Michael Bisio – bass
Kirk Knuffke - cornet and soprano cornet
Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello/electronics

“This music is inspired by Robert Henri (June 24, 1865 - July 12, 1929) artist, teacher, writer and an organizer of the group known as The Eight, a loose association of artists who protested the restrictive exhibition practices of the powerful, conservative National Academy of Design.”

"Jazz is the music of pure emotion, and it's the vehicle by which Bisio, Knuffke and Lonberg-Holm

This is your last chance on this apparently now out of print set!

Chicago’s Bitchin Bajas have released a bunch of great, vinyl-only, cosmic, deep space, electronic / krautrock albums.
Think Cluster + Terry Riley + 1975-era T Dream sequences and you get the idea.
This totally wonderful set takes all of their USA vinyl-only releases for Drag City and reissues them on CD for the first time in a nice and very reasonably priced package; you want this! “It wasn’t so long ago....”...

This is the first album firmly under her control in quite some time, & it's a really great one! With her violin & voice, she leads a band of acoustic guitar, trumpet, double bass & percussion. The sound is obviously much fuller than her classic solo & ...

This is a 2014 release that I had never run across before and as far as I can tell, is her most recent totally ‘solo’ solo album. It breaks no ground, but then again, no one else sounds remotely like Iva Bittova!

This is a collection of pieces from albums where Iva was a guest or a featured soloist, but not where it's from her albums. Lots of work I was familiar with, but also a lot of work I was not familiar with either, including some work no longer available...

Iva and dj's and dance beats! I don't know if I think it is any good, but it doesn't sound like anything else she has done...

Is there anything better than a new Iva Bittova album? Well, maybe a new Iva Bittova and Cikori album!
This features
Iva Bittova-singing, violin, percussion
Valdimir Vaclavek-electric and acoustic guitars
Jaromir Honzak-double bass and bass guitar
Oskar Torok-trumpet
and some guests, including Hamid Drake on drums!
Vocally, she sounds great, as she always does, and this has a more languid, relaxed, jazzy sound than some of her releases and might actually serve as a great..

Iva Bittova – vocals, violin
Lenka Dusilova - vocals
Monika Naceva – vocals, guitar, loops, effects

“The concert recording captures three exceptional singers of completely different genres at joint performances in Prague and Brno in December 2017. The unique recording captures a perfect fusion of genres, intimate atmosphere and strong female energy. The best moments of the concert are now released on one digipack, which contains an audio disc and a video disc.
"Creation and artistic

Being a big fanboy, it's really nice to see Iva get another chance at a US release, this time with Bang On A Can, a band comprised of crack NYC new music composers and performers. This has a really different sound for her, even though it's all her...

Excellent and TIGHT 10 piece, instrumental Brazilian band who fuse Afrobeat stylings with Brazilian influences to come up with a different spin on a familiar sound.

"São Paulo's Afro-Brazilian groove visionaries Bixiga 70 return with an ecstatic fifth album -- Vapor -- their first in four years. The sound is joyful, a series of potent horn driven melodies and infectious polyrhythms. More than a return, Vapor is a rebirth. An exuberant, full-tilt party. Featuring Simone Sou."

Great modern big band work, written by the great Finnish guitarist Raoul Bjorkenheim and - in addition to fine work from the ensemble - features some great work from Raoul himself!...

"I...was stunned by his Hendrix meets late era Coltrane approach." – Guitar Moderne

"Despite the boilingly hot drive...influenced by Cream, Lifetime, Jimi Hendrix Experience (and perhaps more notionally the Pete Cosey/Reggie Lucas..

"With Ketil Bjørnstad's Early Piano Music, the albums Preludes Vols. 1 & 2 and Pianology from the mid-1980s are once again becoming available. These recordings have been unavailable since the mid-'90s, and have been very much in demand....

Ketil Bjørnstad piano
Svante Henryson violoncello

"Ketil Bjørnstad returns to the piano/cello duo, instrumentation which defined two of his best-loved albums, “The River” and “Epigraphs” with David Darling, back in 1996 and 1998. This new...

Oliver Lake – sax
Baikida Carroll - trumpet
Floyd LeFlore - trumpet
Joseph Bowie - trombone
Charles 'Bobo' Shaw – drums

BAG are one of the missing links (unless you own their insanely rare album from 50 years ago) of African-American creative / improvisational music and it’s great to finally hear them!

“The release of BAG's first album since 1973, "For Peace and Liberty" was recorded in Paris in Dec. 1972 when the musicians had recently arrived from St Louis.
BAG

"One would be hard-pressed to come up with a better descriptor for Black Elephant's Cosmic Blues than the title of the album itself. Based in Savona, Italy, the four-piece have conjured ghosts of '70s heavy and masterful '90s riffmongering to offer a brew both potent and thoroughly modern. Cosmic Blues is their third album behind 2014's Bifolchi Inside and 2012's Spaghetti Cowboys (get it?) and marks their debut on Small Stone Records.
Comprised of lead vocalist/lead guitarist Alessio Caravelli...

“Over the course of 20 years, German artist Black To Comm aka Marc Richter has pushed the limits of and merged the aesthetics of art, conceptual installations and music, coming in a wave of innovation alongside his peers Pita, Fennesz, Felicia Atkinson and later Sarah Davachi to name a few. His list of collaborations and commissions is long and impressive. Through it all Richter as Black to Comm has challenged assumptions, explored identity and confronted the concept of authorship itself. Black to Comm’s...

This band continues in sound and spirit to his post-rock leaning 'jazz' outfit, Alas No Axis, but with different players and a bit of a different result. Still, if you are a fan of ANA, you'll love this.
Oskar Guojonsson : Tenor Saxophone
Elias Stemeseder: Keyboards
Chris Tordini: Electric Bass
Jim Black: Drums & Sampler

"Malamute is Jim Black’s latest gathering of like-minded musical souls. The band toured Europe for the first time in May 2015 performing sketches of the musi

Jim Black: Drums, Composition
Elias Stemeseder: Piano
Thomas Morgan: Bass
"Since the nineties, the drummer and bandleader Jim Black has been one of the most influential figures of progressive jazz. On his Intakt Records debut, Jim Black plays with the acclaimed young pianist Elias Stemeseder and highly in-demand New York bass player Thomas Morgan contemporary jazz with distinctive arrangements, complex rhythms and expressive improvisations.
Hank Shteamer writes in the linernotes...

"Following the successful 2016 shows in Germany (Monsters Of Rock) and the UK, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow played three British shows in June 2017, which were recorded for this set.
Together with Ronnie Romero (vocals), Jens Johansson (keys), Bob Nouveau (bass), David Keith (drums), Candice Night and Lady Lynn (backing vocals), the legendary guitarist performed a first-class mixture of classic Rainbow and Deep Purple tracks, which was exactly what the fans had requested.
Ritchie Blackmore's....

"When UK-native James Blackshaw plays his 12-string guitar, something spiritual takes place. Performing and recording since 2003, his name is frequently mentioned as one of the foremost modern solo acoustic guitarists. Now at the age of 25, Blackshaw...

Ed Blackwell was one of the giants of 20th century drumming and this includes two albums by the stupendous Ornette repertory band Old And New Dreams and players such as Dave Holland, Dewey Redman, David Murray, Alvin Baptiste and more...

“Brian Blade's band, titled LIFECYCLES (Volume 1) is a band that was formed by three members of Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band in 2001, comprised of six musicians living in the New York City metropolitan area at the time and performing under the name Subterranean Sextet, featuring drummer - Brian Blade, pianist - Jon Cowherd, saxophonist - Myron Walden, vibraphonist and vocalist - Monte Croft, guitarist - John Hart and bassist - Doug Weiss. Back in 2001, the sextet mostly played in underground night...

“Renowned Warr guitarist Jason Blake teams up with drummer Marco Minnemann (The Aristocrats, Steven Wilson, Joe Satriani) for his favorite work to date. "A Confusion Sequence," a follow-up to 2023's "Subsequent Ruins," explores new sonic territories while maintaining familiar elements. Composed and recorded entirely with the Warr Artisan semi-hollow guitar, it offers a more acoustic sound, showcasing varied aspects of Jason's playing. The album reflects the concept of waking up in a drastically changed...