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What If?
Matthew Shipp / Nate Wooley
2019
"Two singular artists continually expanding in their own ever-personal unique universes. Taking & loving risks. Yet staying true to the form(s) while transforming. Multifaceted. Multidirectional. Multidimensional. - Steve Dalachinsky"
CD, Digital
What Thomas Bernhard Saw
Audio One
2015
"Strong, interesting compositions. Excellent, opinionated musicians. Passionate, committed playing, full of energy. Brilliant album (Eyal Hareuveni, The Free Jazz Collective)"
Wildlife
Joe Morris
2009
"The album ends with the upbeat "Nettle", uptempo and boppish again, full of great playing by all three musicians, and again, as unpretentious and musically honest as their previous release. Luther Gray is great. Morris as unpredictable as ever - and I always welcome his lyricism on bass. Cancura is a guy to watch. Enjoy! -Stef, Free Jazz Blog"
Windows: The Music of Steve Lacy
Mats Gustafsson
1999
"Windows is an important step in Gustafsson's career, evidencing a mature combination of technical prowess, conceptual rigor, and sublimated passion. Highly recommended."
Winter Garden
Flow Trio with Joe McPhee
2021
""The Flow Trio do that. Flow. They flow in a free manner. They flow because each player sets up the other players with what he does, allowing them to invent fertile extended collective improvisations." – All About Jazz"
Wired For Sound
Marker
2017
""Vandermark’s music is a moving target. Wired For Sound was recorded in September 2017, and since then the group has toured the Southern USA. If their final Chicago date, which occurred a couple weeks after that tour, is any indication, they’ve grown more fearless and forceful. Here’s hoping that this band stays together for a spell; it’d be great to hear what comes next." -Bill Meyer, Dusted Magazine, March 19, 2018 "5 stars" -Gustav Lindqvist, The Free Jazz Collective, February 21, 2018 "
Woodcuts
Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love
2010
"For anyone who witnessed the unrelenting earthquake of this pair's dialogues at the Vortex earlier in the year, Woodcuts will be an absorbing reminder, and there's a good deal of rough-hewn lyricism. -John Fordham, Chicago Reader"
2014
Words on the Floor
Mats Gustafsson and Yoshimi
2007
Worse For The Wear
Ballister
"After Effects must have keyframes selected from one layer in order to export them as text. -Victor Aaron, Something Else!"
Xylophonen Virtuosen
Mats Gustafsson & Jim O?Rourke
2CD, 2LP, Digital
Y'Anbessaw Tezeta
Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex & Friends
2012
"The sound is full, warm, accessible and guaranteed to suck you in and keep you captivated till the last note has died out. -Stef, Free Jazz Blog"
Your Left hand Just Exploded
Nash Kontroll
2005
CD / DIGITAL
Znachki Stilyag
"On this new record – their first in three years – we hear Rempis adding more space, breath, and humor to his firebreathing as he matures into his mid-career status. Nilssen-Love increasingly incorporates influences from his ongoing work in Ethiopia and Brazil, often trading his remarkable ability to generate rhythmic drive for newfound subtleties. And check out the sheer breadth of Lonberg-Holm’s musical experience on display here; someone whose discography spans every genre imaginable over the last four decades, and whose jaw-dropping abilities as a musical chameleon gives him a truly singular voice in the improvised music world."
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