06 Apr

[ April the 11th, 2025 release on Pyroclastic: Ingrid Laubrock’s “Purposing the Air” ]

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“The genius of Laubrock’s compositions lies in the way they balance compositional structure with improvisational freedom.” – Troy Dostert, All About Jazz

Purposing The Air, out April 11, 2025, sets to music 60 brief yet evocative koans for the pairings of Fay Victor/Mariel Roberts, Sara Serpa/Matt Mitchell, Theo Bleckmann/Ben Monder, and Rachel Calloway/Ari Streisfeld (Duo Cortona). Hailed as a “fully committed saxophonist and visionary” by The New Yorker, Ingrid Laubrock has evolved a distinctive, fascinatingly complex and richly layered sonic vocabulary that spans her efforts as an improviser, as leader of her own diverse ensembles or, as in the case of her captivating new album Purposing The Air, as composer and conceptualist for other musicians.

10 Mar

[ March the 14th, 2025 release via Pyroclastic: Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson – Bone Bells ]

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Bone Bells, out March 14, 2025 via Pyroclastic Records, thrives on the pair’s bold instincts, improvisational daring and far-ranging compositional vision

“Courvoisier and Halvorson have a chemistry that brings out something new in both of them… [Searching for the Disappeared Hour] is a totally involving and, in its own warped way, beautiful session of music.” – Jerome Wilson, All About Jazz

“Courvoisier and Halvorson reach across the specifics of their approach to celebrate a mutuality of taste: of melodic shapes, of rhythmic structures, of harmonic colour.”– J.D. Considine, JazzTimes

12 Oct

[ October the 18th, 2024 release on Pyroclastic Records: Brandon Seabrook – Object of Unknown Function ]

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Object of Unknown Function, out October 18, 2024 via Pyroclastic Records, layers vintage banjos, electric and 12-string guitars and cassette recordings into an uncategorizable hybrid, one of its kind recording.

“Seabrook occupies sound worlds all his own. Is it jazz? Metal? Classical? Folk? Punk? It’s all of the above—usually at the same time.” – Brad Cohan, Bandcamp Daily

25 Sep

[ September 27th, 2024 release on Pyroclastic Records: Kris Davis – Run the Gauntlet ]

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Grammy-winning pianist/composer Kris Davis pays tribute to six extraordinary women pianists with her new trio album Run the Gauntlet

Out September 27, 2024 via Pyroclastic Records, the album – with bassist Robert Hurst and drummer Johnathan Blake – celebrates Geri Allen, Carla Bley, Marilyn Crispell, Angelica Sanchez, Sylvie Courvoisier and Renee Rosnes

“Davis’ music is precisely and unmistakably the sound of today… [she] has the acuity and focus to root a farsighted vision firmly in the present.” – Michael J. West, DownBeat

06 Mar

[ March 8th, 2024 release on Pyroclastic Records: David Leon – Bird’s Eye ]

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Bird’s Eye, due out March 8, 2024 via Pyroclastic Records, features a pathfinding new trio with gayageum player DoYeon Kim and drummer/percussionist Lesley Mok.

“[David Leon’s] extroversion feels like a natural part of his musical personality, spiking his agile post-bop with nifty conceptual brio that never gets in the way of his desire to communicate.” – Peter Margasak, The Quietus

“[Bird’s Eye] maintained an easy and fluid connection… [Mok] effortlessly augmented Leon’s… solos and punctuated the texture without overpowering DoYeon Kim, who shredded so hard on the gayagum that she had to actually reassemble her instrument before the set was over.” – Lana Norris, I Care If You Listen

02 Feb

[ February 2nd, 2024 release on Pyroclastic Records: Ches Smith – Laugh Ash ]

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Due out February 2, 2024 via Pyroclastic Records, the album features a brilliant ensemble with James Brandon Lewis, Nate Wooley, Anna Webber, Shahzad Ismaily, Oscar Noriega, Shara Lunon, Jennifer Choi, Kyle Armbrust and Michael Nicolas.

“A go-to percussionist for experimental jazz and new-music ensembles, Ches Smith gravitates toward edgy outfits… while displaying a musical personality as detail-oriented as it is sweepingly ornate.” Steve Futterman, The New Yorker

“The nondescript term ‘drummer’ doesn’t get near the chemistry of earworm hooks, sharp-end jazz innovation and global-musical openness of New York percussionist/composer Ches Smith.” John Fordham, The Guardian

21 Dec

[ December 21th, 2023 release on Pyroclastic Records: Bertoia Sound Sculptures + 12 Master Improvisors = Sculpting Sound ]

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Pyroclastic Records presents Sculpting Sound, a groundbreaking collection of six once-in-a-lifetime performances bringing together twelve master improvisers with the sound sculptures of visionary artist Harry Bertoia

These captivating performances, available on the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2023 via SculptingSound.org, feature Nels Cline, Ben Monder, Ambrose Akinmusire, Nate Wooley, Ingrid Laubrock, JD Allen, Jen Shyu, Brandon Seabrook, Marcus Gilmore, Dan Weiss, Kris Davis and Craig Taborn

26 Oct

[ October 27th, 2023 release via Pyroclastic Records: Angelica Sanchez — Nighttime Creatures ]

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Pianist/Composer Angelica Sanchez explores the vibrant hues of the nocturnal world on the debut album by her all-star Nonet

Nighttime Creatures, due out October 27, 2023 via Pyroclastic Records, Angelica Sanchez‘s NONET, features Michaël Attias, Ben Goldberg, John Hébert, Thomas Heberer, Sam Ospovat, Chris Speed, Omar Tamez and Kenny Warren

“One of the most persistently overlooked and under-recorded pianists of her generation, Angelica Sanchez… nonchalantly displays her versatility [on] fleet post-bop, fully improvised excursions, or… brooding introspection.” – Peter Margasak, The Quietus

” Angelica Sanchez is a pianist of great depth and imagination.” – Richard J. Salvucci, All About Jazz

01 Sep

[ September 1th, 2023 – Pyroclastic Records: Kris Davis’ Diatom Ribbons – Live at the Village Vanguard ]

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The brilliant Grammy winning pianist and composer Kris Davis‘ Diatom Ribbons release the striking new double album Live at the Village Vanguard today, September 1, 2023 via Pyroclastic Records.

The album reunites Davis with her core collaborators from her widely heralded 2019 album Diatom Ribbons – drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, turntablist and electronic musician Val Jeanty and bassist Trevor Dunn – and adds a new voice to the mix with guitarist Julian Lage

“On Diatom Ribbons, [Kris Davis’] skills as a composer, band assembler, system builder and improviser — a musical auteur, basically — come fully into focus.” – Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times

“[Diatom Ribbons] is the most versatile and bracing jazz recording of 2019… [it] successfully combines thrilling vision and a hunger for repeat listenings.” – Will Layman, PopMatters

“Scintillating … mesmerizing… it comes when her ascension in the jazz ecosystem continues to soar.” – John Murph, DownBeat

“Diatom Ribbons is a multi-stylistic, super-eclectic extravaganza, embracing both grooves and free tempo… A cornucopia of delights.” – Andy Hamilton, The Wire

01 May

[ May the 5th, 2023 release via Pyroclastic Records: Mark Dresser – Tines of Change ]

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Tines of Change, due out May 5, 2023 via Pyroclastic Records, features custom-designed 4- and 5-string basses with fingerboard-embedded pickups and a set of metal tines that offer stunning new possibilities that Dresser vividly explores

“[Mark Dresser is] a bassist who is one of the great instrumental forces in recent American jazz outside the mainstream.” – Ben Ratliff, The New York Times

” Dresser uses the bow like Picasso used the brush: to refract and recast certain realities and to create completely new ones.” – Robert Bush, San Diego Reader