The Free Jazz Collective

By Nick Ostrum The most recent duo recording of pianist Aki Takase and bass clarinetist Rudi Mahall, Fifty Fifty begins with a playf...

By Martin Schray 15 years ago, in 2004, Oliver Schwerdt and Christian Lillinger met for the first time an...

By Kian Banihashemi Félicia Atkinson is a multifaceted French artist who I have just recently discovered last year with the releas...

By Gregg Daniel Miller Like a sonic kitchen-garden, “Here to Play” is a bit messy, homegrown yet welcoming. Neil Welch (tenor sax + e...

By Olle Lawson Tomas Fujiwara – Drums/compositions. Patricia Brennan – Vibraphone. Tomeka Reid – Cello. “ I’d like to tell you as li...

By Sammy Stein Live In Paris At Fondation Louis Vuitton ​is a solo release from Elliot Galvin. Galvin has prodigious talent which e...

By Dan Sorrells Insub—previously known as Insubordinations Netlabel—is a label run by long-time creative partners Cyril Bondi and d’in...

By Lee Rice Epstein It seems every year there is at least one piano trio album that upends and reinvents one of the oldest formats i...

By Stephen Griffith It was only a matter of time for this group, with Mary Halv orson and Tim Berne, to happen. Before they all appea...

By Nick Ostrum Ghosts was truly a welcome surprise. I have been following the Dutch duo Dead Neanderthals for years now. The band’s cor...