“Every time experimental British saxophonist John Butcher plays in the northwestern part of this continent his trio is made up of two Vancouver-based players: bassist Torsten Muller and drummer Dylan van der Schyff. Listening to the nine pitch-perfect improvisations on this disc demonstrates why this configuration has been maintained since 2007.
The veteran bassist, who is perfectly capable of atonal string-stretching and scrubbed pulsations, is careful to maintain a connective pumping throughout...

“Darryl Way is a co-founder of CURVED AIR, a trailblazing rock violinist and composer.
“Destinations” is the new studio album by Darryl Way and features ten new rock instrumentals, with a variety of influences and sound effects enriching the style and delivery of the pieces.”

“I was very happy to see We Are Kin announce their new album recently. “…and I know…” was such a joy back in 2016, and I found myself listening to it quite often. It was simply different than anything else released that year.
The band hails from the UK. The lineup includes Emma Brewin-Caddy on vocals, Gary Boast on drums and sound design, Lee Braddock on bass, and Daniel Zambas on keys and vocals. These musicians produce a true flow of music that does not try to “one up” other band members....

A truly fabulous medium large band (usually 7-10 pieces) including several members of Karmic Juggernaut, as well as guitarist Tom Monda, from Thank You Scientist and is led by bassist and composer Cody McCorry.
The music is nothing like K.J., as it’s all instrumental and is much closer to Zappa-style jazz/rock; in fact comparisons to FZ’s ‘Petit Wazoo’ are very reasonable and apt. And, as they themselves say, “A genuinely fun-loving experimental ensemble from New Jersey.”
I’ve seen them play...

Joe Zawinul - piano & electric piano
Wayne Shorter - tenor & soprano saxophone
Miroslav Vitous - bass & electric bass
Alphonse Mouzon – drums
Dom Um Romao - percussion

This is the earliest known recording of Weather Report and would seem to be from their third known appearance(!). It’s long been known to exist in high quality recordings, but finally here it is generally available!

"Thanks to the commercial success of Miles Davis's 'Bitches Brew' there was a lot of fus

"To celebrate the 40th ''birthday'' of one of the world's best bands - Weather Report - the label Art of Groove is releasing the band's Rockpalast concert in Cologne 1983 - a premiere on CD.
What a feast the concert was for the Cologne-based audience that night, and is now for us all these years later. As Omar Hakim has said: ''Weather Report wasn't typical instrumental music: there was Europe, Africa, jazz, blues, Latin, all inside one thing. It was true world music....''. Here's to that!...

Weather Report grew out of Miles Davis' early electric jazz/rock experiments in 1969-71. Weather Report formed in 1971, and this was recorded by the great, second version of the band: Joe Zawinul-pianos and synths, Wayne Shorter-saxes, Miroslav Vitous-...

"Right from the start, a vastly different Weather Report emerges here, one that reflects co-leader Joe Zawinul's developing obsession with the groove. It is the groove that rules this mesmerizing album, leading off with the irresistible 3/4 marathon...

Jane Weaver is a singer, guitarist and songwriter and this album, who somehow managed to include the Australian space-rock band Cybotron on board, at its best sounds like a cross between classic Hawkwind and Neu!, fronted by a female singer!...

“NYC-based saxophonists Anna Webber and Angela Morris are at the forefront of a wave of young, modern composers dead-set on pushing the historic art form into the future. Leading a big band in 2020 is an undertaking of pure passion, a labor of love. It is no longer a feasible way to make a living as a musician, or a possible path to widespread international recognition and fortune as the composer/bandleader. In fact, it is nearly impossible to not lose money on such a venture. Composing and arranging for...

“Idiom by composer/saxophonist/ flutist Anna Webber is the follow-up to her critically-acclaimed release Clockwise, which the Wall Street Journal called "visionary and captivating" and NPR described as “heady music [that] appeal to the rest of the body.” Idiom is a series of six pieces, each of which is based on a specific woodwind extended technique -- a broad term meaning any non-traditional way of producing sound on an instrument, including the use of multiphonics, alternate fingerings, key clicks...

Anna Webber: Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Bass Flute
Matt Mitchell: Piano
John Hollenbeck: Drums

“Every new album by saxophonist, flutist, and composer Anna Webber feels like a revelation, and a huge step forward in a discography of the highest quality. Anna Webber‘s simpletrio2000 which comes a decade after the release of the group’s debut Simple, expresses their deep curiosity and tireless creativity. At the intersection of avant-garde jazz and new classical music, Webber’s work has been...

Three major, major classics available all together.

"These three Eberhard Weber CDs incorporate all the music made for ECM by his innovative group Colours, the albums Yellow Fields (1975), Silent Feet (1977_ and Little Movements (1980). Colours was formed in 1975, initially to take music from Weber's award-winning album The Colours of Chloe on the road, but quickly took on a special identity of its own, drawing on the exceptional talents of the participants and touching on jazz improvisation...

PROMO

Katharina Weber: Piano

“Fred Frith describes the Swiss pianist Katharina Weber as a “piano icon”. The classically trained pianist and composer moves in the large world of today‘s music, where borders no longer exist and new music and jazz improvisation merge. 12 years after her celebrated solo CD Woven Time. In Márta‘s Garden is her second solo album. The musical framework is formed by two piano pieces by György Kurtág dedicated to Márta Kurtág and at the centre is his composition “...

Katharina Weber: Piano
Fred Frith: Guitar
Fredy Studer: Drums, Gong

"A new "piano icon" – this is how Fred Frith describes Katharina Weber. For almost thirty years now the classically trained pianist and composer moves within the world.

Legit reissue of this 1971 release from Phillips, with a classic cover that only could have happened in the very early 1970s!
What I found out many years later was that this project was headed by Ken Hensley of Uriah Heep, which makes plenty of sense once you know this information and listen to the music, but no one seemed to guess it at the time. Cool and fun, British-sounding progressive hard rock.

“Weed were an up-and-coming Krautrock band from Bielefeld, Germany, known for their unique..

"Grunge-like stoner rock from Warsaw, Poland. Really nice light/dark moody segments with the occasional vocals. The singer sounds like Chris Cornell after sucking a bong packed with broken glass. The wah pedal gets a fair stomping particularly on the epic track 'Sativa Landscapes' Nice..."-RYM

"WeFreeStrings was founded in 2011. This is the group's second album. Leader Melanie Dyer (not to be confused with the Australian country pop songwriter of the same name) is a jazz viola player and composer based in New York City who currently performs with the Sun Ra Arkestra, Dead Lecturers, Heroes Are Gang Leaders, Baba Andrew Lamb, Gwen Laster's New Muse 4tet, William Parker, Tomeka Reid Stringtet, Janice Lowe/Tyehimbe Jess Millie & Christina project, and Patricia Nicholson's Women with an Axe to...

This is the first-ever CD issue from the orginal analog master tapes! This is a Cosmic Courrier Kraut classic. Wegmuller was an artist who had designed a Tarot card set, & the music here is performed by what is basically the first version of the Cosmic Jokers: Manuel Gottsching, Hartmut Enke, Harald Grosskopf, Jurgen Dollase, Jerry Berkers & Walter Westrupp.
Produced by that big Cosmiche Joker himself, Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser, & star-maiden Gille, there are many moments of wild, searing Krautrock!...

Sam Weinberg (tenor & soprano saxophones)
Henry Fraser (upright bass)
Weasel Walter (drums & percussion)

“The studio debut by this regular trio featuring Sam Weinberg on saxophones, Henry Fraser on bass and Weasel Walter on drums. Beginning in 2017, this threesome has performed live in New York regularly, honing their instrumental interplay and focusing mainly on a brand of fast-paced, muscular free improvisation with strong hints of free jazz from both the US and Europe strains. Both.

Lauren Weinger's album Silo is drawn from the soundtrack of a large-scale installation project, Picture Powderhorn, which was 1st performed around the grain silos in Minneapolis, in August of 2000. Featuring aerialists covered in mics and recorders asc...

Walt Weiskopf - Tenor Saxophone
Carl Winther - Piano
Daniel Franck - Bass
Anders Mogensen – Drums

“A major talent...a monster tenor saxophonist as well as a prolific composer and accomplished arranger.” – Bill Milkowski, JazzTimes

"A consummate saxophonist, composer and arranger." – Zan Stewart, DownBeat

“Recorded at the conclusion of a two-week tour of Denmark, Norway, and Germany in January of 2016; U.S. tenor giant Walt Weiskopf has teamed up with three of Europe

"Recently named one of Five Drummers Whose Time Is Now by the New York Times, Dan Weiss is one of the most in-demand musicians on the jazz scene, performing with Rudresh Mahanthappa, Miguel Zenon, Lee Konitz, and Dave Binney, among many others. He has....

Dan Weiss-drums, compositions
Trevor Dunn-electric bass
Ben Monder-guitars
Matt Mitchell-piano, synths
Craig Taborn-piano, Fender Rhodes, synths

This is a pretty incredible, rehearsal-intensive, 'math-jazz' release with by a tremendous line-up. Compositionally & performance-wise, it basically sounds a jazzier, recent-era Present. Hugely recommended!

"Starebaby is the upshot of drummer Dan Weiss's long-running dream to bring together some of the most accomplished players