Jazz & Improvisation / All styles

Concert recordings by The Gil Evans Orchestra, made at Umbria Jazz and in Sicily between July 8 and 24, 1988, four months after Evans's death, with Lew Soloff, Miles Evans, Gil Goldstein, Biréli Lagrène, Michał Urbaniak and Urszula Dudziak.

Live quartet album by Niels Lan Doky (piano) with Randy Brecker (trumpet), Chris Minh Doky (bass) and Daniel Humair (drums), recorded at the jazz club La Villa, Paris, on April 2, 1992. Six standards and one Lan Doky original.

Joe Morris Trio album with Joe Morris (guitar), Nate McBride (acoustic bass) and Curt Newton (drums), recorded at The Outpost, Stoughton, Massachusetts, on June 12, 1993. Five long pieces.

Concert by Dameronia, the nonet devoted to Tadd Dameron's arrangements, conducted by Don Sickler with Frank Wess, Clifford Jordan, Cecil Payne, Walter Davis Jr. and Kenny Washington, recorded at the Théâtre de Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, on May 30, 1989.

Organ quartet album by Jeff Palmer (Hammond B3 with bass pedals) with David Liebman (soprano sax), John Abercrombie (guitar synthesizer) and Adam Nussbaum (drums), recorded at Sound On Sound Studio, New York, on November 24, 1987, produced by Paul Bley.

Large-ensemble album by composer and conductor Dino Betti van der Noot, recorded at Jingle Machine Studios, Milan, in 1986, with Bill Evans, Mitchel Forman, Mark Egan, Danny Gottlieb, Carmen Lundy, Giancarlo Schiaffini and Gianluigi Trovesi.

Debut album by Cuban-born singer Gladys Carbò with Gene Bertoncini (guitar), Michael Moore (bass), John Sauer, Marvin Stamm and Wally Kane, recorded at RBY Recording Studio, Southbury, Connecticut, between 1985 and December 1988.

Solo soprano saxophone album by David Liebman, recorded at Barigozzi Studio, Milan, on April 24, 1990: a six-movement suite named after the parts of a tree, played through and then repeated in reverse order.

Second volume from the April 30, 1988 concert at the Jazz Action Center, Nuremberg, with tenor saxophonists Arnett Cobb, Jimmy Heath and Joe Henderson, backed by Benny Green (piano), Walter Schmocker (bass) and Doug Hammond (drums).

Album by baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett with African drummers Chief Bey, Okyerema Asante, Titos Sompa and Seku Tonge, and Hugh Masekela on trumpet, recorded on 7 July 1987 at Media Sound, New York; Soul Note, 1989.

Album by the collective trio BassDrumBone, Ray Anderson (trombone), Mark Helias (bass) and Gerry Hemingway (drums), recorded on 2 and 3 November 1987 at Barigozzi Studio, Milan, and released by Soul Note in 1989.

Live album by the Teddy Charles Quartet, with Harold Danko (piano), Ray Drummond (bass) and Tony Reedus (drums), recorded on 25 June 1988 at the Teatro Romano, Verona, and released by Soul Note in 1989.

Piano and bass duo album by Guido Manusardi and Red Mitchell, released by Soul Note in 1991: eight pieces, including But Not for Me, Out of Nowhere, Lover Man and My Shining Hour.

Solo piano album by Tete Montoliu, recorded on 1 December 1986 at Barigozzi Studio, Milan, and released by Soul Note in 1987: eight pieces, standards plus his own Don't Smoke Anymore.

Big band album by drummer Charli Persip and Superband, with Jack Walrath, Marcus Rojas and Darrell Grant among the players, recorded on 19 and 25 November 1987 and released by Soul Note in 1989. Six pieces.

Mal Waldron (piano) and David Friesen (Oregon bass) in duo, recorded at Barigozzi Studio, Milan, on November 18, 1985. Seven pieces, originals and two standards. Soul Note LP, 1988.

Ran Blake, solo piano: thirteen Thelonious Monk tunes (Epistrophy three times) and four standards, recorded at Barigozzi Studio, Milan, on April 19 and 20, 1991. Soul Note CD, 1992.

Jaki Byard (piano) leading his New York big band The Apollo Stompers, with Graham Haynes, Steve Swell and Peter Leitch, recorded at Sound Ideas Studios, New York, on August 23 and 24, 1988. Soul Note CD, 1991.

Jaki Byard (piano) leading his New York big band The Apollo Stompers, with Graham Haynes, Steve Swell and Peter Leitch, recorded at Sound Ideas Studios, New York, on August 23 and 24, 1988. Soul Note LP, 1991.

Bob Moses (drums) with Dave Liebman (tenor sax), Terumasa Hino (cornet, percussion), Steve Kuhn (piano) and Steve Swallow (electric bass), recorded in Brooklyn in August 1979 and remixed in 1994. Five tracks first appeared on the 1980 LP Family.

Claudio Fasoli (tenor and soprano saxophone) with Kenny Wheeler (trumpet, flugelhorn), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double bass) and Daniel Humair (drums), recorded at Barigozzi Studio, Milan, on March 26, 1986. Soul Note LP, 1987.

Bobby Bradford (trumpet) live with The Frank Sullivan Trio (Frank Sullivan, piano; Scott Walton, bass; Billy Bowker, drums), recorded at the Thomas Center, Gainesville, Florida, on November 11, 1986. Seven pieces, about 57 minutes.

Fred Houn (later Fred Ho) and The Afro-Asian Music Ensemble, a sextet with Sam Furnace, Hafez Modirzadeh, Jon Jang, Kiyoto Fujiwara and Royal Hartigan, recorded at Barigozzi Studio, Milan, on November 26 and 27, 1987. Soul Note CD, 1988.

Tribute to Louis Armstrong by the Satchmo Legacy Band: Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller, Alvin Batiste, Al Casey, Kirk Lightsey, Red Callender and Alan Dawson, recorded in London in June 1987. Second of two volumes on Soul Note.

Enrico Rava Quintet with Augusto Mancinelli (electric guitar), John Taylor (piano), Furio Di Castri (bass) and Bruce Ditmas (drums), recorded at Barigozzi Studio, Milan, on July 7-8, 1986. Six Rava compositions and Holiday For Strings.

Standards sung by Shannon Gibbons with Kenny Barron (piano), Rufus Reid (bass), Ben Riley (drums) and Cecil Bridgewater (trumpet, flugelhorn), recorded in New York for Soul Note and released in 1987.

The Max Roach Double Quartet: Roach, Cecil Bridgewater, Odean Pope and Tyrone Brown with the Uptown String Quartet (Diane Monroe, Lesa Terry, Maxine Roach, Zela Terry), recorded in New York on October 1-2, 1986. Pieces by Kirk, Weston, Turre, Pope and Brown.

The Jimmy Giuffre 4 (Giuffre on tenor and soprano sax, clarinet and bass flute, Pete Levin keyboards, Bob Nieske electric bass, Randy Kaye drums), recorded at RBY Recording Studios, Southbury, Connecticut, on April 24, 1989.

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers with Philip Harper, Robin Eubanks, Javon Jackson, Benny Green and Leon Dorsey, recorded in Milan on November 11, 1988: originals by Harper and Eubanks, Silver's Mayreh, standards and a Blakey drum solo.

Two long pieces on which Max Roach recites his own poems over his quartet with Cecil Bridgewater, Odean Pope and Tyrone Brown, joined on Christina by Lee Konitz, Tony Scott and Tommaso Lama. Recorded at Studio Barigozzi, Milan, June 1984; released 1994.

Michael Cochrane's first album as a leader: seven of his compositions for quintet with Tom Harrell (trumpet, flugelhorn), Bob Malach (tenor sax, flute), Dennis Irwin (bass) and Jimmy Madison (drums), recorded at Titanic Sound Studios on September 23-24, 1985.

Five compositions by Dino Betti van der Noot for a jazz orchestra of more than twenty players, with Franco Ambrosetti, Donald Harrison, Gianluigi Trovesi and Daniel Humair, recorded at Jingle Machine Studios, Milan, in 1985.

Horace Parlan quartet album with Per Goldschmidt (baritone sax), Klavs Hovman (bass) and Massimo De Majo (drums), recorded at Barigozzi Studio, Milan, on March 12 and 13, 1987.

Quintet album co-led by Jeff Hittman (tenor sax) and Yoshitaka Uematsu (drums), with Valery Ponomarev (trumpet), Larry Willis (piano) and Dennis Irwin (bass), recorded at The Studio, New York, on November 14, 1986.

Live recording of the World Music ensemble with Andrew Cyrille at the Donaueschinger Musiktage, October 19, 1985, produced by Joachim-Ernst Berendt with Bernd Konrad, Connie Bauer, Dom Um Romão, Pandit Prakash Maharaj, Luis Di Matteo and others.

Duo album by Art Farmer (flugelhorn) and Fritz Pauer (piano), recorded at Austrophon Studios, Vienna, on June 25-26 and September 9-10, 1987: three Pauer originals, an Austrian folk song and pieces by Dameron, Golson, Ellington, Waldron and Cohn.

Jaki Byard trio album with Ralph Hamperian (bass) and Richard Allen (drums), recorded at Sound Ideas Studios, New York, on August 25, 1988. Five Byard originals, a piece by Hamperian and the song Foolin' Myself.

Giorgio Gaslini's trio album alternating the thirteen pieces of Schumann's Kinderszenen with four movements of his own Schumann Reflections, with Piero Leveratto (bass) and Paolo Pellegatti (drums), recorded at Barigozzi Studio, Milan, on July 6 and 7, 1984.

First album by Fred Houn (later Fred Ho) and the Afro-Asian Music Ensemble, recorded at Nola Studios, New York, on April 5, 8 and 9, 1985, with Sam Furnace, Al Givens, Sayyd Abdul Al-Khabyyr, Jon Jang and singer Carleen Robinson. Liner notes by Amiri Baraka.

Louis Armstrong tribute by the Satchmo Legacy Band: Freddie Hubbard (trumpet, flugelhorn), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Alvin Batiste (clarinet), Al Casey (guitar), Kirk Lightsey (piano), Red Callender (bass) and Alan Dawson (drums). Released 1989.