Leo Records (Jazz - Import)

Frank Gratkowski Quartet: Le Vent Et La Gorge

CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2013-02-19

Tracks: Harm-Oh-Nie; Harm-Oh-Nie [Continued]; Harm-Oh-Nie [Continued]; Harm-Oh-Nie [Continued]; Harm-Oh-Nie [Continued]; Harm-Oh-Nie [Continued]; Harm-Oh-Nie [Continued]; Harm-Oh-Nie [Continued]; Vent Et La ...
Artists: Frank Gratkowski Quartet

Personnel: Frank Gratkowski (clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, alto saxophone); Wolter Wierbos (trombone); Dieter Manderscheid (double bass); Gerry Hemingway (drums).

Audio Mixer: W...continue...

Gerald Cleaver/Ivo Perelman/Joe Morris (Guitar): Living Jelly

CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2013-02-19

Tracks: In Pursuit of Pleasure; Playing With Mercury; Sloth, The; Enigma; Living Jelly
Artists: Gerald Cleaver/Ivo Perelman/Joe Morris (Guitar)

Personnel: Gerald Cleaver (drums); Ivo Perelman (tenor saxophone); Joe Morris (guitar).

Audio Mixer: Jim Clouse.

Liner Note Author: Joe Morris .

Recording information: Parkwest St...continue...

Frank Gratkowski/Chris Brown (Avant Garde)/William Winant (Percussion)/Gerhard Winkler: Vermilion Traces/Donaueschingen 2009

CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2013-02-19

Tracks: Trampoline; Retort; Underbelly; Sirens; Gesticulations; Opaque Circle; Fall Back; Funky Ghost; Vermilion Traces; Bikini. Atoll; Vergin On Orange; Shadow of Hands
Artists: Frank Gratkowski/Chris Brown (Avant Garde)/William Winant (Percussion)/Gerhard Winkler

Personnel: Frank Gratkowski (clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, alto saxophone); Chris Brown (piano); William Winant (percussion).

Audio Mixer: Manfred Seiler.

Liner Note Auth...continue...

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Whit Dickey: The Clairvoyant *

CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2013-02-19

Tracks: Clairvoyant, The; Ritual; Torture and Glory; Mere Speck of Dust, A; State of Grace; Silken Threads; Expedients of a Primitive Being, The; Fear of Eternity
Artists: Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Whit Dickey

Personnel: Ivo Perelman (tenor saxophone); Matthew Shipp (piano); Whit Dickey (drums).

Audio Mixer: Jim Clouse.

Liner Note Authors: Jim Clouse; Matthew Shipp.

Recording informatio...continue...

Frank Gratkowski: Fo(u)r Alto

CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2013-02-19

Tracks: Tamtam 4a; Molto Fluttuante; Likewise; Sound 1
Artists: Frank Gratkowski

Personnel: Frank Gratkowski (alto saxophone); Christian Weidner, Benjamin Weidekamp, Florian Bergmann (alto saxophone).

Audio Mixer: Walter Quintus.

Liner Note Author: Reinhard Kager....continue...

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Michael Bisio: The Gift

CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2013-02-19

Tracks: Too Good to Be True; Gift, The; Gratuitous Act, The; Refuge; What is Anguish?; Submission to the Process; Ride on a Camel, A; Flower Bewitched and Too Bright By Far, A; Without Any Warning; Enlistment
Artists: Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Michael Bisio

Personnel: Ivo Perelman (tenor saxophone); Matthew Shipp (piano).

Audio Mixer: Jim Clouse.

Liner Note Author: Clifford Allen.

Recording information: Parkwest Studios, Brooklyn, NY...continue...

The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Evocations

CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2012-08-21

Tracks: March of the Booboisie; I Hear America Calling; Vacuous Twaddle; Dig the Dig; Rascals & Scoundrels; Closer Walk; Sumner
Artists: The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra

Personnel: Richard Nelson (guitar); Peter Bloom (flute, piccolo, alto saxophone); Arni Cheatham (flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Phil Scarff (clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Da...continue...

Mmm Quartet: Live at the Metz Arsenal

CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2012-08-21

Tracks: Part One; Part Two
Artists: Mmm Quartet

Personnel: Fred Frith (guitar); Urs Leimgruber (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Alvin Curran (piano, electronics); Joëlle Léandre (double bass).

Audio Mixer: Jean-Marc Foussat....continue...

Alexey Lapin (Piano)/Oleg Yudanov/Alexey Kruglov: Impulse

CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2012-08-21

Tracks: Impulse; Premonition; Echoes of Russian Metaphor; Contemplation; Ascent, The; System of Meanings; In Search of Silence; Rezume...or a Try of a New Impulse
Artists: Alexey Lapin (Piano)/Oleg Yudanov/Alexey Kruglov

Personnel: Alexey Lapin (piano); Oleg Yudanov (drums, percussion); Alexey Kruglov (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone).

Liner Note Author: Alexey Kruglov.

Recording infor...continue...

Ernst Reijseger/Matthias Schubert/Simon Nabatov: Square Down *

CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2011-11-15

Tracks: Long Haul; Genostasis; Run for It; Chapter and Verse; Plangent Cry; Giant Lips
Artists: Ernst Reijseger/Matthias Schubert/Simon Nabatov

Personnel: Ernst Reijseger (cello); Matthias Schubert (tenor saxophone); Simon Nabatov (piano).

Audio Mixer: Christian Heck.

Photographer: Pavel Borodin.

Released by England's wor...continue...

Alexey Lapin (Piano)/François Carrier/Michel Lambert (Drums): Inner Spire

CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2011-11-15

Tracks: Inner Spire; Square Away; Tribe; Round Trip; Sacred Flow
Artists: Alexey Lapin (Piano)/François Carrier/Michel Lambert (Drums)

Personnel: Alexey Lapin (piano); François Carrier (alto saxophone); Michel Lambert (drums).

Audio Mixer: Alexey Lapin .

Liner Note Authors: François Carrier; Andrew Forbes.
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Ivo Perelman: The Alexander Suite

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2011-04-05

Tracks: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7; Part 8
Artists: Ivo Perelman

With C.T. String Quartet.

Personnel: Ivo Perelman (tenor saxophone); Jason Hwang (violin); Ron Lawrence (viola); Thomas Ulrich (cello); Dominic Duval (acoustic bass).

Ivo Perelman has pr...continue...

Vladmir Rezitsky: Hot Sounds From the Arctic

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2011-04-05

Artists: Vladmir Rezitsky

This CD is a tribute to Vladimir Rezitsky. The leader of the jazz group Arkhangelsk.

Performers include: Sainkho Namchylak, Valentina Ponomareva, Arkhangelsk, Ken Hyder, Tim Hodgkinson.

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Brasserie Trio: Musique Mechanique

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2011-04-05

Artists: Brasserie Trio

Brasserie Trio: Carlo Actis Dato (reeds); Alberto Mandarini (trumpet); Lauro Rossi (trombone).

This version of this Italian trio features trumpeter Alberto Mandarini, trombonist Lauro Rossi, an...continue...

Phil Minton: Songs from a Prison Diary (Poems by Ho Chi Minh)

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2011-04-05

Artists: Phil Minton

Personnel includes: Phil Minton, Veryan Weston, Cleveland Watkins, Maggie Nichols, Norman Winston.

Recorded live at the Church Of The St. Paul at the Strasbourg Musical Festival in 1991.
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Mark O'Leary (Guitar): The Synth Show

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2008-11-18

Tracks: Eva; Persona; Into The Abyss; Tuzla; Sky Kirk; Texas; Elysian Plains; Critical Mass; Oxygen; For Ingmar Bergman; Dr Who Theme/Playing The Himalayas
Artists: Mark O'Leary (Guitar)

Personnel: Mark O'Leary (guitar); Kenny Wollesen (drums, percussion); Jamie Saft (synthesizer).

Audio Mixer: Finbarr Corcoran.

While the three players of THE SYNTH SHOW are definitely ja...continue...

Carolyn Hume: Gravity and Grace *

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2008-11-18

Tracks: ''Tommy 1940''; All Is Bound; Grace; Lust And Remains; This Dark Kernel; Malheur; For Dudley - ''In Memoriam''; Gravity And Release
Artists: Carolyn Hume

Personnel: Carolyn Hume (piano); Sonja Galsworthy (vocals); Oliver Coates (cello).

Audio Mixer: Christoph Bracher....continue...

François Carrier: Within *

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2008-10-21

Tracks: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3
Artists: François Carrier

"Within opens with François Carrier's alto saxophone played alone. From these very precise, centered, and yet soft-edged notes, the change to the listening space is...continue...
François Carrier is a peculiar sax player. His name started popping up more and more in free improv circles during the 2000s, but he already had a long track record in modern jazz circles by then...continue...

Kaori Osawa: Aluminum

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2008-03-18

Artists: Kaori Osawa

Ivo Perelman: Geometry

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2008-01-15

Artists: Ivo Perelman

Duo/Borah Bergman.

Personnel includes: Ivo Perelman (tenor saxophone); Borah Bergman (piano).

Includes liner notes by Sam Prestiannian.

Ivo Perelman has often recorded without a p...continue...

Anthony Braxton: Glasgow 2005

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2007-09-18

Artists: Anthony Braxton

On June 4, 2005 Anthony Braxton attained the venerable age of 60. The weeks leading up to that auspicious celebration found him in Victoriaville Canada at the 22nd Festival Internationale de Musique A...continue...

Frank Gratkowski: Celebrations *

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2007-08-21

Tracks: Celebration I; Celebration II; Celebration III; Celebration IV
Artists: Frank Gratkowski

Personnel: Dieter Manderscheid (double bass); Simon Nabatov (E-bow); Herb Robertson (cornet); Frank Gratkowski (alto saxophone).

Recorded live at The Loft in Cologne in January 2006, Celebratio...continue...

Sainkho Namtchylak: Nomad

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2007-07-17

Artists: Sainkho Namtchylak

Sainkho Namtchylak celebrated her 50th anniversary in 2007 and, for the occasion, the avant-garde jazz/free improvisation label Leo Records did what probably no one else would have done: release a car...continue...

Tscho Theissing/Daniele Patumi/John Voirol/John Wolf Brennan/Alex Cline: Shooting Stars & Traffic Lights

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2007-02-20

Tracks: Shooting Stars & Traffic Lights; Ognatango; Toccattacca; Have You Space?; Gathering at the Threshold; Kabak; Marcia Funebre; Kore; A.L.P. P.Traum; Seconds; Firefly, The
Artists: Tscho Theissing/Daniele Patumi/John Voirol/John Wolf Brennan/Alex Cline

Pianist John Wolf Brennan and his quintet's music is adventurous and often quite dissonant but it is also quirky, episodic, witty in spots and full of variety. The title cut, "Shooting Stars & Traffic...continue...

Mark O'Leary (Guitar): Waiting

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2007-02-20

Tracks: Waiting; Endgame; Lucky; Mr. Krapps Neurosis; Assumption; Estragon; Godot; Happy Days; Country Roads
Artists: Mark O'Leary (Guitar)

Personnel: Mark O'Leary (acoustic 12-string guitar, electric guitar, E-bow, electronics, loops); Cuong Vu (trumpet, electronics, loops); Tom Rainey (drums, percussion).

The unusual guitar-trump...continue...

Joëlle Léandre: Joëlle Léandre at the LeMans Jazz Festival

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2006-06-20

Artists: Joëlle Léandre

The 2005 edition of the LeMans Jazz Festival included a whole series devoted to Joëlle Léandre. Between April 26 and May 1, she performed five times, with different partners, and this two-di...continue...

Frank Gratkowski: Triskaidekaphonia

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2006-06-20

Artists: Frank Gratkowski

An unusual set by all standards for the great reedman, and one many fans will deem difficult to get into. Then again, just a glance at the lineup is enough to set off some alarms: Thomas Lehn plays an...continue...

Ivo Perelman: Introspection

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2006-05-16

Artists: Ivo Perelman

François Carrier: Happening

2 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2006-05-16

Artists: François Carrier

"Listeners who have followed multiple reed player François Carrier, particularly his two 2004 releases Play (482 Music) and Traveling Lights(Justin Time), will welcome this double...continue...

Anthony Braxton: Compositions 175 and 126

2 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2006-05-16

Artists: Anthony Braxton

Recorded live at London's Sadlers Wells Theatre in May 1994, this realization of Anthony Braxton's Compositions 175 and 126 was released by Leo Records in 2006 on a double CD. Both works are outgrowth...continue...

Anthony Braxton: Live at the Royal Festival Hall 2004

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2006-04-18

Artists: Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton: Mary Halvorson (guitar); Anthony Braxton (reeds); Taylor Ho Bynum (trumpet); Chris Dahlgren (bass instrument); Satoshi Takeishi (percussion).

If you thought that Anthony Braxto...continue...

Pago Libre: Stepping Out *

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2006-03-21

Artists: Pago Libre

Pago Libre: Tscho Theissing (vocals, violin); Georg Breinschmid (vocals, acoustic bass); Arkady Shilkloper (horns); John Wolf Brennan (piano).

The music of Pago Libre is as eccentric as its ins...continue...

Mark O'Leary (Guitar): Levitation

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2005-11-08

Artists: Mark O'Leary (Guitar)

Personnel: Mark O'Leary (guitar); Tomasz Stanko (trumpet); Billy Hart (drums).

This is the third trio album by Mark O'Leary that Leo Records released in 2005, all with different lineups. Despit...continue...

Masashi Harada: The Soul with Longing for Dim Hills and Faint Horizons *

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2005-11-08

Artists: Masashi Harada

Personnel: Masashi Harada (various instruments); Mat Maneri (piano).

Masashi Harada's previous recording with Mat Maneri was a trio in which he played the drums. The Soul with Longing for Dim H...continue...

Lotte Anker: Triptych

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2005-11-08

Artists: Lotte Anker

Personnel: Lotte Anker (saxophone); Craig Taborn (piano); Gerald Cleaver (drums)....continue...

John Wolf Brennan: Momentum 4: Rising Fall

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2005-11-08

Artists: John Wolf Brennan

Carlo Actis Dato: Folklore Imaginario

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2005-09-20

Artists: Carlo Actis Dato

Imaginary folklore or not, this is a beautiful collaboration between Italian reedman Carlo Actis Dato and Spanish bass player Baldo Martinez. Folklore Imaginario focuses on compositions that mix jazz ...continue...

Wadada Leo Smith: Snakish

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2005-08-23

Artists: Wadada Leo Smith

This set of short sketches features the rather unusual instrumentation of trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, guitarist Miroslav Tadic, Mark Naussef on percussion and electronics, the voice of Katya Quintus, ...continue...

Aki Takase: Lok 03

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2005-07-19

Artists: Aki Takase

Anthony Braxton: 4 Improvisations (Duets) 2004

2 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2005-07-19

Artists: Anthony Braxton

First of all, let's set the record straight. It is Walter Frank, not "Franks," who makes his recording debut here. Getting your name misspelled on the cover of your first album qualifies as tough luck...continue...

Collective 4tet: Moving Along

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2005-05-17

Artists: Collective 4tet

Collective 4tet: William Parker (bass violin); Jeff Hoyer (trombone); Mark Hennen (piano); Heinz Geisser (percussion).

The Collective 4tet, a piano-trombone-bass-drums quartet, performs three l...continue...

Wally Shoup: Blue Purge *

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2005-04-19

Artists: Wally Shoup

Wally Shoup: Wally Shoup (alto saxophone); Reuben Radding (double bass); Bob Ree (drums).

The trio of altoist Wally Shoup, bassist Reuben Radding and drummer Bob Rees create 11 group improvisat...continue...

Achim Kaufmann: Knives: Solo Piano

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2005-04-19

Artists: Achim Kaufmann

Personnel: Achim Kaufmann (piano).

Achim Kaufmann's set of solo piano improvisations is concise and very adventurous. On some numbers he builds on a rumbling forward momentum à la Lennie T...continue...

Joe Fonda (Bass): Twelve Improvisations

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2004-07-20

Artists: Joe Fonda (Bass)

Joe Fonda (Bass): Daunik Lazro (alto saxophone, baritone saxophone); Herb Robertson (trumpet); Harvey Sorgen (drums).

Twelve Improvisations marks the seventh recording by bassist Joe Fonda and ...continue...

Joëlle Léandre: For Flowers

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2004-07-20

Artists: Joëlle Léandre

Personnel: Joëlle Léandre; Mat Maneri (violin); Christophe Marguet (drums); Joel Ryan (electronics).

Assembled from two concerts presented on consecutive nights in June 2001, at the O...continue...

Frank Gratkowski: Facio

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2004-07-20

Artists: Frank Gratkowski

Personnel: Frank Gratkowski (clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, alto saxophone); Wolter Wierbos (trombone); Dieter Manderscheid (double bass); Gerry Hemingway (drums).

Liner Note Aut...continue...

Christy Doran: Triangulation

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2004-06-15

Artists: Christy Doran

Personnel: Christy Doran (guitar); John Wolf Brennan (piano, organ); Patrice Héral (vocals, percussion, sampler).

Apart from the ridiculous liner notes by Peter Monoghan that stretch the m...continue...

Jon Tamayori: Where Do We Go from Here?

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2004-02-10

Tracks: Where Do We Go From Here?; You Got to Unwind; Hooked on a Star; Road Ahead, The; Ocean Divine; Beautiful World; Big Payday; Give You All I Have; I Saw You; In the End
Artists: Jon Tamayori

Collective 4tet: Synopsis

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2003-11-11

Artists: Collective 4tet

Collective 4tet: Heinz Geisser, Mark Hennen, Jeff Hoyer, William Parker.

Includes liner notes by Ben Watson.

Five years have passed since the Collective 4tet's third album, Live at Cresc...continue...

Evan Parker: Alder Brook

1 CD / Leo Records (Jazz - Import) / 2003-11-11

Artists: Evan Parker

Personnel: Evan Parker (soprano & tenor saxophone, tubax).

September Winds: Peter A. Schmid (bass & contrabass clarinet, contrabass saxophone, taragot); Jurg Solothurnmann (alto & soprano saxop...continue...