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Incantations
NoBusiness Records is proud to present Incantations, an extraordinary live recording featuring three uncompromising voices of free jazz and spontaneous composition: pioneering drummer Sunny Murray, visionary multi-instrumentalist Arthur Doyle, and th…
New Light
NoBusiness Records is proud to announce the release of New Light, a previously issued live recording featuring three singular figures in the history of free jazz and improvised music: legendary drummer Sunny Murray, multi-instrumentalist Arthur Doyle…
Rivbea Live! Series, Volume 5
NoBusiness Records proudly presents Rivbea Live! Series, Volume 5, a previously released live document capturing the remarkable creative energy of the Black Artists’ Group at Studio Rivbea in New York City on February 6, 1974. Featuring alto saxophon…
The Early Quintet
Corbett vs. Dempsey is pleased to present The Early Quintet, featuring trumpeter Manfred Schoof's highly influential mid-sixties sextet (and occasional septet), featuring pianist Alexander Schlippenbach, tenor saxophonist Gerd Dudek, bassist Buschi N…
12+1tet (Victoriaville) 2007
Anthony Braxton's 12+1tet live at Victoriaville on 20 May 2007: Composition No. 361, seventy minutes of layered Ghost Trance writing with Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, Steve Lehman, Nicole Mitchell and others.
Fujin Raijin
Satoko Fujii's Min-Yoh Ensemble with Natsuki Tamura, Curtis Hasselbring and Andrea Parkins: trumpet, trombone, accordion and piano on Japanese folk songs and new pieces in the same spirit, recorded in New York in 2006.
Un Moment de Bonheur
Jean Derome and Louis Sclavis share a quartet with Bruno Chevillon on double bass and Pierre Tanguay on drums, live at Victoriaville on 19 May 2001: flutes, clarinets and saxophone on compositions by both leaders.
Toh-Kichi
Satoko Fujii on piano and Tatsuya Yoshida of Ruins on drums, live at Victoriaville on 18 May 2002: a fast, loud and funny duo with voices, jumping from free improvisation to metal, boogie-woogie and tango.
Rub Harder
Vancouver's Hard Rubber Orchestra led by trumpeter John Korsrud, with guests Lori Freedman, Marilyn Lerner and Brad Turner: new big band music by Korsrud, Turner, Jean Derome, René Lussier and Ron Samworth, recorded in 2000 and 2001.
Wing Vane
Urs Leimgruber, Jacques Demierre and Barre Phillips recorded at Radio DRS in Zurich in January 2001: saxophones, piano and double bass in quiet, closely controlled improvisations where dynamics become the material.
I Dream of You Jumping
Fred Frith on guitar, Louis Sclavis on clarinets and soprano saxophone, Jean-Pierre Drouet on percussion and objects, live at Victoriaville on 21 May 2000: one extended improvisation from abstract textures to folk-like melody.
Quartet Noir
Urs Leimgruber, Marilyn Crispell, Joëlle Léandre and Fritz Hauser in their first concert as a quartet, Victoriaville, 15 May 1998: eight improvisations growing from small details into heated four-way exchanges.
East Off Europe: Closing the Circle
Boris Kovač and the Ritual Nova Ensemble from Novi Sad: saxophones, clarinets, violin, piano, bass and soprano voice in a chamber music that joins Pannonian folk memory, minimalist repetition and jazz.
Le Tour du Bloc
René Lussier conducts Vancouver's NOW Orchestra, recorded in February 1995: guitar and daxophone with Paul Plimley, Peggy Lee, Dylan van der Schyff and a full reed and brass section, in a suite of quick-changing vignettes.
Sudori
Pino Minafra's Sud Ensemble in the studio in Milan, January 1995: trumpet, didgeridoo and ocarina with Carlo Actis Dato, Lauro Rossi and Giorgio Occhipinti, mixing southern Italian band music, free jazz and theatre.
L'Ou'L
André Duchesne's large ensemble live at the 1989 Victoriaville festival: three electric guitars, saxophones, cello, piano and drums, with Yannick Rieu and Claude Lamothe, in composed Montreal musique actuelle.
Labyrinths
Marilyn Crispell alone at the piano, live at the Victoriaville festival on 2 October 1987: dense, Taylor-inspired clusters and open lyrical passages, with a Coltrane piece. The CD reissue of the 1988 LP adds Threads in the Ozone.
Confitures de Gagaku
Jean Derome's written music for a Montreal ensemble of flutes, clarinets and saxophones with bass, drums and percussion, recorded at Studio Victor in 1988. Composed jazz with a nod, in the title, to Japanese court music.
The Missing Link
Fred Anderson's 1979 session with Larry Hayrod, Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph, first issued by Nessa in 1984; the CD adds Drake's previously unreleased Tabla Peace.
Reference: Miles Davis’ 2nd Quintet Live 1967 in Europe
The Second Quintet with Shorter, Hancock, Carter and Williams on its autumn 1967 European tour: Antwerp, Copenhagen, Paris and Karlsruhe on three CDs, restored by Michael Brändli, with an essay by Art Lange.