Haunting minimalism is a specialty of Berlin-based psycho-acoustic clarinet duo the International Nothing. But on In Doubt We Trust, Michael...

The process of composing music, generally, is autocratic: "This is what I want; play these notes." But the burgeoning free improvisation sce...

The psychoacoustic clarinet duo of Michael Theike and Kai Fagaschinski have been co-creating music of breadth and depth since 2000. Their ra...

Tenor saxophonist/composer Quinsin Nachoff always pushes the envelope. Whether it's writing for sax and string quartet, contemporary ensembl...

It's hard to overestimate the musical and cultural influence of visionary Greek-born composer, engineer, architect and theoretician Iannis X...

Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and drummer Tom Rainey have a great deal of shared music-making history. Both are stalwarts of the Brooklyn scen...

Welcome to drummer/composer Nick Fraser's Starer, where a phasing bass/cello mixed-meter ostinato is commented upon by spiky sticks and answ...

Frank Zappa's wry "Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny" quote aside, the jazz tradition continues to challenge and inspire new generations...

Making modern jazz together for years, bassist Michael Herring and guitarist Don Scott have done their due diligence: constant practice, get...

Engaging, rough-hewn and warm-hearted, the Woodshed Orchestra make music that is unremittingly cheerful, even when laced with a twinge of so...

From muscular to meditative, drummer/composer Jerry Granelli's music spans a continent-wide range of expressiveness. Like the man himself &#...

Equatorial and intergalactic, Dangerous Orbits takes Musique concrète into trance-inducing new dimensions. Insect-like thrumming, watery bur...

Poised, playful and piquant by turns, trio c_RL create improvised music that engages. Rattling, pinging, dinging, poinging and thumping surr...

Recorded at NYC's Jazz Standard, this collection of 11 exquisite Gil Evans arrangements is powered into hyperdrive by the presence of an ent...

Between Toronto and Berlin, his bases of operation, Canadian composer/pianist/visual artist John Kameel Farah is busy bridging continents &#...

Novelist, painter, junkie, psychic explorer: William S. Burroughs is arguably one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Not c...

Artoffact's massive 10-CD Mlada Fronta career retrospective Every Thing was a sonic attack. But Polygon finds Fronta's Remy Pelleschi moving...

Pianist/composer Fred Hersch is a musician's musician, an artist of in-the-moment expressiveness. His playing and writing are expansive: fro...

The Berlin trio of Hâvard Wilk (piano), Michael Thieke (clarinet) and Antonio Borghini (bass) achieve a unity of hearing and empathy that is...

Montreal-based composer/alto saxophonist Erik Hove is a musical chemist. He mixes differing amounts of jazz, classical and contemporary comp...