Jazz & Improvisation / Contemporary

*Original masters licensed by Nippon Columbia for the first ever reissue. Includes OBI and insert.* 'Tapestry: Koto' is a 3-album series produced by Nippon Columbia in the mid-1970s dedicated to one of the main instruments of Japanese traditional mus…

Maurice Louca and his Elephantine Band commit a live, raw, collective sound to record. One of Egypt's most adventurous experimental figures pulls cosmic jazz, African and global musics and modal traditions into long stretches of hard-grooving, hypnot…

Recorded in Royal Alzheimer Hall, Thessaloniki, Greece, January 2015, Limited release of 500 unique record covers for the 500 hand-numbered copies of the Basenezmen music project. Two of the most important musicians in Greece are currently together f…

*300 copies limited edition* "This is the first LP (following a cassette) released under Drew Gardner’s name and it’s a doozy. Drew is a guitarist, probably best known as a founding member of Elkhorn (although his musical partnerships with Jesse Shep…

Recorded directly to two-track digital Mitsubishi X-80 tape recorder at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ on June 4th & 5th, 1987.

A great live Cd by drummer giant Roy Haynes. Roy Haynes's very active and his different approach to drumming comes out very well - hard swinging and with a lot of joy and very spontaneous.

In Nov. 1987, a three-concert Ed Blackwell Festival was held in Atlanta. The festival served as a good excuse to reunite the members of Old And New Dreams (trumpeter Don Cherry, tenor-saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Blackw…

Originally released in 1991 this was Henry Threadgil's new band's debut release. That's where Threadgill introduced the unique concept of dual tubas and dual electric guitars. In Very Very Circus's ultra-layered sound world all roles melt equally int…

Much-needed repress. First-time vinyl release. Old-style gatefold LP with liner notes by Kahimi Karie, Otomo Yoshihide & Tonoyama Taiji. Reissue, originally released on CD in 2005. Eric Dolphy's final studio album is hailed as one of the finest examp…

A previously unpublished recording of the Krzysztof Komeda Quintet's performances at the first jazz festival in Prague in 1964. An important, significant stop in the jazz career of the legendary pianist and composer appears on disc more than half a c…

Tip! *2022 stock* 'Recorded in 1997, Wadada Leo Smith's N'da Kulture has created a music that transcends all forms by integrating many of them into an amorphous yet deeply moving whole. This sextet, which uses Eastern and Western instruments, authors…

*2022 stock. In process of stocking.* "The 3rd release by Ken Vandermark's School Days is a double CD of studio material recorded with the Oslo quintet Atomic. Both bands have the same rhythm section of Paal Nilssen-Love on drums and Ingebrigt Haker …

This 1983 recording, originally issued on Sackville LP, features jazz trumpeter Joe McPhee with the Bill Smith Ensemble.      ” …a stimulating set of avant-garde music. The interplay between these masterful improvisors on group originals and Albert A…

Two great improvisers, pianist Elisabeth Harnik from Austria and trombone master Steve Swell play together! It's their first CD release! Check out how deep and colourful can be improvised music world!

Do you remember the excellent album Tone Hunting released a few years on Clean Feed? Of course, you do! Now we have the second incarnation of that excellent band but with a change on the seat of drums. Kuba Suchar is here replaced by a great drum's p…

It's hardly surprising that Mike Westbrook reigned supreme in the latter quarter of the 1960s and early 70s. His big band was voted top of that category in the late-lamented Melody Maker British jazz polls for 1970 (and the two years either side of t…

It's hardly surprising that Mike Westbrook reigned supreme in the latter quarter of the 1960s and early 70s. His big band was voted top of that category in the late-lamented Melody Maker British jazz polls for 1970 (and the two years either side of t…

In compiling a modern album of Elizabethan music, London Jazz Four were faced with both technical and interpretive problems. Musically they had to decide how far we could alter the original notation in order to allow ourselves a more modern basis for…

CD digipack incl.12-page booklet. Unreleased live recordings from the 4th Antibes Jazz Festival. Since 1960 a jazz festival is held in Juan-Les-Pins at the Côte d'Azur, which is regarded as one of the best summer festivals worldwide. Apart from the b…

Trio improvisations recorded at the Eremita de la Anunciada, Urueña, Spain, August 2007. Esteban Algora (accordion), Alessandra Rombolá (flute and tiles installation) and Ingar Zach (percussion) - three Madrid-based improvisers creating music where t…

Double LP by Dave Okumu, Tom Herbert and Tom Skinner, recorded live at The Crypt in Camberwell, London, on 15 June 2018: covers of Abercrombie, Björk, A.K. Paul and Miles Davis alongside originals.

Homage to Stefano Scodanibbio by Sebastian Gramss and ten other double bassists, among them Barry Guy, Joëlle Léandre, Barre Phillips and Mark Dresser, recorded separately in 2014, plus a 2008 live duo of Scodanibbio and Gramss.

Live recording from Donaueschingen, 17 October 1992: Michael Riessler's project on Abélard and Héloise, with Valentin Clastrier, Michel Godard, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Rabih Abou-Khalil and others, recorded by Südwestfunk.

Duo album by Manfred Schoof (trumpet, flugelhorn) and Rainer Brüninghaus (piano, keyboards), six original pieces recorded in October 1987 and May 1988 at Tonstudio Cornet, Cologne.

ECM :rarum XX: nine tracks featuring Norwegian drummer Jon Christensen, recorded 1974-1997 with Keith Jarrett, Ralph Towner, Terje Rypdal, Masqualero, Ketil Bjørnstad and the Bobo Stenson Trio. Released 2004.

ECM :rarum 19 (2004): thirteen pieces chosen by Arild Andersen from his ECM albums recorded 1975-1999, with Kenny Wheeler, Bill Frisell, Masqualero, Ralph Towner, Nana Vasconcelos, Vassilis Tsabropoulos and others.

ECM :rarum 14 (2004): ten tracks chosen by John Abercrombie from ten ECM albums recorded 1974-2000, with Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Ralph Towner, Kenny Wheeler, Mark Feldman and others; original sessions produced by Manfred Eicher.

ECM :rarum volume VIII: Bobo Stenson's own selection of thirteen recordings from 1971 to 1999, with his trios (Arild Andersen, Anders Jormin, Jon Christensen) and with Jan Garbarek, Don Cherry, Charles Lloyd and Tomasz Stanko.

Four complete solo piano concerts by Keith Jarrett, recorded by the pianist himself in October 1996 in Modena, Ferrara, Turin and Genoa, released in 2016 as a 4-CD box on ECM.

Keith Jarrett's solo piano concert at the Gran Teatro La Fenice, Venice, on 19 July 2006: an improvised eight-part suite, The Sun Whose Rays from The Mikado and three encores. Released on ECM in 2018.

Solo double album by Italian pianist Stefano Battaglia on piano and prepared piano, recorded in concert and in a closed session at the Fazioli Concert Hall, Sacile, in May 2016, and arranged by producer Manfred Eicher.

Double album of new compositions by Tomasz Stanko's New York Quartet with David Virelles (piano), Thomas Morgan (double bass) and Gerald Cleaver (drums), dedicated to Wisława Szymborska. Recorded at Avatar Studios, New York, in June 2012; ECM, 2013.

Live double album by the Jan Garbarek Group: Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones, selje flute), Rainer Brüninghaus (piano, keyboards), Yuri Daniel (bass) and Manu Katché (drums), recorded on 20 October 2007 at the Alter Schlachthof, Dresden.

Pat Metheny Group (Metheny, Lyle Mays, Steve Rodby, Dan Gottlieb, Nana Vasconcelos) live in Dallas, Philadelphia, Hartford, Sacramento and Nacogdoches, July-November 1982. 2CD.

Keith Jarrett's European quartet with Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen, live at the Village Vanguard, New York, May 1979: six Jarrett compositions on 2CD, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Double live album by Nik Bärtsch's Ronin (Bärtsch, Sha, Björn Meyer, Kaspar Rast, Andi Pupato), recorded 2009-2011 in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, England and Japan, with Thomy Jordi on bass on the final track. Mixed at Studios La Buissonne.

Keith Jarrett's solo piano concert at the Theatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro, recorded live on 9 April 2011: fifteen improvisations, including encores, on two CDs.

Two-CD anthology compiled by Jon Balke from the Magnetic North Orchestra albums Further (1993), Solarized (1998) and Kyanos (2001), with Anders Jormin, Audun Kleive, Per Jørgensen, Arve Henriksen, Morten Halle and string players including the Cikada …

Double CD tied to Ketil Bjørnstad's Vinding novels: solo piano improvisations recorded December 2009 in Hønefoss, and a March 2009 Oslo concert of Mozart, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Ravel, Beethoven and Barber with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra un…

Three albums by John Abercrombie's first quartet, with Richie Beirach (piano), George Mraz (double bass) and Peter Donald (drums): Arcade (1978) and Abercrombie Quartet (1979), recorded in Oslo, and M (1980), recorded in Ludwigsburg. Produced by Manf…