RED Trio – Rebento (NoBusiness, 2013) ****

By Dan Sorrells

RED Trio aren’t a piano trio per se; they just happen to be a trio with piano, bass and drums. After two albums featuring “guest” musicians John Butcher and Nate Wooley, RED Trio return to NoBusiness in their original configuration. Rebento picks up pretty much where their 2010 debut left off: huge, intense tracts of exploratory clatter that are often whittled down to an urgent, repeating pulse or theme. But like all good free improvisation, Rebento isn’t a music of stasis, and RED Trio’s methodology generates anything but predictable results.

“Carne” starts the A side with the crunch and splinter of Hernani Faustino’s bass and Gabriel Ferrandini’s drums. Soon, pianist Rodrigo Pinheiro comes careening in with a Tayloresque flurry of notes. After about five minutes, the trio gets pulled into a rapid current—an amazing, roiling feeling of movement that’s exhilarating, even if it’s hard to surmise just what it is that’s driving them along. It’s a feeling we’ve gotten from RED Trio before: this sense that, despite the classic instrumental lineup, we’re encroaching upon territory that’s beyond history or influence, cutting a path through the dense thicket of three overlapping minds, one that becomes illuminated when they put fingers to instrument.

After a blustery beginning, “Para” settles into a haunting soundscape of (what seems to be) scraped cymbals. There’s a strange, spectral doubling of sound, as though the cymbal tones are colliding around inside of the piano. With the touch of Tilbury, Pinheiro begins stringing delicate beads of notes. Soon, a crescendo: huge, open swells of piano and droning bass. It reaches a skin-tingling peak that’s overwhelming and—to use an adjective we don’t deploy often enough when describing this music—beautiful. “Canhão” spans the entirety of side B, a U-shaped piece that tumbles down its starting slope until it reaches a spacious, unsettling nadir, only to take off again on the tips of Ferrandini’s flying drumsticks.

When I think of the ground RED Trio has covered since we first encountered them in 2010, I also think of Mark Wastell, in an interview, remarking about the dangers of pinning a description to a group’s sound, and how “commentators and critics” are always 12 months behind the true flow of progress. Rebento has reached us now, at the end of 2013, but it was recorded over a year ago. It’s invigorating music from a band that continues to challenge itself. Where might RED Trio be today?


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The Red Trio and John Butcher - Summer Skyshift (Clean Feed, 2016) ****½

By Paul Acquaro

Captured at the 2015 Jazz em Agosto Festival in Lisbon, Summer Skyshift is the second collaboration between saxophonist John Butcher and the Portugal's RED Trio, their first was Empire, from No Business in 2011. This new collection of improvisations runs from introspective to out of this world during the course of its four tracks.

Butcher hardly needs an introduction to readers on this blog. The unique musical lexicon that he has developed allows him the freedom to use his instrument as an extension of sound itself - the absolutely surprising the tones and timbres he creates from the saxophone blends in seamlessly with traditional ones, and he connects with the trio brilliantly. Likewise with the RED Trio, comprised of Rodrigo Pinheiro on piano, Hernani Faustino on double bass, and Gabriel Ferrandini on drums and percussion, they have consistently enthralled the writers and readers of blog. For example, going back to Dan Sorrell's review of the Trio's album Rebento (No Business, 2013):

Despite the classic instrumental lineup, we’re encroaching upon territory that’s beyond history or influence, cutting a path through the dense thicket of three overlapping minds, one that becomes illuminated when they put fingers to instrument.

Words that ring quite true here as well, though now augmented by Butcher's presence. The trio is a formidable unit that when mixed with the reed player, becomes a musical juggernaut. Track one opens with tiny splashes of chords from the piano and a smattering of tones from the saxophone, as the group embarks on a steady building of intensity. Three minutes into the 13-minute track, finds Butcher stacking phrases upon phrases atop the trio's insistent foundation. Then, shifting to more spacious phrasing, Pinheiro gives Butcher the opportunity to really let loose, which in turns cues the others to ratchet up the intensity. Track 1.2 is a study in quiet tension. Playing quietly or laying out entirely, the piano and drums allow wide berth for Butcher and Faustino to engage in a long duet, juxtaposing stretched tones and blips of sound into an evocative collage. Moving ahead to the third track (1.3), Pinheiro's keys are leaping from the board, Ferrandini keeps and extends the pulse, and Faustino's bass shifts musical tectonic plates.

It's always interesting to see how certain combinations work together and RED Trio has proven to be extremely versatile, releasing albums with Lotte Anker, Nate Wooley, Mattias Stahl, among others. However, sometimes a collaboration becomes its own thing and to my ears, that is the case here - this a quartet that has really latched onto something unique in their fiery crescendos and passionate forays. Summer Skyshift has certainly landed on my top ten lists for the year.

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Lotte Anker, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Hernâni Faustino - Birthmark (Clean Feed, 2013) *****

Here is my rating overview of Lotte Anker albums on this blog :

- Live At The Loft (2009) : *****
- Floating Islands (2009) : *****
- Alien Huddle (2008) : ****

Here is my rating overview of RED trio albums on this blog :
- RED Trio + Nate Wooley - Stem (2012) ; *****
- RED Trio + John Butcher - Empire (2011) : ****½
- RED Trio (2010) : ****

That's a lot of five stars for a few albums. So, when Danish saxophonist Lotte Anker teams up with Portuguese pianist Rodrigo Pinheiro and bassist Hernani Faustino from RED Trio, you can bet that magic is the air. And yes, they deliver the goods. What more can I say, that yes, I am a little bit biased because I had the honor of writing the liner notes, which I reproduce below, which saves me the effort of writing a review. Intensity, lyricism, sensitivity and character guaranteed.


"Intensity, you cannot put your finger on it … though you know it when you hear it. Nervous tension, the creation of anticipation, the quick-turn changes, the effect of being in the moment, all three, at the same time, then adding a flowing continuity, building expectations, building tension, new expectations, new tension. What you hear surprises you, it captivates you, every note, every sound a story by itself. Listen to the slow shimmering tones of Lotte Anker, and the precise and cautious sparse piano notes that Rodrigo Pinheiro adds, accurate, without abundance, just the right few notes that make it work, the dark tones of Hernani Faustino’s bass, one accent here, another foundational color there. What is happening? You wonder … you wonder about the beauty you hear, the worlds that unfold behind your ears the images behind your eyes … enveloped in shimmering light, subtle yet dense, ephemeral yet solid … the space between substance … the nature of contrast. Intensity may be the result of paradoxes, a feeling of alienation combined with the comfort of recognition, the alienation of form with the recognition of emotion, the feeling that these light textures and joint instant lyricism reveal something known, a fleeting familiar feeling, implied but never stated phrases, melodies that evaporate before they become, images out of long-gone memories or images spontaneously arising, you don’t know, it is beauty offered. Intensity is about giving value to each note as part of a broader canvas, created together, with each little note valuable like glittering diamonds in a necklace, with silence acting as emptiness to emphasise the quality of the tone, the shade of the sound, their combined effect. Intense calm, controlled passion. Stretching tones on alto on arco with piano like raindrops piercing through fog. Skittering like bird song, fresh naïve and real, with somehow a menace in the background, something that might disturb, that might alter and it does, the mood changes, but somehow the structure doesn’t, still the skittering bird song, the piano the bass menacing, the bird song in distress. Ongoing surprise, unpredictability, deep experience. Don’t think while listening. Go with the sounds. Let go. Let yourself be surprised. You will be taken to strange places … intense and rich and authentic places".




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RED Trio & Celebration Band - Suite 10 Years Anniversary (NoBusiness, 2020) ****

 By Stef Gijssels

The Portugues RED Trio is without a doubt one of the best piano trios in Europe. The trio of Rodrigo Pinheiro on piano, Hernani Faustino on bass and Gabriel Ferrandini on drums has received a lot of positive reviews over the years on our blog. 

For their first album on Clean Feed in 2010, I wrote "It is incredible what kind of emotional depth and sonic visions this trio creates, out of nowhere, out of nothing". It was no surprise that they were also open to add other musicians to join them at concerts, or the other way round, other musicians were interested in performing with them: John Butcher ("Empire"), Nate Wooley ("Stem"), Matthias Ståhl ("North And The Red Team"). Other albums are "Rebento" (2013), "Mineral" (2015), "Summer Skyshift" (2016). 

Now, four years later, we get this memorable album with the "celebration band", an ad hoc group of musicians, primarily also from Portugal but with the addition of some partners on the previous albums such as John Butcher and Matthias Ståhl. The other members are Sei Miguel and Luís Vicente on trumpet, Fala Mariam on trombone, Pedro Sousa and Rodrigo Amado on tenor saxophone, Nuno Torres on alto saxophone, Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Ricardo Jacinto and Miguel Mira on cello, Carlos Santos on electronics, Miguel Abreu on voice and electric bass, and David Maranha on percussion. 

The performance was recorded to celebrate their tenth anniversary at the Teatro Maria Matos in February 2018. The theater itself commissioned the concert "Suite", a work in three acts, each written by one of the three founding members, and deliberately composed for the ensemble mentioned above. 

The first track, called "Corrente" is written by Rodrigo Pinheiro, as an half hour long magnificent piece for the ensemble, and it by itself can be considered a suite, with its varying subthemes and thematic shifts, ranging from slow fragile textures to intense and dense interaction, with all restraints dropping away near the end of the improvisation. The second track, "Mais Vale", is written by Ferrandini, and is for me a disappointment. It is less complex in texture, more pychedelic in its delivery, and the vocals are a complete letdown. I understand that this is a very subjective appreciation, but it creates a totally different musical universe than what we are used from the band. 

Luckily, the third track, "Ditirambo", composed by Faustinho, makes up for this. The piece is more than 42 minutes long and spectacularly good. Again, with this length, it cannot do any different than to bring a lot of variation. It starts slowly with the trio gradually creating their music out of little sonic ingredients, barely audible, which get more voice and volume for the first eight minutes: the trio as we know and admire them, creative, intense, mesmerising. Then some of the other instruments join, adding different layers to the already dense sound, which comes to a silent stand-still, offering the stage to the horns, with Sei Miguel and Fala Mariam setting up a sad dialogue challenged by the electronics of Carlos Santos and then Butcher's sax. It evolves in unpredictable ways, navigating silence, then moving forcefully into full band power and volume, then to silence again, and leading us to a grand finale of bright and expansive music: a wonderful closure to celebrate the 10 years of the RED Trio. 

Get the double CD. You will love it. 

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Astral Spirits Roundup

The Austin-based, limited-edition, cassette-only label Astral Spirits was founded last year with the clear mission: to release avant-jazz and experimental from all over the world. The first releases sounded as taken from ad-hoc projects and challenged the audiophile listeners but more recent releases proved that this label may found its own niche, introducing music that does not subscribe to any conventions and is genre-blind.

By Eyal Hareuveni

John Dikeman - The Double Trio (2014) ***½

Prolific American, Amsterdam-based sax player John Dikeman is known for his high-octane, power outfits, among them his trio Cactus Truck. This ad-hoc Chicagoan double trio continues this explosive approach, featuring trombonist Jeb Bishop, who adds electronics, double bass players Joshua Abrams and Jason Roebke and drummers Mike Reed and Frank Rosaly. This sextet was recorded live at the Elastic club in Chicago on January 2011.

The three pieces feature The Double Trio in a dense and muscular interplay. Dikeman and Bishop articulate loose ideas, propelled by the hyperactive, restless rhythm section. The set begins with a massive blowout but later adapts a more searching tone that continues in the beginning of the second piece, “Apparitions”, where the nuanced, spare texture is patiently gains more power and volition. The last piece, the 23 “Wrong Record” begins with a dramatic, conflictual blows of Dikeman and Bishop, both employ extended breathing techniques, before the sextet joins and ups the fast, energetic interplay until the explosive, cathartic coda.  

RED Trio -- Live in Munich (2015) ****

The Portuguese RED trio -pianist Rodrigo Pinheiro, double bass player Hernâni Faustino and drummer Gabriel Ferrandini, was recorded live on april 2014 during its 2014 European winter at the Munich Underground at Einstein.  

The set highlights the telepathic, restless interplay of this trio, cemented through five previous releases and collaborations with other experienced improvisers as the British sax player John Butcher and Swedish vibe player Mattias Ståhl. The trio is about to release soon another album, recorded four days later during the same tour with Polish sax player Gerard Lebik and trumpeter Piotr Damasiewicz.

The two free improvised pieces, “Munich 1” and “Munich 2” are both intense and fast. The interplay is totally democratic, enabling personal freedom and equal opportunities for all musicians to push deeper and forward, but never loses its collective focus. Even in such spontaneously improvised setting, the pieces sound as mature, rich compositions that blend organically between highly personal languages, dramatic tension building, subtle inquisitive sonic passage and minimalist, almost silent trio segments, especially on the second piece.

Mike Majkowski - Neighbouring Objects (2015) ***½

Australian, Berlin-based double bass player work is focused on exploring the full spectrum of the bull fiddle resonance qualities, often by creating a sense of stillness. Neighbouring Objects is a solo drone work, featuring Majkowski adding to his resonant deep-tones palette subtle sounds created on the accordion, bass guitar, piano, percussion, and field recordings.

The three continuous piece on the first side, “Chandelier/Gondola/Echoing Stars”, and the one on the second side “Carnival of Decay”, stress a highly disciplined, patient and minimalist approach. The tension is structured methodically through accumulating, repetitive layers of resonant overtones, impressive command of extended bow techniques and intense focus but with no attempt to reach a cathartic release. It is all about the sound, a rich, nuanced one, as if time stands still, while the listener is encompassed with disturbing, dark waves of higher and higher resonant sounds. There is no real escape from the masse of sounds but there are some distant rays of hope in the coda of the “Carnival of Decay”.   

Icepick -Hexane (2014) ***

Icepick is the short-lived power trio of American trumpeter Nate Wooley and drummer Chris Corsano - who collaborated before on Wooley’s song cycle Seven Storey Mountain - and Norwegian, Austin-based double bass player Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten, known from another power trio, The Thing, the modern jazz quintet Atomic and his own The Young Mothers. Hexane was recorded live at the Shapeshifter Lab in Brooklyn in November 2013. Writer Clifford Allen suggests in the liner notes that the trio name describes its aesthetic - headed toward incision, like a workman carving of structure out of a sonic block.

