Avant-Garde Jazz

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    Bizita Q
     
    First Impression
    Bizita Q's second album serves an uncompromising and intensive journey into dark but always so beautiful soundscapes. It combines trash jazz, dark ambient, b-class horror movie soundtracks and much more in a rough and original way.
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    Daniel Bennett Group
     
    Live at the Theatre
    Innovative saxophone melodies that blend jazz, folk, and minimalism.
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    Otzir Godot
     
    KAS KAS
    KAS KAS is made of acoustic solo and duo works 2007-2008 w/ Iikka Kahri saxophones and Robin DeWan (didgeridoo).
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    Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core
     
    Stone Shift
    As serious as your life; music in the spirit - if not the form - of late sixties Archie Shepp, Coltrane, '70's Steve Lacy bands, but with a definite sense of current trends in improvised music. Incredible contributions from the 4 other musicians.
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    The Chris Welcome Quartet
     
    Refrain
    “Refrain” features eight new compositions by Welcome. The music is equally influenced by the forward-looking jazz of the 1960’s, 20th century composers such as Webern and Feldman, and the ceremonial music of Tibet and Japan.
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    Bik Bent Braam
     
    Bik Bent Braam goes Bonsai
    Recorded live in 2004 at Bimhuis Amsterdam and De Werf Brugge. Bik Bent Braam performs without a setlist - musicians all provide input, calling out tunes in mid-phrase an deciding tempo and instrumentation on the spot
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    Chris Chalfant & Dennis Warren
     
    New'd Music
    Spontaneous eruptions and intersections of explosive avant-jazz free improvisation at its finest.
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    Duck Baker
     
    Everything That Rises Mut Converge
    Free jazz solos by a master fingerstyle guitarist.
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    Duck Baker
     
    The Ducks Palace
    Master fingerstyle guitarist Duck Baker meets some of the greats of free jazz and free improvised music in a series of lvie a impromptu duos and trios, featuring Derek Bailey, John Zorn, and Roswell Rudd.
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    Brian Groder
     
    Groder & Greene
    Capturing the sudden sparks and discoveries that come from artists attuned to one another, a free jazz project that offers 9 tunes to challenge and delight any jazz fan.
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    Marek Dykta & John Abercrombie
    Cradle of Light
    "...a brilliant collection of luminous, warm-toned improvisations" Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times
    Bill Milkowski’s Review of “Cradle of Light” for Jazz Times "This enchanting duet project features Polish-born guitarist-composer (and Berklee grad) Marek Dykta engaging in some intimate guitar dialogues with his friend and mentor John Abercrombie.  Between four delicate waltzes, including Dykta's affecting "2642", the playfully dissonant " How They Dance" and the lovely "Ten Nights" along with Dykta's gorgeous " The Day that wouldn't End" and Abercrombie's introspective  "Foolish Door", this is a brilliant collection of luminous, warm-toned improvisations". This recording is the high point of the most fulfilling collaboration I have ever been a part of. We have played this music on and off for some two years before it was ready to be recorded. Now, it’s ready to shine with the new light. There is nothing that shows interaction in a musical duo more perfectly than a dance and that’s why you will find four waltzes on this record. The songs written for this project were inspired by people and events that had an impact on my life, but the four waltzes we have recorded are all about women. “Foolish Door” is John's composition that has never before appeared on a CD. “Waltz for Agnes” is dedicated to a friend who I thought was protecting me when on my way to the recording session with John I miraculously avoided a car accident. Sadly she wasn’t as lucky when she herself was in a car accident about two years ago. “2642” has been written some time ago for a person close to my heart and is still one of my favorite songs. “How They Dance” is for my goddaughter Karolina and her sister Klaudyna, who took after their mother and used to make believe that their house was a Hollywood movie set. Some of the wide interval leaps I used writing the melody of this song might help you imagine how they danced. Believe me, it didn’t look like a waltz. “Ten Nights” is a song simply inspired by about ten nights. Note the rising motif in the second section of the head. I have written “The Day That Wouldn't End” around June 22, years ago while waiting for that important phone call. The benign melody paired with a non-harmonic chord at the beginning of this song is my take on expressing the eternal conflict between the sexes. “Freeway Ballet” is about my dance for a cop who stopped me for speeding. I did manage to walk straight in line and stand still on one foot while counting to thirty (some of you might be familiar with the procedure) but that dance on the freeway made me think twice about running away from my problems after a couple of cold ones. “The Song for My Father” is a tune that I am sure all of us wrote at some point in one way or another. As for me, I remember how much my father loved to play music even though his scrappy style was hard to stomach. I played a gig with my band the day after he passed away. It was a gig for my friends in my hometown, and I was not sure whether it was appropriate, but while we played, I thought I saw him on the balcony listening. Since I wrote most of the songs we recorded, I thought I’d tell you what inspired me. What inspired me most while recording this music however, was John’s incomparable musicality. For me he is the light that makes these stories possible to be read.
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    Charles Evans
    The King of All Instruments
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    Iron Kim Style
    Iron Kim Style
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    George Garzone
    The Music of George Garzone and the Triadic Chromatic Approach
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    Ameranouche!!!
    Homage A` Manouche
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      Top Songs

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      Vida sen Pipa
      Sumrrá
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      Sleepwalker
      Brian Groder
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      Lítel
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      Surmised Wink
      Brian Groder
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      Hey Pithy, Can You Thropt the Erectus?
      Brian Groder
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      Cryptic Means
      Brian Groder
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      Amulet
      Brian Groder
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      Only The Now
      Brian Groder
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      Landfall
      Brian Groder
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