Brooklyn-based trumpeter Darren Johnston has been involved with several highly creative music scenes over the last 2 decades, which has included recording duo albums with Fred Frith, and projects... more

WE THE COMMON, the third album from Thao & the Get Down Stay Down was recorded at Tiny Telephone in San Francisco with John Congleton [St. Vincent, Bill Callahan, Explosions in the Sky] and features... more

(2-CD set) Harriet Tubman is an original secular oratorio for 15 piece jazz orchestra and vocal ensemble composed and written by Marcus Shelby, based on a book of the same name by Kate Clifford... more

Thao and Mirah both often go by their first names only. That is mostly why they wanted to make a record together. Other reasons include: they are friends, they were finally in San Francisco at the... more

Xiu Xiu has long been known as prolific, bordering on crazed, but with this new album, each song is so different form the next and so fully realized, the group's creative ferocity is simply... more

'Port Chicago' was composed by Marcus Shelby and commissioned by the Equal Justice Society. It's part of a 14-part suite for jazz orchestra which pays tribute to the U.S. Naval soldiers who perished... more