Evelyn Davis pipe organ
Fred Frith electric guitar
Phillip Greenlief clarinet, alto saxophone

“In 2022, almost ten years after recording the first Lantskap Logic album, the situation in Oakland had abruptly changed. Mills College was being sold off, and the music department— internationally renowned as a beacon of experimentalism for more than 70 years - would no longer exist. I had retired from teaching at Mills in 2018, Evelyn completed her graduate studies in 2013 and also taught...

Luther Gray, drums / Jim Hobbs, alto saxophone / Geoff Farina, guitar / Dan Littleton, guitar.

"'When I was younger most of my music listening involved a lawnmower and a Walkman. I've spent thousands of hours pushing a lawnmower listening to...

Karl Hjalmar Nyberg, saxofones / Andreas Skår Winther, drums, strings / Klaus Ellerhusen Holm, saxophone / clarinet / Michael Francis Duch, double bass.
"It may allude to the first name of Karl Hjalmar Nyberg, but the designation Mr K present us the duo founded by the mentioned saxophonist with drummer Andreas Skar Winther. The intended ambiguity of this project goes beyond this personal identity factor – it’s everywhere in the music. Mr. K covers all the possible approaches to improvisation, going...

"Since bursting onto the international creative music scene in 2004 with Interface (Clean Feed 22) and Artificial Light (Fresh Sound 186), Steve Lehman has quickly established a reputation for creating cutting-edge music, both as a fiercely imaginative sa

João Lencastre drums,analogue synth
Jacob Sacks piano
Eivind Opsvik double bass

Portuguese drummer and composer João Lencastre began his Communion project in 2005, after his first visit to New York in 2002 set the scene for developing relationships with New York musicians. There he first heard and met David Binney and in 2003 Lencastre joined Binney on stage for some Portuguese dates and in 2004 he met Jacob Sacks and Thomas Morgan, who would later join Communion, when Binney’s..

João Lencastre drums
Jacob Sacks piano
Eivind Opsvik bass

"Portuguese drummer and composer João Lencastre is back for a new opus of his project Communion, the one with which he used to dialogue with key musicians of the American and international jazz scenes like David Binney, Bill Carrothers, Thomas Morgan, Leo Genovese, Phil Grenadier, Benny Lackner and Jeremy Udden, among others. This time, he chose the piano trio format, bringing back one of his more usual partners, pianist Jacob...

Daniel Levin, cello / Nate Wooley, trumpet / Matt Moran, vibraphone / Peter Bitenc, double bass.

"Daniel Levin formed his quartet in 2002. The first gig was at CBGB's in New York City and over the past 8 years, the band has covered a lot of...

Daniel Levin, cello.

"Daniel Levin is "a samurai with a calligrapher’s brush in his hand instead of a sword,” writes Ed Hazell in his liner notes for Inner Landscape. It couldn't be truer: this is improvised music with force and grace...

Daniel Levin, cello / Matt Moran, vibes / Nate Wooley, trumpet / Peter Bitenc, bass

"The Daniel Levin Quartet has already shown on prior recordings that a change of conventional instrumentation in a jazz combo is enough to explore an entirely...

Mat Maneri viola / Daniel Levin cello

"By adopting psychologist and philosopher Carl Jung’s phrase for the title of their first duo recording, Daniel Levin and Mat Maneri hav acknowledged the necessity of a balance between intuitive spontaneity (the unconscious) and pre-established conditions (the conscious) i their improvisatory format. Both of them have proven to be probing, provocative improvisers in a wide range of settings in the past, but thi collaboration offers special qualities unique to...

Luís Lopes electric guitar
Rodrigo Amado tenor sax (left)
Bruno Parrinha soprano sax & clarinet (center)
Pedro Sousa tenor sax (right)
Rodrigo Pinheiro piano & rhodes
Ricardo Jacinto cello
Hernâni Faustino double bass
Pedro Lopes turntables & electronics
Gabriel Ferrandini drums & percussion

"The first avant-gardes of the 20th century began a special interiorization of aspects coming from the creativity of children, of the then-called “savages” and of the demented...

Chris Lightcap, double bass / Craig Taborn, wurlitzer electric piano, piano / Gerald Cleaver, drums / Chris Cheek, tenor saxophone / Tony Malaby, tenor saxophone / Andrew D'Angelo, alto saxophone on "Silvertone", "Ting" and "Fuzz".

"Featuring...

Achim Kaufmann, piano / Christopher Dell, vibraphone / Pierre Borel, alto saxophone / Tobias Delius, tenor saxophone / Jonas Westergaard, double bass / Robert Landfermann, double bass / Christian Lillinger, drums

"The sequel of “First Reason”...

Luís Lopes electric guitar
Robert Landfermann double bass
Christian Lillinger drums

"Usually, free improvisation and conceptualism don’t mix. To improvise is to be intuitive and spontaneous, living little space to intelllectualized constructions. In the case of the second album by the Luís Lopes Lisbon-Berlin Trio (Robert Landfermann and Christian Lillinger representing the German side) there’s a rare mix of the two approaches. “The Line” derives from the notion of time like a broken line...

Luís Lopes, electric guitar / Robert Landfermann, double bass / Christian Lillinger, drums.

"The encounter of a Lisbon-born and two Berliners documented by this CD isn’t, of course, the only focus of interest proposed by this music. There’s...

Luís Lopes electric guitar
Rodrigo Amado tenor saxophone
Aaron Gonzalez doublebass
Stefan Gonzalez drums

"It took some time (“Live in Madison”, the previous releaseof this Luso-American band, dates back from 2013), but here is the much expected fourth album by portuguese guitarist Luís Lopes’ Humanization 4tet. With tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado and the Gonzalez brothers Aaron and Stefan playing the double bass and the drum kit, respectively, the quartet goes further into th

Luís Lopes electric guitar
Rodrigo Pinheiro fender rhodes
Robert Landfermann double bass (with effects)
Christian Lillinger drums

"Luis Lopes’ Lisbon Berlin Quartet immediately references the residences of the contributing musicians, Lopes and Rodrigo Pinheiro from Lisbon, Robert Landfermann and Christian Lillinger from Berlin, but there’s more than this that feeds the specific urban relations of this music. To say each is a city with a past, is understatement. If Berlin will loom...

"French-Japanese violist Frantz Loriot use to keep a little notebook with him, in which he writes all the musical ideas coming to his mind. One day, he noticed there was sufficient material to work with. He had a conversation with Swiss arranger and...

Marco Barroso direction and piano / Manuel Luís Cochofel flute / Paulo Gaspar clarinet / Jorge Reis soprano saxophone / João Pedro Silva, Ricardo Toscano (on track 1) alto saxophone / José Menezes tenor saxophone / Elmano Coelho baritone saxophone / Sérgio Charrinho, Pedro Monteiro, Gonçalo Marques trumpets / Luís Cunha, Eduardo Lála, Mário Vicente trombones / Miguel Amado electric bass / André Sousa Machado drums.
"A live recording of the concert presented by the very peculiar big band LUME...

Igor Lumpert tenor saxophone (solo saxophone on “Čapljinski Tatari”)
Greg Ward alto saxophone
|Peter Evans trumpet
Chris Tordini double bass
Kenny Grohowski drums
Jeff Miles guitar on 1, 2, 4, 5 and 9
John Ellis bass clarinet on 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7
Caleb Curtis alto saxophone on 4, 8 and 9

"Seeking chances to learn and grow as an artist, Igor Lumpert moved from his home country Slovenia to New York in 2000. Since that time, he has studied with stellar teachers such as...

Paul Lytton, percussion / Nate Wooley, trumpet and amplifier + Ikue Mori (computer on tracks 2 and 3 disc 1) and Ken Vandermark (bass clarinet, clarinet, tenor saxophone and baritone saxophone on 3, 4 and 5 disc 2).

"The duo of the veteran and...

Tony Malaby, tenor and soprano saxophones / Wadada Leo Smith, trumpet / William Parker, double bass / Nasheet Waits, drums.

"Having a trio like the one founded by saxophonist Tony Malaby with the likes of William Parker and Nasheet Waits was...

Tony Malaby, tenor and soprano saxophones / Drew Gress, bass / Tom Rainey, drums / John Hollenbeck, drums, percussion, marimba, vibraphone, xylophone, glockenspiel and melodica.

Unbelievable grouping; where else can you hear Tom Rainey and John..

Tony Malaby tenor and soprano saxophones / Ben Monder guitar / Eivind Opsvik double bass / Nasheet Waits drums.
"One critic said it all: if someone like Joe Lovano is the jazz equivalent to The Beatles, than Tony Malaby’s rock analogy are The Rolling Stones. What does that mean? Simple, it means that the saxophonist and composer leading the band Paloma Recio is a wild card, always doing what you don’t expect him to do. If you still think that categories like “mainstream” and “avant-garde” are at war...

Mat Maneri viola
Evan Parker soprano and tenor saxofones
Lucian Ban piano
"Over the course of a quarter century career American violist Mat Maneri has “changed the way the jazz world listens to the violin and viola” (AllAboutJazz.com) and has established an international reputation as one of the most original and compelling artists of his generation. Maneri posses an immediately recognizable sound and approach which marries the distinct worlds of jazz and microtonal music in a fluid...