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GF Fitzgerald/Lol Coxhill The Poppy Seed Affair 2cd + dvd 2cd + dvd 2011/1969-81 new Lol Coxhill's penchant for goof is set in context nicely on this fun set of inquisitive twizzlings. One disc of clunky musique concrete cutups (very fetchingly so- the...	Reel Recordings	$27.50 Add:
Fred Katz Folk Songs for Far Out Folk cd cd 2007/1959 new Cellist for Chico Hamilton who got together with some jazz/studio players (Benny Goodman's brother Irving, for example) to make a slightly loungier version of the Hamilton sound. The...	Reboot Stereophonic	$14.00 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:
Evan Parker Saxophone Solos cd cd 2009/1975 new Parker's earliest solo performances, half of them live. Long rivers of fluttering screechophonics hacked together with bloody gums & circular breathing, and some Samuel Beckett...	PSI	$18.00 Add:
Masayoshi Urabe/Toshiaki Ishizuka Natsu No Sebone cd cd 2010/2009 new A furious little Napoleon, Urabe tussles, contorts, scrabbles, sweats & once in a while, spurts a bit of nasty ejaculate from his sax. Ishizuka on drums displays a completely...	PSF	$19.00 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:
Don Cherry Tibet lp lp 2007/1981/1973 new Aka 'Eternal Now'. Cherry's playing post-1970 or so is about demonstrating that group improvisation doesn't have to be the Ayler/Brotzmann firestorm of energy, but can be...	Piccadilly	$11.00 Add:
Sun Ra Of Mythic Worlds lp lp 2008/1980 new Recorded in Chicago. On the same label as 'Lanquidity', which for unknown reasons is the only Sun Ra record beloved by beats kids, Berkelee music students, & John Zorn fans. Luckily,...	Philly Jazz	$12.00 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:
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:
Mats Gustafsson Mouth Eating Trees and Related Activities cd cd 1996/1992 VG+/M- back cover has been neatly folded in 1/2 at some point, otherwise fine. A prime slice of Gustafsson in a trio with UK heavy hitters Barry Guy & Paul Lovens. The 3 move easily...	Okka	$12.00 Add:
Mats Gustafsson Parrot Fish Eye cd cd 1998/1994 new Gustafsson announced himself into most people's heads with this one. Those big baritone pops & the fluteophone (alto mouthpiece stuck in a flute) shoulda been stupid party tricks,...	Okka	$13.00 Add:
The Psychedelic Saxophone of Charlie Nothing lp lp 2009/1967 new This one's been promised to come out for awhile in some form or another. Glad to finally see it. Besides this record, Charlie is known for constructing oversized guitars (named...	Nothing	$17.00 Add:
Sun Ra and his Arkestra Rocket Ship Rock cd cd 2009/1957-68 new Long before he blew the stars out with the Arkestra, Sun Ra worked in Chicago in the lower echelons of doo wop. Playing piano behind Screamin Jay Hawkins knock offs, collecting...	Norton	$12.50 Add:
Sun Ra and his Arkestra The Second Stop Is Jupiter cd cd 2009/1949-58 new If Sun Ra is the strangest musician in jazz (and who could lay better claim to the title?), then the nascent forms of the Arkestra are some of the most fascinating- because you...	Norton	$12.50 Add:
Sun Ra and his Arkestra The Second Stop Is Jupiter lp lp 2009/1949-58 new If Sun Ra is the strangest musician in jazz (and who could lay better claim to the title?), then the nascent forms of the Arkestra are some of the most fascinating- because you...	Norton	$13.50 Add:
Sun Ra Interplanetary Melodies cd cd 2009/195x new Sun Ra's recording experiments spread like hydra heads. He wanted to know about every style of music, and he used his home tape recorder (which used paper tape- a 30s forerunner of...	Norton	$12.50 Add:
Sun Ra Strange Worlds In My Mind lp lp 2010/1957-66 new A baritone sax revs up like a motorcycle while Ra's effeminate voice gets way too close to the microphone, insisting: "TIME UPON TIME UPON TIME UPON TIME UPON TIME!". Each volume...	Norton	$13.50 Add:
Sun Ra The Outer Darkness lp lp 2010/1957-77 new Radio station recordings with small ensemble accompaniment that let Ra's philosophy take center stage to impress upon you that he was sent from space to save the planet from...	Norton	$12.50 Add:
Sun Ra The Sub Dwellers lp lp 2010/1966-82 new Ra's space poems definitely come straight from the moon. Between the swiss cheese logic, thick Alabama-by-way-of-Chicago accent, the awkward pauses, and the softly zonking...	Norton	$13.00 Add:
William Hooker Earth's Orbit 2lp 2lp 2010/2009 new Rolling, broiling fire drums to warm you right up. One lp is a trio with NYC fellas on alto sax & bass (Darius Jones & Adam Lane). Other disc goes to the west coast & gets some SF...	No Business	$25.00 Add:
Malcolm Goldstein A Sounding of Sources cd cd 2011/1988-95 new Goldstein's violin playing is neither composition nor improvisation, neither extended techniques nor staff notes, neither arch nor trashy, but steps back for a bigger & deeper...	New World	$14.50 Add:
Roscoe Mitchell Solo 3 3cd 3cd 2004/1999-02 new So much range & variety here, it feels like one of those 'introduction to the orchestra' records they make for kids. Except it's the inside of Mitchell's head you're getting to...	Mutable	$24.50 Add:
Django Reinhardt From the Ultraphone Shelves lp lp 2009/1934-35 new It was Pierre Nourry, an obsessive record collector, who first flashed on how good Django & Grapelly were at some off-bandstand jams. He convinced the band to play a concert,...	Monk	$23.00 Add:
