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The Realist
Janel Leppin - The Realist (OOYH 048), featuring the incredible new trio of Janel with Devra Hoff (Sharon Van Etten, Nels Cline, Xiu Xiu) on bass, and Chad Taylor (Chicago Underground Duo, Marc Ribot, jaimie Branch) on drums, which Phil Overeem called "the freshest sounds from one of the most fascinating artists in creative improvisation."
Öppet Fyra
In close collaboration with musician Mats Gustafsson and jazz archivist Roger Bergner at the Centre for Swedish Folk Music & Jazz Research, Caprice presents a relatively unexplored period of Scandinavian creative and experimental music from the 1960s and 70s. In the record series Öppet, we look towards the future by digging in the past. We find exclamation points of creativity from a period that, in many ways, was a time of pioneering in art as well as music. Anything was possible, and we like t…
Message From Home
Pharoah Sanders' 1996 Verve album with Bill Laswell producing, Foday Musa Suso, Hamid Drake, Bernie Worrell and Charnett Moffett: hip-hop pulse, Gambian kora and the full-cry tenor on one record. Back on vinyl for the first time since the rare French original, on 180g black vinyl
Passerine
Passerine began in the fall of 2024 when my older son left home for college and friends began to ask if I were experiencing empty nest syndrome, or half-empty nest syndrome, as was the case. Each time, my reply was a simple, “nah, I’m good…everybody’s good.” And that was true. My wife, the boys, and I were all doing relatively well after many difficult, often harrowing years of helping our first-born navigate deep and dangerous mental health struggles — struggles so severe that we’d already had …
here i am no i
Saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi and drummer Jason Nazary present their new album, here i am no i, on September 18th. The release marks their duo debut for We Jazz Records, adding to an expanding release catalog also including Nazary’s solo album Spring Collection (2021). here i am no i is a free-flowing body of work with continuous forward-motion, building on the acoustic duo setting and expands with electronics and voice landing somewhere beyond genre. Dedicated to jaimie branch, the album is a s…
Fall 2026 "Brilliant Corners" (Magazine)
Thelonious Monk by Francis Gooding, Mats Gustafsson, Fielding Hope, Patrick Preziosi, Andy Thomas, Arttu Tolonen, Bret Sjerven, Daniel Spicer & Wif Stenger, Miles Okazaki by Andrew Scott, Kiri Ra! by Wif Stenger, Jazz Is Dead By Tina Edwards, Dirar Kalash by Henry Boon, Dewey Redman on Impulse by Andy Beta, Water Damage by Matt Sonzala, Mikel Patrick Avery by Patrick Romanowski, The Torched Torch Singers by Alex Coles & more.
Animative
On October 23, Animative, Johnson’s third album under his own name and his first for International Anthem/Nonesuch, arrives to turn up the wattage on his artistry. More than any release to date, Animative shows why musicians and a growing community of listeners know this Chicago native and longtime L.A. resident to be one of the most imaginative electroacoustic musicians today, not to mention one of the most stunningly versatile. On Animative, the harmonically rich, loops-inflected sound Johnson…
Del Soffio
Like a breath that expands and slowly fades away, “Del Soffio”, Aniello Perduto’s debut for Maple Death Records, takes shape as a single composition lasting just under fifty minutes, stemming from an open score performed at the prestiguous AngelicA | Music Research Center. Amid echoes of European free jazz, electroacoustic improvisation, minimalism, and contemporary music, the trio brings to life an essential and instinctive sound in which every sonic gesture is guided by mutual listening while …
Live at the KiMo Theater Albuquerque 1979
On Live at the KiMo Theater Albuquerque 1979, Cecil Taylor leads a newly reconfigured Unit through a rare Western American performance of volatile grace and immense detail. Piano, alto saxophone, violin, bass, cello and multi-instrumental percussion form a shifting, luminous organism - less gladiatorial than Taylor’s 1978 bands, but no less radical in its freedom.
Energy Center (Book)
In Energy Center, Ed Hazell tells the essential story of Studio Rivbea, the Lower Manhattan loft where Sam Rivers and Bea Rivers made radical music possible on its own terms. Drawing on new research, photographs, posters and an unrivalled sessionography, the book restores 24 Bond Street as a home, school, rehearsal room and self-determined cultural engine.
On The Road
Limited edition CD & download album from Danny Thompson’s group fusing jazz with folk music. The triple CD comes in an 8-panel digisleeve with 28 page booklet detailing the complete history of the band and illustrated with photos and images mainly from Paul Dunmall’s archives.
When asked “is it jazz or folk?” about his band Whatever, Danny Thompson replied “well, it’s Whatever!” Hence the name. When Danny started Whatever, a trio with reed player Tony Roberts and guitarist Bernie Holland, and in…
Faux Départ
Welcoming Tori Kudo back to A Colourful Storm with a new edition of Maher Shalal Hash Baz's Faux Départ, a document of a stateside tour that culminated in a recording session at the legendary Dub Narcotic Studio with a one-time ensemble of Greg Saunier and Chris Cohen (Deerhoof), Andrew Maxwell, McCloud Zicmuse, Arrington de Dionyso, Takashi Ueno, Saya Ueno, Naoki Otani, Akiko Hotaka, Masaaki Endo and Naoki Otani. Always spontaneous, never rehearsed. Music in and of this world, seemingly teeteri…
Hits Different
Following their debut “Jazz Report From The Hood", which proved a major success and brought attention to Omasta as one of the most distinctive groups emerging from the contemporary jazz scene, the musicians return with their second album, “Hits Different”. The record develops the language established on their debut, pushing it into new territory and shifting the perspective from that of the protagonists themselves to that of a narrator telling the story. In just one year, Omasta went from an eme…
Peace & Blessings
Nat Birchall goes back to the source. Not Coltrane this time, but the record that led him to Coltrane in the first place.
In 1973 a schoolboy in Lancashire ordered a triple LP from his local record shop after reading about it in Black Music magazine. It was Grounation, by Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari - hand drums, chanting, poetry, and the tenor saxophone of Cedric 'Im' Brooks, soulful and untamed, heard years before Birchall ever put on a John Coltrane record. When he finall…
Volvo Dynamics (LP)
Obscure 1979 album of excellent fusion, jazz-funk and easy listening on Pathos, previously released in 1975 as Evolution Now by Ector Davis. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Trios
Martin Pyne’s new release, the double album Trios, focuses on his unique approach to the vibraphone. The album places his playing in the context of two contrasting trio lineups. In Vampire Coast Trio Martin is joined by one of his favourite drummers, Johnny Hunter, along with the extraordinary double bass player Michael Bardon. Together they make music with a truly transparent texture, full of both space and sonic detail together with richly lyrical melody and counterpoint. Martin says, “Michael…
A Luci Rosse (LP)
Rare 1981 album on New Trolls' Magma label with very diverse music (easy listening, cosmic, ragtime, etc.) mainly played on electric and electronic keybords with lots of great synthetic sounds, composed by I Signori Della Galassia's Luigi Mosello and Giuseppe Aleo with Luigi Barisone. Never re-issued on either LP or CD. With original innersleeve.
Golden Hits Album (2LP)
Definitive 2LP compilation on Teichiku by the pioneering Japanese jazz and ryūkōka singer. With obi.
Just In Time (LP)
Original Japanese edition on MPS of the 1978 album with lush multi-tracked vocal arrangements of classic songs. With insert and obi.
Red Sky On New York
Obscure 1982 album on Gypsy Records with lovely keyboard-centered easy listening music "expressly composed by Gian Stellari and Guido Robuschi for Symbol International magazine for the friends of Rolls Royce - Ferrari - Riva. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.