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482 Music releases the work of jazz, world 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

Featured Albums     Paul Giallorenzo -- Get In to Go Out with Dave Rempis, Josh Berman, Anton Hatwich and Frank Rosaly "...the music is superb." - Chicago Reader "...an impressive batch of music with impressive depth and breadth." -soundslope.com Mike Reed -- Loose Assembly: Speed of Change The much-anticipated follow-up to Last Year's Ghost "A compelling album filled with myriad moods..." - All About Jazz Mike Reed -- People Places and Things: Proliferation An exhilarating evocation of late-50s post-bop Chicago "I don't know if I've enjoyed a jazz album more this year." - Chicago Reader Jason Adasiewicz -- Rolldown Document Chicago #14 Adasiewicz's 482 debut as a leader "...immediately brings Blue Note-era Jackie McLean and Eric Dolphy to mind..." - Bagatellen "...a promising debut." - Downbeat 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

NEWS... - Out Now: Paul Giallorenzo Get In to Go Out "...a terrific quintet playing nine impressive original tunes... the music is superb." - Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader - More Mike Reed, in Cadence - Mike Reed in the Chicago Tribune. - Top Ten Jazz Albums, 2008 - People, Places & Things : Proliferation , in the Chicago Tribune. - Mike Reed is profiled at the NPR Song of the Day page and Loose Assembly's take on Max Roach's "Garvey's Ghost" is the featured tune. Find it at NPR Music. - "Since the 1980's, merely paying tribute to history has become one of the worst blemishes on jazz recording; you could tile your bathroom with dreary, uninspired records that aim to honor Miles...Coltrane...Monk... and so on, which nail the notes but miss the spirit by a country mile. Chicago drummer Mike Reed leads two bands that deal with the past and get it right. Not only have he and his cohorts done their homework by learning the idioms and ideas... they've worked to reconcile what they've learned with their knowledge of contemporary ways. These ensembles don't simply re-create; they create." - DownBeat - Out Now: a double shot of Mike Reed, some really nice music from Loose Assembly and a new group, People, Places & Things. "In the tradition of steady Chicago jazz sticksmen, Reed seems to thrive most as a near-invisible workhorse, a selfless empowerer of groove; he's eager to let others in his groups shine..." - Matthew Lurie, Time Out Chicago - "...a quintet of astounding musical proportion and depth, playing music that seems to have no limits of imagination, wit or wisdom..." : Rolldown at All Music Guide - Mike Reed profiled in the Chicago Reader - Our vibe man Jason Adasiewicz on Chicago Public Radio's Eight Forty-Eight - If you visit often, you can't help but notice our summer slow-down..... This is a mostly natural occurrence - happening every year (and why not?) - but this year we'll likely see it extend into the fall as we undergo a number of reconfigurations. In this time, in addition to the very excellent Mike Reed releases we are preparing, our Featured Albums at left will be some of the very favorites around here; worth checking out if you have not already and if you're feeling adventurous... - Out Now: Jason Adasiewicz: Rolldown ; ..also available in an alternate vinyl version - "...amazing on many levels..." : Memorize the Sky at All Music Guide - "Rempis is the talent to watch": Hunter-Gatherers" at All About Jazz - "Another impressive effort from this budding stylist": Ivy Trio on eJazz News - "Since emerging in the late 1990s, Burk has proven himself an artist well worth watching" : Ivy Trio at All About Jazz - "...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 - "...something to marvel at quietly and return to repeatedly." : Memorize the Sky at Bagatellen