 | At Molde 2007 by Peter Brotzmann
Buy new: $13.98 PETER BROTZMANN (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW)
Ten years since its formation, Brotz's Chicago Tentet is still going strong. This is a great live recording from the Molde Festival in Norway in July, 2007. (Okka Disk)
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 | Gold Is Where You Find It by Schlippenbach Trio
Buy new: $34.98 / Used from: $47.98 SCHLIPPENBACH TRIO (4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW)
latest studio recordings from Alexander von Schlippenbach (piano), Evan Parker (sax) and Paul Lovens (percussion) on the Swiss Intakt label
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 | Phases Of The Night by Guy
Buy new: $34.98 / Used from: $46.60 BARRY GUY/MARILYN CRISPELL/PAUL LYTTON (4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW)
this is the third set from this fantastic trio on the Swiss Intakt label
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 | Double Sunrise Over Neptune by William Parker
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $11.99 WILLIAM PARKER) This work for 16-piece ensemble, including 8 strings and 2 drummers, is the latest from William Parker, bassist, composer and spiritual leader of the NYC community, recorded June 19th & 20th 2007, live at the Vision Festival XII (Aum Fidelity).
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 | Globe Unity Orchestra 40 Years by Alex Von Schlip
Buy new: $37.99 / Used from: $20.88 GLOBE UNITY ORCHESTRA) 40 years on, and "globe unity" is just as elusive and even more necessary than ever! Europe's free jazz big band is still roaring in this 40th anniversary concert, with Evan Parker & others on sax, and Paul Rutherford, who died last year, & George Lewis among others on trombone. (Intakt)
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 | A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music by George E. Lewis
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $20.14 GEORGE LEWIS) Trombonist and composer George Lewis has written a book about the AACM! (University of Chicago Press)
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 | Season of Changes by Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.79 BRIAN BLADE & THE FELLOWSHIP BAND) drummer Blade leads an excellent sextet session with bass, keyboards, two saxophones, and Kurt Rosenwinkel on guitar
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 | Beyond Quantum by Anthony Braxton
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.81 ANTHONY BRAXTON/MILFORD GRAVES/WILLIAM PARKER) an hour of free improvisations, instigated, recorded and mixed by Bill Laswell (Tzadik)
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 | Quartet 2006: Ghost Trance Music by Anthony Braxton
Buy used from: $27.99 ANTHONY BRAXTON) Braxton on reeds with piano, bass and drums.
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 | Born Broke by Peter/ Peeter Uuskyla Duo Brotzmann
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $9.41 PETER BROTZMANN) This one's a duet with drummer Peter Uuskyla, a 2-disc set, with Brotz coming as close to playing the blues as you'll year. (Atavistic)
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 | Crown Trunk Root Funk by Rob Brown
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $5.99 ROB BROWN ENSEMBLE) latest quartet date from the superb alto player Rob Brown, with William Parker on bass, Gerald Cleaver on drums, and Craig Taborn on keyboards (Aum Fidelity)
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 | Akhenaten Suite by The Roy Campbell Ensemble
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.99 ROY CAMPBELL ENSEMBLE) trumpeter Campbell is joined by violinist Billy Bang in the front line of this quintet, his latest exploration of ancient civilizations, recorded live at last year's Vision Fest in NYC (Aum Fidelity)
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 | Present Tense by James Carter
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $5.55 JAMES CARTER) Michael Cuscuna produces tenor saxophonist Carter with a great ensemble including D.D. Jackson on piano and Victor Lewis on drums.
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 | Gerald Cleaver's Detroit by Gerald Cleaver
Buy new: $20.98 / Used from: $43.34 GERALD CLEAVER'S DETROIT) sextet led by drummer Gerald Cleaver, who has played with Roscoe Mitchell
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 | Moonshine by Dave Douglas
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $42.78 DAVE DOUGLAS/KEYSTONE) latest from Douglas's electro-acoustic ensemble
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 | Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra by Exploding Star Orchestra
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $59.63 EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA) This is the second recording from Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra, and the first to feature trumpeter Bill Dixon, perhaps best known for playing with Cecil Taylor in 1966 on CONQUISTADOR. (Thrill Jockey)
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 | History, Mystery by Bill Frisell
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $10.25 BILL FRISELL) Frisell with one of his indescribable eclectic sets on Nonesuch, somewhere between jazz, classical and folk
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 | The Irrational Numbers by Drew Gress
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $12.34 DREW GRESS) Quintet session with Tim Berne on sax, Ralph Alessi on trumpet, Craig Taborn on keyboards, Gress on bass & Tom Rainey on drums. (Koch)
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 | Art Metal by Jonas Hellborg
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $15.98 JONAS HELLBORG) a guitar/bass/drums electric improv trio
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 | Tragicomic by Vijay Iyer
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $36.12 VIJAY IYER) latest quartet session from the young pianist
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 | Rabo de Nube
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $13.25 CHARLES LLOYD) quartet session in the tenor saxman's 70th year with Jason Moran on piano
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 | Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 2 by Paul Motian
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $10.39 PAUL MOTIAN) drummer Motian live with an expanded trio (Winter & Winter)
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 | Musica Elettronica Viva - MEV 40 (1967-2007) by Musica Elettronica Viva
Buy new: $71.99 MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA) This 4-disc box, MEV 40, celebrates the 40th anniversary of the avant improv group formed in Rome.
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 | Petit Oiseau by William Parker Quartet
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.75 WILLIAM PARKER QUARTET) This is the third record from this great quartet -- Hamid Drake on percussion, Parker on bass, Lewis Barnes on trumpet and Rob Brown on sax.
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 | Exercises in Futility
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.07 MARC RIBOT) a set of fiendish solo compositions (Tzadik)
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 | Party Intellectuals by Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog
MARC RIBOT'S CERAMIC DOG) a guitar/bass/drums power trio
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 | Real Aberration
Buy new: $17.98 HERB ROBERTSON'S NY DOWNTOWN ALLSTARS) Quintet session with Robertson on trumpet, Tim Berne on sax, Sylvie Courvoisier on piano, Mark Dresser on bass and Tom Rainey on drums (Clean Feed)
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 | Tectonics Errata, Vol. 1
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $53.79 ELLIOTT SHARP) This collection of Sharp's music is the first in a series of releases of Sharp's avant music from the new contemparary avant German Neos label. (www.neos-music.com)
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 | Tabligh by Wadada Leo Smith
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $11.15 WADADA LEO SMITH'S GOLDEN QUARTET)
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 | Time Being by Trio 3
Buy used from: $65.90 TRIO 3) Oliver Lake on alto sax, Reggie Workman on bass and Andrew Cyrille on percussion with their latest from the Swiss Intakt label.
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 | Rainbow People by Steve Turre
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $45.75 STEVE TURRE) This is the latest from the great trombonist and bandleader, featuring Kenny Garett on alto sax.
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 | Beat Reader by Vandermark 5
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $6.03 KEN VANDERMARK) My impression is that the Vandermark 5 hit an uninspired patch starting shortly after original drummer Tim Mulvenna left the band several albums back. Now Jeb Bishop's trombone has been replaced by Fred Lonberg-Holm's cello, and whether that is it or not, the spark seems to be back! (Atavistic)
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 | The Dreamers by John Zorn
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $19.52 JOHN ZORN) This release from the prolific Zorn features the members of Electric Masada, including Marc Ribot. (Tzadik)
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 | Nonaah by Roscoe Mitchell
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $16.03 ROSCOE MITCHELL -- 1976/1977 (reissue) a 2-disc set with 10 solo pieces, 2 duets, a trio and a quartet (Nessa)
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 | Eclipse at Dawn by Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $10.76 CHRIS McGREGOR'S BROTHERHOOD OF BREATH -- early 1970s? (reissue) the integrated South African unit that challenged apartheid
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 | Dimensions And Extensions by Sam Rivers
Buy new: $7.87 / Used from: $4.92 SAM RIVERS -- 1966 (reissue) All three of the original 1960s Blue Note records featuring Sam Rivers as leader have now been reissued on CD -- "Fuschia Swing Song" came out in 2003, and "Contours" in 2004. I picked them all up in the Mosaic box about 10 years ago, and they're great -- don't miss any of them!
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 | Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966, Vol. 2 by Don Cherry
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $8.99 DON CHERRY -- 1966 (reissue) remastered ESP disc, a live set from Copenhagen featuring a quartet with Gato Barbieri on sax, shortly after the Blue Note sessions for "Complete Communion"
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 | The Forest and the Zoo by Steve Lacy
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.08 STEVE LACY -- 1966 (reissue) Another great ESP disc, live in Buenos Aires, this is a quartet with Enrico Rava on trumpet, Lacy on soprano sax of course, and South Africans Johnny Dyani on bass and Louis Moholo on drums, and they play two long pieces, "The Forest" and "The Zoo."
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 | New York Art Quartet by New York Art Quartet
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $11.99 NEW YORK ART QUARTET -- 1964 (reissue) remastered ESP disc, with John Tchicai on tenor, Roswell Rudd on trombone, Milford Graves on percussion, and Lewis Worrell on bass
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 | Complete 1963 Paris Concert by Rollins
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.98 SONNY ROLLINS -- 1963 (reissue) Rollins is joined in the front line by trumpeter Don Cherry, fresh off of his historic Atlantic recordings with Ornette, Henry Grimes on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums, also an Ornette veteran.
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