Bill Shoemaker


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American music critic and publisher, specialized in jazz. Editor of the web-based magazine 'Point of Departure' for (Free-) Jazz and Improvised Music.

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Ellery Eskelin Trio New York
About (Or On) First Visit
2025, 2xCD, Album, ezz-thetics, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation
Franz Koglmann
Near Blue - A Taste Of Melancholy
2024, CD, Album, ezz-thetics, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus To Pre Bird Revisited
2024, CD, Comp, RM, ezz-thetics, ,
Big Band/Post Bop
Don Ellis
How Time Passes To Esssence Revisited
2024, CD, Comp, ezz-thetics, ,
Post Bop
Alexander Hawkins Trio With Neil Charles (2) And Stephen Davis*
Carnival Celestial
2023, CD, Album, Intakt Records, Intakt Records
New York Art Quartet
New York Art Quartet Revisited
2023, CD, Comp, ezz-thetics, ,
Free Jazz
Jackie McLean
One Step Beyond To New And Old Gospel Revisited
2023, CD, Comp, RM, ezz-thetics, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Anthony Williams
Life Time & Spring Revisited
2022, CD, Comp, RM, ezz-thetics, ,
Free Jazz/Post Bop
François Houle & Marco Von Orelli
Make That Flight
2022, CD, Album, ezz-thetics
Archie Shepp
Fire Music To Mama Too Tight Revisited
2022, CD, Comp, ezz-thetics, ,
Free Improvisation
Andrew Hill
Point Of Departure To Compulsion!!!!! Revisited
2022, CD, Comp, RM, ezz-thetics, ,
Post Bop
Archie Shepp
Blasé And Yasmina, Revisited
2021, CD, Comp, ezz-thetics
The New York Contemporary Five
Copenhagen 1963 Revisited
2021, CD, ,
Free Jazz
New York Contemporary Five*
Consequences Revisited
2020, CD, Comp, RM, ezz-thetics, ,
Free Jazz
Evan Parker, Zlatko Kaučič / Evan Parker, Zlatko Kaučič, Massimo de Mattia, Boštjan Simon
Arkosberg
2020, 2xCD, Album, Klopotec
Derek Bailey - Han Bennink - Evan Parker
Topographie Parisienne (Dunois, April 3d, 1981)
2019, 4xCD, Album + Box, Fou Records
Borah Bergman, Wilber Morris, Sunny Murray
Monks
2019, 2xCD, Album, Ltd, some real music, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Evan Parker, Matthew Wright (5), Adam Linson, John Coxon, Ashley Wales, Trance Map+*
Crepuscule In Nickelsdorf
2019, CD, ,
Free Improvisation/Experimental
Robert Dick - Tiffany Chang
Raise The River
2018, CD, Album, Rogueart
Don Cherry
At Bracknell Jazz Festival
2018
Georg Graewe*, Damon Smith, Michael Vatcher
Unhesitating
2018
Aki Takase - David Murray
Cherry Sakura
2017, CD, Album, Intakt Records, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz
Anthony Braxton - Miya Masaoka
Duo (DCWM) 2013
2016, 2xCD, Album, Rogueart, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Richard Poole (2) - Marilyn Crispell - Gary Peacock
In Motion
2016, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Anthony Braxton Quartet
(Santa Cruz) 1993 1st Set
2015, CD, Album, RE, hatOLOGY, ,
Free Improvisation
Tom Rainey Trio With Ingrid Laubrock And Mary Halvorson
Hotel Grief
2015, CD, Album, Intakt Records, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Anthony Braxton
Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993 - 2nd Set
2015, CD, Album, RM, hatOLOGY, ,
Free Improvisation
Derek Bailey - Joëlle Léandre - George Lewis - Evan Parker
28 Rue Dunois Juillet 1982
2014, CD, Album, Fou Records
Horace Tapscott Quintet
The Giant Is Awakened
2014
S. O. S.
Looking For The Next One
2013
Aki Takase
My Ellington
2013, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Evan Parker, Georg Graewe*
Dortmund Variations
2012, CD, Album, Nuscope Recordings, ,
Free Improvisation
Wadada Leo Smith & Louis Moholo-Moholo*
Ancestors
2012, CD, Album, TUM Records, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz
Gabriela Friedli Trio With Daniel Studer And Dieter Ulrich
Started
2012, CD, Album, Intakt Records
Roscoe Mitchell & Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble
Three Compositions - Live At Sant'Anna Arresi
2012, CD, Album, Rogueart,
Steve Lacy - Solo & Quintet*
In Berlin
2011, CD, Comp, FMP, ,
Free Improvisation
Různí
FMP Im Rückblick - In Retrospect
2011, CD, Album + CD, Comp + CD, Comp + CD, Comp + CD, A, FMP, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Roscoe Mitchell
Numbers
2011, CD, Album, Rogueart
Marilyn Crispell - Gerry Hemingway
Affinities
2011, CD, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Aki Takase
A Week Went By
2010, CD, Album, psi (3), ,
Free Improvisation/Free Jazz
Steve Lacy
November
2010, ,
Free Improvisation
Die Enttäuschung
5
2009, CD, Album, Intakt Records
Barry Guy – London Jazz Composers' Orchestra* / Irène Schweizer*
Radio Rondo / Schaffhausen Concert
2009, CD, Album, Intakt Records, ,
Free Jazz
Kaufmann* / Dresser* / Eisenstadt*
Starmelodics
2009, CD, Album, Nuscope Recordings, ,
Free Improvisation
Groder* & Greene*
Groder & Greene
2009, CD, Album, Ltd, Latham Records, ,
Free Jazz
Jürg Wickihalder Overseas Quartet
Furioso
2008, CD, Album, Intakt Records, Intakt Records
Louis Moholo-Moholo* Duets With Marilyn Crispell
Sibanye (We Are One)
2008, CD, Album, Intakt Records
Mark Dresser / Ed Harkins / Steven Schick
House Of Mirrors
2008, CD, Album, Clean Feed, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Gebhard Ullmann
New Basement Research
2007, CD, Album, Soul Note
Sylvie Courvoisier
Lonelyville
2007, CD, Album, Intakt Records, ,
Avantgarde/Contemporary
Bruce Eisenbeil, Klaus Kugel, Perry Robinson, Peter Evans (2), Hilliard Greene
Carnival Skin
2007, CD, Album, Nemu Records
Alexander von Schlippenbach
Twelve Tone Tales · Vol I
2006, CD, Album, Intakt Records
Rodrigo Amado / Kent Kessler / Paal Nilssen-Love
Teatro
2006, CD, Album, ((European Echoes
Mark Dresser
Unveil
2005, CD, Album, Clean Feed, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Zé Eduardo / Jack Walrath Quartet
Bad Guys
2005, CD, Album, Clean Feed
Kevin Norton's Bauhaus Quartet
Time-Space Modulator
2004, CD, Album, Barking Hoop Recordings, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Cecil Taylor, Mat Maneri
Algonquin
2004, CD, Album, Bridge Records (4)
HISS
Zahir
2003, CD, Album, Rossbin
Gerry Hemingway Quartet
Devils Paradise
2003, CD, Album, Clean Feed
Barry Guy / Evan Parker*
Birds And Blades
2003, 2xCD, Album, Intakt Records, Intakt Records, ,
Free Improvisation
Denman Maroney
Fluxations
2003, CD, Album, New World Records, CounterCurrents
Joe McPhee With The Bill Smith Ensemble*
Visitation
2003
Archie Shepp
I Know About The Life
2003
Mark Dresser Trio
Aquifer
2002, CD, Album, Cryptogramophone, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
Brennan* / Patumi*
Time Jumps – Space Cracks
2002, CD, Album, Leo Records
Andy Laster's Lessness
Window Silver Bright
2002, CD, Album, New World Records, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
David Eyges - Arthur Blythe
Sky
2002, CD, Album, MidLantic Records
Cedar Walton
Latin Tinge
2002, CD, Album, HighNote Records, Inc.
Madly You
Madly You
2002, ,
Free Improvisation
Barry Guy New Orchestra
Inscape - Tableaux
2001, CD, Album, Intakt Records, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Kevin Norton
Change Dance Troubled Energy
2001, CD, Album, Barking Hoop Recordings
Georg Graewe* / Barre Phillips / Peter Van Bergen
Other Songs
2000, CD, Album, Nuscope Recordings, ,
Free Improvisation
Gebhard Ullmann
Kreuzberg Park East
2000, CD, Album, Soul Note, ,
Free Improvisation
Eric Watson, Ed Thigpen, Mark Dresser, Bennie Wallace
Full Metal Quartet
2000
Steve Lacy + 6
The Cry
1999, 2xCD, Album, Soul Note
Borah Bergman / Oliver Lake
A New Organization
1999, CD, Album, Soul Note, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Georg Graewe* With Marcio Mattos And Michael Vatcher
Subsymbolism
1998, CD, Album, Nuscope Recordings
Pandelis Karayorgis / Mat Maneri with guests Joe Maneri & John Lockwood
Lift & Poise 12 Improvised Movements
1998, CD, Album, Leo Lab,
String Trio Of New York
Faze Phour: A Twenty Year Retrospective
1998, CD, Album, Black Saint, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Jane Ira Bloom
Mighty Lights
1998
Anthony Braxton
Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993
1997, 2xCD, Album, Ltd, hat ART, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Borah Bergman / Anthony Braxton / Peter Brötzmann
Eight By Three
1997, CD, Album, Mixtery, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Berg Borg Brötz man/n
Blue Zoo
1997, CD, Album, Konnex Records, ,
Free Jazz
Stevens, Siegel & Ferguson
Points Of View
1997, CD, Album, Imaginary Records (3), Imaginary Records (3)
Borah Bergman / Peter Brötzmann / Andrew Cyrille
Exhilaration
1997, CD, Album, Soul Note, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Anthony Braxton
Four Compositions (Quartet) 1995
1997, CD, Album, Braxton House
Jaki Byard, David Eyges
Night Leaves
1997, CD, Album, Brownstone Recordings
James Emery
Standing On A Whale Fishing For Minnows
1997
Eric Watson And John Lindberg
Soundpost: Works For Piano And Double Bass
1996, CD, Album, Music & Arts, Music & Arts
Anthony Braxton
Piano Quartet, Yoshi's 1994
1996, 4xCD, Album, Music & Arts, ,
Post Bop/Avant-garde Jazz
John Lindberg
Resurrection Of A Dormant Soul
1996, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
The Julius Hemphill Sextet
Five Chord Stud
1994
Steve Lacy Octet
Vespers
1993, CD, Album, Soul Note, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Michael Cochrane Trio
Song Of Change
1993, CD, Album, Soul Note
Roscoe Mitchell And The Note Factory
This Dance Is For Steve McCall
1993
Anthony Braxton
2 Compositions (Ensemble) 1989/1991
1992, CD, Album, hat ART, ,
Contemporary/Avant-garde Jazz
The Super Quartet Of Mal Waldron* Featuring Steve Lacy
Live At Sweet Basil
1992
Maarten Altena Ensemble
Code
1991, CD, Album, hat ART
Maarten Altena
Cities & Streets
1991, CD, Album, hat ART
Maarten Altena Octet
Rif
1990
Maarten Altena Ensemble
Quotl
1989, CD, ,
Contemporary/Avant-garde Jazz
String Trio Of New York & Jay Clayton
String Trio Of New York & Jay Clayton
1988
Leo Smith* With The Bill Smith Ensemble
Rastafari
1983, Vinyl, ,
Avant-garde Jazz