Flying Note Records proudly presents AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE, a recording of three musicians with superlative and fascinating careers. The musical lineage of multi-instrumentist and composer Kali. Z. stems from her musician grandparents hosting sessions with the Gershwin brothers and Kali's college and graduate studies of world music and jazz. Her musical trajectory then flows through her marriage and musical partnership with the great multi-instrumentist and composer Don Rafael Garrett (he recorded 4 albums with John Coltrane), and decades of living in 16 countries, leading ensembles of wonderful musicians, recording some 18 albums of her world jazz, and performing on more than a dozen instruments. William Parker's career as first-call avant-garde contrabassist has expanded in recent years to include conducting, leading and composing for both small and large ensembles, writing poetry and prose, and augmenting his instrumental arsenal. Cindy Blackman's multi-genre drumming displays b

Recorded LIVE in Harlem and in Switzerland, this exciting music shines with abundant energy and momentum flowing in sleek waves of sound; splendid and soulful playing by Kali. Z with Louis Moholo, Bobby Few, Steve McCraven and Wayne Dockery.

In Kali's creative world jazz, her musical imagination and intensity on 9 instruments are beautifully matched with the profound emotional range and dynamism of New Orleans tenor legend, Kidd Jordan.

This is humanist avant-garde jazz with warmth, soul, and deep feeling, using acoustic instruments: saxophones, piano, cello, bamboo flutes, drums and the cosmic bowed aquasonic.

MAKING WAVES, illuminated by the tremendous creativity of these legendary pioneers of free jazz, offers entirely original works ranging from the cosmic and sublime to earthy and wild.

World jazz: free jazz enriched with African and Asian sonorities and rhythms.