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SQUIDCO Email Update March 8, 2024

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March 8, 2024

"A jazz musician is a combination
Orator, dialectician, mathematician,
athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer,
diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer,
And general all-round good fellow."
—Steve Lacy

Essential Artists

• Jim Baker/Steve Hunt/Jakob Heinemann
• Bozek/Takahashi
• Jonas Cambien
• Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Marc Sanders
• Elliott Sharp
• Ensemble SuperMusique
• Susanna Hood Trio
• Miharu Ogura
• Henrik Olsson/Aviva Endean
• Ivo Perelman/Mark Helias/Tom Rainey
• Quatuor Bozzini
• Rodrigues/Parrinha/Madeira
• Joana Sa
• Scheen Jazzorkester & Cortex
• Scratching Fork (Malinowski/Rychlicki/Zadruzynski)
• Wadada Smith Leo/Joe Morris
• Tragic Assembly + Tatsuya Nakatani
• Rebeka Zajc Rusjan
• Zakrocki/Garbowski/Gradziuk

Squid Bubbles

Essential Labels

Ambiances Magnetiques
Clean Feed
Collection QB
Creative Sources
FRIM Records

Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!)
Soul City Sounds
thanatosis produktion
zOaR Records

Jazz & Improvisation

Baker, Jim / Steve Hunt / Jakob Heinemann: Horizon Scanners
(Clean Feed)

Rooted in an approach to the piano trio attributed to Bill Evan's non-hierarchical improvisation, the trio of long-standing collaborators Jim Baker on piano and Steve Hunt on drums & percussion, with younger generation double bassist Jakob Heinemann, bring equal voice to their highly interactive conversations in a mix of live and studio performances.

$14.95

Bozek / Takahashi: SADOIL
(Creative Sources)

Pointillistic, scrabbly and playful improvisation from the duo of Polish double bassist Marcin Bozek, known for creating and as the conductor of the Gdynia Improvisers Orchestra, and viola improviser and baroque musician Marie Takahashi of Reanimation Quartet; together their five improvisations show remarkable technique, momentum and determination in a wonderful confluence of strings.

$15.95

Cambien, Jonas: Maca Conu
(Clean Feed)

Commissioned by Norway's Motvind festival, Belgian-born, Oslo-based composer & keyboardist Jonas Cambien takes a sly approach to his compositions, incorporating contemporary & experimental forms with solid free jazz playing, performed with drummer Andreas Wildhagen, bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, saxophonist Signe Emmeluth and guest trombonist Guro Kvale (Scheen Jazzorkester).

Squidco Pick

$14.95

Dunmall, Paul / Paul Rogers / Marc Sanders: Wildlife
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

A wildly explorative and masterful studio encounter for three of the UK's most well-known and well-recorded improvisers--Paul Dunmall on tenor & soprano saxophones, clarinet & flute; Paul Rogers on 7-string double bass; and Mark Sanders on drums--in four collective improvisations that run the gamut from explosive to introspective conversation; ferocious!

Squidco Pick

$15.95

Ensemble SuperMusique: Le fil d'Ariane
(Ambiances Magnetiques)

Featuring works premiered at the ESM concert "Zigzague and Colore" in November 2022 in Montreal at Escape Orange - Edifice Wilder - Espace Danse, this exceptional concert of Montreal's premiere improvising Ensemble SuperMusique presents the works of three female composers--Elizabeth Millar, Laura Kavanaugh, and Danielle Palardy Roger--through a variety of graphic scores.

Squidco Pick

$14.95

Hood, Susanna Trio: unPacked
(Ambiances Magnetiques)

In the footsteps of the band for which she's the vocalist — Scott Thomason's The Rent paying homage to the music of Steve Lacy — Montreal vocalist and movement performer Susan Hood steps out on her own to merge the words of German poet Judith Malina, who influenced Lacy and Irene Aebi's "Cycle of Jazz Art Songs", with Steve Lacy's exuberant music, for a captivating and sincere pairing.

Squidco Pick

$14.95

Perelman, Ivo / Mark Helias / Tom Rainey: Truth Seeker
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Meeting at Park West Studios in Brooklyn, the NY trio of Ivo Perelman on tenor saxophone, Mark Helias on bass and Tom Rainey on drums record seven collective free improvisations of great depth and expression, unhurried playing that concentrates on the group dialog, yielding space for exceptional soloing supported by perceptive interaction; masterful!

Squidco Pick

$15.95

Rodrigues / Parrinha / Madeira: Into the Wood
(Creative Sources)

Working together in a variety of setting and ensembles--Variable Geometry Orchestra, Suspensao, groupings with Hernani Faustino & Jose Oliveira, with Michel Stawicki, and with onsieur Trinite--the core trio of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Bruno Parrinha on bass clarinet and Joao Madeira on double bass, is heard in three studio improvisations of dark woods explorations.

$15.95

Sa, Joana: A Body as Listening
(Clean Feed)

The concluding opus of a trilogy that began with "Through This Looking Glass" and followed with "In Praise Of Disorder", Portuguese pianist Joana Sa merges acoustic piano with well-balanced electronics and resonance, using preparations and fragments of previous recordings to create a uniquely expressive solo performance: forceful, fragile, and captivatingly fascinating.

$14.95

Scheen Jazzorkester & Cortex: Frameworks - Music by Thomas Johansson
(Clean Feed)

Merging jazz organizations, Norwegian trumpeter & composer Thomas Johansson brings together the third stream large band Scheen Jazzorkester with the electric jazz band Cortex (Kristoffer Alberts (baritone & tenor saxophone), Ola Høyer (double bass) and Dag Erik Knedal Andersen (drums)), for a rousing, exciting and diverse live concert at Hamar Teater in Norway.

Squidco Pick

$14.95

Scratching Fork (Malinowski / Rychlicki / Zadruzynski): Scratching Fork II
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

The 2nd album from the Polish guitar trio of Marek Malinowski on guitar, Robert Rychlicki-Gasowski on double bass & bass guitar, and Wojciech Zadruaynski on drums, performing Malinowski's embraceable mix of lyrically inclined modern jazz compositions with an explorative side, balancing structure with free space for sprightly spontaneity, a beautiful followup.

Squidco Pick

$15.95

Smith, Wadada Leo / Joe Morris: Earth's Frequencies
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Delicately forceful, the live concert at Real Art Ways, in Hartford, Connecticut as part of the ImprovisatioNOW concert series, is a perfect encounter between two legendary New York improvisers--trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and guitarist Joe Morris--capturing five dialogs of impressive technique and creative expression, including references to Monk and Ma Rainey.

Squidco Pick

$15.95

Tragic Assembly + Tatsuya Nakatani : Live at the Artscenter
(Soul City Sounds)

The NC Tragic Assembly free improvising trio of Charles Chace on guitar, Crowmeat Bob on reeds and Phil Venable on upright bass are joined for this 2022 concert at Carrboro, NC's ArtCenter by improvising percussion powerhouse Tatsuya Nakatani, adding sonic expansion and rhythmic punctuation to this trio's typically drum free configuration, heard in four striking improvisations.

$12.95

Zajc, Rebeka Rusjan : Prelude
(Clean Feed)

The debut for young Slovenian pianist Rebeka Rusjan Zajc, living and working in Amsterdam, brings forward a new voice in lyrically elegant and virtuosically confident solo piano improvisation, her extended piece "Illusion" divided in natural segments that allow her progressions to develop through accomplished, lively runs and moments of suspended beauty.

$14.95

Zakrocki / Garbowski / Gradziuk: Ballads And Blues [2 CDs]
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

A series of electroacoustic improv "Ballads" and "Blues", beautiful and chimerical works at the intersection of strings and a miscellany of percussion, patiently and unhurriedly unfolding under the deep listening ears from the Polish trio of Patryk Zakrocki on prepared electric guitar & granular delay, Maciej Garbowski on double bass and Krzysztof Gradziuk on multipercussion, objects & toys.

