Music Year 2024
Of course, it's too early for a year-end list. But as the proto-fascist
organization of my youth insisted, one should always be prepared. For
records in hand, * identifies an advance copy, ** something borrowed
or streamed.
Some albums released in previous years are included here, noted by a
"-NN" (e.g., -23 for 2023) -- these are mostly imports or self-releases,
often hard to figure out official dates, but they were either December
2020 releases or unknown (to me, at least) before the current year.
I keep adding to the 2023
until the end of calendar 2024, especially where the record was known
to exist in 2023 and I'm just getting around to it.
New Records
A |
- Fay Victor: Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (Tao Forms, 2CD)
- Heems & Lapgan: Lafandar (Veena Sounds) **
- Kate Nash: 9 Sad Symphonies (Kill Rock Stars) **
- Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: Louis Armstrong's America Volume 2 (ESP-Disk, 2CD)
|
A- |
- Hurray for the Riff Raff: The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch) **
- Emmeluth's Amoeba: Nonsense (Moserobie)
- Luke Stewart Silt Trio: Unknown Rivers (Pi)
- Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: Louis Armstrong's America Volume 1 (ESP-Disk, 2CD)
- Floating Points: Cascade (Ninja Tune) **
- Amyl and the Sniffers: Cartoon Darkness (B2B/Virgin) **
- Fox Green: Light Over Darkness (self-released) *
- Pet Shop Boys: Nonetheless (Parlophone) **
- Darius Jones: Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity)
- The Paranoid Style: The Interrogator (Bar/None) **
- Ballister: Smash and Grab (Aerophonic)
- Dave Douglas: Gifts (Greenleaf Music)
- Beth Gibbons: Lives Outgrown (Domino) **
- Kali Uchis: Orquídeas (Geffen) **
- The Core: Roots (Moserobie)
- Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism (Warner) **
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Transfiguration (Intakt) **
- Bill Ryder-Jones: Iechyd Da (Domino) **
- Roby Glod/Christian Ramond/Klaus Kugel: No ToXiC (Nemu)
- Ivo Perelman Quartet: Water Music (RogueArt) *
- Mike Monford: The Cloth I'm Cut From (self-released)
- Matt Wilson: Matt Wilson's Good Trouble (Palmetto)
- أحمد [Ahmed]: Wood Blues (Astral Spirits) **
- ØKSE: ØKSE (Backwoodz Studioz) **
- Dave Rempis/Jason Adasiewicz/Joshua Abrams/Tyler Damon: Propulsion (Aerophonic)
- Advancing on a Wild Pitch: Disasters, Vol. 2 (Hot Cup) **
- Jae Skeese & Superior: Testament of the Times (RRC Music/BarsOverBs) **
- Walter Smith III: Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note) **
- Dan Weiss: Even Odds (Cygnus)
- QOW Trio: The Hold Up (Ubuntu Music) **
- Ivo Perelman/Mark Helias/Tom Rainey: Truth Seeker (Fundacja Sluchaj) **>
- Queen Esther: Things Are Looking Up (EL)
- Thomas Anderson: Hello, I'm From the Future (Out There) **
- LL Cool J: The FORCE (Def Jam) **
- Dave Rempis/Pandelis Karayorgis/Jakob Heinemann/Bill Harris: Truss (Aerophonic/Drift)
- Jim Snidero: For All We Know (Savant)
- Julia Vari Feat. Negroni's Trio: Somos (Alternative Representa)
- Chris Potter/Brad Mehldau/John Patitucci/Brian Blade: Eagle's Point (Edition) **
- Kim Gordon: The Collective (Matador) **
- Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse) **
- Tierra Whack: World Wide Whack (Interscope) **
- Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department (Republic) **
- Bob Vylan: Humble as the Sun (Ghost Theatre) **
- Laurie Anderson: Amelia (Nonesuch) **
- David Murray Quartet: Francesca (Intakt) **
- Willie Nelson: The Border (Legacy) **
- Matthew Shipp Trio: New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk)
- Kneecap: Fine Art (Heavenly) **
- Rich Halley 4: Dusk and Dawn (Pine Eagle)
- Amanda Gardier: Auteur: Music Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson (self-released)
- Houston Person/Peter Beets: Live in Holland: Houston Person Meets Peter Beets Trio (Maxanter) **
- Four + Six: Four + Six (Jazz Hang)
- Charles Lloyd: The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) **
- Ivanna Cuesta: A Letter to the Earth (Orenda) **
- Idit Shner & Mhondoro: Ngatibatanei [Let Us Unite!] (OA2)
- 1010benja: Ten Total (Three Six Zero) **
- Jason Stein/Marilyn Crispell/Damon Smith/Adam Shead: Spi-raling Horn (Balance Point Acoustics) **
- Kirk Knuffke: Super Blonde (SteepleChase) **
- Claudio Scolari Project: Intermission (Principal)
- Ivo Perelman/Barry Guy/Ramon Lopez: Interaction (Ibeji Music) **
- Nia Archives: Silence Is Loud (Hijinxx/Island) **
- Manu Chao: Viva Tu (Because Music) **
- Roberto Ottaviano: Lacy in the Sky With Diamonds (Clean Feed) **
- Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club: A Second Life (Mandorla Music) **
- أحمد [Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (Fönstret, 5CD) **
- Lux Quartet: Tomorrowland (Enja/Yellowbird)
- Jamie xx: In Waves (Young) **
- Miguel Zenón: Golden City (Miel Music)
- John Surman: Words Unspoken (ECM) **
- Maggie Rogers: Don't Forget Me (Capitol) **
- Melissa Carper: Borned in Ya (Mae Music) **
- William Parker/Cooper-Moore/Hamid Drake: Heart Trio (AUM Fidelity)
- Kenny Barron: Beyond This Place (Artwork) **
- Catherine Russell/Sean Mason: My Ideal (Dot Time)
- Dafnis Prieto Sí o Sï Quartet: 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music)
- Joel Ross: Nublues (Blue Note) **
- Madi Diaz: Weird Faith (Anti-) **
- Radam Schwartz: Saxophone Quartet Music (Arabesque)
- Tomeka Reid Quartet: 3+3 (Cuneiform) **
- Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore: TexiCali (Yep Roc) **
- Patricia Brennan Septet: Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
- Alfredo Colón: Blood Burden (Out of Your Head)
- Miranda Lambert: Postcards From Texas (Republic Nashville) **
- Serengeti: KDIV (Othar) **
- Albert Beger/Ziv Taubenfeld/Shay Hazan/Hamid Drake: Cosmic Waves (No Business)
- اسم ISM [Pat Thomas/Joel Grip/Antonin Gerbal]: Maua (577) **
- Welf Dorr/Elias Meister/Dmitry Ishenko/Kenny Wollesen: So Far So Good (self-released) [**]
- Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft (Interscope) **
- The Attic & Eve Risser: La Grande Crue (NoBusiness)
- Amy Rigby: Hang in There With Me (Tapete) **
- Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well (MCA Nashville) **
- Julieta Eugenio: Stay (Cristalyn)
- Javon Jackson/Nikki Giovanni: Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies (Solid Jackson/Palmetto)
- Layale Chaker & Sarafand: Radio Afloat (In a Circle)
- Coco & Clair Clair: Girl (Nice Girl World, EP) **
- Samo Salamon/Vasil Hadzimanov/Ra-Kalam Bob Moses: Dances of Freedom (Samo)
- Nicole Glover: Plays (Savant) **
- Nicole Mitchell and Ballaké Sissoko: Bamako Chicago Sound System (FPE) **
- Owen Broder: Hodges: Front and Center, Vol. Two (Outside In Music)
- Jason Robinson: Ancestral Numbers (Playscape)
- Jason Robinson: Ancestral Numbers II (Playscape)
- Leyla McCalla: Sun Without the Heat (Anti-) **
- Nacka Forum: Peaceful Piano (Moserobie)
- Lyrics Born: Goodbye, Sticky Rice (Mobile Home) **
- Delfeayo Marsalis Uptown Jazz Orchestra: Crescent City Jewels (Troubadour Jass)
- Beholder Quartet: Suspension of Disbelief (Sachimay) **
- Beings: There Is a Garden (No Quarter) **
- Jason Kao Hwang: Soliloquies: Unaccompanied Pizzicato Violin Improvisations (True Sound)
- Chris Smither: All About the Bones (Signature Sounds) **
- Maria Faust Jazz Catastrophe: 3rd Mutation: Moth (Bush Flash) **
- Gilbert Holmström: Peak (Moserobie)
- Dylan Hicks & Small Screens: Modern Flora (Soft Launch)
- Hinds: Viva Hinds (Lucky Number) **
- Tucker Zimmerman: Dance of Love (4AD) **
- Ive: Ive Switch (Starship Entertainment, EP) **
- Hermanos Gutiérrez: Sonido Cósmico (Easy Eye Sound) **
- Sprints: Letter to Self (City Slang) **
- Beabadoobee: This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit) **
- Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet: Four Guitars Live (Palilalia) **
- Morgan Wade: Obsessed (Ladylike/RCA Nashville) **
- William Parker/Hugo Costa/Philipp Ernsting: Pulsar (NoBusiness)
- Ernesto Rodrigues/Bruno Parinha/João Madeira: Into the Wood (Creative Sources)
- Mathias Højgaard Jensen: Is as Is (Fresh Sound New Talent)
- Mercer Hassy Orchestra: Duke's Place (Mercer Hassy)
- I Am Three: In Other Words (Leo) **
|
Pending:
Records in hand, but which haven't yet been graded (sorted by artist,
or release date if future). Those marked ** are downloads in hand.
- Andy Haas: For the Time, Being (Resonant Music) []
- Laird Jackson: Life (self-released) []
- Big Bambi: Compositions for Bass Guitar & Bassoon, Vol. I (ESP-Disk) [09-27]
- Lemadi Trio: Canonical Discourse (A New Wave of Jazz Axis) [10-15]
- Tonus: Analog Deviation (A New Wave of Jazz Axis) [10-15]
- Transition Unit: Fade Value (A New Wave of Jazz Axis) [10-15]
- Martina Verhoeven Quintet: Indicator Light (Live at Paradox 2023) (A New Wave of Jazz Axis) [10-15]
- Kevin Sun: Quartets (Endectomorph Music, 2CD) [10-18]
- Ashtyn Barbaree: Sent Through the Ceiling (Artists 3 60) [10-25]
- Steve Coleman and Five Elements: PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) [10-25]
- Brian Lynch: 7X7BY7 (Holistic MusicWorks) [10-25]
- Western Jazz Collective: The Music of Andrew Rathbun (Origin) [10-25]
- Andy Wheelock/Whee 3 Trio: In the Wheelhouse (OA2) [10-25]
- Rebecca Kilgore: A Little Taste: A Tribute to Dave Frishberg (Cherry Pie Music) [10-28]
- Caleb Wheeler Curtis: The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Imani, 2CD) [11-01]
- Friso van Wijck: Friso van Wijck's Candy Container (TryTone) [11-01]
- Day Dream: Duke & Strays Live: Works by Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (Corner Store Jazz, 2CD) [11-08]
- Peter Lenz: Breathe: Music for Large Ensembles (GambsART) [11-08]
- Joe Fonda Quartet: Eyes on the Horizon (Long Song) [11-15]
- Hayoung Lyou: The Myth of Katabasis (Endectomorph Music) [11-15]
- Reut Regev's R*Time: It's Now: R*Time Plays Doug Hammond (ESP-Disk) [11-15]
- Sara Serpa: Encounters & Collisions (Biophilia) [11-15]
- David Friesen: A Light Shining Through (Origin) [11-22]
- Spinifex: Undrilling the Hole (TryTone) [11-22]
Also Noted:
Records in hand, graded B+ or below, in alphabetical order within grade
slots:
B+(***) |
- Acceleration Due to Gravity: Jonesville: Music by and for Sam Jones (Hot Cup, EP)
- Nick Adema: Urban Chaos (ZenneZ)
- Arooj Aftab: Night Reign (Verve) **
- Allie X: Girl With No Face (Twin Music) **
- Ben Allison/Steve Cardenas/Ted Nash: Tell the Birds I Said Hello: The Music of Herbie Nichols (Sonic Camera) **
- Gonçalo Almeida: States of Restraint (Clean Feed) **
- Altus: Mythos (Biophilia) *
- Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werlin: Ghosted II (Drag City) **
- Roxana Amed: Becoming Human (Sony Music Latin)
- Anitta: Funk Generation (Republic) **
- Jason Anick/Jason Yeager: Sanctuary (Sunnyside)
- Sam Anning: Earthen (Earshift Music)
- Anycia: Princess Pop That (United Masters) **
- Awon & Parental: Sublime (HHV) **
- Bacchae: Next Time (Get Better) **
- Bad Moves: Wearing Out the Refrain (Don Giovanni) **
- Andrew Barker/William Parker/Jon Irabagon: Bakunawa (Out of Your Head) **
- Basic: This Is Basic (No Quarter) **
- BassDrumBone: Afternoon (Auricle)
- Alex Beltran: Rift (Calligram)
- Bruno Berle: No Reino Dos Afetos 2 (Psychic Hotline) **
- Yaya Bey: Ten Fold (Big Dada) **
- Pat Bianchi: Three (21H) **
- Big Freedia With the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra: Live at the Orpheum Theater (Queen Diva) **
- Black Lives: People of Earth (Jammin' Colors) **
- Carsie Blanton: After the Revolution (self-released) **
- Carsie Blanton: The Red Album Vol. 1 (self-released, EP) **
- Blue Moods: Swing & Soul (Posi-Tone) **
- Benjamin Boone: Confluence: The Ireland Sessions (Origin)
- Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump/Kris Davis/Eric McPherson]: Rewilder (Intakt) **
- Geoff Bradfield: Colossal Abundance (Calligram)
- Anthony Branker & Imagine: Songs My Mom Liked (Origin)
- Alan Braufman: Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) **
- The Buoys: Lustre (Sony) **
- Isrea Butler: Congo Lament (Vegas)
- John Cale: POPtical Illusion (Domino) **
- Jonas Cambien: Jonas Cambien's Maca Conu (Clean Feed) **
- Nicola Caminiti: Vivid Tales of a Blurry Self-Portrait (self-released)
- Gerald Cannon: Live at Dizzy's Club: The Music of Elvin & McCoy (Woodneck) **
- Gunhild Carling: Jazz Is My Lifestyle! (Jazz Art)
- Sabrina Carpenter: Short n' Sweet (Island) **
- Kim Cass: Levs (Pi)
- Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop: A Canadian Songbook (Three Pines) **
- Bill Charlap Trio: And Then Again (Blue Note) **
- Charli XCX: Brat (Atlantic) **
- Chief Keef: Almighty So 2 (43B) **
- Rachel Chinouriri: What a Devastating Turn of Events (Elektra) **
- The Choir Invisible [Charlotte Greve/Vinnie Sperazza/Chris Tordini]: Town of Two Faces (Intakt) **
- Clairo: Charm (Clairo) **
- Carl Clements: A Different Light (Greydisc)
- Coco Chatru Quartet: Future (Trygger Music)
- Common & Pete Rock: The Auditorium Vol. I (Loma Vista) **
- Charley Crockett: $10 Cowboy Chapter II: Visions of Dallas (Son of Davy) **
- Stephan Crump: Slow Water (Papillon Sounds)
- Amalie Dahl's Dafnie: Står Op Med Solen (Sonic Transmissions/Aguirre) **
- Guy Davis: The Legend of Sugarbelly (M.C.) **
- The Kris Davis Trio: Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic)
- Jon De Lucia: The Brubeck Octet Project (Musæum Clausum)
- Michael Dease: Found in Space: The Music of Gregg Hill (Origin)
- Devouring the Guilt: Not to Want to Say (Kettle Hole)
- Yelena Eckemoff: Romance of the Moon (L&H Production)
- Edition Redux: Better a Rook Than a Pawn (Audiographic '23) **
- Ekko Astral: Pink Balloons (Topshelf) **
- Signe Emmeluth: Banshee (Motvind) **
- English Teacher: This Could Be Texas (Island) **
- John Escreet: The Epicenter of Your Dreams (Blue Room Music)
- Ethel & Layale Chaker: Vigil (In a Circle)
- Etran De L'Aïr: 100% Saharan Guitar (Sahel Sounds) **
- Jeff Evans Porkestra: Willow Pillow (self-releaed, EP) **
- Alon Farber Hagiga With Dave Douglas: The Magician: Live in Jerusalem (Origin)
- Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly: Mestizk (International Anthem) **
- R.A.P. Ferreira & Fumitake Tamura: The First Fist to Make Contact When We Dap (Ruby Yacht) **
- Sierra Ferrell: Trail of Flowers (Rounder) **
- Nick Finzer: Legacy: A Centennial Celebration of JJ Johnson (Outside In Music) **
- Fire!: Testament (Rune Grammofon) **
- Delia Fischer: Beyond Bossa (Origin)
- Flukten: Flukten (Odin) **
- Sue Foley: One Guitar Woman: A Tribute to the Female Pioneers of Guitar (Stony Plain) **
- Adam Forkelid: Turning Point (Prophone)
- Anne Foucher & Jean-Marc Foussat: Chair Ça (Fou)
- Four Tet: Three (Text) **
- Jean-Marc Foussat/Daunik Lazro: Trente-Cinq Minutes & Vingt-Trois Secondes (Fou)
- Eric Frazier: That Place Featuring "Return of the Panther Woman" (EFP Productions)
- Friends & Neighbors: Circles (Clean Feed) **
- Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio: Jet Black (Libra)
- Satoko Fujii Quartet: Dog Days of Summer (Libra)
- Joel Futterman/William Parker: Why (Soul City Sounds) **
- Joel Futterman: Innervoice (NoBusiness) [10-04]
- Marshall Gilkes and WDR Big Band: Life Songs (Alternate Side) **
- Frode Gjerstad Trio: Unknown Purposes (Circulasione Totale) **
- Margaret Glaspy: The Sun Doesn't Think (ATO, EP) **
- GloRilla: Ehhthang Ehhthang (CMG/Interscope) **
- Ciara Grace: Write It Down (self-released) **
- Laura Jane Grace: Hole in My Head (Polyvinyl) **
- Gordon Grdina/Christian Lillinger: Duo Work (Attaboygirl)
- Gordon Grdina's the Marrow: With Fathieh Honari (Attaboygirl)
- Guillermo Gregorio: Two Trios (ESP-Disk '23)
- Andrea Grossi Blend 3 + Jim Black: Axes (We Insist!) **
- Russell Haight: Go Forth (OA2)
- Sahra Halgan: Hiddo Dhawr (La Région/Danaya Music) **
- Jared Hall: Influences (Origin)
- Sarah Hanahan: Among Giants (Blue Engine) **
- Heems: Veena (Veena Sounds) **
- Aaron Yale Heisler: Guitar Sketches (Toronto 2008-24) (2nd Bechet Century) **
- Alden Hellmuth: Good Intentions (Fresh Sound New Talent)
- Enrique Heredia Trio: Plays Herbie Nichols (Fresh Sound) **
- Daniel Humair/Samuel Blaser/Heiri Känzig [Helveticus]: Our Way (Blaser Music) **
- Ice Spice: Y2K! (10K/Capitol/Dolo) **
- Shawneci Icecold/Vernon Reid/Matthew Garrison & Grant Calvin Weston: Future Prime (Underground45)
- Ill Considered: Precipice (New Soil) **
- Jon Irabagon Trio + One: Dinner & Dancing (Irabbagast) **
- Vijay Iyer: Compassion (ECM) **
- Keefe Jackson/Raoul van der Weide/Frank Rosaly: Live at de Tanker (Kettle Hole)
- Jazz at the Ballroom: Flying High: Big Band Canaries Who Soared (Jazz at the Ballroom)
- Jlin: Akoma (Planet Mu) **
- Joel and the Neverending Sextet: Marbled (Motvind) **
- J.U.S X Squadda B: 3rd Shift (Bruiser Brigade) **
- Goran Kajfeš Tropiques: Tell Us (We Jazz) **
- Kaytranada: Timeless (RCA) **
- Kaze: Unwritten (Circum/Libra)
- Ryan Keberle & Catharsis: Music Is Connection (Alternate Side)
- Izumi Kimura/Barry Guy/Gerry Hemingway: Six Hands Open as One (Fundacja Sluchaj)
- Anni Kiviniemi Trio: Eir (We Jazz) **
- Jim Kweskin: Never Too Late: Duets With Friends (Storysound) **
- Brian Landrus: Plays Ellington & Strayhorn (Palmetto)
- Matt Lavelle & the 12 Houses: The Crop Circles Suite Part One (Mahakala Music) **
- Ellie Lee: Escape (self-released)
- MJ Lenderman: Manning Fireworks (Anti-) **
- Adrianne Lenker: Bright Future (4AD) **
- Janel Leppin: Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March Is to Love (Cuneiform) [06-28] *
- Les Amazones d'Afrique: Musow Danse (Real World) **
- Rosemary Loar: Vagabond Heart/Curação Vagabundo (Atlor Music)
- Frank London/The Elders: Spirit Stronger Than Blood (ESP-Disk)
- Corb Lund: El Viejo (New West) **
- John Lurie: Painting With John (Royal Potato Family) **
- Brady Lux: Ain't Gone So Far (6483357 DK) **
- Mach-Hommy: #Richaxxhaitian (Mach-Hommy) **
- The Taj Mahal Sextet: Swingin' Live at the Church in Tulsa (Lightning Rod) **
- Nduduzo Makhathini: Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note) **
- Rose Mallett: Dreams Realized (Carrie-On Productions)
- Nicole McCabe: Live at Jamboree (Fresh Sound) **
- Ron McClure: Just Sayin' (SteepleChase) **
- Chad McCullough: In These Hills, Beyond (Calligram)
- Thollem McDonas: Infinite-Sum Game (ESP-Disk)
- Eliza McLamb: Going Through It (Royal Mountain) **
- Terence McManus: Music for Chamber Trio (Rowhouse Music)
- Michael McNeill: Barcode Poetry (Infrasonic Press)
- Charles McPherson: Reverence (Smoke Sessions) **
- Megan Thee Stallion: Megan (Hot Girl) **
- Ava Mendoza/Dave Sewelson: Of It but Not Is It (Mahakala Music) **
- The Messthetics/James Brandon Lewis: The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) **
- Matt Mitchell: Zealous Angles (Pi)
- Mdou Moctar: Funeral for Justice (Matador) **
- Kelly Moran: Moves in the Field (Warp) **
- John Moreland: Visitor (Thirty Tigers) **
- Megan Moroney: Am I Okay? (Columbia Nashville) **
- Move: Free Baile: Live in Shenzhen (Clean Feed) **
- Riley Mulherkar: Riley (Westerlies)
- Mute: After You've Gone (Endectomorph Music) *
- Simon Nabatov Quartet Feat. Ralph Alessi: Lovely Music (Clean Feed) **
- Navy Blue: Memoirs in Armour (Freedom Sounds) **
- The New Wonders: Steppin' Out (Turtle Bay) **
- Michael Pagán: Paganova (Capri)
- Fabiana Palladino: Fabiana Palladino (Paul Institute/XL) **
- Emile Parisien Quartet: Let Them Cook (ACT) **
- William Parker & Ellen Christi: Cereal Music (AUM Fidelity)
- Hery Paz: River Creatures (Porta Jazz) **
- Carly Pearce: Hummingbird (Big Machine) **
- Ken Peplowski: Live at Mezzrow [Smalls Live Living Masters Series] (Cellar Music) **
- Ivo Perelman/Tom Rainey: Duologues 1: Turning Point (Ibeji Music) **
- Pest Control: Year of the Pest (Quality Control HQ, EP) **
- Madeleine Peyroux: Let's Walk (Just One Recording/Thirty Tigers) **
- Planet D Nonet: Echoes of Harlem: A Salute to Duke Ellington Vol. 2 (Eastlawn)
- Bolis Popul: Letter to Yu (Deewee) **
- Jonathan Powell: Mambo Jazz Party (Circle 9)
- John Primer & Bob Corritore: Crawlin' Kingsnake (VizzTone) **
- Pylon Reenactment Society: Magnet Factory (Strolling Bones) **
- Dave Rempis/Tashi Dorji Duo: Gnash (Aerophonic)
- Travis Reuter: Quintet Music (self-released)
- Revival Season: Golden Age of Self Snitching (Heavenly) **
- Steph Richards: Power Vibe (Northern Spy) **
- Ron Rieder: Latin Jazz Sessions (self-released)
- Diego Rivera: With Just a Word (Posi-Tone) **
- Moses Rockwell Featuring Plain Old Mike: Regular Henry Sessions (Hipnott) **
- Jeremy Rose & the Earshift Orchestra: Discordia (Earshift Music)
- Jeff Rupert: It Gets Better (Rupe Media)
- Angelica Sanchez/Chad Taylor: A Moster Is Just an Animal You Haven't Met Yet (Intakt) **
- Marta Sanchez Trio: Perpetual Void (Intakt)
- Carla Santana/José Lencastre/Maria do Mar/Gonçalo Almeida: Defiant Ilussion (A New Wave of Jazz) **
- Scheen Jazzorkester & Cortex: Frameworks: Music by Thomas Johansson (Clean Feed) **
- Adam Schroeder/Mark Masters: CT! Adam Schroeder & Mark Masters Celebrate Clark Terry (Capri)
- Frank Paul Schubert/Michel Pilz/Stefan Scheib/Klaus Kugel: Live at FreeJazz Saar 2019 (Nemu)
- Dave Schumacher & Cubeye: Smoke in the Sky (Cellar)
- Claudio Scolari Project: Opera 8 (Principal) [04-05]
- Dirk Serries/Rodrigo Amado/Andrew Lisle: The Invisible (Klanggalerie) **
- Shakira: Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Sony Latin) **
- Matthew Shipp: The Data (RogueArt) *
- Nala Sinephro: Endlessness (Warp) **
- Josh Sinton: Couloir & Book of Practitioners Vol. 2: Book W (Form Is Possibility, 2CD)
- Matthew Shipp/Steve Swell: Space Cube Jazz (RogueArt) *
- Ballaké Sissoko/Derek Gripper: Ballaké Cissoko & Derek Gripper (Matsuli Music) **
- M Slago/Homeboy Sandman: And We Are Here (Fly 7 Music) **
- TV Smith: Handwriting (JKP/Easy Action) **
- SML: Small Medium Large (International Anthem) **
- Snotty Nose Rez Kids: Red Future (Savage Mob) **
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio: The Suspectible Now (Pi)
- Omar Souleyman: Erbil (Mad Decent) **
- Space: Embrace the Space (Relative Pitch) **
- Split System: Vol. II (Legless) **
- Vince Staples: Dark Times (Def Jam/Blacksmith) **
- Jason Stein: Anchors (Tao Forms)
- Stemeseder Lillinger Quartet: Umbra II (Intakt) **
- Geoff Stradling & the StradBand: Nimble Digits (Origin)
- Sulida: Utos (Clean Feed) **
- Kevin Sun: The Fate of the Tenor (Endectomorph Music) **
- Sunny Five [Tim Berne/David Torn/Ches Smith/Devin Hoff/Marc Ducret]: Candid (Intakt) **
- Swamp Dogg: Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St (Oh Boy) **
- Ohad Talmor/Chris Tordini/Eric McPherson: Back to the Land (Intakt, 2CD) **
- Natsuki Tamura/Jim Black: NatJim (Libra)
- Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Aloft (Libra)
- Tarbaby: You Think This America (Giant Step Arts) **
- Terton [Louie Belogenis/Trevor Dunn/Ryan Sawyer]: Outer, Inner, Secret (Tzadik) **
- Michael Thomas: The Illusion of Choice (Criss Cross) **
- Rosie Tucker: Utopia Now! (Sentimental) **
- Steve Turre: Sanyas (Smoke Sessions) **
- Oded Tzur: My Prophet (ECM) **
- Kiki Valera: Vacilón Santiaguero (Circle 9 Music)
- Peter Van Huffel's Callisto: Meandering Demons (Clean Feed) **
- Verraco: Breathe . . . Godspeed (Timedance, EP) **
- Piet Verbist: Flamenco Jazz Summit: El Mar Empieza Aquí (Origin)
- Kelsey Waldon: There's Always a Song (Oh Boy) **
- Jack Walrath: Live at Smalls (Cellar Music) **
- Kamasi Washington: Fearless Moment (Young) **
- Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood (Anti-) **
- Gillian Welch/David Rawlings: Woodland (Acony) **
- Conchúr White: Swirling Violets (Bella Union) **
- WHO Trio: Live at Jazz Festival Willisau 2023 First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) **
- Lainey Wilson: Whirlwind (BBR) **
- Norma Winstone/Kit Downes: Outpiost of Dreams (ECM) **
- Nilüfer Yanya: My Method Actor (Ninja Tune) **
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Fu##in' Up (Reprise) **
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B+(**) |
- 21 Savage: American Dream (Slaughter Gang/Epic) **
- Nicki Adams/Michael Eaton: The Transcendental (SteepleChase LookOut) **
- Adeem the Artist: Anniversary (Four Quarters) **
- Neil Adler: Emi's Song (self-released)
- Africatown, AL: Ancestor Sounds (Free Dirt) **
- Cyrille Aimée: À Fleur De Peau (Whirlwind) **
- Erlend Albertsen Basspace: Name of the Wind (Dugnad Rec) **
- Melissa Aldana: Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note) **
- Neal Alger: Old Souls (Calligram)
- JD Allen: The Dark, the Light, the Grey and the Colorful (Savant) **
- Alliance [Sharel Cassity/Colleen Clark]: Alliance (Shifting Paradigm) **
- Karrin Allyson: A Kiss for Brazil (Origin)
- Livio Almeida: The Brasilia Sessions (Zoho)
- John Alvey: Loft Glow (Jazz Music City)
- Robby Ameen: Live at the Poster Museum (Origin)
- Apathy: Connecticut Casual: Chapter 2 (Dirty Version) **
- Charlie Apicella & Iron City Meet the Griots Speak: Call to Action/Call to Prayer (OA2)
- Florian Arbenz: Conversation #10 & #11: ON! (Hammer) **
- Lynne Arriale Trio: Being Human (Challenge)
- Byron Asher's Skrontch Music: Lord, When You Send the Rain (Sinking City) **
- Art Baden: How Much of It Is Real (Rainy Days)
- David Bailis: Tree of Life (Create or Destroy)
- Andy Baker: From Here, From There (Calligram)
- Jim Baker/Steve Hunt/Jakob Heinemann: Horizon Scanners (Clean Feed) **
- Rahsaan Barber & Everyday Magic: Six Words (Jazz Music City)
- BbyMutha: Sleep Paralysis (True Panther) **
- Jazmin Bean: Traumatic Livelihood (Island) **
- Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter (Parkwood/Columbia) **
- Eric Bibb: Live at the Scala Theatre Stockholm (Repute) **
- Carlos Bica: 11:11 (Clean Feed) **
- Bruna Black/John Finbury: Vã Revelação (Green Flash)
- Blu & Evidence: Los Angeles (Bigger Picture Music/New World Color) **
- T.K. Blue: Planet Bluu (Jaja)
- Aziza Brahim: Mawja (Glitterbeat) **
- Olie Brice/Rachel Musson/Mark Sanders: Immense Blue (West Hill) **
- Bridgetown Sextet: Functionizin' (Rivermont) **
- Britti: Hello, I'm Britti (Easy Eye Sound) **
- Zach Bryan: The Great American Bar Scene (Belting Bronco/Warner) **
- Cedric Burnside: Hill Country Love (Provogue) **
- Chris Byars: Boptics (SteepleChase) **
- Cakes Da Killa: Black Sheep (Young Art) **
- Ian Carey & Wood Metal Plastic: Strange Arts (Slow & Steady)
- Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble: Elegy for Thelonious (Sunnyside)
- Willi Carlisle: Critterland (Signature Sounds) **
- James Carter: Un (Unaccompanied Baritone Saxophone) (J.M.I.) **
- The Castellows: A Little Goes a Long Way (Warner Music Nashville, EP) **
- Cavalier: Different Type Time (Backwoodz Studioz) **
- Mina Cho's Grace Beat Quartet: "Beat Mirage" (International Gugak Jazz Institute)
- Chromeo: Adult Contemporary (BMG) **
- Avishai Cohen: Ashes to Gold (ECM) **
- Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few: The Almighty (Division 81) **
- A.G. Cook: Britpop (New Alias) **
- Greg Copeland: Empire State (Franklin & Highland, EP)
- Charley Crockett: $10 Cowboy (Son of Davy) **
- Zaccai Curtis: Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) **
- Daggerboard: Escapement (Wide Hive)
- Jamale Davis: Run With the Hunted (SteepleChase) **
- George Dearborne: Lotta Honky Tonkin' Left in Me (Wingate) **
- The Rob Dixon/Steve Allee Quintet: Standards Deluxe (self-released)
- Doechii: Alligator Bites Never Heal (Top Dawg/Capitol) **
- Arnaud Dolmen/Leonardo Montana; LéNo (Quai Son)
- Giuseppe Doronzo/Andy Moor/Frank Rosaly: Futuro Ancestrale (Clean Feed) **
- Ducks Ltd.: Harm's Way (Carpark) **
- Nick Dunston: Colla Voce (Out of Your Head)
- Wendy Eisenberg: Viewfinder (American Dreams) **
- Tinsley Ellis: Naked Truth (Alligator) **
- Eminem: The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope) **
- Empirical: Wonder Is the Beginning (Whirlwind) **
- Empress Of: For Your Consideration (Major Arcana/Giant) **
- Peter Erskine and the Jam Music Lab All-Stars: Bernstein in Vienna (Origin)
- Joe Fahey: Andrea's Exile (Rough Fish) **
- Lawrence Fields: To the Surface (Rhythm 'N' Flow) **
- Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/(Exit) Knarr: Breezy (Sonic Transmissions) **
- Flo Milli: Fine Ho, Stay (RCA) **
- Fontaines D.C.: Romance (XL) **
- Chad Fowler/Shanyse Strickland/Sana Nagano/Melanie Dyer/Ken Filiano/Anders Griffen: Birdsong (Mahakala Music) **
- Amaro Freitas: Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) **
- Bill Frisell: Orchestras (Blue Note) **
- The Fully Celebrated Orchestra: Sob Story (Relative Pitch) **
- FUR [Hélène Duret/Benjamin Sauzereau/Maxime Rouayroux]: Bond (Budapest Music Center) **
- Future & Metro Boomin: We Don't Trust You (Epic/Freebandz/Republic Boominati Worldwide) **
- Future & Metro Boomin: We Still Don't Trust You (Epic/Freebandz/Republic/Boominati Worldwide, 2CD) **
- Gangrene: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose (ALC) **
- Kenny Garrett & Svoy: Who Killed AI? (Mack Avenue) **
- Myriam Gendron: Mayday (Thrill Jockey) **
- Claudia Gibson: The Fields of Chazy (self-released) **
- Girl in Red: I'm Doing It Again Baby! (Columbia) **
- Jose Gobbo Trio: Current (self-released)
- The Vinny Golia Quintet 2024: Almasty (Nine Winds) **
- Phillip Golub: Abiding Memory (Endectomorph Music)
- Gossip: Real Power (Columbia) **
- Vanisha Gould and Chris McCarthy: Life's a Gig (Fresh Sound New Talent) **
- Ariana Grande: Eternal Sunshine (Republic) **
- Frank Gratkowski/Ensemble Modern: Mature Hybrid Talking (Maria de Alvear World Edition) **
- The Gringo Pistoleros: The Rise and . . . Subsequent Fall of the Texas Alien (self-released) **
- Erik Griswold/Chloe Kim/Helen Svoboda: Anatomical Heart (Earshift Music) **
- Gregory Groover Jr.: Lovabye (Criss Cross) **
- Richard Guba: Songs for Stuffed Animals (self-released)
- Giovanni Guidi: A New Day (ECM) **
- The Haas Company [Featuring Frank Gambale]: Vol. 2: Celestial Latitude (Psychiatric)
- Marika Hackman: Big Sigh (Chrysalis) **
- Noah Haidu: Standards II (Sunnyside)
- Mary Halvorson: Cloudward (Nonesuch) **
- Simon Hanes: Tsons of Tsunami (Tzadik) **
- Alex Harding/Lucian Ban: Blutopia (Sunnyside) **
- Dave Harrington/Max Jaffe/Patrick Shiroishi: Speak, Moment (AKP) **
- Keyon Harrold: Foreverland (Concord) **
- Jo Harrop: The Path of a Tear (Lateralize) **
- Helado Negro: Phasor (4AD) **
- Jihee Heo: Flow (OA2)
- Jake Hertzog: Longing to Meet You (self-released)
- Conrad Herwig: The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner (Savant) **
- Monika Herzig's Sheroes: All in Good Time (Zoho)
- Homeboy Sandman: Rich II (self-released) **
- Jazzmeia Horn: Messages (Empress Legacy) **
- Hyeseon Hong Jazz Orchestra: Things Will Pass (Pacific Coast Jazz)
- Hot Club of San Francisco: Original Gadjo (Hot Club)
- Brittany Howard: What Now (Island) **
- Ibibio Sound Machine: Pull the Rope (Merge) **
- Idles: Tangk (Partisan) **
- Ill Considered: Infrared (New Soil) **
- Illuminati Hotties: Power (Hopeless) **
- Randy Ingram: Aries Dance (Sounderscore)
- Mikko Innanen Autonomous: Hietsu (Fiasko) **
- Jon Irabagon's Outright!: Recharge the Blade (Irabbagast) **
- Jon Irabagon: I Don't Hear Nothin' but the Blues: Volume 3 Part 2: Exuberant Scars (Irabbagast) **
- Boldy James/Conductor Williams: Across the Tracks (Near Mint) **
- Janel & Anthony: New Moon in the Evil Age (Cuneiform) *
- Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O: True Story (New Soil/Mushroom Hour) **
- Johnny Blue Skies [Sturgill Simpson]: Passage Du Desir (High Top Mountain) **
- Ka: The Thief Next to Jesus (Iron Works) **
- Jason Keiser: Kind of Kenny (OA2)
- Simone Keller: Hidden Heartache (Intakt) **
- Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones: New Monuments (We Jazz) **
- Katy Kirby: Blue Raspberry (Anti-) **
- Tobias Klein/Frank Rosaly/Maria Warelis: Tendresse (Relative Pitch) **
- Jon Langford & the Bright Shiners: Where It Really Starts (Tiny Global Productions) **
- Last Word Quintet: Falling to Earth (Origin)
- Bill Laurance/The Untold Orchestra: Bloom (ACT Music) **
- Andy Laverne: Spot On (SteepleChase) **
- David Leon: Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic)
- Les Savy Fav: Oui, LSF (Frenchkiss) **
- Omer Leshem: Play Space (Ubuntu Music)
- David Liebman & the CNY Jazz Orchestra: If a White Horse From Jerusalem . . . (CNY Jazz Arts Foundation)
- Liquid Mike: Paul Bunyan's Slingshot (self-released) **
- Little Simz: Drop 7 (Forever Living Originals, EP) **
- Live Edge Trio With Steve Nelson: Closing Time (OA2)
- Lupe Fiasco: Samurai (1st and 15th Too) **
- Doug MacDonald and the Coachella Valley Trio: Live at the Rancho Mirage Library (DMAC Music)
- João Madeira/Margarida Mestre: Voz Debaixo (4DaRecord)
- Magdalena Bay: Imaginal Disk (Mom + Pop) **
- Mannequin Pussy: I Got Heaven (Epitaph) **
- Laura Marling: Patterns in Repeat (Chryalis/Partisan) **
- Abbey Masonbrink: Rising (self-released) **
- Masta Ace & Marco Polo: Richmond Hill (Fat Beats) **
- Mark Masters Ensemble: Sui Generis (Capri)
- Mavi: Shadowbox (Mavi 4 Mayor Music) **
- Shawn Maxwell: J Town Suite (Cora Street)
- Rob Mazurek: Milan (Clean Feed) **
- James McClaskey & the Rhythm Band: Later on Blues (BigTone) **
- Zara McFarlane: Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan (Universal) **
- Mike McGinnis + 9: Outing: Road Trip II (Sunnyside) **
- Midnight Sons: Money Has No Owners (Chong Wizard) **
- Andy Milne and Unison: Time Will Tell (Sunnyside) **
- Mk.gee: Two Star & the Dream Police (R&R Digital) **
- Gurf Morlix: In Love at Zero Degrees (Rootball) **
- Kjetil Mulelid: Agoja (Odin) **
- Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel: The Room (Real World) **
- Richard Nelson/Makrokosmos Orchestra: Dissolve (Adhyâropa)
- Sam Newsome/Max Johnson: Tubes (Unbroken Sounds) **
- Ngwaka Son Système: Iboto Ngenge (Eck Echo) **
- Cornelia Nilsson: Where Do You Go? (Stunt) **
- Che Noir: The Color Chocolate, Volume 1 (Poetic Movement, EP) **
- Normani: Dopamine (RCA) **
- The Michael O'Neill Sextet: Synergy: With Tony Lindsay (Jazzmo)
- Mali Obomsawin/Magdalena Abrego [Deerlady]: Greatest Hits (Out Of Your Head) **
- Lothar Ohlmeier/Tobias Klein: Left Side Right (Trytone)
- Nils Økland Band: Gjenskinn (Hubro) **
- Old Mountain: Another State of Rhythm (Clean Feed) **
- Ulysses Owens Jr. and Generation Y: A New Beat (Cellar Music) **
- Matt Panayides Trio: With Eyes Closed (Pacific Coast Jazz)
- Jonah Parzen-Johnson: You're Never Really Alone (We Jazz) **
- Ben Patterson Jazz Orchestra: Groove Junkies (Origin)
- Ivo Perelman/Chad Fowler/Reggie Workman/Andrew Cyrille: Embracing the Unknown (Mahakala Music) **
- Kate Pierson: Radios & Rainbows (Lazy Meadow Music) **
- Dave Pietro: The Talisman (SteepleChase) **
- PNY Quintet: Over the Wall (RogueArt) *
- Pony Boy All-Star Big Band: This Is Now: Live at Boxley's (Pony Boy)9
- Porij: Teething (Play It Again Sam) **
- Pouty: Forget About Me (Get Better) **
- Jeanfrançois Prins: Blue Note Mode (GAM) **
- Katie Pruitt: Mantras (Rounder) **
- Reggie Quinerly: The Thousandth Scholar (Redefinition)
- Bruno Råberg Tentet: Evolver (Orbis Music)
- Rapsody: Please Don't Cry (Jamla/Roc Nation) **
- Real Bad Man & Lukah: Temple Needs Water. Village Needs Peace. (Old Soul Music/Real Bad Man) **
- Kenny Reichert: Switch (Calligram)
- Terre Roche: Inner Adult (self-released) **
- Brandon Ross Phantom Station: Off the End (Sunnyside) **
- Jerome Sabbagh: Heart (Analog Tone Factory)
- Dred Scott/Moses Patrou/Tom Beckham/Matt Pavolka: Cali Mambo (Ropeadope)
- Shabaka: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!) **
- Sheer Mag: Playing Favorites (Third Man) **
- Sarah Shook & the Disarmers: Revelations (Abeyance) **
- Flavio Silva: Eko (Break Free)
- Harry Skoler: Red Brick Hill (Sunnyside) **
- Bria Skonberg: What It Means (Cellar Live) **
- Connie Smith: Love, Prison, Wisdom and Heartaches (Fat Possum) **
- Vera Sola: Peacemarker (Spectraphonic/City Slang) **
- Spanish Harlem Orchestra: Swing Forever (Ovation)
- Simon Spiess Quiet Tree: Euphorbia (Intakt) **
- Splitter Orchester: Splitter Musik (Hyperdelia, 3CD) **
- St. Vincent: All Born Screaming (Virgin) **
- Peter Stampfel/Eli Smith/Walker Shepard: Wildernauts (Don Giovanni) **
- Anthony Stanco: Stanco's Time (OA2)
- Ayra Starr: The Year I Turned 21 (Mavin Global Holdings) **
- The Dave Stryker Trio With Bob Mintzer: Groove Street (Strikezone)
- Superposition: II (We Jazz) **
- Aki Takase Japanic: Forte (Budapest Music Center) **
- Curtis Taylor: Taylor Made (Curtis Taylor Music) **
- TGB: Room 4 (Clean Feed) **
- This Is Lorelei: Box for Buddy, Box for Star (Double Double Whammy) **
- Thollem: Worlds in a Life, Two (ESP-Disk)
- TiaCorine: Almost There (South Scope/Interscope, EP) **
- Tinashe: Quantum Baby (Nice Life) **
- Zach Top: Cold Beer & Country Music (Leo33) **
- Ryan Truesdell: Synthesis: The String Quartet Sessions (ArtistShare, 3CD) *
- Juanma Trujillo: Howl (Endectomorph Music) *
- Akiko Tsugura: Beyond Nostalgia (SteepleChase) **
- Tyla: Tyla (Epic) **
- Lisa Ullén: Heirloom (Fönstret) **
- Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us (Columbia) **
- Angela Verbrugge: Somewhere (OA2)
- Luis Vicente Trio: Come Down Here (Clean Feed) **
- Ben Waltzer: The Point (Calligram)
- Marta Warelis/Andy Moor: Escape (Relative Pitch) **
- Kenny Warren: Sweet World (Out of Your Head) **
- Philip Weberndoerfer: Tides (Shifting Paradigm)
- Randy Weinstein: Harmonimonk (Random Chance)
- Hein Westergaard/Katt Hernandez/Raymond Strid: The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn (Gotta Let It Out)
- Jack White: No Name (Third Man) **
- Immanuel Wilkins: Blues Blood (Blue Note) **
- Kelly Willis/Melissa Carper/Brennen Leigh: Wonder Women of Country (Brooklyn Basement, EP) **
- Mark Winkler: The Rules Don't Apply (Cafe Pacific)
- Chelsea Wolfe: She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She (Loma Vista) **
- WoochieWobbler: Is My Future Bright? (3455092 DK, EP) **
- Jack Wood & Nichaud Fitzgibbon: Movie Magic: Great Songs From the Movies (Jazz Hang)
- Yard Act: Where's My Utopia? (Island) **
- Denny Zeitlin: Panoply (Sunnyside) **
- Dann Zinn: Two Roads (Ridgeway)
- Christopher Zuar Orchestra: Exuberance (self-released)
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B+(*) |
- Jessica Ackerley: All of the Colours Are Singing (AKP) **
- Actress: Statik (Smalltown Supersound) **
- Okaidja Afroso: Àbòr Édín (Chechekule) **
- Albare: Beyond Belief (AM)
- Gino Amato: Latin Crsossroads (Ovation)
- Bob Anderson: Live! (Jazz Hang)
- Bill Anschell: Improbable Solutions (Origin)
- Daymé Arocena: Alkemi (Brownswood) **
- Arrested Development: Bullets in the Chamber (Vagabond Productions) **
- Bab L' Bluz: Swaken (Real World) **
- John Basile: Heatin' Up (StringTime Jazz)
- Jamie Baum Septet+: What Times Are These (Sunnyside) **
- Beans: Zwaard (Tygr Rawwk) **
- Evan Nicole Bell: Runaway Girl (Humingbird, EP) **
- Oddgeir Berg Trio: A Place Called Home (Ozella) **
- Stix Bones/Bob Beamon: Olimpik Soul (BONE Entertainment)
- Anthony Braxton: 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022 (Braxton House) **
- The Bobby Broom Organi-sation: Jamalot Live (Steele)
- Brother Ali: Love & Service (Travelers Media) **
- Peter Brötzmann/Paal Nilssen-Love: Chicken Shit Bingo (Trost) **
- Martin Budde: Back Burner (Origin)
- Burial: Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above/b> (XL, EP) **
- Caporaso Ensemble: Encounter (Psychosomatic)
- George Cartwright & Bruce Golden: Dilate (self-released) **
- Etienne Charles: Creole Orchestra (Culture Shock)
- John Chin/Jeong Lim Yang/Jon Gruk Kim: Journey of Han (Jinsy Music)
- The Chisel: What a Fucking Nightmare (Pure Noise) **
- Cindy Lee: Diamond Jubilee (Realistik Studios) **
- Dawn Clement/Steve Kovalcheck/Jon Hamar: Dawn Clement/Steve Kovalcheck/Jon Hamar Trio (self-released)
- Commodore Trio: Communal - EP (self-relesed, EP)
- Chris Corsano/Joe Baiza/Mike Watt: Corsano Baiza Watt Trio (Yucca Alta) **
- The Cure: Songs of a Lost World (Fiction) **
- Buck Curran: One Evening and Other Folks Songs (Obsolete/ESP-Disk)
- Jeremiah Cymerman: Body of Light (5049) **
- The Dare: What's Wrong With New York? (Republic) **
- On Ka'a Davis: Here's to Another Day and Night for the LWA of the Woke (Tzadik) **
- Dharma Down: Owl Dreams (Dharma Down)
- Ani DiFranco: Unprecedented Sh!t (Righteous Babe) **
- DIIV: Frog in Boiling Water (Fantasy) **
- Divr: Is This Water (We Jazz) **
- Isabelle Duthoit & Franz Hautzinger: Dans le Morvan (Relative Pitch) **
- Morten Duun: Code Breaker (Cmntx)
- Gui Duvignau/Jacob Sacks/Nathan Ellman-Bell: Live in Red Hook (Sunnyside) **
- El Khat: Mute (Glitterbeat) **
- Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band: Walk a Mile in My Shoe (Imani) *
- Christian Fabian Trio: Hip to the Skip (Spicerack)
- Forq: Big Party (GroundUP)
- Hannah Frances: Keeper of the Shepherd (Ruination) **
- Future Islands: People Who Aren't There Anymore (4AD) **
- Hilary Gardner: On the Trial With the Lonesome Pines (Anzic) **
- Frode Gjerstad/Margaux Oswald/Ivar Myrset Asheim: Another Step (Circulasione Totale) **
- The Sofia Goodman Group: Receptive (Joyous)
- Jon Gordon: 7th Ave South (ArtistShare)
- María Grand With Marta Sánchez: Anohin (Biophilia) **
- Morgan Guerin: Tales of the Facade (Candid) **
- Stefon Harris + Blackout: Sonic Creed Volume II: Life Signs (Motéma) **
- Joel Harrison & Alternative Guitar Summit: The Middle of Everywhere: Guitar Solos Vol. I (AGS)
- Alexander Hawkins/Sofia Jernberg: Musho (Intakt) **
- Eirik Hegdal Eklektisk Samband: Turnchest (Particular) **
- Arve Henriksen/Harmen Fraanje: Touch of Time (ECM) **
- Fred Hersch: Silent, Listening (ECM) **
- Christopher Hoffman: Vision Is the Identity (Out of Your Head) **
- Julia Holter: Something in the Room She Moves (Domino) **
- Home Counties: Exactly as It Seems (Submarine Cat) **
- Hovvdy: Hovvdy (Arts & Crafts) **
- Abdullah Ibrahim: 3 (Gearbox) **
- Jon Irabagon: Survivalism (Irabbagast) **
- Ethan Iverson: Technically Acceptable (Blue Note) **
- Ize Trio: The Global Suites (self-released)
- Eric Jacobson: Heading Home (Origin)
- Jazz Ensemble of Memphis: Playing in the Yard (Memphis International)
- Karen Jonas: The Rise and Fall of American Kitsch (self-released) **
- Norah Jones: Visions (Blue Note) **
- Danny Jonokuchi Big Band: A Decade (Bandstand Presents)
- I. Jordan: I Am Jordan (Ninja Tune) **
- JPEGMafia: I Lay Down My Life for You (AWAL) **
- Julie: My Anti-Aircraft Friend (Atlantic) **
- Benji Kaplan: Untold Stories (self-released)
- Alex Kautz: Where We Begin (Sunnyside)
- Roger Kellaway: Live at Mezzrow (Cellar Music) **
- Cassie Kinoshi's SEED.: Gratitude (International Anthem) **
- Lola Kirke: Country Curious (One Riot, EP) **
- Julien Knowles: As Many, as One (Biophilia)
- Anysia Kym: Truest (10k, EP) **
- Lady Gaga: Harlequin (Interscope) **
- Julian Lage: Speak to Me (Blue Note) **
- Dawn Landes: The Liberated Woman's Songbook (Fun Machine Music) **
- The Last Dinner Party: Prelude to Ecstasy (Island) **
- Molly Lewis: On the Lips (Jagjaguwar) **
- Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets: Indoor Safari (Yep Roc) **
- Lucy Rose: This Ain't the Way You Go Out (Communion) **
- Doug MacDonald: Sextet Session (DMAC Music)
- Mai-Liis: Kaleidoscope (OA2)
- Roc Marciano: Marciology (Marci Enterprises) **
- Grégoire Maret/Romain Collin: Ennio (ACT Music) **
- Brian Marsella/Jon Irabagon: Blue Hour (Irabbagast) **
- Joe McPhee With Ken Vandermark: Musings of a Bahamian Son: Poems and Other Words (Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
- Kali Malone: All Life Long (Ideologic Organ) **
- Christian McBride/Edgar Meyer: But Who's Gonna Play the Melody? (Mack Avenue) **
- Pat Metheny: MoonDial (BMG) **
- MIKE & Tony Seltzer: Pinball (10k, EP) **
- Modney: Ascending Primes (Pyroclastic, 2CD)
- Moor Mother: The Great Bailout (Anti-) **
- Willie Morris: Attentive Listening (Posi-Tone) **
- Simon Moullier: Elements of Light (Candid)
- Ms. Boogie: The Breakdown (self-released) **
- Kim Myhr & Kitchen Orchestra: Hereafter (Sofa Music) **
- NLE Choppa: Slut Szn (Warner, EP) **
- Nubiyan Twist: Find Your Flame (Strut) **
- O.: WeirdOs (Speedy Wunderground) **
- Old 97's: American Primitive (ATO) **
- Alicia and Michael Olatuja: Olatuja (Whirlwind) **
- One for All: Big George (Smoke Sessions) **
- Sam Outlaw: Terra Cotta (Black Hills) **
- Chuck Owen & Resurgence: Magic Light (Origin)
- Mavis Pan: Rising (self-released)
- Charlie Parr: Little Sun (Smithsonian Folkways) **
- Rob Parton's Ensemble 9+: Relentless (Calligram)
- Jeremy Pelt: Tomorrow's Another Day (HighNote) **
- Clarence Penn: Behind the Voice (Origin)
- Pissed Jeans: Half Divorced (Sub Pop) **
- Andy Pratt: Trio (Thrift Girl)
- Yvonnick Prené/Geoff Keezer: Jobim's World (Sunnyside) **
- Robert Prester & Adriana Samargia: Quenara (Commonwealth Ave. Productions)
- Tutu Puoane: Wrapped in Rhythm, Vol. 1 (SoulFactory) **
- Alvin Queen Trio: Feeling Good (Stunt) **
- Zach Rich: Solidarity (OA2)
- Ride: Interplay (Wichita) **
- Claire Rousay: Sentiment (Thrill Jockey) **
- Taliba Safiya: Black Magic (self-released, EP) **
- Anne Sajdera: It's Here (Bijuri)
- Sault: Acts of Faith (Forever Living Originals) **
- A. Savage: The Loft Sessions (Rough Trade, EP) **
- Ann Savoy: Another Heart (Smithsonian Folkways) **
- Schoolboy Q: Blue Lips (Interscope) **
- Brandon Seabrook: Object of Unknown Function (Pyroclastic)
- Altin Sencalar: Discover the Present (Posi-Tone) **
- Shaboozey: Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going (Republic/Empire) **
- Nadine Shah: Filthy Underneath (EMI North) **
- Patrick Shiroishi: Glass House (Otherly Love) **
- Michael Shrieve: Drums of Compassion (7D Media) **
- Shygirl: Club Shy (Because Music, EP) **
- Sisso & Maiko: Singeli Ya Maajabu (Nyege Nyege Tapes) **
- Skee Mask: ISS010 (Ilian Tape) **
- Håkon Skogstad: 8 Concepts of Tango (Øra Fonogram)
- Ches Smith: Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic)
- Ronny Smith: Struttin' (Pacific Coast Jazz)
- Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers: Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) **
- Something Else! [Featuring Vincent Herring]: Soul Jazz (Smoke Sessions) **
- Daniel Son & Futurewave: Bushman Bodega (WavGodMusic) **
- Moses Sumney: Sophcore (Tuntum, EP) **
- Fred Thomas: Window in the Rhythm (Polyvinyl) **
- Linda Thompson: Proxy Music (Storysound) **
- Viktoria Tolstoy: Stealing Moments (ACT) **
- Rafael Toral: Spectral Evolution (Moikai) **
- Tropical Fuck Storm: Tropical Fuck Storm's Inflatable Graveyard (Three Lobed) **
- Tucker Brothers: Live at Chatterbox (Midwest Crush Music)
- The Umbrellas: Fairweather Friend (Tough Love) **
- Jordan VanHemert: Deep in the Soil (Origin)
- Alan Walker: A Little Too Late (Aunt Mimi's)
- Faye Webster: Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian) **
- Amber Weekes: A Lady With a Song: Amber Weekes Celebrates Nancy Wilson (Amber Inn)
- Cecily Wilborn: Kuntry Gurl Playplist (self-released) **
- Wilco: Hot Sun Cool Shroud (dBpm, EP) **
- Kathryn Williams & Withered Hand: Willson Williams (One Little Independent) **
- Luke Winslow-King: Flash-a-Magic (Bloodshot) **
- Lizz Wright: Shadow (Blues & Greens) **
- X: Smoke & Fiction (Fat Possum) **
- Xaviersobased: Keep It Goin Xav (34Ent) **
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B |
- John Ambrosini: Songs for You (self-released)
- Black Art Jazz Collective: Truth to Power (HighNote) **
- Blue Lab Beats: Blue Eclipse (Blue Adventure) **
- Anne Burnell & Mark Burnell: This Could Be the Start of Something Big (Spectrum Music)
- Annie Chen: Guardians (JZ Music)
- Marc Ciprut: Moonshine (White Label)/li>
- Chick Corea & Béla Fleck: Remembrance (Thirty Tigers) **
- DJ Anderson do Paraiso: Queridão (Nyege Nyege Tapes) **
- Elbow: Audio Vertigo (Polydor) **
- Doug Ferony With His Swingin Big Band: Alright Okay You Win (Ferony Enterprizes Music)
- David Friesen: This Light Has No Darkness (Origin)
- Nubya Garcia: Odyssey (Concord Jazz) **
- Dayramir González: V.I.D.A. [Verdad, Independencia, Diversidad Y Amor] (self-released) **
- Grandaddy: Blu Wav (Dangerbird) **
- The Haas Company [Featuring Andy Timmons]: Vol. 1: Galactic Tide (Psychiatric)
- Hawkwind: Stories From Time and Space (Cherry Red) **
- Aaron Yale Heisler: Zoot's Soprano EP [Alternate Takes and Remixes From the Bechet Century] (2nd Bechet Century, EP) **
- Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra: This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters (Palmetto, 2CD)
- Colin James: Chasing the Sun (Stony Plain) **
- Tom Johnson Jazz Orchestra: Time Takes Odd Turns (self-released) **
- Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly of Shadows: Heartland Radio (SoundSpore)
- The Libertines: All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade (Casablanca/Republic) **
- The Bruce Lofgren Group: Earthly and Cosmic Tales (Night Bird)
- Old Man Luedecke: She Told Me Where to Go (Outside) **
- Shelby Lynne: Consequences of the Crown (Monument) **
- Paula Maya: Rio De Janeiro (Yellow House)
- Yuka Mito: How Deep Is the Ocean (Nana Notes)
- Jesus Molina: Selah (Dynamo Production) **
- Carlos Niño & Friends: Placenta (International Anthem) **
- Miles Okazaki: Miniature America (Cygnus)
- Eric Person: Rhythm Edge (Distinction)
- Jessica Pratt: Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer) **
- Gruff Rhys: Sadness Sets Me Free (Rough Trade) **
- Rosali: Bite Down (Merge) **
- Jim Rotondi: Finesse (Cellar Music) **
- Otis Sandsjö: Y-Otis Tre (We Jazz) **
- ShrapKnel: Nobody Planning to Leave (Backwoodz Studioz) **
- Jacob Shulman: High Firmament (Endectomorph Music) *
- Jacob Shulman: Ferment Below (Endectomorph Music) *
- The Smile: Wall of Eyes (XL) **
- Sleater-Kinney: Little Rope (Loma Vista) **
- Star Splitter [Gabriele Mitelli/Rob Mazurek]: Medea (We Insist!) **
- Mary Timony: Untame the Tiger (Merge) **
- Stian Westerhus & Maja S.K. Ratkje: All Losses Are Restored (Crispin Glover) **
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B- |
- Gary Clark Jr.: JPEG RAW (Warner) **
- Glass Beach: Plastic Death (Run for Cover) **
- Arushi Jain: Delight (Leaving) **
- Ken Peplowski: Unheard Bird (Arbors) **
- Still House Plants: If I Don't Make It, I Love U (Bison) **
- Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties: In Lieu of Flowers (Hopeless) **
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C+ |
- Raul Midón: Lost & Found (ReKondite ReKords) **
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Limited sampling: Records I played parts of, but not enough
to grade: -- means no interest, - not bad but not a prospect,
+ some chance, ++ likely prospect.
Reissues/Compilations/Vault Music:
In previous years I tried to separate reissues from compilations,
including newly released vault items in the latter. This made sense
when I was reviewing a lot of Recycled Goods material, but led to
other problems with year-end lists, so anything containing
any previously released material is collected here, and anything that
is wholly previously unreleased is treated as new, above.
A |
- Unholy Modal Rounders: Unholier Than Thou 7/7/77 (Don Giovanni, 2CD) **
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A- |
- Sonny Rollins: Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance, 3CD)
- Mal Waldron/Steve Lacy: The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music, 2CD)
- Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor in Ndola (Strut) **
- Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) **
- Karen Borca Trio Quartet & Quintet: Good News Blues: Live at the Vision Festival 1998 & 2005 (No Business)
- Mars Williams & Hamid Drake: I Know You Are but What Am I (1996, Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
- Charles Gayle/Milford Graves/William Parker: WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) **
- Mal Waldron/Terumasa Hino: Reminicent Suite (1973, BBE) **
- Phil Haynes' 4 Horns and What?: The Complete American Recordings (1989-95, Corner Store Jazz, 3CD) **
- Grupo Irakere: Grupo Irakere (1976, Mr. Bongo) **
- Franco & O.K. Jazz: Franco Luambo Makiadi Presents Les Editions Populaires (1968-1970) (Planet Ilunga) **
- Louis Armstrong: Louis in London (1968, Verve) **
- África Negra: Antologia Vol. 2 (1979-90, Bongo Joe) **
- Mixmaster Morris/Jonah Sharp/Haruomi Hosono: Quiet Logic (1998, WRWTFWW) **
- Rail Band: Buffet Hotel De La Gare, Bamako (1973, Mississippi) **
- Art Tatum: Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance, 3CD)
- Merengue Típico, Nueva Generación! (1960s-70s, Bongo Joe) **
- Terry Gibbs Dream Band: Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959 (Whaling City Sound)
- Austin Peralta: Endless Planets [Deluxe Edition] (2011, Brainfeeder) **
- Christer Bothén Featuring Bolon Bata: Trancedance [40th Anniversary Edition] (1984, Black Truffle) **
- Atrás del Cosmos: Cold Drinks, Hot Dreams (1980, Blank Forms Editions) **
- Peter Brötzmann/Toshinori Kondo/Sabu Toyozumi: Complete Link (2016, NoBusiness)
- Wayne Shorter: Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) **
- Roberto Magris: Love Is Passing Thru: Solo/Duo/Trio/Quartet (2004, JMood)
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Pending
Records in hand, sorted by artist, or release date if future. Those
marked ** are downloads in hand.
- Andrew Hill: A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto, 2CD) [11-01]
- Bill Evans: In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1970, Elemental Music, 2CD) [11-29]
- B.B. King: In France: Live at the 1977 Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival (Deep Digs/Elemental Music) [11-29]
- Emily Remler: Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance, 2CD) [11-29]
- Sun Ra: Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance, 2CD) [11-29]
- Al Jarreau: Wow! Live at the Childe Harold (1976, Resonance) [12-06]
Also Noted:
B+(***) |
- Cannonball Adderley: Poppin' in Paris: Live at L'Olympia 1972 (Elemental Music) [04-26]
- Derek Bailey/Sabu Toyozumi: Breath Awareness (1987, NoBusiness)
- Arthur Blythe Quartet: Live From Studio Rivbea: July 6, 1976 (NoBusiness)
- Congo Funk: Sound Madness From the Shores of the Mighty Congo River: Kinshasa/Brazzaville 1969-1982 (Analog Africa) **
- Fingers: The Complete Fingers Remember Mingus (1979-93, Jazz in Britain, 3CD) **
- Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Gebru: Souvenirs (1977-85, Mississippi) **
- Johnny Griffin Quartet: Live in Valencia 92 [The Jordi Suñol Archives 3] (1992, Storyville) **
- Gush: Afro Blue (1998, Trost) **
- Joe Henderson: Power to the People (1969, Craft) **
- In the Beginning There Was Rhythm (1978-84, Soul Jazz) **
- Love Child: Never Meant to Be 1988-1993 (12XU) **
- Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre: Live From Studio Rivbea: July 12, 1975 [Rivbea Live! Series, Volume 1] (No Business)
- Ron Miles: Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) **
- Tony Oxley: Angular Apron (1992, Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
- Phil Ranelin: The Found Tapes: Live in Los Angeles (1978-1981, ORG Music) **
- Sonny Rollins: A Night at the Village Vanguard: The Complete Masters (1958, Blue Note, 2CD) **
- Pharoah Sanders: Festival de Jazz de Nice, Nice, France, July 18, 1971 (1971, Kipepeo Publishing) **
- Septet Matchi-Oul: Terremoto (1971, Souffle Continu) **
- Pat Smythe Quartet: New Dawn: Live 1973 (British Progressive Jazz) **
- Sonic Youth: Walls Have Ears (1985, Goofin') **
- Tomasz Stanko Quartet: September Night (2004, ECM) **
- The Louis Stewart Trio: Louis the First (1975, Livia) **
- Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Pink Elephants on Parade (1985-90, Modern Harmonic) **
- Mars Williams/Darin Gray/Chris Corsano: Elastic (2012, Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
- Jack Wood: The Gal That Got Away: The Best of Jack Wood, Featuring Guest Nichaud Fitzgibbon (Jazz Hang)
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B+(**) |
- Cannonball Adderley: Burnin' in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969 (Elemental Music)
- Chet Baker & Jack Sheldon: In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album (1972, Jazz Detective)
- Burnt Sugar/The Arkestkra Chamber: The Reconstru-Ducted Repatriation Road-Rage ReMiXeS (Avantgroidd) **
- George Cartwright's GloryLand PonyCat: Black Ants Crawling (Mahakala Music) **
- Nat King Cole: Live at the Blue Note Chicago (1953, Iconic) **
- Electro Throwdown: Sci-Fi Inter-Planetary Electro Attack on Planet Earth 1982-89 (Soul Jazz) **
- Gastr Del Sol: We Have Dozens of Titles (1993-98, Drag City, 2CD) **
- Stan Getz: Unissued Session: Copenhagen 1977 (SteepleChase) **
- The Jazz Dispensary: The Freedom Sound! The People Arise (1963-76, Craft) **
- The Jazzanians: We Have Waited Too Long (1988, Ubuntu Music) **
- Sven-Åke Johansson und Alexander von Schlippenbach: Über Ursache und Wirkung der Meinungsverschiedenheiten Beim Turmbau zu Babel (1994, Trost) **
- Yusef Lateef: Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music, 2CD)
- Les Belgicains: Na Tango Ya Covadia 1964-70 (Covadia) **
- Shelly Manne & His Men: Jazz From the Pacific Northwest (1958-66, Reel to Real) **
- Charlie Mariano: Boppin' in Boston 1947-1953 (Fresh Sound) **
- Miami Sound: More Funk & Soul From Miami, Florida 1967-1974 (Soul Jazz) **
- Charles Mingus: Incarnations (1960, Candid) **
- Louis Moholo-Moholo: Louis Moholo-Moholo's Viva-La-Black (1988, Ogun) **
- The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed (Light in the Attic) **
- Lou Reed: Hudson River Wind Meditations (2007, Light in the Attic) **
- Raphael Roginski: Plays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes (2013, Unsound) **
- Todd Snider: Songs for the Daily Planet (Purple Version) (Aimless) **
- Alan Tomlinson Trio: Loft 1993 (Scatter Archive) **
- The John Wright Trio: South Side Soul (1960, Craft) **
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B+(*) |
- William Basinski: September 23rd (1982, Temporary Residence) **
- Raymond Burke: The Southland Recordings 1958-1960 (Jazzland) **
- John Coltrane Quartet + Stan Getz + Oscar Peterson: Live/Dusseldorf March 28th, 1960 (Lantower) **
- Ghetto Brothers: Power-Fuerza (1972, Vampisoul) **
- Pete Jolly: Seasons (1970, Future Days) **
- Brother Jack McDuff: Ain't No Sunshine: Live in Seattle (1972, Reel to Real) [**]
- Microstoria: Init Ding + _Snd (1995-96, Thrill Jockey, 2CD) **
- Gerry Mulligan: Night Lights (1963, Philips) **
- The Oscar Pettiford Memorial Concert (1960, SteepleChase) **
- Todd Snider: Viva Satellite (Purple Version) (Aimless) **
- Sun Ra: At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective, 2CD)
|
B |
- Broadcast: Spell Blanket: Collected Demos 2006-2009 (Warp) **
- Sun Ra: Excelsior Mill (1984, Sundazed/Modern Harmonic) **
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B- |
- DJ Notoya: Funk Tide: Tokyo Jazz-Funk From Electric Bird 1978-87 (Wewantsounds/Electric Bird) **
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