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Various Artists - Jazz Shots from the East Coast, Volume 3 DVD Surprisingly high quality visually, considering the age and rarity! "This outstanding DVD series pays homage to the East coast and to some of the most important musicians who have spent a major part of their career there. What is taken into account whe... 21-EFORFILMS2869054 $18.00
Harris, Barry - At The jazz Workshop (Japanese mini-lp sleeve/20 bit K2-encoding mastering) An unbelievable price on the hard to find Japanese version of this great album! "Pianist Barry Harris' second recording as a leader (he led a set for Argo in 1958) finds him at the age of 30 playing in the same boppish style he would have... 02-VICJ-41564 $15.00
Zavalloni, Cristina - When You Go Yes Is Yes : Live In Utrecht Zapping from jazz to pop to songwriter classics to contemporary composition, cabaret, folk (such as her unforgettable performance, both recorded and live in concert, on Banda Ionica's Matri mia project), Chritina Zavalloni confirms herself as an artis... 08-FY7024 $18.00
Skornik, Guy - Pour Pauwels CD Comes in a terrific digipack with a 28 page booklet stuffed with materials. Limited edition of 500 copies! This is very early 70s French hipster heaven! "Guy Skornik was a mystic explorer, psychonaut, and gifted musician, who was a key member... 18-Lion 676 $16.00
Ortiz, Aruan - Pastor's Paradox CD Aruán Ortiz piano, voice and composition Don Byron Bb clarinet, Eb clarinet, Bass clarinet and voice Pheeroan akLaff drums and voice Lester St. Louis cello (1, 2, 4, 5, 6) Yves Dhar cello (3, 7) Mtume Gant spoken word (track 1 ,4, 6) “Aruán Ortiz weaves multiple strands of tradition through his music, with an endgame of deep mystification...he has been a creative force at least since the release of his debut album.” Nate Chinen, New York Times “In Ortiz’s music, o CF 648 $15.00
Picnic - Picnic CD Tristan Honsinger, cello, voice Jean Jacques Avenel, bass Tiziana Simona Vigni, voice Sean Bergin, saxophone Michael Vatcher, percussion Toshinori Kondo, trumpet "A little-known gem of Dutch free music, Picnic is the brainchild of cellist Tristan Honsinger, who composed all but one of its 12 compositions. Brilliant and whimsical, the tracks bring to mind Honsinger's work with ICP Orchestra, for whom he has also composed extensively. Here he's working in an incredible ensemb CvsD CD029 $15.00
Davis, Miles - Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (Lift to the Scaffold) CD (expanded) (Mega Blowout Sale) The smokiest, noir-est, most atmospheric 50s jazz album you would ever hope to hear and own. This is seldom considered one of Miles’ great ones, but it’s absolutely one of my favorites of his pre-electric era! Highly recommended to anyone looking for their personal ‘French noir film soundtrack’; “Set ‘em up, Joe!” “Jazz and film noir are perfect bedfellows, as evidenced by the soundtrack of Louis Malle's Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (Lift to the Scaffold). This dark and seductive tale is... 28-PLG836305.2 $12.00
Chadbourne / Smith - Odd Time CD (Mega Blowout Sale) Eugene Chadbourne – 12 string banjo, banjo, vocals Warren Smith – drums, tympani, marimba, percussion, vibes “When Chadbourne lived in New York City in the 1970's he went to jazz shows at Warren Smith's Tribeca loft. One evening the older Smith gave the younger Chadbourne an instructional book by Louis Bellson called Odd Time Reading Text. 30+ years later and completely coincidentally, Eugene and Warren recorded this record together with the gift of that book hovering over the session. Hence.. 23-e043 $7.00
Blue Notes - Blue Notes For Mongezi 2 x CDs Dudu Pukwana – alto sax, whistle, percussion, vocals Chris McGregor – piano, percussion Johnny Dyani – bass, bell, vocals and most of the words Louis Moholo – drums, percussion, vocals “This music was recorded on 23rd December 1975 in a rehearsal room in London. It is the spontaneous tribute of four musicians who had assembled in London for the Memorial Service to their friend. No discussion took place beforehand and nothing was said during the session, save through the music.... Ogun OGCD 025-026 $18.00
Branch, Jaimie - Fly or Die Live CD Jaimie Branch – trumpet, vocals, vibraslap Lester St. Louis – cello, vocals, tiny cymbal Jason Ajemian – bass, vocals, egg shakers Chad Taylor – drums, vocals, mbira There is a moment near the top of Jaimie Branch’s FLY or DIE LIVE, the new album recorded by the trumpeter’s quartet in Zurich, Switzerland on January 23rd, 2020, which feels like it bears the weight of both that specific pocket of time, and a prophecy for all that was soon to come. Branch and her Fly or Die had... 39-CD-IARC-0041 $15.00
Pifarely, Dominique - Nocturnes CD Dominique Pifarély violin Antonin Rayon piano Bruno Chevillon double bass François Merville drums “Any new recording by French violinist Dominique Pifarély is good news. Being his quartet with Antonin Rayon,Bruno Chevillon and François Merville his more enduring band, this former companion of the also French reedist Louis Sclavis benefits from the maturity of this project, gained through the years, but also from an attitude of always reinventing itself, going to places that we no CF 561 $15.00
Abbs, Tom / Frequency Response - Lost & Found CD (Mega Blowout Sale) Tom Abbs: bass, cello, tuba, compositions Brian Settles: tenor and soprano sax, flute Jean Cook: violin Chad Taylor: drums “Rarely does a recording's clarity of purpose come through in one listening, but bassist Tom Abbs and Frequency Response's Lost + Found fits the bill. The significance of this record originates in the brevity of each of bassist Abbs' eighteen pieces—lasting, on average, only slightly over three minutes, with the longest being six and the shortest about two.... 23-e 031 $6.00
Twilight of the Alchemists: Encyclopedia of French progressive rock, experimental, electronic music, etc. : 400 page book (for sale in the USA only) Written by Steve & Alan Freeman, who wrote the legendary “Crack In The Cosmic Egg” book on German rock and “A Fistful Of Spaghetti” on Italian rock, this is a fun, in-depth, highly opinionated read! Introduction, including: The French scene, Musique Concrète, The underground, The art of being French, etc., "Before it all began" by Jean-Jacques Birge, " A concise history " by Guigou Chenevier, "A voyage of discovery " by Andy Garibaldi, The French top 100, A short guided tour, including: setting... 9781914458446 $54.00
Humair, Daniel - Seasoning "American Jazz critic Nat Hentoff once made an example of Daniel Humair as one „who long ago destroyed the notion that European drummers can't swing“. However, the artist born in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 23, 1938, who has been living and playing in Paris with the greatest European and American Jazz-stars ever since he was twenty years old, refuses to let himself be limited to music, let alone swinging. Renowned as a painter, with his abstract art included in some of the world’s best collections... 34-INTCHR 71322 $17.00
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble/Philip Kelan Cohran - Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble One of the lesser known but great Chicago jazzers performs with the very excellent and hipster-loved Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, which is comprised mainly of his children! "Approaching his eighty fifth birthday, legendary jazz musicianPhil Cohran.. 05-HJR 065 $17.00
Frith, Fred - Middle Of The Moment "This is a retrospective compendium of Fred's work over the last 17 years, with a lot of new material, perfectly put together and exceptionally listenable start to finish- an enlightening journey. It's my favourite of Fred's works in recent times. Close composition for electric and acoustic resources, tapework, concrete constructions, songs, sound effects and noise-art improvisations." Guests included: Iva Bittova, Tom Cora, Jean Derome, Haco, Tim Hodgkinson, Lars Hollmer, Rene Lussier... FREDFR9006 $15.00
Freitas, Amaro - Sankofa CD There is definitely a touch of a Brazilian take on Nik Bärtch’s ‘Zen Funk’ happening here, although he may have arrived to those ends by a very different path. In any event, another Brazilian winner! “Amaro Freitas is a Brazilian piano player and Sankofa is his third CD with his trio. His trio has Amaro on electric piano, Jean Elton on acoustic bass and Hugo Medeiros on drums and percussion. Amaro has a special sound and style and he is one of the new highlights of brazilian music. Some peopl rdm-78rot 001 $18.00
Frith, Fred - Middle Of The Moment (Mega Blowout Sale) "This is a retrospective compendium of Fred's work over the last 17 years, with a lot of new material, perfectly put together and exceptionally listenable start to finish- an enlightening journey. It's my favourite of Fred's works in recent times. Close composition for electric and acoustic resources, tapework, concrete constructions, songs, sound effects and noise-art improvisations." Guests included: Iva Bittova, Tom Cora, Jean Derome, Haco, Tim Hodgkinson, Lars Hollmer, Rene Lussier... FRED FR 9006 $7.00
Bridge Session 01 - Sonic Communion CD Jean-Luc Cappozzo - trumpet, flugelhorn Douglas R. Ewart - woodwinds, sound objects Joëlle Léandre - double bass Bernard Santacruz - double bass Michael Zerang - drums, percussions “Sublimed erotism in five phases of five consciousnesses communicating for the love of the slippery furthest / Ceaselessly knowing neither what to assure themselves nor that which infiltrates these hasteless consciousnesses / Nor languor too likely to languish and thus ease the vibrant tension of 21-TBS-01 $16.00
Onceim - Laminaire CD “Large-scale improvisation runs the risk of devolving into indistinct masses of sound. While this outcome is not necessarily undesirable, maintaining coherence among more than a handful of improvisers is a challenge. Onceim, a French ensemble of over 30 musicians led by Frédéric Blondy, manages to thread this needle by taking a slow, quiet approach that hides complexity within passages of long-held tones.”-Avant Music News RPR 1192 $13.00
Sher, Danny - Loose Nukes A simply fabulous multi-meter, complex electric jazz release, which is the debut album by Danny Sher and his quintet. Although relatively unknown, Danny's a really fine drummer and composer and also appearing are four musicians who are also unknown to... DS 01 $9.00
Hazevoet, Kees/Han Bennink - Calling Down the Flevo Spirit CD "When we made Calling Down The Flevo Spirit in September 1978, Han and I had been playing together off and on in different groups and combinations since early 1967, when Han joined Willem Breuker’s large orchestra (of which I had been a member... 21--ATAVISTIC259 $14.00
Blue Notes - In Concert CD Dudu Pukwana - alto saxophone Chris McGregor - piano Johnny Dyani - bass Louis Moholo - drums The entire band sounds great, but as the main solo voice, the concert is carried on the able shoulders of Dudu Pukwana. Typically distinctive Blue Notes performance! “Recorded live at the 100 Club, London, on 16 April 1977 by Ron Barron. Some of this music was originally available on LP as OG 220 (Ogun, 1978) however this expanded CD edition has only ever been released as part OGCD 027 $15.00
Roger, Danielle - Bruiducoeur Written for a 13-voice mixed choir (conducted from the inside), two speakers, two soloists, and two percussionists, this satirical elegy in 13 tableaux follows the oratorio form and brings together sung, proclaimed and chanted poetry, composition and i... AM146 $19.00
Berthiaume, Antoine - Small Tease "Mainly associated with jazz and creative music, Antoine Berthiaume delivers, with Small Tease, a surprising body of pieces standing on the fence of instrumental folk. Berthiaume is no newcomer to this genre, since Rodéoscopique dabbed in it too. This... AMBIANCESMAGNETIQUES196 $17.00
Hetu, Joane - Nouvelle Musique D'Hiver “Nouvelle musique d’hiver” consists of four movements in which musicians improvise from a canvas and compositional design. - 1. Joyeux temps; evocation of the first snowfalls and the Holiday season - 2. Être dans le vent; a tribute to wind and fire... AM162 $17.00
Ensemble Super Musique - Y'a du Bruit dans ma Cabane "Y'a du Bruit dans ma Cabane, Ensemble SuperMusique’s second CD, marks a serious side step from its debut Canevas +, which culled excerpts from concerts presented in Montréal between 1998 and 2004, and featured various facets and line-ups of the group... AM182 $17.00
Glass, Philip - Orphee 2 x CDs "Orange Mountain Music presents the world premiere recording of Philip Glass' opera Orphée, performed by a renowned cast of soloists including Philip Cutlip as Orphée, Lisa Saffer as la Princesse and the Portland Opera Orchestra conducted by... 05-OMM068 $29.00
Moore, Steve - Primitive Neural Pathways vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "Steve Moore is a New York based musician active in projects such as Zombi and Titan as well as creating under various aliases of his own. After a whirlwind of outstanding releases the last few years, Moore has managed to carve out a following of... 05-DA 002 LP $19.00
Sourdeline - Jeanne d'Ayme CD "This is the second and last album by French folk-prog band Sourdeline from 1977. And, though Jeanne d'Aymé is the lesser-known of both of their albums, it is for those at Guerssen their definitive work, a truly major discovery waiting for you who... 05-GUESS 032CD $18.00
Sorrenti, Alan - Aria A very important artist from Naples, Alan Sorrenti released his first album in 1972 on Harvest. Aria is a very nice album, with two different sides: the first only contained the long title track, a dreamy suite starting with acoustic guitar and based o... 27-VINYMAGICVM71 $20.00
Seffer, Yochk'o - Acel Toll The latest by Yochk'o comes out at the same time as his old bandmate's François Cahen's last; a bit of a sad coincidence. This is more of a jazz release than some of this works, with a fairly standard line-up of Sebastien Lovato-piano, Didier Levallet... 01-GW 3143 $16.00
Lasting Weep - Le Spectacle de L'Albatros CD This really could be considered a Maneige album, expanded into a larger format! "Another page in the history of Lasting Weep, formed in 1968 by Alain Bergeron and Jérôme Langlois (prior to them founding Maneige), Mathieu Leger and Claude Chapleau... ProgQuebec 19 $14.00
Kupper, Leo - Electro-Acoustic "Leo Kupper worked with Henri Pousseur at the first electronic music studio in Belgium and is founder and director of the Studio de Recherches et de Structurations Electroniques Auditives in Brussels. The works on Electro-Acoustic are Electro-Acoustic... POGUS21009 $13.00
Blais, Jacques - Themes CD "1974 saw guitarist Jacques Blais enter the studio with bassist/producer Yves Laferriere (Contraction, Ville Emard Blues Band). Laferriere brings along several bandmates from Contraction: singer Christiane Robichaud, keyboardist Robert Lachapelle... ProgQuebec 027 $14.00
Maheux, Martin/Circle - Sibylle "Progressive fusion drum wizard Martin Maheux launched his latest MM Circle CD. Entitled "Sibylle", combines elements of jazz fusion, chamber music, progressive and features a jazz quartet and a string quartet with two cellos. The Martin Maheux Circle... UNICORN5026 $17.00
Various Artists - Strain Crack & Break: Music From The Nurse With Wound List Volume One (France) 2 x vinyl lps (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "After years of mythology, misinterpretation, and procrastination Nurse With Wound's Steven Stapleton finally chooses Finders Keepers as the ideal collaborators to release "the right tracks" from his über-legendary psych/prog/punk peculiarity shopping list known as The Nurse With Wound List, commencing with a French specific Volume One of this authentically titled Strain Crack Break series. Featuring some Finders Keepers' regulars amongst galactic Gallic rarities, this double-vinyl dossier demystifies... 05-FKR 101LP $32.00
Barretto, Carlos - Lokomotiv “I have dedicated most part of my life to the study of erudite music and jazz. As an artist I always felt like a learner, an eternal apprentice. In order to evolve I must break those rules and get free of the shapes, unbound myself from the commonplaces CLEANFEEDCF016 $17.00
Barretto, Carlos - Radio Song "It’s not a new recording, but certainly this re-release by Clean Feed will be a great surprise to all those in North America, Europe and Japan who are interested in what’s happening in the jazz and improvised music scene on this little country called Por CF072CD $17.00
Leimgruber, Urs/Evan Parker - Twine Urs Leimgruber & Evan Parker, soprano and tenor saxophones "British sax giant Evan Parker has a good number of recordings in duo with other saxophonists, and the list of notables includes Ned Rothenberg, Peter A. Schmid, Joe McPhee, Wolfgang... Clean Feed CF 194 $17.00
Roos, Randy - Mistral (limited edition/mini-lp sleeve) A very little known, but very high quality fusion album from 1978 from the one-time guitarist of Boston's 'beloved-but-never-quite-famous ' artsy rock outfit Orchestra Luna. This is totally different and will especially appeal to guitar head fusion fans.. 19-Modulus 5002 $27.00
Branch, Jaimie - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “In July of 2022, just one month before Jaimie Branch’s death sent shockwaves around the world, the trumpet player and composer was in Chicago at International Anthem (IARC) studios putting finishing touches on an album. It was a suite of music she had composed and then recorded with her flagship ensemble, Fly or Die, over the course of a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. In her wake, the album was near complete, with only mixing tweaks, final titles, and... 39-LP-IARC-0066 $28.00
Workshop De Lyon - La Chasse De Shirah Sharibad vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "The first ever reissue of Workshop De Lyon's La Chasse De Shirah Sharibad, originally released in 1975. In France, in the years 1960-1970, musicians pondered over how to transpose the political struggle of free jazz onto a completely different political terrain. One of the first to do so was pianist François Tusques (agitator, theorist and militant) who recorded 1965's Free Jazz, and then continued with Le Nouveau Jazz (1967), French equivalents to the American "New Thing". The word spread, and was... 05-FFL 032LP $27.00
Loomings - Everyday Mythology Unique, vocal-heavy, avant-progressive music; maybe the closest comparison I can give would be to Arrigo Barnabe. "Loomings is a one of a kind musical universe of mingled voices and percussions, acoustic and electronic sounds. Their songs follow unpredictable paths: sometimes they emerge from complex compositional strategies, sometimes they’re just driven by the desire to walk through harmonies, vocal arabesques, instrumental unisons and phases. It is a music which belongs to the tradition of... 33-AltrOck 048 $16.00
Yifrashewa, Girma - Love & Peace A beautiful album of Ethiopian piano music released on a modern classical label. Y'know, sometimes things DO just make sense! "What if Chopin had vacationed in Addis Ababa? In this alluring piano music, poetic filigree meets spirited Ethiopian... 34-UW 13 CD $12.00
Zeraus Quartet - Zeraus Quartet (band issued CDR) The Zeraus Quartet is led by Leo Arias, who supplies all of the compositions, of Akineton Retard and it is a new music sax quartet. You can hear elements of Akineton in their music (as distilled into a sax quartet) and you can also hear influences from... ZERAUS1 $18.00
Tickmayer, Stevan - Cold Peace Counterpoints CD (Mega Blowout Sale) “A suite of fiendishly complex compositions for mixed real and virtual resources. Bob Drake, Djorge Delibasic, Pegja Milosavljevic and Chris Cutler make appearances - playing electric guitar, bass, drums and virtuoso violin between them, but mainly it is Stevan who plays all kinds of keyboards, strings, double bass, zither, samples and software. Three thoroughly through-composed and finely articulated pieces make up this very concentrated suite: Concerto Grosso (for keyboards, string instruments and.. ReR ST3 $5.00
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble "The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is comprised of eight brothers from the south side of Chicago who come from an extraordinary musical family. Other sisters and brothers are professional musicians, their mothers are singers, and Phil Cohran, their father... 05-HJR042CD $18.00
Sentieri Selvaggi - Plays Gavin Bryars & Philip Glass CDEP "Sentieri Selvaggi is a group made up of some of the best Italian musicians, united in a cultural project aimed to bring contemporary music to a larger audience. Founded in 1997 by Carlo Boccadoro, Filippo Del Corno and Angelo Miotto, the group has... 05-21048 $8.00
Murray, Sunny - Sunny Murray "Classic and important '66 release from the innovative drummer Sunny Murray in a quintet session, remastered and with bonus interview track between Murray and ESP label founder Bernard Stollman."... 05-ESP4037 $15.00