Jazz & Improvisation / Free Jazz

1982 Japanese re-press of the 1981 album on MPS. With insert and obi.

1982 Japanese re-press of the 1981 album on MPS. With insert.

1970's Japanese re-issue with different cover on Verve of the 1957 split-LP featuring Steve Lacy.

Original US edition on Barnaby Records' "Candid Series" of the 1972 album with recordings from 1961 featuring Steve Lacy, Archie Shepp and Roswell Rudd.

1980 re-issue on JCOA Records of the 1968 double-album by Michael Mantler's big band featuring Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Lyons, Alan Silva, Charlie Haden, Kent Carter, Andrew Cyrille, Carla Bley, Steve Lacy and Gato Barbieri and many others.

1980 re-issue on JCOA Records of the 1968 double-album by Michael Mantler's big band featuring Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Lyons, Alan Silva, Charlie Haden, Kent Carter, Andrew Cyrille, Carla Bley, Steve Lacy and Gato Barbieri and many others.

Very rare original edition on Tyler’s own AK-BA Records of the 1977 album featuring Steve Reid.

One of the critical figures in Chicago's creative music scene, alto saxophonist Nick Mazzarella has been a mainstay for over 25 years as a leader, composer, and player. This gorgeous recording was made at Shape Shoppe Paradiso, the Italian studio of former Chicagoan Griffin Rodriguez. Mazzarella was introduced to bassist Silvia Bolognesi by cellist Tomeka Reid, and he began informally playing with Silvia and drummer Cristiano Calcangile in 2016. Seven years later, Bolognesi invited Mazzarella to…

*2026 stock* Reed players Mats Gustafsson and Andreas Røysum bonded over common understandings of the physical and political dimensions of music. Across generations and other accountant-like statistics (zzz...), they decided in 2021 to start playing together as a duo, and thus Vindögæ was unleashed on the Norwegian audience. It was on five cold December evenings, during which the country once again was preparing for lockdown, that the sound of Vindögæ opened up to a much-limited club audience. T…

Elliott Sharp, Colin Stetson, Billy Martin and Payton MacDonald live at Victoriaville in May 2023: electric guitar and electronics, bass saxophone, drums and mallets in a heavy, groove-driven quartet.

In March 2022, Joe Fonda and Silke Eberhard met at the Downtown Music Record Store in New York, and just six months later they were on stage together with Austrian drummer Emil Gross in Berlin. The Josilemi Trio was born. The collective trio's compositions and improvisations are powerful, driving, elegant, structured and refined, combining diverse influences with improvisational inspiration. It is music that is completely connected to the moment and yet totally future-oriented. It is Music for h…

1970's US re-issue on Fantasy's "Debut Series" of the 1964 album.

A mighty soulful set—where love songs, modal fire, and freer moments collide. Celebrated bassist Takahashi Mizuhashi delivers a deeply expressive performance captured live at Jazz 1974, released as Live In 5 Days In Jazz 1974 – When A Man Loves A Woman. This remarkable record is driven by the kind of playing that moves with conviction: long-form tracks that unfold like stories, shifting from heartfelt warmth to daring experimentation with effortless momentum. The album opens with a soulful readi…

1969 Japanese re-issue in mono on DIW of the first album from 1963. With insert.

1969 Japanese re-issue in mono on Sonet with different title and cover of the first album from 1963 originally titled Something Different!!!!!!. With original "SJ Seal of Approval" sticker on front.

1969 UK re-issue in mono on Sonet with different title and cover of the first album from 1963 originally titled Something Different!!!!!!.

1973 US re-issue in stereo on GNP Crescendo with different title and cover of the first album from 1963 originally titled Something Different!!!!!!. With original innersleeve.

Rare 1985 Japanese re-issue on Freedom of the 1964 album featuring Henry Grimes and Sunny Murray. With insert.

1975 US re-issue on Arista/Freedom with different title and cover of the 1964 album originally titled Spirits featuring Henry Grimes and Sunny Murray. With original innersleeve.

1979 French re-issue on Freedom of the 1964 album originally titled My Name Is Albert Ayler. With original innersleeve.

1975 Japanese re-issue on Trio/Freedom's "Freedom Discover The '60's Series" with different cover of the 1965 album featuring Gary Peacock, Don Cherry and Sunny Murray. With insert.

1978 Japanese re-issue on ESP-Disk's "ジャズ名盤 Collection" of the 1965 album featuring Gary Peacock and Sunny Murray. With insert.

1978 Japanese re-issue on ESP-Disk's "ジャズ名盤 Collection" of the 1965 album featuring Gary Peacock and Sunny Murray. With insert.

1978 Japanese re-issue on ESP-Disk's "ジャズ Collection" of the 1965 album featuring Gary Peacock, Henry Grimes, Sunny Murray, Donald Ayler and Charles Tyler.

1980 Japanese re-issue on ESP-Disk's "ジャズ Collection" of the 1965 album featuring Gary Peacock, Henry Grimes, Sunny Murray, Donald Ayler and Charles Tyler.

1980 Japanese re-issue on ESP-Disk's "ジャズ Collection" of the 1965 album featuring Gary Peacock, Henry Grimes, Sunny Murray, Donald Ayler and Charles Tyler.

Rare 1971 Japanese re-press on Impulse!/ABC of the 1967 album featuring Alan Silva, Henry Grimes and Donald Ayler.

Original French edition on Impulse!/ABC of the 1969 album.

1972 re-issue on Shandar of volume 1 of the 1970 live album.

Original edition on Shandar of volume 2 of the 1970 live album.

1971 Japanese pressing on RCA of volume 2 of the 1970 live album.

1974 Japanese pressing on RCA of the double LP set with the full 1970 concert.

Original Japanese pressing on Impulse of the 1971 album. With insert and obi.

Original Dutch edition of the 1971 album with recordings from 1964 featuring Henry Grimes, Sunny Murray ad Call Cobbs, later re-issued with the title Goin' Home.

1994 first CD re-issue on Black Lion with different title of the 1971 album originally titled Swing Low Sweet Spiritual with recordings from 1964 featuring Henry Grimes, Sunny Murray ad Call Cobbs.

1980 Japanese re-issue on ESP-Disk's "ジャズ名盤 Collection" of the 1975 album with recordings from 1964 featuring Gary Peacock and Sunny Murray. With obi.

Original 1980 Dutch LP on Osmosis with recordings from 1964 featuring Gary Peacock, Don Cherry and Sunny Murray.

Original Japanese pressing on DIW/Base of the 1982 album with a live recording from 1966 featuring Donald Ayler. With insert.

1992 release (light wear) ** July 1964: the soundtrack to Michael Snow's film, and one of the great collective improvisations ever recorded - a record whose influence runs so deep that entire schools of music stand on it without always knowing. Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock and Sunny Murray, with no leader, no themes, no solo order, no safety net of any kind - just six master musicians building form out of pure attention. The blueprint for everything from the…

1972 Japanese re-issue on Atlantic's "Jazz Age" series of the 1961 album featuring Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert.