five complete albums:
I Sing The Body Electric
Sweetnighter
Mysterious Traveller
Black Market
Night Passage

“As close to a supergroup as jazz ever came, Weather Report played a storming set for their adoring audience at the Shinjuku Kosei Nenkin Hall in Tokyo in 1978. The gig - broadcast live by NHK Radio on 28 June - featured the band as a quartet for the first time, with Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter and Jaco Pastorius joined by new kid Peter Erskine on drums. This recording captures the band at their creative height and showcases their music from the establishment of their signature jazz-funk fusion sound...

Jane Weaver is a singer, guitarist and songwriter and this album, who somehow managed to include the Australian space-rock band Cybotron on board, at its best sounds like a cross between classic Hawkwind and Neu!, fronted by a female singer!...

“NYC-based saxophonists Anna Webber and Angela Morris are at the forefront of a wave of young, modern composers dead-set on pushing the historic art form into the future. Leading a big band in 2020 is an undertaking of pure passion, a labor of love. It is no longer a feasible way to make a living as a musician, or a possible path to widespread international recognition and fortune as the composer/bandleader. In fact, it is nearly impossible to not lose money on such a venture. Composing and arranging for...

“Idiom by composer/saxophonist/ flutist Anna Webber is the follow-up to her critically-acclaimed release Clockwise, which the Wall Street Journal called "visionary and captivating" and NPR described as “heady music [that] appeal to the rest of the body.” Idiom is a series of six pieces, each of which is based on a specific woodwind extended technique -- a broad term meaning any non-traditional way of producing sound on an instrument, including the use of multiphonics, alternate fingerings, key clicks...

Matt Mitchell: Piano
Anna Webber: Tenor Sax, Flutes

“Two of new music’s most powerful and virtuosic composer-performers get together for a dazzling and thoughtful program of radical compositions and improvisations. Featuring brilliant writing and telepathic improvisational interplay, the music is concise, intense, and endlessly imaginative. An essential view into the Downtown scene’s newest generation of musical masters.”

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Katharina Weber: Piano

“Fred Frith describes the Swiss pianist Katharina Weber as a “piano icon”. The classically trained pianist and composer moves in the large world of today‘s music, where borders no longer exist and new music and jazz improvisation merge. 12 years after her celebrated solo CD Woven Time. In Márta‘s Garden is her second solo album. The musical framework is formed by two piano pieces by György Kurtág dedicated to Márta Kurtág and at the centre is his composition “...

Katharina Weber: Piano
Fred Frith: Guitar
Fredy Studer: Drums, Gong

"A new "piano icon" – this is how Fred Frith describes Katharina Weber. For almost thirty years now the classically trained pianist and composer moves within the world.

"WeFreeStrings was founded in 2011. This is the group's second album. Leader Melanie Dyer (not to be confused with the Australian country pop songwriter of the same name) is a jazz viola player and composer based in New York City who currently performs with the Sun Ra Arkestra, Dead Lecturers, Heroes Are Gang Leaders, Baba Andrew Lamb, Gwen Laster's New Muse 4tet, William Parker, Tomeka Reid Stringtet, Janice Lowe/Tyehimbe Jess Millie & Christina project, and Patricia Nicholson's Women with an Axe to...

This is the first-ever CD issue from the orginal analog master tapes! This is a Cosmic Courrier Kraut classic. Wegmuller was an artist who had designed a Tarot card set, & the music here is performed by what is basically the first version of the Cosmic Jokers: Manuel Gottsching, Hartmut Enke, Harald Grosskopf, Jurgen Dollase, Jerry Berkers & Walter Westrupp.
Produced by that big Cosmiche Joker himself, Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser, & star-maiden Gille, there are many moments of wild, searing Krautrock!...

Sam Weinberg (tenor & soprano saxophones)
Henry Fraser (upright bass)
Weasel Walter (drums & percussion)

“The studio debut by this regular trio featuring Sam Weinberg on saxophones, Henry Fraser on bass and Weasel Walter on drums. Beginning in 2017, this threesome has performed live in New York regularly, honing their instrumental interplay and focusing mainly on a brand of fast-paced, muscular free improvisation with strong hints of free jazz from both the US and Europe strains. Both.

Lauren Weinger's album Silo is drawn from the soundtrack of a large-scale installation project, Picture Powderhorn, which was 1st performed around the grain silos in Minneapolis, in August of 2000. Featuring aerialists covered in mics and recorders asc...

Walt Weiskopf - Tenor Saxophone
Carl Winther - Piano
Daniel Franck - Bass
Anders Mogensen – Drums

“A major talent...a monster tenor saxophonist as well as a prolific composer and accomplished arranger.” – Bill Milkowski, JazzTimes

"A consummate saxophonist, composer and arranger." – Zan Stewart, DownBeat

“Recorded at the conclusion of a two-week tour of Denmark, Norway, and Germany in January of 2016; U.S. tenor giant Walt Weiskopf has teamed up with three of Europe

"Recently named one of Five Drummers Whose Time Is Now by the New York Times, Dan Weiss is one of the most in-demand musicians on the jazz scene, performing with Rudresh Mahanthappa, Miguel Zenon, Lee Konitz, and Dave Binney, among many others. He has....

Dan Weiss-drums, compositions
Trevor Dunn-electric bass
Ben Monder-guitars
Matt Mitchell-piano, synths
Craig Taborn-piano, Fender Rhodes, synths

This is a pretty incredible, rehearsal-intensive, 'math-jazz' release with by a tremendous line-up. Compositionally & performance-wise, it basically sounds a jazzier, recent-era Present. Hugely recommended!

"Starebaby is the upshot of drummer Dan Weiss's long-running dream to bring together some of the most accomplished players

Jacob Sacks - piano
Thomas Morgan - bass
Eivin Opsvik - bass
Dan Weiss - drums

“The music of drummer/composer Dan Weiss always exceeds expectations. No matter the musical situation, he tends to push the boundaries of genre, ensemble sound and expectations. The title of his new trio recording, Utica Box, is a fitting conflagration of a barbaric psychiatric treatment, the Utica crib, and Weiss’ tendency to write and perform music that is outside the box.
Weiss’ trio has evolved.

Matthew Welch is a young composer who blends his Scottish roots and skills as a bagpipe virtuoso with folk music and Indonesian Gamelan. His first CD for Tzadik presents three pieces that should establish Welch as an important new voice in the contempo...

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