British Artists
	ZAUM	SLAMCD253
	STEVE HARRIS QUINTET, with Cathy Stevens viola, Geoff Hearn saxophones, Karen Wimhurst clarinet, Udo Dzierzanowski guitar and Steve Harris drums.
	Some of the music is brooding and darkly minimalist, with Morricone guitar twangs echoing over rumbling bass-drum patterns; some is squawky and impulsive, some vivid and conversational. This is virtuosic and varied improvisation. John Fordham, The Guardian.		Details Reviews	Purchase direct from SLAM, UK	Purchase from USA Distributor
	ZONE K	SLAMCD252
	Jan Kopinski ten/alto saxes, Wojtek Konikiewicz piano, Steve Harris drums. Live recordings Feb Mar 2002.
	�Kopinski is one of Britain�s few authentic voices on saxophone� � Ben Watson ( Hi-Fi News and Record Review )		Details Reviews	Purchase direct from SLAM, UK	Purchase from USA Distributor
	Bulbs	SLAMCD250
	Unsolicited Music Ensemble - Martin K�chen, soprano & baritone saxes, Tony Wren, double bass and Raymond Strid, percussion. New live recordings made on Swedish tour by international trio of established figures in free improvised music.
	" as with much contemporary improvised music, "Bulbs" requires active and concentrated attention on the part of the listener to reveal its secrets". Dan Warburton, Transatlantic Magazine.		Details Reviews	Purchase direct from SLAM, UK	Purchase from USA Distributor
	Duology	SLAMCD249
	Howard Riley piano, Lol Coxhill sop sax recorded live in Oxford.
	"When Riley's dense clusters of notes are pitted against Coxhill's squawks and sustained falsettos, the result is an intriguing, spontaneous encounter." John Fordham, The Guardian.		Details Reviews	Purchase direct from SLAM, UK	Purchase from USA Distributor
	Songs of LEONARD BERNSTEIN and IRVING BERLIN	SLAMCD248
	Alison Bentley Quartet, vocalist Bentley with Dave Frankel piano, Dave Jones bass, Paul Cavaciuti drums, with guests Steve Waterman trumpet and flugelhorn and Martin Speake alto saxophone. New ideas on music by the greatest composers played by some of Britain's foremost jazz musicians.
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	Bear Bones	SLAMCD247
	K-SPACE - Gendos Chamzyryn: vocals, percussion, amplified doshpulur, piano. Tim Hodgkinson: lap steel guitar, klarnet, electronics, processing, alto saxophone. Ken Hyder: drums, vocals, amplified ektara, sampling, electronics. A unique combination of two cutting-edge British musicians and a Siberian shaman - one of the most astounding performers of the music of Tuva, and master of the Kaargiraa throat-singing style.
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	Orquesta Salvaje	SLAMCD246
	Jorge Szajko. Multi-instrumentalist and composer Szajko, born in Buenos Aires in 1956, began piano studies at the age of 6. He has worked across Europe with such stars as Dizzy Gillespie, Dino Saluzzi and Wayne Shorter. His Orquesta plays an eclectic collection of his compositions in a fusion of Argentine folkloric rhythms, jazz and contemporary music.
	An avant-gardist Argentinian progressive rock symphony (there is simply no other way to describe it), it features a full string section, each track played by Szajko (no synthesizers involved). It has Latin dances, huge orchestral gestures dipped in atonality, and off-kilter drumming by Piny Levalle. Fran�ois Couture, All Music Guide.		Details Reviews	Purchase direct from SLAM, UK	Purchase from USA Distributor
	The Francis Documents I %26 II	SLAMCD245
	POCO CLARINET TRIO. Live performances of improvised group play recorded in Cheltenham during October and December 1999 by Chris Trent. The trio comprises Simon Spencer on Bb clarinet, Mindy Lee alto clarinet and Chris Cundy on bass clarinet and soprano sax.
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	Air Play	SLAMCD244
	Howard Riley, solo piano.
	".. one of the jazz world's most immediately recognisable and unfussily virtuosic pianists.. This album utilises all the musical vocabulary Riley has acquired over the past quarter-century � his trademark walking baselines under ringing, wonderfully cluttered right-hand improvisations; his delightful visits to "disguised" standards (here "Lover Man"); his tumbling runs interspersed with clanging percussiveness � to produce music of rare power and strange, pungent beauty. A genuine original at the peak of his powers." Chris Parker, BBC Music Magazine.		Details Reviews	Purchase direct from SLAM, UK	Purchase from USA Distributor
	Meltdown	SLAMCD243
	Debut recording by George Haslam's Meltdown - a total of 20 musicians on the five tracks, including Graham Collier, Robin Jones, Steve Waterman. Compositions by Collier, Haslam, Waterman and Richard Leigh Harris. Recorded in Oxford, 2000 and 2001
	"agreeably unkempt tone .. militates against the sense of composerly politesse. wins respect and enjoyment more readily than many a more polished performance." John Truitt, JazzReview Sept. 2001.		Details Reviews	Purchase direct from SLAM, UK	Purchase from USA Distributor

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