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ADAM ROGERS - Sight (2008)
Adam Rogers is one of many top-drawer American jazz guitarists who has had more opportunities to record for European labels, with this being his fifth release for the Dutch label Criss Cross. With...
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JOE MORRIS QUARTET - A Cloud Of Black Birds (1998)
Violinist Mat Maneri, bassist Chris Lightcap, and drummer Jerome Deupree join the adventurous Joe Morris on these seven tracks. The music is intense and challenging, but it has a certain airiness --...
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AIRTO - Free (1972)
Other than a couple of obscure efforts for Buddah in 1970, this was percussionist Airto's debut as a leader, and this is still his most famous record. A brass section arranged by Don Sebesky is heard...
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AIRTO - Fingers (1973)
The 1970s were banner years for Airto Moreira -- not only because of his association with Chick Corea's Return to Forever and his work on wife Flora Purim's Milestone dates, but also, because of the...
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CHARLES BRACKEEN - Rhythm X·The Music of Charles Brackeen (1968)
On this record, the little-known Charles Brackeen brings his saxophone to a party with most of Ornette Coleman's band. As might be expected, while Brackeen certainly holds his own, it's Ornette's boys...
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MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS - Vision Towards Essence (2007)
Vision Toward Essence is a solo concert by pianist/composer/improviser Muhal Richard Abrams. It was recorded at the Guelph Jazz Festival in Canada on September 11, 1998. The performance is made up of...
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MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS - Mamma and Daddy (1980)
This was a first-rate big band/large group session from 1980, with Muhal Richard Abrams' compositions being played by a masterful ensemble which included French horn and tuba in its instrumental mix....
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ALDO ROMANO·LOUIS SCLAVIS·HENRI TEXIER - Carnet de Routes (2000)
This recording from the West African tours of the Romano/Sclavis/Texier trio in the early '90s is one in a series of three. That this band played in Africa and was documented by photographer Guy...
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POLAR BEAR - Held On The Tips Of Fingers (2005)
The second album from Sebastian Rochford's group of young London anarcho-punk-groove-electronica-free improv upsetters is an even more thrilling and momentous affair than its predecessor, last year's...
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BUSTER WILLIAMS - Something More (1989)
This late eighties classic session on the German label In & Out (who also brought us the great and largely unheard band Roots) features Herbie Hancock (piano and keyboards), Wayne Shorter (soprano...
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BUSTER WILLIAMS - Griot Liberte (2004)
Bassist Buster Williams and his quartet perform six of his originals plus two standards on Griot Libertè. Williams' songs range from the modal "Nomads" and the medium-tempo blues "Related to One"...
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BUSTER WILLIAMS QUARTET -Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival 1999
Tracks1. Tokudo (Buster Williams)2. The More I See You (Harry Warren)3. Announcement4. You And The Night And The Music (Arthur Schwartz)5. Christine (Buster Williams)6. Rhythm-a-ning (Thelonious...
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JAKOB BRO·THOMAS KNAK - Bro/Knak (2012)
Following three consistently fine recordings as a leader—2009's The Stars Are All New Songs Vol. 1, 2010's Balladeering and 2011's Time (all on the Danish guitarist's own Loveland imprint)—in addition...
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JOE MORRIS·BARRE PHILLIPS - Elm City Duets 2006
Sometimes they intertwine and entwine in an almost suffocating embrace, other times they seem to ignore each other following apparently distant trajectories, sometimes they seem to clog up all the...
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JOE MORRIS BASS QUARTET - High Definition (2007)
There is a big difference between Joe Morris the bassist and Joe Morris the guitar player. The former is a rhythmic and lyrical player, the latter is more abstract user of his own parlando style : the...
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JOE MORRIS·WILLIAM PARKER·GERALD CLEAVER - Altitude (2012)
Guitarist Joe Morris is on a roll. Hardly a month goes by without a new release featuring the Boston-based musician. Of course, he doubled his chances by adding acoustic bass to his armory alongside...
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BUTCH MORRIS - Dust to Dust (1991)
Lawrence "Butch" Morris' conduction technique, a form of directed improvisation whereby musicians follow a variety of live hand signals by the conductor to shape and reshape both notated and...
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ELTON DEAN·PAUL DUNMALL·TONY LEVIN·PAUL ROGERS·ROSWELL RUDD·KEITH TIPPETT -...
Dunmall, Levin, Rogers and Tippett perform and record on a regular basis as the Mujician quartet, and the addition of Elton Dean on saxes and Roswell Rudd on trombone adds some weight to the quartet...
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KENNY BARRON & BUSTER WILLIAMS - Two as One (1986)
Kenny Barron is joined by Buster Williams for this live set from the 1986 Umbria Jazz Festival. Since the two had worked together on a number of recording sessions previously, they were very familiar...
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KENNY BARRON - At the Piano (1981)
Up until the original release of At the Piano in 1982, Kenny Barron had yet to record an entire album of solo piano pieces. Although this would not to be his last in this context, it would be his most...
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