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Ken Vandermark, baritone saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet / Magnus Broo, trumpet / Adam Lane, double bass / Paal Nilssen-Love, drums.

"Only to listen to a 4 Corners performance is not enough to experience all the emotional level of...

Espen Aalberg drums, percussion
Jonas Kullhammar saxophone, flute
Torbjörn Zetterberg bass
Susana Santos Silva trumpet
All musicians also play gamelan

"The fourth volume of the series “Basement Sessions” have again (like the previous “Vol. 3”, with Jørgen Mathisen as special guest) an addition to the trio formed by Jonas Kullhammar, Torbjorn Zetterberg and Espen Aalberg, the name of the drummer showing this time upfront because the compositions have his authorship – the extra...

Steve Adams, sopranino, alto, tenor and baritone saxophone, bass flute / Ken Filiano, bass / Scott Amendola, drums.

A very strong trio outing. Everyone plays very well, but I found Ken Filiano's bass playing here to be especially muscular and...

Luís Lopes, electric guitar / Sei Miguel, (muted) pocket trumpet / Joe Giardullo, soprano and tenor saxophones / Benjamin Duboc, double bass / Harvey Sorgen drums.

"Considering the work done by each one of the musicians forming the band...

Sophie Agnel, piano / John Edwards, double bass / Steve Noble, drums.

"Normally, a jazz piano trio is like a pyramid, with the pianist at the pointing top and both bassist and drummer on the left and right sides of the bottom. Not in the case...

Nicky Kokkoli saxophone
Giannis Arapis guitar
Mats Äleklint trombone
Alex Zethson keyboard
Torbjörn Zetterberg bass
Nils Agnas drums

Ahanes gathered for the first time in Stockholm, in mid December 2021. Both coming from Greece and being invited to the wintery Stockholm by Zethson to play concerts, saxophonist Nicky Kokkoli were participating in a FRIM-initiated project with Maggie Nicols, while guitarist Giannis Arapis performed with Zethson’s 13-piece ensemble and VÖ...

Susan Alcorn pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar on track 6
José Lencastre alto saxophone on tracks 1, 2 and 5; tenor saxophone on track 3, 4 and 6
Hernâni Faustino double bass, electric bass on track 1 and 4

"Two Portuguese musicians team up with an instrumentalist with a rare path, who continues to expand in her expression that instrument so particular that is the pedal steel guitar.
Saxophonist José Lencastre and bassist Hernâni Faustino often share the stage and studios with.

Ralph Alessi, trumpet / Ravi Coltrane, saxophone / Andy Milne, piano / Drew Gress, double bass / Mark Ferber, drums

This is a great release, with excellent performances and a lot of drama; the music swings, but it often doesn't go where you.

Martin Küchen saxophones / Thomas Johansson trumpet / Mats Äleklint trombone / Jon Rune Strøm double bass / Tollef Østvang drums.

"The Scandinavian contributions for the present status of that music called jazz are no longer possible to dismiss..

Martin K�chen saxophones / Thomas Johansson trumpet / Mats �leklint trombone / Jon Rune Str�m double bass / Tollef �stvang drums.

"The Scandinavian contributions for the present status of that music called jazz are no longer possible to dismiss..

Tobias Klein alto saxophone, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet
Gonçalo Almeida double bass
Martin van Duynhoven drums

“The trio of Gonçalo Almeida, Martin van Duynhoven and Tobias Klein may present itself as a synthesis of «all kinds of adventurous music of the last 50 years» and that is true, but one in special comes immediately to mind when we listen to them: the influence they put to work of the original free jazz. “Live at the Bimhuis” includes two Ornette Coleman pieces...

Tobias Klein, alto saxophone, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet / Gonçalo Almeida, double bass / Martin van Duynhoven, drums.
"You could say that “Vibrate in Sympathy” is one more item in the present focus on acoustic improvisation. Or you could say this is one more example of the particular jazz brand you find in the Dutch scene. Both judgments are not really true. The musicians involved have their own individual personalities and they don’t represent any organized tendencies. Two of them...

Aubrey Johnson voice
Beatriz Nunes voice
Mariana Dionísio voice
Eve Risser piano
Mark Dresser contrabass
Abdul Moimême electric guitar and objects
Pedro Melo Alves drums and percussion

"Commissioned by the Portuguese Jazz no Parque series (Serralves Foundation, with Rui Eduardo Paes as the curator) in 2019, In Igma, the ensemble, and the opus now released, is a particularly accomplished example of the equating mind of drummer/percussionist and composer Pedro Mel

“We sure are alive”, writes Pedro Melo Alves in the liner notes of “Lumina”. It’s true, the music inside is a survival chant: we made it, after two years of a science fiction-like nightmare. And suddenly, there’s some light. The Portuguese composer and drummer was the winner in 2016 of the Bernardo Sassetti Award with the first version of his Omniae Ensemble concept. At the invitation of the Guimarães Jazz Festival in 2020, during a brief interval between lockdowns, he transformed the original septet...

"This is the debut recording by the only entirely Portuguese project by Rodrigo Amado, including cellist Miguel Mira, an equivalent of Oscar Pettiford for the 21st century, and young drummer Gabriel Ferrandini, Lisbon’s answer to Paal Nilssen-Love and...

Gabriel Ferrandini (d) / Hernâni Faustino (b) / Manuel Mota (g) / Rodrigo Amado (ts).

“Wire Quartet is one of saxophonist Rodrigo Amado's working bands, together with Motion Trio and Hurricane. Recording consistently for some of the...

"Violinist Carlos “Zíngaro”, cellist Tomas Ulrich and double bassist Ken Filiano founded the TECK String Quartet with Elliott Sharp, but it’s something quite different what they offer here with Rodrigo Amado at the place of the guitar player. “Surface”...

"In the summer of 2002, Amado, Zíngaro and Filiano met in a Lisbon studio to record what was to be “The Space Between”, a collection of tunes based on the principles of real-time composition. For portuguese players Amado and Zíngaro it was, strangely, onl

"This is the first encounter of the Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado with the powerful rhythm section of Kent Kessler and Paal Nilssen-Love, both members of the Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet. A tribute to Amado’s grandfather, an amateur theater...

"Second opus with Rodrigo Amado, Kent Kessler and Paal Nilssen-Love, this time being audible that the three musicians already know each other very well. “The Abstract Truth” may lack the discovery factor of the first encounters, but the music profits...

Jean-Luc Guionnet alto saxophone / Clayton Thomas, double bass / Will Guthrie, drums

"The 'saxophone trio' pioneered by Sonny Rollins in the mid 50's, was taken as the format of choice by the leading saxophone players of the 70's. The removal...

Magnus Broo trumpet
Goran Kajfes trumpet, Maestro soundsystem for woodwinds pedal
Johan Berthling double bass
Konrad Agnas drums
Mats Äleklint trombone, sousaphone
Mattias Ståhl vibraphone
Alexander Zethson piano, Juno 106
Martin Küchen alto saxofone

"A band of many configurations, from trio to tentet, this time Martin Kuchen’s Angles work with a 8-piece format the formulas you already know of pathos, playfulness, energy and bliss, but in renovated ways bec

Mattias Ståhl, vibraphone / Magnus Broo, trumpet / Mats Aleklint, trombone / Martin Küchen, alto saxophone / Johan Berthling, double bass / Kjell Nordeson, drums.

"Martin Küchen is naive and desperate, and maybe only because of that one might...

Johan Berthling, bass / Kjell Nordeson, drums / Magnus Broo, trumpet / Martin Küchen, alto sax / Mats Äleklint, trombone / Mattias Ståhl, vibes.

"Like Axel Dörner in Germany and Ernesto Rodrigues in Portugal, among others, Swedish alto (and...

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten double bass
Kjell Nordeson drums and percussion
Martin Küchen tenor and soprano saxophone

"After concerts and recordings as Angles 10, Angles 9, Angles 8 and Angles 6, here is back the original Angles line-up, Angles 3. It was 2004 and for a gig at the Glenn Miller Cafe it's mentor and saxophonist, Martin Küchen invited two Scandinavian musicians now living in the United States (respectively, Austin - Texas and San Diego - California), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and...

Johan Berthling double bass
Magnus Broo trumpet
Eirik Hegdal baritone saxophone
Goran Kajfes cornet
Martin Küchen alto - and tenor saxophones
Mattias Ståhl vibraphone
Andreas Werliin drums
Alexander Zethson piano
Mats Äleklint trombone

“Wonderful news, folks: Angles 9 are back. The modus operandi is the same as ever, enabling infinite possibilities: suggestive melodies and a vibrant rhythmic pulsion. You’re familiar with it by now, but it so

Alexander Zethson piano
Mattias Ståhl vibraphone
Magnus Broo trumpet
Goran Kajfes cornet
Mats Äleklint trombone
Eirik Hegdal baritone saxophone
Johan Berthling double bass
Andreas Werliin drums
Martin Küchen alto and tenor saxophones
"Martin Kuchen’s nonet returns for more avant-jazz to dance to, confirming once again that creative music with political conscience can be festive, even considering the seriousness of the subject of this record. The title is an..

NOTE: These copies have small creases on a couple of the corners. C'est la vie.

Alexander Zethson piano / Mattias St�hl vibraphone / Johan Berthling double bass Andreas Werliin drums / Magnus Broo trumpet / Goran Kajfes cornet / Mats Aleklint....

Alexander Zethson, upright piano, grand piano / Mattias Ståhl, vibraphone / Johan Berthling, double bass / Andreas Werliin, drums / Magnus Broo, trumpet / Mats Aleklint, trombone / Goran Kajfes, cornet / Eirik Hegdal, baritone and sopranino saxophones...

Alexander Zethson, upright piano, grand piano / Mattias Ståhl, vibraphone / Johan Berthling, double bass / Andreas Werliin, drums / Magnus Broo, trumpet / Mats Aleklint, trombone / Goran Kajfes, cornet / Eirik Hegdal, baritone and sopranino saxophones...

Lotte Anker, soprano alto and tenor saxophones / Rodrigo Pinheiro, piano / Hernani Faustino, double bass.

"Improvised music is one of the few fields where something like this can happen: having a new band with people we never imagined together...

José Lencastre tenor and alto sax
Jorge Nuno guitar
Felipe Zenícola bass
João Valinho drums

"Everything happened before the Covid-19 pandemic silenced all live music in Portugal. A new trio with saxophonist José Lencastre, electric bassist Felipe Zenicola (from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and drummer João Valinho premiered in December 2019 at Fábrica do Braço de Prata, one of the main jazz venues in Lisbon. Some days later, when they went to studio, it was already as a quartet...

"Two Portuguese, a Belgium, an Italian and a Czech: this is a true European combo. Combo? Well, not the conventional one: there are two drummers, João Lobo and Marek Patrman, and two horn players, Daniele Martini and Toine Thys. The band leader, Hugo...

Julian Argüelles, tenor saxophone / Michael Formanek, double bass / Tom Rainey, drums.

"Since the years he played with the big band Loose Tubes, side by side with the likes of Django Bates, Iain Ballamy, Steve Berry, and Ashley Slater, the most..

Aram Shelton, alto saxophone / Jason Adasiewicz, vibraphone / Jason Roebke, double bass / Tim Daisy, drums.

A great album by an amazing band. This is four great Chicago-scene musicians, 3 of whom play in Jason's Rolldown ensemble, with the...

Tom Arthurs trumpets
Isambard Khroustaliov electronics
Julian Sartorious drums and percussion

"The best music is always the one created by singular musicians, as we learned from the history of jazz. Tom Arthurs, Isambard Khroustaliov (the alias of Sam Britton) and Julian Sartorius are three of them in present times, and from them we can only expect... the unexpected. Arthurs has a duo with Khroystaliov for some years now, Vaucanson's Muse, and his collaborations with Sartorius aren’t

Michaël Attias alto saxophone
Aruán Ortiz piano
John Hébert bass
Nasheet Waits drums

"Nerve Dance – saxophonist/composer/bandleader/conceptualist Michaël Attias’ sixth album (available on Clean Feed Records, March 10, 2017), which deals with the aesthetics of spontaneity, the theory of elasticity and the concept of equality in music, is an expansive, spirited debut from Michaël Attias’ new Quartet, featuring Aruán Ortiz (piano), John Hébert (bass) and Nasheet Waits (drums).

Michael Attias, alto saxophone / John Hebert, double bass / Satoshi Takeishi, drums and percussion + Russ Lossing, piano on track 4.

"The three-night residency of Michaël Attias' Twines of Colesion in the 2008 edition of the Coimbra's Jazz ao...

