"Newly remastered audio. Includes rare archive photos and liner note Q&A with Krog. The work of Karin Krog may be unfamiliar to much of the world, but in her native Norway and Scandinavia at large, she's practically a household name. This says much about the local enthusiasm for post-bop jazz but also about the tyranny of distribution: until 1994, Krog's albums weren't available in the USA or UK, meaning three decades of recordings were waiting to be discovered.
With this anthology of her best...

"Absolutely brilliant work from legendary Norwegian jazz vocalist Karin Krog, with pianist & composer Steve Kuhn, bassist Steve Swallow, and Jon Christensen on drums/percussion in this quartet session.
Originally recorded in July, 1974 on the Polydor Norway label and co-produced by Krog, it features four tunes by pianist Kuhn & five others by such writers as Michel Columbier (the title tune), Sergio Mihanovich ("Somtime Ago"), Paul Bley with Krog ("Sing Me Softly Of the Blues"), J.J. Johnson...

"This young, semi-improvising power trio -- Tom Hasslan (guitars), Axel Skalstad (drums), and Jørgen Mathisen (saxophone) -- typify a new and invigorating movement currently sweeping across the Nordic region: hard boiled improvisation and strong instrumental personalities bolted onto rock beats and driving rhythms. Equally powerful on record and on stage, Krokofant pull no punches, sounding like some unholy three-way marriage of early '70s jazz rock (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Terje Rypdal, Ray Russell), the...

Marie Krüttli: Piano
Lukas Traxel: Bass
Gautier Garrigue: Drums

“Following the solo piano album Transparence, released on Intakt Records in 2023, Marie Krüttli, a jazz pianist from western Switzerland who is celebrated as “a young visionary and a premiere European jazz pianist whose touching, penetrating compositions make waves throughout the jazz community and beyond”, now presents the trio album Scoria together with bassist Lukas Traxel and drummer Gautier Garrigue. Together they draw..

"Kruzenshtern I Parohod is one of the most important bands in the Israeli underground music scene. They have been playing together for 10 years, presenting a unique combination of Klezmer, Jazz and Hardcore-punk performing in Israel and all over the...

Tim Hodgkinson-Steel Guitar [Lap], Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Clarinet [Klarnet], Alto Saxophone, Sounds [Sound Manipulation], Voice, Tüngür [Dungur], Percussion, Ocarina
Ken Hyder-Percussion, Percussion [Drum Kit], Tüngür [Dungur], Voice, Ektare [Ektara, Bass Ektara], Sounds [Sound Manipulation]
Gendos Chamzyryn-Voice, Tüngür [Dungur], Percussion, Doshpuluur, Cello, Performer [Chadagan, Khomous], Ocarina

“The one album, I'd say, that deserves a perfect score on concept alone.
Why..

Mathias Landæus grand piano, analog delay
Cornelia Nilsson drums
Johnny Åman double bass
Martin Küchen soprano, alto and tenor saxophone

"In this new opus coming from Sweden, poly-saxophonist Martin Küchen joins the Landaeus Trio, not only adding his instruments to the band led by pianist Mathias Landaeus but also his immediately recognizable personal compositions, full of Scandinavian folk-like melodies and complex African-inspired pulsations. The curious result of this...

Two old CMP titles make a re-emergence here!

"Free jazz, free rock, rock jazz, modal jazz, sound experiments, and chamber music just to name a few. Joachim Kuehn unites the most distinct expressions, forming a culture with his polystylistic...

"“The wisdom of old age meets the tempestuousness of youth,” wrote Der Spiegel, describing the meeting of generations in Joachim Kuhn’s trio with Chris Jennings and Eric Schaefer- both are around 30 years younger than he is. And it is also an apt way to describe how both tendencies coexist in the 73-year old jazz pioneer’s own playing. His gaze is directed to the future, he has the history of jazz behind him, and he never kow-tows to convention. This piano genius loves freedom and fantasy, driven by the...

