A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions
Direct-to-disc recording of Arthur Jafa's Listening Session at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, 9 September 2017, with Jason Moran, Steve Coleman and others playing apart across London. Signed, numbered edition of 300.
In Hindsight
Live duo of Christian Marclay on turntables and Mats Gustafsson on saxophones, recorded at Café Oto, London, on 13 March 2013, issued by The Vinyl Factory as a one-sided LP with a Marclay etching.
Vinyl Digest #1: Spiritual & Cosmic Jazz
A collector's field guide to 400 spiritual and cosmic jazz records, from the mid-1960s to today, chosen and annotated by Amir Abdullah and Manu Boubli, with rarity scores and lists by Gilles Peterson, King Britt and Matthew Halsall.
Eternity's Pillar
Los Angeles, 1985. Every Sunday after midnight, on KTTV Channel 11, an independent commercial television station, something appeared that had no business being on commercial television: Alice Coltrane, appearing as Turiya, broadcasting devotional wis…
Keith Tippett: Mujician
Bomb! 328 pages hard-cover book, large format + 2CD of previously unreleased recordings. Keith Tippett (1947-2020) occupies a singular place in the history of British improvised music - a pianist of extraordinary range whose work moved fluidly betwe…
Musings Of A Bahamian Son
Joe McPhee is one of the great multi-instrumentalists of contemporary improvised music. His instrumental battery has included saxophones, clarinets, valve trombone, pocket trumpet, sound-on-sound tape recorder, and space organ, but another arrow in h…
Sun Ra’s Chicago Afrofuturism and the City (Book)
*2023 stock* Sun Ra (1914–93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb, the keyboardist and bandleader als…
Tokyo Jazz Joints (Book)
Big Tip! Japanese jazz bars and coffee shops are insular worlds where time ceases to exist, removed from the speed and chaos of the modern urban landscape. Tokyo Jazz Joints is a visual chronicle of this unique culture that captures the transient bea…
Sound Experiments The Music of the AACM (Book)
A groundbreaking study of the trailblazing music of Chicago’s AACM, a leader in the world of jazz and experimental music.