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Have a Little Faith guitarist Bill Frisell italicized his stature as a composer and arranger within a combo setting that achieves a perfect balance of form and free-wheeling interpretive intensity. Frisell's core working section of the time (drummer Joey Barron and bassist Kermit Driscoll) are augm...

Live at Monterey...

Live at Club Lingerie...

Here is an often-overlooked gem of a session, recorded in 1965 as Coleman returned from three years of isolation after revolutionizing jazz in large and in detail on his legendary quartet recordings on Atlantic. Habituated to cries of execration, he now played trumpet and violin in a manner as idios...

Wow! The Formative Years...

Outward Bound...

Banjo player Bela Fleck has a world-class set of chops and a willingness to follow his muse wherever it takes him. The band ranges far and wide once again on the The Hidden Land­ it opens with a Bach Fugue, delves into swing, has a bit of bluegrass, does progressive rock, and jets to several other...

Personnel: Cecil Taylor: piano Bill Dixon: trumpet Jimmy Lyons: alto sax Henry Grimes, Alan Silva: bass Andrew Cyrille: drums...

While Many Might Think of John Cage Immediately When Discussing Minimalist Or Avant Garde Music, the Second Name from Your Lips Should Be Moondog. Nee Louis T. Hardin, He was Blinded as a Teen in an Accident with a Dyamite Cap. He Assumed his Nickname in Honor of his Dog that Used to Howl Wildly at ...

On this highly influential 1959 album, Ornette Coleman's unique writing style and idiosyncratic solo language forever changed the jazz landscape. On classics such as "Lonely Woman," "Congeniality," and "Focus on Sanity," Coleman used the tunes' moods and melodic contours, rather than their chords, a...