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1	The Köln Concert (1975) more music like this by Keith Jarrett Recorded in 1975 at the Köln Opera House and released the same year, this disc has, along with its revelatory music, some attendant cultural baggage that is unfair in one sense: Every pot-smoking and dazed and confused college kid -- and a few of the more sophisticated ones in high school -- owned this as one of the truly classic jazz records, ... see all copies from £7.66! new only from £11.50!
2	The Rain (2003) more music like this by Ghazal On its fourth outing and its first for ECM, the Indian/Persian duo Ghazal chose to record a live album. Issued from a concert in Switzerland, the recording blends the musical styles of both countries. Shujaat Husain Khan, a direct descendant (grandson) of the venerable musician and spiritual master Ustad Vilayat Khan, plays sitar in the Imad Khan ... see all copies from £11.85! new only from £11.85!
3	Bowie And Eno Meet Glass Heroes/Low Symphonies (2003) more music like this by The American Composers Orchestra/The Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra see all copies from £9.19! new only from £9.19!
4	Toddler Twosome (2004) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from £2.78! new only from £2.93!
5	Project Z (2001) more music like this by Project Z Imagine what would result from a recording session in which top-drawer musicians who favor improvisation are given no boundaries, rules, restraints, pressures, or expectations when they head into the studio. Imagine how psyched Jimmy Herring, Jeff Sipe, and Ricky Keller were when that opportunity presented itself. The three are among the top ... see all copies from £6.25! new only from £8.62!
6	Closeness (Duets) (1976) more music like this by Charlie Haden In 1976, bassist Charlie Haden recorded eight duets with musicians whom he admired; the results were originally released on two Horizon LPs as Closeness. In 1988, A&M reissued all of the music on a pair of CDs, titled Closeness" Duets. For this release, Haden is teamed with pianist Keith Jarrett, plays a memorable "O.C." with altoist Ornette ... see all copies from £9.02! new only from £9.02!
7	Unit Structures (1966) more music like this by Cecil Taylor After several years off records, pianist Cecil Taylor finally had an opportunity to document his music of the mid-'60s on two Blue Note albums (the other one was Conquistador). Taylor's high-energy atonalism fit in well with the free jazz of the period but he was actually leading the way rather than being part of a movement. In fact, this septet ... see all copies from £8.90! new only from £8.90!
8	Vienna Concert (1991) more music like this by Keith Jarrett Keith Jarrett feels that this is his finest solo concert; having "courted the flame for a very long time," he writes, this music speaks "the language of the flame itself." Perhaps playing in the European-tradition-encrusted Vienna Staatsoper had an overt influence, for never has a recorded Jarrett solo concert fallen into such a logical, even ... see all copies from £8.49! new only from £8.49!
9	Stoa (2006) more music like this by Nik Bärtsch's Ronin He may call it "Zen Funk," but the real question is, what the hell is this? Swiss pianist and composer Nik Bartsch's Ronin have issued their ECM debut, Stoa, the label well-known for its icy sounding, spacious jazz. ECM has been pushing the envelope for nearly 40 years, but with Ronin, they've pushed it beyond the pale into God knows what. This is ... see all copies from £11.65! new only from £11.65!
10	Draw Breath (2007) more music like this by Nels Cline Singers Nels Cline has developed a very personal sound on guitar but musically he's a tough guy to pin down, playing everything from pure, noisy free improvisation to pure rock & roll. Fortunately, Cline has no interest in being pinned down, as the newest album from the Nels Cline Singers clearly shows. On Draw Breath, Cline and company (Devin Hoff on ... see all copies from £12.14! new only from £12.14!
11 view cover	Improvisczario (2007) more music like this by Bernie Worrell Bernie Worrell is best known as an A-list funkateer, but his talents go well beyond the funk arena. A Julliard trained classical pianist, Worrell has also appeared with everyone from Fred Schneider to the Pretenders to the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion to Pharoah Sanders and a myriad of Bill Laswell productions (not to mention his association with ... see all copies from £9.11! new only from £9.11!
12 view cover	Nipples (1969) more music like this by Peter Brotzmann Sextet & Quartet Due to its previous rarity, Nipples has been something of a free jazz cult item, even championed by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. Now with a more easily found CD available, listeners can hear that it's not quite a lost classic but still comes by its reputation honestly. To be fair, the slightly muffled sound quality doesn't help music this detail ... see all copies from £9.13! new only from £9.13!
13 view cover	Paris Concert (1990) more music like this by Keith Jarrett The self-imposed quarantine on solo concerts over, Keith Jarrett returned to the improvisatory format that he virtually invented, mellower and more devotional than ever. Indeed, within the 38 minutes of solo improvisation captured at Paris's Salle Pleyel, Jarrett pulls further away from the old rousing (and thoroughly American) gospel, blues and ... see all copies from £9.19! new only from £9.19!
14 view cover	Solo in Mondsee (2007) more music like this by Paul Bley Fully 35 years after Open, to Love, Paul Bley's seminal solo piano recording for ECM (which stands as a watermark both in his own career and in the history of the label -- i.e., unconsciously aiding Manfred Eicher in establishing its "sound"), the pianist returns to the label for another go at it on Solo in Mondsee. Recorded in Mondsee, Austria, ... see all copies from £9.19! new only from £9.19!
15 view cover	Prowl (2006) more music like this by Erik Friedlander A deceptively smooth recording from the Erik Friedlander Quartet (sometimes going by the name of Topaz), Prowl offers the paradox of complex improvisational music so adroitly executed that its particular virtues might be overlooked by the casual listener. Originally set up by Friedlander as a trio composed of himself on cello, Andy Laster on alto ... see all copies from £12.42! new only from £12.42!
16 view cover	The Sugar Factory (2007) more music like this by Fred Frith/Evelyn Glennie This first meeting between British vanguard improviser Fred Frith and world-renowned drummer and percussionist Evelyn Glennie (who happens to be deaf) was created, for the most part, in a disused sugar factory where a makeshift studio was created and the two performers played 100 feet apart from one another. According to Frith's liner notes, the ... see all copies from £9.31! new only from £9.31!
17 view cover	Streaming (2006) more music like this by Muhal Richard Abrams/George Lewis/Roscoe Mitchell The five lengthy improvisations by the three veteran masters of the AACM range from airy sound explorations to stretches of extroverted interplay. The former does sometimes goes on way too long as one waits for the latter. Best are the episodic "Dramaturns" and the intense group improvising on "Streaming." While one appreciates George Lewis' ... see all copies from £11.27! new only from £11.27!
18 view cover	Six Litanies for Heliogabalus (2007) more music like this by John Zorn In 2006, John Zorn issued two recordings that were the first two volumes in the realization of a project that, as he put it in his notes to the second volume, a methodology "combining the hypnotic intensity of ritual (composition) the spontaneity of magic (improvisation) in a modern musical format (rock)." Those two efforts, Moonchild and ... see all copies from £11.16! new only from £11.16!
19 view cover	Malphas: Book of Angels, Vol. 3 (2006) more music like this by Mark Feldman/Sylvie Courvoisier John Zorn continues to debut new music with his Book of Angels series, the second collection of Masada material containing over 300 compositions -- none of which has been recorded before. The first two volumes featured Jamie Saft in an acoustic piano trio (Astaroth: Book of Angels, Vol. 1) and with the Masada String Trio (Azazel: Book of Angels, ... see all copies from £9.31! new only from £9.31!
20 view cover	The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers (2006) more music like this by Jack DeJohnette This collaboration between drummer, pianist, and composer Jack DeJohnette and guitarist Bill Frisell, was recorded live at the Earshot Festival in 2001. But it doesn't end there. The pair, who had only played together once before on Don Byron's Romance with the Unseen, had a chance to listen to the tapes together and decided to add some additional ... see all copies from £11.58! new only from £11.58!
21 view cover	24-24 Music (1981) more music like this by Dinosaur L Of all the posthumous recordings in Arthur Russell's voluminous legacy, the Dinosaur L recordings from 1981, titled 24-24 Music on the original Sleeping Bag Records imprint, are the most delightful to listen to. While it's true in one way they are not the most musically sophisticated of his many recordings -- and this is not a disclaimer -- in ... see all copies from £8.62! new only from £8.62!
22 view cover	The Sublime And (2003) more music like this by Tim Berne's Science Friction Tim Berne's latest band Science Friction is heard here for the first time in front of a live audience in Switzerland in April 2003. A complete concert spread out over two CDs, Sublime And offers a different view of Berne's ever-expansive compositional ideas and how those notions meld into a unit of top-notch improvisers: guitarist Marc Ducret, ... see all copies from £12.78! new only from £12.78!
23 view cover	Clearing (2001) more music like this by Fred Frith In 1975, Fred Frith's Guitar Solos album was a bolt from the blue, a hitherto undreamed-of combination of the free improvisation aesthetic of Derek Bailey and, even more importantly, Keith Rowe, with a sensibility that owed more than a little to prog rock. In many ways, Clearing is a belated follow-up to that recording. The pieces are remarkably ... see all copies from £11.29! new only from £11.29!
24 view cover	Re: Pasolini (2007) more music like this by Stefano Battaglia To call Stefano Battaglia's Re: Pasolini on ECM, ambitious would be an erroneous understatement. In fact, it is an undertaking of enormous propensity. In the United States, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) is known primarily as a filmmaker, whose works such as the Decameron, Canterbury Tales, Medea, and the notorious Salo (based on the Marquis de ... see all copies from £15.69! new only from £15.69!
25 view cover	New Monastery (2006) more music like this by Nels Cline If Otomo Yoshihide can interpret Eric Dolphy and Marc Ribot can do Albert Ayler, then why not Nels Cline doing Andrew Hill -- who is still alive and creating marvelously, with his recordings in the current century clear evidence of this. As Cline describes his approach in the liner notes, this most certainly is not a tribute record or an attempt ... see all copies from £12.64! new only from £12.64!

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