$19.95

Experimental/Electronic

Olsson, Henrik / Aviva Endean: Split Series Vol. 2
(FRIM Records)

Part of the split series from Swedish label FRIM (Association For Free Improvised Music), this album presents the two solo concerts from an evening at Rönnells Antikvariat during the 2022 Sound of Stockholm festival, first from drummer Henrik Olsson performing on turntables & objects; then from Aviva Endean on clarinets, electronics, voice & plastic pipes.

$15.95

Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Elliott Sharp: The Collapsed Wave
(zOaR Records)

The NY duo of Elliott Sharp and Don McKenzie pay tribute to guitar-oriented instrumental rock as practiced by Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, John McLaughlin, Sonny Sharrock, Miles Daves, &c, music that valued virtuosity and embraceability, with Sharp performing on Strats, Les Pauls, steel guitar, a Vietnamese ghita phim lom on Uchuu, mandola & mandocello and Telecaster.

Squidco Pick

$11.95

Compositional

Ogura, Miharu: Ogura Plays Ogura
(thanatosis produktion)

Following her 2022 album Ogura Plays Stockhausen, Japanese born, Frankfurt-based pianist Miharu Ogura turns her attention to her own compositions, presenting five uniquely creative works unfolding in pacing that surprises the listener, balancing silence and clusters of layered patterns that move at differing speeds and rhythms, from simple clarity to labyrinthine entanglement.

$15.95

Quatuor Bozzini: Jurg Frey: String Quartet No. 4
(Collection QB)

The third string quartet that Swiss composer Jürg Frey has written for the Montreal string quartet Quatuor Bozzini of Alissa Cheung on violin, Clemens Merkel on violin, Stephanie Bozzini on viola and Isabelle Bozzini on cello, a beautiful work in five movements of illusory motion, slowly evolving through furtive and seemingly feigned momentum.

Squidco Pick

$14.95

The Squid's Ear

The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine, featuring reviews of Squidco items from independent writers.

Recent Reviews on The Squid's Ear

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Kim Dae Hwan and Choi Sun Bae: Korean Fantasy (No Business)

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Hans Koch & Christine Abdelnour: FFlair (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut, Ltd.)

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Alcorn, Susan / Septeto del Sur: Canto (Relative Pitch)

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John Butcher: The Very Fabric (Hitorri)

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John Butcher / Eddie Prevost: High Laver Levitations Vol 1: Unearthed (Matchless Records)

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Yarde / Wright / Wilkinson / Smith / Lynch / Chat: A Company of Others (Matchless Records)

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Stay Current With Squidco

We're never quite caught up with new releases that constantly come in our door, and we don't like to rush a release to our homepage. That said, the following releases have already been stocked at Squidco, and are able to be ordered. In most cases we have images, often have samples, and some basic description of each release.

• You can see the newest additions to our catalog in our Just In Stock Section.

• You can see the latest fully cataloged items in our store by using our New Releases section.

• You can see Recently Restocked items on this page.

• You can ask to have us email you when Upcoming Releases are in stock.

Giuseppe Doronzo / Andy Moor / Frank Rosaly: Futuro Ancestrale (Clean Feed)	Norbert Pfammatter / Florestan Berset / Francesco Losavio: A Vol D'Oiseau (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))	Ernesto Rodrigues / Dirk Serries / Joao Madeira / Jose Oliveira : Dripping (Creative Sources)
Hal Russell NRG Ensemble: The Finnish / Swiss Tour (ECM Records)	Hal Russell NRG Ensemble: The Hal Russell Story (ECM Records)	Hall Russell / Mars Wiliams: EFTSOONS [VINYL] (NESSA)
Elliot Sharp: Arbor (zOaR Records)

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