Jazz & Improvisation / Contemporary

1985 debut solo album on Amiga blending contemporary jazz, free improvisation and Latin rhythms by the German guitar player.

Original and sole edition on Edizioni di Cultura Popolare of the 1976 Italian folk jazz album, a "voyage through Mediterranean folk music" by the pianist's New Jazz Society quintet. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

Sole edition of the 1988 album on Splasc(h) of contemporary jazz by the Italian septet led by Alfonso Riccò and Romolo Grande. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

1984 live solo album on Rst by the Hungarian double bass player. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

1988 self-released album by the German experimental theatre and free improvisation group active since the late 1960's. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

Original German edition of the superlative 1974 solo album on ECM by the innovative Norwegian guitarist featuring Barre Phillips and Jon Christensen.

Second solo album (after one on FMP) by the "Jimi Hendrix of jazz guitar", released by Amiga in 1989.

Original German edition on ECM of the 1986 album by the Argentine bandoneon player featuring Charlie Haden and Pierre Favre.

Original Swedish edition on Four Leaf Clover Records of the 1979 jazz/funk fusion album by the influential eclectic guitarist featuring Pekka Pohjola and Wlodek Gulgowski.

1983 jazz-cabaret album self-released on the Westbrooks' own label, blending theatrical music and poetry with avant-garde improvisation. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

1972 split live album on Polskie Stowarzyszenie Jazzowe with the Polish band's jazz-rock fusion on one side and the post bop soul-jazz of the Julian Cannonball Adderley Quintet on the other.

Deep End Shallow by keyboardist and composer Curt Sydnor, with Caroline Davis on saxophone, Greg Saunier on drums and Aaron Dugan on guitar, recorded in Brooklyn in 2016. CDr edition of 100.

CD version. This album is a tribute to the person and spirit of John Coltrane. It was produced by musicians who not only admire Coltrane but embody similar values.While it’s always a good time to honor Coltrane’s memory, this particular moment seems to carry an increased urgency of remembering his message and mission.Since some owners of this amazing record may be unfamiliar with Coltrane’s character, it’s worthwhile to briefly state a few biographical details.First, Coltrane was a compassionate…

Hamiet Bluiett's baritone, D.D. Jackson's piano and organ, Kahil El'Zabar's drums, kalimba and voice. Recorded live in the studio in Montreal in October 2000 with no overdubs, The Calling runs on call-and-response, church organ and blues, with Bluiett switching to wooden flute and contra-alto clarinet.

One day in a Paris studio, December 1997. David Murray goes back to the gospel church of his Berkeley childhood with Fontella Bass, the voice of Rescue Me and the Art Ensemble's Theme de Yoyo, over Hammond B3, electric bass and guitar. Amazing Grace, How I Got Over, and Murray's own twelve-minute Missionary.

Paul Bley and trumpeter Herbie Spanier played free duets in Los Angeles in 1958, around the time Ornette Coleman passed through Bley's band. That music was never documented. In Montreal in August 1993 they tried again, with Geordie McDonald's rack of gongs, shakers and temple blocks. Thirteen short improvisations.

Paul Bley was born in Montreal in 1932 and left for New York at the start of the 1950s. He had already taken over Oscar Peterson's chair at the Alberta Lounge as a teenager. In December 1987 he came home, sat down at Studio Tempo, and recorded ten improvisations for a local label that was then four years old. Solo was the first of the dozen or so records Bley made for Jim West's Justin Time over the next twenty years, a run that ended with About Time in 2008. It is also a digital recording from …

Munich, Studio Meilhaus, 6 November 1990. Archie Shepp on tenor and alto, singing on three tracks, with Horace Parlan on piano, Wayne Dockery on bass and George Brown on drums. One day of work for the Dutch label Timeless, released the following year. Shepp and Parlan had recorded the spirituals of Goin' Home and the blues of Trouble in Mind as a duo for SteepleChase in the late 1970s. This quartet session comes out of the same relationship, a decade on, and the material tells you where Shepp wa…

The only album under Carter Jefferson's name, produced by Woody Shaw and recorded in New York over two days in December 1978. Terumasa Hino, Harry Whitaker and Steve Thornton on the first side, Shunzo Ono and John Hicks on the second, Clint Houston and Victor Lewis throughout.

Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen, 4 and 5 April 1985. The George Adams - Don Pullen Quartet with Cameron Brown and Dannie Richmond, and a guest who changes the sound: John Scofield on guitar. This was the rhythm section of Mingus's Changes One and Changes Two, minus Mingus, and between 1979 and 1989 it was one of the best working bands in jazz. JazzTimes, looking back, wrote that no group before or since bridged avant-garde abandon and gutbucket groove so convincingly, and that everyone who heard …

The first studio album by the George Adams - Don Pullen Quartet, recorded at Fendal Sound Studio in Loenen aan de Vecht, in the Dutch countryside, between 3 and 5 August 1980, and produced by the two leaders themselves for Timeless. Adams on tenor and flute, Pullen on piano, Cameron Brown on bass, Dannie Richmond on drums. Neil Tesser, in the Playboy Book of Jazz, wrote that the presence of Richmond, Mingus's drummer and protégé for over two decades, made it clear that this band saw itself as ca…

Munich, Studio 70, 24 June 1972. Four players who would otherwise never have been in the same room: Karl Berger on vibraphone and marimba, the Japanese pianist Masahiko Sato (the trio Trinity for Enja dates from the same period), the Austrian bassist Adelhard Roidinger, and Allen Blairman, the Pittsburgh drummer who had played with Albert Ayler and was then Mal Waldron's regular in Germany. Berger had been in Don Cherry's Paris band, had recorded for ESP and Milestone, and in 1972 was founding t…

Illegal Crowns, the quartet of Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, Benoît Delbecq and Tomas Fujiwara, recorded at Firehouse 12 in June 2022, with three compositions each by Fujiwara, Halvorson and Delbecq.

George is John Hollenbeck's quartet with Anna Webber, Aurora Nealand and Chiquita Magic: voices, saxophones, flute, keyboards and drums, recorded in Montreal in January 2022. 180g black vinyl, limited to 400 copies.

Debut album by Abenaki bassist, singer and composer Mali Obomsawin, built on songs and stories of her family, with Savannah Harris, Miriam Elhajli, Allison Burik, Noah Campbell and Taylor Ho Bynum. First pressing on black vinyl.

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.

Debut album by alto saxophonist David Leon with Sonya Belaya on piano, Florian Herzog on bass and Stephen Boegehold on drums, recorded in Brooklyn in February 2020, with liner notes by Kris Davis.

The final recording by bassist Mario Pavone, made in March 2021 two months before his death, with his Dialect Trio of Matt Mitchell and Tyshawn Sorey and Dave Ballou on trumpet and arrangements.

Cellist Christopher Hoffman's quartet with Bryan Carrott on vibraphone, Rashaan Carter on bass and Craig Weinrib on drums, plus David Virelles on one track. Translucent red vinyl, limited to 200 copies.

Guitarist Dustin Carlson's septet with Nathaniel Morgan, Eric Trudel, Danny Gouker, Matt Mitchell on Prophet 6, Adam Hopkins and Kate Gentile, recorded in 2017 and mixed and mastered by David Torn.

Fifth anniversary LP of Adam Hopkins' 2018 debut Crickets, the first Out Of Your Head release, on 180g black vinyl with redesigned TJ Huff artwork and the extra track Grounded, recorded remotely by the sextet in winter 2020-2021.

Original edition of the 1989 Italy-only album on Black Saint .

Original edition of the 1986 Germanyy-only album on Minor Music.

Original Japanese edition on ECM's "Trio Jazz Mania" series of the 1977 album. With insert and obi.

Original Japanese edition on ECM's "Trio Jazz Mania" series of the 1973 album. With insert.

Original and sole edition of the 1981 album on Nine Winds Records. Never re-issued on either vinyl or CD.

1984 Japanese re-issue on ECM's "Collection 50" series of the 1980 live double album. With insert and obi.

Original edition on ECM / Trio Jazz Mania of the 1973 Japan-only compilation. With insert and obi.

Original edition on ECM / Trio Jazz Mania of the 1973 Japan-only compilation. With insert.

Original German edition on ECM of the 1984 album featuring Julian Priester and Kenny Wheeler.