This live recording stress the urgent spirit of powerful free improvisations. The first piece, “Pentane”, begins with a searching tone and a fractured, chaotic pulse, but almost immediately form a muscular interplay. Wooley plays in an excited, energetic bursts, while Corsano solidifies the driving-swinging rhythm and Flaten the low-end sonic spectrum.  The second piece, “Heptane”, explodes in its very beginning but turn soon into a much more contemplative and loose improvisation, where all three musicians search and experiment with the sonic envelope of the trio, and only Flaten attempts to anchor this improvisation in a cohesive structure. Towards its coda the trio settle again on a cathartic, rhythmic interplay. The constant chatter of the audience is quite audible on this piece and disturbs this sensitive sonic experience.

Boxhead Ensemble - La Hora Magica (2015) ****½

Michael Krassner, the founder of the musical collective Boxhead Ensemble likes to veil its projects in mystery. There is no available information about this project except that it was recorded in Arizona and the Ensemble ever-rotating line-up feature now Wil Hendricks (the founder of  the defunct The Lofty Pillars, with Krassner), guitarist Adam Busch and violinist Laraine Kaizer.

During its more than twenty years of existence and constant incarnations the Boxhead Ensemble was used by Krassner as a platform for creating original soundtrack for independent and documentary films. This mysterious project keeps the same cinematic vein. 'La hora mágica' is a phrase in Spanish that describes the magical time of the day that captures the few minutes between sunset and full darkness, often used to to describe certain qualities of light by photographers. The 14 concise, meditative pieces sketch vivid, cinematic soundscapes played by processed, effects-laden guitars, minimalist keyboards and atmospheric violin. A perfect soundtrack for film that may document a year-long life cycles in some distant, virgin and icy nature.

Shit & Shine - Chakin’ (2015)

Shit & Shine is drummer Craig Clouse’s outfit (who also plays the wurlitzer electric piano, double bass and electronics) and this group features Astral Spirits’ founder Nate Cross on another electric piano, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten from The Thing, Atomic and Icepick on double bass (on the two pieces), writer and poet Pete Simonelli from the Bay area post-punk band Enablers on the opening piece, and Butthole Surfers’ drummer King Coffey (on six short pieces).  

The psychedelic spoken word opening piece with Simonelli justifies alone the purchasing this release. It has a smoky, film-noir ambiance, colored with a repetitive, funky pulse that encompasses Simonelli tired, indifferent yet charismatic delivery of the story. Simonelli’s distorted and manipulated voice serves later on as a leading instrument in the atmospheric “Jump on the Feeder”. The remaining six short “TJC” pieces are collected from the outfit Tuesday Jazz Chat youtube series, overdubbed for this release. All the “TJC” pieces are rooted in a fusionist-funky rhythmic interplay that stresses the dialogue of the vintage electric pianos.  

SSBT - 247 Main (2015) ***

Austin-based SSBT is the power trio of drummer Chris Cogburn, founder and director of No Idea Festival who adds electronics, guitarist Steve Jansen, who manipulates tapes and plays the saxophone and guitarist Parham Daghighi, who also plays the saxophone and occasionally adds Persian-based vocals.

The trio third cassette release feature two pieces that were recorded live during the trio 2014 tour, in Seattle and Portland. “Pockets” is a free-form, chaotic, noisy and intense free-improvisation in which the trio dense, collective sound blurs the distinctions between the percussion, effects-laden, distorted sounding guitars and weird tapes and electronics textures. “Cook Problems” is a spare, enigmatic piece that emphasizes individual minimalist sonic explorations, slowly accumulating to a strange cinematic narrative that is cut off abruptly.

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Superb piano trios

Piano trio albums are part of the more standard line-ups in "serious" jazz, in the tradition of Paul Bley and Bill Evans, bridging between jazz and classical impressionism and romanticism, and these two icons have been copied a zillion times, especially in the hotel lounge tradition. Luckily, the format is still open to innovation, to creative intensity and unexpected surprises. The two albums reviewed here are part of this realm of new possibilities. Both trios also fully act as trios with the three musicians improvising on equal footing, and all three creating something that is much more than the sum of its parts.

Sebastiano Meloni, Adriano Orrù & Tony Oxley - Improvised Music For Trio (Biground, 2010) ****½

Sebastiano Meloni on piano, Adriano Orrù on double bass, and Tony Oxley on drums. The latter is possibly best known for his work with Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor and John McLaughlin. The Italian musicians received a classical and a jazz education, which explains their versatility and the unclassifiable nature of the album (under "Chamber Music" on eMusic, although they often make genre-errors). Anyway, the album consists of fourteen improvisations, and of a refreshing intensity and sonority. The three musicians do not have to get recourse to lots (yes some) extended techniques to have novelties in every track. Lyricism and stubborn dissonance go hand in hand, melody and atonal improvisation merge, emotional power is unleashed through free form. The music has an intensity which has nothing to do with chamber music: the sweetness and accessibility you would expect from the genre are hard to find, but instead you get a captivating focus and ever-changing inventiveness, coupled with incredible subtlety and authentic feelings. Really strong.

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Rodrigo Pinheiro, Hernani Faustino & Gabriel Ferrandini - Red Trio (Clean Feed, 2010) ****

The Portuguese RED Trio is Rodrigo Pinheiro on piano, Hernani Faustino on bass, and Gabriel Ferrandini on drums.The intensity is comparable to the previous album, the music not entirely: it is more avant-jazz, darker, much darker.

The album starts with nervous half-muted piano playing, agitated bass and drums, full of tension till the very end. The scene for the second piece, "Flat", is set by the heavy plucking on the bass, in the style of Paul Rogers, full of emotional power, with great attention the sound, less to the rhythm or melody, a scene which is dark and foreboding, accentuated by light percussive elements, and minimal piano touches. "Coda, Static", is light, open and again quite intense in its slow building around silence, using sparse notes and brush-strokes to create a whole world.

"Quick Sand" is an absolute horror of a piece, a sonic nightmare, but then one that is of such a high musical level, that it really makes you shiver: piano, bass and drums create a wall of unnatural sounds, now high volume and monstrous, then low volume and eery. "Timewise" is more uptempo, almost upbeat, but again with a sense of urgency and immediacy that is out of the common: they play as if every note, every single sound counts, and then with high relevance: they are heavily accentuated, placed with precision in the evolving soundscape. It is incredible what kind of emotional depth and sonic visions this trio creates, out of nowhere, out of nothing.

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Albums of the Year - 2014

So another year and another 1500 albums considered for review (and that's just the ones we actually added to the list!). Taking a quick look back: this year Julian, Matthew, Chris, Ed, Antonio, Stefan, Josh, and Hugo joined the review team and we recently welcomed Eyal and Alfonso - you'll be seeing more of them soon. 2014 also saw Martin Schray bringing the Free Jazz Blog to the air on SWR2, public radio in southern Germany. His next show is on the 9th of January (stay tuned for more info on that!). Finally, thanks to all of you, we're seeing upwards of 75,000 page views a month and have a growing subscriber base ... all we can (and should) say is thank you everyone and keep listening!

And now here it is ... our hotly anticipated top ten list of albums of the year, tallied and calculated from the collective's personal top 10 album choices (listed below):

The Free Jazz Collective Top-10 albums of 2014

1. Steve Lehman Octet - Mise en Abîme 
2. Akira Sakata, Johan Berthling, Paal Nilssen-Love - Arashi
3. Jemeel Moondoc - The Zookeeper's House
4. Angles 9 - Injuries
5. Audio One - An International Report
6. Farmers By Nature - Love and Ghosts
7. Ken Vandermark/Paal Nilssen-Love Duo - Lightning Over Water
8. Marc Ribot Trio - Live at the Village Vanguard
9. Wadada Leo Smith - The Great Lakes Suites
10. Jeremiah Cymerman - Pale Horse / Lotte Anker & Jakob Riis - Squid Police

Happy holidays to everyone and we look forward to hearing your top choices of the year!


Stef Gijssels:

1. Daunik Lazro & Joëlle Léandre - Hasparren
2. Lotte Anker & Jakob Riis - Squid Police
3. Jeremiah Cymerman - Pale Horse
4. East-West Collective - Humeurs
5. Ernst Reijseger - Crystal Palace
6. Hugues Vincent & Yasumune Morishige - Fragment
7. Luis Vicente, Pinheiro, Faustino & Franco - Clocks & Clouds 
8. Skogen - Despairs Had Governed Me Too Long 
9. Mikolaj Trzaska, Devin Hoff & Michael Zerang - Sleepless In Chicago 
10. Magda Mayas, Damon Smith & Tony Buck - Spill Plus

Paul Acquaro:

1. Marc Ribot Trio - Live at the Village Vanguard
2. Nels Cline & Julian Lage - Room
3. Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek, Tomas Fujiwara-  Thumbscrew
4. Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey - And Other Desert Towns
5. Raoul Bjorkenheim - eCsTaSy
6. Max Johnson - The Invisible Trio
7. Ken Vandermark / Paal Nilssen-Love – Lightning over Water 
8. Ross Hammond - Humanity Suite
9. Ideal Bread - Beating the Teens: The Songs of Steve Lacy
10. Ana Weber - Simple

Tom Burris:

1. Jemeel Moondoc – The Zookeeper's House
2. Steve Lehman Octet – Mise En Abime
3. Dave Rempis / Tim Daisy Duo – Second Spring
4. Matthew Shipp Trio – Root of Things
5. Wadada Leo Smith – The Great Lakes Suites
6. Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble – Intergalactic Beings
7. John Hebert Trio – Floodstage
8. Colin Webster & Mark Holub – Viscera
9. Akira Sakata / Johan Berthling / Paal Nilssen-Love – Arashi
10. William Hooker & Liudas Mockunas – Live at Vilnius Jazz Festival

Josh Campell:

1. Tyshawn Sorey - Alloy
2. Roscoe Mitchell/Craig Taborn/Kikanju Baku - Conversations II
3. Ivo Perelman - The Other Edge
4. Bobby Bradford - Silver Cornet
5. Jemeel Moondoc - The Zookeepers House
6. Roscoe Mitchell/Craig Taborn/Kikanju Baku - Conversations I
7. Darius Jones/Matthew Shipp - Darkseid Recital
8. Wadada Leo Smith - Great Lakes Suite
9. Matthew Shipp - Been To Many Places
10. Nate Wooley/Hugo Antunes/Chris Corsano - Malus

Troy Dostert:

1. Steve Lehman Octet, Mise en Abîme
   
2. Marty Ehrlich Large Ensemble - Trumpet in the Morning 
3. Franco D’Andrea Sextet - Monk and the Time Machine 
4. Kris Davis Trio - Waiting for You to Grow
5. Ivo Perelman - The Other Edge 
6. Ken Vandermark/Paal Nilssen-Love Duo - Lightning Over Water
7. Peter Van Huffel - Boom Crane
8. Angles 9 - Injuries
9. Max Johnson - Invisible Trio
10. Audio One - An International Report 

Julian Eidenberger:

1. Akira Sakata, Johan Berthling, Paal Nilssen-Love – Arashi 
2. Kyle Bruckmann’s Wrack – … Awaits Silent Tristero’s Empire
3. Steve Lehman Octet – Mise en Abîme
4. Anthony Braxton, Tom Rainey, Tomas Fujiwara - Trio New Haven 2013
5. Audio One – An International Report
6. Many Arms with Colin Fisher – Suspended Definition
7. Lean Left – Live at Area Sismica
8. Joe Morris Quartet – Balance 
9. Yoni Kretzmer, Pascal Niggenkemper, Weasel Walter – Protest Music
10. Wadada Leo Smith, Jamie Saft, Joe Morris, Balázs Pándi – Red Hill

Colin Green:

1. Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio & Peter Evans - The Freedom Principle 
2. Konstruct & Joe McPhee - Babylon
3. Paul Flaherty & Chris Corsano - Low Cost Space Flights
4. Fail Better - Zero Sum
5. Mats Gustafsson NU Ensemble - Hidros 6 - Knockin'
6. Barry Guy New Orchestra - Mad Dogs on the Loose
7. Ken Vandermark - Nine Ways to Read a Bridge
8. Peter Brotzmann, Jason Adasaiwicz, John Edwards, Steve Noble - Mental Shakes
9. Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit - Etra Ale
10. Farmers by Nature - Love and Ghosts

Matthew Grigg:

1. Pharoah & the Underground - Spiral Mercury/Primative Jupiter
2. Audio One - An International Report/The Midwest School
3. Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble - Xenogenesis II: Intergalactic Beings
4. Nate Wooley, Hugo Antunes, Chris Corsano - Malus
5. Thurston Moore, Gabriel Ferrandini, Pedro Sousa - Live at ZDB
6. Peter Evans Quintet - Destination:Void
7. Broetzmann, Adasiewicz, Edwards, Noble - Mental Shake
8. Roscoe Mitchell/Mike Reed - In Pursuit of Magic
9. Jason Ajemain, Tony Malaby, Rob Mazurek, Chad Taylor - A Way A Land of Life
10. Marc Ribot Trio - Live at the Village Vanguard

Chris Haines:

1. Joe Morris Quartet - Balance
2. Sei Miguel - Salvation Modes
3. Eric Revis - In Memory of Things Yet Seen
4. Jakob Thorkild Trio - Art Sleaze
5. Tisziji Munoz - Star Worlds
6. Ken Aldcroft - Threads 10/09/11
7. Marc Ribot - Live at the Village Vanguard
8. Andymusic - Heavydance
9. Tomas Fujiwara Trio - Variable Bets
10. Tellef Ogrim & Anders Berg - November

Joe Higham:

1. Alexander Hawkins Ensemble - Step Wide, Step Deep 
2. Marc Ducret - Tower-Bridge
3. Oblik - Order Disorder
4. N.E.W - Motion
5. Cory Wright Outfit - Apples + Oranges
6. Olie Brice Quintet - Immune to Clockwork
7. Tim Daisy - October Music (Vol 1) 7 Compositions For Duet
8. Antunes, Wooley and Corsano - Malus
9. Alexandra Grimal and Giovanni Dominico - Chergui

Ed Pettersen:

1. Zion 80- Adramelech, The Book of Angels vol. 22 
2. Martin Kuchen - ...And Everything Inside Came Down As Dust
3. Michael Francis Duch - Tomba Emmanuelle
4. Frode Gjerstad - Hasselt
5. Zeitkratzer - Metal Machine Music
6. Wadada Leo Smith, Joe Morris, Jamie Saft and Balacz Pandi - Red Hill
7. Thollem/Robair - Music Minus One (For Dennis Palmer)
8. Joe Morris and Cris Cretella - Storms
9. Stephan Meidell - Cascades (definitely taking the guitar forward)
10. Ken Aldcroft - Threads

Antonio Poscic:

1. Wadada Leo Smith - The Great Lakes Suites
2. Steve Lehman Octet - Mise en Abîme
3. DKV Trio - Sound in Motion in Sound
4. Farmers By Nature - Love and Ghosts
5. Lotte Anker & Jakob Riis - Squid Police
6. Jeremiah Cymerman - Pale Horse
7. Angles 9 - Injuries
8. Tyshawn Sorey Trio - Alloy
9. Zion 80 - Adramelech: Book of Angels, Vol. 22
10. Jemeel Moondoc - The Zookeeper's House

Martin Schray:

1. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead
2. Frank Lowe Quartet - Outloud
3. L’Étau – Chose Clandestines
4. Ken Vandermark / Paal Nilssen-Love – Lightning over Water
5. Ken Vandermark – Nine Ways to Build a Bridge
6. Skein – self-titled
7. Ballister – Both Ends
8. Akira Sakata, Johan Berthling, Paal Nilssen-Love – Arashi
9. Marshall Allen Presents Sun Ra and his Arkestra: In the Orbit of Ra
10. William Hooker & Liudas Mockūnas - Live At Vilnius Jazz Festival

Dan Sorrells:

1. Daunik Lazro, Benjamin Duboc, Didier Lassere - Sens Radiants (Dark Tree)
2. Wacław Zimpel To Tu Orchestra - Nature Moves (For Tune)
3. Benjamin Duboc - St. James Infirmary (Improvising Beings)
4. Zanussi Five - Live in Coimbra (Clean Feed)
5. Angles 9 - Injuries (Clean Feed)
6. Max Johnson, Ingrid Laubrock, Mat Maneri, Tomas Fujiwara - The Prisoner (NoBusiness)
7. Keir Neuringer - Ceremonies Out of the Air (New Atlantis)
8. Jeremiah Cymerman, Evan Parker, Nate Wooley - World of Objects (5049 Records)
9. RED Trio & Mattias Ståhl - North and the Red Stream (NoBusiness)
10. Michael Francis Duch - Tomba Emmanuelle (Sofa)

Hugo Truyens:

1. De Beren Gieren & Susana Santos Silva  - The Detour Fish 
2. 1000 + 1 - Butterfly Garden 
3. East of the Sun -  ICP Orchestra 
4. Os Meus Shorts -  Os Meus Shorts II
5. Sylvain Rifflet & Jon Irabagon  - Perpetual Motion (A Celebration of Moondog)
6. Baloni  -  Belleke   
7. Ideal Bread  Beating The Teens - Songs Of Steve Lacy 
8. Franco D’Andrea Sextet - Monk and the Time Machine
9. Marc Ribot Trio - Live at the Village Vanguard
10. Sylvie Courvoisier - Mark Feldman Quartet Birdies for Lulu 

Stefan Wood:

1. The Syrinx Effect
2. Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - Black is Back
3. Steve Lehman - Mise En Abime
4. Akira Sakata - Arashi
5. Farmers By Nature
6. OOIOO - Gamelan
7. The Swans - To Be Kind
8. Thurston Moore - The Best Day
9. Rodrigo Amado - Freedom Principle
10. The Empty Sound - Case Study 1

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John Butcher - Sunday Interview

Photo by Cristina Marx/Photomusix

1. What is your greatest joy in improvised music?
   
   You mean apart from the money and garlands …..? I’d say it’s when you have that feeling of creating, perhaps simply uncovering, something that wasn’t really possible to imagine, or plan, beforehand. Beyond the basic nuts and bolts of how things work, I mean. It could be conceptual, or emotional, or relational or technical - all of which are obviously interdependent. The feeling is not as straightforward as joy. It often seems that I’m moving towards something that’s always going to remain slightly out of reach
   
   
2. What quality do you most admire in the musicians you perform with?
   
   That they’re working with music that comes from themselves, that’s not generic. And that it’s not hermetic or fixed, so they can really shape their playing in collaboration.
   
   
3. Which historical musician/composer do you admire the most?
   
   An impossible question. There are so many and it changes over the years. I wouldn’t like to try to rank them.
   
   
4. If you could resurrect a musician to perform with, who would it be?
   
   Seems a touch macabre … and music’s so tied into time, place and culture. Maybe I could go back, as a different person, and play a little drums behind Lester Young.
   
   I would enjoy the chance to talk to John Stevens and Derek Bailey again. In the light of what I’ve learnt since the time I played with them.
   
   
5. What would you still like to achieve musically in your life?
   
   Playing music is, for me, a continuing process and not primarily goal oriented. Mind you, “When I Paint my Masterpiece” I hope I can recognise it ……
   I guess we all want to keep making music that connects to our history but still feels fresh and relevant. Staying enthusiastic about experimenting and working in new situations is important. I’ll see what comes from that.
   
   
6. Are you interested in popular music and - if yes - what music/artist do you particularly like?
   
   Yes - isn’t that where most of us start from? My likes are scattered pretty incoherently around the place but with the 21st Century noticeably underrepresented. Recently I’ve listened to Jeff Buckley, Ray Charles, Roza Eskenazi, Karen Dalton, Spiritualized, Bob Dylan, Low and Sly Stone.
   
   
7. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
   
   Date of Birth.
   
   
8. Which of your albums are you most proud of?
   
   Records are just a small part of the musical work. I can’t really judge them like this. Some of the distant releases - my first solo “13 Friendly Numbers”, the “News from the Shed” group, “A New Distance” with the Spontaneous Music Ensemble for instance - take me back to a vanished world. I like the new ones “Fluid Fixations” - a piece for large group, and “The Very Fabric” - the latest of my responses to unusual acoustics. But there are some pretty good ones in between too.
   
   
9. Once an album of yours is released, do you still listen to it? And how often?
   
   Not usually for some time - but when I hear old tracks (especially unexpectedly) it’s intriguing how I usually hear it quite differently than I did at the time. One has no choice but complete immersion in the work when you’re making it. Then time lets you step back and you can feel a bit like a listener to someone else’s music. You care less about the how, and more about the what and the why.
   
   
10. Which album (from any musician) have you listened to the most in your life?
    
    Probably the Beatle’s “White Album” - but I got it for Christmas in 1968, so I wouldn’t draw too many conclusions from that.
    
    
11. What are you listening to at the moment?
    
    The last three records I’ve sat down with and listened to all the way through are Tony Oxley’s “February Papers”, “Cat Power sings Dylan: The Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert” and John Tilbury playing John Cage’s “Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano”.
    
    
12. What artist outside music inspires you?
    
    Like most of these questions, this one would have been easier to try to answer 40 years ago.
    
    Remember the list of inspirers (sounds unfortunately like influencers …) on “Freak Out”? So much enthuses you when you first encounter it. Over time it gets more amorphous. Maybe the inspirations have had time to sink in deeper, and you don’t quite recognise them anymore.
    
    I find I’m interested in looking at an artist’s work over a long period - how they change and how they stay the same. Recently I’ve been thinking about this with regards to Yasujiro Ozu, Philip Guston and Yoko Ono, for instance.

John Butcher on the Free Jazz Blog:

• John Butcher + 13 - Fluid Fixations (Weight of Wax, 2024) *****
• Florian Stoffner, John Butcher, Chris Corsano - Braids (ezzthetics, 2023)
• Two Recent Duos with Eddie Prévost
• Polwechsel - Embrace (4LP boxset, Ni Vu Ni Connu, 2023)
• A Tribute to Martin Davidson (1942 - 2023)
• Ignaz Schick - Sunday Interview
• Pat Thomas - Sunday Interview
• Frode Gjerstad with Matthew Shipp - We Speak (Relative Pitch, 2023)
• Three from Bead Records
• Sax & Drums
• Our Sunday Interview: Matthew Shipp
• John Butcher - The Very Fabric (Hitorri, 2023)
• Martin Küchen & Sophie Agnel- Detour Tunnels Of Light (Thanatosis, 2023)
• Camille Émaille / dieb13 / Hans Koch - ÄBE (confront Recordings, 2023)
• Thanks, Michel, for some of the greatest music I’ve ever heard…
• Thermal - Ice in a Hot World (Unsounds Records, 2023)
• Two Trios from Sophie Agnel
• Ankersmit/Dafeldecker/Johansson - Ny Musikk (SÅJ, 2022)
• Butcher/ Davies/ Davis/ Lash/ Lazaridou-Chatzigoga – nodosus (Empty Birdcage Records. 2022)
• Solo Sax - The Overview II
• Solo sax - The Overview I
• A L'ARME Festival Vol. 10 (Part 1)
• Horse Improvisation Music Club - Horse Box 2 (Shrike Records, 2022)
• McPhee Marker - McPhee Marker (Corbett vs. Dempsey , 2022)
• John Butcher - 5 LPs from Berlin (and Leipzig) on NI VU NI CONNU
• Damon Smith/Balance Point Acoustics Roundup, Part 2b
• Art Should Try to Hover Above Our Humanity a Bit and Not Wallow in It - An Interview with Damon Smith (part 2)
• Art Should Try to Hover Above Our Humanity a Bit and Not Wallow in It - An Interview with Damon Smith (part 4)
• Jennifer Allum, John Butcher, Ute Kanngiesser, Eddie Prévost - Sounds of Assembly (Meenna, 2021) *****
• Frisque Concordance - Distinct Machinery (Random Acoustics, 2021) ****½
• Dave Dove and the Nameless Sound project
• Sax & Drums (1)
• Superimpose - With (Inexhaustible Editions, 2021) ****½
• Three Duos: saxophones, keyboards, percussion
• Two different (very different) bands that include Susana Santos Silva
• The Spoonhunt Three
• Duck Baker - Confabulations (ESP Disc, 2021) *****
• Cranes: Matthias Müller, Eve Risser, Christian Marien - Formation < Deviation (Relative Pitch, 2021) ****
• John Butcher / Sharon Gal / David Toop - Until The Night Melts Away (Shrike Records, 2021) ****
• Solo Sax
• King Übü Örchestrü - Concert at Town Hall/Binaurality Live - 1989 (FMP/Destination:OUT! Digital, 2020) ****(*)
• John Russell (1954 - 2021)
• RED Trio & Celebration Band - Suite 10 Years Anniversary (NoBusiness, 2020) ****
• Free Jazz Blog's 2020 Top 10s
• Thurston Moore, John Edwards, Terry Day, John Butcher & Steve Beresford - Stovelit Lines (Weight of Wax, 2020) *****
• Matthew Shipp with Rob Brown, John Butcher and Thomas Lehn
• Dancing in times of plague - the Corona Diaries (III)
• Reeds & Skins
• Hugo Antunes with piano and drums
• Latest Releases from Peter Brötzmann
• Two with Paul Lytton
• Polwechsel & Klaus Lang - Unseen (ezz-thetics, 2020) ****½
• Pat Thomas, John Butcher & Ståle Solberg - Fictional Souvenirs (Astral Spirits, 2019) ****
• Common Objects - Skullmarks (meena, 2019) ****
• Steve Beresford & John Butcher - Old Paradise Airs (Iluso, 2020) *****
• Last Dream of the Morning - Crucial Anatomy (Trost, 2020) ****½
• Solo cello
• Reflecting upon last decade's musical influencers
• Astral Ascending - Astral Spirits at Five Years
• Raymond Strid & Sten Sandell - Winter Then Spring (Found You, 2018) ****
• Rhodri Davies & John Butcher ‎– Drunk On Dreams (Cejero, 2019) ****
• Christine Abdelnour & Chris Corsano - Quand Fond La Neige, Où Va Le Blanc? (Relative Pitch, 2019) ****½
• The Drones of Michael Zerang
• Tony Buck & Massimo Pupillo - Time Being + Unseen (Trost, 2018) ***½
• Larry Ochs & Gerald Cleaver - The Cave (RogueArt, 2018) ****½
• Fred Frith Trio - Closer To The Ground (Intakt, 2018) ****
• Latest Releases from John Butcher
• Okkyung Lee - Cheol-Kkot-Sae (Steel.Flower.Bird) (Tzadik, 2018) ****½
• Solo Saxophone
• The Daniel Carter Review
• Two releases by Martin Blume
• 25th annual Guelph Jazz Festival
• A L'arme Festival VI, Day 2. Berlin. 8/2/2018
• Kongsberg Jazz Festival, July 2018
• John Butcher (Day 2 of 2)
• John Butcher (Day 1 of 2)
• Latest news from Keiji Haino
• John Butcher: Restless Imagination, Tireless Innovation
• Akio Suzuki / John Butcher - Immediate Landscapes (Ftarri, 2017) *****
• ANEMONE - A Wing Dissolved In Light (NoBusiness, 2017) ****½
• On the last two days of the Guelph Jazz Festival…
• The Continuing Adventures of Damon Smith
• On the first three days of the Guelph Jazz Festival…
• Introducing Catalan reeds player Albert Cirera
• Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 – David Toop (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016) ***½
• Butcher, Lehn, Shipp / The Core Trio
• Isabelle Duthoit and Georg Graewe – Parlance (Nuscope, 2016) ***½
• John Butcher and Ståle Liavik Solberg – So Beautiful, It Starts to Rain (Clean Feed, 2016) ***½
• John Butcher & Michael Duch - Fjordgata (Confront, 2015) ****
• Thomas Borgmann Trio: One for Cisco (NoBusiness, 2016) ****
• The Red Trio and John Butcher - Summer Skyshift (Clean Feed, 2016) ****½
• Three Day A L'arme!
• And many more ...
• Torben Snekkestad - The Poetics of a Multiphonic Landscape (ILK, 2016)
• Beyond Jazz: Plink, Plonk & Scratch, the Golden Age of Free Music inLondon 1966–1972 (2nd Edition) - Trevor Barre (Compass Publishing, 2016) ****1/2
• Christian Meaas Svendsen & Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø: Solo Explorations
• Burkhard Stangl / Steve Bates - Hopefullessness (The Dim Coast, 2015) ***½
• Evan Parker & AMM – Title Goes Here (Otoruko, 2015) ****
• Common Objects - Whitewashed with Line (Another Timbre, 2015) *****
• Unlimited 29 Festival: Charhizmatic Music
• John Butcher - Nigemizu (Uchimizu, 2015) ****½
• Paul Hubweber, Frank Paul Schubert, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Clayton Thomas, Willi Kellers - Intricacies (NoBusiness, 2015) ****
• Rhodri Davies & John Butcher - Routing Lynn (Ftarri, 2014) ****
• Stefan Keune, Dominic Lash, Steve Noble – Fractions (NoBusiness, 2015) ****
• John Butcher & Gino Robair – Bottle Breaking Heart Leap (Alt.Vinyl, 2015) ***½
• John Russell / Phil Durrant / John Butcher – Conceits (Emanem, 2015) ****
• Duos
• Where Angels Fear to Tread
• Superimpose – Edinburgh (Wide Ear Records, 2015) **** ½
• Astral Spirits Roundup
• Mike Majkowski - Neighbouring Objects (Astral Spirits, 2015) ****
• Birgit Ulher and Leonel Kaplan - Stereo Trumpets (Relative Pitch, 2015) ***½
• Guitar Week: Duos (Day 2)
• Tomasz Sroczynski & Marek Pospieszalski - Bareness (Requiem, 2014) ****
• Joachim Badenhorst - Forest Mori (Klein, 2014) ****½
• Things That A Mutant Needs To Know, More Short And Amazing Stories (Unsounds, 2013) ****½
• The Apophonics - On Air (Weight of Wax, 2013) ****½
• Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Evan Parker, Tony Marsh, John Edwards, John Butcher - Quintet-Sextet (Otoroku, 2013) ****
• Polwechsel – Traces of Wood (Hathut, 2013)
• Musician of the year 2013
• Common Objects - Live In Morden Tower (Mikroton, 2013) ****½
• RED Trio – Rebento (NoBusiness, 2013) ****
• Badland – Six High Windows (Bug Incision, 2013) ****
• John Butcher - Winter Gardens (Kukuruku Recordings, 2013) ****
• Joachim Badenhorst - Nachtigall and Sparrow Mountain
• Christophe Berthet - Malval (Creative Sources, 2012) ****½
• John Butcher, Thomas Lehn & John Tilbury - Exta (Fataka, 2013) ****½
• Magda Mayas, John Butcher, Tony Buck & Burkhard Stangl - Plume (Unsounds, 2013) ****
• Lotte Anker, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Hernâni Faustino - Birthmark (Clean Feed, 2013) *****
• Meetings with remarkable saxophonists
• John Butcher - Bell Trove Spools (Northern Spy, 2012) ***½
• HAPPY NEW EARS AWARD 2012
• 3 Friendly Numbers: Recent John Butcher Selections
• John Butcher and Mark Sanders - Daylight (Emanem, 2012)
• Nate Wooley, Christian Weber, Paul Lytton – Six Feet Under (NoBusiness, 2012) ****
• RED Trio + Nate Wooley - Stem (Clean Feed, 2012) *****
• John Butcher and Toshimaru Nakamura - Dusted Machinery (Monotype Records 2011) *****
• Albums Of The Year 2011
• Peter Evans - Beyond Civilized and Primitive (Dancing Wayang 2011) ****½
• Daunik Lazro - Some Other Zongs (Ayler, 2011) ****½
• RED Trio + John Butcher - Empire (No Business, 2011) ****½
• Mats Gustafsson – Needs! (Dancing Wayang, 2010) ***
• Lol Coxhill & Roger Turner - Success With Your Dog (Emanem, 2010)
• John Butcher & Claudia Ulla Binder - Under The Roof (Nuscope, 2010) ****½
• Sixty Interpretations of Sixty Seconds (Apprise Records, 2010) ****
• Anthony Braxton & Gery Hemingway - Old Dogs (Mode, 2010) ****½
• AMM - Sounding Music (Matchless, 2010) *****
• Stefan Keune, Hans Schneider, Achim Krämer - No Comment (FMP, 2009) ****
• Weightless - A Brush With Dignity (Clean Feed, 2009) ****½
• Vandermark galore (bis)
• John Butcher & Gerry Hemingway - Buffalo Pearl (Auricle Records, 2008) ****
• AMM - Trinity (Matchless, 2008) ****½
• Xabier Iriondo & Gianni Mimmo - Your Very Eyes (Long Song Records, 2008) ***½
• Solo Sax
• The Art of the Duo : trumpet-drums duo and sax-drums duo
• Free Improv from Clean Feed - two reviews

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RED Trio + John Butcher - Empire (No Business, 2011) ****½

By Stef

I was already sold to this piano trio from Portugal when they released their first album on Clean Feed two years ago, but now they've managed British avant saxophone player John Butcher to join them for a series of concerts, culminating in this fantastic recording.The Portuguese trio are Rodrigo Pinheiro on piano, Hernani Faustino on double bass, and Gabriel Ferrandini on drums and percussion.

Whereas they created incredibly dark and ominous soundscapes on their first album, their sophomore effort is opened with John Butcher acting as the crowbar, literally tearing open the trio's concept. The first track, "Sustained", is the shortest and a kind of warming-up for what's going to come.

The real power is unleashed on the second piece, "Pachyderm", which starts with eery sounds of extended techniques on piano, bass and drums, with Butcher playing high-toned soft oscillating phrases over it, sensitive and vulnerable, masterfully controlling the moaning timbre of his instrument. The overall tone becomes a little more lighthearted as the tempo picks up, gradually gaining more volume, becoming violent and angry, and when Butcher suddenly starts whistling on his sax, imitating birds like only he can do it, the trio quietens down, and the bird whistling slowly changes into otherworldly weeping, and as things move to a stage close to silence, all that is left is incredible tension, sustained tension, for minutes on end.

The second side of the LP is the title track, another epic improvisation called "Empire". The four musicians demonstrate the power of minimalism to start with,weaving their fragile sounds around the silence that reigns supreme, for over seven minutes, when the built-up tension does not get released, as you might have thought, but rather intensifies, especially because of Butcher's incredible sense of holding back his breath when you expect him to blow his lungs out. Restraint and sonic control is one of the greatest assets of this band, resulting in a fantastic listening experience.

I focused possibly too much on Butcher's presence, and he's without a doubt the most dominant voice on the album, yet the music is of course the RED trio's collective achievement, and they stay close to the musical vision they created with their first album, dark, inventive and intense, with Butcher offering depth, contrast and adding to the already gloomy atmosphere.

Not to be missed if you have a sense of adventure.

Buy from Instantjazz.



© stef

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Alphabetical Overview Of All CD Reviews

Overview of all CD reviews (last updated March 3, 2011)

See the A-Z index for an up to date listing of all posts and reviews

(always starting with the first name as you would pronounce the artist's or the band's name)


7K Oaks - 7000 Oaks
8 Bold Souls - Sideshow
Äänet - Aquarian forest
Aaron Leaney 3
Ab Baars Trio & Ken Vandermark - Goofy June Bug
Ab Baars & Meinrad Kneer - Windfall
Abdelhaï Bennani - There Starts The Future
Abdelhaï Bennani Trio - In Side
Achim Kaufmann, Mark Dresser, Harris Eisenstadt - Starmelodics
Achim Kaufmann, Robert Landfermann, Christian Lillinger - Grünen
Acoustic Guitar Trio - Vignes
Adam Caine Trio - Thousandfold
Adam Lane/Ken Vandermark/Magnus Broo/Paal Nilssen-Love - 4 Corners
Adam Lane - Buffalo
Adam Lane, Lou Grassi, Mark Whitecage - Drunk Butterfly
Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra - Ashcan Rantings
Adam Pieronczyk - Live In Berlin
Adam Pierończyk Quartet - El Buscador
Adam Rogers - Time And The Infinite
Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures - Dream Garden
Adam Rudolph & Ralph Jones - Yèyi
Ad Peijnenburg & William Parker - Brooklyn Calling
Aeroplane Trio - Naranja Ha
Ahleuchatistas - Of The Body Prone
Afterfall
Agent-K - Mouvements
Agusti Fernández & Barry Guy - Some Other Place 
Agustí Fernández, Barry Guy & Ramón López - Morning Glory
Agustí Fernández, Baldo Martinez & Ramón López - Triez
Aida Severo 
Aki Takase & Silke Eberhard - Ornette Coleman Anthology
Aki Takase & Alexander Von Schlippenbach - Iron Wedding
Aki Takase - A Week Went By
Akira Sakata - Friendly Pants
AlasNoAxis - Houseplant
Albert Beger - Big Mother
Alberto Braida - Talus
Alberto Pinton, Kullhammar, Zetterberg, Nordeson - Chant
Aldo Romano - Complete Communion To Don Cherry
Alexander Frangenheim - The Knife Again
Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio - Bauhaus Dessau
Alexandra Grimal Trio - Shape
Alexandra Grimal - Owls Talk
Alex Machacek - Improvision
Alex Sipiagin - Prints
Alexey Kruglov - Russian Metaphor 
Alexey Lapin & Yuri Yaremchuk - Anatomy Of Sound 
Alexey Lapin - Parallels 
Alipio C. Neto - The Perfume Comes Before The Flower
Alvin Fielder - A Measure Of Vision
Amalgam - Prayer For Peace
Amir ElSaffar - Two Rivers
Amir ElSaffar & Hafez Modirzadeh - Radif Suite
AMM - Trinity
AMM - Sounding Music
Amos Hoffman - Evolution
Andrea Centazzo - Voyagers
Andrea Centazzo & Gianluigi Trovesi - Shock!! 
Andrea Centazzo & Joe Giardullo - The Way - Live In Woodstock
Andreas Schmidt, Samuel Rohrer, Thomas Heberer - Pieces For A Husky Puzzle
Andrew Cyrille & Greg Osby - Low Blue Flame
Andrew D'Angelo - Skadra Degis
Andrew Lamb - New Orleans Suite
Andrzej Przybielski/Oles/Oles - Abstract
Andy Milne & Benoît Delbecq - Where Is Pannonica?
Andy Sheppard - Movements In Colour
Angelica Sanchez - Life Between
Angelo Olivieri - Caos Musique
Angles - Every Woman Is A Tree
Angles - Epileptical West/Live In Coimbra
Anthony Braxton - (Glasgow) 2005
Anthony Braxton, William Parker, Milford Graves - Beyond Quantum
Anthony Braxton & Joe Morris - Four Improvisations
Anthony Braxton by Geneviève Foccroule - Piano Music (1968-2000)
Anthony Braxton - Quartet GTM (2001)
Anthony Braxton - Standards (Brussels) 2006
Anthony Braxton & Kyle Brenders - Toronto (Duets)
Anthony Braxton & Joëlle Léandre - Duo
Anthony Braxton - 19 Standards (Quartet) 2003
Anthony Braxton & Ann Rhodes - GTM (Syntax) 2003
Anthony Braxton - GTM (Outpost) 2003
Anthony Braxton & Gery Hemingway - Old Dogs
Anthony Coleman - Freakish - Anthony Coleman Plays Jerry Roll Morton
Anthony Ortega - Afternoon in Paris
Anthony Santor Ari Diaconis Project - Beyond Human
Archie Shepp - Gemini
Archie Shepp & Dar Gnawa
Archie Shepp - The New York Contemporary Five
Architeuthis Walks on Land - Natura Naturans
Ariel Shibolet - Live At The Total Music Meeting
Arild Andersen - Live At Belleville
Arsis - Désordres
Arszyn / Duda - ŚĘ
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Fundamental Destiny
Artifact: iTi Live In St. Johann 
Arve Henriksen - Strjon
Astula Democratica - Illusio 
Atle Nymo, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Håkon Mjåset Johansen - Complete Communion Atomic - Happy New Ears
Atomic - Retrograde
Atomic/Schooldays - Distil
Atomic - Theater Tilters, Vol. 1
Atomic - Theater Tilters, Vol. 2Avant Coast - Discussions
Avishaï Cohen - After The Big Rain
Avishai Cohen - Flood
Avram Fefer Trio - Ritual
Axel Dörner & Diego Chamy - Super Axel Dörner
Azar Lawrence - Prayer For My Ancestors
Back & Forth - Unavoidable Casualty
Ballister – Bastard String 
Bar Kokhba - Lucifer, Book Of Angels, Vol.10
Barre Phillips - Portraits
Barry Guy/Mats Gustafsson/Raymond Strid - Tarfala
Barry Guy - Phases Of The Night
Barry Guy & Mats Gustafsson - Sinners, Rather Than Saints
Ben Goldberg Quartet : Baal: The Book Of Angels vol. 15
Ben Syversen - Cracked Vessel
Ben Stapp - Ecstasis
Bengt Berger - Bitter Funeral Beer
Bengt Berger & Kjell Westling - Spelar, Live In Stockholm 1977
Bengt Berger - Beches Brew
Bengt Berger/Knutsson/Spering - See You In A Minute
Benjamin Duboc & Itaru Oki - Nobusiko
Benoît Delbecq - Circles And Calligrams
Bernardo Sassetti Trio - Motion  
Bert Turetsky, Vinny Golia, George Lewis - Triangulation II
Bill Dixon With Exploding Star Orchestra
Bill Dixon - 17 Musicians In Search Of A Sound : Darfur
Bill Dixon - Tapestries for Small Orchestra
Bill Dixon, Aaron Siegel, Ben Hall - Weight/Counterweight
Bill Frisell - Floratone
Bill Frisell - History, Mystery
Billy Hart Trio - Live At Café Damberd
Billy Stein - Hybrids
Bitter Funeral Beer Band - Live In Nurnberg
Blaise Siwula - New York Moments
Blaise Siwula & Carsten Radke
Blastula - Scarnoduo
Bob Gluck Trio - Sideways
Bobby Bradford - Varistar
Bobby Bradford, Gjerstad, Håker Flaten, Nilssen-Love - Reknes
Bobby Previte & New Bump - Set The Alarm For Monday
Bobby Zankel Trio - Many In Body, One In Mind
Boots Brown - Boots Brown
Borah Bergman Trio - Luminescence
Borah Bergman & Stefano Pastor - Live At Tortona
Brad Shepik - Places You Go
Brad Shepik - Human Activity Suite
Brian Groder - Torque
Brian Groder & Burton Greene - Groder & Greene 
Bridge 61 - Journal
Buffalo Collision - Duck
Burton Greene & Perry Robinson - Two Voices In The Desert
Burton Greene - Live At The Woodstock Playhouse 1965 
Byard Lancaster - Live At Macalester College
Calling Signals 08 - From Café Oto
Camisetas - Camisetas 
Cardinal
Çağrı Erdem - ConnectedCarl Ludwig Hübsch - The Universe Is A Disk
Carl Maguire - Sided Silver Solid
Carl Testa - Uncertainty
Carla Bley - Escalator Over The Hill
Carla Bley - The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
Carla Bley - Carla's Christmas Carols
Carl-Ludwig Hübsch - Primordial Soup
Carlos Barretto - Lokomotiv
Carlos Barretto - Labirintos
Carolyn Hume - Gravity And Grace
Carolyn Hume & Paul May - Come To Nothing
Cecil Taylor & Dominic Duval - The Last Dance Vol. 1 & 2
Cécile Broché & Etienne Bouyer Duo
Chad Taylor - Circle Down
Charles Gayle/William Parker/Rashied Ali - By Any Means
Charles Gayle Trio - Our Souls
Charles Lloyd Quartet - Rabo De Nube
Charles Rumback - Two Kinds Of Art Thieves
Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra
Charlie Hunter - Mistico 
Ches Smith & These Arches - Finally Out Of My Hands 
Chicago Underground Trio - Chronicle
Chicago Underground Duo - Boca Negra
Chopsticks - Chopsticks
Chris Dadge - I'd Drive Yr Ass Across The World If I Had To
Chris Gestrin - After The City Has Gone:Quiet
Chris Kelsey - The Crookedest Straight Line
Chris Kelsey - The Crookedest Straight Line, Vol. 2
Chris Kelsey - Not Cool (as in ... the opposite of Paul Desmond)
Chris Potter - Follow The Red Line
Chris Riggs - Achievement Is It's Own Reward
Chris Speed, Chris Cheek & Stéphane Furic Leibovici - Jugendstil
Christian Lillinger's Grund - First Reason
Christian Wallumrod - The Zoo Is Far
Christoph Gallio - Soziale Musik
Circadian Rhythm Kings - Circadian Rhythm Kings
Claire DeBrunner, Daniel Carter, Ken Silverman, Tom Zlabinger - Macroscopia 
Clare Cooper - HammeriverCodona - The Codona Trilogy
Collective 4tet - Transition
Colin Town HR Big Band - Visions Of Miles
Commitment - The Complete Recordings 1981/1983
Conference Call - Poetry In Motion
Conference Call - What About
Contet/Chevillon/Corneloup - Nu
Cooper-Moore - Digital Primitives
Cooper-Moore retrospective 1990- 2010   
Correction - Two Nights In April
Co Streiff Sextet - Loops, Holes And Angels
Craig Green & David King
Create!! - A Prospect Of Freedom
Curtis Clark Trio - Táági
Cuong Vu - Vu-tet
Dangerous Musics in '91
Daniel Blacksberg Trio - Bit Heads 
Daniel Carter & Federico Ughi - Mountain Path
Daniel Carter & Matt Lavelle - Live
Daniel Carter - Singular
Daniel Carter/Colbourne/Flaherty - A Flash In The Sky 
Daniel Carter, Alberto Fiori, Tom Abbs, Federico Ughi - The Perfect Blue 
Daniel Erdmann, Jonas Westergaard, Samuel Rohrer - Sleeping With The Enemy
Daniel Humair - Full Contact
Daniel Humair, Tony Malaby, Bruno Chevillon - Pas De Dense
Daniel Levin - Blurry
Daniel Levin - Fuhuffah
Daniel Levin Quartet - Live At Roulette
Daniel Zamir - I Believe
Daniele Cavallanti & Tiziano Tononi - Rings Of Fire
Dans Les Arbres - Dans Les Arbres
Darius Jones Trio - Man'ish Boy
Darren Johnston - Reasons For Moving
Darren Johnston - The Edge Of The Forest
Dave Ballou - Insistence
Dave Ballou, Terrence McManus, Dennis Gray - Thirty9Thirty8
Dave Douglas - Live At The Jazz Standard
Dave Douglas - Moonshine
Dave Liebman - Renewal
Dave Liebman, Evan Parker, Tony Bianco - Relevance 
Dave Liebman - Turnaround - The Music Of Ornette Coleman
Dave Rempis & Frank Rosaly - Cyrillic
David Arner Trio - Out In The Open
David Arner Trio - Porgy & Bess
David Binney - Out Of Airplanes
David Binney - Third Occasion
David Binney - Graylen Epicenter
David Crowell Ensemble - Spectrum 
David Haney Trio - Blues Royale
David Sait - Postage Paid Duets, Vol. 2
David Schnitter - The Spirit Of Things
David Taylor - Red Sea 
David Torn - Prezens
David S. Ware - Surrendered
David S. Ware - Renunciation
David S. Ware - Shakti
David S Ware Quartet - Live In Vilnius
David S. Ware - Saturnian
David S. Ware - Onecept
Dawn Of Midi - First
DCIC with Greg Osby - Live At The Warehouse
Dead Country, Featuring Eugene Chadbourne
Declared Enemy - Salute to 10000001 stars
DeepTonesForPeace
Defekt - Pete's Game Machine
Demian Richardson - The Gowanus Recordings
Denis Beuret - Alone
Denman Maroney - Gaga
Denman Maroney Quintet - Udentity
Dennis Gonzalez - No Photograph Available
Dennis Gonzalez - Geografiá
Dennis Gonzales - Dance Of The Soothsayer's Tongue
Dennis Gonzalez Jnaana Septet - The Gift Of Discernment
Dennis González & Faruk Z. Bey - Hymn For Tomasz Stanko
Dennis González & João Paulo - Duo
Dennis González - Renegade Spirits
Denniz González - The Great Bydgoszcz Concert
Denniz González - Songs Of Early Autumn
Denniz González - A Matter of Blood
Dennis González Band Of Sorcerers - Live In Washington D.C.
Devin Hoff - Solo Bass
Dhafer Youssef & Wolfgang Muthspiel - Glow
Diablo En Musica - Improvisations
Didier Lasserre Trio - Live At L'Atelier Tampon
Die Enttäuschung 
Die Enttäuschung - 5
Digital Primitives - Hum, Crackle & Pop
Dither 
Don Cherry - Live At The Montmartre, Vol. 3
Dom Minasi Quintet - The Bird, the Girl and the Donkey
Donat Fisch & Christian Wolfarth - Circle & Line 2
Donny McCaslin - Perpetual Motion 
Double Duo - Crossword Puzzle
Dragons 1976
Duology - Golden Atoms
Dupont T - Spider's Dance
EA Silence - Cono Di OMbra E Luce
EA Silence - Flatime
EAR&NOW - Eclipse
Eddie Prévost & Alan Wilkerson - So Are We, So Are We
Eddy Prévost - Invenio Ergo/Sum
Either/Orchestra - Live In Addis
Eivind Aarset - Sonic Codex 
Eivind Aarset & The Codex Orchestra - Live Extracts
Eivind Opsvik - Overseas III
Elderflower - Deep Drink
Elephant9 - Dodovoodoo
Elephant9 - Walk The Nile
Ellery Eskelin - Quiet Music
Ellery Eskelin & Sylvie Courvoisier - Every So Often
Ellery Eskelin, with Andrea Parkins & Jim Black - One Great Night ... Live
Ellery Eskelin & Gerry Hemingway - Inbetween Spaces 
Elliott Sharp's Terraplane - Forgery
Elliott Sharp - Octal, Book One
Elliott Sharp - Octal Book Two
Elton Dean & The Wrong Object - The Unbelievable Truth
Embers - Slag-Welter
Emergency! - Live in Copenhagen
Empty Cage Quartet - Hello The Damage
Empty Cage Quartet - Stratostrophic
Empty Cage Quartet - Gravity
Empty Cage Quartet & Soletti/Besnard - Take Care Of Floating
Ensemble 56 - 1st Meeting Towards Sky Flight Of Dragon
Enterout Trio - Pink Ivory
Eri Yamamoto - In Each Day, Something Good
Erik Friedlander - Block Ice & Propane
Erik Friedlander - Volac, Book Of Angels, Vol. 8
Erik Friedlander - 50 Miniatures For Improvising Quintet
Erik Friedlander - Alchemy
Erik Friedlander - Aching Sarah
Erik Friedlander - Broken Arm Trio
Erik Truffaz - Benares
Erika Dagnino & Stefano Pastor - Cycles
Ernest Dawkins - Mean Ameen
Ernie Krivda - The Art Of The Trio
Ernst Ludwig Petrowsky & Michael Griener - The Salmon
Ernst Reijseger - Tell Me Everything
Esa Pietilä - Tales of Fulica Atra
Espen Eriksen Trio: You Had Me At Goodbye
Ethan Winogrand - Tangled Tango
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - Hot'n'Heavy
Etienne De La Sayette - Treize Duos En Forme De Banane
Evan Parker & Matthew Shipp - Abbey Road Duos
Evan Parker & Ned Rothenberg - Live At Roulette
Evan Parker's Transatlantic Ensemble - Boustrophedon
Evan Parker & Sten Sandell - Psalms 
