Free Jazz / Avante Garde - CD Reviews (1158)
You can generally count on quality product from three eminent improvisers aligning their laudable wares. Recorded at Mills College in Oakland, CA., the trio executes a s…
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Contemplation is the latest offering from indie Danish label Cowbell Music. On this compilation, saxophonist Benjamin Koppel and bassist Thommy Andersson once a…
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Finnish pianist Frank Carlberg ties a lot of different aspects of his career together on his stunning new quintet recording, The American Dream. No stranger to cr…
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Fujii Orchestra New York is pianist-composer Satoko Fujii’s longest standing big band making their debut in 1997. The group’s latest release, Summer Suite contain…
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When the husband and wife team of pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura come together, the recording is always special like their latest release Chun.…
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The very definition of a tough Texas tenor, the late Dewey Redman served long and fruitful tenures as a sideman in Ornette Coleman's and Keith Jarrett's bands while maintai…
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Adam Rudolph is a musical visionary. He is one of those rare artists who has truly mastered traditional ethnic musics from a wide variety of different cultures. His virtuos…
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Much of this newly issued outing recorded by the legendary and pioneering U.K., based ensemble Soft Machine, focuses on improvising drummer Phil Howard’s explosive prese…
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Progressive-jazz trumpeter Herb Robertson is leading a new band into worldwide prestige. Accompanied by trumpeter Dave Ballou, bassist Drew Gress, and drummer Tom Rainey…
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The band’s fruition began in 2000 during German native and multi-reedman Alfred Harth’s residence in New York City, when he aligned with bassist Wilber Morris and drumme…
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The music from Rye Eclipse was premiered by pianist Kris Davis and her quartet during a summer 2007 tour of Canadian jazz festivals. The Canadian-born, Brooklyn-ba…
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It’s an unusual yet consistently enticing series of pastiches by three crafty players hailing from Michigan, yet active in nearly all walks of jazz and its numerous perm…
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Since relocating from Australia to England in 1960, woodwind ace Ray Warleigh carved out a busy career as an in-demand session artiste amid storied support roles with le…
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This reissue of the original 1964 album signifies a cutting-edge avant, jazz session presented by three renowned instrumentalists and woodwind ace Giuseppi Logan who sub…
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The Same Thing is guitarist / composer / arranger Darrell Katz' fourth album for the august upstate New York-based indie jazz label Cadence Jazz Records (or its C…
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Bassist and composer Bruno Råberg is a true musicians' musician. A native of Sweden, he cut short classical bass studies at the Ingesund Conservatory in order to work with …
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Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii and her new quartet ma-do, consisting of trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, Norikatsu Koreyasu on bass and drummer Akira Horikoshi reveal their debu…
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Odean Pope was with the Max Roach quartet for over 20 years. Though influenced by hard bop and John Coltrane, he has diverged more from Coltrane's powerful legacy than m…
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Recorded live in 2007 at the Calgary Jazz Festival, saxophonist Francois Carrier aligns with longtime musical associate, percussionist Michel Lambert for this trio date …
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This 2008 reissue of pianist Paul Bley’s 1964 studio session for the recently resurrected ESP-DISK record label, signifies one of many gems unearthed from the past to pa…
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