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.

"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...

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...

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..

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...

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...

Christian Lillinger, drums / Els Vandeweyer, vibraphone / Emilie Lesbros, voice / Eve Risser, piano / Frank Gratkowski, bass clarinet / Frantz Loriot, viola / Pascal Niggenkemper, bass

"One of the beautiful opportunities of today's extremely..

Andr� Roligheten saxophones / Petter Eldh double bass / Gard Nilssen drums.

"If you ask the names of the most prominent and sought after jazz- and improvised music drummers in Norway, you can be sure to find Gard Nilssen on that list. Anywhere...

Personel: Evan Parker (ts), Ingebrigt Haker Flaten (b), Paal Nilssen-Love (d), Sten Sandell (p)

"It has been said that jazz is a voracious musical language, eating all kinds of other music to serve its hybrid nature as a mix of European and...

Fredrick Nordstrom , tenor sax/Fredrick Rundqvist, drums/Mats Äleklint, trombone/Mattias Ståhl, vibes/Torbjorn Zetterberg, bass.

Great album; the combination of instruments and the general feel reminds me of a more avant-garde (but not SO much...

Aram Shelton alto saxophone
Larry Ochs tenor and sopranino saxophones
Kjell Nordeson drums
Mark Dresser double bass (tracks 1-3 and 5 -7)
Scott Walton double bass (tracks 4 + 8)

“Can musicians of different generations be like-minded companions? Yes they can, at least when their names are Larry Ochs and Aram Shelton, the two composers and bandleaders of this quartet. As they themselves acknowledge, “Continental Drift” is a kinetic meeting of sorts, with compositions that are

John O'Gallagher, alto saxophone / Masa Kamaguchi, double bass / Jeff Williams, drums.

Classic style 'new thing' jazz by three great players that I must admit I have never heard of. John's sole use of alto brings to my mind parallels between...

Personel: Alex Cline (d), Jeff Kaiser (t), John Fumo (t), Mark O'Leary (g)

"He’s been working since the eighties, but has until now escaped wide recognition. That could be because his home is Cork, Ireland, perhaps near in the heart of Anglo-...

Janne Eraker tap dance
Vegar Vårdal fiddle, vocal
Roger Arntzen double bass

"Here it finally is, the debut album of this unique Norwegian improv trio One Small Step, with tap dancer Janne Eraker (Rhythm is a Dancer, Øy), fiddle player Vegar Vårdal (Breibeint, Rusk) and Clean Feed bass player Roger Arntzen (Chrome Hill, Ballrogg). They started out as a tap / double bass duo when Janne was based in Rotterdam back in 2011, and Roger provided the harmonic base of the duo. When Vegar came...

Margaux Oswald grand piano
Jesper Zeuthen alto saxophone

"The promising Swiss pianist and the legendary Danish saxophonist share a special bond with music: united by a common ideal of beauty, they venture into the world of free improvisation. The duo's impressive concerts, in which Zeuthen's melodic fragments are enveloped by Oswald's resonant blocks of sound, have generated enthusiasm among lovers of improvised music.
Since appearing as a member of the Danish jazz-rock band Blue Sun in...

Afonso Pais guitar
Tomás Marques alto saxophone

"To trust is to accept the metamorphosis. For several years before the onset of this motto, up until Afonso and Tomás cojoined to search for a musical path to express themselves as a Unit, concepts such as pulse, timbre or spontaneity had already been an intrinsic part of their life and musical explorations, individually. Sharing the thought that improvising is to a large extent the art of being able to flip oneself on one ́s own head, in...

Kris Davis, piano / Ingrid Laubrock, tenor and soprano saxophone / Tyshawn Sorey drums, melodica, trombone.

"The trio "Paradoxical Frog", made up of pianist Kris Davis, saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and drummer Tyshawn Sorey made a significant...

Evan Parker soprano, tenor saxophone / Joe Morris guitar / Nate Wooley trumpet.
"There are two currents of thought concerning the relationship between jazz and free improvisation – one includes the second in the domain of the first and the other...

Evan Parker, tenor and soprano saxophones / Peter Evans, trumpet / Barry Guy, double bass / Paul Lytton, drums and percussion.

"Parker/Guy/Lytton is already a classic trio, even if this group is continuously changing what we think we know...

José Bruno Parrinha clarinet, alto and soprano saxophone / Luís Lopes electric guitar / Ricardo Jacinto cello and electronics
"The formation of a band is usually justified by the common conceptions and interests of its members, but in the case of this Portuguese trio we have an example confirming that the inverse idea can also be true. In fact, José Bruno Parrinha, Luís Lopes and Ricardo Jacinto couldn’t be more different from each other, be it in terms of backgrounds, vocabularies, used...

Jonah Parzen-Johnson baritone saxophone & analog synthesizer
True story: The day this arrived and I was putting it into the shop, he was playing in DC and I suddenly put two and two together in my feeble brain and decided fate wanted me to attend and I went.
Great stuff; imaginative and like a cross between John Surman and Krautrocky sequencer electronics recorded live to two track without loops or overdubs.

"think it’s worthwhile for those of us who devote our lives to making stuff, to be.

Mario Pavone double bass / Matt Mitchell piano / Tyshawn Sorey drums.

"It’s always a joy to have a new recording from someone like Mario Pavone, for five decades a central figure of the most defying and uncompromised jazz played in the United...

Mario Pavone double bass
Matt Mitchell piano
Tyshawn Sorey drums

“The piano jazz trio format was, of course, an invention of pianists, establishing a triangular hierarchy with the piano on top and the double bass / drums positioned on the bottom. When the leader of such a trio is the bassist or the drummer , almost certain is that there is the idea to turn this kind of instrumentation into a more democratic one. Simply because a bassist or a drummer don’t imagine the dynamics of...

Ivo Perelman, tenor saxophone / Daniel Levin, cello / Torbjörn Zetterberg, double bass

"Soulstorm is a remarkable joint venture between gifted saxophonist Ivo Perelman, and two of the most distinguished string players around, cellist Daniel...

Tom Arthurs trumpet
Benoît Delbecq piano
Jim Black drums
Miles Perkin double bass

“The “point in question” of the title of this album is always difficult to put into words. Miles Perkin, a Canadian double bassist and composer who is conquering the world bit by bit, prefers to do it musically, and this new opus gives you the entire picture of that fulcral point of a continuously reformulated question: what it is to write music for a band of improvisers? The conclusions you arrive.