Joe Lovano tenor saxophone, tarogato
Steve Kuhn piano
David Finck double-bass
Joey Baron drums

"A recording that pays tribute to a musician of towering importance – and for Steve Kuhn an album of powerful memories. For two months i

Steve Kuhn-piano
Steve Swallow-bass
Joey Baron-drums

"Wisdom and wistfulness are intertwined in “Wisteria”, whose title track, written by Art Farmer, takes us back to the early 60s, when both Steve Kuhn and Steve Swallow sang softly of.

Philip Bartels: Piano
Duri Collenberg: Piano
Simone Keller: Piano
Lukas Rickli: Piano

"This brilliant recording by the Kukuruz Quartet constitutes an important new contribution to the growing corpus of performances of music by the composer, pianist, and singer Julius Eastman (1940-1990), who came to prominence in the experimental music scene of the 1970s and 1980s ... On this recording, the Kukuruz Quartet renders Eastman's spirit of adventure audible and sensuous, exemplifying a new

Jonas Kullhammar tenor & baritone saxophones / Torbjörn Zetterberg double bass / Espen Aalberg drums.

"The saxophone trio format (sax + bass + drums) goes back to the Fifties and hard bop. Very specially, to the Sonny Rollins trios with this...

Kunsertu was a Sicilian band born in the early 80s, who first spent a long period studying and playing their local musical roots and realizing two LPs of Folk music. In the late 80s the band opened their musical horizons first to the Mediterranean cult...

"Leo Kupper worked with Henri Pousseur at the first electronic music studio in Belgium and is founder and director of the Studio de Recherches et de Structurations Electroniques Auditives in Brussels. The works on Electro-Acoustic are Electro-Acoustic...

"Kurai is a Japanese word that corresponds to the adjective «dark», without «gothic» or other emotional references. In a certain sense, Kurai is the Yûgen’s «shadow», both because draws on some hints from it (directly from Labirinto d’acqua), and above...

This is by a string quintet (2 violins, viola, cello, bass) plus sax, trombone, drums and percussion.

"In the twenty years of their existence the Stephan Kurmann Strings have repeatedly caused a sensation and gained wide recognition for its high

“Susanna Gartmayer is an Austrian composer and bass clarinet and sax player working in the fields of experimental rock music, multi idiomatic improvisation, jazz and contemporary music. She is especially interested in the sound possibilities of the clarinet and the theory and practical implications of working together in bands cnd collectives.
Christof Kurzmann is a performer, musician, composer and curator. After a successful start with his first band Extended Versions he continued his work in...

This is two late 70s (1977 and 1979) recordings by the best band Fela ever had, recorded during his best period. Every music collection needs at least one Fela release. Period.

“Coffin For Head of State’ is among Fela’s most courageous responses to the Nigerian army’s destruction of Kalakuta on 18 February 1977. During the attack, Fela’s mother, aged 78, a veteran of Nigeria’s struggle for independence from British colonial rule and an early campaigner for Nigerian women’s rights, was thrown...

This is not EVERY everything that Fela recorded, but it’s pretty damn close.
“The Complete Box Set contains 29 CDs and one DVD spanning Fela’s entire career from Koola Lobitos in the late 60’s to Underground System in 1992.
The box set also contains 'A Slice Of Fela’, a DVD documentary with live performances from Berlin Jazz festival and Glastonbury and a booklet."

Seun Kuti is Fela's youngest son and he also leads Fela's former band, Egypt 80.
This is a very good release of modern Nigerian Afropop in the Fela-style, but with its own twist, and with the (quite great) participation of Carlos Santana, who plays a wicked solo on a track.
Conditionally highly recommended!

"K-X-P is a drums, bass and synth trio from Helsinki, Finland, born out of the fire and ashes of the seminal Op:l Bastards and The Lefthanded, both of which were led by Timo Kaukolampi. The band is comprised of Timo Kaukolampi (electronics, vocals)...

''The challenge of composing a passion in the 20th century is considerable given the fact that there is no sizable contemporary repertoire...I intend every note to be heard simply & directly - I hope that the power of the story is felt through the star...