Berlin Jazz Days, 6 November 1976. Albert Mangelsdorff's trombone, alone at the front, with Jaco Pastorius on electric bass and Alphonse Mouzon on drums, a year after Pastorius's debut. Five long pieces, recorded live, released by MPS in 1977. The tr…
Walldorf Studio, near Frankfurt, 1 and 2 May 1975. Albert Mangelsdorff on trombone, Palle Danielsson on bass, Elvin Jones on drums. Seven pieces, thirty-nine minutes, released by MPS the same year.
Mangelsdorff had recorded with Jones once before, on…
Cologne, Cornet Studios, January 1975. Rolf Kühn on clarinet with a band that reads like a German jazz roll call: his brother Joachim Kühn on piano and electric piano, Philip Catherine on guitar, Gerd Dudek on tenor and soprano, Albert Mangelsdorff o…
Moonwalker, Aarburg, Switzerland, 29 March 1992. Sun Ra, fourteen months from the end, at synthesizer and piano with a ten-piece Arkestra: Marshall Allen, Michael Ray, Ahmed Abdullah, Tyrone Hill, Buster Smith. Ten pieces in fifty-six minutes, mostly…
Donaueschingen, October 1979. Karl Berger brought the orchestra of his Creative Music Studio from Woodstock to the German contemporary music festival, and Südwestfunk and MPS recorded it. The roster reads like the CMS guest book: Don Cherry on trumpe…
Donaueschingen, 21 October 1967. Archie Shepp with Roswell Rudd and Grachan Moncur III on trombones, Jimmy Garrison on bass, Beaver Harris on drums. One piece, One for the Trane, forty-three minutes, three months after Coltrane's death, opening with …
CD eissue of Don Cherry's classic Eternal Rhythm Group, recorded at the Berlin Jazz Festival, 1968. An amazing line up of: Cherry (cornet, gender and saron [gamelan], flutes), Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone), Eje Thelin (trombone), Bernt Rosengren (te…
Nick Dunston's trio with Kalia Vandever on trombone and DoYeon Kim on gayageum: open structures between song and soundscape for bass, trombone and Korean zither, with liner notes by Wendy Eisenberg.
A composition by saxophonist Travis Laplante for a nine-piece ensemble, dedicated to the muse of Miles Davis and recorded live at the Yellow Barn Music Festival in Putney, Vermont, in July 2021.
Two duos with piano by composer Eric Wubbels: Field of Action, made with Charmaine Lee on voice, microphones and electronics, and contraposition for trombonist Weston Olencki and prepared piano.
First recordings of two long microtonal works by Kraig Grady, The Molten Wind and Crow on the Dark Side of Gloss, built from individually recorded single notes played by an international group of soloists in Grady's just-intonation tunings.
A long-form drone piece by David First built on the 16th to 32nd harmonics of G, performed by the twelve-member ensemble The Western Enisphere, with liner notes by Sarah Hennies.
Reissue, originally released in 1963. Lou Blackburn's debut Imperial session has to be considered mostly a bop album, even though traces of contemporary pop culture and soul are clearly an influence. The trombone player is joined by Freddie Hill (tru…
Recorded in 1957 this is one of Charles Mingus's lesser known sessions. Here the master was at the head of an awesome band including some of his regular sidemen. Jimmy Knepper - trombone, Shafi Hadi - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone and Dannie Richmo…
Absolute killer session recorded at Vanguard Studios, New York, September 24 and 28 in 1984, with an intense line-up of some of our all-time-fav players of free music, including of tenor-saxophonist Frank Lowe, trumpeter Don Cherry, trombonnist Grach…
*In process of stocking* 15 self-portraits by Sebi Tramontana. The shortest is about 30 seconds and the longest is almost nine minutes.In these fifteen pieces the trombone is explored in multiple directions. There are techniques dear to the world of …
UK multi-reed master Evan Parker brings an all-star electroacoustic septet to the 2014 Victoriaville Festival for the massive and wonderfully detailed two part composition "Seven", performed with Peter Evans, Okkyung Lee, George Lewis, Ikue Mori, Sam…
**New vinyl reissue remastered from the original 1982 master tapes, packaged in classic Folkways-style tip-on jackets with liner notes.** The sonorous drift of four trombones, like gentle waves lapping at the edge of a celestial shoreline, opens Crai…
John Cage's Five³ (1991), one of the late number pieces, for trombone and string quartet, played by Monique Buzzarté and the Arditti String Quartet. Cover etching by Cage, liner notes by James Pritchett.
Roland Dahinden's first release of his own compositions, the two parts of Free Lines, with his readings of Coltrane's Naima and Braxton's Composition 136, joined by Anthony Braxton, bassist Joe Fonda and drummer Art Fuller.