New Arrivals - Free Jazz

Matthew Goodheart: Six

Selections from six years of live solo piano performance, spanning the US, Canada, and Europe, demonstrating an evolution and maturing of style.

Recommended if you like Cecil Taylor, Charlemagne Palestine, Morton Feldman.
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Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord: Accomplish Jazz

On their third album, Big Five Chord walk a delicate line between structural adherence and free improvisation, infusing their music with intense, virtuosic, and remarkably grounded improvisation. "JL&BVC = hardbop + Zeppeliin + Schoenberg" - Dave Madden

Recommended if you like Derek Bailey, Marc Ducret, Nels Cline.
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Christopher Lake: Alora Begora

Inspired by someone just starting out in the creative world of music, learning to use her first school saxophone

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The Chris Kelsey 4: Not Cool ( ... as in, "The Opposite of Paul Desmond")

An unholy convergence of free jazz, country blues, bebop, punk rock, and the Second Viennese School … The Chris Kelsey 4 defy convention, flip tradition the Bird and create music that's bullish on the future.

Recommended if you like Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman.
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Kelly Rossum: Conflict!

FREE JAZZ Trumpet & Drums Duo

Recommended if you like Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell.
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Tom Hall: Session III

Freely improvised music by Tom Hall; saxes, Marty Ballou; bass and Jeff Galindo; trombone.

Recommended if you like Art Ensemble of Chicago, Henry Threadgill, Sun Ra.
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Matt Weston: Seasick Blackout

Weston's last album, "not to be taken away," was described by Foxy Digitalis as "getting under one's skin and scraping at bone and sinew, making the listener wince in pain." "Seasick Blackout" is an even more sinister realization of that approach.

Recommended if you like Bill Dixon, Merzbow, Sun Ra.
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Pete Minns: ...On Holiday

Colliding worlds of sound give rise to a hybrid form: Laptopiary - imbued with old-fashioned English whimsy and cutting-edge improvisation.

Recommended if you like Anton Webern, Arve Henrickson, Pharoah Sanders.
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Bobby Bradford, Tom Heasley & Ken Rosser: Varistar

Superb "chamber jazz" trio improvisations recorded live in the studio in 1999. "Haunting, poignant, shimmering, hypnotic, elegant, sublime, perfectly balanced solos that seem to float in space or on the water."

Recommended if you like Jan Garbarek, John Surman, Ornette Coleman.
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