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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.
2012
- Asunder Trio [Paul Dunmall/Mark Sanders/Hasse Poulsen]: The Lamp (Kilogram)
- Aych: As the Crow Flies (Relative Pitch)
- BABs: Diving Bells (Loop)
- BassX3: Transatlantic (Leo)
- Beninghove's Hangmen: Beninghove's Hangmen ()
- Noah Bernstein: Six (self-released)
- Stanislav Bobrytskyy/Andy Gore: Live at Babuin (self-released)
- : The Worse the Better (OTO roku)
- Bushman's Revenge: A Little Bit of Big Bonanza (Rune Grammophone)
- John Butcher and Mark Sanders: Daylight (Emanem)
- Chicago Underground Duo: Age of Energy (Northern Spy)
- Thanos Chrysakis/Philip Somervell: Knotted Alembic (Aural Terrains)
- Nels Cline/Henry Kaiser/Jim Thomas/Weasel Walter/Allen Whitman: Jazz Free: A Connective Improvisation (There)
- Jim Denley/Philippe Lauzier/Pierre-Yves Martel/Kim Myhr/Eric Normand: Transition De Phase (Tour De Bras)
- Delphine Dora/Paulo Chagas/Bruno Duplant: Onion Petals as Candle Light (self-released)
- Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day Octet (482 Music)
- Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day III (Songlines)
- Daniel Erdmann: How to Catch a Cloud (Intakt)
- Terrie Ex/Paal Nilssen Love: Hurgu! (PNL)
- 4Tet: A Different Song (Leo)
- Tomas Fujiwara & the Hook Up: The Air Is Different (482 Music)
- Graculus: Small Things (Whi Music)
- Kay Grant and Alex Ward: Fast Track (Emanem)
- Will Guthrie: Sticks, Stones and Breaking Bones (Antboy)
- Mary Halvorson Quintet: Bending Bridges (Firehouse 12)
- Marc Hannaford: Ordinary Madness (Marchon)
- Alexander Hawkins Ensemble: All There, Ever Out (Babel)
- Darius Jones Quartet: Book of Moe'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise) (AUM Fidelity)
- Jooklo Duo and Bill Nace: Scratch (Holidays)
- David Krakauer: Book of Angels, Vol. 18: Pruflas (Tzadik)
- Alexey Kruglov/Alexey Lapin/Oleg Yudanov: Impulse (Leo)
- Le Ggril with Evan Parker: Vivaces (Tour de Bras)
- Payton MacDonald/Peter Evans/Elliott Sharp: Payton Peter Elliott (Savory Art)
- Joe McPhee/Eli Keszler: Ithaca (8mm)
- MMM Quartet: Live at the Metz' Arsenal (Leo)
- Muringa: The Unknown Knowns (Sofa Music)
- Nakatani/Tiner/Drake: Ritual Inscription (Epigraph)
- Anto Pett/Bart van Rosmalen: Playwork (Leo)
- Platform 1: Takes Off (Clean Feed)
- Tom Rainey Trio: Camino Cielo Echo (Intakt)
- The Resonance Ensemble: What Country Is This? (Not Two)
- Sylvain Rifflet: Alphabet (self-released)
- Scorch Trio/Mars Williams: Made in Norway (Rune Grammophone)
- Catherine Sikora/Ian Smith/Han-earl Park: Cork 04-04-11 (Bandcamp)
- Skogen: Is Gefallen in Den Schnee (Another Timbre)
- Slugfield: Slimezone (PNL)
- Ches Smith: Psycho Predictions (88 Records)
- Snus: Can't Stop Snussing (Ayler)
- Veryan Weston/Ingrid Laubrock/Hannah Marshall: Haste (Emanem)
- Wild Chamber Trio: 10.000 Leaves (Not Two)
- Wolfram Trio: Wolfram (Va Fongool)
- Nate Wooley: The Almond (Pogus)
Also recommended, but managed to hear them via streams (e.g., Rhapsody):
- Charles Gayle Trio: Streets (Northern Spy): A-
Reissues, compilations, etc.:
Also recommended, but managed to hear them via streams (e.g., Rhapsody):
2011
- 7K Oaks: Entelechy (Die Schachtel)
- Rabih Abou-Khalil: Trouble in Jerusalem (Enja)
- ADA Trio [Lonberg-Holm/Brotzmann/Nilssen-Love]: ADA (PNL)
- Masami Akita/Mats Gustafsson/Jim O'Rourke: One Bird Two Bird (Editions Mego)
- Jennifer Allum/Eddie Prevost: Penumbrae (Matchless)
- Ron Anderson: Secret Curve (Tzadik)
- David Arner Trio: Porgy/Best Act 2 (CIMP)
- Aram Bajakian: Aram Bajakian's Kef (Tzadik)
- Llorenc Barber: Retrospective 1994-2001 (Audition)
- Karl Berger/Dom Minasi: Synchronicity (Nacht)
- Peter Bernstein/Larry Goldings/Bill Stewart: Live at Smalls (Smalls Live)
- Michael Bisio: Travel Music (self-released)
- Raoul Bjorkenheim/Bill Laswell/Morgran Agren: Blixt (Cuneiform)
- Samuel Blaser: Consort in Motion (Kind of Blue)
- Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Mestre) 2008 (Caligola)
- Anthony Braxton: Two Compositions (Festival of New Trumpet Music) (Tricentric)
- Rob Brown Trio: Unknown Skies (Rogue Art)
- John Butcher/Toshimaru Nakamura: Dusted Machinery (Monotype)
- Lucio Capece/Birgit Ulher: Choices (Another Timbre)
- Andrea Centazzo: Moon in Winter (Ictus)
- Max Chabrol/Jean-Luc Cappozzo/Marc Brochard: Ulysse (Ajmi)
- Circulasione Totale Orchestra: PhilaOslo (Circulasione Totale)
- Nels Cline Trio: Silencer (Enja)
- Combat Astronomy: Flak Planet (Zond)
- Contemporary Noise Sextet: Ghostwriter's Joke (Electric Eye)
- Jon Corbett's Dangerous Musics: Kongens Gade (Leo)
- Lol Coxhill/Alex Ward: Old Sights, New Sounds (Incus)
- Carlo Costa/Minerva: Saturnismo (Between the Lines)
- Vincent Courtois: L'Imprevu (La Buissone)
- Stephan Crump/Steve Lehman: Kaleidoscope and Collage (Intakt)
- Tim Daisy/Ken Vandermark: The Conversation (Multikulti)
- Elton Dean: Elton Dean's Ninesense Suite (Jazzwerkstatt)
- Nina de Heney: III (Found You)
- : Because She Hoped (Songlines)
- Giovanni Di Domenico/Alexandra Grimal: Ghibli (Sans Bruit)
- Don Dietrich/Ben Hall: Spitfire (Brokenresearch)
- Bill Dixon: Envoi (Victo)
- Michel Doneda/Jonas Kocher/Christoph Schiller: Grape Skin (Another Timbre)
- : Der Kreis des Gegenstandes (Monotype)
- DuH: In Just (Red Toucan)
- Bruno Duplant/Paulo Chagas/Lee Noyes: As Birds (Re:Konstrukt)
- Brad Dutz Quartet: Fashionably Impaired (self-released)
- Ehran Elisha/Roy Campbell: Watching Cartoons With Eddie (Outnowrecordings)
- Emo Albino: Lady Lord (Sofa)
- The Engines: Wire and Brass (OkkaDisk)
- Peter Evans/Nate Wooley: High Society (Carrier)
- Fire! with Him O'Rourke: Released! (Rune Grammofon)
- Fire! with Jim O'Rourke: Unreleased (Rune Grammofon)
- Full Blast & Friends: Sketches and Ballads (Trost)
- Vyacheslav Gaivronsky/Alexander Ragazanov: Revelation (Bomba)
- Vinny Golia Quartet: Take Your Time (Relative Pitch)
- Vinny Golia Sextet: Abstractions and Retrocasualities (NineWinds)
- Grand Reportage Ensemble Deluxe & Lucien Dubuis: Live From the Surface of the Sun (Altrisuoni)
- Sunna Gunnlaugs: Long Pair Bond (Sunny Sky)
- Mark Hanslip/Javier Carmona: Dosados (Babel)
- Boris Hauf: Proxemics (Creative Sources)
- Thomas Heberer: Clarino (NoBusiness)
- Hera: Where My Complete Belowed Is (Multikulti)
- Joe Hertenstein/Thomas Heberer/Joachim Badenhorst/Pascal Niggenkemper: Polylemma (Red Toucan)
- Paul Hession/Alan Wilkinson/Simon Fell: Two Falls and a Submission (Bo Weavil)
- Maya Homburger/Barry Guy: Star (Ergodos)
- In Transit: Shifting Moods (Konnex)
- Ircha-Mikolaj Trzaska Clarinet Quartet: Watching Edvard (Kilogram)
- Ochion Jewell: First Suite for Quaret (Mythology)
- Achim Kaufmann: Verivyr (Pirouet)
- Willi Kellers/Thomas Borgmann/Akira Ando: Boom Box Jazz (Jazzwerkstatt)
- Kontra-Trio: Jeux Circulaires (Between the Lines)
- Daunik Lazro: Some Other Zongs (Ayler)
- Daunik Lazro/Benjamin Duboc/Didier Lasserre: Pourtant les Cimes des Arbres (Dark Tree)
- Joelle Leandre Tentet/Trio: Can You Hear Me? (Leo)
- Joelle Leandre: Solo (Kadima)
- The Limbo Ensemble: Plebiscitu (Audio Tong)
- John Lindberg's Tripolar: [A] Live at Roulette, NYC (Jazzwerkstatt)
- Mats/Morgan Band: Live (Cuneiform)
- Joe McPhee's Survival Unit III: Synchronicity (Harmonic Convergence)
- Lisa Mezzacappa and Nightshade: Cosmic Rift (Leo)
- Joe Morris/Agusti Fernandez: Ambrosia (Riti)
- Joe Morris Wildlife: Traits (Riti)
- Kim Myhr: Live at Ringve Museum (Audition)
- My Silence: It Only Happens at Night (482 Music)
- Tatsuya Nakatani/Michel Doneda: White Stone Black Lamp (Kobo)
- Alon Nechushtan: Words Beyond (Buckyball)
- The Nu Band: Relentlessness: Live at the Sunset (Marge)
- Pam Pameijer's New Jazz Wizards: Hoppin' Mad: A Tribute to Humph (Stomp Off)
- Evan Parker/Okkyung Lee/Peter Evans: The Bleeding Edge (Psi)
- William Parker: Solo Bass/Crumbing in the Shadows Is Fraulein Miller's Stale Cake (AUM Fidelity)
- William Parker & ICI Ensemble: Winter Sun Crying (Neos)
- Umberto Petrin: A Dawn Will Come (Leo)
- : (Bloc Thyristors)
- Bobby Previte and the New Bump: Live at the Amphitheatre (bandcamp)
- Andrzej Przybielski/Oles Brothers: De Profundis (Fenomedia)
- RED Trio/John Butcher: Empire (NoBusiness)
- Reed Trio: Last Train to the First Station (Kilogram)
- Howard Riley: The Complete Short Stories 1998-2010 (NoBusiness)
- Hank Roberts: Everything Is Alive (Winter & Winter)
- Pete Robbins Unnamed Quartet: Live in Brooklyn (Not Two)
- Ernesto Rodriguez: Suspensao (Creative Sources)
- Simon Rose: Schmetterling (Not Two)
- Guillaume Roy/Vincent Courtois/Claude Tchamitchian: Amarco (Emouvance)
- Scoolptures: White Sickness (Leo)
- Elliot Sharp/Scott Fields: Afiadacampos (Neos)
- Sheriffs of Nothingness: A Summer's Night at the Crooked Forest (Sofa)
- Silencers: Balance Des Blancs (Sofa)
- Sonny Simmons/Delphine Latil: Symphony of the Peacocks (Improvising Beings)
- Ted Sirota's Rebel Soul: Vs. the Forces of Evil (Naim)
- Kamil Skuszkiewicz: Prolegomena (Slowdown)
- Sonic Brotherhood: Deep Tones for Peace Israel 2009 (Kadima)
- The Spanish Donkey: XYX (Northern Spy)
- Splice: Lab (Loop)
- Norbert M Stammberger: Poem IV (GNU)
- Swimmer: Swimmer (Bandcamp)
- Tarfala Trio: Syzygy (NoBusiness)
- Noel Taylor/Alberto Popolla: All Fall Down (Citystream)
- Scott Tinkler/Bae Il Dong/Simon Barker: Chiri (Kimnara)
- Torn: Crespect (2nd Floor)
- Tim Trevor-Briscoe/Szilard Mezei/Nicola Guazzaloca: Underflow (Leo)
- Antonin Tri-Hoang/Benoit Delbecq: (Bee Jazz)
- Twelves: The Adding Machine (Babel)
- Bogdo Ula: Prisoners of Freedom (self-released)
- Gebhard Ullman/Ta Lam 11: Mingus! (Jazzwerkstatt)
- Undivided: Moves Between Clouds (Multikulti)
- Ken Vandermark/Paal Nilssen-Love: Letter to a Stranger (Smalltown Superjazz)
- Volume: Tungt Vand (Ninth World)
- The Kris Wanders Outfit: In Remembrance of the Human Race (Not Two)
- Jurg Wickihalder European Quartet: Jump! (Intakt)
- Corey Wilkes: Kind of Miles: Live at the Velvet Lounge (Katalyst)
- Nate Wooley/Taylor Ho Bynum: The Throes (CIMP)
- Nate Wooley: Trumpet/Amplifier (Smeraldina-Rima)
- Nate Wooley/Scott R Looney/Damon Smith/Weasel Walter: Scowl (UgExplode)
Also recommended, but managed to hear them via streams (e.g., Rhapsody):
- Atomic: Here Comes Everybody (Jazzland): **
- Dennis Gonzalez/Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten: The Hymn Project (Daagnim): **
- Danny Grissett: Stride (Criss Cross): *
- Matana Roberts: Live in London (Central Control): ***
- Matthew Shipp/Joe Morris: Broken Partials (Not Two): ***
- Gunter Baby Sommer/The New Trio: Melting Game (Jazzwerkstatt): A-
- Sonore: Cafe Oto/London (Trost): B
Reissues, compilations, etc.:
Also recommended, but managed to hear them via streams (e.g., Rhapsody):
2010
- Jason Ajemian's Daydream Full Lifestyles: Protest Heaven (482)
- Ken Aldcroft/Dave Clark: Hat & Beard: The Music of Thelonious Monk (Trio)
- Ari Ambrose/Stephen Riley: Tenor Treats Two (Steeplechase)
- Scott Amendola: Lift (Sazy)
- The Ames Room: In (Monotype)
- AMM: Sounding Music (Matchless)
- Jacob Anderskov: Agnostic Revelations (ILK)
- The Antripodean Collective: NTRPDN (Marchon)
- Architeuthis Walks on Land: Natura Naturans (Carrier)
- Arsis: (Circum-Disc)
- Arszyn/Duda: Se (Lado ABC)
- The Astronomical Unit: Relativity (Jazzwerkstatt)
- Astula Democratica: Illusio (Rhizome)
- Atomic: Theater Tilters, Vol. 1 (Jazzland)
- Atomic: Theater Tilters, Vol. 2 (Jazzland)
- Dan Berglund: Tonbruket (ACT)
- Faruq Z Bey: Emerging Field (Entropy Stereo)
- David Binney: Aliso (Criss Cross)
- Jeb Bishop Trio: 2009 (Better Animal)
- Michael Bisio Quartet: AM (CIMP)
- Blastula: Scarnoduo (Amirani)
- Jonathan Bratoeff Quartet: Mindscapes (F-ire)
- : Duo (Heidelberg Loppen) 2007 (Leo, 2CD)
- Anthony Braxton/Ann Rhodes: GTM (Syntax) 2003 (Leo)
- Anthony Braxton/Gerry Hemingway: Old Dogs (2007) (Mode)
- Magnus Broo: Swedish Wood (Moserobie)
- : Goosetalk (Kilogram)
- Chris Bryars: Bop-ography (Steeplechase)
- Dave Burrell/Leena Conquest: Dave Burrell Plays His Songs Featuring Leena Conquest (RAI Trade)
- John Butcher/Claudia Ulla Binder: Under the Roof (Nuscope)
- : Book of Three (RogueArt)
- Jean-Luc Cappozzo/Edward Perraud: Suspension (Creative Sources)
- Daniel Carter/Alberto Fiori/Tom Abbs/Federico Ughi: The Perfect Blue (Not Two)
- Mark Charig: Pipedream (Ogum)
- : Tr!o (FMP)
- Curtis Clark Trio: Taagi (No Business)
- Philip Clouts Quartet: Sennen Cove (Point)
- Laura Collins: Baltimore Oriole (Spotlite)
- Clare Cooper: Hammeriver (Mikroton)
- Sylvie Courvoisier-Mark Feldman Quartet: To Fly to Steal (Intakt)
- Lol Coxhill/Enzo Rocco: Fine Tuning: The Gradisca Concert (Amirani)
- Curios: The Other Place (Edition)
- Tim Daisy/Ken Vandermark Duo: Light on the Wall (Laurence Family)
- Claire DeBrunner/Ken Silverman/Daniel Carter/Tom Zlabinger: Macroscopia (Metier)
- Deep Tones for Peace: Deep Tones for Peace (Kadima)
- Benoit Delbecq: Circles and Calligrams (Songlines)
- Giovanni Di Domenico: Terra Che Cammina (Spocus)
- Bill Dixon/Aaron Siegel/Ben Hall: Weight/Counterweight (Brokenresearch)
- Pierre Dorge: Pierre Dorge Presents New Jungle Orchestra (Steeplechase)
- Hamid Drake & Bindu: Reggaeology (RogueArt)
- Mark Dresser: Guts (Kadima)
- Benjamin Duboc/Itaru Oki: Nobusiko (Improvising Beings)
- Paul Dunmall/Tony Bianco/Dave Kane: Ritual Beyond (FMR)
- EA Silence: Flatime (Grim)
- Harris Eisenstadt: Woodblock Prints (No Business)
- Elderflower: Deep Drink (Elderflower)
- Elephant9: Walk the Nile (Rune Grammofon)
- Kahil El'Zabar: The Ancestors Are Amongst Us (Katalyst)
- Enterout Trio: Pink Ivory (Multikulti)
- Richard Fairhurst's Triptych: Amusia (Babel)
- : Some Other Place (Maya)
- Foton Quartet: Zomo Hall (Not Two)
- Alexander Frangenheim: The Knife Again (Creative Sources)
- Free Jazz Quartet: Memories for the Future (Matchless)
- Fringe Magnetic: Empty Spaces (Loop)
- Nobuyasu Furuya: Stunde Null (Chitei)
- G9 Gipfel: Berlin (Jazzwerkstatt)
- Philip Gibbs/Paul Dunmall/Tony Hymas/Paul Rogers/Neil Metcalfe/Tony Levin: Mumuksuta (Duns)
- Frode Gjerstad/John Edwards/Mark Sanders: Bergen (FMR)
- Frode Gjerstad/Paal Nilssen-Love: Gromka (Not Two)
- Frode Gjerstad: Sekstett (Conrad Sound)
- The Golden Age of Steam: Raspberry Tongue (Babel)
- Vinny Golia/Mark Dresser: Live at Lotus (Kadima)
- Grid Mesh: Coordinates (FMR)
- Alexandra Grimal: Owls Talk ()
- Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky: Pieces for String Trio and Trumpet (Leo)
- Stephen Haynes: Parrhesia (Engine)
- William Hooker: Earth's Orbit (No Business)
- Steve Hubback/Ad Peijnenburg: Arrows (FMR)
- Daniel Humair/Tony Malaby/Bruno Chevillon: Pas de Dense (Zig Zag Territories)
- Carolyn Hume/Paul May: Come to Nothing (Leo)
- Susie Ibarra: Drum Sketches (Innova)
- Ideal Bread: Transmit: Vol. 2 of the Music of Steve Lacy (Cuneiform)
- Raphael Imbert: N_Y Project (Zig Zag)
- Ino Imai Axel Nori: Rostbestandige Zeit (Doubt Music)
- Terje Isungset: Winter Songs (Icemusic)
- The Dave Jones Trio: Journeys (DJT)
- Kablys: Live at 11:20 (No Business)
- Kahiba: Global Dialects (Intuition)
- Kairos 4Tet: Kairos Moment (Kairos)
- Henry Kaiser/Wadada Leo Smith: Yo Miles! Shinjuku (There)
- Henry Kaiser/Wadada Leo Smith: Yo Miles! Lightning (There)
- Stephane Kerecki: Houria (Zig-Zag Territories)
- Michael Jaeger Kerouac: Outdoors (Intakt)
- Kirk Knuffke/Kenny Wollesen/Lisle Ellis: Chew Your Food (No Business)
- Alexey Kruglov: Russian Metaphor (Leo)
- : Vinter (Creative Sources)
- : Homo Sacer (Sillon)
- Kiyoharu Kuwayama/Masayoshi Urabe: From the Abolition Port (Intransitive)
- Steve Lacy: November (Intakt)
- Lapin/Poore/Schubert/Turner/Bledsoe: Seek It Not With Your Eyes (Red Toucan)
- Alexey Lapin/Yury Yaremchuk: Anatomy of Sound (SoLyd)
- Azar Lawrence: Mystic Journey (Furthermore)
- Urs Leimgruber: Chicago Solo (Leo)
- Gianni Lenoci/Gianni Mimmo: Reciprocal Uncles (Amirani)
- : Nerf (Rude Awakening/Head)
- Levity: Afternoon Delights (Lado ABC)
- Dave Liebman/Evan Parker/Tony Bianco: Relevance (Red Toucan)
- Little Symphony No. 3: First Thing Tomorrow Morning (Biodro)
- Giancarlo Locatelli/Alberto Braida: The Big Margotta (Brokenresearch)
- Rudi Mahall: Der Rote Bereich 7 (Intakt)
- Evgeny Masloboev/Anastasia Masloboeva: Russian Folksongs in the Key of Sadness (Leo)
- Sabir Mateen: URDLA XXX (RogueArt)
- Magda Mayas: Heartland (Another Timbre)
- Rafal Mazur/Keir Neuringer: Improwizje (Insubordinations)
- Rob Mazurek: Calma Gente (Submarine)
- Joe McPhee/Mikolaj Trzaska/Dominic Duval/Jay Rosen: Magic (Not Two)
- : Blue Chicago Blues (Not Two)
- Nicolas Meier: Journey (MGP)
- Niko Meinhold/Noel Taylor: Border Patrol ()
- Manuel Mengis Gruppe 6: Dulcet Crush (Hatology)
- Liudas Mockunas/Ryoji Hojito: Vacation Music (No Business)
- Ninni Morgia: Ninni Morgia & Control Unit (Ultramarine)
- Joe Morris: Sensor (No Business)
- Mural: Nectars of Emergence (Sofa)
- Sunny Murray: Boom Boom Cat (Foghorn)
- Michael Musillami Trio: Old Tea (Playscape)
- Tatsuya Nakatani/Forbes Graham: Essences (BLAQ)
- Mike Nord/Georg Hofmann: The Flow: Music for Improvised Dance (Leo)
- The Nu Band: Live in Paris (No Business)
- Nybakat!: Happy Land (Mindoors)
- Maciej Obara Special Quartet: Four (Ars Cameralis)
- Maciej Obara/John Lindberg/Harvey Sorgen: Three ()
- Uwe Oberg/Christof Thewes/Michael Griener: Lacy Pool (Hatology)
- Oir Trio: Kanata (Not Two)
- Mark O'Leary: Snow (TIBProd)
- : The Lives of Bernard Hermann (Sans Bruit)
- Originalljudet: Originalljudet (Kalligrammofon)
- Evan Parker: Whitstable Solo (Psi)
- Paragon: Quarterlife Crisis (Shakewell)
- Evan Parker/Sten Sandell: Psalms (Psi)
- Evan Parker: Set (Psi)
- JD Parran: Window Spirits (Mutable)
- Stefano Pastor: Freedom (Slam)
- Ivo Perelman/Brian Wilson: The Stream of Life (Leo)
- Barre Phillips: Portraits (Kadima)
- Phronesis: Alive (Edition)
- Adam Pieronczyk Quartet: El Buscador (Jazzwerkstatt)
- Jeff Platz Quartet: Panoramic (Skycap)
- Odean Pope Quartet: Fresh Breeze (CIMP)
- Powerhouse Sound: Overlap (Laurence Family)
- Rawfishboys: Pianoworks/Pianoworksn't (Spocus)
- Howard Riley: Solo in Vilnius (No Business)
- Gareth Roberts Quintet: Go Stop Go (Killer Penguin Jazz)
- Aldo Romano: Adventures Trio (Abeat)
- Ned Rothenberg: Quintet for Clarinet & Strings (Tzadik)
- Ned Rothenberg/Ryu Nashi: No School: New Music for Shakuhachi (Tzadik)
- Ned Rothenberg/Vladimir Volkov: Live in Dom: Duo Music for Nicolai Dmitriev (DOM)
- Rova: Planetary (SoLyd)
- Sten Sandell Trio: Face of Tokyo (PNL)
- Heinz Sauer: If (Blue) Then (Blue) (ACT)
- Schlippenbach Trio: Bauhaus Dessau (Intakt)
- Irene Schweizer Trio & Dewan Motihar Trio: Jazz Meets India (MPS)
- Ariel Shibolet: Live at the Total Music Meeting (Kadima)
- Alex Sipiagin: Generations: Dedicated to Woody Shaw (Criss Cross)
- Slug Duo: Fully Improvised Sets From Falanster 2009 (Vytvornia OM)
- Harrison Smith Quartet: Telling Tales (33)
- Tasos Stamou & Ilan Manouach: Tasos Stamou & Ilan Manouach (Absurd)
- Dave Stapleton Quintet: Between the Lines (Edition)
- Swedish Azz: (Not Two)
- Aki Takase: A Week Went By (Psi)
- Taro: Flaechten ()
- Cecil Taylor & Dominic Duval: The Last Dance Vol. 1 & 2 (CJR)
- Tiziano Tononi: Vertical Invaders (Black Saint)
- Rafael Toral: Space Elements Vol II (Taiga)
- Trio X: Live on Tour 2008 (CIMP)
- John Turville Trio: Midas (F-ire)
- Tomas Ulrich Cargo Cult: Lonely House (Covers) (CIMP)
- Undivided: The Passion (Multikulti)
- The Vandermark 5: The Horse Jumps/The Ship Is Gone (Not Two)
- Hristo Vitchev/Weber Iago: The Secrets of an Angel (First Orbit Sounds Music)
- Jack Walrath: Heavy Mirth (Steeplechase)
- The Way: Live in Woodstock One (Ictus)
- The Way: Live in Woodstock Two (Ictus)
- Nate Wooley & Paul Lytton: Creak Above 33 (Psi)
- Yuri Yaremchuk/Ilia Belorukov/Andrij Orel: Conditions (Re:konstrukt)
- Otomo Yohishide: Lonely Woman (Doubtmusic)
- You Had Me at Hello: Meet Oliver Lake (Tonometer)
- You Had Me at Hello: Meet Ab Baars & Michael Moore (Tonometer)
- Yuganaut: Sharks (Engine)
- Ingar Zach: MOS (Sofa)
- Waclaw Zimpel/Pawel Posteremczak/Ksawery Wojcinski/Pawel Szpura: Hera (MultiKulti)
- Sixty Interpretations of Sixty Seconds (Apprise)
Also recommended, but managed to hear them via streams (e.g., Rhapsody):
- Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (): *
- Geri Allen & Timeline: Live (Motema): **
- Taylor Ho Bynum/Tomas Fujiwara: Stepwise (Not Two): *
- Neil Cowley Trio: Radio Silence (Naim Jazz): **
- Dave Douglas & Keystone: Spark of Being (Greenleaf): ***
- Marty Ehrlich: Fables (Tzadik): **
- Erik Friedlander: 50 Miniatures for Improvising Quintet (Skipstone): **
- Henry Grimes/Rashied Ali: Spirits Aloft (Porter): A-
- Billy Jenkins: I Am a Man From Lewisham (VOTP): ***
- Lee Konitz/Chris Cheek/Stephane Furic Leibovici: Jugendstil II (ESP): *
- Masada String Trio: Haborym: The Book of Angels Vol. 16 (Tzadik): ***
- William Parker/Gianni Lenoci/Vittorino Curci/Marcello Magliocchi: Serving an Evolving Humanity (Silta): **
- Adam Rudolph/Ralph Jones: (Meta): ***
- Grant Stewart: Around the Corner (Sharp Nine): ***
- Nasheet Waits: Equality (Fresh Sound New Talent): A-
- Tim Warfield: A Sentimental Journey (Criss Cross): B
- John Zorn: The Dreamers: Ipos: The Book of Angels Vol. 14 (Tzadik): ***
Reissues, compilations, etc.:
- Air: Air Raid (1976, Why Not)
- Amalgam: Prayer for Peace (1969, No Business)
