Aki Takase: Piano / Silke Eberhard: Alto Sax, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet

" Wonderful, impressive, exciting, almost odd, and in any case fascinating: two women play Ornette Coleman tunes in a duo with reeds and piano, and beyond that with...

Ohad Talmor: Tenor Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Synth, Arrangements
Chris Tordini: Acoustic and Electric Bass
Eric McPherson: Drums
Joel Ross: Vibraphone
David Virelles: Piano
Leo Genovese: Piano, Synth
Shane Endsley: Trumpet
Russ Johnson: Trumpet
Adam O'Farrill: Trumpet
Grégoire Maret: Harmonica

“Saxophonist Ohad Talmor, an expressive improviser and superb stylist, is a cosmopolitan musician with nationalities in France, Switzerland, Israel and the United

OLIVER LAKE ALTO SAXOPHONE, SOPRANINO SAXOPHONE / REGGIE WORKMAN: BASS / ANDREW CYRILLE DRUMS

"Time being what it is, there are several ways to approach Time Being, the latest and, I think, best of the Trio 3 albums – among them, its...

Reggie Workman: Bass / Andrew Cyrille: Drums / Oliver Lake: Alto Saxophone, Flute / Geri Allen: Piano

"Geri Allen is a natural choice, an already well-established collaborator with each member of Trio 3. Cyrille played on her 1984 debut...

Irène Schweizer: Piano / Reggie Workman: Bass / Andrew Cyrille: Drums / Oliver Lake: Alto Saxophone

"What we get to hear on this album is a transatlantic encounter that casts an up-to-date yet historical light on many relations and cross...

Andrew Cyrille: Drums
Reggie Workman: Bass
Oliver Lake: Saxophone
"Among other things, Visiting Texture illustrates the principle of addition by subtraction. It's the first studio album by Trio 3 as an actual trio with Oliver Lake on alto saxophone, Reggie Workman on bass and Andrew Cyrille on drums in more than a decade, since the excellent Time Being in 2006. The intervening years have seen the group work powerfully with some serious guest pianists: notably Geri Allen, Irene Schweizer...

Dominik Landolt: Guitar, Effects
Ramon Landolt: Synth, Samples, Piano
Mario Hänni: Drums, Effects

The trio's captivating aesthetic is thanks to a symbiotic intensity of expressio. It contains traces of '70s free jazz psychedelics and particles of contemporary club culture and aspires to a broad fusion of free jazz and electronic music, energetically driven by a collective improvisation which outflanks solo gymnastics. After their celebrated 2016 recording, The Willisau Concert, with YES.

Saadet Türköz:Voice
Karsiga Ahmediyar Dombra on 2, 3, 6, 10
Sayan Akmolda Kilkobuz, Dombra on 1, 5, 7, 8, 13
Talgat Mushik Sazsirnay, Shankobuz, Sibizgi on 5, 8
Selim Kerey Sidiyik Dombra on 9, 11, 12
Mamer Rayeskhan Dombra on 1

Ken Vandermark: Saxophone, Clarinet
Nate Wooley: Trumpet
Sylvie Courvoisier: Piano
Tom Rainey: Drums Percussion

“It was only during Ken Vandermark's residency at the Jazz club The Stone in January 2016 that Vandermark found himself in the same vicinity as Nate Wooley, Sylvie Courvoisier and Tom Rainey. A year later they went into the studio with nine compositions – three each by Courvoisier, Vandermark and Wooley.
These four musicians have well-documented, distinct personalitie

Urs Voerkel: Piano / Gabriela Scherrer: Voice / Priska Walss: Trombone / Jacques Widmer: Drums / Irène Schweizer: Drums / Paul Lovens: Drums

"I met Urs first time in Heidelberg at a summer school organised by Karl Berger. It must be almos

Priska Walss: Trombone, Alphorn / Gabriela Friedli: Piano

"In the current jazz scene in Zurich, Switzerland, Priska Walss and Gabriela Friedli have made a name for themselves through numerous projects. For Intakt Records, Priska Walss has...

Anna Webber: Tenor sax, Flute, Bass flute
Adam O'Farrill: Trumpet
Mariel Roberts: Cello
Elias Stemeseder: Synthesizer
Lesley Mok: Drums

“Flutist, saxophonist and composer Anna Webber is a central figure in the New York jazz scene and is considered one of the most innovative musicians of the younger generation with a surprising range of activity. Her work has been hailed as “visionary and compelling” in the intersection of avant-garde jazz and new classical music, and her previou

Katharina Weber: Piano
"A new piano icon – this is how Fred Frith describes Katharina Weber. For almost thirty years now the classically educated pianist and composer moves within the world of New Music and Improvisation. The CD Woven Time is...

Florian Egli: Saxophone, Clarinet
Dave Gisler: Guitar
Martina Berther: E-Bass
Rico Baumann: Drums

"The quartet Weird Beard was founded by Zurich based saxophonist Florian Egli. Following the debut album 'Everything Moves' on Intakt Records, they release a second studio album, recorded again in the Blackbox Studio in Brittany by the out­standing sound engineer David Odlum. 'Orientation' is a sophisticated record on which Weird Beard increasingly focus their attention on the creation o

Jürg Wickihalder soprano and alto sax
Achille Succi bass clarinet, alto sax
Mark Zubek bass
Kevin Zubek drums

"Jürg Wickihalder is a Zurich saxophonist who works with pianist Irène Schweizer. He published last year the first CD of.

Jürg Wickihalder: Soprano, Alto and Tenor Saxophone
Barry Guy: Bass
Lucas Niggli: Drums
"A meeting of three European musicians from different generations each with his own musical background: three sound artists, three virtuosic instrumentalists, three breath-taking improvisers. BEYOND with Jürg Wickihalder, Barry Guy and Lucas Niggl means strong melodies, a deeply affecting and sensuous lyricism, moments of exciting groove and a rare and fascinating textural density.
This trio’s mutual

Jürg Wickihalder: Saxophone / Irène Schweizer: Piano / Fabian Gisler: Bass / Michael Griener: Drums.

"In the case of Jump!, the third release on the Intakt label by Swiss soprano saxophonist Jürg Wickihalder, the presence of Irène Schweizer...

Conrad Bauer: Trombone / Ulrich Gumpert: Piano / Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky: Alto Saxophone, Flutes, Clarinet / Günter Sommer: Drums, Percussion, Mouth Harp

The four greats of German jazz—Conrad Bauer, Ulrich Gumpert, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky...

Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Saxophones / Conrad Bauer, Trombone / Ulrich Gumpert, Piano / Günter Sommer, Drums, Percussion

"The four greats of German jazz – Conrad Bauer, Ulrich Gumpert, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, and Günter Sommer – have recorded..

OMRI ZIEGELE Altosax, Voice
CHRISTIAN WEBER Bass
HAN BENNINK Drums

"Swiss saxophonist Omri Ziegele presents with the Tomorrow Trio an adventurous line-up featuring the legendary Dutch drummer Han Bennink and accom­plished Swiss double bassist Christian Weber. A collaboration that offers a perfect platform for Ziegele's robust, powerful sound and his dynamic phrasing, while at the same time showing interest in poetry and the spoken word.
"If the Tomorrow Trio has a defining feature

"Omri Ziegele, saxophonist, composer and und leader of the small orchestra Billiger Bauer, presents a new work with his orchestra. For its 15th anniversary, it quite aptly premiered the first performance of a 15-part work at the Zurich Theater...

Omri Ziegele: Altosaxophone, Voice / Yves Theiler: Piano

"Omri Ziegele, saxophonist, composer and und leader of the small orchestra Billiger Bauer presents a duo with younger Zürich pianist Yves Theiler – after Ziegel had made his musical way...