Classical: Contemporary and Type: Improvisational
SONOLUMINA ENSEMBLE: Works for Clarinets and Strings by Dahl, Martinu and Husa
These vibrant and exotic works combining Eastern European folk idiom with energetic contemporary techniques are vibrant, colorful and entertaining, beautifully emphasizing the lush sonorities of strings and clarinets on this Hybrid CD
Recommended if you like Nathan Milstein.CD price: $24.00 / MP3 price: $24.00
TODD BRUNEL & ARA SARKISSIAN: Invocation And Dance
Clarinet & piano duets, two classical works and a few of our own collaborative compositions.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
JAMES FALZONE: The Sign and the Thing Signified
Creative improvised music at the intersection of jazz, classical, and world music idioms.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
THE BOSTON SYMPHONY / ERIC LEINSDORF CONDUCTING: Irving Fine / Symphony 1962 / Toccata Concertante / Serious song for String Orchestra
Listen and hear Irving Fine's "fine" ear and musical sensitivity, in compositions that tell "the truth according to Fine."
CD price: $15.99
VIO-FONIK: Live @ Harbor College
A string trio (2 violins and cello) featuring the improvising and writing of jazz violinist Harry Scorzo.
Recommended if you like Igor Stravinsky, Jean-Luc Ponty.CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $16.00
MATT HAIMOVITZ: Goulash!
Celebrating Bartok's fascination with the folk music of Hungary, Romania, and Turkey, trailblazing cellist Matt Haimovitz delves into his own Romanian/Middle Eastern ancestry to create a sonic tapestry.
CD price: $15.00
WALTER THOMPSON: PEXO-A Soundpainting
PEXO-A Soundpainting is composed live using Walter Thompson's Soundpainting sign language for creating composition from structured improvisation.
Recommended if you like The Medium.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH: Saraswati Steps Up To Bat
Saraswati steps up to bat features solo improvisations on acoustic violin and viola.
CD price: $12.97
LUKE PARKIN: Lustre
Improvisations from the Great Helmut Wolff Organ Opus 46
Recommended if you like Olivier Messiaen, Maurice Duruflé.MP3 price: $15.95
STEVE RUST: Soundpainting Sextet
Conducted improvisations in a jazz and contemporary classical style
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ROB REDDY'S SMALL TOWN: The Book Of The Storm
An hour long, four movement suite performed by a 19-piece ensemble featuring some of the most respected performer/improvisers in New York.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
LUCIA MICARELLI: Interlude
Contemporary violin music, influenced by classical and jazz, with a focus on lyricism and emotional honesty.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
FRAGMENTS: Fragments
New music improvisation. Contemporary chamber ensemble combining 20th Century classical and jazz.
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $16.00
DICK HALLIGAN: Cat's Dream
Inventive contemporary improvisation with jazz and modern classical influences with a little bit of funk thrown in for good measure. striking and surprising.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
AMICUS MUSIC DUO: Purple Patches
Music to soothe your soul. Classical music, new works, and improvisations for piano and clarinet.
CD price: $15.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
RAHIM ALHAJ: Friendship: Oud & Sadaqa Quartet
"This interchange seeks to build an understanding between the musical currents of east meets west and with the merging of the two divergent traditions into one beautiful harmony".
CD price: $15.99 / MP3 price: $15.99
STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH AND TIMOTHY SUMMERS: Electric and Acoustic Improvisations Vol. 1
Stephen Nachmanovitch and Timothy Summers explore the art of collaborative improvisation, mutual listening and instant composition - on violin, viola, mezzo violin and electric violin.
Recommended if you like Keith Jarrett.CD price: $14.00
CLARE FISCHER: After the Rain
Breathtaking, rousing and impassioned contemporary, original works for orchestra that hang in space and hover over the landscape of the heart like a mist.
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $16.00
EDWARD PEREZ: Opus 1-6 Ad Libitum, Music For L.w. Smith
Classical contemporary compositions that take the listener on an introspective journey that examines the confines of one's innermost feelings.
AXIS TRIO: The Hand
A blurring of modern jazz and classical improvisation.
Recommended if you like Keith Jarrett, Bobo Stensen.CD price: $12.97
BOB HOFFNAR: New Music for Pedalsteel Guitar
This is a series of recordings made of my own musical ideas using the pedal steel guitar as the main voice. I play steel guitar for a living in NYC and felt the need to put out some of my own music outside of standard song form.
CD price: $12.97
STANLEY SCHUMACHER AND THE MUSIC NOW ENSEMBLE: Don't Abandon Your Baby
Improvised Contemporary Art Music
CD price: $13.50
DAVID SHERR AND BEL AIR JAZZ ENSEMBLE: Otherworld Music
Jazz and classical music and a combination of the two.
CD price: $5.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
KATRINA KRIMSKY: Four Moons
Western classical and Indian music blend and come to life with beautiful artistry on piano, sitar, flute, tabla, and percussion inspired by Terry Riley, Beethoven, Ravi Shankar and the ancient philosopher Pythagoras.
Recommended if you like Terry Riley, John McLaughlin.CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
STEVEN SCHOENBERG: Three Days In May
An eloquent, lush, and flowing series of piano improvisations that take on new dimensions of subtlety and melodic depth, with a unique blend of classical, jazz and contemporary styles.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE NEW YORK TRUMPET ENSEMBLE: All Praise Be Thine
Their latest exploration into improvised art music.
Recommended if you like Dave Taylor, Peter Evans.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
AARON KERR: Arco 71
Yes, I play cello, and yes, it's instrumental classical music--but it rocks. It's a cross between the dissonance of modern classical music with the driving intensity of heavy metal. I have many rock influences, and use much improvisation.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
STANLEY SCHUMACHER AND THE MUSIC NOW ENSEMBLE: Sound Textures
Improvised Contemporary Art Music
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
JOE BATTAGLIA/TERRENCE MCMANUS: Pastellic Reflections
"...the work displays the highly intuitive nature that has been developed and showcases their concept of improvised music for two guitars..."
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
BERNARD PEIFFER: Formidable...!
This is a Pianist's Master Class etude of what is capable on solo piano. Solo Piano - Jazz Arrangements & Improvisations: These solo-piano live performances are a unique synthesis of classical and jazz.
CD price: $17.97 / MP3 price: $17.97
LORI PRESTHUS: A Moment in Time-cello improvisation
"A Moment in Time" is a rich and evocative improvisational cello work consisting of two tracks ebbing and flowing in exquisite harmony.
CD price: $15.00
GLENN NAFTCHI: Explorations
An improvisational CD that was recorded live. It is wild and contemplative, and has very tasteful riffing between piano and violin.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
YANTRA DE VILDER: Reflections
Reflective, gentle acoustic improvisations in a contemporary classical style using piano, oboe, cello and shakuhach. Great for relaxation.
CD price: $20.00 / MP3 price: $20.00
BRIAN WILLSON: things heard unheard
Burning trio improv. juxtaposed against spaced out percussion bowed double bass inside the piano sounds from the ether. Can't go wrong here.
Recommended if you like Cecil Taylor, Dominic.CD price: $16.00
DAVID PITMAN: Improvisions 1999
A collection of live piano extemporizations in Classical forms and idioms, including two fugues and more. A must for any fan of Classical piano music, Baroque music, also highly suitable for mediation or relaxation.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DANIEL PANASENKO / MARK WYMAN: Daniel Panasenko / Mark Wyman
Soundscapes created with classical guitar and accordion.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
AGRELL/MAZUNIK: Repercussions
This unique selection of French horn + piano improvisational compositions are stylistically somewhere west of the Salon and east of the Saloon, with the pizzazz and surprises of improvisation alloyed with the sense and charm of classical music.
Recommended if you like Mark Isham, Arkady Shilkloper.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
COLECTIVO ETEROFÓNICO: Medios de Transporte
An experimental band of 17 musicians. 100% improvisation conducted through a system of more than 70 hand signals.
CD price: $17.00
MIKE GARSON: Homage to My Heroes
These 16 original compositions - all written in Mike's signature improvisational style - pay tribute to the musical masters who have influenced him over the years. Their intent is to complete the cycle and provide healing, enjoyment and inspiration.
Recommended if you like Frédéric Chopin, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz, Александр Николаевич Скрябин.CD price: $12.95 / MP3 price: $12.95
WATER BEAR: Skinnydipping
The names of people inspire this intimate and danceable, all original roots-classical Name Music, with passionate melodies, harmonies and improvisation by two violins, cello, bass and voices.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
STRING QUARTET DIFFERENCE: Take Care Of The Difference
Open your fantasy to new colours. Enter the magic and passion of jazz played by sensual strings.
