“A rollicking and unusual duo with a fair sense of humor and tremendous instrumental skill between saxophonist Sam Newsome (SoundNoiseFunk, Steve Swell) performing on soprano sax with horn preparations and toys, and double bassist Max Johnson, who composed six of the seven pieces on this compelling album, the seventh being an intriguing cover of Thelonious Monk's "Blue Monk".”

After way too long, I am happy to see RLJ return with a new album and a new instrument that has hugely inspired him. Warmly & strongly recommended; there's billions of great acoustic guitarists out there, but no one else sounds like Richard...

"Be prepared...the extraordinary Richard Leo Johnson isn't quite like any...guitarist you've ever heard before".-Jazzwise. This one is very low key, very personal and very extraordinary. Best known for his blazing speed and unusual techniques on the ac...

Robert Johnson is THE pre-war bluesman, and represents to many the peak of that creative time before the post-WWII migration of African-Americans to Chicago and the electrification of blues. This contains all the masters of the 29 tunes written and recorded by Johnson before his death as well as the 12 alternate takes and is definitely a high-water mark of American music.
You can get these recordings in other packages for more money, but these 41 tracks is all the music that exists from this...

I saw Scott Johnson do this piece at New Music America in DC in 1984 (?) and it was a pretty excellent work of its time, and I remember being amazed when it was released on Nonesuch a little later. "Scott Johnson is one of new music's great originals, ...

"Released briefly on the Nonesuch label in 1988, and unavailable for years, Scott Johnson’s score for the Paul Schrader film on Patty Hearst was one of his greatest achievements. Deliriously complex and remarkably colorful, the music is a further...

Simplicity & clarity have always been among Johnson's chief concerns. That led him to research number theory. This features all 8178 chords possible in one octave! [Experimental Intermedia]

Darren Johnston, trumpet / Ben Goldberg, clarinet / Sheldon Brown, tenor sax, bass clarinet / Devin Hoff, double bass / Smith Dobson V, drums / Rob Reich, accordion (track 2).

This is a utterly fantastic album that I was very interested in...

After ten years, and rejection by 37 record companies, Asynchronous Records is proud to announce the release of Page of Madness. Phillip Johnston's (co-leader of the fabulous Microscopic Septet) original score for Teinosuke Kinugasa's 1926 Japanese...

Phillip Johnston: soprano saxophone
James Greening: trombone
Alister Spence: organ, keyboards
Casey Golden: organ, keyboards
Nic Cecire: drums

“Johnston’s soundtrack adds an extra dimension to the 2D-nature of the animation, with energetic jazz layered over the pre-recorded percussion track that builds up and flows through the film. While Johnston and Reineger’s compositions are each complex in their own ways, they come together simply and beautifully...

Long out of print album from 1996.

Riccardo Castellani - drums, percussion, synthesiser, programming
Rich Muscat - alto saxophone
Ronan Perrett - tenor saxophone
Charlie Cawood - bass guitar
Emanuela Monni - drums, electronic percussion
Anna Treutler - vocals, violin
Jin Theriault - piano, viola

“¿Change! is a concept album, created in collaboration with Italian dancer and choreographer Chiara Corradi during a residency at Snape Maltings, and featuring an expanded lineup, whose contributions add

Solo album by former member of Tangering Dream. [Amp]

''Songs about a dog...This bizarre home-recorded gem offers a very private glimpse into the world of a mysterious woman from Japan known simply as Jon. Her strange childlike vocals and pump organ charm and enthrall on their own terms; Jon's fresh appro...

"And now, this is alto saxophonist/composer Darius Jones' highly anticipated second recording as a bandleader, and it delivers in killin' fashion. Big Gurl (Smell My Dream) presents the next chapter of his ongoing Man'ish Boy series of compositions...

“Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) is the powerful new work by composer & alto saxophonist Darius Jones. Both of his tremendous artistic strengths are to the fore here in a fully committed trio communion with longtime collaborator Gerald Cleaver (drums) & Chris Lightcap (bass). Five potent new Jones compositions, and a striking arrangement of "No More My Lord" (a prison song rec. By Alan Lomax at Parchman Farm). Legend of e'Boi is the 7th chapter (of 9 on completion) in Jones' expansive Man'ish Boy...

"The Oversoul Manual is the fourth installment / revelation in Darius Jones' central, highly acclaimed, and on-going Man'ish Boy epic. It further reveals and indeed fully features the great talents of Jones as composer & arranger, with daring...

I saw this series of works in DC and it was fantastic. It is inspired by and dedicated to Brigitte Fontaine, although they don't actually perform Brigitte's pieces. First of all, Emilie is just a wonderful singer and she handled the vocals beautifully...

Elvin Jones - drums
Carter Jefferson - saxophone
Dwayne Armstrong - saxophone
Fumio Karashima - piano
Marvin Horne - guitar
Andy McCloud - bass
Recorded September 22nd, 1981 at Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall, Hamburg, Germany.

"... Elvin Ray Jones was born in Pontiac in 1927 as the youngest of ten children and brother of pianist Hank and trumpeter Thad Jones. In 1981 his formative years were long gone -- about one and a half decades earlier the percussionist had left the...

"Glenn Jones is a unique voice working in the decades-long tradition of American primitivism. What sets him apart from the many devotees to this style is the combination of expressive playing and technical skill, most significantly his inventive use of...

"Glenn Jones, a 30+ year devotee of the so called 'American Primitive' school of acoustic steel string guitarists, has been playing guitar since the age of 14. The Wanting, Glenn Jones' first album for Thrill Jockey, was recorded in a fourth floor...

''British composer Jeremy Peyton Jone's vocal and theater music performed by his Ensemble Regular Music II. A music powerfully rhythmic, lyrical and dramatic. Voted in 1996 best cd in the category Modern Composition by The Wire Critics Choice poll.''...

“Trumpeter Sean Jones takes another step in his continuing development as a frontman and formidable presence on the modern jazz scene...an excellent and highly appealing outing...”-Jazztimes

“For his fifth recording on the Mack Avenue label, trumpeter Sean Jones has really stepped up his game as a composer of contemporary jazz music. He's raised the stakes by writing music that still reflects his love for hard bop, but has intensified it with a more intricate and involved thought process that...

Some of this COULD be a CHEER-ACCIDENT album. Some of it is much sparser and 3am solitude music, as Thymme says.

“The highly unanticipated followup to Career Move (1996)! Maybe as melancholic… same piano/same voice… sometimes with more instruments… but mostly just piano. 3am solitude music.”

“piano, vocals, drums, trumpet, synthesizer by thymme; bass and background vocals on "in some fictional place" are by dante kester and lori lechien, respectively; viola on "final meditation (again)"..

Really nice, Steve Reich-ian solo album by the leader of Cheer-Accident.

"Five piano “quartets” (recorded on 4-track) with hypnotically intertwining phrases."