Recommended Jazz: Progressive Jazz music (#1 - #40)
YURODNY: Odd Set
"The music emerged triumphant.vibrant and irresistable." The Irish Times
CD price: $13.00
JOHN STOWELL AND DON LATARSKI: TUO
This is a laid-back acoustic guitar jazz cd filled with well known standards.
CD price: $12.97
CURIOS: Closer
Award-winning piano trio - melodic, serene, fiery original music. "Never less than spellbinding" (The Independent)
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
DREW SHOALS: The Greatest Haven't Been Born Yet
Driving and evocative original hip-hop/rock inspired jazz from this Portland-based drummer.
CD price: $12.97
TAKU YABUKI: Modern World Symphony
An excellent up-and-coming piano player from Japan. The album, opening up fresh possibilities of instrumental music, features a beautiful combination of string instruments and his exquisite piano performance.
CD price: $18.00
LOS ANGELES JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Los Angeles Jazz Collective Sampler vol.1
The Los Angeles Jazz Underground is a group of Musicians working together to build a stronger jazz community within Los Angeles. Through cooperative effort and education, we seek to promote our work and generate greater public appreciation for improvised
CD price: $12.97
JOEY DEFRANCESCO, MASSIMO FARAO, BYRON WOOKIE LANDHAM, ALDO ZUNINO: Estate
Joey's newest release. This is a great representation of what all he can do. He plays organ, sings, plays trumpet. Massimo Farao on Piano, Byron "Wookie" Landham on drums, and Aldo Zunino on bass.
CD price: $16.97
DAVID LEONHARDT TRIO: View From The Edge
An energetic collection by a world class trio of piano, bass, and drums playing jazzy originals with melodic improvisations, exciting interplay between instruments, and modern rhythmic adventures.
Recommended if you like Bill Evans, Bill Charlap.CD price: $12.97
DAVID FRIESEN & JOHN STOWELL: Other Mansions
Bassist David Friesen teams up with guitarist John Stowell in one of their many successful jazz duo endeavors on this classic Inner City re-release, featuring eight original songs by Friesen.
Recommended if you like Eddie Gomez, Jim Hall.CD price: $16.95
DAN LOOMIS QUARTET: Tondos
A very open, melodic mood, established by two saxaphones, married with the drive and energy supplied by bass and drums.
CD price: $15.00
SUBTEXT: Snakes and Ladders
New and exciting jazz compositions with a strong African, Latin, and rock influence
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THOMPSON D'EARTH BAND: When the Serpent Flies
Combines atmospheric vocals with progressive,jam-based jazz - virtuso horns,intense grooves and lyrics from a world of myth and dreams.
CD price: $12.97
BLUE ISLAND TRIO: Resonance
Foot-stomping Hawaiian-bluegrass, haunting, blues-inflected melodies and a twisted rhythmic sensibility characterize the Blue Island Trio’s music. With compelling original compositions, Tim Tweedale sees just how far he can stretch instrumental music.
Recommended if you like David Lindley, Ben Harper.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
ERIC PERSON: Rhythm Edge
All that you love about modern creative music is here in Rhythm Edge. This is Eric Person & Meta-Four's most complete statement.
CD price: $14.98 / MP3 price: $10.00
KRIS TINER / MIKE BAGGETTA: There, Just As You Look For It
The bi-coastal duo of California trumpeter Kris Tiner and New York guitarist Mike Baggetta deals with a music that is spare, ethereal, and highly exploratory, "clearly cut from cloth that hasn't been designed yet." (–Improvijazzation Nation).
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
MARC LIEBESKIND QUARTET: Duvida
Original composition.lyrical Jazz and beyond.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CHRIS MOSLEY: Outside Voices
Progressive jazz from one of Portland's fastest rising guitarists. Intelligent and creative with a wide spectrum of dynamics and emotion.
Recommended if you like John Scofield, Kurt Rosenwinkel.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TIM ARMACOST: Rhythm and Transformation
This is first call New York jazz musicians - Bruce Barth, Ugonna Okegwo, Billy Hart, Eddie Henderson, Ray Spiegel, playing cutting edge original compositions influenced by Indian Classical Music.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JOE LOCASCIO: In The City Of Lost Things
Meters slip in and out of 5/4 or even 11/8, though so smoothly as to not leave a ripple in their wake." - **** (Four stars.) Robert Doerschuk, DownBeat Magazine
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $10.00
STU HUNTER: The Muse
An exciting and masterful pianist and composer. The last fifteen years of performing and touring with some of the biggest names in the business has culminated in 'the muse' - a beautiful composition that traverses a dynamic and powerful range of emotional
CD price: $20.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
SCOTT EARL HOLMAN: Don't Wake The Kids
Progressive jazz in low volume and controlled environment capitalizing on communication between the players. esoteric but very melodic compositions.
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
SKIP WILKINS: Skip Wilkins Quintet Volume II
The lyrical second recording from the Skip Wilkins Quintet.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
MITCH MARCUS QUINTET: The Special
21st century jazz: adventurous music that swings with all the muscularity and verve of pioneers like Mingus, Monk, and Rollins, but pays tribute to that glorious past by daring to advance the sweet science of improv.
CD price: $12.97
JON DURANT: Things Behind The Sun
Ambient, expansive, far-reaching, progressive jazz fusion that doesn't shy away from the intimate and dives without hesitation into the adventurous. This is jazz fusion at its most expressive and colorful.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
JOE GAETA & CENGIZ YALTKAYA: Almost Real
A duet recording of standard jazz tunes and some originals performed in a modern fashion.
CD price: $12.97
CRAIG OWENS AND THE BODO ENSEMBLE: Crossing the River
A straight-ahead Bodo studio recording of original compositions with lots of rhythm and variety, and plenty of adventurous soloing without the multi-textural free improvisation which occurs on the concerts and live recordings.
Recommended if you like Ornette Coleman.CD price: $12.97
MURPHY'S LAW: Tanuki's Revenge
Long-awaited second album that is recorded half live and half in the studio. Featuring fantastic tunes and a few select covers that are really worth checking out.
CD price: $12.97
MIKE REED'S PEOPLE PLACES & THINGS: Proliferation
A tribute to the People, Places & Things that were the Chicago jazz, blues and improvised music scene from 1954-1960
CD price: $12.97
A TREE FOR TWO: See You Tomorrow
A new sound for this fourth album. Progessive Jazz quartet is back for this end 2008 for the greatest pleasure of your ears.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE OSCILLATORS: Beat Tectonics
A high energy group that combines funk and electronica with jazz improvisation.
Recommended if you like Erik Truffaz, Weather Report.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SHAN KENNER RAW TRIO: Brooklyn Sketches
A High Energy Guitar Driven Jazz Trio captured on this live studio session showcasing fiery interplay, colorful improvisation and imaginative compositions.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $12.97
JEFF GARDNER: Lovelight
A mix of ballads, bossas, and modal music - great night time listening.
Recommended if you like McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans.CD price: $12.97
SKIP WILKINS QUINTET: The Paint-Peeler
This intense and muscular recording is the third in a series by the Skip Wilkins Quintet.
CD price: $14.99
MINDIA DEVI: Beyond The Reach Of Time
They spearhead the indojazz sound, blending indian classical instruments with shimmering resonances of Balinese gamelan and outside inside harmonics of contemporary jazz.
Recommended if you like Keith Jarrett, Hariprasad Chaurasia.CD price: $16.00
ROLLING JAZZ REVUE: Halloween On Union Avenue
Electric jazz with an emphasis on cool original tunes, textural variety and intense group interplay
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
BYRON VANNOY: Byron Vannoy's Meridian
Cinematic Modern Jazz. Original instrumental music with exceptional interplay and improvising.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
NASH REED: Mercurial
Mercurial indeed. A bold, eloquent body of music that shapeshifts with each playback.
MP3 price: $12.88
