Modern Creative: Best Sellers

OK, this sounds like a pretty hokey concept: Pharoah Sanders and some of Bill Laswell's Material crew perform along with recordings of a heartbeat, supplied by Dr. Jean-Louis [more]

Henry Threadgill has, in the framework of abstract music, been a stalwart, spontaneous composer whose personal sound is near impossible to identify, or certainly [more]

Think Free is the eigth recording veteran bassist and bandleader Ben Allison has recorded for Palmetto and his ninth overall. The last two, Cowboy Justice (2006) and Little Things Run the [more]

Friendly Pants is a passionate studio session between American free jazz rhythm section Chikamorachi (drummer Chris Corsano and bassist Darin Gray) and Akira Sakata, one [more]

The title of this terrific BGP compilation is taken from Azar Lawrence's debut album for Milestone Records (all of these cuts were licensed from Milestone and Prestige). [more]

Gottlieb's brand of jazz is far from smooth. Instead it's a thing made of knotty little moments, some beautiful, some more abrasive, that are stitched together into [more]

Fred Anderson's reputation as one of the premier creative improvising saxophonists is well deserved, but he is also a formidable and able player within the modern mainstream of [more]

A new set by British saxophonist and composer Andy Sheppard is always a welcome proposal, but his 13th album, and 14th release overall, also happens to be his debut for ECM. [more]

Siwan, the title of keyboardist and composer Jon Balke's sixth album for ECM, is derived from a mixed language known as "Aljamiado," [more]

The purely magical, tonal, dancing alto or bass clarinet and soprano saxophone of Louis Sclavis are heard fully on this recording with his quintet, where he explores a variety of [more]

In a single three-hour session in March 1963, John Coltrane and the singer Johnny Hartman convened in a studio (along with the [more]

Max Roach's post-Clifford Brown ensembles became more experimental down the road, but this 1960 band, with the brothers Tommy and Stanley Turrentine, and Julian Priester, was [more]

With two electric guitars, electric bass and drums, Jerry Granelli's V16 project might resemble a rock band more than your standard jazz band, but don't be fooled: this is a [more]

Subway Moon is not an easy album to pin down stylistically. Some parts of this 2009 release favor instrumental avant-garde jazz, while much of the disc contains spoken word recited [more]