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Blue Vertical
The final recording by bassist Mario Pavone, made in March 2021 two months before his death, with his Dialect Trio of Matt Mitchell and Tyshawn Sorey and Dave Ballou on trumpet and arrangements.
Asp Nimbus
Cellist Christopher Hoffman's quartet with Bryan Carrott on vibraphone, Rashaan Carter on bass and Craig Weinrib on drums, plus David Virelles on one track. Translucent red vinyl, limited to 200 copies.
Dyads
Father and son duo: Michael Formanek on double bass and Peter Formanek on tenor saxophone and clarinet, recorded in December 2019 after their first tour together, with pieces by each of them and by both.
This Darkness
Solo record by drummer and percussionist Scott Clark, also on harmonica, recorded live in Richmond, Virginia, in May 2019 and named after Rilke's poem Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower.
The Complete Night: Live at the Stone NYC
The complete first concert of the two-trumpet quartet of Herb Robertson and Dave Ballou with Drew Gress and Tom Rainey, recorded at The Stone NYC in June 2007: the first set reissued, the second issued for the first time.
Atlantic Extraction
First vinyl edition of Nick Dunston's 2019 debut Atlantic Extraction, on translucent yellow vinyl limited to 200 copies: a quintet of double bass, flutes, violin and viola, guitar and drums.
échos la nuit
Michaël Attias' first solo album, recorded in one session with no overdubs: alto saxophone played with the left hand and piano with the right, the saxophone setting the piano strings into sympathetic resonance.
Air Ceremony
Guitarist Dustin Carlson's septet with Nathaniel Morgan, Eric Trudel, Danny Gouker, Matt Mitchell on Prophet 6, Adam Hopkins and Kate Gentile, recorded in 2017 and mixed and mastered by David Torn.
Crickets
Fifth anniversary LP of Adam Hopkins' 2018 debut Crickets, the first Out Of Your Head release, on 180g black vinyl with redesigned TJ Huff artwork and the extra track Grounded, recorded remotely by the sextet in winter 2020-2021.
Our Souls Sing From Within
A new LP by JJ Whitefield (Poets of Rhythm, Whitefield Brothers etc) and Gonçalo Mortágua on Ultraääni Records.
The Realist
Janel Leppin - The Realist (OOYH 048), featuring the incredible new trio of Janel with Devra Hoff (Sharon Van Etten, Nels Cline, Xiu Xiu) on bass, and Chad Taylor (Chicago Underground Duo, Marc Ribot, jaimie Branch) on drums, which Phil Overeem calle…
Öppet Fyra
In close collaboration with musician Mats Gustafsson and jazz archivist Roger Bergner at the Centre for Swedish Folk Music & Jazz Research, Caprice presents a relatively unexplored period of Scandinavian creative and experimental music from the 1960s…
Message From Home
Pharoah Sanders' 1996 Verve album with Bill Laswell producing, Foday Musa Suso, Hamid Drake, Bernie Worrell and Charnett Moffett: hip-hop pulse, Gambian kora and the full-cry tenor on one record. Back on vinyl for the first time since the rare French…
Passerine
Passerine began in the fall of 2024 when my older son left home for college and friends began to ask if I were experiencing empty nest syndrome, or half-empty nest syndrome, as was the case. Each time, my reply was a simple, “nah, I’m good…everybody’…
here i am no i
Saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi and drummer Jason Nazary present their new album, here i am no i, on September 18th. The release marks their duo debut for We Jazz Records, adding to an expanding release catalog also including Nazary’s solo album Spring…
Fall 2026 "Brilliant Corners" (Magazine)
Thelonious Monk by Francis Gooding, Mats Gustafsson, Fielding Hope, Patrick Preziosi, Andy Thomas, Arttu Tolonen, Bret Sjerven, Daniel Spicer & Wif Stenger, Miles Okazaki by Andrew Scott, Kiri Ra! by Wif Stenger, Jazz Is Dead By Tina Edwards, Dirar K…
Animative
On October 23, Animative, Johnson’s third album under his own name and his first for International Anthem/Nonesuch, arrives to turn up the wattage on his artistry. More than any release to date, Animative shows why musicians and a growing community o…
Del Soffio
Like a breath that expands and slowly fades away, “Del Soffio”, Aniello Perduto’s debut for Maple Death Records, takes shape as a single composition lasting just under fifty minutes, stemming from an open score performed at the prestiguous AngelicA |…
Live at the KiMo Theater Albuquerque 1979
On Live at the KiMo Theater Albuquerque 1979, Cecil Taylor leads a newly reconfigured Unit through a rare Western American performance of volatile grace and immense detail. Piano, alto saxophone, violin, bass, cello and multi-instrumental percussion …
Energy Center (Book)
In Energy Center, Ed Hazell tells the essential story of Studio Rivbea, the Lower Manhattan loft where Sam Rivers and Bea Rivers made radical music possible on its own terms. Drawing on new research, photographs, posters and an unrivalled sessionogra…