Lucas Niggli Drums, Percussion, Compositions
Nils Wogram Trombone
Claudio Puntin Clarinets
Philipp Schaufelberger Guitar
Peter Herbert Bass

"The music on this album, their second, relates more to the subtle and sophisticated..

Anne La Berge: Flutes, Electronics / Nils Wogram: Trombone, Melodica / Philipp Schaufelberger: Guitar / Barry Guy: Bass / Lucas Niggli: Drums, Percussion.

Lucas Nggli has rebuilt BIG ZOOM. Two experienced improvisators of great reputatio

Omri Ziegele: Alto Saxophone, Voice
Ray Anderson: Trombone
Jan Schlegel: E-Bass
Dieter Ulrich: Drums, Bugle

"The Zürich trio Noisy Minority with New York tombone player Ray Anderson: Anderson is the outstanding trombonist of the American jazz scene, and Noisy Minority, Zurich saxophonist Omri Ziegele’s band, is known for its modern jazz with expressive power, drive and buoyancy. Bandleader Ziegele composed eight new pieces for the album “Wrong Is Right”. It’s a dare-devil ride in...

Gabriela Friedli: Piano / Co Streiff: Alt- & Soprano Saxophone / Jan Schlegel: E-Bass / Dieter Ulrich: Drums

Two women and two men form this quartet – all distinctive individualists, ranking among the most distinguished musicians on the Swis

Larry Ochs: Tenor and Sopranino Saxophones
Joan Jeanrenaud: Cello
Miya Masaoka: Koto

"Three San Francisco Bay Area masters come together here to play music composed by Larry Ochs for the unusual trio of saxophone, cello, and Japanese..

Urs Leimgruber Soprano and Tenor Saxophone
Christy Doran Electric Guitar, Devices
Bobby Burri Double Bass, Devices
Fredy Studer Drums, Percussion, Bowed Metal

"This band wrote history from 1972 to 1982 combining the energy of rock music with the power of free improvisation. With enormous vitality they bring together the experiences of a young generation electrified by Jimi Hendrix, fascinated by John Coltrane and inspired by free jazz. OM brought rock music into spontaneous musical

Aruán Ortiz: Piano
Brad Jones: Bass
Chad Taylor: Drums, Mbira

"When Aruán Ortiz appeared with his new trio at Zürich’s unerhört!-festival on 26 November 2016, the sense of anticipation was palpable; how would the music from the well-received studio album Hidden Voices feel in a live context. The trio were at the end of their first European tour, and on a roll. Immediately after the concert Ortiz was already enthusing about the interaction and musical dialogue.
“Mulling it over” – ...

Aruán Ortiz: Piano
Eric Revis: Bass
Gerald Cleaver: Drums

"The Cuban-American pianist and composer Aruán Ortiz has finally arrived on the international jazz scene, following a few earlier releases. His excellent new album "Hidden Voices" recorded as a trio with bass player Eric Revis and drummer Gerald Cleaver is the proof.

Ortiz, who grew up in Santiago de Cuba, has been called the latest Cuban prodigy to arrive in the US. His carefully structured music is an exciting mix of...

Evan Parker: Saxophone
Barry Guy: Bass
Paul Lytton: Drums

"Evan Parker, Barry Guy and Paul Lytton – three legendary figures in the field of improvisation – have each developed their own epochal styles. These long-time friends and collaborators now present the latest of their Trio recordings – part of an ongoing series that began in 1980 with the now out-of-print LP 'Tracks'. Their powerful improvisations reveal them as a trio of unyielding innovation, both conserving and constantly...

Ernst Ludwig Petrowsky Alto Saxophone, Clarinet
Michael Griener Drums

"The duo saxophone-drums – a classical formation in jazz – offers remarkable possibilities. The Berlin musicians Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky and Michael Griener use this...

Paul Plimley Piano, Voice / Barry Guy Bass, Voice / Lucas Niggli Drums, Voice.

"In the spring of 2012, during a tour of Europe, Plimley, Guy and Niggli recorded this album at a studio session in the "Loft" in Cologne, Germany. Barry Guy and...

Kaja Draksler: Piano
Petter Eldh: Bass
Christian Lillinger: Drums, Percussion

‘“A supergroup” is what the German music magazine Jazzthetik calls Punkt.Vrt.Plastik. Kaja Draksler, Petter Eldh and Christian Lillinger make up this trio – “Two musicians and one musician who are among the most exciting and active that the European avant-garde has to offer.” and Die Zeit writes: “They reinterpret an entire genre at once: the good old piano trio.” The trio convinces with a highly individual..

Ralph Alessi, Trumpet / Ingrid Laubrock, Saxophones / Kris Davis, Piano / Drew Gress, Bass / Tom Rainey, Drums

"On the second CD on Intakt Records with his own band Tom Rainey surprises with standards like Dave Brubeck's «In Your Own Sweet

Tom Rainey: Drums / Ingrid Laubrock: Saxophones / Mary Halvorson: Guitar

"Tom Rainey, informed by free improvisation and subtle compositional strategies, and by echoes of jazz eras and modes of conduct past and future, is one of the important..

Ralph Alessi: Trumpet
Ingrid Laubrock: Saxophones
Kris Davis: Piano
Drew Gress: Bass
Tom Rainey: Drums
Tom Rainey is one of jazz / avant music's current greats on the drums and what a band he's got here! Recommended!

"On this second CD with his band Obbligato Tom Rainey surprises with standards and beautiful love songs like «Stella by Starlight», «What Is This Thing Called Love» or «I Fall in Love too Easily».
Tom Rainey has played in bands with Tim Berne, Fred Hirsch

Alexander Hawkins: Piano
Tomeka Reid: Cello

"Shards and Constellations presents duets with two remarkable musicians Tomeka Reid and Alexander Hawkins. Both have become creative epicenters in the jazz and improvisation scene in recent years with their original, versatile and innovative art. Reid has recorded extensively with many legendary artists from the AACM such as Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell as well as the next generation of AACM artists including Nicole Mitchell, Dee Alexander..

Angelica Sanchez: Piano
Chad Taylor: Drums

“Two exceptional musicians – Angelica Sanchez and Chad Taylor – present their first duo album with A Monster is Just an Animal You Haven’t Met Yet. And it’s high time, given their long musical friendship, which has solidified over the years in various formations. It is therefore no exaggeration to describe pianist Angelica Sanchez and drummer Chad Taylor as two of the most important musical personalities in contemporary jazz.
Both are virtuoso...

Julian Sartorius : drums, cymbals, spanish goat-bells, gongs, vibrators, rubber balls, sound bowls, bull-roarer, shruti box, lumbers, glockenspiel, kalimbas, tubes, mbira, metals

"'Zatter' is an old Bern-German word which simply means 'the....

"Monk's Casino is not an encyclopedic project, but an arrangement of the complete works of Thelonious Monk for live performance in one evening. At Monk's Casino, things often happen fast and sometimes get quite turbulent, too. Still, everything is....

"Alexander von Schlippenbach, Evan Parker and Paul Lovens get on the stage which has been restored true to the original, in order to present us with this cubistic, democratic design in the form of music: collective improvisation. No beginning. No end...

Alexander von Schlippenbach : Piano

"The pianist, two days in the studio, alone at the piano. A retreat in Zurich. Focus is on the now, the recording is running. Preparation time for the new compositions: about a year. Getting attuned to the music: a lifetime. Alexander von Schlippenbach, Slow Pieces For Aki, the emphasis being on the word "slow," not on rediscovering slowness but discovering slowness anew - dedicated to his wife Aki Takase.
With slow pieces, short pieces, compositions in...

Alexander von Schlippenbach: Piano

"The pianist alone in the studio. That is the counterpole to von Schlippenbach's work with the Globe Unity Orchestra; at the same time, it is also an orchestral challenge in the form of the keyboard, hammers...

"A first, long improvisation called “First Choice.” For twenty minutes, Irène Schweizer unwound for the evening, arriving, in the course of this long-distance run, at one of the wild African dances her audience loves so much. With the ambitious second...

Irène Schweizer: Piano / George Lewis: Trombone / Maggie Nicols: Voice / Joëlle Léandre: Bass / Günter Sommer: Drums / Paul Lovens: Drums

"At the first Taktlos Festival in 1984, Irène Schweizer assembled several chosen musician to a three