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1	Improvisczario (2007) more music like this by Bernie Worrell Bernie Worrell is best known as an A-list funkateer, but his talents go well beyond the funk arena. A Julliard trained classical pianist, Worrell has also appeared with everyone from Fred Schneider to the Pretenders to the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion to Pharoah Sanders and a myriad of Bill Laswell productions (not to mention his association with ... see all copies from $11.45! new only from $13.16!
2	Project Z (2001) more music like this by Project Z Imagine what would result from a recording session in which top-drawer musicians who favor improvisation are given no boundaries, rules, restraints, pressures, or expectations when they head into the studio. Imagine how psyched Jimmy Herring, Jeff Sipe, and Ricky Keller were when that opportunity presented itself. The three are among the top ... see all copies from $10.19! new only from $12.34!
3	King Crimson Songbook, Vol. 1 (2005) more music like this by The Crimson Jazz Trio A jazz piano-bass-drums trio performing the songs of the rock group King Crimson? That's what the Crimson Jazz Trio accomplished on this intriguing CD, King Crimson Songbook, Vol. 1, the first of several. By re-harmonizing the music a bit, adding vamps, and digging into the grooves, the Crimson Jazz Trio transforms the pieces from rock anthems ... see all copies from $13.16! new only from $16.48!
4	The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers (2006) more music like this by Jack DeJohnette This collaboration between drummer, pianist, and composer Jack DeJohnette and guitarist Bill Frisell, was recorded live at the Earshot Festival in 2001. But it doesn't end there. The pair, who had only played together once before on Don Byron's Romance with the Unseen, had a chance to listen to the tapes together and decided to add some additional ... see all copies from $12.17! new only from $15.33!
5	Solo in Mondsee (2007) more music like this by Paul Bley Fully 35 years after Open, to Love, Paul Bley's seminal solo piano recording for ECM (which stands as a watermark both in his own career and in the history of the label -- i.e., unconsciously aiding Manfred Eicher in establishing its "sound"), the pianist returns to the label for another go at it on Solo in Mondsee. Recorded in Mondsee, Austria, ... see all copies from $15.40! new only from $15.40!
6	Tongues (2007) more music like this by Kieran Hebden/Steve Reid Tongues is not The Exchange Session, Vol. 3 , nor is it a series of outtakes or discarded tracks from those sessions packaged simply to lure in those looking for more -- anything more -- from the deft electronics-and-percussion collaboration. (Although its release, in one sense, is the result of Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid's success; it was ... see all copies from $14.14! new only from $14.14!
7	The Exchange Session, Vol. 1 (2006) more music like this by Kieran Hebden/Steve Reid The Exchange Session, Vol. 1 is the second collaboration between Four Tet's Kieran Hebden and jazz drummer extraordinaire Steve Reid. The pair first collaborated on Reid's excellent Spirit Walk album. There was one tune on that set, "Drum Story," where Hebden and Reid played without the rest of the latter's band. Over 13-minutes in length, it was ... see all copies from $13.09! new only from $13.09!
8	Longitude (2005) more music like this by Groundtruther with DJ Logic Groundtruther have an interesting concept: electric/acoustic drummer Bobby Previte and eight-string guitar genius Charlie Hunter team up with an invited third member for albums of live improvisation. The first album, Latitude, was basically a continuation of Come In Red Dog, This Is Tango Leader (Hunter and Previte's first collaboration), with ... see all copies from $12.11! new only from $14.93!
9	The Exchange Session, Vol. 2 (2006) more music like this by Kieran Hebden/Steve Reid The second volume in the Exchange Sessions between jazz drummer Steve Reid and electronic whiz Kieran Hebden is even more abstract than the first. Like its predecessor, it contains three cuts; all of them over 15 minutes in length. Given that there were no overdubs or edits of any kind, the pressure put on the players is fairly hefty. The level of ... see all copies from $10.55! new only from $12.48!
10	Overture: Live in Nippon Yusen Soko (2007) more music like this by Ghost This two-disc package showcases the mysterious majesty that is Japan's Ghost in new ways to American audiences. Containing one CD and a companion DVD, Overture: Live in Nippon Yusen Soko 2006, documents a single evening performance at a former warehouse space that has been converted into an art gallery. The band lined up in parallel in front of ... see all copies from $14.25! new only from $16.44!
11 view cover	Hollinndagain (2006) more music like this by Animal Collective Originally issued as a limited-edition LP, Hollinndagain is a live album recorded during American performances in 2001. Seven tracks and just over 40 minutes in length, it stands as one of the earliest recordings by Animal Collective. Their transcultural technological brand of post-postmodern tribalism is already in play here. Static opens the set ... see all copies from $10.61! new only from $13.25!
12 view cover	Steam (2007) more music like this by Soft Machine Legacy Listeners might be justifiably wary of a band with the word "Legacy" in its title, perhaps surmising that the group in question might be rooted a bit too strongly in the past. And in the case of Soft Machine, the group at its very best -- during the late '60s and early '70s -- confounded listeners by breaking from its own past with each album ... see all copies from $11.96! new only from $12.41!
