Joshua Abrams: double bass
Ari Brown: tenor saxophone
Jeff Parker: guitar
Gerald Cleaver: drums

“Sharp, deeply interactive, and soulful music; a brilliant quartet!”

Joshua Abrams: double bass
David Boykin: tenor saxophone
Jason Adasiewicz: vibraphone
Frank Rosaly: drums

"Notice then how, in Unknown Known, “things” seem to settle in, so much so and so well they immediately freeze, before uncoiling, disintegrating, tearing apart, and come back as shadows. Notice how, on Boom goes the Moon, the theme is enmeshed then hypnotic, and the second part, like a harmonious cloud floats before imperturbably exploding. Notice how on Settle Down, a rooted...

“The Art Ensemble of Chicago's latest album, recorded in Paris, where the group was formed over 50 years ago. Recorded in France in 2020 at the Son d' hiver festival, this recording celebrates the legendary group's historic ties to Paris, where it was formed in 1968.
When trumpet great Lester Bowie died in 1999, followers of the Art Ensemble of Chicago couldn't help but wonder whether the legendary quintet, which owed so much to his special and outlandish gifts, would - or should - go on. That it did.

Anthony Braxton: sopranino, soprano and alto saxophones, electronics
Miya Masaoka: 21 string koto

"What becomes quickly apparent when the music ends is that the parts of the brain wired for multi-tasking and instant contextualization have been swamped by Masaoka and Braxton’s palette, their bold strokes and the vaulting arcs they form.-Bill Shoemaker, excerpt of the liner notes.
Recorded on August 25th 2013 by Jon Rosenberg at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, USA.

John Butcher: tenor and soprano saxophones
Thomas Lehn: electronic
Matthew Shipp: piano

“Matthew Shipp, John Butcher and Thomas Lehn appropriate the different aspects of music and sound and together manage to transform / combine / corrupt the elements at their disposal while keeping their individual identities and personalities intact. Their languages have the ability to set music in motion, to accelerate or decelerate, showing how these two factors can balance or unbalance each other...

Robert Dick-flutes
Tiffany Chang-drums
"R. Dick and T. Chang keeps the ear moving from beginning to end, a measure of how successfully they avoided redundancy."

Paul Dunmall: tenor saxophone
Matthew Shipp: piano
Joe Morris: double bass
Gerald Cleaver: drums

Recorded live on June 11th 2012 at Roulette, Brooklyn, New York, USA as part of Vision Festival 17.

“This recording is a meaningful example of why we all continue to work this way. While we pursue any and all other versions of Free Music that our imaginations allow, the open form collective performance that builds itself on pitch, melody, rhythm, energy and rich, deep expression

Michel Edelin: flute, alto flute, bass flute
Sophia Domancich: piano, Fender Rhodes
Sylvain Kassap: clarinet, bass clarinet
Stéphane Kerecki: double bass
Simon Goubert: drums
John Greaves: spoken words

“Echoes of the mythic British band Henry Cow with one of its initial members as special guest. Great and fully relevant!”

“That a ‘jazz’ flautist should borrow musical ideas from a band labeled ‘rock’ will only come as a surprise to those who never experienced or ha

Fred Frith: electric guitar
Susana Santos Silva: trumpet

“The first collaboration (and for sure not the last one...) between Fred Frith and Susana Santos Silva, recorded live on August 27th 2021 at Motoco, Mulhouse, France.”

Mary Halvorson (guitar)
Tomas Fujiwara (drums)
Benoit Delbecq (piano, piano prepare)
Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet, flugelhorn)

This is 3/8ths of the great Living By Lanterns + Benoit! "Experimental and accessible music, a name revolutionary and royal. Four individuals, one ensemble!"

"Thunderous applause, then a pause; then thunderous applause after an eloquent sophisticated dignified storm!"
Joelle Leandre-double bass
Mat Maneri-viola
Greald Cleaver-drums

Tom Rainey: drums
Ingrid Laubrock: tenor and soprano saxophones
Sylvie Courvoisier: piano
Mark Feldman: violin

“TISM is the result of four musicians of immeasurable ability listening to one another and drawing up intuition developed over years of collaboration to create something uncanny in all of its shifting turbulence and beauty. The communication is profound."

Tony Malaby - tenor and soprano saxophones
Angelica Sanchez - piano, Wurlitzer electric piano
Tom Rainey - drums

“The second highly anticipated, Malaby/Sanchez/Rainey trio album more than 15 years after their first one.”

Denman Maroney – piano
Scott Walton – double bass (formerly of Cosmologic)
Denis Fournier – drums, percussion

“D. Maroney, creator of hyperpiano, D. Fournier, drummer in the lienage of Sunny Murray or Milford Graves and S. Walton, solid and creative bassist.”

Joe McPhee: tenor and soprano saxophones, vocals
Michael Bisio: double bass
Fred Lonberg-Holm: cello
Juma Sultan: percussion

“Four masters, four musical experiences, each as dense and diverse. For each of them, the need to explore is part of his conception of music. At all times, the music seeks to surpass itself, but without ever losing its balance, whether it is when they improvise, when they play each other’s compositions or when they reinvest the themes of Charlie Haden “Human...

"As the album moves on, it only gets better and better, and Nicole elevates herself to new heights."
Nicole Mitchell (flute, alto flute)
Craig Taborn (piano, Wurlitzer electric piano)
David Boykin (tenor sax)
Chad Taylor (drums, acoustic guitar)

Joëlle Léandre: double bass
Fred Frith: electric guitar
Alvin Curran: piano, synthesizer, samples
Urs Leimgruber: tenor and soprano saxophone

"This is powerful music, even dangerous. Not just because of this quartet’s name - MillsMusicMafia (aka MMM) - which offers some irreverent tendencies among its musicians. It is dangerous because of its suggestive power on us, a power that transcends the music, forming it into a deep spiritual experience one that may motivate us to kick out...

Joe Morris: guitar
Mary Halvorson: guitar

Joe was one of the first of the new American ‘out jazz’ musicians who I followed in their emergence in the late 80s/early 90s, after I’d given up on contemporary jazz due to too many young men in suits and ties with no dirt under their nails....
Joe didn’t do that and his wonderful hot ‘n’ sweaty power trio showed another way.
Joe was also one of Mary’s teachers before she left her native Boston and she (correctly) acknowledges how much she..

Larry Ochs: tenor and sopranino saxophones
Natsuki Tamura: trumpet
Satoko Fujii: piano, synthesizer
Scott Amendola: drums, percussion, electronics
Matthias Bossi: thunder drum, Chinese gongs, shaky flotsam, percussion
William Winant: timpani, roto-toms, percussion

"Despite a well-documented incident where Larry Ochs was legally challenged for inflicting psychological damage on a festival goer who’d been expecting “jazz” (it’s a great modern parable), he doesn’t have quite t

Jeff Parker: guitar
Eric Revis: double bass
Nasheet Waits: drums

“This music is about a delicious understanding of life, that compels us to constantly rethink, relive, every single thing—to not be afraid of visiting our similar limits, as Marion Brown would so subtly say, and explore them. To lift, and spirit away, sounds and meaning.”

William Parker: double bass
Matthew Shipp: piano

“Excursions into myriad worlds of tone, texture and color.”

“There is not much I can say about the music except to say we just play the music. At times what is here seems to me to transcend the idea of music and enter some realm of pure language and vibration. I feel so blessed to be in a duo of this sort.”-M. S.

“All anchored by the tradition of the blues and the cosmic church. Even as the world around us is dying this new...

At the 2012 Guelph Jazz Fest, the ROVA Saxophone Quartet (Bruce Ackley - soprano saxophone, Steve Adams - alto saxophone, Larry Ochs - tenor saxophone, Jon Raskin - baritone saxophone) performed an arrangement of John Coltrane s seminal Ascension album.

For this performance, Rova was joined by eight extraordinary musicians: Nels Cline (electric guitar), Fred Frith (electric bass), Carla Kihlstedt (violin and electronics) and Jenny Scheinman (violins), Chris Brown (electronics) and Ikue Mori....

Matthew Shipp: piano
Rob Brown: alto saxophone, flute
William Parker: double bass

"The music takes on short, fleeting forms: fading here, held and moody there, as though the improvisation encouraged skepticism of firm certitudes. The tightness of the discourse, however, demands enlightening energy and lucid tautness."

Matthew Shipp - piano
Michael Bisio - bass
Whit Dickey - drums

Shipp plays in his own inimitably personal style some of the most beloved of Duke’s compositions, “rewriting” the book and making this excursion uniquely his own.
Many greats have tackled Ellington. The one who immediately comes to mind is Monk with his now legendary trio date for Riverside records Thelonious Monk plays the Music of Duke Ellington. The result is fascinating. But unlike Monk doing it his way, though....

Matthew Shipp – piano
Mark Helias – double bass

“M. Shipp and M. Helias, two outstanding artists, two great careers, the first time playing together!”