Atle Nymo – tenor sax, bass clarinet
Magnus Broo -– trumpet
Mattias Ståhl – vibes
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten – double bass
Håkon Mjåset Johansen – drums

For a number of reasons, Scandinavia is currently one of the epicenters of vivid, forward-looking jazz, often marked by a tantalizing balance of form and freedom. Over the past decade, the quintet I.P.A. has come to embody the best of this volatile sensibility, which makes sense as the..

“An unearthed treasure from the '70s Italian avant garde archives! A previously unreleased recording from the legendary Beat72 club in Rome in 1973, featuring a one-off Italian-American all-star ensemble with Roberto Laneri founding member of the experimental vocal group Prima Materia, maverick American composer Alvin Curran co-founder of Musica Elettronica Viva. Trombone specialist Giancarlo Schiaffini from the historical Gruppo di improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza. Cello virtuoso...

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...

“How great to watch Bruford explain how he creates drumming riffs and patterns. His insight about his left hand technique, and what that has meant to him as a musician, was particularly valuable. A real treat to watch him drum up close, and to watch the King Crimson footage. The interview of Steve Howe concerning Bruford's contribution to YES was dead-on. Nice video.”

“Being a big fan of Neil Peart's expansive drumming dvds, I was a little edgy to find out this Bruford DVD was only half an...