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1	Class Trip (2004) more music like this by John Abercrombie Quartet The John Abercrombie Quartet's Cat 'n' Mouse, issued in 2002, showcased a band that was on the verge of something that approached greatness. Abercrombie, violinist Mark Feldman, drummer Joey Baron, and bassist Marc Johnson gelled together inside the framework of the guitarist's increasingly open-ended compositions and became a unit that could ... see all copies from $13.14! new only from $15.65!
2	3 Compositions of New Jazz (1968) more music like this by Anthony Braxton While it is not as powerful or as revelatory as For Alto, Anthony Braxton's second album for Delmark, 3 Compositions of New Jazz is his debut as a leader and showcases just how visionary -- or out to lunch depending on your point of view -- he was from the very beginning. Recorded nine months after his debut with Muhal Richard Abrams on Levels and ... see all copies from $8.69! new only from $10.42!
3	The Rain (2003) more music like this by Ghazal On its fourth outing and its first for ECM, the Indian/Persian duo Ghazal chose to record a live album. Issued from a concert in Switzerland, the recording blends the musical styles of both countries. Shujaat Husain Khan, a direct descendant (grandson) of the venerable musician and spiritual master Ustad Vilayat Khan, plays sitar in the Imad Khan ... see all copies from $12.73! new only from $15.65!
4	Stoa (2006) more music like this by Nik Bärtsch's Ronin He may call it "Zen Funk," but the real question is, what the hell is this? Swiss pianist and composer Nik Bartsch's Ronin have issued their ECM debut, Stoa, the label well-known for its icy sounding, spacious jazz. ECM has been pushing the envelope for nearly 40 years, but with Ronin, they've pushed it beyond the pale into God knows what. This is ... see all copies from $12.56! new only from $16.21!
5	New Monastery (2006) more music like this by Nels Cline If Otomo Yoshihide can interpret Eric Dolphy and Marc Ribot can do Albert Ayler, then why not Nels Cline doing Andrew Hill -- who is still alive and creating marvelously, with his recordings in the current century clear evidence of this. As Cline describes his approach in the liner notes, this most certainly is not a tribute record or an attempt ... see all copies from $13.70! new only from $16.26!
6	Re: Pasolini (2007) more music like this by Stefano Battaglia To call Stefano Battaglia's Re: Pasolini on ECM, ambitious would be an erroneous understatement. In fact, it is an undertaking of enormous propensity. In the United States, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) is known primarily as a filmmaker, whose works such as the Decameron, Canterbury Tales, Medea, and the notorious Salo (based on the Marquis de ... see all copies from $17.41! new only from $23.22!
7	Spillane (1986) more music like this by John Zorn Using his "file card" technique to create the title piece "Spillane" (whereby musical ideas written on note cards form the basis for discreet sound blocks arranged by way of a unifying theme), John Zorn forges an impressionistic narrative out of stretches of live-music jazz, blues, country, lounge, thrash, etc., and a variety of samples and spoken ... see all copies from $12.54! new only from $17.26!
8	Way Out East (2006) more music like this by Wayne Horvitz Way Out East presents the debut of Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet, with trumpeter Ron Miles -- who you'll wish you heard more from as a leader -- cellist Peggy Lee, and bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck. Horvitz plays piano and employs electronics some of the time. The music here alternates between structured improvisation for ensemble, modern ... see all copies from $13.17! new only from $19.79!
9	Speechless (2005) more music like this by Bruce Cockburn Speechless is proof in the pudding that you can teach an old dog new tricks. Old dog? Take a look at Bruce Cockburn's photo in the CD booklet. Speechless is the singer/songwriter's first foray into completely instrumental territory. There are 15 tracks here, the vast majority of which are redos of tracks from Cockburn's catalog. But given their ... see all copies from $15.98! new only from $15.98!
10	The Complete Machine Gun Sessions (2007) more music like this by Peter Brötzmann Thanks to Atavistic and its truly treasured Unheard Music Series , we finally have the Complete Machine Gun Sessions as recorded in 1968. That short-lived but forever memorable (in the annals of free music lore) band was led by the vision and über lungs of saxophonist/composer Peter Brötzmann. It was built out of his stellar trio with pianist ... see all copies from $12.11! new only from $14.69!
11 view cover	The Complete Studio Recordings (2005) more music like this by Naked City see all copies from $78.38! new only from $87.52!
12 view cover	Six Litanies for Heliogabalus (2007) more music like this by John Zorn In 2006, John Zorn issued two recordings that were the first two volumes in the realization of a project that, as he put it in his notes to the second volume, a methodology "combining the hypnotic intensity of ritual (composition) the spontaneity of magic (improvisation) in a modern musical format (rock)." Those two efforts, Moonchild and ... see all copies from $14.22! new only from $14.22!
13 view cover	Asmodeus: The Book of Angels, Vol. 7 (2007) more music like this by Marc Ribot see all copies from $10.97! new only from $14.22!
14 view cover	Ghazal: Lost Songs of the Silk Road (1997) more music like this by Ghazal A fascinating meeting of Persian and Indian musical and cultural influences. Iranian musician Kayhan Kalhor, North Indian virtuoso Shujaat Hussain Khan, and Swapan Chaudhuri playing the kamancheh (spike fiddle), sitar, and tabla, respectively, met in New York for the sessions that led to this album, a melding of related but separate musical ... see all copies from $12.92! new only from $15.65!
15 view cover	50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 4 (2004) more music like this by Electric Masada At long last, John Zorn's Electric Masada project gets a release of its own. Recorded during his 50th birthday celebration in September of 2003, the set delivers everything you would expect from an Electric Masada show: great tunes, blistering solos from everyone concerned, and a slightly rocked-up atmosphere. The band does not disappoint; there ... see all copies from $11.16! new only from $14.22!
16 view cover	Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces, Vol. 2 [Tzadik] (2002) more music like this by John Zorn Written and premiered in 1984, "Cobra" is a classic in the circles of new music, having been performed innumerable times. In fact, composer and "prompter" John Zorn says in the liners that it his most-often-performed composition -- no mean feat considering his prolific output. It is no wonder, though: There is a mischievous, cartoonish quality to ... see all copies from $11.16! new only from $14.24!
17 view cover	What Is the Difference Between Stripping & Playing the Violin? (1998) more music like this by The Masaoka Orchestra What Is the Difference Between Stripping and Playing the Violin? contains two compositions by West Coast avant-garde artist Miya Masaoka. Although an accomplished koto player, Masaoka does not play on this CD: her hands are full conducting her 16-piece ensemble. The first piece, "24,000 Years Is Forever," uses mostly the string section, with short ... see all copies from $13.21! new only from $14.18!
18 view cover	At the Mountains of Madness (2005) more music like this by John Zorn/Electric Masada John Zorn's At the Mountains of Madness presents two sets (Moscow, Ljubljana) recorded at the end of a lengthy European tour. The band is exactly the same as on The 50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 4 and many of the same tunes are performed, but the performances actually feel very different. Perhaps there was something of wanting to put on a good ... see all copies from $20.31! new only from $20.31!
19 view cover	Unbridled (2006) more music like this by Lantana see all copies from $2.95! new only from $12.27!
20 view cover	The Sweetness of the Water (2004) more music like this by Spring Heel Jack When the U.K. hard drum 'n bass "duo" Spring Heel Jack began collaborating with Thirsty Ear and their Blue Series curator Matthew Shipp, one doubts they had any idea that their own sense of proportion and direction would shift so far away from their source material as it has. Sweetness of the Water is the band's fourth outing in the Blue Series, ... see all copies from $8.98! new only from $15.30!
21 view cover	Spiritual Unity (2005) more music like this by Marc Ribot Albert Ayler compositions have been in Marc Ribot's book for many years, so it shouldn't really be a surprise that he put together a band to play Ayler tunes. However, when Ribot started playing Ayler songs he couldn't have dreamed that he'd be playing them with Henry Grimes, the original bass player on a number of Ayler's seminal mid-'60s ... see all copies from $11.59! new only from $14.04!
22 view cover	Moonchild (2006) more music like this by John Zorn Let's take away John Zorn's ecstatic -- some would say diarrheic -- hyperbole in the sleeve notes for a bit and look at the trio here: vocalist Mike Patton, drummer Joey Baron, and bassist Trevor Dunn. Given their individual and collective résumés, the possibilities are nearly endless. These three offer Moonchild, Zorn's "contemporary song cycle," ... see all copies from $11.16! new only from $14.22!
23 view cover	24-24 Music (1981) more music like this by Dinosaur L Of all the posthumous recordings in Arthur Russell's voluminous legacy, the Dinosaur L recordings from 1981, titled 24-24 Music on the original Sleeping Bag Records imprint, are the most delightful to listen to. While it's true in one way they are not the most musically sophisticated of his many recordings -- and this is not a disclaimer -- in ... see all copies from $10.71! new only from $12.33!
24 view cover	Anode (2001) more music like this by Otomo Yoshihide Experimental composer/improvisers have long had a fascination with developing systems that manage to combine the two. For example, a system of rules might be applied which constrains players within certain guidelines where, as long as they don't exceed certain boundaries, they are free to improvise. John Zorn' s game pieces such as Cobra come to ... see all copies from $7.75! new only from $14.22!
25 view cover	The Iron Stone (2006) more music like this by Robin Williamson At the age of 63, poet, songwriter, composer and visionary Robin Williamson shows no signs of slowing down on The Iron Stone, his third set of recordings for Manfred Eicher's ECM label. The title, of course, comes from the song of the same name that Williamson and the Incredible String Band first recorded on the Big Huge album in 1969. "The Iron ... see all copies from $12.64! new only from $15.65!

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