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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:
Ohio Penitentiary 511 Jazz Ensemble Hard Luck Soul lp lp 2012/1971 new Here in America we just go ahead & lock up everyone who's black, so it's not so surprising when jazz or soul bands formed in prisons turn out to be pretty good ones. Recorded in the...	Jazzman	$21.50 Add:
Mike Bullock & Howard Stelzer/Jason Talbot The Idea of Northeast lp 2001 new Solo standup bass feedback rips up one side, cassettes & turntables parry & grunt at each other on the flip. Both sides are full of interruptive pauses (short, long & inbetween), but...	Intransitive/Math	$13.00 Add:
Kihoharu Kuwayama & Masayoshi Urabe Heteroptics cdr cdr 2011/2002 new Urabe and Lethe's first meeting in the latter's huge, echoey, abandoned warehouse. Cello, sax, chains, and scrap metal. They're a neatly matched, almost romantic pair- Urabe being...	Intransitive	$13.00 Add:
Kiyoharu Kuwayama/Masayoshi Urabe From the Abolition Port cdr cdr 2011/2003 new Kuwayama Kiyoharu (aka Lethe) finds unused spaces & takes the materials found in them as his sound sources. Here, matches up one of his huge, empty warehouses against Masayoshi...	Intransitive	$11.00 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 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:
Lol Coxhill/Alex Ward Old Sights New Sounds cd cd 2011/2010 new A tweedling rivulet of twists & twirls as the trebly clarinet & soprano sax braid tightly round each other. A few chirps or squawks, but both mostly stick to a short range of high...	Incus	$19.00 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 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:
Michael Flower/Chris Corsano/C Henjowski The Count Visits lp lp 2012/2009 new Matt Heyner from the No Neck Blues Band plays bass under a pseudonym, along with Michael Flower on his zither-thing and Chris Corsano on drums. Drums are way in the back, which is...	Hot Cars Warp Records	$17.50 Add:
Various London Is the Place For Me Vol. 1 & 2 2cd 2cd 2013/1950-56 new Urbane jazz and lots of it's equally sleek, smirking cousins, recorded by & for the burgeoning Carribian and West African immigrant population in the UK. Carribean residents...	Honest Jon's	$19.50 Add:
Various London is the Place for Me Vol. 5 2lp 2lp 2013/1948-61 new The West Indies & West Africa met overnight when the UK encouraged immigration at the end of WWII by suddenly offering full citizenship to anyone living in it's former...	Honest Jon's	$19.50 Add:
Various London Is the Place For Me Vol. 6 2lp 2lp 2013/1948-61 new Latest installment in this wonderful series about 1950s UK jazz/immigrant nightclub culture. Buddy Pipp's Highlifers bring some serious drum chops to the latin cool of the...	Honest Jon's	$19.50 Add:
Various London is the Place for Me Vols 3 & 4 2cd 2cd 2013/1950-65 new Calypso artists from Trinidad take on horn arrangements that could've been lifted straight off a Xavier Cugat record. South African exiles or highlife performers from Nigeria...	Honest Jon's	$19.50 Add:
Various London Is the Place For Me Vols 5 & 6 2cd 2cd 2013/1949-61 new The West Indies & West Africa met overnight when the UK encouraged immigration at the end of WWII by suddenly offering full citizenship to anyone living in it's former...	Honest Jon's	$20.00 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:
Steve Lacy Clinkers cd cd 2000/1977 new Solo on soprano sax & it's from the tail end of his best period, at his most eccentric & full of extended techniques. My favorite Lacy pieces are the 'meta' songs where the title...	Hat	$17.00 Add:
Sunny Murray Never Give a Sucker An Even Break lp lp 2001/1969 new Heavy blowing firestorm with Byard Lancaster, Malachi Favors and Kenneth Terroade. Murray pretty much invented the textural play-all-the-time-so-there's-no-timekeeping approach to...	Get Back/BYG	$13.50 Add:
Sunny Murray Sunshine lp lp 2001/1969 new Murray's example probably does more than anyone (except maybe Valerie Wilmer) to promote the idea that high energy free jazz is about the pulse of life beyond analytic categories....	Get Back/BYG	$10.00 Add:
Ruby Braff & Dave McKenna Complete Quartet Quintet Sessions cd cd 2006/1958 new Trumpet & piano that's traditional for the time, but surprisingly taut & wiry. You're not likely to turn it up on vinyl anytime soon either. Both fellows were at the height of their...	Gambit	$14.00 Add:
Entourage Music and Theatre Ensemble lp lp 2012/1973 new Meditative sax ensemble with a few odd instruments (thumb piano, recorder). Trio was from Baltimore & usually performed with dancers, which you can hear in their marked tendency for...	Folkways	$18.00 Add:
Flandrew Fleisenberg/Josh Jefferson/Christophe Delerce cd cd 2012 new Percussionist Andrew Eisenberg ran a fantastic loft space here in Boston for a couple of years, putting on tons of impressive shows that really fostered a lot of collaborations around...	Flopera	$10.00 Add:
Sun Ra Cymbals & Crystal Spheres: The Great Lost Sun Ra Albums 2 2cd 2000/1973 new Two lps that were planned for release on both Impulse & Saturn, but never happened on either. In New York City with Ra on Rocksichord, minimoog & electric vibraphone. John Gilmore,...	Evidence	$25.50 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:
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:
Erica Pomerance You Used to Think cd cd 2009/1968 new Longtime rumor had it that Pomerance was a B-level Greenwich Village folkie who a few pals conspired to dose heavily with acid, and then turned on a tape recorder. In truth she's...	ESP	$12.50 Add:
Gunter Hampel Group Music From Europe cd cd 2008/1966 new Hampel was a German vibes player who once had Eric Dolphy stay over at his house and when they jammed, Dolphy suggested they switch instruments so he could try out the vibes. Dolphy...	ESP	$13.00 Add:
Karel Velebny SHQ cd cd 2008/1968 new A group from Prague led by Velebny's vibes & tenor. Mostly post-bop, but with plenty of interplay. Velebny would go on to forge the Czech MPS-type groove jazz which has since become...	ESP	$12.50 Add:
Lowell Davidson Trio cd cd 2008/1965 new Less chunky & more molten than Cecil Taylor, but just as free & employing lots of crinkly clusters, pianist Davidson was a biochemistry grad student at Harvard when Ornette Coleman...	ESP	$12.50 Add:
Norman Howard & Joe Phillips Burn Baby Burn cd cd 2007/1968 new Lost tapes that were originally meant to be released on the wonderful ESP label. Found in the late 90s and then haggled over behind the scenes for 10 years, now finally released for...	ESP	$12.50 Add:
Paul Dunmall/Chris Corsano Identical Sunsets lp lp 2010 new Starts out with a blast of Dunmall on bagpipes, during which he makes the ghost of Rufus Harley rise, float around the room, and then zoom straight up your nostrils. Surprisingly similar...	ESP	$19.50 Add:
Revolutionary Ensemble Vietnam cd cd 2009/1972 new The cliff notes history of free jazz says that the Americans invented roller coaster energy & the Brits combined it with avant classical introspection. Here's a perfect counter...	ESP	$13.00 Add:
Sonny Simmons Staying on the Watch cd cd 2010/1966-68 new Simmons plays alto and this mid-sized ensemble ranges from post-bop to flat out burn-the-barn-down free. His wife at the time Barbara was a nice little white lady who wore...	ESP	$12.50 Add:
Sun Ra Heliocentric Worlds 3cd 3cd 2010/1965 new Not just the long beloved Vols 1 & 2, but the bonus material that made up the late-breaking Vol. 3. Ra beckons you to his most alien landscapes. Ayler's free jazz rollercoaster is...	ESP	$23.50 Add:
Various New York Eye and Ear Control cd cd 2008/1964 new For all intents & purposes this is Ayler's take on the large ensemble collective improv fad that was sweeping through jazz. He's the de facto leader & the band is his regular trio of...	ESP	$12.00 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:
Juma Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society Father of Origin 2lp + cd 2lp+cd 2011/1970-71 new Never released tapes from around Boston, upstate New York, & lower Manhattan that show the nascent loft jazz scene taking shape. Juma played on free jazz milestones like...	Eremite	$100.00 Add:
Khan Jamal Drumdance to the Motherland cd cd 2006/1974/1972 new Philly black power jazz that has really unusual reverb-drenched drums (which make for a reggae feel once in a while), shredding free jazz clarinets, marimba solos, vibes, & even...	Eremite	$13.00 Add:
Shayna Dulberger Ache & Flutter cd cd 2013 new If you don't listen carefully, you could just dismiss this as some 'kids' aping modal jazz circa '66 or so. But Dulberger (who plays stand up bass around NYC) is as good at playing all...	Empty Room	$13.50 Add:
Evan Parker Conic Sections cd cd 2008/1989 new Multiple melodic microtonal rivers come streaming out of one horn. Parker had just figured out a new way to fractalize his playing into tinier & tinier bubbles that he could...	Emanem/PSI	$18.00 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:
Phil Minton A Doughnut in Both Hands cd cd 1998/1975-82 new Time to make the doughnuts, but Phil kneads with his teeth. Hoarse singing in polyphony with himself, squeaks, witch yowls, lip pops, the gobble of a trapped miniature turkey,...	Emanem	$17.50 Add:
Phil Minton No Doughnuts in Hand cd cd 2007 new Third croaking solo album in 30 odd years of making the best donald duck noise in the known universe. Minton also spreads his spittle with imaginative burps, sputters, & death-rattle...	Emanem	$18.00 Add:
Spontanous Music Ensemble Withdrawal cd cd 1997/1966-67 new Taut tones float & creaking door groans lift up from the muck like the loch ness, and in the face of the Ayler rollercoaster coming from America, it must've sounded incredibly...	Emanem	$17.00 Add:
Music of Idris Ackamoor 2cd 2cd 2006/1974-2004 new Mostly early 70s afro-freedom big band by the guy from the legendary Pyramids. A bunch from their best album ("Birth Speed Merging") and even some unreleased material. Unlike...	EM	$25.00 Add:
Roland P Young Isophonic Boogie Woogie cd cd 2013/1980 new Laid back free funk with some experimental tape effects, kalimba, processed bass clarinet, sax, chimes, & more. Not quite a kill whitey record, more in the vein of a...	EM	$19.50 Add: