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Jørgen Mathisen tenor and soprano saxophone
Erlend Slettevoll piano
Trygve Waldemar Fiske double bass
Dag Erik Knedal Andersen drums

"In what concerns the domains of symbolical relationships, Jorgen Mathisen’s Instant Light is to astronomy what the Sun Ra Arkestra is to science fiction, and the titles of “Mayhall’s Object” compositions are illustrative of that difference: “Magellanic Cloud”, “MACS0647-JD” and “Neutron Star”, for instance, are clinical names for existing cosmic bodies.

Rudresh Mahanthappa, alto saxophone / Mark Dresser, double bass / Gerry Hemingway, drums.

"Members of the much remembered classic quartet of Anthony Braxton and bandleaders in their own right, Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway are the first...

João Mortágua alto & soprano saxophones
Carlos Azevedo piano
Miguel Ângelo doublebass
Mário Costa drums

"Some of the most interesting artists of the Porto jazz scene in Portugal, namely João Mortágua, Carlos Azevedo, Miguel Ângelo and Mário Costa, join forces as the band Mazam to celebrate the idea of path, discovery and adventure. But if you understand this purpose as a way to deal with factors concerning process and its complexities, this concept comes with a surprise...

Rob Mazurek modular synth, sampler, cornet, piano on Android Sun
Mauricio Takara drums
Guilherme Granado keyboards, synth, sampler, electronics
Thomas Rohrer rabeca, flutes, soprano saxophone, electronics
Philip Somervell piano, prepared piano

"Electro-Acoustic Composer, Cornetist Rob Mazurek continues to focus on the Brazilian side of his musical production, and that’s good news. Even better when we notice that “Chants and Corners” is something else than a new São Paulo...

Rob Mazurek cornet, piano, prepared piano, electronics

"To date, celebrated Chicago musician Rob Mazurek’s solo endeavors have focused on his modular synthesizer and keyboard musings.
On “Rome,” Mazurek’s sensitivity on cornet is at the fore, but we also find him using various electronics, and seated at a piano. Here the presence of the piano is expanded. He plays it conventionally, with preparation, with direct manipulation of the piano’s interior, and as a resonator for his cornet to create.

Peter McEachern trombone
Mario Pavone double bass
Michael Sarin drums

"Dedicated to Roswell Rudd."

"Peter McEachern had a long-standing collaboration with Mario Pavone by the time he met Michael Sarin in the early 90’s. The three musicians recorded “Insomnia” by Thomas Chapin as part of Chapin’s Trio Plus Brass, a formidable octet. McEachern repaid Chapin’s invitation by asking him to play on his CD “Shockwave”, and their paths continued to cross along the years. Pavone invited.

Joe McPhee, tenor and soprano saxofones / Jamie Saft, piano / Joe Morris, double bass / Charles Downs, drums.
"This quartet was born from a conversation between Joe Morris and Jamie Saft about their mutual fascination with John Coltrane's "Live at the Village Vanguard Again” album. From there they decided to develop a project under the influence of the music played by Coltrane with his wife Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison, Rashied Ali and a pair of guests, Pharoah Sanders and Emanuel Rahim. Right away..

Joe McPhee, pocket trumpet and alto saxophone.

"Joe McPhee is a musician of many solo albums (this is the number eight), but each one gives a different view of his art – either because of the instrumental choices, being the tenor saxophone...

Joe McPhee soprano and alto saxophones, pocket trumpet / Ingebrigt Håker Flaten double bass.

"This is music about, and coming from, Brooklyn, known for its large community of musicians. Particularly, about a period of local history which...

Henrik Pultz Melbye Tenorsax
Ole Mofjell Drums

The drum and sax duo, Heaven, is the collaborative project of Danish saxophonist Henrik Pultz Melbye and Norwegian drummer Ole Mofjell. Heaven’s fast, highly energetic performances, combine influence from old and new-school free jazz, as the foundation for their innovative sound. Inspired by European improvisation, 60's New York-loft-avant-garde and Ethiopian jazz, Heaven fearlessly ventures between rhythmic and melodic realms, to stretches of....

Aaron Siegel, percussion/Matt Bauder,reeds/ Zach Wallace, bass.

"The music played by Matt Bauder, Zach Wallace and Aaron Siegel - the three sides of the group Memorize The Sky - is like a sudden cold dive on the sea in a very hot summer day...

Nicolas Caloia double bass
Lori Freedman b-flat and bass clarinet

"Quicksilver apothecaries of pitch, timbre and time, the formidable Montreal-based pairing of clarinettist Lori Freedman and bassist Nicolas Caloia, reconvene their long-term Mercury connection for a fittingly volatile and strange, dangerous, and often beautiful, dose of deeply conceptual body music.
Skin is the culmination of a more than 20-year relationship of intense melodic, harmonic and rhythmic exploration, which has.

Nick Mazzarella alto saxophone
Matt Ulery double bass
Jeremy Cunningham drums
"Artists like Nick Mazzarella, Matt Ulery and Jeremy Cunningham, the members of Meridian Trio, are keeping the Chicago jazz scene alive and as strong as ever. All of them are highly demanded sidemen and also the leaders of their own projects, including the popular Nick Mazzarella Quintet, Matt Ulery's folkish, chamber jazz group Loom, and the ambient Jeremy Cunningham Quartet. But this triangular combo organized..

Bernhard Meyer electric bass, fx
John Hollenbeck drums, percussion, prepared piano

“It may not seem that way – there’s a mix of soft rock-oriented and minimal atmospheres all along this record,sometimes making us think of the quietest instrumental moments conjured by Tame Impala or even Cigarettes After Sex –, but both Bernhard Meyer and John Hollenbeck are jazz musicians. With no overdub, this duo sounds like much more than two players at work, and that's because of the different sound...

Aaron Bennett tenor saxophone
John Finkbeiner electric guitar
William Winant vibraphone, percussion, Foley
Lisa Mezzacappa acoustic bass, samples
Tim Perkis electronics
Jordan Glenn drums
"San Francisco Bay Area bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa draws inspiration from a wide range of sources in her music, from film to visual art to science. Her newest release, avantNOIR, is a suite of compositions for jazz sextet based on noir crime fiction—classic works by Dashiell Hamme

Aaron Bennett, tenor saxophone / John Finkbeiner, guitar / Lisa Mezzacappa, double bass / Vijay Anderson, drums.

A jazz record on Clean Feed with a cover of "Lick My Decals Off, Baby"? What more could you possibly need to know?...

Personel: Curt Newton (d), Nate McBride (b), Pandelis Karayorgis (p),

"You won’t get much luck if you search the Net looking for the mi3 band recorded in this CD. Websites about the third sequel of the movie “Mission Impossible,” with the...

"A new record by the «best kept secret of Portuguese creative music», as one British critic once wrote about trumpeter extraordinaire Sei Miguel. Specifically, a collection of “stories untold” with different line-ups, from a duo with Fala Mariam to a sextet with Mariam, Nuno Torres, Rodrigo Amado, José Bruno Parrinha and Paulo Curado, including the participation of other musicians like Carlos Santos, Hernâni Faustino, Luís Desirat and Moz Carrapa. This is how jazz sounds when inspired by John Cage...

"The international specialized press already presented Sei Miguel as the "best well kept secret" of the Portuguese creative music scene. It begins not to be true: the refined sound art of this idiosincratic trumpeter already circulates in the four...

Fala Mariam (alto) trombone
Nuno Torres (alto) saxophone
Bruno Silva guitar
Pedro Lourenço bass
André Gonçalves organs
Luìs Desirat percussion (metal and skin)
Raphael Soares percussion (wooden)
Sei Miguel (pocket) trumpet ,composition, arrangements, direction

"This occurrence of O Carro de Fogo de Sei Miguel was live recorded at the Namouche Studios, Lisbon, on April 18, 2018.
Sei Miguel is no longer the “best kept secret” of the Portuguese creative

André Gonçalves (org) / César Burago (perc) / Ernesto Rodrigues (vla) / Fala Mariam (tb) / Kimi Djabaté (v) / Luís Desirat (d) / Margarida Garcia (Twin) / Monsieur Trinité (Bandoneon) / Nuno Torres (as) / Pedro Gomes (g) / Pedro Lourenço (b) / Rafael...

Sei Miguel (pocket) trumpet on all tracks
André Gonçalves lyra-8 on track 1
Bruno Parrinha alto clarinet on track 3
Ernesto Rodrigues viola on track 2
Fala Mariam alto trombone on all tracks
Helena Espvall cello on track 4
Monsieur Trinité udu mbwata on track 2
Nuno Torres alto saxophone on track 3
Paulo Curado flute on track 3
Rafael Toral modified ms-2 feedback on track 4
Raphael Soares claves on track 1 and 3
Rodrigo Amado tenor saxophone on track 3
Sami...

Sei Miguel trumpet
Fala Mariam alto trombone
Bruno Silva electric guitar
Pedro Castello Lopes triangle on 2, clave on 3, pandeiro on 4, kalengo on 8

"For me, the main technical challenge in jazz, a music genre that became autonomous gradually in the twentieth century, was to combine and match a greater musical demand with a fair deal of humility as regards orchestral means. The trios or quartets I have been showcasing my work on the road, for many years now, provide the most refined...

Nick Millevoi electric and acoustic guitars / Jamie Saft Hammond organ and piano / Johnny DeBlase upright and electric bass / Ches Smith drums with Dan Blacksberg trombone and string arrangements / June Bender violin.

Nick is a wild and wildly great guitarist who has released a bunch of records and who I have seen play at least half a dozen times. For my money, this is far and away his best (and also his most accessible) work yet. Highly recommended.

"At the intersection of jazz and rock.

Angelika Niescier alto saxophone
Denman Maroney hyperpiano
James Ilgenfritz contrabass
Andrew Drury percussion

"Here is a quartet committed to contrast conventional and unconventional approaches to composition and improvisation. Complex time signatures and intricate notated materials coexist with spontaneous sonic explorations, both timbral and chromatic. The textures and figures are harmonically rich, full of details and with simultaneous organic effects – crude, primal...

Gabriele Mitelli cornet, soprano sax, alto flugelhorn, electronics, objects, voice
Rob Mazurek piccolo trumpet, electronics, objects, voice

“Here is one more example of a musical project inspired in literature. Star Splitter, the duo by the multi-instrumentalists Gabriele Mitelli and Rob Mazurek, makes reference to a poem by Robert Frost, in which this author tells the story of Brad McLaughlin, a farmer who failed to produce agricultural income and decided to burn his house to get the...

Gabriele Mitelli cornet, soprano sax, alto flugelhorn, electronics, objects, voice
Rob Mazurek piccolo trumpet, electronics, objects, voice

“Here is one more example of a musical project inspired in literature. Star Splitter, the duo by the multi-instrumentalists Gabriele Mitelli and Rob Mazurek, makes reference to a poem by Robert Frost, in which this author tells the story of Brad McLaughlin, a farmer who failed to produce agricultural income and decided to burn his house to get the...

Sergiy Okhrimchuk violin
Robert Jędrzejewski cello
Jacek Mazurkiewicz contrabass, electronics
Łukasz Kacperczyk modular synth
"The title “Ants, Bees and Butterflies” may seem descriptive, but there are enough elements here to puzzle you. First of all, the Modular String Trio is not a trio, but a quartet. You can either accept it as an arithmetic incongruence or understand what’s in stake: that there’s a real string trio in this band, with a violin (Sergiy Okhrimchuck), a cello...

J�rgen Mathisen soprano and tenor saxophone
Christian Meaas Svendsen bass
Andreas Wildhagen drums

�Momentum. Just one word is enough to explain the philosophy of this trio coming from Norway. A musical manifestation of the phenomenon. In the beginning it is sparse, gradually building until it overflows with force, eventually descending into nothing. It�s spontaneous, intuitive, crude, raw and as potent and powerful as it is fleeting and ephemeral. Each time J�rgen Mathisen, Christian...

Brandon Terzic, oud/Ravish Momin, percussion/Sam Bardfeld, violin.

"This is a new Tarana. The trio recorded here includes violinist Sam Bardfeld and oud player Brandon Terzic occupying Jason Kao Hwang's and Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz's seats on...

Personel: Jason Kao Hwang (vn), Ravish Momin (perc), Shamir Ezra Blumenkranz (b)

"All music, even the most rigorously abstract of absolute music, is about time. That concept takes on several layers of meaning in the music presented here by the...

Joe Morris, guitar / Mat Maneri, viola / Chris Lightcap, bass / Gerald Cleaver drums.

“Balance” may be the return of an old Joe Morris project and band, but the always innovative guitarist embraces it as a new adventure. And sure it is: Morris...

Personel: Jim Hobbs (as), Joe Morris (g), Luther Gray (d), Timo Shanko (b)

"We were affraid that Joe Morris didn’t make up with his guitar, but fortunately “Beautiful Existence” show us that peace is restaured. Morris may be a good double...

Barre Phillips (b)/Joe Morris (g)

"Guitarist (and sometimes bassist) Joe Morris has in “Elm City Duets” a new chapter of his ongoing objective to play with his lifetime heroes: after the meeting with the renowned multi-instrumentalist Anthony...

Personel: Joe Morris (guitar), Ken Vandermark (reeds), Luther Gray (drums)

"Joe Morris plays guitar on this record, and that is good news. He certainly is one of the best players in that music called “free jazz” that traces its roots to the...

Joe Morris, acoustic guitar / Nate Wooley, trumpet.

"After previous partnerships with Anthony Braxton and Barre Phillips in the Clean Feed catalogue, here we find the guitarrist in another duet, this time with Nate Wooley. We could expect such..

Kjetil Møster tenor saxophone
Jeff Parker guitar
Joshua Abrams double bass
John Herndon drums

"Ran Do comes after the 2014 re-encounter of the quartet with Kjetil Møster, Jeff Parker, John Herndon and Joshua Abrams. Their first coincidental meeting happend at the bar Rodan in Chicago in 2008, where Parker, Herndon and Abrams played every tuesday night for years. Bass player Ingebrigt Håker Flaten brought Kjetil Møster who was touring with electro-rockers DATAROCK at the moment...

bass clarinet (track 6) / Håvard Wiik, piano / Håkon Mjåset Johansen, drums / Ole Morten Vågan, double bass.

"Considering what we read somewhere in the package notes, this recording is a "smertzenfrei art transplantation". Don't ask what does...

Eivind Lønning trumpet
Atle Nymo tenor saxophone and bass clarinet
Michael Thieke clarinet
Håvard Wiik piano
Håkon Mjåset Johansen drums
Ole Morten Vågan double bass

"When you have a band mainly formed by Scandinavian musicians, natural is to find that they played, or play, with the top names of Nordic jazz, people like Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Bugge Wesseltoft, Sidsel Endresen, Trygve Seim and Bobo Stenson. But the members of Motif have a relevance which surpasses

Karlis Auzins tenor & soprano saxophone
Lucas Leidinger piano
Tomo Jacobson double-bass
Thomas Sauerborn drums
"Confirming that jazz is an universal language, here is a trans-national quartet featuring musicians from Germany, Latvia and Poland, in the two last cases living in Copenhagen. If you don’t recognize the names of these four representatives of a new generation of European musicians, namely Karlis Auzins, Lucas Leidinger, Tomo Jacobson and Thomas Sauerborn, certainly you’ll know.

Felipe Zenicola electric bass
Yedo Gibson saxophones
João Valinho drums

"MOVE has an urgency for movement. Where change is not only inevitable, it is burningly wished for. Willed into existence. From a sense of interconnectivity sprouts a direct, decisive and ready-made improvisation. Relentless as the rainforest, fertile as alluvium, blossoming ideas from doubt.
MOVE is the concept and music of bassist Felipe Zenícola (Chinese Cookie Poets, New Brazilian Funk), saxophonist Yedo...

"Music of Savages. The name of this project comes from a xenophobic saying of a French musician to Arthur Decloedt, when this São Paulo double bassist was living for some time in Paris. The music in question in that sad episode was, you guessed... Brazilian music. Returned to his country, Decloedt and saxophonist Filipe Nader decided both to turn that negative remark to a positive one, formulating a “savage” (read: spontaneous and free) kind of Brazilian jazz, to differentiate it from bossa nova and...

Tony Malaby tenor and soprano saxophones
Brandon Seabrook guitar
Michael Formanek double bass
Gerald Cleaver drums
Simon Nabatov piano

“The quintet format is a favorite for pianist Simon Nabatov. After "Master and Margarita", "Roundup" and "Readings" with American and European musicians, here’s a new one with top New York players Tony Malaby, Brandon Seabrook, Michael Formanek and Gerald Cleaver.
A couple of minutes after you press Play to listen to this “Last Minute..

Chris Speed tenor saxophone, clarinet
Herb Robertson trumpet, cornet, voice
Simon Nabatov piano
John Hébert double bass
Tom Rainey drums

“The new installment in the ongoing series of New York centered recordings, this time with the stellar roster of Chris Speed, Herb Robertson, John Hébert and Tom Rainey, “Plain” is the new brilliant opus in Simon Nabatov’s singular and rich career.
With a background in classical piano, with the immediately recognizable Russian feeling...

Leonhard Huhn alto saxophone, clarinet
Philip Zoubek synthesizers
Simon Nabatov piano
Stefan Schönegg double bass
Dominik Mahnig drums

Verbs in and by themselves are substantival and have significance, for he who uses such expressions arrests the hearer’s mind... (Aristotle, On Interpretation)

Language becomes a spellbinding repository for intoxicating revelation and cryptic imagery on Verbs, the latest full-length from the remarkable Russian-American pianist Simon...

Simon Nabatov piano / Mark Dresser double bass.
"When two master musicians meet in duo for the first time, the artistic expectations are immense. “Projections” is a historic musical encounter, the very first duo concert by pianist Simon Nabatov and..

Personel: Ahmed Abdullah (t), Alex Harding (bsx), Jimmy Weinstein (d), Masa Kamaguchi (b)

NAM is a cooperative group of four brilliant musicians. The group, assembled together by trumpet player Ahmed Abdullah, crosses cultural and generational...

Roy Nathanson alto, soprano, baritone sax and voice / With / Arturo O'Farrill piano / Marc Ribot acoustic guitar / Curtis Fowlkes trombone,vocals / Anthony Coleman piano / Myra Melford piano / Lucy Hollier trombone.

"A Roy Nathanson CD released by Clean Feed? That can only be good news. The leader/saxophonist of the legendary Jazz Passengers, and the second saxophonist, with John Lurie, of the even more mythical Lounge Lizards debuts in the Portuguese catalogue with a compilation of duos. Taking...

Personel: Alípio C. Neto (ts), Ben Stapp (tba), Herb Robertson (t), Ken Filiano (b), Michael T. A. Thompson (d)

"In just the last few years of working and living in Lisbon, Brazilian saxophonist and composer Alípio Neto has flowered, if you...

Pascal Niggenkemper double bass.

"And here it is, finally, the much expected solo recording of double bassist Pascal Niggenkemper titled 'look with thine ears'. Everything we heard from him leading groups such as vision7, Upcoming Hurricane...