Frank Gratkowski - Quartet - Facio
With his second release for Leo Records, Frank Gratkowski forms a synthesis of composition and improvisation in which all the instruments/players contribute equ..(read more)
Label: Leo Records / CD LR 398
Artist: Frank Gratkowski - Quartet
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Improvisation, Modern Jazz.
Frederic Rzewski - Nonsequiturs – Thoughts, Writings & Lectures on Improvisation, Composition and Interpretation
To anyone interested in the history of improvisation within contemporary music, the avantgarde pianist/composer Rzewski is a central figure. Earle Brown comes c..(read more)
Publisher: MusikTexte / ISBN: 9783980315185
Author: Frederic Rzewski
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers, Improvisation, Piano.
Julie Mittens - Recorded 23/24072011
Billed as their most ‘hi-fi’ release to date the sound on
this privately pressed LP is truly fantastic and their playing gains
much succour from the new lev..(read more)
Label: Own
Artist: Julie Mittens
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Rock, Hardcore Jazz, Improvisation, Vinyl.
Barry Guy - Portrait
Great overviews of the impressive British bassist Barry Guy, presenting tracks from the major organizations he’s been part of and the artists he’s c..(read more)
Label: Intakt / 123
Artist: Barry Guy
Medium: CD + Book
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Improvisation, Jazz.
Maybe Monday - Unsquare
What a group: Fred Frith (electric guitar), Miya Masaoka (25 string koto), Larry Ochs (saxes) and how about their special guests! Notes by the label:”Th..(read more)
Label: Intakt / 132
Artist: Maybe Monday
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Rock, Electro-Acoustic, Improvisation, Strings.
Vanita & Joe Monk - Improvised Explosive Devices
Monastery: a peaceful retreat where these two people indeed work like monks and every now and then launch the fruits of their efforts into the wild world. It ma..(read more)
Label: Monastery / MONXCD001
Artist: Vanita & Joe Monk
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Experimental, Free Jazz, Improvisation.
Peter Zummo - Zummo with an X
Nice album with recordings from the 1980s, with contemplative pieces of various tone-colour… Percussion (tabla, marimba), cello and voice (Arthur Russell!..(read more)
Label: New World Records / 80656-2
Artist: Peter Zummo
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: '80s, Atmospheric, Cello, Improvisation, Percussion, Trombone.
Antoine Chessex - Terra Incognita
Terra Incognita is a documentation of recent live stuff recorded in Berlin and in Asia. 2 sax / electronics blasts, capturing as much as possible of antoine’s..(read more)
Label: Absurd / absurd #77
Artist: Antoine Chessex
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Electronic, Improvisation, Vinyl.
De Zes Winden / The Six Winds - Number 6
Live recordings made during a tour in spring 1999, by one of the best saxophone ensembles in Dutch improvised music: Ad Peijnenburg (baritone sax), Klaas Hekman..(read more)
Label: BVHaast / 9904
Artist: De Zes Winden / The Six Winds
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Improvisation, Jazz.
