Astral Spirits

First pressing of 700 copies on Black Wax. With collaborative artwork from Adam Francis Scott & Jaime Zuverza. Seven Bridges features: Jim Baker - Analogue Synthesizer; Sima Cunningham - Voice; John Hughes - Electronics; Nick Macri - Bass; Ron Miles - Cor

On Exoplanet, Rob Frye generates an atmosphere in which drummers and improvisers orbit synthesizers, inhabiting a Goldilocks zone of electronic and biotic components. Some of the tracks were created spontaneously or composed of strict loops, but two of th

It has been a while since I’ve heard an outside skronky rock-inflected jazz album quite like this. Naked City, Captain Beefheart, Henry Cow…comparisons are possible but don’t quite hit the mark. Strictly Missionary is a genuine supergroup of NYC-based cre

The debut LP from RedGreenBlue posits a mesmeric, minimalist extension of Chicago's groove-based improvised music tradition. Over the course of two introverted, side-long pieces, the band patiently crafts hypnotic—yet still dynamic—sonic spaces using lang

Master of Time is a live performance commissioned for the exhibition of Bardo Now, The Second Buddha: Master of Time at the Tang Teaching Museum during a residency on April 16-18, 2019. LP version contains the tracks "Confluence" and "The Way of the Cloud

The members of the all-star Artifacts Trio—flutist Nicole Mitchell, cellist Tomeka Reid and drummer Mike Reed—have long been recognized as torchbearers of Chicago’s innovative jazz scene, as well as the most prominent performer-educators in the third gene

All compositions by WADADA LEO SMITH, DOUGLAS R. EWART and MIKE REED, Recorded, mixed, and mastered by DAVE ZUCHOWSKI. Photos by MICHAEL JACKSON,

ROSCOE MITCHELL (reeds) and MIKE REED (drums, electronics) recorded by MICHAEL HUON at the Oorstof concert series, Zuiderpershuis, Antwerp, Belgium, October 22, 2015. Artwork by Roscoe Mitchell.

DAVE REMPIS (alto / tenor / baritone saxophones), TASHI DORJI (guitar) and TYLER DAMON (drums) recorded October 13th, 2018 at Elastic Arts in Chicago and October 14th, 2018 at The Sugar Maple in Milwaukee, WI.

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“The Reinvention of Romance,” a new work for percussion and cello that examines the care and empathy that emerge when two lives share space. Over the course of 90 minutes, a series of repeating patterns creates a peculiar kin

Sophomore release from this Chicago supergroup with master drummer HAMID DRAKE!