Northwoods Improvisers - RaftThe Northwoods Improvisers return with a new album comprising their first release in 10 years. The music is all acoustic and skillfully recorded with a version of Faruq Z. Bey's "19 Moons" as well as a version of Mike Johnston's "Tasbih", a piece dedicated to Bey. The connection to Bey and the Detroit Jazz community is strong, as both Nick Ashton and Johnston were key performers in the seminal work Bey completed in the twilight of his life. The group

is the music

based on the libretto by his fellow prisoner Peter Kien

on a text by Monika Rinck

Young explored a more modal territory over the course of his six Blue Note albums including this tremendous session featuring tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers

This album extends this lineage

ballets by Pierre Beauchamp

but his family's stringent views about homosexuality means he has to keep a whole portion of his life and his identity secret

" The Chicago Classical Review wrote

Battle Of The Bands

When questioned about the challenging lyrical content

Buzz Osbourne (The Melvins)

23-25) for the left hand alone based on Chopin's Op