Top Albums - Structured Improvisation

Anders Nilsson's AORTA Ensemble: Anders Nilsson's AORTA Ensemble

AORTA (Malmö, Sweden) meets FULMINATE TRIO (Brooklyn, New York)! This 7-piece Ensemble plays music that transgresses the illusionary border between conventional ensemble playing and free form expression.

Recommended if you like free form, horror film soundtrack, uncategorizable content.
  • Buy CD - $12.97
  • Download Album (MP3) - $9.99
 
Michael Musillami: From Seeds

This newly formed sextet performs six new, original compositions Musillami conceived specifically for this ensemble. "Composing and arranging all new music for a cohesive group that combines vibes, trumpet, and alto with a guitar trio meant taking things

Recommended if you like Eric Dolphy, Jim Hall, John Abercrombie.
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  • Buy CD - $14.95
 
Colyn Fischer & Shauna Pickett-Gordon: Nocturne

An alchemical experiment starting with some good, strong Scottish music mixed together with free Jazz, a little impressionism, and brought to a rolling boil with intrepid spontaneity. Shake well, and voila: Nocturne.

Recommended if you like Alasdair Fraser, Jon Coltrane, Laura Risk.
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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.

Recommended if you like '60s Archie Shepp, early '70s Steve LACY, Sun Ra.
  • Buy CD - $16.00
 
Clang Sayne: Winterlands

Unique and vibrant songs - strangely shambolic and sophisticated in equal measures; sometimes sharp and driving, sometimes dreamy, but all possessing a playful sense of imagination and delivered with an intensely visceral energy.

Recommended if you like Captain Beefheart, Tim Buckley's "Star Sailor".
  • Download Album (MP3) - $10.00
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Anomalous Disturbances: Inside

A heady mix of deep chiiled soundforms and drums: Improvised looping ambient Ebow guitar, guitar synths, flutes, atmospherics with acoustic and electronic percussion

Recommended if you like Eno, Fripp, Michael Brook.
  • Buy CD - $12.00
  • Download Album (MP3) - $7.92
 
Talujon Percussion Quartet: Hum

Contemporary Classically influenced, world considerate, innovative percussion music.

Recommended if you like Bang on a Can All-Stars, River Guerguerian, Steve Reich.
  • Buy CD - $10.00
  • Download Album (MP3) - $8.90
 
Yoon Sun Choi and Jacob Sacks: Imagination

This avant garde duo pays homage to Joe Raposo, the influential yet under-appreciated artist, using his compositions as starting points for a series of experiments in texture, form and improvisation.

Recommended if you like Jeanne Lee, Ran Blake.
  • Buy CD - $15.00
 
Roger Powell: Blue Note Ridge

Solo piano improvisations that embrace classical melody, harmony and rhythm. A stream of consciousness merging styles and eras: pure, elegant and honest.

Recommended if you like Roger Powell.
  • Download Album (MP3) - $15.98
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