Sten Sandell piano
Lisa Ullén piano

“This one is for all the piano lovers overthere. If you’re a fan of the Scandinavian scene, you already know that Sten Sandell is one of the main representatives of that rich cauldron of creative jazz in Europe. And if you’re attentive to what’s new and fresh and creative in the jazzosphere, you already heard about the Korean-born, but living in Stockholm, Lisa Ullén, also a pianist. Yes, this is a piano duo, playing “Double Music” as the title states...

Pharaoh Sanders, tenor sax / Rob Mazurek, cornet / Chad Taylor, drums / Guilherme Granado, synths / Matthew Lux, bass / Mauricio Takara, percussion.

Oh, yeah! This is Rob Mazurek and both the Sao Paulo Underground AND Chicago Underground duo and

"The release of this new recording by Portuguese pianist Bernardo Sassetti is one of those moments that give full meaning to the whole activity of a record label like Clean Feed. In Indigo Sassetti proves himself to be one of the most talented piano playe

"High-flying Norwegian trumpeter and composer Thomas Johansson, much-lauded for his spellbinding work with, among others, Friends & Neighbors and Gard Nilssen’s Supersonic Orchestra, brings together two of his other formidable ensembles – premier third-stream troupe Scheen Jazzorkester and avant-garde party-starters, Cortex – for a scintillating showcase of big-band bravura.
Recorded live in the winter of 2022 at Norway’s old Hamar Teater hall, the five dynamic cuts on Frameworks have their origins...

Pierre Borel saxophone
Antonio Borghini bass
Christian Lillinger drums

"The trio Schnell uses the bebop tradition as the starting point (the «archetype» or the «memory basket», as they put it) to investigate speed, stasis and trance. It’s not simply a mechanical process, giving more velocity to the lines played by Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, the same way a 33 rpm record would sound if put to 78 rpm, but to transform the bebop language by pushing the musicians to their limits and...

Ricardo Jacinto cello and electronics (+ harmonium on Cocuruto)
Gonçalo Almeida double bass and electronics
Nuno Morão drums and percussion

"The Selva is a string and percussion trio, with Ricardo Jacinto and Gonçalo Almeida on cello and double bass and Nuno Morão on drums. Formed in 2016, their music explores the intersections between the broad musical spectrum of each of its members, presenting live an improvised, electro-acoustic, multi-idiomatic musical dialogue and strongly ...

Ricardo Jacinto cello
Gonçalo Almeida double bass
Nuno Morão drums
"The Portuguese trio The Selva likes to make musical references, to symbolize and to propose dubious significations. The debut album of the group starts with a piece full of indeterminate allusions to the Far-Eastern traditional music expressions. It goes on with a virtual journey through Renaissance times and its aesthetic values, seeming to invite us to care more for the beauty of life. Only in the third track we find...

Brad Jones double bass / Ches Smith drums / E# tenor and soprano saxophones, electric guitar

"With its reinterpretations of the music composed by Thelonious Monk, "Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!" wasn't the most "jazzy" recording that multi...

Elliott Sharp, Koll 8-string electroacoustic guitarbass

"This is the second volume of Elliott Sharp's project "Octal", realized on the 8-string guitarbass prototype built for him by Saul Koll. And again, it's a solo album of purely digital...

"Listening closely to the duo of Elliott Sharp and Scott Fields one can hear a compact history of modern composition and improvisation. Although the duo has a sound all its own, under the surface you can sense traces of “New Music,” minimalism, free jazz,

André B. Silva guitar
José Soares alto saxophone
Raquel Reis cello
Sophie Bernado basoon
Paulo Bernardino bass clarinet
André Carvalho double bass
Ricardo Coelho drums, percussion and vibraphone

"Mt. Meru” is the second record under his own name by the guitarist of The Rite of Trio - one of the most brilliant projects coming from the small European country called Portugal. After his first record, The Guit Kune Do, which consisted of five electric guitars, he shuffles things...

Yaw Tembe trumpet, voice
Monsieur Trinité percussion

"Two generations gather in this surprising project: from one side a young Swazi born trumpeter who is committed to bring Africa to the Portuguese free music scene, Yaw Tembe, and from the other a veteran percussionist / objects manipulator, Monsieur Trinité (Francisco Trindade), a former emigrant in Paris who brought home the Situationist concepts he discovered in France. Nothing on their respective careers prepared us for the music of...

Isach Skeidsvoll piano & melodica
Lauritz Heitmann Skeidsvoll saxophones

"Having improvised together since they were kids, the brothers Lauritz and Isach Skeidsvoll have developed a strong musical connection which they constantly seek to evolve, challenge and explore.
Here comes their latest release; a live recording from their hometown Molde and the Molde International Jazz Festival. All free improvised music, moving from high energetic shrieks of bliss to calm soundscapes and everything

"At their second opus, one of the most surprising projects emerging these last years from the very dynamic and rich cauldron of Portuguese jazz are capable to go very far beyond what they showed us before. Embracing a kind of cinematic jazz vaguely influenced by John Zorn’s compositional work for the big and the little screens, the band Slow is Possible is simultaneously accessible, due to the sugestibility of the melodic work and the directness of the rhythmic propulsion, and experimental, presenting a...

Kristoffer Kompen, trombone / Kristoffer Berre Alberts, saxophones / Ole Morten Vågan, double bass / Erik Nylander, drums.
"The Norwegian jazz scene is like the hat of a magician: when you think nothing more can get out from its mysterious hole, there’s something else emerging to amaze us. SNIK is such a case. The compositions are from two of the members of this quartet, trombonist Kristoffer Kompen and double bassist Ole Morten Vagan. Vagan is one of the most respected names of the Scandinavian...

Pedro Sousa tenor and baritone saxofones / Johan Berthling double bass / GabrielFerrandini drums.

"After playing and recording with Thurston Moore, the ex-Sonic Youth guitarist who sometimes likes to go out of the rock format in order to simply..

Rafael Toral acoustic and electronic feedback, amplifier, direction | Hugo Antunes double bass | Nuno Morão drums and percussion | Nuno Torres alto saxophone, electronic instrument

"Electronic music with a human touch – that’s what Rafael Toral proposed himself to do when he started with the Space Program. Or electro-acoustic music, to be more exact, because his adapted amplifiers and other feedback and sinusoidal devices are combined with conventional instruments, played by fellow Portuguese...

Matthias Spillmann trumpet, flugelhorn
Andreas Lang double bass
Moritz Baumgärtner drums

"Getting to the core of the matter is what drives trumpeter Matthias Spillmann and his stage companions, Andreas Lang and Moritz Baumgärtner, in this CD recorded live. And this means to find the essence of this music genre we call jazz, using the repertory of its history, namely songs written by William C. Handy (“St. Louis Blues”), Billy Strayhorn (“A Flower is a Lovesome Thing”), Ornette Coleman...

David Stackenäs acoustic guitars
"The last solo CD (“Separator”) recorded by David Stackenäs with acoustic guitars was released 8 years ago. Too much time without having a close listening of the developments taken by the continuous research this Swedish guitarist is doing of the unplugged instrument that, even being the most popular in the world, still has some secrets to explore. The focus may be the same, with a similar succession of sketches (“bricks”), but there’s much more happening than...

Jason Stein, bass clarinet / Jason Roebke, double bass / Mike Pride, drums.

"On this second Locksmith Isidore release on Clean Feed Records, Jason Stein continues to redefine the bass clarinet as a lead instrument. Stein has developed his own...

Fred Lonberg-Holm cello and guitar
Nick Macri double bass
Charles Rumback drums
"Stirrup, the Chicago based Collaborative trio, continues to explore the interstitial space on this, their third commercial release.
Cellist (and in “Cut” also a guitar player) Fred Lonberg-Holm is one of the top references of the Chicago creative music scene, covering genres going from jazz to rock, to pop, to free improvisation and to experimental music. Stirrup is his new band and reflects Lonberg-Holm’s.....

Daniel Levin, cello / Rob Brown, alto sax / Steve Swell, trombone

"In this present age of the history of humanity, there are few places left for a true utopia. The world has already experienced some of those ideal systems, but the results...

Orrin Evans piano (vocals on “Blessed Ones”)
Eric Revis double bass
Nasheet Waits drums
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Oliver Lake alto saxophone
Josh Lawrence trumpet
Dana Murray percussion (4)

“With its provocative, confrontational name, the trio formed by Orrin Evans, Eric Revis (yes, the same playing in Branford Marsalis’ band) and Nasheet Waits, each one with compositional and leading status, call again alto saxophonist Oliver Lake for a record which mixes “loud, frenetic...

Ziv Taubenfeld bass clarinet, percussion
Michael Moore alto saxophone, clarinet
Joost Buis trombone
Nico Chientaroli piano, objects
Omer Govreen double bass
Onno Govaert drums, percussion

"An Israeli expatriate living and playing in the Netherlands, bass clarinetist Ziv Taubenfeld searches for light in the midst of the dark period that surrounded the recording of his new opus “Out of the Beast Came Honey”: on this date, as part of the flexible unit called Full Sun, is American...

Sérgio Carolino tuba
Mário Delgado guitarra
Alexandre Frazão bateria

"At their third album, Portuguese band TGB can’t be defined anymore by the unnusual instrumentation of a tuba, a guitar and a drum set. An idiosyncratic music comes with it, «without frontiers and unconquerable», as Sérgio Carolino, Mário Delgado and Alexandre Frazão say themselves. They mixed jazz, rock, folk, country and more in ways impossible to categorize like “fusion”. TGB expanded it so much, and with such...