Avant-Garde Jazz: Best Sellers

Label: Wounded Bird

Pianist Keith Jarrett's sessions of July 1971 resulted in three LPs and the birth of his finest group: a quartet (and sometimes quintet) [more]

Pianist Paul Bley's early ESP free jazz session combines the influence of the Jazz Composer's Guild with Ornette Coleman. On Barrage, [more]

Recorded in 1969, this is one of three albums to feature drummer Sunny Murray as a leader in 1969. Issued on the [more]

Lester Bowie's projects apart from the Art Ensemble of Chicago tread a high wire between challenging improvised music and R&B-pop. [more]

The previous Art Ensemble of Chicago ECM album Nice Guys vaulted them to the top of improvised music groups in the U.S. and [more]

Recorded in 1969, these sessions were released only 39 years later. They took place at the same time as the sessions for the [more]

Secrets of the Sun consists of sessions recorded by drummer Tommy "Bugs" Hunter in 1962 at the Choreographer's Workshop in [more]

Medeski, Martin & Wood have been incorporating seemingly every corner of the musical universe, from funk to gospel to [more]

South African drummer Makaya Ntshoko has been around the jazz scene for decades, appearing as a sideman with a number [more]