Whether it’s a brand new album or one from the Nixon Administration, No Business Records has been in the business of presenting free and avant garde material. Here, we have some recently recorded albums and a handful of reissued material from the days of two sided vinyl albums. Dig in!
The first recent recording is a 2018 session 
recorded in Lithuania by soprano saxist Jan Maksimowicz and pianist Dmitrij Golovanov. Eleven of the twelve tunes are titled by the number of seconds in each piece,ranging form a quick “50 Seconds” of a Monkian piano variety to a full “337 Seconds” with spacious gasps of soprano saxes. High pitched tones on “210 Seconds..of Our Life” contrasts with the elegant “ 228 Seconds” 
with a closing “Dienda” a rich panorama of tones.
Leading a quartet Albert Beger plays the Japanese flute shauhachi aswell as the tenor sax along with pianist Milton Michaeli, bassist Shay Hazan and drummer Ofer Bymel on six tunes form a 2017 session in Israel. Beger’s flute is meditative on “Shakuhachi Impro” and ruminates along the percussive “Silence.” His tenor sax is laconic as he broods on “The Gate” while Michaeli chimes on the galloping “Zen.” The team is most assertive on the post bop “This Is It” as Beger growls out with venom.
From Brooklyn, New York, a 2018 recording has drummer Whit Dickey and trumpeter Kirk Knuffke delivering 6 original spontaneous compositions. Knuffke squeezes out the notes with restraint on an emotive “Soaring” and gives subtones as he plunges to brushes on “Weave 1.” Clean brass tones make up “Legba Sequence-Dream 1” while “Dream Two” is a spacious impressionistic work. Dickey’s cymbals coaxe along the post bop “Weave 2” and keep it uncluttered on”Oblique Blessing.”
An obscure 1971 recording of Sam Rivers at the Jazz Workshop in Boston has him producing a two part “Emanation” with drummer Norman Connors and bassist Cecil McBee. “Part 1” has him on a Coltranish tenor sax, with bass and drums crashing around before the half hour pieces closes out with piano orchestration. The 45 minute “Part Two” is a loose and floating affair with Rivers on soprano spaciously gliding over McBee’s and Connors’ pulsations. Free but not angry.
Alto saxist Kang Tae Hwan performs a trio of duets with Midori Takada on percussion and marimba in this 1995 session from Yamaguchi, Japan. The 41 minute “Syun-Soku” has Takada hammering away as Hwan’s reeds squeaks and squawks. Growling sax work dominates Hwan’s “Solo” pieces, while Takada’s rich marimba gentle hovers under Hwan’s wailing during the 20 minute “Dan-Shi.”
A 1997 blast from Philadelphia’s past has drummer Sunny Murray in a trio with bassist Bob Dickie and electric guitarist Robert Andreano for what was originally a three lp set. Murray is loose as a goose as Andreano abstractly rocks out on “Homework” while he lays down a mellow groove on a bluesy “Swell.” The team trudges through a tribal “Memorial Day” with some palpable guitar pickings, and the team slashes through the acid rock of “In.” Jazzy head bangers.
The trio Detail consists of Frode Gjerstad on tenor and soprano sax, bassist Johnny Mbizo Dyani and drummer John Stevens producing two songs, a two parter “Day Two” The 22 minute “Part 1” features Gjerstad’s soprano slithering with Mid-Eastern harmonics over Stevens’ rumbling drums and pungent cymbals. A tentative tenor is bluesy while Dyani twangs his bass on the oozy “Part Two.” Atmospheric colors from 1982.