Wish List
This is simply a list of records that I wish I had for review in
Jazz Consumer Guide, but don't. (Well, at least didn't when I added
them to the list. This is likely to be handled erratically. I set
up one such file in 2007, then never returned to it. This one starts
fresh in July 2009.
2009
- Acoustic Guitar Trio: Vignes (Long Song)
- Noel Akchote: Toi Meme (Winter & Winter)
- AlasNoAxis: Houseplant (Winter & Winter)
- Ralph Alessi and Modular Theatre: Open Season (RKM)
- Dee Alexander: Wild Is the Wind (Blujazz)
- Rashied Ali Quintet: Live in Europe (Survival)
- Fred Anderson Quartet: Live at the Velvet Lounge, Vol. 3 (Asian Improv)
- Lotte Anker/Craig Taborn/Gerald Cleaver: Live at the Loft (ILK)
- The David Arner Trio: Out in the Open (Not Two)
- Lynne Arriale: Nuance (Motéma)
- Back & Forth: Unavoidable Casualty (Thin Consolation)
- Michael Bates: Live in New York (Greenleaf Music)
- Abdelhaï Bennani Trio: In Side (Ayler)
- Han Bennink Trio: Parken (ILK)
- Borah Bergman/Stefano Pastor: Live at Tortona (Mutable Music)
- Michael Bisio Quartet: Live at the Vision Festival XII (Not Two)
- The Black Napkins: The Black Napkins (Rat)
- John Blum: In the Shade of Sun ()
- Bobby Bradford: Varistar (Full Bleed Music)
- Bobby Bradford/Frode Gjerstad/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Paal Nilssen-Love: Reknes (Circulasione Totale)
- Alberto Braida: Talus (Nuscope)
- Anthony Braxton/Joëlle Léandre: Duo (Heidelberg Loppem) 2007 (Leo)
- Budapest Jazz Orchestra Meets Kálmán Oláh: Images (Hungaroton)
- Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet: Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths (Hatology)
- Adam Caine Trio: Thousandfold (No Business)
- Calling Signals 08: From Cage Oto (Loose Torque)
- Petr Cancura/Joe Morris/Jason Nazary: Fine Objects (Not Two)
- Cardinal: Cardinal (Grimedia-Impressus)
- Carter/Colbourne/Flaherty: A Flash in the Sky (The Glass Museum)
- Collective 4tet: Transition (Leo)
- Marilyn Crispell: Collaborations (Leo)
- Tony DeSare: Radio Show (Telarc)
- Whit Dickey Trio: Emergence (Not Two)
- Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12)
- Christy Doran: The Competence of the Irregular (Between the Lines)
- Mark Dresser/Denman Maroney: Live in Concert (Kadima)
- Marc Ducret: Le Sens de la Marche (Illusions)
- Lucien Dubuis Trio & Marc Ribot: Ultime Cosmos (Enja)
- Ear & Now: Eclipse (Wallace)
- EA Silence: Cono Di OMbra E Luce (Amirani)
- Ellery Eskelin: One Great Night . . . Live (Hat Hut)
- Peter Evans: Nature/Culture (Psi)
- Mark Feldman: Secrets (Tzadik)
- Garrison Fewell: Variable Density Sound Orchestra (Creative Nation)
- Fire!: You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago (Rune Grammofon)
- Donat Fisch/Christian Wolfarth: Circle & Line 2 (Leo)
- Five Spot: Poltva (SoLyd)
- Forgiving July: Live at Novara Jazz Festival (Amirani)
- Frame Quartet: 35mm (Okka Disk)
- Frode Gjerstad/Nick Stephens/Louis Moholo-Moholo: Quibbity (Loose Torque)
- Dennis González: Renegade Spirits (Furthermore)
- Dennis González/Faruk Z Bey: Hymn for Tomasz Stanko (Qbico)
- Dennis González Connecticut Quartet: Songs of Early Autumn (No Business)
- Dennis González Yells at Eels: The Great Bydgoszcz Concert (Ayler)
- Graveyards: Screwed & Chopped (Brokenresearch)
- Alexandra Grimal Trio: Shape (Futura Marge)
- Mats Gustafsson: The Vilnius Implosion (NoBusiness)
- Barry Guy/Mats Gustafsson: Sinners, Rather Than Saints (No Business)
- Jimmy Halperin/Dominic Duval: Monk Dreams (No Business)
- Mary Halvorson/Reuben Radding/Nate Wooley: Crackleknob (Hatology)
- Phil Hargreaves/Lee Noyes/Bruno Duplant: Malachi (Insubordinations)
- Terje Isungset: Hibernation (All Ice Music)
- Chris Kelsey: Not Cool (no label)
- Stéphane Kerecki Trio/Tony Malaby: Houria (Zig Zag)
- Kirk Knuffke/Federico Ughi/Chris Welcome: Garden of Gifts (577)
- Franz Koglmann: Lo-Lee-Ta (Music on Nabokov)
- Peter Kowald/Vinny Golia: Mythology (Kadima)
- Rolf Kühn & Tri-O: Close-Up (Jazzwerkstatt)
- Joëlle Léandre/Jean-Luc Cappozzo: Live Aux Instants Chavires (Kadima)
- Joëlle Léandre/William Parker: Live at Dunois (Leo)
- Joëlle Léandre/George Lewis: Transatlantic Visions (RogueArt)
- Marilyn Lerner/Ken Filiano/Lou Grassi: Arms Spread Wide (NoBusiness)
- The Light: Afekty (MultiKulti)
- The MacroQuarktet: Each Part a Whole (Ruby Flower)
- Sabir Mateen/Daniel Carter: Sound on a Sunday (RAI Trade)
- Raymond MacDonald: Cities (Nu-Jazz Europe)
- Thollem McDonas/Nicola Guazzaloca: Noble Art (Amirami)
- Joe McPhee: Angels, Devils & Haints (CJR)
- Joe McPhee/Peter Brötzmann/Kent Kessler/Michael Zerang: The Damage Is Done (Not Two)
- Mêlée + Joe Morris: Cloud Atlas Quartet (Brokenresearch)
- Mokuto: Dressed Like a Horse (Ninth World Music)
- Nils Petter Molvaer: Hamada (Sula)
- Joe Morris: Colorfield (ESP Disks)
- Joe Morris/Simon H Fell/Alex Ward: The Necessary and the Possible (Victo)
- Musiconspiracy: Do I The In? (Not Two)
- The Naked Future: Gigantomachia (ESP)
- NEW: NEWtoons ()
- NOMO: Invisible Cities (Ubiquity)
- Nuts: Symphony for Old and New Dimensions (Ayler)
- Larry Ochs/Sax & Drumming Core: Stone Shift (RogueArt)
- Marcin & Bartlomiej Brat Oles: Duo (Fenommedia)
- William Parker/Giorgio Dini: Temporary (Silta)
- Mario Pavone Double Tenor Quintet: Ancestors (Playscape)
- Ivo Perelman: Mind Games (Leo)
- Ivo Perelman/Dominic Duval: Nowhere to Hide (Not Two)
- Plaistow: Jack Bambi (Plaistow)
- Quartet Offensive: Carnivore (Self Published)
- Resonance Ensemble: Resonance Ensemble (Not Two, 10CD)
- Demian Richardson: The Gowanus Recordings (577)
- Herb Robertson/Mark Solborg: (NOD) (ILK)
- Rudder: Matorning (Nineteen-Eight)
- Jerome Sabbagh: One Two Three (Bee Jazz)
- David Sait: Postage Paid Duets, Vol. 2 (Aprise)
- Akira Sakata: Friendly Pants (Family Vineyard)
- Scoolptures: Materials Umano (Leo)
- Gunhild Seim & Time Jungle: Morpho (Mudi)
- Elliott Sharp: Donaueschinger Musiktage 2007: War Zones (Neos)
- Matthew Shipp/Mark O'Leary: Labyrinth (FMR)
- Sing Sing Penelope + Andrzej Przybielski: Stirli People in Jazzga (Monotype)
- Torben Snekkestad: Conic Folded (Ilk)
- Günter "Baby" Sommer: Live in Jeruzalem (Kadima)
- Luciana Souza: Tide (Verve)
- Splinters: Split the Difference (Reel)
- Jesse Stacken/Kirk Knuffke: Mockingbird (Steeplechase)
- Aki Takase/Alexander von Schlippenbach: Iron Wedding (Intakt)
- Trio 3 + Irène Schweizer: Berne Concert (Intakt)
- Trio Passeurs: Existences (Futura Marge)
- Julian F Thayer: The Door Is Open (KSJazz)
- JG Thirlwell: The Venture Bros: The Music of JG Thirlwell ()
- Tribute to Albert Ayler: Live at the Dynamo (Futura Marge)
- Mikolaj Trzaska/Clementine Gasser/Michael Zerang: Nadir & Mahora (Kilogram)
- Tyft: Smell the Difference (Skirl)
- Ken Vandermark: Resonance (Not Two)
- Ken Vandermark/Paal Nilssen-Love: Chicago Volume (Smalltown Superjazz)
- David S Ware Quartet: Live in Vilnius (No Business)
- Nate Wooley/Jason Roebke/Fred Lonberg-Holm: Throw Down Your Hammer (Porter)
- Katherine Young: Further Secret Origins (Porter)
- Peter Zak: Seed of Sin (Steeplechase)
- John Zorn: Femina (Tzadik)
Don't have these, but managed to hear them via streams (e.g., Rhapsody):
- Fred Anderson: Staying in the Game (ESP): [B+(**)]
- Borah Bergman Trio: Luminescence (Tzadik): [A-]
- Rob Brown Trio: Live at the Firehouse (Not Two): [B+(**)]
- Rob Burger: City of Strangers (Tzadik): [B]
- Neil Cowley Trio: Loud . . . Louder . . . Stop (Cake): [B+(***)]
- The Flow Trio: Rejuvenation (ESP): [B]
- The Fonda/Stevens Group: Memphis (Playscape): [B+(**)]
- John Hébert: Byzantine Monkey (Firehouse 12): [B+(***)]
- Briggan Krauss' H-Alpha: Red Sphere (Skirl): [B+(*)]
- Joe Locke/David Hazeltine Quartet: Mutual Admiration Society 2 (Sharp Nine): [B+(*)]
- Carl Maguire: Sided Silver Solid (Firehouse 12): [B+(**)]
- Tony Malaby: Paloma Recio (New World): [B+(**)]
- Masada: Stolas: The Book of Angels, Vol. 12 (Tzadik): [B+(**)]
- Christian McBride & Inside Straight: Kind of Brown (Mack Avenue): [B]
- Medeski Martin & Wood: Radiolarians II (Indirecto): [B+(***)]
- Medeski Martin & Wood: Radiolarians III (Indirecto): [B+(**)]
- John McLaughlin/Chick Corea: Five Peace Band Live (Concord): [B+(**)]
- Michael Musillami Trio + 3: From Seeds (Playscape): [A-]
- The Nu Band: Lower East Side Blues (Porter): [B+(***)]
- Old Dog: By Any Other Name (Porter): [B+(**)]
- Profound Sound Trio: Opus de Life (Porter): [A-]
- The Rempis Percussion Quartet: The Disappointment of Parsley (Not Two): [B+(***)]
- Matthew Shipp Quartet: Cosmic Suite (Not Two): [B+(***)]
- Wadada Leo Smith/Jack DeJohnette: America (Tzadik): [B+(***)]
- Grant Stewart: Plays the Music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn (Sharp Nine): [B+(**)]
- Ken Vandermark/Barry Guy/Mark Sanders: Fox Fire (Maya): [B+(***)]
- Vandermark 5: Annular Gift (Not Two): [A-]
- Jeff "Tain" Watts: Watts (Dark Key): [B+(*)]
Reissues, compilations, etc.:
- Air: Air Song (1975, Why Not)
- Gato Barbieri: In Search of the Mystery (1967, ESP)
- Chico Freeman: Morning Prayer (1976, Why Not)
- Roscoe Mitchell: Congliptious (1968, Nessa)
- Roscoe Mitchell: The Solo Concert (1974, Aeco)
- Wadada Leo Smith: Procession of the Great Ancestry (1983, Nessa)
- Cecil Taylor: Piano Solo at Town Hall 1971 (1971, Disconforme)
Don't have these, but managed to hear them via streams (e.g., Rhapsody):
2008
- Äänet: Aquarian Forest (Emouvance)
- AMM: Trinity (Matchless)
- John Butcher/Gerry Hemingway: Buffalo Pearl (Auricle)
- Ellery Eskelin/Sylvie Courvoisier: Every So Often (Prime Source)
- Bob Gluck Trio: Sideways (FMR)
- Steve Lantner Quartet: Given/Live in Münster (Hatology)
- Joëlle Léandre/Quentin Sirjacq: Out of Nowhere (Ambiances Magnétiques)
- Paura: The Construction of Fear (Creative Sources)
- Ernest Reijseger: Tell Me Everything (Winter & Winter)
- Yves Robert: Inspirine (Chief Inspector)
- Aida Severo: Aida Severo (Slam)
- Scott Tinkler/Simon Barker: Lost Thoughts (Kinmara)
Reissues, compilations, etc.:
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