Django Reinhardt The Last Years of Peace lp lp 2009/1935-37 new Anytime you wanna bring out the pretty little bluebirds, the Hot Club of France is always waiting, ready to bring you instant joy. By this point they were the toast of European...	Monk	$23.00 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:
Oliver Augst/Rudiger Carl Oben cd cd 2011/2002-11 new About ten years ago, Rudiger Carl & Oliver Augst put out an FMP record ('Blank', with Christoph Korn) which is one of my top faves on the label, even if it's an extrememly late...	Mille Plateaux	$16.00 Add:
Grizzle/Josh Jefferson/Steve Norton 3x3 Altos cdr cdr 2010/2009 new Boston's improvised music scene is among the best in the world, and here's 3 of the reasons why, all in one spot. Dave Gross (Grizzler, FETISH), Josh Jefferson (Skinny Vinny) &...	Means of Production/BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Katt Hernandez/Steve Norton Modern Antique cdr cdr 2010 new Bass clarinet & microtonal violin in a tight face off, and with the nice big slab of a room they're in, s'like a couple of wayward orchestra members are hanging around the empty...	Means of Production/BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Kobold Piece of Mind cdr cdr 2012/1995 new Fantastic & much overlooked Boston improv quartet from the mid 1990s. Craig Schildhauer on standup bass, Tom Plsek on trombone, Steve Norton on reeds & (pre- Duck That) game calls....	Means of Production	$5.00 Add:
Steve Norton Battery Steele cdr cdr 2010 new Steve stumbled upon an old concrete gunnery while on vacation, built in the mid 40s to protect the coast of Maine from a mini Pearl Harbor attack. A huge concrete hallway the length of a...	Means of Production	$5.00 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:
John Butcher/Guillaume Viltard/Eddie Prevost cd cd 2012 new Longtime London sax player who went to school to be a physicist, started playing rather lyric-slash-prog jazz, and slowly evolved through free duets with Derek Bailey or Simon Fell into...	Matchless	$18.00 Add:
Music Now Ensemble Silver Pyramid cd cd 2001/1969 new Pre-AMM performance with Eddie Prevost, Cornelius Cardew, Keith Rowe, Lou Gare. Lots of quiet scrapes, little insect feet, and a few moments of far-off tooting whistles or slight...	Matchless	$18.00 Add:
Martin Brandlmayr/Werner Dafeldecker/Christian Fennesz lp lp 2012/2008 new Basically a Polwechsel record without the name. It's definitely Werner Dafeldecker's game, as this is a super quiet record with a few bells, scrapes, & low bonks on a vibraphone....	M=Minimal	$21.50 Add:
Kenneth Patchen Reads With Jazz in Canada cd cd 2004/1959 new A generation older than the typical beat poets (he hung out with EE Cummings in Greenwich Village in the 40s, & his book 'Albion Moonlight' came out in 46). Released originally on...	Locust	$13.00 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:
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:
Rashied Ali Quartet New Directions lp lp 2013/1971 new Aka Robert Patterson, the man who dared to play drums at the same time as Elvin Jones & brother of sometime Ayler drummer Muhammad Ali. He started playing with Coltrane in 1965, &...	Klimt	$23.00 Add:
Sun Ra/Blues Project Batman & Robin lp lp 2010/1966 new What possible ingredient could make a Sun Ra record even better? How about a little run in with everyone's favorite caped crusader? Apparently the Mysterious Mister Ra wasn't above...	Klimt	$23.00 Add:
Sun Ra On Jupiter lp lp 2011/1979 new This one's billed as sounding like "Lanquidity", but that's one of the very, very few Sun Ra albums that fans aren't too into. It's sort of an oddity in the Ra catalog meant for...	Kindred Spirits	$22.50 Add:
Sun Ra The Antique Blacks lp lp 2011/1974 new People have a hard time keeping up with Sun Ra releases, and it's understandable, cause there's a shitload. But man, they do not know the eyeball pops and jaw drops they could be in...	Kindred Spirits	$22.50 Add:
Sun Ra The Mike Huckaby Reel to Reel Edits lp lp 2011/197x new Detroit electronica guy edits Sun Ra until the mighty Arkestra is reduced to a beats-DJ band that sounds vaguely like P-Funk. If you're a Berklee student who thinks Ra's 'Lanquidity'...	Kindred Spirits	$14.00 Add:
Sun Ra This Planet Is Doomed book book 2011/1957-82 new 100 pages of zoinked space poetry by Saturn's most famous ambassador. Some of this turned into lyrics over the years, to be intoned by Ra, June Tyson, or another member of the...	Kicks	$13.50 Add:
Philip Cohran & the Artistic Heritage Ensemble cd cd 2007/1969 new Chicago cosmic afro-jazz/free funk from a large ensemble led by a member of Sun Ra's Arkestra (he played the zither on 'Angels & Demons') & AACM. Cohran himself plays electric thumb...	Katalyst	$12.00 Add:
Philip Cohran The Malcolm X Memorial cd cd 2007/1968 new Member of Sun Ra's Arkestra during it's early 60s Chicago period & early cohort of the AACM, Cohran also owned a small theatre where he ran an inner city community center/music...	Katalyst	$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:
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:
Lloyd Miller A Lifetime in Oriental Jazz cd cd 2009/1961-05 new Nice one. Miller travelled for a good part of his life, covering Tehran, Germany, Paris and, ahem, Utah, all the while trying to play minor-key modal jazz on eastern instruments....	Jazzman	$16.00 Add: