Liudas Mockūnas - HYDRO 2 (NO BUSINESS RECORDS November 2018)

Liudas Mockūnas – soprano, water prepared soprano and water prepared keyless overtone saxophones

Hydro 2 46:09

Music by Liudas Mockūnas (KODA)

Recorded at IMPRODIMENSIJA - concert series dedicated to improvised music, MAMAstudios, Vilnius October  2017 by Arūnas Zujus

Mixed and mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios

Cover photo by Rita Stankevičiūtė

Design by Neringa Žukauskaitė

Produced by Liudas Mockūnas

Wadada Leo Smith & Sabu Toyozumi - Burning Meditation (NO BUSINESS RECORDS November 2018)

Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet, koto, bamboo-flute, voice and percussion

Sabu Toyozumi - drums

1. Creative Music-1- Red Mountain Garden, Wild Irises and Glacier Lines 15:53

2. Burning Meditation – Uprising 14:30

3. Voices - Agano River Flow 10:32

4. Don Cherry, A Silver Flute Song 7:51

5. There are Human Rights Blues 8:27

6. Stars, Lightening Bugs and Chrysanthemum Flowers 5:28

All music composed by Wadada Leo Smith and Sabu Toyozumi, except otherwise noted

Recorded live on the 22nd March 1994 at C.S Akarenga in Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi, Japan by Takeo Suetomi

Concert produced by Takeo Suetomi

Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios

Front cover photo by Akihiro Matsumoto

Photos inside the booklet by Takeo Suetomi

Design by Oskaras Anosovas

Produced by Danas Mikailionis and Takeo Suetomi (Chap Chap Records)

JONES JONES: Larry Ochs / Mark Dresser / Vladimir Tarasov - A Jones In Time Saves Nine (NO BUSINESS RECORDS November 2018)

Larry Ochs – tenor and sopranino saxophones

Mark Dresser - bass

Vladimir Tarasov - drums and percussion

1. A Fistful Of Jone

2. Twelve Angry Jones

3. The Jones Who Knew Too Much

4. Three Jones Outside Ebbing, Missouri

5. Night Of The Living Jones (digital only)

6. The Jones Who Never Was (digital only)

7. Gone With The Jones (digital only)

All compositions created collectively by Mark Dresser (Del Dresser Music/ASCAP), Larry Ochs (Trobar/ASCAP/BMG) and Vladimir Tarasov (LATGAA)

Tracks Twelve Angry Jones and Three Jones Outside Ebbing, Missouri recorded live by Art Granoff in Berkeley, California, at the home of Harry Bernstein and Caren Meghreblian on May 28th, 2016

Other tracks recorded live by Tim Pinch in San Diego, California, at The Loft on May 24th, 2016

Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios

Martin Küchen / Rafal Mazur - Baza (NO BUSINESS RECORDS November 2018)

Martin Küchen - sopranino and alto saxophones 

Rafał Mazur - acoustic bass guitar

1. BAZA 1 23:15

2. BAZA 1 (CONTINUES) 09:04

3. BAZA 2 11:11

All compositions by Martin Küchen (STIM/NCB) and Rafał Mazur 

Tracks on this release are in chronological order of the recording session 

Recorded live on March 6th, 2017 at BAZA Club, Krakow, Poland by Rafał Driewniany 

Mixed by Rafał Driewniany / DTSSTUDIO.PL 

Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios 

Rafał Mazur plays acoustic bass guitar built by Jerzy Wysocki 

Cover - Karol Suchanek, Workers’ Bath-House at Wiegerska Gorka, Ironworks, Poland, 1930s, glass plate photography / Courtesy of the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow 

Design by Marcin Barski

Marion Brown / Dave Burrell - Live at the Black Musicians' Conference, 1981 (NO BUSINESS RECORDS November 2018)

Marion Brown - alto saxophone

Dave Burrell - piano

1. Gossip / Fortunado 17:57

2. La Placita 8:36

3. My Little Brown Book 6:19

4. Punaluu Peter 16:08

5. Pua Mae ’Ole 5:33

6. Crucifacado 10:22

7. Lush Life 10:13

Recorded at the Black Musicians’ Conference, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts, 10th April, 1981 

Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios 

Booklet layout by Jeff DiPerna 

Cover design by Oskaras Anosovas 

Liner notes by Ed Hazell 

Bobby Bradford / Hafez Modirzadeh / Roberto Miguel Miranda / Vijay Anderson - Live at the Blue Whale (NO BUSINESS RECORDS November 2018)

Bobby Bradford - cornet

Hafez Modirzadeh - soprano saxophone, karna and khaen (on RAPHAEL only)

Roberto Miguel Miranda - bass

Vijay Anderson - drums

1. RAPHAEL 12:19

2. FREE THE IDEA 06:50

3. LUNATIQUE 02:47

4. ALMOST NOT CRAZY 11:32

5. CROOKED BLUES 08:04

Composition FREE THE IDEA is variations on Ornette Coleman Theme

Recorded live on 15th January, 2017 at the Blue Whale, Los Angeles

Recorded, edited and mixed by Andersonix.com

Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios

Design by Oskaras Anosovas

Diagram by Hafez Modirzadeh

Produced by Hafez Modirzadeh

Howard Riley - Live in the USA (NO BUSINESS RECORDS November 2018)

Track 1 recorded on the 28th October, 1976 at Free Music Store, New York City

Track 2 recorded on the 18th November, 1976 in Amherst, New York City

Track 3 and 4 recorded on the 29th November, 1976 in Buffalo, New York

Tape restoration and transfer (tracks 2-4) by Will Prentice

Tape transfer (track 1) by Paul Wilson

Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios

Design by Oskaras Anosovas

1. Blocks 25:24

2. Big City 21:21

3. Flower Street 13:09

4. Tolerance 14:16

Simon Nabatov / Barry Guy / Gerry Hemingway - Luminous (NO BUSINESS RECORDS 2018)

Simon Nabatov - piano

Barry Guy - double bass

Gerry Hemingway - drums, marimba

1. Slip Away 06:51

2. Basket Glide 06:33

3. Vacant Prophecy 06:24

4. Tolerance 05:58

5. Forty Days 04:03

6. Shards Examined 02:52

7. Great Disparity 09:15

8. Scroll Back 06:45

9. Luminous 02:29

10. Scattered Together 04:26

11. Soothing Mirage 05:28

12. Unfrozen Sorrow 08:52

All music by Simon Nabatov (GEMA), Barry Guy (PRS, MCPS, PPL) and Gerry Hemingway (Nagual Music BMI/GEMA) 

Recorded live in LOFT, Cologne, Germany on 30-31st October, 2015 by Christian Heck 

Mixed by Gerry Hemingway

Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios

Cover art by Oguz Buyukberber

Photos by Bernd Wendt / Photo of Gerry Hemingway by Peter Tümmers

Liner notes by Stuart Broomer

Design by Oskaras Anosovas

Alexander Schlippenbach / Aki Takase - Live at Café Amores (NO BUSINESS RECORDS 2018)

Alexander von Schlippenbach turned 80 this year. A pioneer and leading light of European free improvisation, at the age of 28 he founded the Globe Unity Orchestra, and in 1988 he founded the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. These two fiercely improvising big bands have over the years included, among others, Willem Breuker, Paul Lovens, Misha Mengelberg, Evan Parker, Kenny Wheeler and Schlippenbach's wife Aki Takase. 

Aki Takase – 10 years younger – is a highly successful pianist in her own right and has worked with Lester Bowie, Sheila Jordan, David Liebman, and John Zorn, most recently delivering a fine duo album with David Murray called Cherry-Sakura. 

In many ways this album of piano duets, recorded live in Japan, typifies the best of the European improv scene. It has long, thoughtful intricate tracks, loud dissonant passages, periods of pure noise – but it can be witty and playful as well. And it never strays too far from the tradition for long. Tunes from Mingus, Monk, Frank Zappa, and a delightful version of Lulu's Back in Town all have their place. 

However, you need to be aware that the vinyl LP is rather different to the CD and download. The opening and closing tracks of the CD, between them running for around 30 minutes, form one side of the vinyl, and might be classed as “conventional” improv. Some splendid percussive playing on the first, and use of prepared piano to create a more minimalist noise-based sound on the last. Side B of the vinyl has two more long tracks: the first is a set of tunes mixed up from Mingus by Takase, and the second has another improvisation based on a composition by Schlippenbach. 

The CD then has some excellent additional tracks not available on vinyl. These are a mixture of other people's compositions. Anyone familiar with Schlippenbach's work won't be surprised to learn that there are three splendid versions of Theolonious Monk tunes. Schlippenbach has often found inspiration from Monk since his early days and returns to his music on a regular basis, including a ”complete works” recording back in 2004. Here we have versions of Mysterioso and Evidence joined in one track, and Skippy on another. 

There are also two shorter tracks – Zappa's You Are What You Is, and Harry Warren's Lulu's Back in Town. Whilst the longer improvisations have some exhilarating passages, I find the shorter tracks work better on CD. 

What's remarkable in the midst of all this inventiveness is just how easy it is to forget the ages of the two performers. The music is full of bounce and vigour, and sounds fresh and young throughout. Long may they continue. 

Peter Slavid 

Alexander Schlippenbach - piano

Aki Takase - piano

1. Jackhammer 13:01

2. Na na na ist das der Weg 11:35

3. You are what you is 3:23

4. Mingus-mix: Dukes Choice - Boogie Stop Shuffle 14:26

5. Misterioso - Evidence 12:33

6. Skippy 5:55

7. Lulu’s Back to Town 3:06

8. The Morlocks 12:50

Recorded live on the 16th August, 1995 at Café Amores, Hofu, Yamaguchi, Japan by Takeo Suetomi / Concert produced by Takeo Suetomi

All compositions by Alexander von Schlippenbach (GEMA), except otherwise indicated

Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios

Cover photo by Inge Ofenstein

Inside photos by Akihiro Matsumoto

Design by Oskaras Anosovas

Albert Beger | Shay Hazan - Good Morning Universe (NO BUSINESS RECORDS 2018)

Albert Beger - tenor saxophone

Eyal Netzer - tenor saxophone

Shay Hazan - double bass

Nadav Masel - “Hamsa” (5 stringed custom cello)

Haim E. Peskoff - drums

Ofer Bymel - drums

10" EP release

Side A

DENSHO

COMPASSION

Side B

COURTESY

HOPE

Recorded at Levontin7, Tel-Aviv, Israel on the 17th February, 2017

Recorded by Nitzan Levi

Mixed by Ronald Boersen

Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios

Design by Oskaras Anosovas

Back photo by Nitzan Levi

Album title comes from W.B. Yeats’s poem “A Prayer for my Daughter”, 1919

Producer - Danas Mikailionis

Co-producer - Valerij Anosov

Choi Sun Bae | Motoharu Yoshizawa - Arirang Fantasy (NO BUSINESS RECORDS 2018)

Choi Sun Bae - trumpet

Junji Hirose - tenor and soprano saxophones

Motoharu Yoshizawa - electric vertical five-strings bass

Kim Dae Hwan  - percussion

1. Blue Sky 16:53

2. Remember Bird 7:56

3. The Stream of Time 8:13

4. Korea Fantasy 11:14

5. Arirang Fantasy 21:50

Recorded live at Romanisches Café, Roppongi, Tokyo, June 12, 1995

Recorded by Teruto Soejima

Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios

Black and white photos by Akihiro Matsumoto / Color photos by Takeo Suetomi

Design by Oskaras Anosovas

Produced by Danas Mikailionis and Takeo Suetomi (Chap Chap Records)

Release coordinator - Kenny Inaoka (Jazz Tokyo)

Co-producer - Valerij Anosov

Kaoru Abe | Sabu Toyozumi - Mannyoka (NO BUSINESS RECORDS 2018)

Japanese free/jazz sax legend, Kaoru Abe, dies at the age of only 29 in 1978, living a fast and crazy life and dieing of a drug overdose. His entire music career was only 10 years, from 1968 to 1978. In that short period, he was well recorded with around 30 releases, ten of which are solo sax efforts, duos with guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi, bassist Motoharu Yoshizawaand drummer Sabu Toyozuma. Mr. Abe also toured and recorded with Milford Graves, Derek Bailey and Toshinori Konda in 1977 & 1978. Sadly, nothing by Kaoru Abe has been in print for many years until now… 

Many of his rare CD’s & LP’s go for big bucks on the resale market. This disc was recorded at two concerts in Tokyo in January and July of 1978, the year that Mr. Abe passed away. Those in the know, free/jazz freaks worldwide, should know of drummer Sabu Toyozumi from his work with Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey, Misha Mengelberg and Haino Keiji. ‘Part 1’ kicks things off with an immense blast with Mr. Abe on alto sax and Mr. Toyozumi on drums. Abe sounds a bit like Albert Ayler, although he plays alto & soprano saxes, bending and twisting every note in his own unique way. This duo recorded a few disc together and they sound just right working together, shadowing each other, tightly connecting no matter where they soar. If you savor what is essentially the beginning of fee/jazz in Japan, then you should really hear this disc. It is some 73 minutes long and it all flows together in powerful waves. So good to finally a disc back in distribution that captures the amazing talent & passion filled music of Kaoru Abe and Sabu Toyozumi. - Bruce Lee Gallanter, DMG

Kaoru Abe - alto, sopranino and soprano saxophones

Sabu Toyozumi - drums and percussion

1. Song for Mithue Totozumi - Part I 21:14

2. Song for Mithue Totozumi - Part II 14:44

3. Song for Sakamoto Kikuyo - Part I 4:43

4. Song for Sakamoto Kikuyo - Part II 14:48

5. Song for Sakamoto Kikuyo - Part III 18:28

Bobby Naughton, Leo Smith & Perry Robinson - The Haunt (NO BUSINESS RECORDS 2018)

One of the most immediately accessible of all avant-garde jazz sets because it is pervasively lyrical. A continually floating, melodically curving series of conversations which subtly keep changing colors and timbral intensities while a mysterious implied pulse makes it all cohere in a rather dream-like way. But this is a most vivid dream, the kind that lingers in the mind long after the recording has ended. THE HAUNT is a a permanent and dateless addition to jazz discography.. . . . Nat Hentoff Modern Recording

. . . molto lirica. . . Jazz Oltre

THE HAUNT is a brilliant specimen of textural improvisation at its most concordant. Three masters of the art of spontaneous interaction expertly combine their talents and diverse influences to create music that is dissonant(in terms of conventional tonality, that is) yet euphonious, freely structured yet prudently disciplined. The results should prove accessible to anyone with an ear toward creativity and striking sound combinations, whatever the listener's normal musical preferences. Tom Bingham, AUDIO

THE HAUNT is an album of superb compositions played by a trio of superb musicians. Rather than swinging hard over a firm tempo, the music flows at a slow pace, evoking images that undulate according to the immediate texture of the improvisation. Although it explores the nexus between the New Music and Contemporary Classical Music, THE HAUNT is not pretentious or studied in any way. Its music is abstract without succumbing to the sterility of abstraction. THE HAUNT could very well be one of the most important albums released in 1977. Vernon Frazer, CODA

These calm pieces, with a touch of third-stream sonority to them, represent fast-music dallying quite delightfully with slowness…….

There couldn't be a better instance than this record to show how the true instrumental music is fast however slow it gets, and that it can only be created instantly in the swiftness of perception by which the player maintains the tension, the entire weight of the structure on his shoulders.

Peter Riley, MUSICS London

Bobby Naughton - vibraharp

Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet

Perry Robinson - clarinet

1. The Haunt 7:18

2. Slant 5:45

3. Places 8:11

4. Rose Island 9:14

5. Ordette 9:11

6. Slant (alternate take) 6:49

Recorded April 21, 1976, Blue Rock Studio, NYC

All compositions by Bobby Naughton

Tracks 1–5, previously released as “The Haunt” (OTIC 1005)

Track 6, previously unreleased alternate take

Mastered by Arunas Zujus at MAMAstudios

Liner Notes - Ed Hazell

Front Cover Design - W.J. Panek/Public Eye

Back Cover / Booklet Design - Jeff DiPerna

Producer - Danas Mikailionis

Co-Producers - Ed Hazell, Valerij Anosov

Martin Blume - Frames & Terrains (NO BUSINESS RECORDS 2018)

Side A

FRAMES & TERRAINS (PART I)

Side B

FRAMES & TERRAINS (PART II)

Martin Blume - drums and percussion

Tobias Delius - tenor saxophone, clarinet

Achim Kaufmann - piano

Dieter Manderscheid - double bass

All compositions by Martin Blume (GEMA), Achim Kaufmann (GEMA), Dieter Manderscheid (GEMA) and Tobias Delius (BUMA/STEMRA)

Recorded live on June 9th, 2016 at LOFT, Cologne, Germany

Recorded and mixed by Stefan Deistler

Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios

Front cover - original artwork „10000 signatures” by Martynas Ivinskas

Design by Oskaras Anosovas

Produced by Danas Mikailionis

Co-producer  - Valerij Anosov

Barre Phillips | Motoharu Yoshizawa 吉沢元治 - Oh My, Those Boys! (NO BUSINESS RECORDS 2018)

1. Oh My! 54:59

2. Those Boys! 20:19

Barre Phillips - bass

Motoharu Yoshizawa 吉沢元治 - homemade electric vertical five-strings bass

Recorded live on the 5th April 1994 at Café Amores, Hofu, Yamaguchi, Japan by Takeo Suetomi / Concert produced by Takeo Suetomi

Compositions by Barre Phillips and Motoharu Yoshizawa

Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios

Photos by Akihiro Matsumoto

Design by Oskaras Anosovas

Produced by Danas Mikailionis and Takeo Suetomi (Chap Chap Records)

Release coordinator - Kenny Inaoka (Jazz Tokyo)

Co-producer - Valerij Anosov

Kang Tae Hwan - Live at Cafe Amores (NO BUSINESS RECORDS 2018)

1. Solo 1 15:43

2. Solo 2 17:13

3. Solo 3 18:49

4. Solo 4 10:13

5. Solo 5 6:30

Kang Tae Hwan 姜泰煥 - alto saxophone

Recorded live on the 8th October 1995 at Café Amores, Hofu, Yamaguchi, Japan by Takeo Suetomi / Concert produced by Takeo Suetomi

Compositions by Kang Tae Hwan

Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios

Design by Oskaras Anosovas

Produced by Danas Mikailionis and Takeo Suetomi (Chap Chap Records)

Release coordinator - Kenny Inaoka (Jazz Tokyo)

Co-producer - Valerij Anosov

Gerry Hemingway | Samuel Blaser - Oostum (NO BUSINESS RECORDS 2018)

01: Mettle

02: Bloos

03: Balloon

04: Spoor

05: Rogue

06: Kerkk

Samuel Blaser - trombone

Gerry Hemingway - drums

All compositions by Samuel Blaser (SUISA/GEMA) and Gerry Hemingway (GEMA/BMI)

Recorded live on the 29th August, 2015 at the Kerkje van Oostum, Groningen, The Netherlands by Bart Schulz / The Church was one of many venues of the 2015 Zomer JazzFietsTour / The festival was produced to Marcel Roelofs

Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios

Cover drawing by Christine Carboneill, Perpignan, France

Design by Oskaras Anosovas

Produced by Danas Mikailionis

Co-producer  - Valerij Anosov

NoBusiness Records: New Releases September 2017

Andrew Lamb / Warren Smith / Arkadijus Gotesmanas - The Sea of Modicum

NoBusiness Records NBLP 106

Release year - 2017 

Edition of 300 copies

Harris Eisenstadt / Mivos String Quartet - Whatever Will Happen That Will Also Be

NoBusiness Records NBLP 107

Release year - 2017 

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Bobby Bradford / Hafez Modirzadeh Quartet - Live at the Magic Triangle

NoBusiness Records NBLP 108

Release year - 2017 

Edition of 500 copies

Mark Dresser - Modicana

NoBusiness Records NBLP 109

Release year - 2017 

Edition of 300 copies

Liudas Mockunas - Hydro

NoBusiness Records NBLP 110

Release year - 2017 

Edition of 300 copies

TON-KLAMI: Midori Takada / Kang Tae Hwan / Masahiko Satoh - Prophecy of Nue

NoBusiness Records NBCD 102

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Yedo Gibson / Hernâni Faustino / Vasco Trilla - Chain

NoBusiness Records NBCD 101

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