“This concert is one of the few from the 1970s (recorded in 1973) that features Taylor with a trio; in this case, it was composed of the late saxophonist Jimmy Lyons and drummer Andrew Cyrille. The material is one extended improvisation entitled "Bulu Akaskira Kutala." The early '70s was Taylor's most articulate period of his method of propelling dynamic energy forth into conical spirals of harmonic mystery and danger. While his music had dispensed with the notions of form and interval long before this...

This one was recorded for the Japanese East Wind label on July 19, 1975, by one of the two architects of the sound of Miles' great guitar-oriented band of 1973-1975.

Reggie's only solo release, this features Joe Gardnen (trumpet), John Stubblefield (tenor), Clifford Allen (trombone), Hubert Eaves (Fender Rhodes, clavinet, ARP synth), Michael Henderson and Anthony Jackson (electric bass), Howard King (drums) & M'tume (percussion).

On what what the 1st side of the vinyl lp, the sound is a...

Kenji Mori : saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
Takao Uametsu : saxophone, bass clarinet
Masaru Imada : piano, electric piano
Masayuki Takayanagi : guitar
Hideto Kanai : bass
Nobuyoshi Ino : bass, cello
Hiroshi Murakami : drums
Yuji Imamura : percussion

The "Tee" in Tee and Company is the nickname of Three Blind Mice's founder and producer Takeshi Fujii, who formed a all-star group of eight top Japanese jazz & electric jazz musicians in 1977 for a series of concerts

“William Hooker is a musician, composer, and poet with over 70 recordings as a leader, encompassing jazz, new music, experimental music and multi-disciplinary forms of expression (e.g. dance, silent film and spoken word). He has been recognized [by The Wire] as "an iconoclast, and one of the most innovative musicians and drummers of his generation," which is evident nowhere more than on his latest album. Hooker says of the work, which features collaborators Matt Lavelle, Sarah Manning, On Davis, and Adam...

“BASta!'s first album, "Cycles" is one of my all-time favorite recordings. At this point, there's little that's novel about playing a long string instrument through a loop-pedal. These recordings make you immediately forget the limitations of the medium and give you what you always wanted from an imaginary string quartet.”- Jeff Dion

“BASta! is the solo project of double bass player and composer Joris Vanvinckenroye (known here as one of the leaders of Aranis), in which he explores and pushes...

Swedish duo Mats/Morgan create their own sphere in the transcontinental music scene, a zone wherein progressive rock, jazz-rock fusion, experimental rock, electronica, and progressive pop overlap and intertwine...

"I...was stunned by his Hendrix meets late era Coltrane approach." – Guitar Moderne

"Despite the boilingly hot drive...influenced by Cream, Lifetime, the Jimi Hendrix Experience (and perhaps more notionally the Pete Cosey/Reggie Lucas version of the Miles Davis group), there's a lyrical side to the guitarist’s playing as well...Excellent." – Point Of Departure

"...out jazz with lots of sass and vigor...recalls the thornier side of the ECM Records catalog, especially...

“David Bowie, live from NHK Hall, Shibuya, Tokyo on 12th December 1978 Bowie s farewell performance in Japan in December 1978 for the Low/Heroes World Tour offers a prized snapshot of the artist s work over the preceding 3 years with Young Americans and Station to Station featuring prominently alongside his two then new albums. Having left LA and a cocaine habit behind, Bowie was energized and on the verge of something ultimately and creatively new. With three bonus tracks from his appearance on...

One of the greatest voices of the 20th century and she doesn’t sing a note here and it’s still a totally top notch swing release. Highly recommended to people with old people taste!

“The music is wonderful, and the sound is remarkably good given these are recordings of radio broadcasts from 1939 and 1940. This is a really swingin' CD. Ella took over Chick Webb's band after his death and it was one of the best big bands ever. The band didn't get the notoriety of bands like Benny Goodman, Artie...

Ernest Dawkins, saxophone
Steve Berry, trombone
Marquis Hill, trumpet
Jeff Parker, guitar
Junius Paul, bass
Isaiah Spencer, drums

“Ernest Dawkins formed his New Horizons Ensemble in 1978 and on The Prairie Prophet, the group continues to create music that showcases their unique combination of jazz, bebop, swing, and avant-garde. The Chicago Tribune describes them as “a band with an uncommon versatility that erupts into new music bursts of dissonance and color. This band can

Kenji Mori : saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
Takao Uametsu : saxophone, bass clarinet
Masaru Imada : piano, electric piano
Masayuki Takayanagi : guitar
Hideto Kanai : bass
Nobuyoshi Ino : bass, cello
Hiroshi Murakami : drums
Yuji Imamura : percussion

The "Tee" in Tee and Company is the nickname of Three Blind Mice's founder and producer Takeshi Fujii, who formed a all-star group of eight top Japanese jazz & electric jazz musicians in 1977 for a series of concerts

“Cosmic, consciousness-expanding and mind-shattering, At War With The Mystics, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots brings together the expressiveness of recent albums with the heaviness, volume and intensity of the band's earlier work. At War With The Mystics is personal, political, psychedelic and powerful pop.”

“After two expansive yet winsome epic albums like The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots that dealt with the...

“Performed live for television broadcast during the Grateful Dead's April 1972 Denmark shows, the Dead’s return engagement at the prestigious Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen, saw the band making their sixth appearance on the continent, an event that also marked the Dead's first major live concert broadcast, and became a first in Danish television history.
Following the recontextualized Americana of the band’s Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty albums of 1970, the European shows introduced fans...

“Agartha: Personal Meditation Music is a 7 CD boxed set, originally released on cassette in 1986, at the height of New Age, as an aid for meditation and alignment.
Bringing to mind 20th century composers like Eliane Radigue, La Monte Young, or even Brian Eno's Shutov Assembly, the time-stopping, enveloping, electronic music contained in this series sounds eerily modern, mysterious and moving. Characterized by deep analog drones, rising overtones, floating frequencies surfing on sine-waves and...

“From the origins of Adams' triumphant HARMONIELEHRE to the controversial production of DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER, HAIL BOP! is an immaculately produced (except perhaps the cheesy opening graphics) DVD encompassing the biography and creative life of John Adams, arguably America's greatest living composer.
Adams' story is fleshed out with behind-the-scenes commentary by frequent collaborators such as Peter Sellars and Alice Goodman, breathtaking American vistas (a little KOYAANISQATSI, if you get my drift)..

"This 85 minute DVD is the 2nd in a 2-volume anthology of previously unreleased concert footage of Bill Bruford’s Earthworks, one of the longest lived and most original jazz quartets around today. It chronicles the band’s progress through the 1990s from its electronic start to its acoustic renaissance. The group was originated as a vehicle for Bruford’s unusual and innovative use of electronic percussion, and did much to challenge perceptions about what a drummer should, or should not do in the jazz...

Much more interesting than the studio albums of this period, Holger’s random chance radio samples, which didn’t work for me on the studio albums, really throw the music into a very different and occasionally surprising area at times.

“The long-awaited recording of Can Live in Keele 1977 - this is the performance that has been requested the most since the series began. Live in Keele 1977 is a dynamic document of late-period Can. Recorded in March 1977, the core line up of Irmin Schmidt, Jaki...

Synthesist Jolliffe is best known for his tenure with Tangerine Dream, but he's put out a number of albums on his own, includng this one, which is one of the best I've heard by him; very subtle and engaging!

"This 1995 release features an active electronic landscape, melodic strains interweaving with delicate keyboards and sensual bass percussion. The dynamic music (one long 61-minute piece broken into ten passages) is quite tasty with its counterpoint of trance and tempo. The compositions are...

“One of the more challenging tasks in band arrangement is the use of multiple instrumentalists who play the same instrument. In any genre or any style, that will be tough. Le Trio Joubran is a fascinating group structured around three very skilled oud players. How does that work? How can that work? The too obvious joke would be, with great difficulty, but the more serious answer is the arrangement of each piece such that the principals play around each other rather than stepping on each others’ lines...

"If you're already aware of Rüdiger Lorenz, chances are you washed ashore on Southland, his cult kosmische curio graciously reissued by the ever-benevolent Bureau B in the middle of the last decade. Either that, or you're one of the few hundred electronic music obsessives who encountered his work the first-time round, giddily grabbing up the eighteen cassette, vinyl and CD releases the prolific part-timer delivered DIY style on his Syntape and Syncord imprints between 1981-1998. I say this because...

“Since his days with Blood Sweat & Tears in the mid-1970s, followed by stints with Billy Cobham and Miles Davis band in the 80s, and a solo career that now spans more than 25 years, guitarist Mike Stern has used his jazz roots as a starting point for exploring a range of alternate territories that include R&B, rock, swing, funk, world music and numerous other regions along the musical topography. The recipient of Guitar Player magazine’s Certified Legend Award for 2012, he’s an artist who s not afraid...

Lars ‘Lachen’ has a very distinctive voice and sound. Long time Waysiders have probably heard one or more of his fine works and long time Waysiders will be thrilled to have a new one to add to his too small body of work. All instruments and vocal by ‘Lachen’, with added vocals by mezzosoprano Maria Wassrin.

“Some of this music was made and performed by Lars "lachen" Jonsson for a theater on stage in the 90’s. In these performances he worked together with the singer Maria Wassrin. The songs...

“The hidden, dark tinged and psychedelic side of the maestro, Morricone Segreto is a new collection of hidden works, including 7 unreleased tracks to commemorate the 92nd birthday of late iconic Italian composer, Ennio Morricone. A treasure trove of unreleased tracks, rare pieces and alternate takes, it explores Morricone's richest creative period (late 1960s thru early 80s), demonstrating his everlasting influence on generations of musicians and film directors. His legacy lives on through inspiration...

“Fresh from the famed Phun City festival with the Pink Fairies, Deviants and MC5, this incredibly rare performance by The Pretty Things sees the band in their post S.F. Sorrow phase with Skip Alan and Jimi Hendrix’s young protégé - teenage genius Peter Tolson (ex- Eire Apparent).
With a powerful social message, pastoral hymns and hard rocking mayhem, Parachute was about to take to the stage and diminish any misgivings about the new line-up. Captured beautifully by DRTV, this is a stunning document...

“A live recording of one of the best eras of Fairport Convention, this disc has some issues even for fans. The first gig is very good quality while the second is an audience recording. Apart from that this is prime Full House line up Fairport in full swing. Great stuff.”

“Fairport Convention’s attempt to reinvigorate traditional English folk music succeeded against a cultural backdrop of loud guitars and nascent stadium rock similar to the folk revival across the Atlantic. With Liege & Lief...