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Bennie Maupin - Early Reflections
Jazz legend Bennie Maupin follows his highly acclaimed 2006 CD Penumbra, with Early Reflections, a beautiful recording of Maupin’s European quartet featuring pianist Michal Tokaj, and guest vocalist Hania Rybka. Early Reflections is another brilliant effort from the artist best known for his work with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Horace Silver, The Headhnters, and many others. Features a new version of Maupin’s classic composition, “The Jewel in the Lotus.”

Various Artists - Assemblage 1998-2008
2008 is Cryptogramophone’s 10th Anniversary. To celebrate this event we present a beautiful 2-CD, 1-DVD collectable compilation featuring audio and video of 18 Crypto recording artists including Scott Amendola, Nels Cline, Erik Friedlander, Bennie Maupin…

Andy Milne & Gregoire Maret - Scenarios
From pianist Andy Milne and rising harmonica star Gregoire Maret comes Scenarios, an otherworldly yet accessible 11-track collection of interpretations, compositions and improvisations. The album includes fresh twists and takes on Dizzy Gillepsie's "Con…

Thollem Mcdonas - Intuition Science and Sex
Four lengthy comprovisations with renegade pianiste Thollem Mcdonas and Old Time Relijun's oddball frontman, Arrington De Dionyso.

Timo Lassy - The Soul & Jazz of Timo Lassy
Tenor sax standout Timo Lassy, fresh from Finland's popular retro jazz scene, reminds us that some jazz can and should be listened to on the dance floor. With Helsinki-based Ricky-Tick Records (and ObliqSound , in North America) releasing Lassy's debut…

Giovanni Maier Technicolor - Featuring Marc Ribot + A Turtle Soup
"Featuring Marc Ribot + A Turtle Soup" is an ambitious double cd containing two sessions by the new quartet led by Giovanni Maier, "Technicolor". Giovanni Maier is a skilled and critically acclaimed double bass player. His style is strong and intense, his…

Amir ElSaffar - Two Rivers
Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir ElSaffar put his New York career on hold six years ago to immerse himself in the music of his father’s ancestral past, the Iraqi Maqam. The compositions on Two Rivers draws from this experiences, seamlessly cross-pollinating…

Dapp Theory - Layers of Chance
Sinful free-funk jams by downtown New York keyboard demigods Matthew Shipp and John Medeski, deconstructed and reconstructed by avant-soundman Scotty Hard.

Mulgrew Miller - Live at the Kennedy Center - Volume Two
In the fall of 2002, the prestigious John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.) opened an intimate venue, The KC Jazz Club, on the roof level of its facility. The Club celebrated its opening with two weekends of selected MAXJAZZ…

Muhal Richard Abrams; George Lewis and Roscoe Mitchell - Streaming
The pinnacle of open improvisation as performed by three AACM stallwarts.