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Pyramids Lalibela lp lp 2012/1973 new Afro jazz that isn't too far from Sun Ra's Arkestra, here with lots of clackety percussion. Not much of the loft jazz groove moves that marr many records of the period either....	Disko B	$20.00 Add:
Solidarity Unit Inc Red Black and Green lp lp 2009/1970 new High energy large ensemble that's an offshoot of the Black Artists Group. Stuck in the muck of St. Louis & includes Oliver Lake, Charles Bobo Shaw & Joseph Bowie (Lester's little...	Die Taubnessel	$24.50 Add:
Mats Gustafsson Needs lp lp 2010 new Each & every Gustafsson solo record is sicker than the last, and this latest only ups the ante. Again! Close-miked recordings of grainy electronics, and the dry, gastric pops that make...	Dancing Wayang	$25.00 Add:
Ornette Coleman Skies of America lp lp 2012/1972 new The London Symphony Orchestra plays Ornette pieces, and apart from a few breakdowns & solo sections, makes him sound like a soundtrack to some overproduced movie about cloning or...	Columbia	$20.00 Add:
Manfred Schoof European Echoes lp lp 2013/1969 new Practically a Globe Unity Orchestra record. Enrico Rava, Peter Brotzmann, Evan Parker, Paul Rutherford, Derek Bailey, Fred Van Hove, Alexander Von Schippenbach, Irene Schweizer,...	Cien Fuegos	$28.00 Add:
Peter Brotzmann/Fred Van Hove/Han Bennink Balls lp lp 2011/1970 new 2nd release on FMP, and the trio's first in a series of several throughout the 70s. Brotzmann is soooo good at openings, and the one he takes here is a doozy. Waiting, giving one...	Cien Fuegos	$28.00 Add:
Peter Brotzmann/Han Bennink Schwarzwaldfahrt lp lp 2012/1977 new Brotzmann & Bennink, both big German strongmen of estimable robust beardiness, take off for the middle of the woods & then proceed to throw tree branches at each other, head to...	Cien Fuegos	$28.00 Add:
Peter Brotzmann/Han Bennink/Fred Van Hove Tschus lp lp 2011/1975 new 'Tschus' is the German word for 'bye', and it's a really appropriate title. Starts off with a very pretty, haunting tune that could have been on any number of 70s loft jazz records,...	Cien Fuegos	$28.00 Add:
Peter Brotzmann/Harry Miller/Louis Moholo The Nearer the Bone lp lp 2012/1979 new Eugene Chadbourne says (and why wouldn't you believe him) that when this record came out people were a little dickish about it, because it seemed like a throwback to NYC high energy...	Cien Fuegos	$28.00 Add:
Sun Ra Strange Celestial Road lp lp 2009/1979 new NYC big band from around the same time as 'Lanquidity'. More polished & funk-friendly than his late 60s/early 70s output, & along the lines of his 80s tv appearances, but still far...	Celestial	$12.50 Add:
Serge Chaloff Blue Serge lp lp 2012/1956 new Serge was an unlucky white guy from Boston who played the much unloved baritone sax. All the poor sob ever wished for was to play like Charlie Parker, but he kept getting work in...	Capitol	$13.50 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:
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:
Don Cherry Mu First Part lp lp 2006/1969 new Recorded as part of the extremely famous Actuel festival in France in '69. The festival documented the cream of late 60s free jazz, & here's what they were up to. Just a duo, but a...	BYG	$13.50 ... more info Darn, All Sold Out
Sonny Sharrock Monkey Pockie Boo lp lp 2011/1969 new Sonny proves he's a motherfucker au naturel. Married to the drop dead gorgeous Linda, who can pretend she's a teepee-bred Indian one minute & then holler like she's getting her...	BYG	$13.50 Add:
Sun Ra The Solar Myth Approach Vol. 2 lp lp 2003/1970-71 new Scale the mini-moog mountain while the big band with June Tyson swings heavy & dead free, breaking out some versions of songs that would later show up in the 'Space Is the Place'...	BYG	$13.50 Add:
Duck That Eggs cd cd 2012/2009 new Here's a long-in-the-making record by my improv trio where everybody plays game calls (the little plastic toys that hunters use to make animals come close enough to shoot). Steve...	BWIE/Means of Production	$7.00 Add:
Jeritree House of Many Colours cdr cdr 2008/1978 new Lesbian free folk issued on private press. Jeriann Hilderley plays long crescendos of soft, wavy, post-Coltrane marimba abetted by cello & afghan drum. Willowy vocal wails over the...	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Peter Brotzmann/Han Bennink Still Quite Popular lp lp 2010/2004 new After a 30-odd year hiatus, the BRO imprint made a brief re-appearance via Eremite in Western Mass. Just in time to revisit this duo of the herculean fire-breathing German and his...	Bro/Eremite	$24.50 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:
Noah Howard The Black Ark cd cd 2010/1969 new Available again at the request of Howard's family, as he recently passed away. You'll singe the tips of your ears off when you hear this scalding free jazz blowout. Arthur Doyle,...	Bo Weavil	$15.00 Add:
Noah Howard The Black Ark lp lp 2007/1969 new Finally reissued after a kazillion years out of print. You'll singe the tips of your ears off when you hear this scalding free jazz blowout. Arthur Doyle, Earl Cross, Leslie Waldron,...	Bo Weavil	$22.00 Add:
Grant Green Nigeria lp lp 2011/1980/1962 new A tone so biting you could cut yourself on it, an utterly economical use of notes and yet his phrasing is always fluid. Green's early recordings are one of those very rare...	Blue Note	$11.00 Add:
Tina Brooks True Blue lp lp 2012/1960 new Tenor saxman who gives smoky vibes of a NYC night (despite the moniker of a suburban cheerleader). Feat. Freddie Hubbard, Duke Jordan, Sam Jones, Art Taylor. Tracklisting: Good Old...	Blue Note	$11.00 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:
George Lewis Complete Remastered 5cd 5cd 2012/1978-87 new Longtime member of the AACM & the go to guy when it comes to using computer processing to interact with improv players. Lewis plays a whole slew of brass instruments, most of...	Black Saint/Soul Note	$35.50 Add:
Lester Bowie Complete Remastered Black Saint 3cd 3cd 2011/1978-90 new AACM/Art Ensemble trumpeter. Later albums with mid-sized ensembles, all with piano, so they're a little more on the traditional & less whimsical end of Bowie's range. Still, each...	Black Saint/Soul Note	$32.00 Add:
Muhal Richard Abrams Complete Remastered 8cd 8cd 2012/1979-95 new After a short career in Chicago's hard bop scene, Abrams founded the AACM, playing with Anthony Braxton, members of the Art Ensemble, Marion Brown, etc. He moved to New York in...	Black Saint/Soul Note	$48.00 Add:
Steve Lacy Complete Remastered Black Saint/Soul Note 6cd 6cd 2012/1982-97 new Can you be avant garde & tightly melodic at the same time? You can if you're Steve Lacy. Soprano sax improvisor who recorded more Thelonious Monk material than just about...	Black Saint/Soul Note	$35.50 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:
Doug Carn Infant Eyes cd cd 2012/1971 new Carn was a 22 year old with a young wife & new baby when he made this album. He'd studied organ with Larry Young (Tony Williams Lifetime) & like many guys at the time, took...	Black Jazz	$15.00 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:
Don Cherry Trio Live in Paris lp lp 2013/1971 new Cherry leads Johnny Dyani & Okay Temiz (a drummer from Turkey). All 3 were living in Sweden & were filmed at a show in Paris. And in fact it's the rest of the show that makes up half...	B13	$27.00 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:
