Michaël Attias: alto saxophone & piano

“Échos la nuit , Michaël Attias' first solo album, was twelve years in gestation and recorded in a little over an hour. The reverberation is from the room and the sympathetic resonance of the piano strings set into vibration by the sound of the saxophone and intricate pedal-work.
There are no overdubs: the alto is played with the left hand, the piano with the right. “But”, as Anthony Coleman quotes in his liners, "on this disc, it’s more like what Duke.

Tim Berne - alto saxophone
Tom Rainey - drums
Gregg Belisle-Chi – guitar

I just saw this band; they are the real thing. Recommended.

“Is there anything more exciting than a new Tim Berne working band, and their first recording? The new trio is Tim with Tom Rainey and Gregg Belisle-Chi. is studio + a crazy live set that David Torn mixed and mastered. The art is a collaboration between Steve Byram and TJ Huff. This one is crazy! RIYL: a brand new Tim Berne band, also Big Satan

Dustin Carlson - guitar, compositions
Nathaniel Morgan - alto saxophone
Eric Trudel - baritone saxophone
Danny Gouker - trumpet
Matt Mitchell - Prophet 6
Adam Hopkins - bass
Kate Gentile - drums

Great, very composerly ‘math jazz’ release; not as heavy as Starebaby, but certainly in the same sort of ball park.

“Dustin Carlson just surprises me with each new project, fucking genius new music composer/conceiver....brilliant guitarist with his own voice...

Laura Ann Singh – vocals

Bob Miller - trumpet, flugelhorn

J.C. Kuhl - bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
Michael McNeill - piano

Adam Hopkins - bass

Scott Clark - drums, composition

“There is a Richmond sound much like there is a Chicago sound, and drummer Scott Clark has been at the center of it for the last 20 years and counting. Dawn & Dusk is his most refined and inventive to date, and this dark, slow moving (heavily influenced by Morton Feldman), drone-focused suite.

Alfredo Colón - Alto Saxophone
Lex Korten - Piano, Klavins Una Corda
Steve Williams - Upright Bass
Connor Parks - Drums

“Blood Burden is the debut album from Brooklyn-based saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Alfredo Colón. Deeply rooted in the blues tradition, Alfredo brings harrowingly raw emotion in the form of barely-contained chaos to Blood Burden — a meditation on the interplay of Dominican folklore and Catholic imagery and ethos, and an ode to his immediate family...

Scott Clark - drums
Christopher Dammann - bass
James Davis - trumpet
Jon Irabagon - alto saxophone
Mabel Kwan - piano
Edward Wilkerson, Jr. - tenor saxophone, Eb alto clarinet

“This complex compound of singular (musical) personalities did not emerge quickly. Dammann first assembled the group as a quintet in January 2023 working with Irabagon for the first time at Davis’ recommendation. After adding Wilkerson as a guest at a show that summer, Dammann spent a year...

Marc Ducret - electric and acoustic 12 and 6 string guitars, fretless, soprano acoustic and electric, 4 and 6 string bass, prepared guitar, daxophone, percussion, daf, chains, suitcase, voice, handclaps
Fabrice Martinez - trumpet, piccolo trumpet, fluegelhorn, tuba
Sylvaine Hélary - alto flute

Chrstiane Bopp - trombone

Bruno Ducret - cello, voice, handclaps

“Marc Ducret, on his process for creating Palm Sweat:
The material Tim had been sending me was sometimes a piece

Nick Dunston - double bass, compositions
Louna Dekker-Vargas - flute, alto flute, piccolo
Ledah Finck - violin, viola
Tal Yahalom - guitar
Stephen Boegehold - drum set

“It is with great audacity that a composer imposes their music and will upon the free-thinking musicians of their band. What a joy for us that Nick Dunston has taken such a leap and made Atlantic Extraction a reality! His courage is well-deserved, for he roots his music profoundly in these principles..

“Bloodletting, recorded, March 22th, 2019 at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, is a performance of a long form text score I wrote around late 2018. Unlike directive text scores that indicate through order or poetry what should be played (or evoked), my score is a block of text, written to be memorized and then performed using the nonlinear randomness of memory.The purpose of this form of text-score was to mimic, through memory and temporal distance, the way the eye dances on a page, selecting what it does...

Tomas Fujiwara - drums and compositions
Tim Keiper - donso ngoni, kamale ngoni, calabash, temple blocks, timbale, djembe, castanets, balafon, found objects, and other percussion
Kaoru Watanabe - o-jimedaiko, uchiwadaiko, shimedaiko, and shinobue
Patricia Brennan - vibraphone

The first release by drummer and composer Tomas’ all percussion ensemble. This is absolutely NOT a ‘drum solo’ kind of release; these are compositions.

“…a group that harnesses global folkloric...

Tomas Fujiwara’s 7 Poets Trio:
Tomas Fujiwara - drums and compositions
Tomeka Reid - cello
Patricia Brennan - vibraphone

“The compositions for Tomas Fujiwara - Pith were written between April 2020 and January 2022. It was a time of minimal to no performing opportunities, which was a massive lifestyle change for Fujiwara, an active drummer on the international touring scene. Because of this there was no deadline for Pith (a first for Fujiwara), and while he knew he was writing...

Curtis Stewart - violin
Sam Bardfeld - violin
Stephanie Griffin - viola
Tomeka Reid - cello

“In the second half of the 20th century, no one wrote multi-horn polyphony better than Fort Worth-born multi-reedist Julius Hemphill (1938-1995). Just listen to the harmonized voices on, say, the title track from the World Saxophone Quartet's Revue, or "Otis' Groove" from the Julius Hemphill Sextet's Fat Man and the Hard Blues.
Hemphill arrived fully formed with 1972's Dogon A.D. (for..

Christopher Hoffman - cello, electric cello, drum programming & synth
Frank LoCrasto - keyboards
Bill Campbell - drums
Henry Threadgill - alto saxophone (track 2)
Ryan Scott - guitar (tracks 2 & 6)
Anna Webber - flute (track 5)
Alfredo Colón - EWI (track 7)

“Vision Is The Identity finds him in a sound world that blends acoustic instruments with electronica, continuing down a path all his own. His last, Asp Nimbus, was a tribute to the 60s avant jazz he loves like

Adam Hopkins - bass, compositions
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone
Ed Rosenberg - tenor saxophone, bass saxophone (track 6)
Josh Sinton - baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
Jonathan Goldberger - guitar
Devin Gray - drums

“...But what is uncommon about this release is Hopkins’ blend of free jazz, fusion, and rock stylings.”-Avant Music News

“Adam Hopkins has been an active figure on the New York City scene since settling in Brooklyn in 2011, and has toured.

"Saxophonist/composer Travis Laplante has devoted his life to finding new sounds, heard everywhere from the avant-punk jazz of Little Women, to the ever-evolving saxophone quartet Battle Trance, to mind-bending solo performances, duos with Gerald Cleaver and Peter Evans, and a collaboration with new music ensemble Yarn/Wire, about which Hank Shteamer of Rolling Stone said "head-spinning flights of circular breathing share space with sparse, prayerful lyricism." He doesn’t sit still, and if you think...

Dave Ballou - trumpet
Herb Robertson - trumpet
Drew Gress - bass
Tom Rainey - drums

“To those familiar with the NYC downtown music scene of the 80s and 90s, trumpeters Herb Robertson and Dave Ballou need no introduction. Having collaborated with the likes of Tim Berne, John Zorn, Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Dewey Redman, and countless others, both were at the center of what was one of the most formative eras for experimental and improvised music to date.
In performance.

Oblong (tracks 1-12):
Matt Mitchell - piano, compositions
Kate Gentile - drums, percussion

Aplomb (tracks 13-24):
Matt Mitchell - piano, compositions
Ches Smith - drums, gongs, percussion, vibraphone, glockenspiel, tam-tam, timpani

“Oblong Aplomb is the much-anticipated follow up to Mitchell’s debut album Fiction (2013), the tour-de-force duo recording with longtime percussion counterpart Ches Smith. Oblong Aplomb not only takes the duo concepts initiated on Fict

Mali Obomsawin - bass, lead vocals, hand drum
Savannah Harris - drums, vocals

Miriam Elhajli - acoustic and electric guitars, lead vocals
Allison Burik - bass clarinet, alto saxophone, vocals
Noah Campbell - tenor, soprano, alto saxophones
Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet, flugelhorn

“A suite for Indigenous resistance, the new album from Wabanaki bassist, composer, and songwriter Mali Obomsawin flies in the face of Western tropes that insist Indigenous cultures are monolithic

Jessica Pavone: composer
Katherine Young: bassoon solo (tracks II, III)
Aimée Niemann and Charlotte Munn-Wood: violin
Abby Swidler and Jessica Pavone (solo on tracks III, IV): viola
Mariel Roberts (solo on track IV): cello
Shayna Dulberger: double bass

“Clamor rethinks the notion of 'women's work' as a space for both collaboration and singular voice. Just as our ensemble is limited and enabled by the written score, so might be individual enunciations of how gender nor

Nathaniel Morgan - alto saxophone
Dustin Carlson - guitar, Bass VI
Kate Gentile - drums & vibraphone

“Secret People is a band. It began in 2012 as a duo of Brooklyn-based guitarist Dustin Carlson and drummer Kate Gentile, who not only played frequently, but lived together as roommates and worked in the same coffee shop for years. There were countless hours (literally hundreds) spent co-composing and rehearsing the music, but countless more discussing and listening to influences from.

Kenny Warren - trumpet, piano, production
Christopher Hoffman - cello
Nathan Ellman-Bell - drums

“Sweet World was recorded in the summer of 2023 in Brooklyn. It features a book of songs that my trio with drummer Nathan Ellman-Bell, and cellist Christopher Hoffman performed for a year or so leading up to the recording. I wrote most of these songs with Nathan and Chris in mind. I tried to bring my whole musical self to this project. I love so many kinds of music. Improvisation is...

Excellent, composed, turn on a dime big band that skirts musics well beyond jazz.

“Here is a jazz band that is tightly arranged and gorgeously free, a new music ensemble that improvises and plays with precision, a complex modern idiom rendered with scuffed-up life… the Webber/Morris Big Band jumps out like a joy.” – Pop Matters

“Anna Webber and Angela Morris, two composer-performers whose music overturns expectations for the jazz big band, have co-led this ensemble of stellar New York...

Field of Action [2019-2022]
Charmaine Lee - voice/microphones/electronics
Eric Wubbels - piano/synth

contraposition [2016]
Weston Olencki - trombone
Eric Wubbels - prepared piano

“Field of Action / contraposition (OOYH 013) is a split LP, and the continuation of a series of duo pieces for piano and other instruments that Wubbels has been pursuing since 2006. Field of Action is a composition in collaboration with vocalist and noise artist Charmaine Lee that grew...