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Thanks for visiting 482 Music.
482 Music releases the work of jazz, world and and improv artists who create what often resists assignment
to a specific style, music that blends or bends conventional categorizations. Our goal is to seek out and
release music that is rooted in the interplay of composition and improvisation, and that finds enjoyment
in the exploration of new approaches to traditional genres.
You will find many of the best-known improvising musicians from around the world here, some working in
one-off groups that do not exist before or after these recordings, making the quality of the performances
that much more remarkable. And, we hope, you will find something a little unexpected in everything we present.
"Some of the most innovative stuff I've heard recently has come from 482 Music..." - Alexander Gelfand, Jazziz
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Featured Albums |
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| Greg Burk -- Ivy Trio
Featuring Jonathan Robinson and Luther Gray
"Burk has always been the type of pianist to incorporate a wide array of references,
although now they're completely subsumed into a personal voice.."- AAJ |
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| Dave Rempis -- Hunter-Gatherers
The Rempis Percussion Quartet
Document Chicago #13
A new two-disc live set
"Rempis is the talent to watch." - All About Jazz NY
"...one of free jazz's most shining accomplishment this year..." - WNUR |
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| Memorize the Sky -- Memorize the Sky
The first full-length recording from the improvising collective of the same name.
"...an allusive, relentlessly surprisng disc..." - The Wire
"...crystalline drones and patient, chamberlike interplay offer a subtle alternative to turbulent free jazz." - Time Out New York |
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| Mike Reed -- Loose Assembly: Last Years Ghost
with Greg Ward, Jason Adasiewicz, Tomeka Reid and Josh Abrams.
"A brilliant debut..." - All About Jazz
"...a well-designed collection of hook-filled tunes and atmospheric interludes..." - Point of Departure |
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| Taylor Ho Bynum & Tomas Fujiwara -- True Events
Longtime collaborators in duets
"...packed with episode and intense detail." - The Wire
"a scintillating album... crackling with improvisational energy." - New York Times |
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| Kyle Bruckmann -- Wrack: Intents & Purposes
Documents Bruckmann's first visit to the Chicago scene since leaving for the Bay Area in 2003.
"From Morton Feldman-esque minimalism to Charles Ives-like bluster, Wrack has few equals." - All About Jazz |
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NEWS...
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Top Ten 2007: Hunter-Gatherers - WNUR |
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"...amazing on many levels..." : Memorize the Sky at All Music Guide |
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Top Ten 2007: True Events - John Sharpe, All About Jazz |
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Top Ten 2007: Last Year's Ghost - Jay Collins, Cadence |
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Top Ten 2007: Intents and Purposes - Troy Collins, Cadence |
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Top Ten 2007: Last Year's Ghost - Jerry D'Souza, JazzHouse.org |
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The Best Albums of 2007: True Events - K. Leander Williams, Time Out New York |
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Top Ten 2007: True Events - Howard Mandel, JazzHouse.org |
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"Rempis is the talent to watch": Hunter-Gatherers" at All About Jazz |
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"Another impressive effort from this budding stylist": Ivy Trio on eJazz News |
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Top Ten 2007: True Events - Brian Morton, Jazz Review |
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Top Ten 2007: Memorize the Sky - Philip Clark, Jazz Review |
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Top Ten 2007: Ivy Trio - Philip Clark, Jazz Review |
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"Since emerging in the late 1990s, Burk has proven himself an artist well worth watching" : Ivy Trio at All About Jazz |
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"...one of free jazz's most shining accomplishment this year, from a band for whom the sky is the limit" : WNUR Pick of the Week Hunter-Gatherers |
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"...a wonderfully unique debut from one of Chicago�s great young scenesters. Anyone with an interest in Chicago's vibrant creative music community should not hesitate..."Last Years Ghost in Cadence. |
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"...something to marvel at quietly and return to repeatedly." :
Memorize the Sky at Bagatellen |
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"...intelligent, contemporary American music with lashings of PoMo cleverness and plenty to say." : Last Year's Ghost in Jazzwise |
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"Day of the Dead" is the Download of the Day at All About Jazz |
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"... a few more recordings like Last Year's Ghost and Mike Reed will in the first rank of living American bandleaders." - Point of Departure |
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"A brilliant debut" : Last Year's Ghost at All About Jazz |
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"...one of the best records by local artists I have heard this year... a unique voice that deserves to be heard." : Orange Blossom in JazzGram |
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"... dazzling proof that intricately arranged, angular modern jazz can be accessible and enjoyable." Intents & Purposes in The Wire |
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"... a gem... great to hear this fine local ensemble blending Sun Ra, Miles and assorted ethnic influences into something new and exciting." : Fire of Space at Downtown Music Gallery |
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"... effortlessly occupies the space between jazz and classical music, generating movements of somber reflection one minute, turbulent intensity the next. From Morton Feldman-esque minimalism to Charles Ives-like bluster, Wrack has few equals. " : Intents & Purposes at All About Jazz |
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" 4 1/2 Stars " : Other Stories at All About Jazz Italy |
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"...blazingly original ... a rare entity: a new group that seemingly arrives from nowhere, fully formed with its own sound " : Herculaneum at All About Jazz |
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"...a stroke of genius..." : The Uninvited at All Music Guide |
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