Ornette Coleman Change of the Century lp lp 2011/1960 new The year this and 'The Shape of Jazz to Come' were recorded, Ornette came from LA & took on a legendary 2 week stint at the Five Spot in NYC. The buzz got around that something...	Atlantic	$10.50 Add:
Ornette Coleman Free Jazz lp lp 2010/1960 new 6th album, which gave it's name to the genre. Lots of folks still make this one of their first avant garde jazz purchases, and are usually disappointed, because it's not a squawker...	Atlantic	$10.50 Add:
Ornette Coleman Ornette! lp lp 2010/1962 new Recorded right after 'Free Jazz', and it basically turns the double quartet inside out, giving each sideman an abnormally long chunk of time to lead/solo. Performers are really...	Atlantic	$10.50 Add:
Ornette Coleman This Is Our Music lp lp 2002/1960 new Lots of folks these days pick up an Ornette record because they want to hear the most 'wild' jazz, and then they're disappointed to hear somthing that sounds like bebop songs. The...	Atlantic	$10.50 Add:
Rufus Harley Bagpipe Blues lp lp 2010/1966 new Nobody is more loveable than Rufus, the Philly gentleman who heard Coltrane's 'My Favorite Things' and thought to himself, 'Gee, that's neat. But if only it were played on the...	Atlantic	$11.00 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:
Mount Everest Trio Waves from Albert Ayler cd cd 2012/1975-77 new 3 Swedish guys who look like bikers make a heartfelt Albert Ayler tribute record in the mid 1970s. Saxophonist Gilbert Holmstrom can tear his horn in half, but there are also some...	Atavistic	$13.00 Add:
Norbert Moslang/Andy Guhl Knack On cd cd 2000/1982 new Great clambering clunks of junk, by Voice Crack, before they'd quite put a name on it & were still mostly known as Swiss cousins to the FMP crowd. Frog croaks get pumped out of...	Atavistic	$12.50 Add:
Peter Brotzmann Group Alarm cd cd 2006/1981 new Brotzmann got a really swank radio gig offered to him & so he put together an especially large band. He dug up some instructions for activity during a nuclear emergency, & used them...	Atavistic	$16.00 Add:
Peter Brotzmann Group Fuck De Boere cd cd 2001/1968-70 new Maniacal blowing & reed biting as the mighty Aeolus of the sax takes one big breath and then flattens all things in his path. Even the occasional solos taken seem to steamroll...	Atavistic	$14.00 Add:
Peter Brotzmann Pica Pica cd cd 2005/1983 new All through the 70s & 80s, the burliest, honkinest, bedsheet rippinest free jazz player was a short, musclebound German guy named Peter Brotzmann. He was also well known to be an...	Atavistic	$13.50 Add:
Peter Brotzmann Trio For Adolphe Sax cd cd 2012/1967 new Brotzman's first album, with the titan Peter Kowald on bass, Fred Van Hove guesting on piano & Sven Ake Johansson on drums. Blistering ain't even the word, and yet Brotzmann also...	Atavistic	$16.00 Add:
Peter Brotzmann/Fred Lonberg Holm The Brain of the Dog cd cd 2008/2007 new Good to see Brotzmann in a spare setting instead of the muscleheavy tentet. Lonberg-Holm throws up electronics as well as cello & shows off lightning fast reponsiveness to...	Atavistic	$13.50 Add:
Sun Ra & his Solar Arkestra Secrets of the Sun cd cd 2008/1965/1962 new Great early Ra, just after the band had moved to NYC & was just starting to expand upon their Chicago style (piano heavy & without vocals, pretty straight rhythm section, but...	Atavistic	$14.50 Add:
Sun Ra Spaceship Lullaby cd cd 2003/1954-60 new One of the sister releases to the 'Singles' 2cd set on Evidence. Wonderfully blurry doo wop & sweet little late 50s space race candies. Most recorded in Sun Ra's Chicago living...	Atavistic	$13.50 Add: