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.: