I normally can’t get my ass off the chair to go to a concert if I don’t know it a few days beforehand. Yesterday night though I had to act spontaneous as Marc Ribot was in town with his Spiritual Unity project playing Albert Ayler pieces. It was an intense show with little interaction between [...]

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The Thing with Ken Vandermark by Mizohu Yabe
We’ve been slacking on posting avantjazz for a while since I haven’t found anything notable to listen these days (care to help? comment pls.) so here’s 2006’s Action Jazz by Mats Gustafsson’s The Thingon Smalltown Supersound. Their eighth studio album is a chaotic tornado which defined Allaboutjazz summed [...]

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One of Poland’s finest jazz exports recently, alongside Tomasz Stanko Quartet and Sing Sing Penelope which shares two members with CNQ and hopefully will be featured here soon. I’m sorry to have listened to this album in December and this month mainly, else it would have been in my 2006 list most definitely. I’m mostly [...]

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I know I have been lacking on the avantjazz/freejazz front for some time although I’ve been listening to a few great albums I’ve picked up recently. And surprise they are not on Tzadik this time! :)

Gerry Hemingway Quartet’s latest album The Whimbler is on the Portuguese Clean Feed label that focus on creative jazz. [...]

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