Matthieu Donarier tenor saxophone & clarinet
Santiago Quintans electric guitar

"The association between Spanish (living in France and being a part of its jazz scene) guitarist Santiago Quintans and French saxophonist Matthieu Donarier is the consequence of a “carte blanche” given to the first one in order to form a couple of duos. First, Quintans had double bassist Paul Rogers as partner and the results were more than positive. Then, came Donarier and something particularly special happened....

Björk Níelsdóttir voice
Laura Polence voice
Ada Rave tenor saxophone / clarinet
Ab Baars clarinet / tenor saxophone / shakuhachi
George Dumitriu violin / viola
Kaja Draksler piano / conducting
Lennart Heyndels double bass
Onno Govaert drums / orchestral percussion / piano

"It’s no wonder that a pianist with such a large sonic vision of her own instrument has an orchestral way of imagining sound and sonic associations, with her dedications to both the so

Kaja Draksler, piano.
"Titling a piano solo with a reference to the “many others” tells you everything about the personality of this young Slovenian composer and improviser. Kaja Draksler’s use of the keyboard may be a solitary one, fueled by very...

Nicole Mitchell flute, alto flute & piccolo
Marty Ehrlich clarinet, bass clarinet & alto saxophone
Keir GoGwilt violin
Michael Dessen trombone
Joshua White piano
Jim Black drums & percussion
Mark Dresser double bass & McLagan tines

“Ain't Nothing But a Cyber Coup & You is the second album by the Mark Dresser Seven, following the critically acclaimed 2016 Clean Feed release Sedimental You. Both records showcase playing by flutist Nicole Mitchell, multi-reed player

Nicole Mitchell soprano and alto flutes
Marty Ehrlich clarinet and bass clarinet
David Morales Boroff violin
Michael Dessen trombone
Joshua White piano
Jim Black drums and percussion
Mark Dresser contrabass

"Mark Dresser makes music in a vast variety of settings and contexts, but the dauntingly prolific bassist always seeks to create space for the unpredictable play between form and freedom. On his new album Sedimental You, slated for release in early November, 2016

Evelyn Davis pipe organ
Fred Frith electric guitar
Phillip Greenlief alto and tenor saxophones

"Wonderful news coming from the Bay Area, even considering that the participants in this ad hoc trio originated from elsewhere—one from Detroit, another from Heathfield / England and the third from Los Angeles. The recording of Lantskap Logic took place at Mills College in Oakland—where Fred Frith directed the Improvisation program until he retired this year—and specifically at the Mills Chapel...

Paul Dunmall, tenor saxophone, bagpipes / Tony Malaby, tenor and soprano saxophones / Mark Helias, double bass / Kevin Norton, drums and vibraphone.
,br> "The day after a rare and triumphant presentation in New York (with Henry Grimes and Andrew...

Mia Dyberg Alto Saxophone
Asger Thomsen Double Bass
Dag Magnus Narvesen Drums

You may label the music recorded in “Ticket!” as free jazz, but nothing here conforms with what you usually hear with that identity. Why? Because alto saxophonist Mia Dyberg, double bassist Asger Thomsen and drummer Dag Magnus Narvesen transpose to music the processes used by William S. Burroughs in his poetry, and not only the cut-up techniques of that Beat Generation icon: there’s much of the playfulness, the..

Nataniel Edelman piano
Michael Formanek bass
Michaël Attias alto saxophone

"Like Eva Figes’ enchanting 1983 novella, Light, the latest full-length release from extraordinary Argentinian pianist Nataniel Edelman harnesses 24 hours in the life of an artist and atomises it in a marvellously virtuosic breakdown of allusive tones and mottled moods.
Figes’ literary portrait of Claude Monet comes alive in her redolent descriptions of the great painter’s Giverny garden sanctum. Un Ruido de.

Bruno Pedroso (d), Jesus Santandreu (ts), Zé Eduardo (b)

"The project “A Jazzar”, by the Zé Eduardo Unit, was born from a comission by Cineclube de Faro, through its president Anabela Moutinho, after two shows held respectively in 1999 and...

Marty Ehrlich, alto and soprano sax, flute / James Zollar, trumpet / Hank Roberts, cello / Michael Sarin, drums.

"Julius Hemphill really has a noble heir in Marty Ehrlich, and the fact that this multi-reed player includes a cellist in his...

Chris Dingman, vibraphone / Eivind Opsvik, bass / Harris Eisenstadt, drums / Matt Bauder, tenor sax / Nate Wooley, trumpet.

"You can be a New Yorker and a Californian without being an American, and that's precisely the case with the Canadian...

Jeb Bishop trombone / Tony Malaby tenor saxophone / Jason Roebke double bass / Harris Eisenstadt drums, compositions.

"This recording happened the day after two concerts at the New York venue directed by John Zorn, The Stone, in September 2015. Harris Eisenstadt thought it was the right opportunity to revive a forgotten trio with Jeb Bishop and Jason Roebke and to finally accomplish an old purpose: to have a quartet with the addition of Tony Malaby. After the gigs they went immediately to a...

Nate Wooley trumpet
Matt Bauder tenor saxophone
Pascal Niggenkemper bass
Harris Eisenstadt drums, compositions

“On Parade in Parede” was recorded when Eisenstadt and company played a series of concerts at SMUP, an intimate venue in Parede, a beach town near Lisbon, during their spring 2016 Europe tour. The place inspired the title. An homage to his birth country (he’s lived in the US more than twenty years), Canada Day offers a universal music, not just dedicated to North America.

Harris Eisenstadt, drums, compositions / Angelica Sanchez, piano / Ellery Eskelin, tenor saxophone.

"Here is one more fundamental opus of the present day jazz creativity recorded in Portugal, the little, sunny country serving as the door to...

Jason Mears, alto saxophone and clarinet / Kris Tiner, trumpet / Ivan Johnson, double bass / Paul Kikuchi, drums, percussion.

"Gravity is the new release by the Empty Cage Quartet, a group that The Wire magazine has called "one of the best...

Peter Evans, trumpet / Ricardo Gallo, piano / Tom Blancarte, double bass / Kevin Shea, drums.

The "Jazz em Agosto Series" is a collection of live recordings promoted by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's "Jazz em Agosto" Festival in...

Carlo Atti tenor sax
Simone Graziano piano
Gabriele Evangelista bass
Francesco Cusa drums

"With the kind of humouristic approach characteristic of all things Italian, drummer Francesco Cusa turned the band he founded to play jazz standards into a project dealing, through his original compositions and orchestrations, with the search of the existing possibilities to «re- evoke an epoch and transpose it into the contemporary». And here are the first consequences, maintaining the...

Avram Fefer, alto, tenor and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet / Eric Revis, double bass / Chad Taylor, drums.

"The Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi poem that you'll find in the booklet of the new album by the AvramFefer Trio reminds us: “don't think..

Jim Denley, piccolo, concert, alto and bass flutes / Andrew Sparling, Eb, Bb and bass clarinets / Alex Ward, Bb clarinet / Tim Berne, alto saxophone / Damien Royannais, baritone saxophone, Eb tubax / Chris Batchelor, trumpet / Joby Burgess, tuned and...

Gabriel Ferrandini drums and percussion
Hernâni Faustino double bass
Pedro Sousa tenor saxophone

"The Portuguese (but born in California 1986, from a Mozambican natural and a Brazilian of Italian heritage) drummer Gabriel Ferrandini is usually found in freely improvised music contexts (those, for instance, of Red Trio and Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio in the celebrated Lisbon scene and with an impressive international collaboration history: Alexander Von Schlippenbach, Axel Dörner, Evan P

Isak Hedtjärn clarinet / Lisa Ullén piano / Elsa Bergman double bass / Erik Carlsson drums.
"The rich Scandinavian scene keeps revealing all its multiplicity and inventiveness. Now it happens with the first opus by the quartet Festen, assembled by Isak Hedtjarn, Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman and Erik Carlsson. The last track of the album is titled “it never gets better than this”, and it’s right: to go beyond what you’ll find here would be difficult, but considering the quality and the capacity for...

Marilyn Crispell, piano / Hamid Drake, drums / Scott Fields, guitar / Hans Sturm, double bass.

"This 1996 Scott Fields Ensemble session marked a time of transition for all four musicians. The leader had resumed performing a few years earlier...

Hamid Drake, drums/Hans Sturm, bass/Jason Roebke, bass/Jeff Parker, guitar/Michael Zerang, drums/Scott Fields, guitar.

"The music on Dénouement — which was recorded 10 years ago and pressed on Scott Fields’ obscure Geode label — is quite...

Scott Fields, conductor / Christina Fuchs, soprano saxophone, clarinet / Frank Gratkowski, alto saxophone / Michael Heupel, flute, bass flute / Carl Ludwig Hübsch, tuba / Thomas Lehn, analog electronics / Axel Lindner, violin / Tom Lorenz, vibraphone...