Results for "ESP-Disk"

New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz

By Matthew Shipp

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2024
Track listing: Primal Poem; Sea Song; The Function; Non Circle; Tone IQ; Brain System; Brain Work; Coherent System.

Matthew Shipp: New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz

by Mark Corroto
April 4, 2024

Jazz fans are much like baseball geeks; they collect facts and statistics. The baseball fan will know a player's numbers such as on base percentage, at bats, home runs and stolen bases, whereas the jazz fan, maybe better said the jazz fanatic, will note recording dates and lineups, titles, releases and recording engineers. The baseball fan ...

Matthew Shipp Trio: New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz

by Karl Ackermann
March 25, 2024

Matthew Shipp with bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Newman Taylor Baker, issue their fifth album as the most enduring of Shipp's various trios. New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz is another vehicle for the pianist/composer in which to express his singular, intricate vision. The perpetual sea-change artist believes that this album is a substantial leap ahead ...

Paul R. Harding / Michael Bisio / Juma Sultan: They Tried to Kill Me Yesterday

by Mark Corroto
March 4, 2024

When we speak of poetry and music, should we ask the chicken and the egg question? As in, which came first? Certainly there was music before spoken word, for imitations of bird calls and other nature sounds will have predated language. So, it's settled, right? Maybe, but not so fast. They Tried to Kill Me Yesterday ...

For Those Who Cross The Seas

By Alon Nechushtan

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. Astral Voyages 2. Cosmic Canticles

They Tried to Kill Me Yesterday

By Paul r. Harding

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2023
Track listing: Forgive, Forgive, Forgive; Accordion Dream; New World Gypsy Dawn; They Tried to Kill Me Yesterday; On a Train Through Oregon; Hair Eyes Lips; Hard to Watch; If She Cried; Heart Asks For / Prison Break; Unheard Lady; Let’s Get Use To; Quietly; Overseas.

Excerpt from Cosmic Canticles

November 12, 2023

Album: For Those Who Cross The Seas
By Alon Nechushtan
Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2023
Duration: 4:40

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Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2020

The Naked Future: Gigantomachia

By Thollem McDonas

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2009

ESP-Disk

by Clifford Allen
September 4, 2005

Sometimes it does take a bit of a reminder--especially in the days of corporate conglomerates managing almost every aspect of one's media experience--that the history of improvised music has been forged not only by left-field artists and visionaries, but also by record labels just as independent as their rosters. Commodore, Savoy, Dial, Transition, Blue Note, Prestige, ...