Top Albums - Experimental Big Band

Thomas Barber's Janus Bloc: Snow Road

Complex yet melodic large ensemble music that draws influence from the early days of jazz to the present.

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Marco Minnemann: The Green Mindbomb

A complex, experimental mix of jazz and rock.

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New Orleans Nightcrawlers: Slither Slice

Fans have been waiting a decade for this latest studio album from one of New Orleans' most progressive, intelligent, and funky brass bands - the New Orleans Nightcrawlers.

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Gato Loco: Coconino

A 12-piece modernist mambo machine, with big, brash and exciting arrangements from the heart of New York City.

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The Floating Opera Orchestra: Rosemary Elephant

Plenty of vaudeville dreams and notions of carnivals passing through small Eastern European towns while second-lining innuendos tend to lead all the visiting French women dancing.

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Anthony Braxton & the AIMToronto Orchestra: Creative Orchestra (Guelph) 2007

Free Improvisation.

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Jon English: Music for Film

A sampling of Jon English's music for the films of Jon Jost performed by the Bay Area Jazz Composers Orchestra.

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Golden Arm Trio: The Tick-Tock Club

Schizophrenic instrumental rock, jazz, experimental, classical, melodic, soundscape, swing, soundtrack for an imaginary film.

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Sola & Friends: Sola & Friends--live recording from the 1999 Beijing International Jazz Festival

Radical, experimental fusion of Chinese with Western rock music, with improvisational vocalizing and anomalous integration of the dissonant with the mainstream for an unforgettable signature sound.

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