Nicolas Masson, tenor saxophone / Colin Vallon, Rhodes electric piano / Patrice Moret, double bass / Lionel Friedli, drums.

"Can you imagine a music born from the crossed influences of Ornette Coleman, Wayne Shorter, Warne Marsh, Black Sabbath...

Jørgen Mathisen tenor and soprano saxophone
Erlend Slettevoll piano
Trygve Waldemar Fiske double bass
Dag Erik Knedal Andersen drums

"In what concerns the domains of symbolical relationships, Jorgen Mathisen’s Instant Light is to astronomy what the Sun Ra Arkestra is to science fiction, and the titles of “Mayhall’s Object” compositions are illustrative of that difference: “Magellanic Cloud”, “MACS0647-JD” and “Neutron Star”, for instance, are clinical names for existing cosmic bodies.

João Mortágua alto & soprano saxophones
Carlos Azevedo piano
Miguel Ângelo doublebass
Mário Costa drums

"Some of the most interesting artists of the Porto jazz scene in Portugal, namely João Mortágua, Carlos Azevedo, Miguel Ângelo and Mário Costa, join forces as the band Mazam to celebrate the idea of path, discovery and adventure. But if you understand this purpose as a way to deal with factors concerning process and its complexities, this concept comes with a surprise...

Rob Mazurek trumpet, piccolo trumpet, piano, prepared piano, sampler, magic yellow bucket, bells, shakers, flutes, voice, and various percussion

“Milan is the latest spellbinding stop-off on an intrepid solo voyage, with interdisciplinary abstractivist Rob Mazurek (Exploding Star Orchestra, Chicago Underground Duo, São Paulo Underground and Black Cube SP) dropping anchor in the regional capital of Lombardy to record the latest in his series of unaccompanied performances at radio stations...

Peter McEachern trombone
Mario Pavone double bass
Michael Sarin drums

"Dedicated to Roswell Rudd."

"Peter McEachern had a long-standing collaboration with Mario Pavone by the time he met Michael Sarin in the early 90’s. The three musicians recorded “Insomnia” by Thomas Chapin as part of Chapin’s Trio Plus Brass, a formidable octet. McEachern repaid Chapin’s invitation by asking him to play on his CD “Shockwave”, and their paths continued to cross along the years. Pavone invited.

Joe McPhee, pocket trumpet and alto saxophone.

"Joe McPhee is a musician of many solo albums (this is the number eight), but each one gives a different view of his art – either because of the instrumental choices, being the tenor saxophone...

Henrik Pultz Melbye Tenorsax
Ole Mofjell Drums

The drum and sax duo, Heaven, is the collaborative project of Danish saxophonist Henrik Pultz Melbye and Norwegian drummer Ole Mofjell. Heaven’s fast, highly energetic performances, combine influence from old and new-school free jazz, as the foundation for their innovative sound. Inspired by European improvisation, 60's New York-loft-avant-garde and Ethiopian jazz, Heaven fearlessly ventures between rhythmic and melodic realms, to stretches of....

Nicolas Caloia double bass
Lori Freedman b-flat and bass clarinet

"Quicksilver apothecaries of pitch, timbre and time, the formidable Montreal-based pairing of clarinettist Lori Freedman and bassist Nicolas Caloia, reconvene their long-term Mercury connection for a fittingly volatile and strange, dangerous, and often beautiful, dose of deeply conceptual body music.
Skin is the culmination of a more than 20-year relationship of intense melodic, harmonic and rhythmic exploration, which has.

Bernhard Meyer electric bass, fx
John Hollenbeck drums, percussion, prepared piano

“It may not seem that way – there’s a mix of soft rock-oriented and minimal atmospheres all along this record,sometimes making us think of the quietest instrumental moments conjured by Tame Impala or even Cigarettes After Sex –, but both Bernhard Meyer and John Hollenbeck are jazz musicians. With no overdub, this duo sounds like much more than two players at work, and that's because of the different sound...

Aaron Bennett, tenor saxophone / John Finkbeiner, guitar / Lisa Mezzacappa, double bass / Vijay Anderson, drums.

A jazz record on Clean Feed with a cover of "Lick My Decals Off, Baby"? What more could you possibly need to know?...

"A new record by the «best kept secret of Portuguese creative music», as one British critic once wrote about trumpeter extraordinaire Sei Miguel. Specifically, a collection of “stories untold” with different line-ups, from a duo with Fala Mariam to a sextet with Mariam, Nuno Torres, Rodrigo Amado, José Bruno Parrinha and Paulo Curado, including the participation of other musicians like Carlos Santos, Hernâni Faustino, Luís Desirat and Moz Carrapa. This is how jazz sounds when inspired by John Cage...

Fala Mariam (alto) trombone
Nuno Torres (alto) saxophone
Bruno Silva guitar
Pedro Lourenço bass
André Gonçalves organs
Luìs Desirat percussion (metal and skin)
Raphael Soares percussion (wooden)
Sei Miguel (pocket) trumpet ,composition, arrangements, direction

"This occurrence of O Carro de Fogo de Sei Miguel was live recorded at the Namouche Studios, Lisbon, on April 18, 2018.
Sei Miguel is no longer the “best kept secret” of the Portuguese creative

Sei Miguel (pocket) trumpet on all tracks
André Gonçalves lyra-8 on track 1
Bruno Parrinha alto clarinet on track 3
Ernesto Rodrigues viola on track 2
Fala Mariam alto trombone on all tracks
Helena Espvall cello on track 4
Monsieur Trinité udu mbwata on track 2
Nuno Torres alto saxophone on track 3
Paulo Curado flute on track 3
Rafael Toral modified ms-2 feedback on track 4
Raphael Soares claves on track 1 and 3
Rodrigo Amado tenor saxophone on track 3
Sami...

Nick Millevoi electric and acoustic guitars / Jamie Saft Hammond organ and piano / Johnny DeBlase upright and electric bass / Ches Smith drums with Dan Blacksberg trombone and string arrangements / June Bender violin.

Nick is a wild and wildly great guitarist who has released a bunch of records and who I have seen play at least half a dozen times. For my money, this is far and away his best (and also his most accessible) work yet. Highly recommended.

"At the intersection of jazz and rock.

Gabriele Mitelli cornet, soprano sax, alto flugelhorn, electronics, objects, voice
Rob Mazurek piccolo trumpet, electronics, objects, voice

“Here is one more example of a musical project inspired in literature. Star Splitter, the duo by the multi-instrumentalists Gabriele Mitelli and Rob Mazurek, makes reference to a poem by Robert Frost, in which this author tells the story of Brad McLaughlin, a farmer who failed to produce agricultural income and decided to burn his house to get the...

Sergiy Okhrimchuk violin
Robert Jędrzejewski cello
Jacek Mazurkiewicz contrabass, electronics
Łukasz Kacperczyk modular synth
"The title “Ants, Bees and Butterflies” may seem descriptive, but there are enough elements here to puzzle you. First of all, the Modular String Trio is not a trio, but a quartet. You can either accept it as an arithmetic incongruence or understand what’s in stake: that there’s a real string trio in this band, with a violin (Sergiy Okhrimchuck), a cello...

Brandon Terzic, oud/Ravish Momin, percussion/Sam Bardfeld, violin.

"This is a new Tarana. The trio recorded here includes violinist Sam Bardfeld and oud player Brandon Terzic occupying Jason Kao Hwang's and Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz's seats on...

Joe Morris, guitar / Mat Maneri, viola / Chris Lightcap, bass / Gerald Cleaver drums.

“Balance” may be the return of an old Joe Morris project and band, but the always innovative guitarist embraces it as a new adventure. And sure it is: Morris...

Barre Phillips (b)/Joe Morris (g)

"Guitarist (and sometimes bassist) Joe Morris has in “Elm City Duets” a new chapter of his ongoing objective to play with his lifetime heroes: after the meeting with the renowned multi-instrumentalist Anthony...

Joe Morris, acoustic guitar / Nate Wooley, trumpet.

"After previous partnerships with Anthony Braxton and Barre Phillips in the Clean Feed catalogue, here we find the guitarrist in another duet, this time with Nate Wooley. We could expect such..

bass clarinet (track 6) / Håvard Wiik, piano / Håkon Mjåset Johansen, drums / Ole Morten Vågan, double bass.

"Considering what we read somewhere in the package notes, this recording is a "smertzenfrei art transplantation". Don't ask what does...

Karlis Auzins tenor & soprano saxophone
Lucas Leidinger piano
Tomo Jacobson double-bass
Thomas Sauerborn drums
"Confirming that jazz is an universal language, here is a trans-national quartet featuring musicians from Germany, Latvia and Poland, in the two last cases living in Copenhagen. If you don’t recognize the names of these four representatives of a new generation of European musicians, namely Karlis Auzins, Lucas Leidinger, Tomo Jacobson and Thomas Sauerborn, certainly you’ll know.

"Music of Savages. The name of this project comes from a xenophobic saying of a French musician to Arthur Decloedt, when this São Paulo double bassist was living for some time in Paris. The music in question in that sad episode was, you guessed... Brazilian music. Returned to his country, Decloedt and saxophonist Filipe Nader decided both to turn that negative remark to a positive one, formulating a “savage” (read: spontaneous and free) kind of Brazilian jazz, to differentiate it from bossa nova and...

Chris Speed tenor saxophone, clarinet
Herb Robertson trumpet, cornet, voice
Simon Nabatov piano
John Hébert double bass
Tom Rainey drums

“The new installment in the ongoing series of New York centered recordings, this time with the stellar roster of Chris Speed, Herb Robertson, John Hébert and Tom Rainey, “Plain” is the new brilliant opus in Simon Nabatov’s singular and rich career.
With a background in classical piano, with the immediately recognizable Russian feeling...

Simon Nabatov piano / Mark Dresser double bass.
"When two master musicians meet in duo for the first time, the artistic expectations are immense. “Projections” is a historic musical encounter, the very first duo concert by pianist Simon Nabatov and..