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A Trio Music To Our Ears cd cd 2011/2010 new Beirut-based trio of trumpet, bass & acoustic guitar, but they mostly sound like helicopters trying to break out of a cage, or doves having an ugly argument. Lots of threatening...	Al Maslakh	$16.00 Add:
Alan Wilkinson/John Edwards/Steve Noble Live at Cafe Oto cd cd 2009/2008 new High energy saws, skronks, & bumper car rides from this UK trio. Wilkinson's alto/baritone honking is definitely inspired by Brotzmann, but he darts & flits fast to keep things from...	Bo Weavil	$16.00 Add:
Albert Ayler Live in Saint Paul de Vence 27th July 1970 lp lp 2011/1970 new Aka 'Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol. 2'. Last concert, and throughout the 70s & 80s it was reviled because of the involvement of singer Mary Maria Parks. She's kinda the avant...	B13	$26.00 Add:
Albert Ayler Live in Saint Paul de Vence France July 25 1970 lp lp 2011/1970 new Aka 'Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Vol. 1'. Always looking for the most universal music in every sense of the word, Ayler moved away from free jazz in order to search for a style that...	B13	$26.00 Add:
Albert Ayler Spirits lp lp 2011/1964 new 2nd session, and his 1st in NYC after coming home from Copenhagen. Cecil Taylor's rhythm section (Sunny Murray and Henry Grimes) plus a couple of Clevelanders on trumpet & a 2nd...	Klimt	$21.00 Add:
Albert Ayler Spirits Rejoice cd cd 2008/1965 new Albert Ayler is pretty much the Plato of experimental jazz- sometimes it seems like everything else is just a footnote in his story. A rollercoaster of raw energy, tears of sax that...	ESP	$13.00 Add:
Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity cd cd 2005/1964 new The visceral clarion call for the entire world of free jazz, and still one of it's clearest expressions. Ayler's tone is so rough & vibrato so wide that most of the time it sounds...	ESP	$13.00 Add:
Amiri Baraka/Sun Ra & the Myth Science Arkestra A Black Mass cd cd 2010/2000/1968 new Uniquely pissed off kill-whitey play written by the author of 'Blues People' (from which comes most people's ideas about Pat Boone stealing from Fats Domino) and backed by Sun...	Sonboy	$14.00 Add:
AMM Generative Themes cd cd 1994/1982-83 new A circuit is a garden, and AMM grew this solitary & diaphanous blossom, in a landscape arid & alien, when nobody but nobody was walking around thinking the same thing. The classic...	Matchless	$18.00 Add:
AMM/John Butcher Trinity cd cd 2008 new Even after 40 years, AMM is so subtle it makes other improvised records seem like they were put together with jackhammers. Never just a drone, never just chirping, but curling waves of...	Matchless	$18.00 Add:
Andre Vida Brud Vols I-III 3cd 3cd 2012/1995-11 new Free jazz sax guy from Germany/Hungary who was a student of Anthony Braxton's & also a member of the indie rock band the Tower Recordings. All over the place: solo horn that's...	Pan	$22.00 Add:
Andrea Pensado Ktotam cd cd 2011 new Jumpy, harsh collage of abrasive sweeps & distorted grunts made with an interactive digital controller. Andrea's originally from Argentina & has been using unique high-tech systems (that...	Zero Moon	$10.00 Add:
Annette Peacock I'm the One cd cd 2012/1972 new You know how whenever there's a group of friends who all do the same stuff, everybody ends up sleeping with everybody until eventually they all hate each other? Well, when Carla Bley...	Light in the Attic	$14.50 Add:
Archie Shepp Four for Trane lp lp 2012/1964 new Shepp's first for Impulse, considered extremely progressive upon release sheerly for the fact that it took 'Giant Steps' era Trane seriously. With the low key tempos & solos that...	Impulse	$17.00 Add:
Archie Shepp Life at the Donaueschingen Music Festival lp lp 2012/1967 new One of the top few Shepp lps, 2nd only to 'Blase' & 'Magic of Juju'. And one of his furthest out. Rousing & aggressive solos that turn incandescent with surprisingly familiar...	Universal Sound	$17.00 Add:
Archie Shepp Live at the Panafrican Festival lp lp 2011/1969 new Visit Algiers with Clifford Thornton, Grachan Moncur, Dave Burrell, Alan Silva, Sunny Murray, a couple of poets and a slew of unnamed Touareg musicians. The band played in an outdoor...	BYG	$13.50 Add:
Archie Shepp The Magic of Juju lp lp 2012/1967 new Archie Shepp is a person you want to cut a break when he slips from free solos back into a proper head. Partly that's because his tone is practical enough to cut toward bar-walking...	Impulse	$17.00 Add:
Art Ensemble of Chicago A Jackson In Your House lp lp 2011/1969 new I think this is THE Art Ensemble lp, capturing them at the beginning of an extended stay in Paris. You can point to plenty of bands who took their cue from Ayler, John Cage or even...	BYG	$13.50 Add:
Art Ensemble of Chicago Les Stances A Sophie cd cd 2008/1970 new Not as extreme as 'A Jackson In Your House' or 'Reese and the Smooth Ones', but a groovy title with enough little instrument breakouts to keep freaks happy & one that works well for...	Soul Jazz	$18.00 Add:
Awakening Mirage cd cd 2012/1973 new Chicago large ensemble spiritual jazz, with some members who were in the AACM. Almost all instros, with lots of brass, electric organ, & echo to make things smeary for that rainy...	Black Jazz	$12.00 Add:
Azanyah The One cd cd 2012/1987 new Atlanta Coltrane-worshippers who have somehow not figured out that they traveled forward 20 years in a time machine to 1987. They're at their best when they're taking it slow rather...	Jazzman	$16.00 Add:
Bill Dixon 9cd 9cd 2011/1980-1999 new Insanely cheap box that covers later, but still pretty heavy-hitting Dixon titles. There's a 13 year gap between Dixon's 1st solo record and the ensembles he led later (some...	Black Saint/Soul Note	$39.00 Add:
Black Artists Group In Paris Aries 1973 lp lp 2011/1973 new St. Louis free jazz band started by Oliver Lake & Lester Bowie's little brother Joseph. Even though they were working with theater troupes & had landed their own warehouse space as a...	Rank & File	$25.50 Add:
Bobby Hutcherson Now lp lp 2010/1969 new Hutcherson's 4-mallet vibraphone style ushered in new techniques for the instrument, but he was also one of those guys who said "groovy, baby" out loud a lot during the right couple...	Heavenly Sweetness	$29.50 Add:
Bobby Jackson The Cafe Extra Ordinaire Story cd cd 2010/1977/1970 new Bass player Jackson ran a tiny independent jazz club fairly far off the national touring circuit throughout the 70s. He saw his spot as a way to inject jazz into the community...	Jazzman	$16.00 Add:
Borbetomagus A Go Go cd cd 2009/1998 new Some people like a cup of coffee in the morning, and some people would really prefer it if they could just freebase. If that's you, perhaps you should try a little Borbetomagus with...	Agaric	$13.50 Add:
Borbetomagus cd cd 1995/1980 new Borbeto is such an inward curving, beefy, & decibel-defying project that it seems improbable that they came from anywhere, much less that they mostly play acoustic instruments. But...	Agaric	$11.00 Add:
Borbetomagus Experience the Magic cd cd 1993 new Live at CBGBs with all 3 members in one godzilla of an amp. Sound itself seems to buckle under the collective power of Sauter Dietrich & Miller pushing air around. Tracklisting: Bathed in...	Agaric	$13.50 Add:
Borbetomagus Live in Allentown cd cd 2008/1986 new The loudest band of all time. Not just in volume either (although I was deafened enough to endanger my life when I once tried to catch a bus after seeing them play), but in sheer...	Agaric	$13.50 Add:
Borbetomagus Sauter Dietrich Miller cd cd 1990/1982/1979-81 new It's their 3rd, but it's the first one where anybody caught on that the band was focused on ripping an elephant apart rather than playing jazz. Buckling sheets of feedback...	Agaric	$13.50 Add:
Borbetomagus Seven Reasons For Tears cd cd 1993/1987 new When a large enough mass is present in a sufficiently small region of space, all possible vectors are warped inwards towards the center of the volume, preventing all matter and...	Agaric	$13.50 Add:
Borbetomagus Snuff Jazz cd cd 1990/1988 new Their best, hands down. Borbeto's sound, plainly observed, is clearly some sort of subatomic dense neutronium shit. However, the squeals & streaks of treble unique to this recording....	Agaric	$12.00 Add:
Borbetomagus Songs Our Mother Taught Us cd cd 2003/1999 new Dietrich, Sauter & Miller, making every other noise & jazz act you can think of looking like wimpy pussies. And yet, once they've flexed their mighty muscles & pinned you to the...	Agaric	$13.00 Add:
Borbetomagus Trente Belles Annees cd cd 2012/2009 new The worm turns 30! If you've never been to a 7 hour tailgating party (like football towns raise their younguns on), you may not have the endurance necessary for this band. But if you...	Agaric	$11.50 Add:
Borbetomagus/Shaking Ray Levis 10 inch 10 inch 1992 new The mighty worm gets together with longtime improvisors Dennis Palmer & Bob Stagner of Chatanooga TN (electronics & drums, respectively). Playing is a little more of the smash & grab...	Agaric	$8.00 Add:
Byard Lancaster Unit Live at Macalester College cd cd 2008/1972/1970-73 new Loft scene alto sax explorations with a thick wash of Coltrane melancholy & sometimes even a short dip into R&B. Drummer JR Mitchell is a longstanding community presence in...	Porter	$14.50 Add:
Charles Tyler Ensemble cd cd 2009/1966 new Tyler met Albert Ayler when he was 14 years old in Cleveland. He made his 1st appearance on a record with 'Spirits Rejoice', & left NYC because he thought the Ayler band was becoming...	ESP	$12.50 Add:
Christian Wolff/Keith Rowe cd cd 2012/2011 new Here's a little series of concerts that Jon Abbey put on last fall at the Stone in NYC. Both gents played tabletop guitar, and while AMM's Rowe had tons of little boxes & pedals as...	Erstwhile	$13.50 Add:
Cleveland Eaton Plenty Good Eaton cd cd 2013/1975 new Bass player from the Ramsey Lewis Trio, who by the mid-70s, was totally into sub-disco hotel lounge funk. Though it's a jazz ensemble playing, and some of the instruments are...	Black Jazz	$15.00 Add:
Clifford Thornton New Art Ensemble Freedom & Unity cd cd 2008/1969/1967 new Thornton started out as a hard bopper under Donald Byrd & became one of the only free jazz trombonists. He appears on ESP lps led by Marzette Watts & Sunny Murray, as well as...	Atavistic	$13.50 Add:
David Gross GDG cassette cassette 2011 new Dave's been making things happen around Boston for the last 15 years and might do anything from high energy blowouts to quietly rubbing his beard stubble with a sax mouthpiece...	Ydlmier	$5.00 Add:
David Lee Jr. Evolution cd cd 2010/1974 new Subtle, percussion-heavy free jazz from 70s NYC. Lee was from New Orleans & employs parade/funeral march moves here & there, but there are also really unique bells, vibes & tense...	Universal Sound	$17.00 Add:
David S Ware Organica cd cd 2011/2010 new Two different solo performances on sopranino and tenor sax. Ware's a great solo player- giving you just enough tonal structure to follow various arcs, but also lots of quarter tones...	Aum Fidelity	$12.50 Add:
Decoy/Joe McPhee Spontaneous Combustion lp lp 2013/2011 new London's Cafe Oto has spent the last few years hosting some of the best experimental jazz on the planet. They get the good ones again & again, and now they're putting out records as...	Otoroku	$25.50 Add:
Derek Bailey Concert in Milwaukee cd cd 2011/1983 new Bailey's spindly, dry & incredibly percussive electric guitar scurries & stomps around like a guy trying to kill a cockroach in the middle of the night. Sometimes he stubbornly slams...	Incus	$19.00 Add:
Derek Bailey Domestic and Public Pieces cd cd 2000/1975-6 new Some acoustic & some noteworthy concerts of electric with volume pedal, but all of it is skittering, capricious, & queer as a British duck. Public side has one of Michel Waisvisz'...	Emanem	$17.50 Add:
Derek Bailey Improvisation lp lp 2012/1975 new Half acoustic, half electric, and one on a 12 string with 7 extra strings added. However, chances are good you'll never disentangle which performance is which. Bailey's nettlesome...	Mirumir	$25.50 Add:
Derek Bailey Lot 74 cd cd 2009/1974 new Bailey is well known for long solo pieces that pluck & prickle. So much so in fact that you'd think it was a complete improvising trio or quartet. There's both electric & acoustic...	Incus	$19.00 Add:
Derek Bailey New Sights Old Sounds 2cd 2cd 2012/1978 new Some acoustic & some electric, but all solo & recorded in Japan, where Bailey visited frequently. Spindly scraggles and glittering harmonics go flying in all directions, and there...	Incus	$28.00 Add:
Derek Bailey/Alex Ward Locational cd cd 2000/1998-99 new Here's a fantastic & sadly overlooked title. Intertwined feedback duet that just happens to be sourced from guitar & clarinet. Sometimes the two musicians loop each other lazily...	Incus	$18.50 Add: