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UPDATE
October 22, 2021

"Art leaves something to the listener;
That's what separates art from craft."
—Henry Threadgill

Creative Artists

• Archer/Keeffe/Pyne
• Artifacts (Tomeka Reid/Nicole Mitchell/Mike Reed)
• Axioms
• Blue Lines Sextet
   (Rave/Maris/Wierbos/Scheen/van der Weide/Hadow)
• Blue Lines Trio (Scheen/van der Weide/Hadow)
• Don Cherry
• Axel Dorner
• Nick Fraser Quartet
• Anne-F Jacques/Takamitsu Ohta
• Charlotte Keeffe
• Leap Of Faith
• Lussier/D'Orion/Kuster/Tetreault
• PEK Solo/A Quartet of PEKS
• Ivo Perelman   (Duos w/ Burrell/Crispell/Ortiz/Parks
   Courvoisie/Fernandez/Taborn/Sanchez/Iyer)
• Alex Reviriego
• Skeeter Shelton/Hamid Drake
• Henry Threadgill Zooid
• Alex Ward

Essential Labels

Astral Spirits
Casco Records
Discus
Euphorium
Evil Clown
ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd

Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!)
Pi Recordings
Tripticks Tapes
Tsss Tapes
Two Rooms Records
Victo

Jazz & Improvisation

Archer / Keeffe / Pyne: Hi Res Heart
(Discus)

Inspired by the 70's Leo Smith Trio and the AACM tradition, during pandemic lockdowns UK multi-reedist & wind player Martin Archer, Charlotte Keeffe on trumpet & electronics and Martin Pyne on drums, percussion, vibraphone & toy piano, developed these 12 pieces where each member recorded four ideas independently, the other two arranging and recording their own parts in response.

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Artifacts (Tomeka Reid / Nicole Mitchell / Mike Reed): ...and then there's this
(Astral Spirits)

Confirming their place in Chicago's improv legacy, the second album from the Artifacts Trio of Nicole Mitchell on flute & electronics, Tomeka Reid on cello and Mike Reed on drums & percussion expand the AACM canon with compositions from each member, plus several insightful and lively collective improvisations and one piece each from Roscoe Mitchell and Muhal Richard Abrams.

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Axioms: Hypothesis
(Evil Clown)

The second album of free improv with poetry from the Boston-based Evil Clown collective band Axioms of David Peck, Jane SpokenWord and Albey onBass, this album extending the trio with Glynis Lomon on cello and Steve Niemitz on drums & percussion, heard in an extended improvisation bridging the distance between poetic discussion of truths and abstract musical structures.

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Blue Lines Sextet (Rave / Maris / Wierbos / Scheen / van der Weide / Hadow): Live At The BIMhuis
(Casco Records)

An exceptional live concert of original compositions from pianist Michiel Scheen alongside insightful interpretations of pieces from Charlie Haden and Charles Mingus, plus six collective instant compositions, from the Amsterdam sextet of Scheen, Ada Rave on reeds, Bart Maris on trumpets, Wolter Wierbos on trombone, Raoul van der Weide on bass and George Hadow on drums.

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Blue Lines Trio (Scheen / van der Weide / Hadow): Blue Lines Trio
(Casco Records)

With all the tongue-in-cheek aspects of Dutch improvisers, the piano trio of Michiel Scheen on piano, Raoul van der Weide on bass, crackle box & sound objects and George Hadow on drums, all hailing from a superb pedigree of European Free Improv involvement, show their connection through comprehensible playing with a wonderful sense of humor in their approach to delightfully smart playing.

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Cherry, Don: Complete Communion & Symphony For Improvisers, Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

Following a 1964 Albert Ayler tour, trumpeter Don Cherry remained in Europe, working on new concepts of improvising based on form itself, developing his concepts with saxophonist Gato Barbieri, vibraphonist Karl Berger & bassist J.F. Jenny Clark, composing two brilliant albums: 1966's Communion with Barbieri, Henry Grimes & Ed Blackwell; and in 1967 Symphony for Improvisers as a septet.

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Dorner, Axel: Untitled [3''CD]
(Euphorium)

A companion of sorts to the Euphorium release from Leimgruber/Turner/Dorner/da Boff/Flesh, London/Leipzig/Luzern, trumpeter Axel Dörner breaks off solo for an extended improvisation recorded at the same studio on the same day in Leipzig, employing his unique approach to the instrument in an 18-minute exploration of tone, timbre, and unexpected brass utterance.

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Fraser, Nick Quartet: If There Were No Opposites
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

First recording in 2012 as a trio with saxophonist Tony Malaby as a guest, 9 years later Toronto drummer Nick Fraser's quartet with Malaby as a permanent member, Rob Clutton on double bass and Andrew Downing on cello show their long collaboration's strength in a set of improvisations plus compositions for Decidedly Jazz Danceworks and the DJD production, Juliet & Romeo.

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Keeffe, Charlotte: Right Here, Right Now
(Discus)

Collecting facets of London trumpeter Charlotte Keeffe's diverse settings and interests, including three live recordings with her own quartet, three recordings with London Improvisers Orchestra including a conduction for a piece dedicated to Steve Beresford, a duo with guitarist Diego Sampieri, and two solo recordings, one interacting with live electronics.

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Leap Of Faith: Imaginary Perspectives
(Evil Clown)

The core duet of the Leap of Faith Orchestra of David Peck on clarinets, saxophones, clarinets & flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice are joined by Evil Clown regular, Bob Moores on trumpet, guitar, electronics & percussion, the excitement evident as the trio performed together live in the studio the first time after pandemic vaccinations.

