"A two disk studio recording of duos by Ken Vandermark and four of the world's best bass players: Nate McBride, Kent Kessler, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, and Wilbert De Joode. These sessions where recorded in Chicago on February 4 and 5, 2008."

"Near the end of the seventies Vangelis began experimenting with new directions and this album was the result. A lot of people hate this album but it's always been one of my favorites. It's all synth swooshes of sound criss crossing a direction he...

Marian is the keyboardist for Collegium Musicum, and this solo album, recorded in 2003 and released on a small Czech label, has the sort of clasically-inspired keyboard work he is known for, but arranged and performed to work in a solo context. Feature...

"This is the untold story of the bloodline of a sprawling musical legacy that unites a freakish family of disparate, influential pop-cultural orphans and the estranged surrogate parent that lost-pop forgot it ever knew. Between 1968 and 1974...

With Count Basie, Quincy Jones, Benny Carter, Gerald Wilson and more.

2nd and best of 2 albums by this very good, DC based jazz/rock band, who use saxes, trumpet, guitar, bass & drums. The saxist is Mark Gilbert, formerly of Chainsaw Jazz. Influenced by post-1970 electric Miles, AACM & the harmolodic school, at their bes...

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Vector Trio (previously known as Vector - we carried their earlier albums) is a DC based jazz/rock and electronics trio of trumpet, loops, electronics and percussion (leader Scott Forrey...

Solo pieces for trombone, didgeridoo & live electronics.

"Early recording (1967) of Eastern European free improvisation, which maintained a strong tension between restraint and the all-out blowing of its Western relatives. Though more traditional postbop inspirations are evident, there is the beautiful...

Unique and good album of music by a group (guitar, sax, percussion) that start their life as a strictly improvised group, but by the time they made this, their only album so far, some structures and melodic materials had also found their way into the...

"The world of pop music was hardly ready for The Velvet Underground's first album when it appeared in the spring of 1967, but while The Velvet Underground and Nico sounded like an open challenge to conventional notions of what rock music could sound...

After founding and leading Arti E Mestieri through 2 great albums, guitarist and composer Gigi Venegoni left and started another band, who released 2 albums on Cramps in the late 1970's. They were a more stripped-down band, using keyboards, guitar, bas...

The number of bands performing the music of Frank Zappa just continues to explode. I think the appeal is pretty obvious; first of all, the compositions are great, of course. Additionally, Frank and his music managed to find a relatively large audience...

booklet has a little bit of staining.

The very obscure 3rd release by this renowned new jazz drummer & composer, surprisingly found on the Finnish 'rock' label Love. Includes Pekka Pory, Tomasz Stanko, Pekka Rechardt & many others.

For the moment, this is the latest release by the terrific French duo of Eric Boros (baritone guitar and voice + trumpet) and Marylise Frechevile (drums and voice + keyboards). I have had the great pleasure of seeing them twice, and they amazed me with...

Fourth (?) release by the terrific French duo of Eric Boros (guitar and voice) and Marylise Frechevile (drums and voice). I have had the great pleasure of seeing them twice, and they amazed me with their stupendously tight and humorous music and stage...

Digipack has ring wear on front.

The 2nd of two albums by this German fusion/soundscape band. Both their albums were released by the much-missed CMP label, and are among their most obscure releases, but this is really good. Spoken work (poetry by Baudelaire, Roethke, O'Hara, Merwin, e...

Fantastically good Norwegian jazz/new music big band led by composer and bass clarinetist/saxophonist Mathilde Groos Viddal. This is their 2nd album. Found some quotes for this one, so you can read someone else gushing instead of me...

Their 2nd release & final release. "Originally released in 1984, Video Aventures was the brain-child of Dominique Grimaud and Monique Alba. After releasing an EP, Musiques Pour Garcons et Filles, to much critical acclaim, they decided to record their f...

pieces by Reich, Bryars, Ligeti, Carl.

Includes 3 pieces; Go Guitars (for 5 microtonally tuned electric guitars), Cirrus (for 6 trumpets), & Simoom (for 8 cellos). [Experimental Intermedia]