482 Music
482 Music: the best contemporary jazz, world and improv
482 Music is a label dedicated to jazz and improvised music from around the world. Featured are both internationally-known artists as well as those from the exciting Chicago improv underground scene.
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MIKE REED'S LOOSE ASSEMBLY: Last Year's Ghost
...merges the austere reverence of chamber music with the scalding intensity of Chicago's historically ebullient free jazz...
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TAYLOR HO BYNUM & TOMAS FUJIWARA: True Events
Longtime collaborators in a program of duets
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
THE REMPIS PERCUSSION QUARTET: Hunter-Gatherers
A 2 cd set of soaring improv recorded live in Columbia, SC
Recommended if you like Ken Vandermark.CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
GREG BURK: Ivy Trio
Burk's third release on 482 and the one he calls "the most complete expression of my ideas with regards to composition and group conception to date".
Recommended if you like Paul Bley.CD price: $13.50
MIKE REED: In the Context Of
Improvised duets with Jeff Parker, Nicole Mitchell and Jim Baker
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
FIRE OF SPACE: Handbasket
Avant-garde out of traditional musics: jazz, Afrobeat, eastern dance and classical
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
CONFERENCE CALL: Live at the Outpost
"Conference Call is making some amazing music under everybody's radar." Cadence Magazine
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
THE REMPIS PERCUSSSION QUARTET: Rip Tear Crunch
"...this might be the best new jazz band in town." - Chicago Reader
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
GREG BURK: The Way In
Solo piano. Real nice. Ranging from short prepared-piano pieces to gorgeous ballads.
Recommended if you like Paul Bley.CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
HERCULANEUM: Orange Blossom
Herculaneum mixes creative improvisation with diverse influences such as 20th Century avant-garde composition and Romany Gypsy brass bands to create a cohesive yet cosmopolitan new sound.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MODO TRIO WITH JAMIE SAFT: The Uninvited
Inspired by the aural landscapes of rave culture, but grounded in the traditions of jazz
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
KYLE BRUCKMANN'S WRACK: Intents & Purposes
"From Morton Feldman-esque minimalism to Charles Ives-like bluster, Wrack has few equals." - All About Jazz
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
FONDA / STEVENS GROUP: Forever Real
Straddling the line between post-bob and free, one of Jazz/improvised music's most accomplished ensembles.
Recommended if you like Keith Jarrett, Brad Mehldau.CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
NATTO QUARTET: Thousand Oaks
Thousand Oaks further documents the Natto Quartet's singular approach to finding common ground for collective improvisation with instruments from otherwise disparate eras, cultures and musical genres
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
ANTHONY BRAXTON / MATT BAUDER: 2 + 2 Compositions
Bauder's works are based on various classes of sound and the inspiration of Braxton and John Cage respectively, and Braxton's pieces come from his new Falling River Musics series, which in his words, "seeks to explore image logic construct 'paintings'
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
GREG BURK TRIO: Nothing, Knowing
Featuring the renowned rhythm section team of electric bassist Steve Swallow and drummer/percussionist Bob Moses. The Rome-based pianist/composer's 482 Music debut.
Recommended if you like Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley.CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
HARRIS EISENSTADT: The Soul and Gone
A variety of complex compositions filled with contrapuntal devices, dense harmonies, and crosscutting lines.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ARAM SHELTON: Arrive
"Its tightly arranged, emotionally muted originals have a lovely chamber-jazz feel, with musicians combining to repeat unison phrases and carve out spaces for solos; the pieces are elaborate yet never sound fussed over."-Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader
Recommended if you like Ornette Coleman.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TAYLOR HO BYNUM: Other Stories
"The best album of the year." - All About Jazz
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
TOM ABBS & FREQUENCY RESPONSE: The Animated Adventures of Knox
A combination of avant-jazz and avant-cinema by New York-based multi-instrumentalist and filmmaker Tom Abbs
CD price: $15.50
THE EXCITING TRIO: In Chicago There is Willy
Document Chicago #6: In Windy City fashion, The Exciting Trio blur the lines between jazz-improv and indie rock.
Recommended if you like Tortoise.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CONFERENCE CALL: Spirals: The Berlin Concert
This group's m.o. focuses on original compositions written by all group members that democratically emphasize their collective strengths.
Recommended if you like Matt Wilson.CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
DAVE REMPIS QUARTET: Out of Season
A sound-oriented approach to creating longform free improvisations.
Recommended if you like Art Ensemble.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
GEORGE SCHULLER: Jigsaw
A focused, inclusive framework for creative improvisation with eight original compositions for configurations ranging from quintet to septet.
Recommended if you like Miles Davis.CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
KYLE BRUCKMANN: gasps & fissures
An improviser's response to the paradoxes and absurdities of recording improvised music.
Recommended if you like Butcher.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SCOTT FIELDS ENSEMBLE: christangelfox
This latest incarnation of the eclectic multi-instrumentalist/composer's continually evolving signature group features Fields, and frequent collaborators Guillermo Gregorio (clarinet) and Matt Turner (cello), in a nuanced trio performance.
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
FRANCOIS CARRIER TRIO: Play
Known for using composition as a guidepost rather than a predetermined path, the François Carrier Trio features three of Canada's most respected improvisers.
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
VINKELOE / CREMASCHI / MASAOKA / ROBAIR: Klang. Farbe. Melodie.
Vinkeloe, Cremaschi, Masaoka and Robair jointly cultivate ground that's freshly turned every two to five-and-a-half minutes
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
VARIOUS: DOCUMENT CHICAGO: New Jazz and Improvisation
"...a refreshing and essential listen for anyone interested in a sound that could only come from one city." - All About Jazz. An inside look at Chicago's famous underground new jazz scene.
Recommended if you like Holm.CD price: $11.97
GREY GHOST: How to Create Words
Aram Shelton plays alto saxophone while simultaneously using the powerbook for both real time sampling and live processing. Johnathan Crawford plays percussion and Kawai SX-240 synthesizer. The results can be startling.
Recommended if you like Radiohead.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JOELLE LEANDRE / MARK NAUSEEF: Evident
..beautifully improvised contrabass and percusson
CD price: $13.99
NATTO QUARTET: Headlands
Improvisations that blend traditional Japanese instruments and textures with electronics and modern classical forms- chilling, mysterious and absolutely compelling.
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
MATT BAUDER: Weary Already of the Way
Examines cross-currents in improvisation, composition and electronic studio manipulation. The pieces were first created in live performance, and then for this recording constructed through layering and extensive editing.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE SPACE BETWEEN WITH JOELLE LEANDRE: The Space Between with Joelle Leandre
A wildly original brew of free jazz and world fusion for tickling ear drums everywhere.
CD price: $14.99
THE SPACE BETWEEN WITH MATTHEW SPERRY: The Space Between with Matthew Sperry
One of the more inventive collectives in improvisational music, classical experimentalism and world fusion. Striking avant garde pieces that stretch the imagination as well as the ear.
Recommended if you like John Cage & Lou Harrison.CD price: $12.99
JASON ROEBKE: Rapid Croche
Roebke's bassist-as-leader approach and eclectic compositions, which can feature anything from textural free improvisation to ballad forms to underlying grooves, allow the group to take the familiar saxophone trio instrumentation to new and exciting place
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MICHEL LAMBERT: Out Twice
A collection of 11 spontaneously improvised pieces using Lambert drawings as graphic scores, each seeking to combine visual and musical expression into a single, cohesive language.
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
THE TREEHOUSE PROJECT: The Picture Show
Some of Chicago's finest indie and jazz musicians create a thoroughly unique blend of jazz ideology, indie rock attitude and roots music flavor.
CD price: $24.99
BUTCHER / MASAOKA / ROBAIR: Guerrilla Mosaics
Working in a format without established precedent, this trio of all-star free improvisers creates a unique sonic environment that challenges the traditional roles and sounds of their instruments.
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
STICKS AND STONES: Sticks and Stones
Sticks and Stones is Chad Taylor (Chicago Undergound Duo), Josh Abrams (Town and Country) and Matana Roberts (AACM)
Recommended if you like Coleman.CD price: $12.97
COURAGE WITH ROBERT CREELEY: The Way Out is Via the Door
Courage is Chris Massey, Steve Swallow and John Mills ..a beautifully realized recording of intimate, creative jazz conversation.
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
THE SPACE BETWEEN WITH BARRE PHILLIPS: The Space Between with Barre Phillips
..open spaced free improv with unusual instrumentation..the Space between is Pauline Oliveros, Philip Gelb and Dana Reason
CD price: $14.99