2018. The nine tracks on this intriguing release from the trio offer neo-classical influences mixed with European improvised music and the experimental non-conformism of New York's downtown scene.

2014. n this CD have played the best jazz musicians of the world scene , such as Duffy Jackson (drummer for Count Basie , Ella Fitzgerald , Joe Williams, Lionel Hampton ), John Allred ( trombone first in ? Orchestra..

2015. After her first release for EMI: 'Sola Contigo' (Alone with You), and her two subsequent releases for Universal Jazz Spain: “Como Agua entre los Dedos” (Like Water Between the Fingers), and “El Mar de mi Vida”..

1990. One of the main actors in the Italian independent music scene for the last 25 years, Ernesto De Pascale, journalist, producer, the voice behind the microphones of RAI (italian national broadcasting company) as..

2007. Album Reviews: '...OUSTANDING...one of the year's best releases.' - Richard Ludmerer, BluesWax '...A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH...' - Duke Robillard, Blues Legend '...belongs at the top...HE SWINGS LIK..

2005. DJ Williams- guitar, vocals ( HE'S NOT A DJ! ) DJ Williams was born in Plainfield, NJ and grew up in Richmond, VA and started to hit the music scene at 16 years old. A ground breaking instrumentalist and ..

2013. Having a deep baritone voice with a three-octave range and an adventurous spirit, Joe Lee Wilson performed with many notable jazz musicians during the 1960's including Sonny Rollins, Lee Morgan, Pharoah Sander..

2013. The standard sources on jazz list Mary Lou Williams’ birthplace as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In her liner notes for My Mama Pinned A Rose On Me, Mary Lou sets the record straight: “I was born in Atlanta, Geo..

2017. A 1955 album by Chet Baker and Dick Twardzik, reissued on 180-gram vinyl, packaged in a gatefold sleeve. This title is part of the 'Jean-Pierre Leloir Collection'. Leloir was the most important photographer..

2017. Al Cohn first sprung on the US scene as one of the saxophonists on the Woody Herman hit 'Four Brothers'. Along with Zoot Sims, Cohn became one of New York's leading sax men, forming with Sims a quintet that pl..

2013. 48 at the time that he recorded his Harold Arlen tribute album in 1978, Tommy Flanagan had a successfully emerged from relative obscurity. Although an important graduate of the Detroit jazz scene of the 1950s ..

2009. 'All Is Forgiven', the new CD from angelic-voiced Ashana could be titled 'A Gift from Heaven.' -- New Age Retailer, Spring 2007 'The Ave Maria track on Ashana's CD was so powerful it reduced me to tears.' ..

2017. ** Jon Burke of LostAtSea.net Music** writes- 'On Funkadelic's classic cut 'Can You Get To That,' a chorus of voices croon: 'I once had a life/ Or rather life had me/ I was one among many/ Or at least I seeme..

2011. Including 2CDs, Top Model Runway 5 is going to bring a storm to the world and depict the dazzling scene of fashion runway with music. The works in CD1, RUNWAY/ Pridetime, are mainly of Nu-Jazz and Downtempo, ..

2010. Soul Jazz Records/Universal Sound are releasing this 'lost classic' radical deep experimental jazz album from David Lee Jr which joins the dots between the spiritual jazz of John Coltrane and Sun Ra and Lee's ..

2013. The October Equus Quartet is a fractalization of the original band, showing a sound not so 'chamber rock' and more oriented toward a kind of 'avant-jazz-rock'. On 'Isla Purgatorio' the compositions are conveni..

2014. Limited edition of 500 copies on 180-gram vinyl. The bi-lingual insert explores Fusion in the context of the rich Chilean music scene. An impossible to find jazz/soul/funk monster by Fusion, issued in Chile in..

2018. It's been nearly five decades since Joe McPhee assembled a group of musicians to perform the weekend concerts that would become 'Nation Time', his debut LP. It was December 1970, thirty-one-year-old McPhee was..

2017. Since their debut in 2003, Com Voc? has been revisiting the classics of Brazilian music and offering them in fresh, new perspective. The group is led by Polish-born vocalist and arranger Maggie Grebowicz and ..

2015. Miroslav Vitous is one of the premiere bass players in all of jazz music. At age 6 Miroslav started with the violin and switched to the piano at age 9. He then finally settled on playing the bass at age 14. He..

2019. This was Charles Tolliver's first album as a leader. The setting is unique only because his second Freedom-Black Lion album "The Ringer" and all of his subsequent albums on Strata-East featured his q..

2019. Drummer, composer and poet William Hooker has been a tireless force in free improvised music for over 40 years. He emerged from New York's loft jazz scene in the mid-'70s, part of a generation of artists fuele..

2013. Maaike den Dunnen - Arrival Here’s a great jazz singer, born in but too big for the Netherlands! - Fay Claassen – internationally acclaimed and awarded jazz singer, Cologne – December 2012 I truly believe t..

1975. 'Pincus and The Pig: A Klezmer Tale' Based on Serge Prokofiev's 'Peter and the Wolf' Story written and narrated by Maurice Sendak Music arranged and performed by Shirim Klezmer Orchestra Winner of 2005 Parent..

2020. 'African Rhythms 1970-1982' is a comprehensive 2CD compilation of Oneness Of Juju, led by Plunky J. Branch. Tracing their career from the band's earliest work in 1970 with South African exiled jazzman Ndikho X..

2020. 'African Rhythms 1970-1982' is a comprehensive 3LP compilation of Oneness Of Juju, led by Plunky J. Branch. Tracing their career from the band's earliest work in 1970 with South African exiled jazzman Ndikho X..

2020. Although James Chances Contortions had already appeared on Brian Enos legendary No New York compilation in 1978, Buy was the groups first full-length LP. An angular and brilliant mix of free jazz and post-punk..

2021. The debut album from the London Experimental Jazz Quartet, 'Invisible Roots' from 1974, is an overlooked jewel from the Canadian jazz scene. Inspired by the revolutionary artists from the New York free-jazz mo..

2021. On May 22, 1972, the downtown NYC jazz saxophonist played live on the air at Columbia University's radio station WKCR, as a duo with pianist Cooper-Moore (then Gene Ashton). The musicians played an intense 18-..

2017. When I met Pavel in 2011 to find out more about his own live trio project, I was intrigued not only by the project‘s compositions, instrumentation and personnel, but also by the unorthodox way it was recorded ..

1991. - Quand Jimmy Dit (7:33) ,Une Dernière Semaine À New York (3:42) ,Les Hommes Qui Passant (4:55) ,Bessie (4:46) ,Mademoiselle Chante Le Blues (7:58) ,Kennedy Rose (3:39) ,Summertime..

2016. Great reviews coming in: http://www.examiner.com/review/ananda-blends-jazz-textures-and-world-beat-rhythms http://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/p10158.htm http://midwestrecord.com/MWR884.html http://www.musiczoom..

2008. John M. Peters, Music Watch #11 (Great Britain) Moods is a superb album and a showcase for non-American jazz, and is rapidly becoming one of my albums of the year...... ......One seldom equates Austria with ha..

1989. Schalk proves himself as a composer, forgoes covers and widens quite simply the choice of modern standards as demonstrated on his second recording “The Second Third Man” featuring eleven-time Grammy-winner Mic..

2001. This new recording by internationally acclaimed improvisational music artists pianist Joel Futterman, drummer Alvin Fielder, and reed player Ike Levin represents the first time these three veteran musicans hav..

2001. Steve Dalachinsky and Federico Ughi are based in New York and involved with the creative music scene. The Artists: Steve Dalachinsky is a legendary New York downtown poet, very active in the free jazz/..

2006. BIO When trying to describe Clogs' music to other folks, it might be better to forgo any genre distinctions and head straight for the thesaurus so you can find fresh and exciting ways to say 'sublime.'-Pitchf..

2004. 'Schuller is a drummer who starts at the boundaries and then extends them. He can take the music through difficult and surprising changes with astonishing economy.' - All About Jazz 'Schuller's cha..

2017.  Newly remastered and repackaged as of january 2004! album description: a ride through the great plains landscape of julie's stone cupid soul, evoking the influences of joni mitchell, aretha franklin..

2017. About Shawn... Shawn Ryan is quickly becoming one of the brightest stars in the jazz cabaret world having what the Beverly Hills Outlook calls 'that charm that is rare!'. After winning the '2000 Bay Area Cab..

2011. Since the release of his trio CD “You break it – you own it” (2008), the audience and critics have discovered a “new” Andy Manndorff. “A paradigm change in the Manndorffian oeuvre” was stated: he wraps “his or..

2017. With the March 12, 2013 release of The Soundtrack Of Things To Come (Changu Records CR002), Jaleel Shaw premieres 10 compositions inspired by works of art and recent life experiences both sad and joyous with a..

2013. Ephemerality and the endlessness of time are the central motives of Maria Christina's debut album The Timeless In You. She has set primarily her own thoughts on these themes to music, as well as texts from Kha..

2017. Recorded at the famed Carnegie Hall in New York City on Friday, February 22, 1963, this LP is simply one of the great live jazz albums of the 1960s. A date that showcases the finest elements of the storied Bru..

1969. Ska bandleader Carlos Malcolm was an underappreciated figure of the music's early days, and also made some recordings in New York in a more Americanized vein. A native of Kingston, Malcolm received for..

2022. History has proven that the recording industry allows more than one artist or band with the same name, and the least successful isn't always the less talented. Take the case of British Nirvana and American psy..

1967. Genre -bending, -skipping and -skirting, vocalist/composer Theo Bleckmann has been a steady force in the New York downtown music scene for over a decade. Recognized for his concert- and vocal/visual-work, Blec..

2022. In a melting pot of modern minimalism and Nordic jazz tradition, and with an intensity that draws threads to the jazz scene of New York, Little North has what it takes to add the next exciting chapter to th..

2014. Impossible to find jazz/soul/funk monster by Fusion, issued in Chile in 1975 by ALBA. This is a fulsome combination of funk, electric jazz, and soul, with Latin roots. Bassist Enrique Luna had lived and studie..

2013. Jon Hamar is a versatile artist who’s ability to find a tasteful, unique voice in any musical situation has made him a staple in the Northwest music scene. Hamar’s friendly nature, sense of humor and work eth..

2006. With his colourful band the well-respected guitarist/composer leads us in a peculiar world of modern New Orleans grooves: In several of his projects of the last decades, guitarist Rens Newland showed his go..

2009. The Blues Project was one of the most innovative and influential bands of the 1960s. Rising from the vibrant Greenwich Village music scene, the New York quintet created a visionary fusion of electric blues, fo..

2008. 'The first time I heard Santana's Abraxas Album on my best friend's stereo I knew what I wanted to do with my life'. Mark is a professional Musician From Tampa Florida. He has been honing his craft playing ..

2010. 'Perpetual' shows a different side to Gideon Van Gelder, the pianist we already know from tracks like 'Touch' on Brownswood's soul jazz conjurer Jos James' LP 'Black Magic', and championed by the likes of G..

2012. Music is everywhere in New Orleans; it's the lifeblood of the city and the people. This Rough Guide gives you a real taste of the whole New Orleans scene. Soak up the classic piano jazz of Professor Longhair, ..

2007. Leon Thomas became a star on the back of his original cut of The Creator Had A Master Plan recorded with Pharaoh Sanders. This success was consolidated with four studio albums and several live sessions recorde..

1987.  Afenginn with their ten years, five full lenght albums, numerous grants and awards and around 500 high octane shows worldwide, afenginn is one of the heavy players in the european field of c..

2013. Part of the Flying Dutchman Jazz Classics series, delivering classic and rare albums from this important label. All feature the original artwork and new sleeve notes and are taken from original source tapes wi..

2013. Lisa Hilton Feb 2013 'Getaway' is about finding 'freedom' in our busy, technology filled lives - whether that is to physically get up and move, or to refresh our lives through art, music, nature or with friend..