KMB Jazz is one half of Kordova Milk Bar Records and was founded by Eric Devin in 2006 to sell music in the

free jazz Free jazz is an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes. Musicians duri ...

genre (sometimes called improvised jazz or avant-garde). Based in Eugene, Oregon, the label came about when Devin heard the work of the New York City collective Eye Contact (

Matt Lavelle Matt Lavelle (born 1970 in Paterson, New Jersey) is a jazz trumpet, flugelhorn, alto clarinet, and bass clarinet player. Career Lavelle began his music career with Hildred Humphries, a swing era veteran who played with Count Basie and Billie Holi ...

, Matthew Heyner, Ryan Sawyer).

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* KMB006 Eye Contact – ''War Rug'' November 2006 * KMB007

Ras Moshe Theodore Burnett III (born March 22, 1968, Brooklyn, New York), who performs under the name Ras Burnett, is a composer, multi-instrumentalist specializing in saxophone and flute, musicologist and educator. Ras comes from a musical family. His pate ...

Quartet – ''Transcendence'' March 2007 * KMB010 Joe Morris – ''Atmosphere'' April 2009 * KMB012

– ''Cuica in the Third House'' June 2007 * KMB013 William Hooker/

Sabir Mateen Sabir Mateen (born April 16, 1951) is an American musician and composer from Philadelphia. His musical style is primarily avant-garde jazz. He plays tenor and alto saxophone, B♭ and alto clarinet, and flute. As a young man, Mateen was origin ...

– ''Dharma'' June 2007 * KMB014 Evil Eye – ''Doin' It All for My Baby'' June 2007 * KMB015 Ideal Bread – ''The Ideal Bread'' December 2007 * KMB016 Trio Caveat – ''Compliments of the Season'' December 2007 * KMB018 Matt Lavelle's Morcilla – ''The Manifestation'' March 2009

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