Mosaic

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Legendary drummer Art Taylor played on a multitude of classic jazz sessions, but only managed to release a few dates as a leader before he p...

Altoist Gigi Gryce's last regular group before moving to Africa and largely retiring from music was the quintet featured on this CD, two...

"...Waldron controls pace and phrase through placement and volume of dissonant chords and contrary motion...he gently supports [vocalis...

After having left the ensemble of Charles Mingus and upon working with John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy formed a short-lived but potent quintet wi...

1. If I Were A Bell 2. Fire Waltz 3. Round About Midnight 4. With A Song In My Heart 5. You Mean Me 6. Someday My Prince Will Come 7. All Go...

Largely continuing the blueprint of A Sense of Direction, Relativity finds Walt Dickerson mixing standards with adventurous yet upbeat origi...

Cornetist Bobby Bradford has recorded far too infrequently throughout his career. A mellow-toned player with an adventurous style that is us...

On the years Bergman has broken down any residual distinction between left -and right- hand functions in piano-playing. On the two large-sca...

Recorded at two live dates in Canada in July and July of 2004, Sound Unity is the most beautifully wrought of William Parker's ensemble ...

On “Convergence” the brilliant trumpeter-composer Dave Douglas pursues new territory following up on “Parallel Worlds” and the more recent “...

Stoned Soul Picnic is vibraphonist Roy Ayers' third and probably best solo album, made in 1968 while he was still a part of Herbie Mann&...

Clearly indebted to Ornette Coleman, Michael Marcus leads his trio (drummer Cody Moffett and bassist Chris Sullivan) through dangerous terra...

The Peach Orchard is a two-CD set showcasing bassist William Parker's work with an ensemble consisting of composer/instrument maker/pian...

On Peace, Cyrille drives things along with great generosity of spirit. Working without piano, Dickerson sounds both edgier and more expressi...

This trio session was altoist Rob Brown's first as a leader. All three musicians had served time in Cecil Taylor's bands and the lis...

Konstanze's Delight consists of just three long pieces, the first of them an opportunity for the whole band to show its stuff. As so oft...

In the dynamic company of Sirone and Cyrille, Walt emerges as a particular kind of modernist, a radical-conservative. Most of the tracks are...

Sam Rivers, the octogenarian multi-instrumentalist and composer, has always been just outside the kind of mainstream attention that would ha...

Although organist Don Patterson is the leader of this set that in 1998 was reissued on a CD, the quintet date is most notable for the playin...

Tenor saxophonist Billy Harper helped launch the Italy-based Black Saint jazz label with this 1975 release. And not only does this represent...

In 1982, very few people were aware of late pianist Herbie Nichols' name, much less playing his music. Versatile avant-garde pianist Mis...

Absolutely delicious . Soon, more Dickerson. Walt Dickerson never got quite the credit he deserved for pioneering a modernist approach to th...

The band Anthony Braxton assembled for this unique exploration of the compositions of Thelonious Monk is one of the wonders of the composer&...

These four alums of groups led by Ornette Coleman got together to explore the sound and repertoire that their mentor had largely given up wh...

One of most Taylor's accesible and beauty solo concerts. Also one of my favourites . Cecil Taylor had released numerous albums of solo r...

...Karen Borca also appears to great effect on "Wee Sneezawee", perhaps the most conventional of these discs in freebop terms but ...

At first combining a set by Cecil Taylor with another by the Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory seems like an odd pairing, but it ends u...

Ron Carter's Uptown Conversation may very well be the most intriguing, challenging, and resonant statement of many he has made over the ...

When Sam Rivers' Crystals was released in 1974, it had been over a decade since Ornette had worked with his Free Jazz Double Quartet, ni...

The duets with Braxton are a key point. In ther anxiety to sort-code music, critics couldn't decide who was climbing into whose pigeonho...

On the shelf for eight years before release, and whith Wright and McCall both gone in the interim, this already has the feel of history abou...

This is as dour and dark as anything Hill has committed to record. Silva and Waits are ideal partners in music that isn't so much minor-...

A major early release by tenorist Murray, 3D Family appeared originally on Hat Hut records as a double LP before eventually being re-release...

This is the japanese remastered edition of the big band Tollive r's "Impact" (not be confused with the quartet live album). Pr...

For this date, Murray teamed up with the able veterans Richard Davis and Joe Chambers, producing a varied, solid, and enjoyable session mixi...

On this free jazz date the powerful tenor Frank Lowe teams up with trumpeter Leo Smith, trombonist Joseph Bowie, bassist Alex Blake and drum...