Evgeny Masloboev & Anastasia Masloboeva - Russian Folksongs In The Key Of Sadness
Exploding Customer - At Your Service
Exploding Star Orchestra - We Are All From Somewhere Else
Exploding Star Orchestra - Stars Have Shapes
Eyal Maoz & Asaf Sirkis - Elementary Dialogues
Eyal Maoz's Edom - Hope And Destruction 
Eye Contact - Embracing The Tide/Making Eye Contact With God
Fantastic Merlins - Look Around
Fantastic Merlins - A Handful Of Earth
Faruq Z. Bey With Northwoods Improvisers - Emerging Field
Fat Kid Wednesdays - The Art Of Cherry
Fattigfolket - Fattigfolket
Federico Ughi, Gene Janas, Daniel Carter - People's Resonance
Ferenc Snetberger & Markus Stockhausen - Streams
Feuermusik - No Contest
Fieldwork - Door
Fight The Big Bull - Dying Will Be Easy
Fight The Big Bull - All Is Gladness In The Kingdom 
Fire! - You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago 
Fire Room - Broken Music
First Meeting - Cut The Rope
Five Spot - Poltva
FMP - Im Rückblick / In Retrospekt
Fond Of Tigers - Release The Saviours
Food - Refreshingly Addictive
Food - Quiet Inlet
Forgiving July - Live At Novara Jazz Festival
Foton Quartet - Zomo Hall 
Frame Quartet - 35mm
Francesco Bearzatti - Suite For Tina Modotti
Francis Wong Trio - Early Abstractions
François Carrier - Happening
François Carrier & Michel Lambert - Kathmandu
François Carrier - Within
François Carrier - The Digital Box
François Carrier & Michel Lambert - Nada
François Corneloup - U.L.M.
François Corneloup - Next
Frank Gratkowski & Hamid Drake
Frank Gratkowski & Jacob Anderskov - Ardent Grass 
Frank Kimbrough - Rumors
Franz Hautzinger's Regenorchester XII - Town Down
Franz Hautzinger - Neublacher Blech
Franz Koglmann - Lo-Lee-Ta
Fred Anderson & Harrison Bankhead - The Great Vision Concert
Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake - From The River To The Ocean
Fred Anderson - Timeless
Fred Anderson - Staying In The Game
Fred Anderson Quartet - Live At The Velvet Lounge, Vol. 3
Fred Anderson - 21st Century Chase
Fred Anderson Trio - A Night At The Velvet Lounge/Live In Chicago 2007
Fred Hess - In The Grotto
Fred Lonberg-Holm - Terminal Valentines
Free Fall - The Point In A Line
Free Form Funky Freqs - Urban Mythology
Free Jazz Quartet - Memories For The Future
Free Unfold Trio
Free Unfold Trio - Ballades
Frode Gjerstad - Mothers & Fathers
Frode Gjerstad - Sound Sight
Frode Gjerstad, Kevin Norton, Paul Rogers - Antioch
Frode Gjerstad - On Reade Street
Frode Gjerstad, Nick Stephens, Louis Moholo-Moholo - Quiddity
Frode Gjerstad, John Edwards & Mark Sanders - Bergen
Frode Gjerstad & Paal Nilssen-Love - Gromka
Frode Gjerstad, Skaset, Grenager, Tafjord, Mølstad, Moe - Sekstett
Frode Hatli - Passing Images
Fully Celebrated - Drunk On The Blood Of The Holy Ones
Gail Brand & Mark Sanders - Instinct & The Body
Garrison Fewell - Variable Density Sound Orchestra
Gato Barbieri - In Search Of The Mystery
Gato Libre - Nomad
Gato Libre - Kuro
Gato Libre - Shiro
George Burt/Raymond MacDonald Quintet - Hotel Dilettante
George Schuller - Like Before, Somewhat After
Gerald Cleaver, William Parker, Craig Taborn - Farmers By Nature
Geri Allen - Flying Toward The Sound
Giancarlo Locatelli & Alberto Braida - The Big Margotta  
Giacinto Scelsi - The Works For Double Bass
Gianni Gebbia, Eiko Ishibashi & Daniele Camarda - Maboroshi 
Gianni Lenoci & Gianni Mimmo - Reciprocal Uncles
Gianni Mimmo - A Watched Pot (Never Boils)
Giovanni Barcella / Van Herzeele Duo - Monday Sessions Live at El Negocito
Giovanni Di Domenico - Terra Che Cammina
Giovanni Di Domenico, Arve Henriksen, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto - Clinamen
Giovanni Guidi - Indian Summer 
Giovanni Maier - The Talking Bass 
Gordon Grdina - East Van Strings - The Breathing Of Statues
Gordon Grdina Trio - If Accidents Will
Graveyards - Screwed & Chopped 
Grey Ghost - Broad Oration
Grid Mesh - Coordinates
Guido Mazzon - As The Crow Flies
Gunhild Seim & Time Jungle - Morpho
Günter "Baby" Sommer - Live In Jeruzalem
Günter Christmann- Gustafsson-Lovens - TR!O
Gwincinski-Richter-Skolik - Jupiter Urizen Wernyhora Trungpa
György Szabados & Miklós Mákó - A Szépzég Szive
Hafez Modirzadeh - Bemsha Allegria
Hairy Bones - Live At Fresnes 
Hamid Drake & Albert Beger & William Parker - Evolving Silence, Vol. 2
Hamid Drake/Anders Gahnold/William Parker - The Last Dances
Hamid Drake & Bindu - Blissful
Hamid Drake's Bintu - Reggaelogy
Han Bennink Trio - Parken
Han Bennink & Frode Gjerstad - Han & Frode
Hank Roberts - Green
Happy Apple - Back On Top
Happy House - Inoxydable
Harris Eisenstadt - Guewel
Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day
Harris Eisenstadt - Woodblock Prints
Heath Watts & Dan Pell - Breathe If You Can
Heinz Becker/Louis Sclavis/John Lindberg - Transition
Helena Espvall - Nimis & Arx
Hélène Labarrière - Les Temps Changent
Henning Sieverts - Symmetry
Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali - Going To The Ritual
Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali - Spirits Aloft 
Henry Kaiser - Invite The Spirit
Henri Texier - Alerte A L'Eau
Henri Texier - Remparts D'Argile
Henri Texier's Red Route Quartet - Love Songs Reflexions
Herb Robertson - Real Aberration
Herb Robertson & Mark Solborg - (NOD)
Hilmar Jensson's Tyft - Meg Nem Sa
Hiram Bullock - Plays Jimi Hendrix
His Name Is Alive - Sweet Earth Flower
Horace Tapscott - The Dark Tree
Howard Riley - Solo In Vilnius
Hugo Antunes - Roll Call
Human Arts Ensemble - Autonomous Oblast
Humanization Quartet - Electricity
Hyperactive Kid - 3
Hyperactive Kid - Mit Dir Sind Wir 4
Ibrahim Maalouf - Diasporas
Ideal Bread - The Ideal Bread
Ideal Bread - Vol. 2 Transmit
I Heart Lung - Between Them A Forest Grew, Trackless And Quiet
I Heart Lung - Interoceans
Ilia Belorukov - Dots & Lines
Ilmillieki - Take It With Me
Ingar Zach - M.O.S. 
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten - The Year Of The Boar
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & Håkon Kornstad - Elise
Ingrid Laubrock - Sleepthief
Ingrid Laubrock - Anti-House
Inhabitants - A Vacant Lot
Ino Imai Axel Nori / rostbestandige zeit
Inside Out In The Open
Irene Schweizer/Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake - Live Willisau & Taktloss
Irene Schweizer Trio & Dewan Motihar Trio - Jazz Meets India 
Iron Kim Style
Isglem - Fire
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith - Abbey Road Quartet 
Ivo Perelman & Dominic Duval - Nowhere To Hide
Ivo Perelman - Mind Games
Ivo Perelman, Daniel Levin & Torbjörn Zetterberg - Soulstorm
Ivo Perelman & Gerry Hemingway - The Apple In The Dark
Ivo Perelman & Brian Willson - The Stream Of Life
Jacek Kochan - One-Eyed Horse
Jachna Buhl - Pan Jabu
Jacob Sacks/Eivind Opsvik/Mat Maneri/Paul Motian - Two Miles A Day
Jacob William Quartet - Secondary Deviations
Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Coltrane Configurations
James Carney Group - Ways & Means
James Falzone & Allos Musica
James Falzone - The Sign And The Thing Signified
Jan Roder - Double Bass
Jane Ira Bloom - Mental Weather
Jaruzelski's Dream - Jazz Gawronski 
Jason Ajemian & Daydream Full Lifestyles - Protest Heaven
Jason Kao Hwang - Edge
Jason Kao Hwang - Stories Before Within
Jason Lindner - Ab Aeterno
Jason Robinson - The Two Faces of Janus
Jason Roebke - Solo
Jason Roebke - In The Interval
Jason Stein - A Calculus Of Loss
Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore - Three Less Than Between
Jason Stein - In Exchange For A Process
Jason Stein’s Locksmith Isidore – Three Kinds Of Happiness 
JD Allen - Shine
JD Parran - Window Spirits 
Jean-Luc Cappozzo - Joy Spirit
Jean-Luc Cappozzo & Edward Perraud - Suspension
Jean-Luc Guionnet - Le Bruit Du Toit
Jean-Marc Foltz & Bruno Chevillon - Cette Opacité
Jean-Marc Foltz - Soffio Di Scelsi
Jean-Marc Foltz, Matt Turner & Bill Carrothers - To The Moon 
Jean-Marc Foussat & Sylvain Guérineau - Aliquid
Jeff Davis - We Sleep Outside
Jeff Platz Quartet - Panoramic
Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut - The Williamsburg Sessions
Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut - The Digital Box
Jemeel Moondoc & Muntu
Jerry Gonzalez - Y Los Piratas Del Flamenco
Jerry Granelli - Sonic Temple
Jerry Granelli V16 - Vancouver '08
Jesse Stacken & Kirk Knuffke - Mockingbird
Jesse Stacken - Magnolia
Jim Hegarty - Cut It/Out
Jim Hobbs, Joe Morris, Luther Gray - The Story Of Mankind
Jim Lewis, Andrew Downing, Jean Martin - On A Short Path From Memory To Forgotten
Jim McAuley - The Ultimate Frog
Jimmy Halperin & Dominic Duval - Monk Dreams
Jimmy Weinstein - This Ocean
Jim O'Rourke, Akira Sakata, Yoshimio - Hagyou
Jin Hi-Kim & Gerry Hemingway - Pulses
Joachim Gies & Sound/body/cells - Shimmering
Joachim Kuhn - Kalimba
Joan Jeanrenaud - Strange Toys
Joe Hertenstein, Pascal Niggenkemper, Thomas Heberer - HNH
Joe McPhee, Dominique Duval, Matthew Shipp - In Finland
Joe McPhee, Brötzmann, Kessler, Zerang - Guts
Joe McPhee's Survival Unit III - Don't Postpone Joy
Joe McPhee/Mikolaj Trzaska/Jay Rosen - Intimate Conversations
Joe McPhee & Dominic Duval - The Open Door
Joe McPhee & John Heward - Voices: 10 Improvisations
Joe McPhee & Paal Nilssen-Love - Tomorrow Came Today
Joe McPhee - Angels, Devils & Haints
Joe McPhee, Peter Brötzmann, Ken Kessler, Michael Zerang - The Damage Is Done
Joe McPhee, Mikołaj Trzaska, Dominic Duval, Jay Rosen - Magic
Joe McPhee & Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten - Blue Chicago Blues
Joe Morris - Rebus
Joe Morris Bass Quartet - High Definition
Joe Morris - Wildlife
Joe Morris, Jon Voigt, Tom Plsek - The Graphic Scores of Lowell Skinner Davidson
Joe Morris, Simon Fell, Alex Ward - The Necessary And The Possible
Joe Morris - Today On Earth
Joe Morris - Colorfield
Joe Morris & Nate Wooley - Tooth And Nail 
Joe Morris - Sensor
Joe Morris & Luther Gray - Creatures  
Joe Rosenberg Quartet - Quicksand
Joel Grip, Niklas Barnö, Didier Lasserre - Snus
Joëlle Léandre & Akosh S. - Kor
Joëlle Léandre - Live In Israel
Joëlle Léandre & Quentin Sirjacq - Out Of Nowhere
Joëlle Léandre & William Parker - Live at Dunois
Joëlle Léandre & George Lewis - Transatlantic Visions
Joëlle Léandre & Jean-Luc Cappozzo - Live Aux Instants Chavires
Joëlle Léandre, Maguelone Vidal & Raymond Boni - Trace
Joëlle Léandre - A Voix Basse
Joëlle Léandre Tentet - Can You Hear Me? & Trio 
Johannes Enders - Dome
John Appleton &  Don Cherry - Human Music
John Blum - In The Shade Of The Sun
John Butcher & Gerry Hemingway - Buffalo Pearl 
John Butcher & Claudia Ulla Binder - Under The Roof
John Coxon & Wadada Leo Smith - Brooklyn Duos
John Edwards - Volume
John Hébert - Byzantine Monkey
John Hébert Trio - Spiritual Lovers 
John Hollenbeck - Rainbow Jimmies
John Lindberg - Ruminations Upon Ives And Gotschalk
John Lindberg Ensemble - The Catbird Sings
John Surman - The Spaces In Between
John Surman & Jack DeJohnette - Invisible Nature
John Tchicai - Witch's Scream
John Zorn - Filmworks XIX - The Rain Horse
John Zorn - Sholem Aleichem, Filmworks XX
John Zorn - Femina
John Zorn - The Dreamers
John Zorn - Filmworks XXIII - El General
John Zorn - O'o
John Zorn : In Search Of The Miraculous
John Zorn - Chimeras
John Zorn : The Goddess—Music for the Ancient of Days
John Zorn : Dictée/Liber Novus
John Zorn/Fred Frith Duo : Late Works
Jon Balke - Siwa
Jon Irabagon & Mike Pride - I Hear Nothin' But The Blues
Jon Irabagon - Foxy
Jones Jones - We All Feel The Same Way
Josh Berman - Old Idea
Joshua Redman - Back East
Julian F. Thayer - The Door Is Open
Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D.
Junk Box - Sunny Then Cloudy
Kablys - Live At 11:20
Kahil El'Zabar - The Ritual
Kahil El'Zabar - Big M
Kahil El'Zabar - Transmigration
Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio - Ooh Live
Kahil El'Zabar/Lester Bowie/Malachi Favors - Saalfelden 1987
Kalaparush McIntyre Quartet - Extremes
Kamil Szuszkiewicz & Hubert Zemler - Detrytus 
Kapacitron 
Karl Hector - Sahara Swing
Katherine Young - Further Secret Origins 
Katja Krusche & Martin Krusche - I Am One
Katya Sourikova - Angels & Satellites
Keefe Jackson's Project Project - Just Like This
Keith Jarrett - The Survivors Suite
Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden - Jasmine 
Kelly Rossum & Phill Hey - Conflict!
Ken Aldcroft
Ken Filiano - Dreams From A Clown Car
Ken Vandermark - three reviews
Ken Vandermark, Max Nagl, Clayton Thomas, Wolfgang Reisinger - C.O.D.E
Ken Vandermark & Pandelis Karayorgis - Foreground Music
Ken Vandermark - Collected Fiction
Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love - Milwaukee Volume
Ken Vandermark - Resonance
Ken Vandermark - Fox Fire 
Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love - Chicago Volume
Ken Vandermark & DKV Trio - Trigonometry
Ketil Björnstad & Terje Rypdal - Live In Leipzig
Kevin Frenette Four - Connections
Kidd Jordan - Palm Of Soul
Kihnoua - Unauthorized Caprices
KiKu Trio - Méthane (Veto Records, 2009)
Kirk Knuffke Quartet - BigWig
Kirk Knuffke, Federico Ughi, Chris Welcome - Garden Of Gifts
Kirk Knuffke - Amnesia Brown
Kirk Knuffke, Kenny Wollesen, Lisle Ellis - “Chew Your Food”
