Nick Mazzarella alto saxophone
Tim Stine guitar
Matt Ulery bass
Quin Kirchner drums

“When considering the Chicago jazz scene today (and other associated genres), we have to name the precious contribution of guitarist and composer Tim Stine. Stine’s contributions are brilliantly demonstrated in his new album, “Knots”, acoustic music resulting from sensible combinations of precise written scores (“the ink”, Stine says) and interactively improvised content by the members of his.

Thomas Johansson trumpet
André Roligheten tenor saxophone
Christian Meaas Svendsen double bass/fender bass (left channel)
Jon Rune Strøm double bass/fender bass (right channel)
Andreas Wildhagen drums

"Yes, you can create a band concept from the double bass position, but instead of putting himself as the focus of the collective music of his quintet, bassist and composer Jon Rune Strøm enlisted a second bass player, Christian Meaas Svendsen, for the group, like him doubling th

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

"When Sonny Rollins released the album Saxophone Colossus (Prestige, 1956), he not only made the point that he loomed over all over saxophone...

Grzegorz Tarwid piano
Max Mucha double bass
Albert Karch drums, percussion

"One of the most captivatingly versatile pianists to emerge from Polish music academia in recent years, Grzegorz Tarwid is as influenced by Brian Eno’s earliest ambient adventures and the eclectic rhythmic hustle of the ultra-hip Ugandan Nyege Nyege scene as he is steeped in the traditions of East European and Scandinavian jazz. Initially honing his chops under the tutelage of Polish piano maestros such as Wojciech...

Daniele Martini, tenor sax/Giovanni di Domenico, piano/Gonçalo Almeida, bass/João Lobo, drums.

"What does Tetterapadequ mean? Is it an obscure Italian or Portuguese term that reflects this ensemble's mix of two Italian and two Portuguese...

Sérgio Carolino tuba
Alexandre Frazão drums
Mário Delgado electric guitar

"Marking two decades of continuous, eclectic evolution, TGB – the Portuguese power trio boasting tuba ace Sérgio Carolino, guitarist Mário Delgado and drummer Alexandre Frazão – take another captivating whirligig around their enigmatic universe of collective musical influences, filtering an impeccable sonic palette via the prism of Room4, the ensemble’s fourth stunning full-length for the Clean Feed imprint....

Anna Kaluza alto saxophone / Artur Majewski trumpet, cornet / Rafal Mazur acoustic bass guitar Kuba Suchar drums, percussion, kalimba, megaphone.

"This recording confirms everything you may have heard about the dynamism and richness of the...

Davu Seru drums / Rafael Toral modified short-circuiting MT-10 amplifier, modified MS-2 amplifier feedback, electrode oscillator.

"'Everything in the Space Program is jazz, except the music' - this paradoxical quote from a recent interview given.

Ricardo Toscano saxofone
João Pedro Coelho piano
Romeu Tristão contrabaixo
João Lopes Pereira bateria

"The prodigal son of Portuguese jazz is finally on record. Since his teenager years until he became a young man (25 years old in 2018) we get used to only hear him on stage, improvising with the tunes of American masters like Charlie Parker, “Cannonball” Adderley, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, among many others of different times in the “jazz continuum”. Now, we can seat at...

Jeff Arnal, percussion / Seth Misterka, alto saxophone / Reuben Radding, bass / Nate Wooley, trumpet.

"Quadrologues is the second Clean Feed release by the New York based quartet Transit. This collection of pieces integrates the tradition of...

Sebastian Strinning tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
Manuel Troller guitar
Gerry Hemingway drums, voice

"In 2009 American percussionist and composer Gerry Hemingway relocated in Luzern, Switzerland, and found himself in a thriving community of musicians and artists with whom he has forged new relationships. Chief among those relationships are the guitarist Manuel Troller [of Schnellertollermeier] and saxophonist and bass clarinetist Sebastian Strinning. As a group they began exploring...

Per Zanussi double bass
Raymond Strid drums and percussion
Martin Küchen baritone, alto and sopranino saxophones

"After “...was there to illuminate the night sky...”, “Bruder Beda” and “Human Encore”, this one with Joe McPhee as special guest, Trespass Trio is back to tell us another story without words. There’s a narrative structure developing from start to finish, with a cinematic quality, but everything goes through an emotional level (from rage to a disarming tenderness) and the..

Joe McPhee, tenor saxophone and pocket trumpet / Martin Küchen, alto and baritone saxophones / Per Zanussi, double bass / Raymond Strid, drums.

"A dog barks during a trumpet solo and a car alarm ends a piece: this is reality music, music coming..

Kjetil Møster, saxophones, clarinet / Morten Qvenild, keyboards / Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, bass / Thomas Strønen, drums.

"With a past in hardcore/metal bands, mostly playing the bass guitar, soon Kjetil Moster changed to the tenor saxophone and...

Juanma Trujillo guitars
Kenneth Jimenez upright bass
Gerald Cleaver drums

"Juanma Trujillo is the complete musician. His palette of skills, genres and aesthetics is encyclopedic and all of his music comes from a deep place of generosity and honesty" - Arturo O'Farrill

“Occasionally heavy, but with a calculated deftness, the Venezuelan player is equal parts Sonny Sharrock and David Pajo in his daring guitar lines...The guitarist’s playing is totally novel and utterly batshit..

Eduardo Raon harp, electronics & daxophone
Joana Sá piano & idiophones
Luís André Ferreira cello & electronics
Luís José Martins classical guitar, electronics
Nuno Aroso percussion & sampling

"Five musicians came together to create a place where new dynamics of performance and musical creation materialize – the Turbamulta (a Portuguese word we could translate as "rowdy mob"). Each instrument, an original, individual voice magnified by new sound production techniques, existing

John Dikeman saxophones / Jon Rune Strøm double bass / Tollef Østvang drums / Joe McPhee pocket trumpet, alto saxophone.

"John Dikeman, Jon Rune Strøm and Tollef Østvang choose as the name of their trio the title of an Albert Ayler’s...

Sophie Tassignon, voice/Peter Van Huffel, alto and soprano saxophones/Samuel Blaser, trombone/Michael Bates, bass.

"You may not be familiar with van Huffel's and Tassignon's names, but don't direct your attention to something else so quickly...

"With this third volume of I Never Metaguitar, I'm thrilled at the notion of an ongoing process of discovery and the continuous pleasure of surprise at the inventions of these inventions: new sounds, processes, techniques, melodies, riffs, gestures...

"...and here is the fourth volume of this ongoing compilation organized by Elliott Sharp and covering «the parallel realities of contemporary guitarism». As Sharp himself wrote on previous liner-notes, each new collection of guitar pieces reflects «the never-ending joy of hearing fabulous sonic visions» with the guitar or its derivatives, as the main subject. You may not already know every chosen guitarist, but you will soon thanks to this series of recordings. Some of the artists need no presentations...

Bostjan Simon sax, electronics
Stephan Meidell guitar, bass, percussion, electronics
Luis Candeias drums, percussion
"«Lean back and give it time to grow», asks Velkro to the listener in the liner-notes of their new CD, “Too Lazy to Panic”. In fact, the compositions by the trio with Bostjan Simon, Stephan Meidell and Luís Candeias need your attention to develop. They may be intense, but there’s no hurries. This hybrid of jazz with psychedelic jamming rock and experimental electronic music...

Luís Vicente trumpet, composition
John Dikeman tenor saxophone
Luke Stewart double bass
Onno Goevart drums

"This international quartet first stepped on a stage in July 2021, on a tour of seven cities in Portugal supported by the GDA Foundation. Their support gave Portuguese trumpeter LUIS VICENTE the opportunity to put together a stellar band of JOHN DIKEMAN, a renowned North American saxophonist based in Amsterdam, with whom Vicente has built a fruitful relationship alongside...

Liba Villavecchia alto sax
Luis Vicente trumpet
Alex Reviriego double bass
Vasco Trilla drums

"Since forming in March 2021, the Liba Villavecchia Trio have channelled a singular spiritual mien, borne of shared experience, reflection and reminiscence, with previous albums, Zaidín (2022) and Birchwood (2023) capturing the group’s esprit de corps in vividly contrasting approaches, hopscotching from propulsive swing and fractious bustle, to smouldering disquisition and evocative...

Liba Villavecchia alto saxophone
Vasco Trilla drums and percussion
Alex Reviriego double bass

"The legendary saxophonist from Catalunya strikes again, this time in trio, with a collection of his own compositions (including a tribute to the film director Andréj Tarkovski), a couple of group improvisations, and a Thomas Chapin cover. “Zaidín” is the new achievement by an extraordinary musician who played Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman” with Agustí Fernãndez, collaborated with the....

Marty Ehrlich conductor/alto saxophone
Bobby Zankel alto saxophone
Julian Pressley alto saxophone
Robert DeBellis tenor and soprano saxophone
Hafez Modirzadeh tenor saxophone
Mark Allen baritone saxophone
Dave Ballou trumpet
Dwayne Eubanks trumpet
Graham Haynes cornet
Josh Evans trumpet
Steve Swell trombone
Michael Dessen trombone
Alfred Patterson trombone
Jose Davilla bass trombone
Michael Formanek bass
Tom Lawton pia