13 view cover	The Episodes (2007) more music like this by Chris Connelly Between 1997 and 2004, Chris Connelly made a handful of small recordings -- Ultimate Seaside Companion, Blonde Exodus, Largo (with Bill Rieflin), Private Education -- that stood outside virtually every scene and genre. These were elegant, poetic chamber pieces that captured various states of the human heart, whether in passion, delusion or ... see all copies from $11.64! new only from $13.70!
14 view cover	Malphas: Book of Angels, Vol. 3 (2006) more music like this by Mark Feldman/Sylvie Courvoisier John Zorn continues to debut new music with his Book of Angels series, the second collection of Masada material containing over 300 compositions -- none of which has been recorded before. The first two volumes featured Jamie Saft in an acoustic piano trio (Astaroth: Book of Angels, Vol. 1) and with the Masada String Trio (Azazel: Book of Angels, ... see all copies from $10.97! new only from $14.22!
15 view cover	What Exit? (2006) more music like this by Mark Feldman see all copies from $11.76! new only from $15.65!
16 view cover	Prowl (2006) more music like this by Erik Friedlander A deceptively smooth recording from the Erik Friedlander Quartet (sometimes going by the name of Topaz), Prowl offers the paradox of complex improvisational music so adroitly executed that its particular virtues might be overlooked by the casual listener. Originally set up by Friedlander as a trio composed of himself on cello, Andy Laster on alto ... see all copies from $13.70! new only from $16.26!
17 view cover	Grides (2006) more music like this by Soft Machine Cuneiform can always be counted on to unearth some gems from the late-'60s and early-'70s Soft Machine live concert archives, but with the 2006 CD/DVD release Grides the label might have outdone itself. The audio CD features keyboardist Mike Ratledge, bassist Hugh Hopper, saxophonist Elton Dean, and drummer Robert Wyatt performing material mainly ... see all copies from $17.26! new only from $21.18!
18 view cover	Android Love Cry (2007) more music like this by Tigersmilk Tigersmilk's third album makes clear its one-take improvisational origins with the opening "Poured over Waves Ecstatic Charge," the sound of a small free improv combo loosening up before the blowing session really starts. That finally happens on the far more organized second track, "Falling Signals Rise." Opening with an almost ambient solo ... see all copies from $10.16! new only from $12.75!
19 view cover	Somehow We Can (2002) more music like this by Alvin Singleton With all of this man's academic credentials, grants and composer-in-residence positions, he could probably get by without establishing an audience. That would certainly be a shame, since Alvin Singleton's music seems at times like it could feed the hungry. At any rate, the four pieces presented in this extremely well-planned collection share a ... see all copies from $11.94! new only from $17.23!
20 view cover	Three Improvisations on Modified Banjo (2005) more music like this by Paul Metzger Once the ears of the world were ready to return to the solo guitar innovations of John Fahey, roughly around the time Rhino released the two-CD retrospective Return of the Repressed, there were a number of players who lined up with guitars in hand to revive his particular style of fingerpicking fusion. Some merely replicated his country blues ... see all copies from $11.32! new only from $13.37!
21 view cover	The Way Things Work (2005) more music like this by Unknown Instructors After the death of D. Boon in 1985, Mike Watt and George Hurley briefly considered continuing the Minutemen with friend and frequent collaborator Joe Baiza of Saccharine Trust and Universal Congress Of taking over on guitar. Watt and Hurley opted to form fIREHOSE with newcomer Ed Crawford instead, but 20 years later these three giants of the ... see all copies from $3.20! new only from $12.60!
22 view cover	Time Petah-Tiqva (2007) more music like this by Boris Malkovsky Boris Malkovsky is an Israeli composer and bayan master. (The bayan is a button accordion.) Time Petah-Tiqva is his debut for Tzadik and appears as a shining example in its Radical Jewish Culture series of recordings. Accompanied by double bassist Ora Boazson and the Israel Contemporary String Quartet, Malkovsky melds modern and postmodern ... see all copies from $11.94! new only from $14.22!
23 view cover	Streaming (2006) more music like this by Muhal Richard Abrams/George Lewis/Roscoe Mitchell The five lengthy improvisations by the three veteran masters of the AACM range from airy sound explorations to stretches of extroverted interplay. The former does sometimes goes on way too long as one waits for the latter. Best are the episodic "Dramaturns" and the intense group improvising on "Streaming." While one appreciates George Lewis' ... see all copies from $14.25! new only from $14.25!
24 view cover	Speed the Parting Guest (2005) more music like this by Heathen Shame It is funny how the instrumentation this trio uses misleads on its overall sound palette. Trumpet, guitars, and drums? Nah, Speed the Parting Guest actually sounds like three guitars, each one fully equipped with electronics, and a few electrified springs and metal sheets -- at least on first impression. Close listening reveals a bit more ... see all copies from $9.78! new only from $11.59!
25 view cover	The Master's Voice (2006) more music like this by Unknown Instructors see all copies from $2.49! new only from $14.92!

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