"Featuring the velvety vocals of Jennifer Charles and the imaginative arrangements of Oren Bloedow, this is an original blend of pop, funk and rock. Their first Tzadik CD, La Mar Enfortuna is a sensuous and lyrical interpretation of traditional Sephardic

French jazz/rock performed on guitar, keyboards, Warr guitar, bass, drums and vocals, who have ties to Moving Gelatine Plates.

"Laborator is a trio of multi-instrumentalists from the latest incarnation of Moving Gelatine Plates, one of the...

Laboratorium are a rather obscure Polish fusion/fusion-progressive band who released 8-9 albums during their lifetime. I had one or two at the time and I remember enjoying them although I must admit I didn't remember them all that well when this...

"Eight pieces like eight flashbacks to a bygone daily sonic life. A nostalgia-prone stroll down obsolescence lane. Eight pieces like eight memories and stories, true or fictional, happy or sad, in Technicolor or smell-o-rama. The pieces include:...

''The fortunate encounter of three soundmakers - who are making music from collages, sound spaces & raw noises; interferences, pops, & frying sounds. It is based on extreme usuage of minimal sound material.''

A record based on improvisation, interactive listening & exploration. Using a hybrid set of elec. & acoustic percussion controlling a DAT deck, Cte is both rhythmical & melodic. Labrosse responds on sampling keyboard, creating melodies, only to break &...

All previously unreleased duets recorded between 1982-94, & featuring the soprano sax master with Derek Bailey, Bobby Few, George Lewis, Steve Potts, Roswell Rudd, Masahiko Togashi, Mal Waldron & others. [Felmay]

Steve Lacy soprano sax / Steve Potts alto sax / Irene Aebi cello, transistor radio, harmonica / Kent Carter bass / Noel McGhie drums, percussions.

"This is a very special work for all Portuguese jazz fans, not only because of historical reasons...

Special price on this classic ESP release, recorded in concert October 8, 1966 in Buenos Aires, Argentina with a good band, all of whom would go on to some renown and all getting their first international recognition here: Enrico Rava-trumpet, Johnny...

This classy duo of Lacy-soprano sax & Waldron-piano have been working together for a long time & just keep getting better."The performances are uniformly excellent."-Richard Cook/Brian Morton 'Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD'. [Slam]

"Yves Laferrière’s eponymous solo album, originally released on Le Tamanoir in 1978) is quite unknown and underrated. Laferrière was bassist for most of the stuff reviewed in the article to this point. On guitar is René Lussier (Conventum, Quatre Guita...

"Commissioned by the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2007, “Espaço” is more than a wonderful jazz piano trio record. Architecture is the motive sustaining this geometric but organic music: the idea of regular and irregular structures, continuous and...

"This is an exciting display of 6 string prowess that really isn't classical, yet will inevitably become a classic. It is an amazing tour de force worthy of the California Guitar Trio. The efforst here focus on composers and players who are heroes to...

Greg Lake - The Voice of a Generation. From his initial days in the explosive London music scene of the late 1960s, through his time as founding member and voice of rock innovators King Crimson, and legendary British rock band, Emerson, Lake and Palmer...

''For her second Tzadik CD, Lam has assembled some of the greatest traditional music performers of China and matched them with some of NY's most creative instrumentalists in creating a beautiful and lyrical meeting of western art music and Chinese trou...

Chris Speed, tenor saxophone and clarinet / Susana Santos Silva, trumpet and flugelhorn / Gonçalo Almeida, double bass, effects and loops / Greg Smith drums and electronics.

"The exquisite, chamber-like, electro-acoustic jazz played by the...

"This recording is a collection of 11 spontaneously improvised pieces using Lambert drawings as graphic scores, each seeking to combine visual and musical expression into a single, cohesive language. Named after the trips to Los Angeles and Pernes...

"Originally recorded and released in 1979, this recording finds jazz musician Byard Lancaster in a solo setting playing on a variety of instruments that includes piano, flute, piccolo, bass clarinet, voice, soprano and alto saxes and percussion...

This is the second effort of a four-piece band fronted by ex-Finneus Gauge drummer Jonn Buzby, now handling lead vocal and keyboard duties. There is also guitar, bass, drums and backing vocals. The music is overall somewhat closer to Echolyn than Finne...

Their seventh full length album in seven years, Brocade is a turning point for Landing, one that simultaneously harkens back to their roots as hushed drone rockers while journeying onwards into starkly minimalist, utterly cosmic terrain. Reverting inwa...

"First ever CD reissue of this little known classic from founding Philip Glass Ensemble member Richard 'Dickie' Landry. Following two jazz LPs issued on the Chatham Square label (which he co-ran), Dickie Landry released Fifteen Saxophones, a set of 1974..

Nate Wooley, trumpet / Taylor Ho Bynum, trumpet / David Bindman, tenor, soprano sax / Avram Fefer, alto sax, clarinet / Matt Bauder, tenor sax, baritone sax / Reut Regev, trombone / Tim Vaughn, trombone / Adam Lane, bass / Igal Foni, drums...

Sinikka Langeland, vocals
Arve Henriksen, trumpet
Trygve Seim, soprano and tenor saxophones
Anders Jormin, double-bass
Markku Ounaskari, drums

"Further adventures at the interstices of folk music and jazz-rooted improvisation