Chrome Hill Duo:
Asbjørn Lerheim electric baritone guitar, electronics
Roger Arntzen double bass, electronics

Dōjō
Michiyo Yagi electric 21-string koto, electronics
Tamaya Honda drums

"A Norwegian jazz-rock quartet steeped in Americana that has spawned six albums and countless live performances, Chrome Hill has been an integral part of the lives of Asbjørn Lerheim and Roger Arntzen for over two decades. In 2014 Lerheim and Arntzen found an opportunity to visit Tokyo and...

Asbjørn Lerheim baritone guitar
Atle Nymo tenor saxophone
Torstein Lofthus drums
Roger Arntzen double bass

"That’s not news now: Scandinavian jazz is in love with Americana, importing aspects of Country & Western and Appalachian folk, and even using its instruments, in projects gradually difficult to categorise. Each project still individually unique, and like their fellow countrymen Huntsville, who mixes banjo and pedal steel guitar with Indian tabla machine and shruti boxes...

"Percussionist and composer Domen Cizej’s vision surpasses the limits of the ordinary. On his debut Introducing Domen Cizej, the Amsterdam-based artist introduces himself in full range. A box set of five albums, each with a different ensemble, message, and power, offers an opportunity to hear Cizej’s vision in depth and in totality. The box set opens with the thunder of an eight-member percussion ensemble that can be experienced as a “body in a repetitive coordinated motion, aiming at transcending its...

Cameron Ralston bass
Jason Scott saxophone
Bob Miller trumpet
Alan Parker guitar
Toby Summerfield guitar
Scott Clark drums

"I've been watching drummer and composer Scott Clark for a few years now & he is really developing into a major force in music. This is composed free-ish jazz and includes two electric guitarists which give it more of a rock / postrock feel than most free jazz. One of the guitarists is the great Toby Summerfield of Algernon and Larval!...

Zack Clarke piano and electronics
Chris Irvine cello
Charlotte Greve saxophone, clarinet, flute
Nick Dunston double bass
Leonid Galaganov percussion, waterphone, shakuhachi

"Mesophase is a term used in physics describing a state of matter that is neither liquid nor solid, sharing properties of both while defining a state unique unto itself. By extension, the concept can also apply to a reconciliation of emotional polarities or conflicting ideas. Zack Clarke leverages the idea of a...

Alberto Conde piano
Carlos Barretto double bass
Alexandre Frazão drums
Guest artist on Embalo para Bernardo: José Valente viola

"By this time, the usual listeners of the Clean Feed catalogue are familiar with the name of the late Portuguese pianist and composer Bernardo Sassetti – the Lisbon-based label released five records with his name. Among those listeners, many musicians from other countries admire his exquisite and very personal writing and his astonishing work with the black

Sean Conly double bass
Michaël Attias alto saxophone
Satoshi Takeishi drums

"No one gets a free ride in life. Sooner or later, everyone ever born has to deal with their own share of obstacles, rocky roads and missteps. it is in those times that our true selves emerge, our mettle tested and formulated. In those moments, the best we can do is stay true to our selves and our beliefs, and surround ourselves with a community of strong likeminded individuals and comrades....

Thomas Johansson trumpet / Kristoffer Alberts saxophones / Ola Høyer double bass / Gard Nilssen drums.

"Cortex? No, this isn’t jazz of the cerebral kind – even considering that the approach in “Avant-Garde Party Music” is very much the intelectual one coming from the bebop / hard bop era (when the music seated its users, inviting them to listen and not prioritarily to dance) and approaching our times through the free jazz evolutive line. Avant-garde the music certainly is, but you can still party..

Thomas Johansson trumpet, percussion
Kristoffer Berre Alberts saxophones, percussion
Ola Høyer double bass, percussion
Gard Nilssen drums, percussion

“Free jazz? Well, not exactly. This quartet from Norway took that tradition as a basis, but the original African-American free jazz never sounded like this. The magazine Jazzwise chose better words to describe Cortex’s blasts of energy: «Avant-garde party music». Instead of the pathways to spiritual ascension, or the revolt...

Thomas Johansson trumpet
Kristoffer Alberts saxophones
Ola Høyer double bass
Gard Nilssen drums
"On Cortex second release with Clean Feed Records you’ll find them again in the best context possible: in concert. Considering that the band works in the tradition pioneered by Ornette Coleman, this concert recording has a special significance, because it took place in the world capital of jazz, New York. The approach may be somewhat European, but the music registered here seemed (and seems) at...

Mário Costa drums, electronics & composition
Cuong Vu trumpet
Benoît Delbecq piano, synths & samplers
Bruno Chevillon double bass

"I love it. The more I Iisten to it, the more I love it. The compositions are very inspiring. No unnecessary notes. Four masters who play with an amazing interaction. Each musician gives what is needed and is handed what he needs, like in an ideal, perfect democracy. I can feel the pleasure they had playing together. Magic." -Enrico Rava ...

Sylvie Courvoisier Piano
Ned Rothenberg Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Shakuhachi
Julian Sartorius Drums, Percussion

“It’s not the first time we can hear Sylvie Courvoisier and Ned Rothenberg playing together. Both of them were included in a trio with Mark Feldman also released by Clean Feed (“In Cahoots”, 2017). That listening made us hope for more. Here it is with another trio, this time with drummer Julian Sartorius as the third contributor. Without a leader, and enlisting

Paulo Curado, alto sax / Ken Filiano, bass / Bruno Pedroso, drums.

"One of the most accomplished musicians in the Portuguese jazz and free improvised music scene, Paulo Curado plays with a credo: give disorder a place to develop and grow. Disorde

Francesco Cusa drums
The Assassins :
Giulio Stermieri hammond, piano
Flavio Zanuttini trumpet, electronics
Giovanni Benvenuti tenor sax
Florence Art Quartet:Daniele Iannaccone violin
Lorenzo Borneo violin
Agostino Mattioni viola
Cristiano Sacchi cello
Duccio Bertini keyboards (on “Elegia”)

"Here is a record of crossed challenges. A band (The Assassins) with a vocation to improvise freely is co-operating with a classical chamber string ensemble...

Kris Davis. piano.

"Pianist Kris Davis is rapidly becoming one of the most sought out pianists in New York. Every recording we get our hands on, we find her. The trio Paradoxical Frog with Tyshawn Sorey and Ingrid Laubrock, her trio Good Citizen.

Ben Goldberg bass clarinet, contra alto clarinet, clarinet / Oscar Noriega bass clarinet, clarinet / Joachim Badenhorst bass clarinet, clarinet / Andrew Bishop contrabass clarinet, clarinet / Nate Radley guitar / Gary Versace organ / Jim Black drums...

Christoph Gallio soprano, alto & c-melody saxophones
Silvan Jeger double bass, voice & sequenzer
Gerry Hemingway drums & percussion

“In 2023 DAY & TAXI celebrates its 35th anniversary. Bassist Silvan Jeger celebrates his 10th DAY & TAXI anniversary and drummer Gerry Hemingway has now also been with the band for 5 years. Reason enough to release a live production after 18 years (LIVE IN SHENZHEN, SHANGHAI AND TAIPEI). LIVE IN BADEN was recorded on 29 November 2021 and is, so to speak...

The Ljubljana Jazz Festival has the good policy to program either veterans or newcomers who already proved their value, and here is the recording of the incendiary concert presented at the 2014 edition of that event by young piano jazz trio De Beren...

Benoît Delbecq, piano / Miles Perkin, double bass / Emile Biayenda, drums and percussion.
"A big surprise for all those who thought that the first and only Benoît Delbecq’s project with the piano jazz trio format ended with the unfortunate death of bassist Jean-Jacques Avenel in 2014. Here comes again the formula debuted in 2010 with the album “The Sixth Jump”, now with Canadian, but Berlin-based, Miles Perkin playing the upright bass under Avenel’s influence, but with a voice of his own...

"Mário Delgado is one of the most active guitar players on the Portuguese Jazz scene. His skills, along with the way he expresses his own language, makes him one the most in demand musicians for many musical areas. He started his studies in the Hot Clube

"Composers drawing on visual arts or literary works for inspiration and guidance are nothing new. Think Mussorgsky’s “Picture at an Exhibition” or even Scott Fields’ Clean Feed release “Beckett.” This CD by trombonist Michael Dessen and his trio continues

Michael Dessen, trombone and electronics / Christopher Tordini, bass / Dan Weiss, drums.

"California-based trombonist Michael Dessen has been quietly but steadily collecting accolades for his expansive work as a composer and improviser, which...

Luís Vicente trumpet / Théo Ceccaldi violin, viola / Valentin Ceccaldi cello / Marco Franco drums.

"The avant-jazz/improvised music scene is very much alive in Europe. One superlative example is this new quartet project reuniting two French and..

Whit Dickey drums
Kirk Knuffke cornet
I've had the great pleasure of working with cornetist Kirk in Ideal Bread and seeing him nearly a dozen times over the years in various bands. He is one of the greatest trumpeters out there, with a quick mind and beautiful tone. Whit plays, Kirk responds. Kirk plays, Whit responds. All beautifully.

"If you tend to imagine the music of a new CD, before listening to it, by what you heard before coming from the musicians involved, “Fierce Silence” is...

Albert van Veenendaal (p) / Matthieu Donarier (sax).

“Many say there isn’t such a thing as “European jazz”, but this duo encounter between French saxophonist Matthieu Donarier and Dutch pianist Albert van Veenendaal most certainly proves...