Recommended if you like Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Balanescu Quartet.CD price: $13.00
CLOGS: Thom's Night Out
A quartet from the US and Australia. Viola + guitar + bassoon + percussion. Wailing and forceful yet full of grace and tiny notes, they'll bring to mind minimalism, ambient music, and "post-rock." Think:Kronos Quartet, Rachel's, Godspeed You Black Emperor
CD price: $13.00
SLICNATON: noisefloor EP
Live pedal board improvisations by electronic music producer Nicholas Slaton(slicnaton). Starting with no prerecorded samples slicnaton sculptes electronic glitches into ambient loops and melodies.
MP3 price: $6.00
DAVID DARLING & EVE KODIAK: The Return Of Desire: Improvisations
A musical companion to the new book The Return of Desire, by Gina Ogden, Ph.D. Contempoary romantic impressionism with inpired classical overtones.
CD price: $15.95
STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH: Ludi Fecundus
Ludi Fecundus features solo improvisations on electric violin by Stephen Nachmanovitch.
CD price: $14.00
MOUSETRAPREPLICA: ...We All Fall Down
Two beautifully crafted improvisations that go from dreamily elegant refrains, to emotively powerful peaks that drop your jaw; an amazing release from the new master of experimental guitar.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
FREDRICK HOFFER: CD 49 Lost On The Metro
Contemporary classical programmatic piano music
CD price: $10.00
STANLEY SCHUMACHER AND THE MUSIC NOW ENSEMBLE: Uber Brass
Improvised Contemporary Art Music
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
AXEL HERR: Piano Improvisations Volume II: The Voice Of December
Unique jazzy style of virtuoso piano improvisations
Recommended if you like George Winston, Keith Jarrett.MP3 price: $9.99
FREDRICK HOFFER: CD-48 Piano Suite # Twenty Four, Naked in the Cemetery
A programmatic piano suite
Recommended if you like Erik Satie, Arthur Godfrey.CD price: $10.00
CHRIS OPPERMAN: Beyond the Foggy Highway
"Beyond the Foggy Highway is one of those albums that's pitched somewhere between rock and jazz, and really shows that Chris Opperman is not only a great player and composer, but a fine improviser and a talented bandleader as well." -- All-Music Guide
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
FREDRIC ZIMMERMAN: Play: piano improvisations and preludes
This all-piano album presents pianist/composer, Fredric Zimmerman's approach to free improvisation, focused improvisation techniques, jazz piano and through-composed piano compositions, all performed live by Zimmerman
CD price: $9.99
THE DECHELLIS CHAMBER QUARTET: Making The Argument For The Line
Improvised New Music falling between Modern Classical Music and Free Improvised Jazz. All of this music was created in the moment, no scores or written music was used.
Recommended if you like Cecil Taylor, Anton Webern.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE SPACE BETWEEN WITH MATTHEW SPERRY: The Space Between with Matthew Sperry
One of the more inventive collectives in improvisational music, classical experimentalism and world fusion. Striking avant garde pieces that stretch the imagination as well as the ear.
Recommended if you like John Cage & Lou Harrison.CD price: $12.99
LIONA BOYD: Paddle to the Sea
A beautiful rendition of Holling Clancy Holling's famous and educational children's story, read by Liona Boyd who plays accompanying original guitar music.
OGOGO: Ira & Igor
Avant-Garde, Experimental, Classical. The True American sound. Rooted in the classical and jazz tradition, vibrant, free and continually moving forward.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
MICHAEL SOLOMONT: Piano Improvisations in Classical Styles - Book Three - Second Collection
In continuation of the series, this is Book Three of beautiful piano improvisations by Michael Solomont in different classical styles, some romantic, some modern, some baroque, all created as they are being performed.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MICHAEL SOLOMONT: Piano Improvisations in Classical Styles by Michael Solomont - Book Two - Second Collection
These are original improvisations in different classical styles, some modern, some Baroque, some Romantic, all composed while peformed on a digital piano.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MICHAEL SOLOMONT: Piano Improvisations In Classical Styles By Michael Solomont - Book One - Second Collection
Beautiful piano improvisations in different classical styles, some baroque, some romantic. All are composed as they are performed on a digital piano.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
FELICIAN HONSIG-ERLENBURG AND BIM CLATOX: Wassertanz
Where jazz meets world Music in a most melodic way.
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
RICH SMITH: 3rd Street Improv
Live solo electronic piano: neoclassical is the main style (with many variations - styles within the style), but also covered are: jazz, blues, ragtime, art rock, world, & new age.
Recommended if you like Yanni, Sergei Rachmaninoff.CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
RICH SMITH: August Sky
Neo-classical & new age solo acoustic piano music.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
ANTHONY RANIERI: Necessary Evils
These piano solos run the gamut from hauntingly beautiful to powerfully virtuosic.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
JESUS CONTRERAS: When Bounce Comes to Roll
Post-modern orchestral music written for a dance ensemble.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
CHRISTOPHER CISPER: Cabin Babies
Improvisational Fingerstyle All Original Jazz and Classical
Recommended if you like Michael Hedges, Stanley Jordan.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
PATRICK LINDLEY, SALLY MOSHER, JUSTIN WEAVER, SCOTT FRASER: Towards The Light
Spontaneous compositions and interactions for acoustic and electronic keyboards and electric guitar
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
SHADY SROUR: Natural Improvisation
Piano music for several moods-very chill with a relaxed attitude that is contagious.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
BONOMI / CATTANEO / MIGNOLA: Virgo Suite
Jazz, New Age & contemporary music - a free and sincere conversation between a saxophone and a piano.
CD price: $9.95 / MP3 price: $9.95
PETER PAULSEN: Tri-cycle
Modern Jazz with elements of Modern Classical composition and World Music.
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $13.99
SARA SERPA: Sara Serpa Quintet
Sara's first recording is mainly a collection of her compositions played by some of the best portuguese jazz musicians.
Recommended if you like Luciana Souza.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ROBERT W. PARKER: Music for Melodrama: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Hearkening back to the music of the silent movie era, enjoy a live piano accompaniment to the melodrama that gave birth to the Sondheim musical of the same name.
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
ROB LANDES: I Got Gershwin, Berlin, & Porter
Magical contemporary piano renditions of modern classics and standards
MICHAEL SOLOMONT: Piano Improvisations in the Romantic Classical Style
These are beautiful, original piano improvisations, created as they are being performed, in the Romantic Classical style.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TOBIAS TINKER: solo piano works - excerpts (2 disc set!)
These tracks are excerpts from much longer works for solo piano, drawing on jazz, classical and New Age sources, which were recorded in concert and are fully improvised; there are also some tracks performed on harpsichord.
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
GEORGE MARSH AND W. A. MATHIEU: Game / No Game
Piano/percussion improvisations by two musical geniuses who love to play together.
CD price: $15.00
PAUL RAMSAY: Inlets
'Inlets - Music Improvisations Rescued as Planned Compositions' (Motile RMusic 001): a series of piano-based improvisations developed using strings and electronic textures and exploring the territory between classical and experimental music.
CD price: $14.50 / MP3 price: $10.50
BIRD QUARTET: Sol azteca vs. Mexican sky
Electo acoustic free improvisation whit bird singing
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SABRINA SIEGEL: Phronimos, an improvisation
Impovised free music on the electric guitar. Inventive, sensitve, and unusual 58.08 min of playing cut into six tracks .
CD price: $14.97
TAYLOR/FORBES DUO: spoken once
The music on this CD is music of the present moment, pieces with a sense of form and shared compositional process. But the material is freely improvised. They are "spoken once" and then gone
CD price: $12.00
CHRIS OPPERMAN: Concepts of Non-linear Time
Chris Opperman's third album is the obvious next step from Klavierstucke and once again he delivers an album that is as strange and beautiful as your dreams.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
CECILIA SUHR: Unimaginable Journey of Soul
An hour long piano solo improvisation, classical music with a new age twist...
CD price: $12.97
I'LANA SANDRA COTTON: Songs for the Journey
Powerful, lyrical and expressive solo piano improvisations, effortlessly blending Western and Eastern training.....driving, glistening, thoughtful.
CD price: $15.00
MIKE GARSON: Now! Music (Volume IV)
A refreshing blend of new-world improvisation with timeless classical formats. Recorded in "real time" using a Yamaha Disklavier Piano. Includes three sonatas, one nocturne, one prelude, one scherzo, one rhapsody and three NOW MUSIC® pieces.
Recommended if you like Frédéric Chopin, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz, Александр Николаевич Скрябин.MP3 price: $9.95
HERMANN BUHLER: Seven Pieces
Seven Musicians in a room - raw and alive. Improvisational, free jazz, contemporary and experimental classical intertwine.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
HERMANN BUHLER: Alto Solo
Alto saxophone solo - improvisational music in a highly condensed mood - partly live.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JOEL FUTTERMAN, JIMMY WILLIAMS, VASILI SIMMONS: Dyami
Groundbreaking music from the dual-guitar piano trio featuring legendary improvisers Joel Futterman, Jimmy Williams, and Vasili Simmons.
CD price: $13.00
MATT CURLEE: Syntax
Style-bending 20th century organ music, and jazz influenced organ chamber music.
CD price: $16.50
THE SPACE BETWEEN WITH BARRE PHILLIPS: The Space Between with Barre Phillips
..open spaced free improv with unusual instrumentation..the Space between is Pauline Oliveros, Philip Gelb and Dana Reason
CD price: $14.99
DAN DECHELLIS: Chamber Music
Improvised / New Music for piano / violin / percussion / theremin / voice
Recommended if you like Cecil Taylor, Matt.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
FREDRICK HOFFER: CD-46 Piano Suite #22
Contemporary classical piano music
Recommended if you like Erik Satie, Hoagy Carmichael.CD price: $10.00
BOB SIEBERT: Pictures
Jazz inspired classical pieces with some edgy world and new age licks thrown into the mix.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
BOBSIEBERT: Urban Harmony
Classic jazz and classic rock meld together for this portrait of my city: Paterson.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
BOB SIEBERT: New Day
classic jazz done with electric piano, acoustic bass & drums
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
ROBERT ELLIS: Robert Ellis Plays the Classics
Improvisations on classical themes by a master of improvisation--music you won't forget.
CD price: $19.95
RUDY ISING: Piano Solos (2 CD)
A 2 CD set of acoustic piano solos, all recorded from 1973 - 1977, primarily classical in nature, these works are generally expressive, emotive and dynamic in nature.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
TERRY RILEY: Atlantis Nath
Ecstatic Minimalism; hypnotic, multi-layered, polymetric, brightly orchestrated eastern flavored improvisations and compositions weaving Jazz, World and Classical
CD price: $35.00
WENDY LOOMIS: Piano and Friends
A series of piano-centric solos, duets, and trios that effortlessly crosses between atonal improvisations and lyrical jazz melodies.
CD price: $12.00
BOB SIEBERT: My Bohemian Legacy
Solo piano - A contrast of classic jazz, contemporary blues and beyond. This CD combines original pieces with reinvented standards.It is evocative of a wide variety of moods: from contemplative to turbulent, and from pastoral to violent.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
JANE BUTTARS: Keys to the Inside
Strikingly original, intensely expressive, beautifully crafted music by an exceptional artist. Live solo piano improvisations on the creative edge.
CD price: $13.95 / MP3 price: $13.95
FM RECEPTION: co-lage
Two uninhibited improvisers, whose furious counterpoint dances the fence between new-classical and free-jazz.
Recommended if you like Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton.CD price: $10.00
TAHSILI CONSORT: Tahsili Conosrt III - Forty by Fifty & The Big Five O
Free improvisation world fusion inspired by Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis and Joe Zawinul, performed by a piano, vibes, guitar, bass and percussion quintet with guests.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $3.00
TAHSILI CONSORT: Tahsili Consort I - The Adventure Begins
Free improvisation inspired by Miles Davis, Bill Frisell, and Keith Jarret, performed by a piano, vibes, guitar, bass and percussion quintet with guests.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $3.00
TAHSILI CONSORT: Tahsili Consort IV - Lusive Tunes
Free improvisation inspired by the 1960's Blue Note groups but with a classical music flavor, performed by a piano, vibes, guitar, bass and percussion quintet with violin and flute guest stars.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $3.00
BOB GILLIS GROUP: Hats
Modern compositions that create new and challenging soundscapes for the improvising musician
CD price: $12.50