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Lussier / D'Orion / Kuster / Tetreault : Printemps 2021
(Victo)

This mercurial and impressive 2021 Victoriaville Festival concert brought together improvisers from three duos as a quartet: guitarist Rene Lussier, who has a long running duo with turntablist Martin Tetreault; Erick d'Orion on computer and electronics, who also has a experimental sound duo with Tetrault; and frequently collaborator with Lussier, drummer Robbie Kuster.

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PEK Solo / A Quartet of PEKS: Fixed Intentions for the Saxophone Family
(Evil Clown)

The sixth PEK Solo effort of 2020 in Boston-based improviser and composer David Peck's series, this album is a followup to his Clarinet Family album earlier in the year, here creating a virtual symphony of saxophones by layering his composition in the studio through four separate recordings, working in the vein of Rova Sax Quartet or the World Sax Quartet.

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Perelman, Ivo (Duos w/ Burrell / Crispell / Ortiz / Parks / Courvoisie / Fernandez / Taborn / Sanchez / Iyer): Brass And Ivory Tales [9-CD BOX SET]
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Referring to the brass saxophone and the piano's ivory keys, Brazilian saxophonist based in New York City Ivo Perelman celebrates his 60th birthday with this 9-CD set of diverse approaches to sax & piano duos, performed with some of world's finest improvising pianists: Dave Burrell, Marilyn Crispell, Aaron Parks, Augusti Fernandez, Craig Taborn, Angelica Sanchez and Vijay Iyer.

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Reviriego, Alex: Raben [CASSETTE W/ DOWNLOAD]
(Tripticks Tapes)

Spanish double bassist Alex Reviriego (Memoria Uno) in a solo album recorded by Ferran Fages in 2019, the second chapter of his "German Poets Trilogy" following his 2018 Blaue Tauben album, here inspired by the writings of Romanian-born poet Paul Celan in an intense and moving album of dense foreboding depicted through nine improvisations of heavy bowing, ruminative harmonics and dark friction.

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Shelton, Skeeter / Hamid Drake: Sclupperbep
(Two Rooms Records)

After meeting in Detroit when tenor saxophonist & flutist Skeeter Shelton subbed for a sick player in a duo concert with drummer/percussionist Hamid Drake, the two found a bond through Shelton's father, Ajaramu Shelton, who had been one of Drake's mentor at Chicago's AACM; the concert was so successful that this recording was immediately planned, based around many of Shelton's themes.

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Shelton, Skeeter / Hamid Drake: Sclupperbep [VINYL]
(Two Rooms Records)

Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.

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Threadgill, Henry Zooid: Poof
(Pi Recordings)

The sixth album in saxophonist and composer Henry Threadgill's Zood small ensemble project Zooid, a quintet with guitarist Liberty Ellman, tuba & trombonist Jose Davila, cellist Christopher Hoffman and drummer Elliot Humberto Kavee, following Threadgill's serial intervallic language compositions to create an amazingly intricate yet warmly embraceable avant jazz; exceptional!

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Threadgill, Henry Zooid: Poof [VINYL]
(Pi Recordings)

Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.

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Ward, Alex: Gated
(Discus)

A stunning solo album showing the widely diverse interests of UK clarinetist and guitarist Alex Ward, recording in the studio in 10 multi-track pieces using clarinets, saxophones, guitars, keyboards, electric bass and assorted software instruments in a mix of pre-composed and improvised approaches, burning the spectrum from contemplative to aggressively assertive performance.

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Experimental/Electronic

Jacques, Anne-F / Takamitsu Ohta: Oto to Secchi [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Tsss Tapes)

Using small objects and contact microphones to create peacefully clacking, mewling and idiosyncratic utterances, sound artists Takamitsu Ohta and Anne-Francoise Jacques developed this installation shown in 2019 at the Bonjour! Gendaibunmei gallery in Kyoto, recorded by Jacques as a tour of the various sonic manifestations that a visitor to the gallery might experience.

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Andrea Borghi / Giacomo Salis / Paolo Sanna: MOT [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes)	Federico Calcagno / Stefano Grosso / Filippo Rinaldo: Piranha (Habitable Records)	Jack Cooper / Jeff Tobias : Tributaries [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits)
Crazy Doberman: "Everyone Is Rolling Down A Hill" ... [VINYL] (Astral Spirits)	Expanse: Vacuum Energy (Evil Clown)	Alvin Fielder / David Dove / Jason Jackson / Damon Smith : The Very Cup of Trembling (Astral Spirits)
Gordon Grdina / Jim Black: Martian Kitties [CASSETTE W/ DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits)	Hatcher / Maunu / Kirshner: Live at Splice Series (Kettle Hole Records)	Mako Sica (feat Tatsu Aoki / Thymme Jones / Jacob Fawcett) : Garland of Heads [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits)
Rie Nakajima: Fusuma [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes)	New Old Luten Trio: Short Night [3'' CD] (Euphorium)	PEK Solo: Decision Boundary (Evil Clown)
PEK Solo: Requiem for Raymond (Evil Clown)	PEK Solo / A Quartet Of PEKS: Strange Beauty Out of Chaos (Evil Clown)	PEK Solo / An Orchestra of PEKs: Electrolysis (Evil Clown)
PEK Solo / An Orchestra of PEKs: Stretching the Fabric of Space (Evil Clown)	Strictly Missionary (Pitsiokos / Eisenberg / Lenz / Murray / Neuburg): Heisse Scheisse [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits)	Javier Subatin: Mountains (Habitable Records)
You Sung Jin / Vincent Laju: Kairos (Creative Sources)	Various Artists: CICP Collaborative Recordings vol. 1 (Habitable Records)	Vernacular (Caswell / Kulcsar / Washington): The Little Bird [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits)
Chris Williams / Patrick Shiroishi: Sans Soleil [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits)

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