Improv and Avant-Garde

Jlin Changes 'Perspective' on New Mini-Album

PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2023

Jlin has shared details of a new mini-album. The artist will deliver the six-track Perspective on September 29 via Planet Mu. Following 20...

Grails Return with First New Album in Six Years 'Anches En Maat'

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2023

Grails have detailed their first new album in six years. The Portland instrumental outfit will share Anches En Maat on September 22 via Tem...

Toronto's the Titillators Invent Their Own Futuristic Jazz with "Communication"

PUBLISHED Jul 6, 2023

Ryan Driver has been a fixture in numerous Toronto-based projects, including releasing solo music under his own name and playing in the bac...

Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Arthur Russell Retains His Enigma on Gorgeous 'Picture of Bunny Rabbit'

PUBLISHED Jul 3, 2023

With every posthumous Arthur Russell album — each organized and edited with painstaking care by Russell's longtime partner Tom Lee and Audi...

Colin Stetson Tested the Limits in Ottawa

Ottawa Jazz Festival, June 30

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2023

While others will be typing into the night about legendary headliner Herbie Hancock closing the main stage at the Ottawa Jazz Festival's fi...

Vampire Weekend Reveal Ezra Koenig "Took a Raga Singing Lesson with Terry Riley in Rural Japan"

PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2023

Vampire Weekend's vinyl-only live album Frog on the Bass Drum Vol. 01 is now out in the world, and crucially, an accompanying newsletter of...

Peter Brötzmann, Celebrated Free Jazz Saxophonist, Dies at 82

PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2023

Peter Brötzmann — the acclaimed German free jazz saxophonist who released over 50 albums across his career and recorded with Cecil Taylor,...

Jeremy Dutcher Announces Sophomore Album 'Motewolonuwok,' Shares New Single "Ancestors Too Young"

PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2023

Jeremy Dutcher has finally announced the follow-up to his beloved 2018 album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa. Sophomore LP Motewolonuwok arrives...