“perseverance flow is skipping rope in slo-mo. a dance of co-operation to rally guts & humors & keep marching through pouring tears” (abrams).

the drum, and its entire global family of membranophones, shakers, and idiophones, are conduits for their collective creative voice

the intergenerational coalition of Isaiah Collier, William Hooker, & William Parker

mojo magazine #1 underground album 2023

x2LPs of long-form, lyrical, groove-based free improv by the acclaimed guitarist & composer's los angeles 4tet. pitchfork 100 best albums of the 2020s

washington post best albums 2021

beautifully exectuted audiophile reissue remastered from original tapes

the wire magazine #9 record 2019/ washington post #2 song 2019

the wire magazine #9 record 2019/ washington post #2 song 2019

the definitive vinyl edition of the most legendary private press underground jazz album of the 1970s

19" x 25" screenprinted tour poster

pitchfork 8.1 rating / the wire magazine #7 record 2017 / uncut magazine #15 record 2017

abrams music for two acclaimed documentaries by steve james

repressed new york times best albums 2016

the wire #3 record of 2015 / pitchfork #2 'experimental' record 2015

deluxe CD edition with unreleased material. other music's best reissues 2014

deluxe CD edition with unreleased material. other music's best reissues 2014

the music reaches such a joyous pitch the players break into song

AMS was both a radical arts presenting organization & a killer band.  its story is a long buried & previously undocumented chapter of the early loft era

deluxe reissue of this outsider holy grail. an improbable fusion of cosmic free jazz & full-on live dub production techniques

secret jazz hero blum joined by expat antonio grippi & one of the baddest rhythm sections in free jazz history

a pinnacle in his work & in its documentation

full of fire and surprise, ornery as hell, charming and urbane, and totally, unstintingly true to his free-spirited aesthetic

one of the most original musical minds of the past 50 years, a genuine innovator, the liberator of the drum kit, & an artist of uncompromising honesty

a remarkable gathering of first & second generation american free jazz heavyweights

moondoc had a special chemistry with charles, whose caribbean-inflected rhythms animated jazz in an entirely unique way

frighteningly powerful, summing up in its massive structure & sound all the forms & aesthetics that gave rise to it

chosen by the wire as one of the "crucial" brötzmann recordings 
 

all the concentrated drive, tautness & ferocity characteristic of malik's strongest music

heading off to the african interior in a joyful explosion of power and light

a joyous fusion of hard-bop & avant garde visions. warehouse find = new lower price

maybe he took the phrase underground musician too seriously.  maybe everyone else didn't take it seriously enough

70 minutes of uproarious group conjuring by brötzmann's quartet for the apocalypse

two modern giants of the bull fiddle united in a project of awesome power

like baby dodds and kenny clarke before him, sunny murray revolutionized the role of the drummer in jazz. final copies

one of only two records released under the leadership of the legendary denis "jazz" charles

canadian lonewolf tribe independent riders no club, no meetings