Joshua Abrams

Joshua Abrams' Cloud Script - Cloud Script (2020)  Music

Posted by gribovar at May 4, 2021
Joshua Abrams' Cloud Script - Cloud Script (2020)

Joshua Abrams' Cloud Script - Cloud Script (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 283 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 108 MB | Covers - 24 MB
Genre: Avant-garde Jazz, Free Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Rogueart (ROG-0107)

Double bassist Joshua Abrams provides the compositions for this studio album performed with Ari Brown on tenor sax, Jeff Parker on guitar and Gerald Cleaver on drums, an exceptional quartet of master improvisers who balance lyrical and soulful playing with explorative impulse, fueled by an empathetic responsiveness that only a long history of collaboration can engender.
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Simultonality (2017)

Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Simultonality (2017)
WEB FLAC (tracks) ~ 259.42 Mb | 42:19 | Cover
Avant-Garde Jazz | Country: USA | Label: Eremite Records - MTE 68

The follow-up to joshua abrams's critically acclaimed 2015 album magnetoception is here. simultonality, credited to joshua abrams AND natural information society (NIS), is the first recording in the project’s nine year, four album history made by a regularly gigging manifestation rather than a special assembly of friends. recorded in 2014 & 2015 in single takes by the full ensemble during & after tours of the u.s. & canada, simultonality sets out new pathways for abrams & the NIS to reach the next summit, & once more affirms the project's unique approach to joining traditional musics, american minimalism & jazz with the gnawa ceremonial instrument the guimbri.
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Mandatory Reality (2019) {Eremite MTE-71/72}

Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Mandatory Reality (2019) {Eremite MTE-71/72}
FLAC (tracks) - 16bit/44.1kHz - Official Digital Download (bandcamp.com) -> 470 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 202 Mb | Cover | 5% repair rar
© 2019 Eremite Records | MTE-71/72
Jazz / Experimental / World Music / Avant-Garde / Minimalism

Featuring an eight-piece acoustic incarnation of NIS - with Abrams on guimbri, along with harmonium, tam-tam, gongs, autoharp, piano, tabla, tar, cornet, alto sax, and bass clarinet - the album is centered around two long form compositions by Abrams ("In Memory's Prism" and "Finite"). Recorded live to tape at Electical Audio in Chicago, Mandatory Reality reveals its beauty slowly and methodically.
Jeff Albert's Instigation Quartet - The Tree on the Mound (2013) {RogueArt ‎ROG-0046 rec 2011}

Jeff Albert's Instigation Quartet - The Tree on the Mound (2013) {RogueArt ‎ROG-0046 rec 2011}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 299 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 125 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 14 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2013 RogueArt ‎| ROG-0046
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Trombone

Trombonist Jeff Albert's Instigation Quartet, comprised of saxophonist Kidd Jordan, double bassist Joshua Abrams, and drummer Hamid Drake, play a superb studio session, starting and ending with two works by Fred Anderson. “The musicians have dug irrigation canals into society and the universe, overflowing with their energy.”
Natural Information Society - Since Time Is Gravity (2023) [Official Digital Download]

Natural Information Society - Since Time Is Gravity (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 73:25 minutes | 820 MB
Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative, Psychedelic | Label: Eremite Records, Official Digital Download

The next chapter of the Natural Information Society is here. Since Time Is Gravity, credited to Natural Information Society Community Ensemble with Ari Brown, presents a newly expanded manifestation of acclaimed composer & multi-instrumentalist Joshua Abrams nearly 15 year, 7 albums &-counting flagship ensemble.

Jason Stein Quartet - Lucille! (2017)  Music

Posted by Domestos at Feb. 3, 2018
Jason Stein Quartet - Lucille! (2017)

Jason Stein Quartet - Lucille! (2017)
WEB FLAC (tracks) ~ 289.30 Mb | 48:52 | Cover
Avant-Garde Jazz, Cool Jazz | Country: USA | Label: Delmark Records - DE-5025

Jason Stein continues to curve a niche in the jazz world, but it's not what you might assume. Listeners straightaway assume that he is an idiosyncratic outlier because his sole instrument is the bass clarinet. We've grown accustomed to saxophonists like Eric Dolphy and David Murray doubling on the bass clarinet. Stein's constancy to this one woodwind instrument, like Germany's Rudi Mahal, is unequivocal, yet the sound of the instrument doesn't define his trajectory.
Natural Information Society - descension (Out of Our Constrictions) (2021) [Official Digital Download]

Natural Information Society - descension (Out of Our Constrictions) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 74:45 minutes | 835 MB
Jazz, Modern Creative, Psychedelic | Label: Eremite Records, Official Digital Download

Rich in musical associations yet utterly singular in its voice, joyous with an inner tranquility, the music of Natural Information Society is unlike any other being made today. Their sixth album in eleven years for eremite records, descension (Out of Our Constrictions) is the first to be recorded live, featuring a set from London’s Cafe OTO with veteran English free-improv great Evan Parker, & the first to feature just one extended composition. The 75-minute performance, inspired by the galvanizing presence of Parker, is a sustained bacchanalia of collective ecstasy. You could call it their party album.

Jason Stein Quartet - The Story This Time (2011)  Music

Posted by Domestos at July 23, 2019
Jason Stein Quartet - The Story This Time (2011)

Jason Stein Quartet - The Story This Time (2011)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 424.44 Mb | 01:06:27 | Covers
Free Jazz, Post-Bop | Label: Delmark Records - DE 2013

The debut album of The Jason Stein Quartet, The Story This Time brings together Chicago bass clarinetist Jason Stein with three of his favorite improvisers. With Joshua Abrams on bass, Frank Rosaly on drums, and Keefe Jackson on tenor saxophone and contrabass clarinet, the album features five original compositions by Stein and six under explored compositions by jazz luminaries Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Lenny Tristano, and Thelonious Monk. Following three critically acclaimed albums with his trio Locksmith Isidore, Stein's new Chicago quartet seamlessly integrates rigorous written material with fierce and imaginative improvisational flights.

Dave McDonnell Group - Eidetic (2016)  Music

Posted by Domestos at Oct. 15, 2017
Dave McDonnell Group - Eidetic (2016)

Dave McDonnell Group - Eidetic (2016)
WEB FLAC (tracks) ~ 381.53 Mb | 55:05 | Cover
Free Jazz, Contemporary Jazz | Country: USA

Dave McDonnell is a composer, computer music programmer and jazz saxophonist. A Chicago native, McDonnell currently resides in Cincinnati, where he teaches Computer Music, Recording and Arranging at The University of Dayton and laptop music at The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
Makaya McCraven - In The Moment (2015) [Official Digital Download]

Makaya McCraven - In The Moment (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time - 73:41 minutes | 827 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Drummer/producer Makaya McCraven brings together "future-is-now drumming” with his roots in jazz and world music to form his unique and powerful sound. Regarded as “one of Chicago’s most versatile and in demand drummers” (Chicago Reader) and described by Downbeat Magazine as “exceptional on the drums,” Makaya McCraven moves between genres at lightning speed. "In The Moment" is nearly 48 hours of live improvised performance recorded at 1 venue over 12 months and 28 shows - culled, cut, rendered, and remixed into 19 potent pieces of organic beat music. This is music made by a 21st century man who sees no need to suppress his hip hop chops or rock spirit in an effort to fit in and be dubbed a jazz drummer.