Pi Recordings

07/30/2025

Announcing a new recording is always exciting. Announcing a new band is X2.

Following a sold-out debut performance, as a part of this year’s Long Play festival, Henry and co. went into the Power Station to document Henry’s latest musical world. Listen Ship calls back to earlier Henry recordings, such as Song Out Of My Trees, and continues Henry’s current phase of writing for orchestras he conducts and is not a featured soloist.

Listen Ship is the latest masterpiece in the ever-expanding sound world of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Threadgill, whom The New York Review of Books recently described as “one of American music’s great Romantics and a lifelong seeker of the sublime.” The new work is a suite for six acoustic guitars – including individual stylists .frisell and – and two pianos and that utilizes Threadgill’s unique intervallic syntax to illuminate his idiosyncratic vision. The eight string instruments revel in the music’s painstaking detail with intricate gestures that miraculously entwine to form a grand statement. The meticulous orchestration highlights all of the usual characteristics of Threadgill’s music: unusual forms, unexpected timbres, and slippery counterpoint and rhythms, all shaped by the composer’s conducting into a singular experience.

Out September 26th. Vinyl, CD and digital available for pre-order now.

07/24/2025

Breath of Air stirring spirits, raising ghosts and changing times…

Thank you Charlie and

Love to and

07/23/2025

Night three!!!

First, thank you to for hosting us and all the artists who have performed thus far,

We’re sad to see it end but looking forward Breath of Air Charlie Burnham and set this evening.

We’ll see everyone there.

07/18/2025

Seventeen years is a long time to wait… but the wait has been worth it.

We’re very happy to announce the upcoming release of the long awaited new Fieldwork recording, “Thereupon,” out September 5th. We’ve waited 17 years for new music from the trio and, as expected, they have not disappointed. It’s been a real pleasures and honor to work with these three individuals. To be here again, over a decade and a half later, releasing new music by the three of them has been something we’ve been discussing for years. We hope you all enjoy.

Vinyl, CDs and high res digital downloads available for pre-order now.

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07/15/2025

For anyone in New York City, but in particular anyone living in Uptown Manhattan, Anthony Tidd has been bringing incredible jazz to Harlem, hosting a series of pop up concerts in a chill arts space for the last couple of months. Check out at the link the incredible musicians who have already performed, people who NEVER perform uptown. He has asked Pi to curate three days next week:
Monday July21 - Silt Trio with Luke Stewart, Brian Settles, Tomas Fujiwara
Tuesday July 22 - Snark Horse with Matt Mitchell, Kate Gentile and Kim Cass
Wednesday July 23 - Breath of Air with Brandon Ross, Charlie Burnham and Tcheser Holmes.
Come and hang and support this worthy effort to bring cutting edge jazz to Harlem. Tickets are pay what you wish - Suggested $20.

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07/14/2025

Thanks to the critics who voted for Steve Lehman's "The Music of Anthony Braxton" ( #1) and Dan Weiss's "Unclassified Affections" ( #11) in the Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll, Mid-Year Edition. These polls always spur me to listen to a lot of new music, which in the end is what it's all about.

We are all part of a community with a deep commitment to this extraordinary but way-too-often unappreciated musical art, and the late critic Francis Davis believed we should work together and share what we know. His poll was one important way to do just that

06/20/2025

Thank you to and for this great convo with .

Unclassified Affections is out now and features a stellar lineup of musicians, and but maybe more importantly, as Dan says, “… number one, they’re just impeccable musicians. Number two, they’re very good hangs — the camaraderie. Number three, I was just kind of intrigued by that instrumentation. That was pretty much it. It’s really about the musicians — I wanted to write for these people in this configuration.“

Check the interview out, link in the bio, and then check out Unclassified Affections.

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06/14/2025

Be Ever Out: The Music of Henry Threadgill June 20th and June 21st at Roulette, Brooklyn, NY - https://mailchi.mp/pirecordings.com/zealous-angles-17656017

06/14/2025

Next Friday the 20th and Saturday the 21st Be Ever Out: The Music of Henry Threadgill Threadgill is happening at

Over two nights, the music of four Henry Threadgill classic ensembles will be performed by groups consisting of original members, current collaborators and some of the City’s most adventurous musicians.

Night one features the music of Air and Very Very Circus as performed by the Air Legacy Trio and Very Very Circus Legacy Project.

Very Very Circus Legacy Project features:

Marcus Rojas, Chris Bates, Brandon Ross, Jose Davila, Miles Okazaki, Gene Lake, Noah Becker

The Air Legacy Trio features:

Marty Ehrlich, Pheeroan akLaff, Hilliard Greene

Link to tickets in the bio. If you’re in New York next weekend come on through.

06/07/2025

This is and Dan is one of our favorite humans. Dan, along with and has just released “Unclassified Affections.”

Dan’s history with the label goes from large band projects “Fourteen” and “Sixteen” to his metal improv band Starebaby. Along the way, our friendship and love for Dan’s compositions have grown.

We’re very excited to release “Unclassified Affections” on vinyl, CD and digitally. Available now… check it out.

06/07/2025

We love this album and are very excited to be sharing it with the world. and “Understories” vinyl is shipping now. If ever a release of ours was made for vinyl this one is.

It reminds us of the uniquely personal sound world inhabited by “Silent Movies,” a release we should perhaps reprint on vinyl soon.

“Dálava can rock out, as its 2017 song “The Rocks Began to Crumble” proved, but Understories hews to the sound of counterculture wanderers such as Nico and Tim Buckley. Their current label, Pi Recordings, is associated with jazz, so this album is a departure for the company. But Understories exudes the same spirit of freedom as the label’s releases by Steve Lehman, Henry Threadgill, and Tyshawn Sorey, which are united by refusing the limits of genre and national boundaries.” — Steve Erickson

05/17/2025

thank you!!!