Michaël Attias alto saxophone / Ralph Alessi trumpet / Matt Mitchell piano / Sean Conly double bass / Tom Rainey drums.

"Michaël Attias is the living proof that jazz is no longer an American music, but a universal one. The product of migrations.

Michaël Attias, alto saxophone / Tony Malaby, tenor and soprano saxophones / Russ Lossing, piano / John Hébert, bass / Satoshi Takeishi, drums, percussion. .

"Graced individually by a list of partnerships that includes Anthony Braxton...

Dave Rempis alto, tenor and baritone saxophone / Fred Lonberg-Holm cello & electronics / Paal Nilssen-Love drums & percussion.

"Dave Rempis, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Paal Nilssen-Love present their association as a“free-wheeling trio” and that...

"With a remarkable trajectory as both a trumpeter and a composer, Dave Ballou performs in and composes for orchestras and big ensembles (Either/Orchestra, Meridian Art Ensemble, John Hollenbeck’s Large Ensemble, Woody Herman Big Band and so on), but here we find him playing solo, sometimes using pre-notated materials, others improvising on the edge. In the crossroads of jazz and classical music, he interpreted Bach’s “Bradenburg Concertos” and worked with the recently departed third stream mentor...

Dave Ballou trumpet
Anthony Pirog guitar and effects
Adam Hopkins double bass
Mike Kuhl drums and cymbals

This is a meeting of some of DC & Baltimore's finest. Dave Ballou is a quietly insanely masterful trumpeter and he leads his friends through tunes and freedom with Anthony P; what more could you ask for?

"The title of this debut album from the band BeepHonk refers to the place where it all started in 2011: the Windup Space, in Baltimore. There, bassist Adam Hopkins...

Klaus Ellerhusen Holm b-clarinet, bass clarinet, bass amplification
Roger Arntzen double bass
Ivar Grydeland pedal steel guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, drum machine
"For some time, and for two released albums, Ballrogg was the name of the duo formed by clarinetist and saxophonist Klaus Ellerhusen Holm (Honest John, Large Unit) and double bassist Roger Arntzen (In the Country, Chrome Hill), identified by a captivating approach which combined an exploration of the influence of

Klaus Ellerhusen Holm b-clarinet, bass clarinet, bass amplification
Roger Arntzen double bass
David Stackenäs electric and acoustic guitars

"At first, the Norwegian trio Ballrogg was a duo formed by reedist Klaus Ellerhusen Holm (Honest John, Large Unit) and double bassist Roger Arntzen (In the Country, Chrome Hill), then later expanded with guitarist Ivar Grydeland, who through two albums added a country & western flavor to the mix and placed Ballrogg’s music as “free chamber americana"

Klaus Ellerhusen Holm b-clarinet, bass clarinet, bass amplification
Roger Arntzen double bass
David Stackenäs electric and acoustic guitars

"At first, the Norwegian trio Ballrogg was a duo formed by reedist Klaus Ellerhusen Holm (Honest John, Large Unit) and double bassist Roger Arntzen (In the Country, Chrome Hill), then later expanded with guitarist Ivar Grydeland, who through two albums added a country & western flavor to the mix and placed Ballrogg’s music as “free chamber americana"

Joachim Badenhorst, bass clarinet, clarinet and tenor sax / Frantz Loriot, viola / Pascal Niggenkemper, double bass.

"After the success of its debut recording (Jazz Magazine gave “Fremdenzimmer” a Choc award, for instance) and extensive touring..

Joachim Bade Fremnhorst, bass clarinet, clarinet and tenor sax / Frantz Loriot, viola Pascal Niggenkemper double bass.

"The music of Baloni offers something truly unique in the world of improvised music, and their album, Fremdenzimmer...

Joachim Badenhorst bass clarinet, clarinet and tenor sax / Frantz Loriot viola / Pascal Niggenkemper double bass.

"It�s exactly as they present it: music �based on the listening to the other, the exploration of the unknown and the vertigo of the.

João Barradas accordion

"Let me start by how it presents itself to you, a solo recital of totally improvised music: the paradoxical music format that stands somewhere between the ultimate display of intimate frailty on the one hand, and unbounded, ephemeral experimentation on the other, yet which often ends up being the superlative affirmation of an artist. However, it gets even more particular, as this wasn’t merely a solo recital of totally improvised music. It’s one that happened at a world...