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"Music is one of the arts that make a person completely naked."
—Don Cherry

Essential Artists

• Axioms
• Albert Ayler with Don Cherry
• Derek Baron/Luke Martin
• Jean-Marc Foussat/Daunik Lazro
• Gleaming Shard (Wang/Bryerton)
• Keefe Jackson/Raoul van der Weide/Frank Rosaly
• Pandelis Karayorgis/George Kokkinaris
• Daniel Levin/Fala Mariam/Sei Miguel
• K. Lyle Curtis/George R. Sams/Ra Kalam Bob Moses
• Francisco Mela featuring. Leo Genovese/William Parker
• Metal Chaos Ensemble
• Piotr Michalowski/Damon Smith
• Eric Mimosa/Christian Vasseur
• Elliott Sharp (w/Sally Gates/Toshi Dorji)
• Stemeseder Lillinger Quartet w/ Peter Evans/Russell Hall
• TriJJo (Jung-Jae Kim/Joel Haag/Henrik Wartel)
• Andrew Weathers
• Rebeka Zajc Rusjan
• Manuel Zurria

Essential Labels

577 Records
ANTS Records
Balance Point Acoustics
Clean Feed
Creative Sources
Driff Records
Evil Clown

ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd
Fou Records
Glomar Editions
Intakt
Kettle Hole Records
Notice Recordings

Jazz & Improvisation

Axioms: Extensions To Infinity
(Evil Clown)

Axioms is based around the core trio of Boston multi-reedist, percussionist and composer David Peck, and Cecil Taylor associates Albey onBass (on bass) and poet Jane SpokenWord, here in a performance with collective core cellist & aquasonic performer Glynis Lomon, and guest improviser from New Orleans, Chris Alford on guitar, stomp box and percussion.

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Ayler, Albert with Don Cherry: 1964 Recordings First Visit Completed [2 CDs]
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

Four sets of recordings from September, 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark from a week performing live at Club Montmarte, and a recording in Hilversum, The Netherlands for VARA Radio, collecting and remastering these vital recordings from tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler's most vital free jazz quartet with Don Cherry on cornet, Gary Peacock on double bass and Sunny Murray on drums.

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Foussat, Jean-Marc / Daunik Lazro: Trente-Cing Miniutes & Vingt-Trois Secondes
(Fou Records)

Titled for the length of the album (Thirty-Five Minutes & Twenty-Three Seconds) the duo of Foussat & Lazro, who have performed as a trio with Evan Parker and in the Clifford Thornton Memorial Quartet, concentrate their work into this incredible merging of transformative synthetics and textural sax expression, with moments of lyrical and alien beauty emerging from their sophisticated dialog.

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Gleaming Shard (Wang / Bryerton): Mirrors in Light Diamonds
(Balance Point Acoustics)

Sculpted sonics through prepared guitars, electronics, synthetics, drums, gongs, metal and percussion, the Chicago duo Gleaming Shards of guitarist Da Wei Wang and drummer Jerome Bryerton, both veterans of improvisation, experimental and avant rock groups, evoke the album title and group name through shimmering and subtly shifting expanses of sound and punctuated movement.

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Jackson, Keefe / Raoul van der Weide / Frank Rosaly : Live at de Tanker
(Kettle Hole Records)

Keefe Jackson on tenor & bass clarinets, Raoul Van Der Weide on bass & cracklebox, and Frank Rosaly on drums are heard in this 2022 live performance at De Roze Tanker in Amsterdam, reuniting the Chicago reedist with Rosaly, who is now based in Amsterdam, for six free jazz tunes: two Jackson compositions and four superb collective dialogs.

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Karayorgis, Pandelis / George Kokkinaris: Out From Athens
(Driff Records)

An active and well-balanced duo between Greek pianist based in Boston, Pandelis Karayorgis, and Greek bassist, concert organizer and publisher, George Kokkinaris, both from Athens and recording in the studio in that city, drawing on elements of contemporary music and free jazz in a mix of spontaneous dialogs, one solo improvisation from each, and three Karayorgis compositions.

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Levin, Daniel / Fala Mariam / Sei Miguel: Panorama
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

Performing in the liminal space between free improv, jazz & chamber-oriented improvisation, the trio of American cellist Daniel Levin with long-time Portuguese collaborators Sei Miguel on pocket trumpet and Fala Mariam on alto trombone, come together for these authoritative recordings in Lisbon, captured in the studio and at a live performance of solos & duos at Galeria Ze dos Bois.

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Lyle, K. Curtis / George R. Sams / Ra Kalam Bob Moses: 29 Birds You Never Heard
(Balance Point Acoustics)

Powerful free improvisation led by the words of poet K. Curtis Lyle, known for his work with Julius Hemphill, part of a sextet with trumpeter George R. Sams, a member of United Front, two double bassists — Adi Bu Dharma Joshua Weinstein and Damon Smith — and two percussionists — Henry Claude and Ra Kalaam Bob Moses — in a gatefold CD with a 10-page booklet of related poems from K.Curtis Lyle.

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Mela, Francisco featuring. Leo Genovese / William Parker: Music Frees Our Souls, Vol. 3
(577 Records)

The third chapter in Cuban-Born, New York-based drummer Francisco Mela's tribute to his legendary mentor and bandleader Mccoy Tyner, in a trio with William Parker on bass and Leo Genovese on piano, celebrating the avant side of Tyner's work with Coltrane and his own bands, and the influence he had on Mela in encouraging him to push the boundaries of his playing.

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Mela, Francisco featuring. Leo Genovese / William Parker: Music Frees Our Souls, Vol. 3 [VINYL]
(577 Records)

Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.

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Metal Chaos Ensemble: Insanity Is Contagious
(Evil Clown)

Metal Chaos Ensemble was formed in 2015 by reedist & percussionist David Peck and drummer Yuri Zbitnov as a working project to explore chaotic rhythms on metallic instruments with a rock sensibility; drummer Steve Niemitz now holds the drum chair, and the band is a prolific sextet with saxophonist Michael Caglione, trumpeter Bob Moores, synth player Eric Woods and guitarist Mike Gruen.

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Michalowski, Piotr / Damon Smith: How To Ripen In Ice
(Balance Point Acoustics)

Taking their titles from the avant poetry book "Tent Posts" by author Henri Michaux, this concert of collective free improv at Ziggy's Ypsilanti in Michigan between double bassist Damon Smith and reed & wind player Piotr Michalowski is an active and impressive set of dialogs, Michalowski switching between bass & contralto clarinets, sopranino & soprano saxophones, and Japanese Shinobbue flute.

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Mimosa, Eric / Christian Vasseur: Les Sans-Ombre
(Creative Sources)

Duo guitar improvisations performed on archtop acoustic guitars from French guitarists Christian Vasseur and Eric Mimosa, nine improvisations recorded in the studio in Mons en Baroeul, France using impressive technique in a well-matched duo of virtuosic playing and wildly creative ideas that run the gamut from extremely energetic discussion to spacious observation.

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Sharp, Elliott (w / Sally Gates / Toshi Dorji): Ere Guitar
(Intakt)

Following his 2017 trio album with guitarists Marc Ribot and Mary Halvorson, New York guitarist Elliott Sharp returns to his Manhattan studio with two different guitarists--Bhutan guitarist Tashi Dorji living in Asheville, and New Zealand guitarist living in New York Sally Gates--for ten far-ranging improvisations of inspired technique and creative intent.

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Stemeseder / Lillinger Quartet w/ Peter Evans & Russell Hall: Umbra II
(Intakt)

Austrian pianist Elias Stemeseder and German percussionist Christian Lillinger expand their partnership into a quartet with brilliant New York trumpeter Peter Evans and double bassist Russell Hall, in this all-acoustic follow-up to their 2023 album Umbra in 13 avant jazz compositions, inventively lyrical and unpredictably impressive, recorded in the warmth of the Van Gelder studios.

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TriJJo (Jung-Jae Kim / Joel Haag / Henrik Wartel): Conversations with Snow
(Creative Sources)

The Swedish trio of South Korean tenor saxophonist Jung-Jae Kim, Joel Haag on guitar and Henrik Wartel on drums, recording in the studio for a mix of five original compositions from Jung-Jae Kim, often based around a motive or idea which is developed and expanded upon by each member of the trio, and five collective improvisation borrowing from a variety of styles.

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Zajc, Rebeka Rusjan : Introducing Rebeka Rusjan Zajc
(Clean Feed)

Clean Feed introduces listeners to Slovenian pianist living and working in Amsterdam, Rebeka Rusjan Zajc, through 5 CD-length "Piano Operas" of real-time compositions recorded in the studio — Fictus; Functio; Factum; Fabula; Furor — each illuminating aspects of the virtuosic artist's unique take on the tradition of solo improvised piano.

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Experimental/Electronic

Baron, Derek / Luke Martin: Distinct and Concealed [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Notice Recordings)

NY composer & keyboardist Derek Baron meets with Minneapolis experimental composer & performer Luke Martin at Zeitgeist Center in New Orleans and at Resource Space in Minneapolis, MN to record these live performances on piano, keyboard, no-input mixing board and cassette recordings; minimal works of tension and release, incorporating movement, audience and room sounds into their contemporary improvisations.

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Weathers, Andrew: AW Walks to the West Bank of the French Broad Every Day
(Glomar Editions)

A 2-part work leveraging binaural recordings made in daily walks in Asheville, NC to different points of the French Broad River: Part 1 "Interior" is collaged as a room resonance study using hydrophone recordings of the French Broad, microtonal instruments by Ben Hjertmann plus piano & synth recordings; Part 2 "Exterior" is a layered alignment of the recordings from his walks.

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Compositional

Zurria, Manuel: Fame di Vento [3 CDs]
(ANTS Records)

A triple CD and 24-page booklet of recordings from Italian flutist and composer Manuel Zurria performing works by luminary composers including Alvin Lucier, James Tenney, Tashi Wada, Jürg Frey, Laurence Crane, &c., with an homage to Italian conceptual artist Alighiero Boetti, each CD punctuated with Preludes and Postludes performed with guest saxophonist Gianni Gebbia.

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