Kolkhöse Printanium - Vol. 1 Kolkhönitza
Kris Davis - Rye Eclipse
Kris Davis, Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey - Paradoxical Frog
Lapin/Poore/Schubert/Turner/Bledsoe - Seek it Not with Your Eyes
Larry Ochs - Up From Under
Larry Ochs/Jeanrenaud/Masaoko - Fly, Fly, Fly
Larry Ochs - The Mirror World
Larry Ochs, Miya Masoaka, Peggy Lee - Spiller Alley
Larry Ochs & Drumming Core - Stone Shift  
Last Seen Headed - Live At Sons D'Hiver
Lawnmower - West 
Lean Left - The Ex Guitars meet Nilssen-Love/Vandermark Duo, Volume 1
Lennart Ǻberg & Peter Erskine - Free Spirit - A Tribute To Don Cherry
Les Amants De Juliette
Les Amants De Juliette & Majid Bekkas 
Les Fées Du Rhin - Passages
Les Yeux De La Tête - Nerf
Li Tie Qiao - Wind Of Lunacy 
Limousine - Limousine 
Lisa Mezzacappa's Bait & Switch - What Is Known
Lisa Ullén & Nina de Heney - Carve
Lisle Ellis - Sucker Punch Requiem
Little Symphony No 3 - First Thing Tomorrow Morning
Little Women - Throat
Liudas Mockūnas & Ryoji Hojito - Vacation MusicLol Coxhill & Andrea Centazzo - Darkly Again
Lol Coxhill & Andrea Centazzo - Moot & Lid
Lol Coxhill & Enzo Rocco - Fine Tuning, The Gradisca Concert 
Lol Coxhill & Roger Turner - Success With Your Dog
Loren Stillman - Trio Alto, Vol. 1
Loren Stillman - Trio Alto, Vol. 2
Lorenzo Sanguedolce & Michael Bisio - Live At The Yippie
Los Dorados - Incendio
Lotte Anker, Sylvie Courvoisier, Ikue Mori - Alien Huddle
Lotte Anker, Craig Taborn, Gerald Cleaver - Live At The Loft
Lotte Anker, Craig Taborn, Gerald Cleaver - Floating Islands
Louie Belogenis/Downs/Morris - The Flow
Louis Guarino Jr - Images Of Movements Thru Time And Space
Louis Moholo-Moholo & Marilyn Crispell - Sibanye (We Are One)
Louis Sclavis - L'Imparfait Des Langues
Louis Sclavis - Lost On The Way
Louis Sclavis, Craig Taborn, Tom Rainey - Eldorado Trio 
Lucas Niggli & Peter Conradin Zumthor - Profos
Lucien Dubuis - Tovorak
Lucien Dubuis - Le Retour
Lucien Dubuis Trio & Marc Ribot - Ultime Cosmos
Luis Lopes - Humanization 4tet
Luis Lopes, Adam Lane & Igal Foni - What Is When
Mâäk's Spirit - 5
Maciej Obara Special Quartet - Four
Maciej Obara - I Can Do It 
Maciej Obara, Lindberg, Sorgen - Three
Magda Mayas - Heartland
Magnus Broo & Paal Nilssen-Love - Game
Magnus Broo Quartet - Painbody
Magnus Broo - Swedish Wood
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness And Eternity
Manuel Mengis Gruppe 6 - The Pond
Marc Boutillot Trio - Et Alors?
Marc Ducret & Benoît Delbecq - Bleu Sur Scène
Marc Ducret - Le Sens De La Marche
Marcel Khalife - Taqsim
Marc Hannaford - Polar 
Marcin & Bartłomiej Brat Oleś - Duo
Marcin Oles/Adam Pieronczyk/Brat Oles - Gray Days
Marcin Oles/Mikolaj Trzaska/Brat Oles/Jean-Luc Cappozzo - Suite For Trio +
Marcin Oleś & Bartłomiej Brat Oleś - Other Voices Other Scenes
Marc Ribot - Asmodeus
Marc Ribot - Exercises In Futility
Marc Ribot - Silent Movies
Marcus Printup - Bird Of Paradise
Maria Kannegaard - Maryland
Marilyn Crispell - Collaborations 2004 and 2007
Marilyn Crispell & David Rothenberg - One Dark Night I Left My Silent House
Marilyn Lerner, Ken Filiano, Lou Grassi - Arms Spread Wide
Marilyn Mazur & Jan Garbarek - Elixir
Mario Pavone - Ancestors
Mario Pavone - Arc Suite T/Pi T/Po
Mark Charig with Keith Tippett and Ann Winter - Pipedream
Mark Dresser, Ed Harkins, Stephen Schick - House Of Mirrors
Mark Dresser & Denman Maroney - Live In Concert 
Mark Dresser - Guts
Mark Harvey Group
Mark Helias - Atomic Clock
Mark Helias' Open Loose - Strange Unison
Mark O'Leary - Waiting
Mark O'Leary - On The Shore
Mark O'Leary - Awakening
Mark O'Leary & Han Bennink - Television
Mark O'Leary & Terje Isungset - Shamanic Voices
Mark O'Leary, Jamie Saft, Kenny Wollesen - The Synth Show
Mark O'Leary/Wayne Horvitz/Dylan Van der Schyff - Flux
Mark O'Leary - Zemlya
Mark O'Leary & Günther Müller - Skyshifter
Mark O'Leary - Ellipses
Mark O'Leary - St. Fin Barre's
Mark O'Leary & Sunny Murray - Ode To Albert Ayler
Mark O'Leary - Live In Helsinki
Mark O'Leary, Passborg, Riis - Grønland
Mark O'Leary, Senol Küçükyildirim, Murat Çopur, Ömer Can Uygan - Live In Istanbul  
Mark O'Leary - Snow
Markku Ounaskari, Samuli Mikkonen, Per Jørgensen - Kuara
Markus Stockhausen/Comiso/Thomé - Es War Einmal
Markus Stockhausen - Electric Treasures
Marshall Allen, Matthew Shipp & Joe Morris - Night Logic
Martin Küchen/Ernesto Rodrigues/Guilherme Rodrigues/Carlos Santos - Vinter
Martin Küchen, Rowe, Wright - At29
Martin Küchen - Homo Sacer
Martin Küchen - The Lie & The Orphanage
Martin Speicher - Shapes & Shadows
Marty Ehrlich & Myra Melford - Spark
Marty Ehrlich Rites Quartet - Things Have Got To Change
Marty Ehrlich - FablesMary Halvorson, Reuben Radding, Nate Wooley - Crackleknob
Masada - Stolas - Book Of Angels, Vol. 12
Masada String Trio : Haborym : The Book Of Angels Vol. 16
Massimo Magee, Amos Manne, Lee Noyes - Sax, Bass, Drums 
Matana Roberts - The Calling
Matana Roberts - The Chicago Project
Mat Maneri & Denman Maroney - Distich
Mats Gustafsson & Paal Nilssen-Love - Splatter
Mats Gustafsson - The Vilnius Explosion
Mats Gustafsson - The Vilnius Implosion  
Mats Gustafsson, Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten & Pal Nilssen-Love - The Thing
Mats Gustafsson & Hamid Drake - Ode To Don Cherry
Mats Gustafsson – Needs!
Matt Bauder - Days In Pictures
Matt Bauder - Paper Gardens
Matthew Shipp - Piano Vortex
Matthew Shipp - Right Hemisphere
Matthew Shipp & Guillermo E. Brown - Telephone Popcorn
Matthew Shipp Quartet - Cosmic Suite
Matthew Shipp & Mark O'Leary - Labyrinth
Matthew Shipp - Harmonic Disorder
Matthew Shipp - Nu Bop Live
Matthew Shipp - 4D  
Matthew Shipp - Creation Out Of Nothing
Matthias Eick - The Door
Matt Lavelle Trio - Spiritual Power
Matt Lavelle & Barry Chabala - I Like To Play
Mauger - The Beautiful Enabler
Max Nagl/Bernstein/Akchoté/Jones - Big Four Live
Max Nagl - Wumm Zack, Vol. 2
Max Nagl Trio - Boulazac
Maya Homburger - Plays J.S.Bach and Barry Guy
McCoy Tyner - Guitars
Médéric Collignon & Jus De Bocse - Shangri-Tunkashi-La
Medeski, Martin & Wood - Zaebos
Medeski, Martin and Wood - The Stone: Issue Four 
Mêlée + Joe Morris - Cloud Atlas Quartet
Memorize The Sky - In Former Times
Memorize The Sky - Creeks
Michael Adkins Quartet - Rotator
Michael Attias - Renku In Coimbra
Michael Attias - Twines Of ColesionMichael Bates - A Fine Balance
Michael Bates Outside Sources - Clockwise
Michael Bates - Live In New York
Michael Bisio - Circle This
Michael Bisio Quartet - Live At The Vision Festival XII
Michael Bisio, George Muscatello, Dean Sharp - Collar City Createology
Michael Bisio Quartet - AM  
Michael Bisio - Travel Music
Michael Blake - Amor De Cosmos
Michael Blake & Kresten Osgood - Control This
Michael Dessen Trio - Between Shadown And Space
Michael Marcus - The Magic Door
Michael Marcus - Lotus Symphony
Michael Moore - Holocene
Michel Lambert & Makalam Bob Moses - Meditations On Grace
Mickey Finn with Cuong Vu - Gagarin! 
Mike Nord & Georg Hoffmann - The Flow, Music For Improvised Dance
Mike Pride - Scrambler
Mike Pride’s From Bacteria To Boys – Betweenwhile
Mike Reed's Loose Assembly - The Speed Of Change
Mikolaj Trzaska - Kantry
Mikołaj Trzaska, Clementine Gasser & Michael Zerang - Nadir & Mahora
Mikołaj Trzaska - Dom Zły/The Dark House
Mikrokolektyw - Revisit 
Miles From India - A Celebration Of The Music Of Miles Davis
Minamo - Kuroi Kawa/Black River
Miroslav Vitous Group - Remembering Weather Report
Misha Alperin - Her First Dance
Modo Trio with Wayne Horvitz - Dog Leg 
Mokuto - Dressed Like A Horse
Mostly Other People Do The Killing - Shamokin!!!
Mostly Other People Do The Killing - Forty Fort
Mulate Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information
Mural - Nectars Of Emergence
Musiconspiracy - Do I The In?
Myra Melford - The Image Of Your Body
Myra Melford's Be Bread - The Whole Tree Gone
Myriam Alter - If
Myriam Alter - Where Is There
Mysterium - An Electric Soundpainting Septet
Nassim Maalouf - Improvisations Orientales
Nate Wooley, Jason Roebke, Fred Lonberg-Holm - Thrown Down Your Hammer 
Nate Wooley & Paul Lytton - Creak Above 33
Nathalie Loriers - L'Arbre Pleure
Nathan Hanson & Brian Roessler - Bellfounding
Natsuki Tamura & Satoko Fujii - Chun
Ned Rothenberg - Inner Diaspora
Ned Rothenberg - Sync
Ned Rothenberg - Quintet For Clarinet & Strings
Ned Rothenberg - Ryu Nashi/No School - New Music For Shakuhachi
Ned Rothenberg and Vladimir Volkov - Live in Dom - Duo Music for Nicolai Dmitriev
Nels Cline/Andrea Parker/Tom Rainey - Downpour
Nels Cline - Coward
Nels Cline - Dirty Baby 
New Fracture Quartet - 1,000 Lights
N.E.W. - Newtoons
New York Jazz Collective - I Don't Know This World Without Don Cherry
Nick Howell & Collin Thomas - Floor Fifty
Nicola Cipani - The Ill-Tempered Piano
Niko Meinhold & Noel Taylor - Border Patrol
Nils Petter Molvaer - Re-Vision
Nils Petter Molvaer - Hamada
Ninni Morgia & Control Unit
Noah Rosen, Yves Robert, Didier Levallet - Silhouette
Nobu Stowe Lee Pembleton Project - Hommage An Klaus Kinski
Nobu Stowe - An Die Musik
Nobu Stowe - Confusion Bleue
Nobuyasu Furuya Trio - Bendowa
Nobuyasu Furuya - Stunde Null 
Noël Akchoté - So Lucky
No More Shapes - Creesus Crisis
Norman Howard - Burn Baby Burn
NovoTono - Wanderung
Nuts - L'Atelier Tampon Ramier September 2007
Nuts - Symphony For Old And New Dimensions
OirTrio - Kanata
Olaf Rupp, Marino Pliakas & Michael Wertmüller - Toomuchisnotenough
Old Dog - By Any Other Name
Oliver Lake, Paul Smoker, Scott R. Looney, Lisle Ellis - Urban Ruminations
Oluyemi Thomas - Nigeria 
Oluyemi Thomas, Sirone, Michael Wimberley - Beneath Tones Floor 
Original Silence - The Original Silence 
Originalljudet
Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman - Beligum 1969
Ornette Coleman - Live In Paris 1971
Ornette Coleman Quartet - Reunion 1990 
Other Dimensions In Music - Now
Other Dimensions In Music - Live At The Sunset
Otomo Yohishide - Lonely Woman 
Paulo Chagas and Bruno Duplant - Complicity
Paolo Fresu/Richard Galliano/Jan Lundgren - Mare Nostrum
Papajo - Simple Game
Pascal Maupeu - Folk Standard
Paul Brody - For The Moment
Paul Dunmall - Deep See
Paul Dunmall - All Said And Dun
Paul Dunmall - Zoochosis
Paul Dunmall's Sun Quartet - Ancient And Future Airs
Paul Dunmall & Tony Bianco - Spirits Past & Future
Paul Dunmall, Barry Edwards, Mark Sanders - Mind Out
Paul Dunmall & Chris Corsano - Identical Sunsets
Paul Dunmall & Miles Levin - Miles Above
Paul Dunmall & Paul Rogers - Repercussions
Paul Dunmall - Moment To Moment  
Paul Dunmall, Tony Bianco & Dave Kane
Paul Motian Trio + 2 - Live At The Village Vanguard
Paul Rogers - Being
Paul Rutherford - Tetralogy 
Paul Smoker - Genuine Fables
Paulo Curado - The Bird, The Breeze And Mr. Filiano
Paura - The Construction Of Fear
Per Jørgensen & Terje Isungset - Agbalagba Daada
Pete Robbins’ “siLENT Z Live” 
Peter Brötzmann & Peeter Uuskyla - Born Broke
Peter Brötzmann/Paal Nilssen-Love/Mats Gustafsson - Fat Is Gone
Peter Brötzmann, Marino Pliakas, Michael Wertmüller - Full Blast/Black Hole
Peter Brötzmann, Peeter Uuskyla, Peter Friis Nielsen - Noise Of Wings
Peter Brötzmann - Lost & Found
Peter Brötzmann - A Night In Sana'a
Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love - Woodcuts
Peter Brötzmann, Mikołaj Trzaska & Johannes Bauer - Goosetalk 
Peter Brötzmann, Massimo Pupillo, Paal Nilssen-Love - Roma
Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet +1 - 3 Nights In Oslo
Peter Epstein & Idée Fixe - Abstract Realism
Peter Evans Quartet - !
Peter Evans - Nature/Culture
Peter Evans Quartet - Live In Lisbon
Peter Evans - Ich fühle Luft von anderem Planeten
Peter Janson- Live At The Glenn Miller Café
Peter Kenagy - Space Western
Peter Kowald - Off The Road
Peter Kowald & Vinny Golia - Mythology
Peter Van Huffel Quartet - Like The Rusted Key
Petr Cancura, Joe Morris, Jason Nazary - Fine Objects
Phantom Orchard - Orra
PHAT - La Grande Peste
Phil Gibbs/Roy Campbell/Paul Dunmall/Daniel Carter/Paul Rogers/William Parker/Hamid Drake - Blown Away
Phil Hargreaves, Lee Noyes & Bruno Duplant - Malachi
Philip Gibbs, Paul Dunmall, Tony Hymas, Paul Rogers, Neil Metcalfe, Tony Levin - Mumuksuta 
Philip Glass - Songs And Poems
Plaistow - Jack Bambi 
Platz Quintet - Live At Internationales Jazz Festival Münster 2007
Plunge - Refreshingly Addictive
Point 4 - Panopticon
Poolplayers - Way Below The Surface
(((Powerhouse Sound))) Oslo/Chicago : (((Breaks)))
Powerhouse Sound - Overlap
Profound Sound Trio - Opus De Life
Psalm Alarm - Like Machine, Like Voice
Quartet Offensive - Carnivore
Rabih Abou-Khalil - Songs For Sad Women
Rafal Mazur & Keir Neuringer - Improwizje 
Rahim Alhaj - Little Earth
Rafael Toral - Space Elements Vol. II
Rakalam Bob Moses - Father's Day B'hash
Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu - Chiaroscuro
Ramon Prats & Albert Cirera - Duot
Raoul Björkenheim - The Sky Is Ruby
Raoul Björkenheim, William Parker, Hamid Drake - DMG@TheStone Vol. 2
Raphael Rogiński - Bach Bleach 
Rashied Ali Quintet - Live In Europe
Ravi Padmanabha & Daniel Carter - Nivesana
Ravish Momin's Trio Tirana - Miren
Rawfishboys - WaR
Rawfishboys - Pianoworks/Pianoworksn't
Ray Anderson-Marty Ehrlich Quartet - Hear You Say - Live In Willisau
Raymond MacDonald & Günter Sommer - Delphinius & Lyra
Raymond MacDonald - Cities
Red Rocket - Mitten
Red Sphere - H-Alpha
Régis Huby - Simple Sound
Remi Álvarez & Mark Dresser - Soul to Soul
Resonance Ensemble - 10 CD Box
Return Of The New Thing - Alchemia
Return To Forever - The Anthology
RIDD Quartet - Fiction Avalanche
Rob Brown - Radiant Pools
Rob Brown Trio - Sounds
Rob Brown Ensemble - Crown Trunk Root Funk
Rob Brown Trio - Live At The Firehouse
Rob Brown & Oleś Brothers - Live At SJC
Rob Mazurek - Abstractions On Robert d'Arbrisel
Rob Mazurek - Sound Is
Rob Reddy - A Hundred Juming Devils
Rob Reddy - The Book Of The Storm
Rob Wagner Trio
Robert Burger - City Of Strangers
Robert Landfermann - Null 
Robin Verheyen - Painting Space
Rockingchair - Rockingchair
Rodrigo Amado - Teatro
Rodrigo Amado - Surface
Rodrigo Amado - The Abstract Truth
Rodrigo Amado, Miguel Mira & Gabriel Ferrandini - Motion Trio
Rodrigo Amado - Searching For Adam 
Rohrer, Mazurek, Takara, Barella - Projections Of A Seven Foot Ghost
Rodrigo Pinheiro, Hernani Faustino & Gabriel Ferrandini - Red Trio
Rolf Kühn & Tri-O - Close-Up
Ronnie Lynn Patterson & Didier Lasserre - Suite For Gernika
Roscoe Mitchell - No Side Effects
Rova & Nels Cline Singers - Celestial Septet
Roy Campbell - Communion
Roy Campbell - Akhnaten Suite
Rozanne Levine - Only Moment
Rudresh Mahanthappa - Kinsmen
Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition - Apti
Rudresh Mahanthappa & Steve Lehman - Dual Identity
Rufus Cappadocia - Songs For Cello
Russ Lossing & John Hebert - Line Up
Ryan Blotnick - Everything Forgets
Sabir Mateen - Other Places Other Spaces
Sabir Mateen & Daniel Carter - Sound On A Sunday
Sabir Mateen & Frode Gjerstad - Sound Gathering
Sabir Mateen - URDLA XXX
Sainkhò Namtchylak & Dickson Dee - Tea Opera
Sainkho Namchylak / Nick Sudnick - Not Quite Songs
Sam Newsome - Monk Abstractions
Sam Newsome - Blue Soliloquy
Samuel Blaser Quartet - Pieces Of Old Sky
Sangha Trio - Frantically, Frantically Being At Peace
Sao Paulo Underground - The Principle Of Intrusive Relationships
Satoko Fujii - Fujin Rajin
Satoko Fujii & Carla Kihlstedt - Minamo
Satoko Fujii & Natsuki Tamura - In Krakow In November
Satoko Fujii Quartet - Bacchus
Satoko Fujii Trio - Trace A River
Satoko Fujii Ma-Do - Heat Wave
Satoko Fujii & Myra Melford - Under The Water
Satoko Fujii Ma-Do - Desert Ship
Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo - Zakopane
Saco Yasuma - Another Rain
Schizo Quartet - Don't Answer It
Schooldays - In Our Time
Scoolptures - Materiale Umano
Scorch Trio - Brolt!
Scott Amendola/Ben Goldberg/Devin Hoff - Plays Monk
Scott Amendola - Lift
Scott Fiels - Bitter Love Songs
Scott Fields - Drawings
Scott Fields Ensemble - Fugu
Scott Fields, Matthias Schubert - Minaret Minuets 
Scott Tinkler - Backwards
Scott Tinkler & Simon Barker - Lost Thoughts
Scraps - L'Enigme Du Sphynx
Sean Conly - Re-Action
Sean Noonan - Stories To Tell
Search - Today Is Tomorrow
Sebastiano Meloni, Adriano Orrù & Tony Oxley - Improvised Music For Trio
Sei Miguel - Esfingico
ShotXShot - Let Nature Square
Silke Eberhard Trio - Being
Simon Jermyn's Trot A Mouse
Simone Massaron - Breaking News
Sing Sing Penelope & Andrzej Przybielski - Stirli People In Jazzga
Sixty Interpretations of Sixty Seconds
Slug Duo - Fully Improvised Sets From Falanster 2009
Slug Duo - Organic Stone
Soft Machine - Drop
Soil & Pimp Sessions - Pimpoint
Sonic Liberation Front - Changeovertime
Sonic Openings Under Pressure - Muhheankuntuk
Sonny Simmons - Tales From The Ancient East
Sonny Simmons And Delphine Latil - Symphony Of The Peacocks
Sonore - Call Before You Dig
Sophia Domancich - Washed Away
Sophia Domancich & Raphaël Marc - Lilienmund  
Sounds Of Liberation - New Horizons
Spaceways Inc. - Version Soul
Speak 
Splatter - Music For Misanthropes
Splinters - Split The Difference
Spring Heel Jack - Songs And Themes
Stefan Keune, Hans Schneider, Achim Krämer - No Comment
Stéphan Oliva & Jean-Marc Foltz - Pandore
Stéphane Oliva- Lives Of Bernard Hermann
Stéphane Kerecki Trio & Tony Malaby - Houria
Stefano Luigi - Painting On Wood
Stefano Pastor - Chants
Stefano Pastor - Freedom
Sten Sandell Trio - Face Of Tokyo
Stephan Crump & James Carney - Echo Run Pry
Stephan Sieben, Adam Pultz Melbye, Håkon Berre - Angel
Stephen Gauci - Substratum
Stephen Gauci - Nididhyasana
Stephen Gauci Quartet - Absolute, Absolutely
Stephen Gauci - Live At The Glenn Miller Café
Stephen Gauci, Kris Davis, Michael Bisio - Three 
Stephen Haynes & Taylor Ho Bynum - Double Trio
Stephen Haynes - Parrhesia
Stephen Lehman - Manifold
Stephen Lehman - On Meaning
Steuart Liebig - Always Outnumbered
Steve Cohn - Iro, Iro
Steve Harris' ZAUM - I Hope You Never Love Anything As Much As I Love You
Steve Harris - A Is For Ox/Live In Brighton
Steve Hubback & Ad Peijnenburg - Arrows
Steve Lantner Quartet - Given/Live In Münster
Steve Lehman Octet - Travail, Transformation, And Flow
Steve Moore - Stebmo
Steve Raegele - Last Century
Steve Swell - Swimming In A Galaxy Of Goodwill And Sorrow
Steve Tibbetts - Natural Causes
Steven Bernstein, Marcus Rojas, Kresten Osgood - Tattoos and Mushrooms
Superimpose - Talk Talk
Swami LatePlate - Doomjazz
Swedish Azz - Jazz På Svenska
Sylvain Guérineau - Dies Irae
Szilárd Mezei Trio - Bármikor, Most / Anytime, Now
Taro - Flaechten
Tasos Stamou & Ilan Manouach
Tatsuya Nakatani & Forbes Graham - Essences
Taylor Ho Bynum - The Middle Picture
Taylor Ho Bynum & Tomas Fujiwara - True Events
Taylor Ho Bynum - Asphalt Flowers, Forking Paths
Taylor Ho Bynum & Tomas Fujiwara - Stepwise 
Taylor Ho Bynum, John Hébert, Gerald Cleaver - Book Of Three
Ted Daniel Quintet - Tapestry
Terence Blanchard - A Tale Of God's Will
Terje Isungset - Two Moons
Terje Isungset - Ice Concerts
Terje Isungset - Hibernation
Terje Isungset - Winter Songs
Terje Rypdal & Bergen Big Band - Crime Scene
Territory Band with Fred Anderson - Collide
Territory Band - New Horse For The White House
Tetterapadequ - And The Missing R
The Ames Room - In
The Antripodean Collective - Funcalls
The Antripodean Collective - The Massacre Of The Egos
The Antripodean Collective - NTRPDN
The Astronomical Unit - Relativity
The Black Napkins 
The Claudia Quintet - For
The Claudia Quintet - Royal Toast
The Cosmosamatics - Free Within The Law
The Cracow Klezmer Band - Remembrance
The Dorf - Le Record 
The Dreamers : Ipos: The Book Of Angels vol. 14
The Flow Trio - Rejuvenation
The Free Zen Society
The Gift - Live At Sangha
The Godforgottens - Never Forgotten, Always Remembered
The Light - Afekty
The Mahavishnu Project - Return To The Emerald Beyond
The Nels Cline Singers - Draw Breath
The Nu Band - The Dope And The Ghost
The Nu Band - Lower East Side Blues
The Nu Band - Live In Paris
The Peggy Lee Band - New Code
The Persons - Sweet Ears
Theo Jörgensmann, Marcin Oles, Bartlomiej Oles - Alchemia
Theo Jörgensmann, Marcin Oles, Bartlomiej Oles - Live In Poznan
The Bottesini Project - The Bottesini Project
The Fonda Stevens Group - Memphis
The MacroQuarktet - Each Part A Whole
The Naked Future - Gigantomachia
The Other Tet
The Rempis Percussion Quartet - Hunter-Gatherers
The Rempis Percussion Quartet - The Disappointment Of Parsley
The September Quartet - What Goes Round
The Stone Quartet - DMG @ The Stone
The Thing with Ken Vandermark - Immediate Sounds
The Thing - Now And Forever
The Way - Live In Woodstock One
The Way - Live In Woodstock Two
Thing - Thing
Third World Love - New Blues
Thollem Mcdonas & Nicola Guazzaloca - Noble Art
Thollem McDonas - Gone Beyond Reason To Find One
Thomas Chapin - Ride
Thomas Heberer
Thomas Heberer - Five By Five
Tim Barnes, Nate Wooley & Jason Roebke Trio
Tim Berne's Bloodcount - Seconds
Tim Daisy & Ken Vandermark - August Music
Tim Daisy / Ken Vandermark Duo - Light On The Wall
Tim Green, Massimo Magee, John Porter - Of An Evening
Tin/Bag - And Begin Again
Tin Hat Trio - Sad Machinery Of Spring
Tin Hat - Foreign Legion
Tintinabulum - Not The Wind, Not The Flag 
Tiziano Tononi Feat.William Parker And Emanuele Parrini - Vertical Invaders 
Tiziano Tononi - Awake Nu - A Tribute To Don Cherry
Tom Arthurs - Squash Recipe
Tom Arthurs & Richard Fairhurst - Mesmer
Tom Arthurs, Jasper Høiby, Stu Richie - Explications
Tomasz Stanko - Dark Eyes
Tommaso Cappellato - Open
TomChess & The Lovedogs - In The Beautiful Future
Tom Hamilton & Bruce Eisenbeil - Shadow Machine
Tommy Babin's Benzene - Your Body Is Your Prison
Tom Rainey
Tom Rainey Trio - Pool School
Tom Varner - Second Communion
Tongs - Jazz With The Megaphone?
Tony Bevan, Chris Corsano, Dominic Lash - Monster Club
Tony Malaby - Tamarindo
Tony Malaby Cello Trio - Warblepeck
Tony Malaby - Voladores
Tony Malaby's - Tamarindo Live 
Tony Wilson Sextet - The People Look Like Flowers At Last
Torben Snekkestad - Conic Folded
Toshinori Kondo - Silent Melodies
Totem - Solar Forge
Townhouse Orchestra - Belleville
Transit - Quadrologues
Trespass Trio - ... Was There To Illuminate The Night Sky
Trevor Watts & Jamie Harris - Ancestry
Triangulation - Whirligigs
Tribute To Albert Ayler - Live At The Dynamo
Trinity - Breaking The Mold
Trio BraamDeJoodeVatcher - Quartet
Trio 3 - Live At The Sunset/Wha's Nine
Trio 3 + Irène Schweizer - Berne Concert
Trio M - Big Picture
Trio Passeurs - Existences
Trio Viriditas - Live At Vision Festival
Trio X - Roulette At Location One
Trio X - Air : Above And Beyond
Trio X - The Train And The River
Trio X - 2006 US Tour
Trio X - Live In Vilnius
Trio X - Live On Tour 2008
Trionacria - The Mystic Revelation
Triptych Myth
Trygve Seim & Frodle Haltli - Yeraz
Trygve Seim & Andreas Utnem - Purcor, Songs for Saxophone and Piano
Tyft - Smell The Difference
Ulrich Drechsler - Humans & Places
Ulrich Drechsler - Daily Mysteries
Ulrich Gumpert & Günter Baby Sommer - Das Donnernde Leben
Undivided - The Passion
Unit - Time Setting
Uri Caine - Plays Mozart
Urs Leimgruber - Chicago Solo 
Uwe Oberg & Evan Parker - Full Bloom
Vandermark 5 - Beat Reader
Vandermark 5 - Annular Gift
Vandermark 5 - The Horse Jumps/The Ship Is Gone 
Various Artists - I Never Met A Guitar
Vector Trio - Nomina
Veronique Dubois / François Carrier - Being With
Vijay Anderson - Hardboiled Wonderland
Vijay Iyer & Rudresh Mahanthappa - Raw Materials
Vijay Iyer - Tragicomic
Vijay Iyer Trio - Historicity
Viktor Tóth - Climbing With Mountains
Viktor Tóth, Hamid Drake, Mátyás Szandai - Bringing Light Towards Me
Vincent Courtois - As Soon As Possible
Vinny Golia - Sfumato
Vinny Golia & Mark Dresser - Live At Lotus
Viviane Houle - Treize
Vladimir Tarasov - Thinking Of Khlebnikov
Vox Arcana - Aerial Age 
Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky, Andrei Kondakov & Vladimir Volkov - In Search Of A Standard
Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky - Pieces For String Trio And Trumpet
Wacław Zimpel & Tim Daisy - Four Walls
Waclaw Zimpel, Wojtek Traczyk, Robert Rasz - The Light
Wacław Zimpel, Paweł Posteremczak, Ksawery Wójciński, Paweł Szpura - Hera
Wadada Leo Smith & Günter Sommer - Wisdom In Time
Wadada Leo Smith - Compassion
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet - Tabligh
Wadada Leo Smith & Jack DeJohnette - America
Wadada Leo Smith - Spiritual Dimensions  
Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell - The Blue Mountain's Sun Drumme
Walter Beltrami - Timoka  
Wanja Slavin 5tet - Scirocco
Warren Smith - Natural Cultural Forces
Way Out West - Old Grooves In New Streets
Wayne Horvitz - A Walk In The Dark
Wayne Horvitz - One Dance Alone
Weasel Walter, Mary Halvorson, Peter Evans - Electric Fruit 
Weightless - A Brush With Dignity
Whit Dickey Trio - Emergence
WHO Trio - Less Is More
William Gagliardi - Memories Of Tomorrow
William Gagliardi - Kenbillou
William Hooker - Earth's Orbit
William Parker & Hamid Drake - Vol. 2 Summer Snow
William Parker - Corn Meal Dance
William Parker - Alphaville Suite
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune
William Parker - Petit Oiseau
William Parker & Giorgio Dini - Temporary
William Parker - At Somewhere There 
William Parker & Gianni Lenoci & Vittorino Curci & Marcello Magliocchi - Serving An Evolving Humanity  
William Parker - I Plan To Stay A Believer/The Inside Songs Of Curtis Mayfield
Willie Oteri & Dave Laczko - WD 41
Xabier Irondo & Gianni Mimmo - Your Very Eyes
Yá-sou - Tribute to Don Cherry
Yitzhak Yedid - Oud Bass Piano Trio - Suite In 5 Movements
Yo Miles! - Live At The Fillmore East 
Yo Miles! Shinjuku
Yo Miles! - Lightning
Yoni Kretzmer's New Dilemma
You Had Me At Hello - Meet Oliver Lake
You Had Me At Hello - Meet Ab Baars & Michael Moore 
Yuganaut - Sharks
Yuri Honing & Nora Mulder - Winterreise
Yuri Honing - Meet Your Demons
Yuri Yaremchuk/Mark Tokar/Klaus Kugel - Yatoku
Yuri Yaremchuk, Ilia Belorukov, Andrij Orel - Conditions
Yusef Lateef & Adam Rudolph - Towards The Unknown 
Yves Robert - Inspirine
Zbigniew Seifert - Solo Violin
Zé Eduardo Unit - Live In Capuchos
Zed-U - Night Time On the Middle Passage
Zero Centigrade - I Am Not Like You  
Zero Centigrade – I’m Not Like You
ZMF Trio - Circle The Path
Zu - The Way Of The Animal Powers




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