- Atomic: The Bikini Tapes (2005, No Business)
- Atomic: Boom Boom (2003, No Business)
- Catalyst: The Complete Recordings, Vol. 1 (Porter)
- Ornette Coleman: Reunion 1990 (Domino, 2CD)
- John Coltrane: The Complete 1962 Copenhagen Concert (1962, Domino, 2CD)
- Eric Dolphy: The Complete Last Recordings: In Hilversum & Paris 1964 (1964, Domino, 2CD)
- Bill Evans: Live in Koblenz 1979 (1979, Domino, 2CD)
- Burton Greene: Live at the Woodstock Playhouse 1965 (Porter)
- Jemeel Moondoc: Jemeel Moondoc & Muntu (No Business, 3CD)
- Sonny Simmons: Staying on the Watch (ESP)
- Henry Threadgill: The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint and Soul Note (1977-97, CAM)
Also recommended, but managed to hear them via streams (e.g., Rhapsody):
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)
- Fred Anderson Trio: A Night at the Velvet Lounge/Live in Chicago 2007 (Estrada Poznanska)
- Lotte Anker/Craig Taborn/Gerald Cleaver: Live at the Loft (ILK)
- The David Arner Trio: Out in the Open (Not Two)
- Lynne Arriale: Nuance ()
- Back & Forth: Unavoidable Casualty (Thin Consolation)
- Michael Bates: Live in New York (Greenleaf Music)
- : In Side (Ayler)
- Han Bennink Trio: Parken (ILK)
- Han Bennink/Frode Gjerstad: Han & Frode (CJR)
- 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)
- : Reknes (Circulasione Totale)
- Alberto Braida: Talus (Nuscope)
- : Duo (Heidelberg Loppem) 2007 (Leo)
- : Lost & Found (FMP)
- : 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)
- Jean-Luc Cappozzo: Joy Spirit (Quark)
- Carter/Colbourne/Flaherty: A Flash in the Sky (The Glass Museum)
- Ernesto Cervini Quartet: Little Black Bird (Anzic)
- Collective 4tet: Transition (Leo)
- Jerome Cooper: A Magical Approach (Mutable Music)
- Marilyn Crispell: Collaborations (Leo)
- Tony DeSare: Radio Show (Telarc)
- Whit Dickey Trio: Emergence (Not Two)
- 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)
- Benjamin Duboc: Primare Cantus (Ayler)
- Lucien Dubuis Trio & Marc Ribot: Ultime Cosmos (Enja)
- Paul Dunmall & Paul Rogers: Repercussions (FMR)
- Paul Dunmall: Moment to Moment (Slam)
- Ear & Now: Eclipse (Wallace)
- EA Silence: Cono Di OMbra E Luce (Amirani)
- : (Intakt)
- 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)
- Gianni Gebbia/Eiko Ishibashi/Caniele Camarda: Maboroshi (FMN)
- Frode Gjerstad/Nick Stephens/Louis Moholo-Moholo: Quibbity (Loose Torque)
- : Renegade Spirits (Furthermore)
- : Hymn for Tomasz Stanko (Qbico)
- : Songs of Early Autumn (No Business)
- : The Great Bydgoszcz Concert (Ayler)
- : Live in Washington DC (Daagnim)
- 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)
- Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky/Andrei Kondakov/Vladimir Volkov: In Search of a Standard (Leo)
- Jimmy Halperin/Dominic Duval: Monk Dreams (No Business)
- Mary Halvorson/Reuben Radding/Nate Wooley: Crackleknob (Hatology)
- Mark Hannaford: Polar (Extreme)
- Phil Hargreaves/Lee Noyes/Bruno Duplant: Malachi (Insubordinations)
- Thomas Heberer: Five by Five (Thomas Heberer)
- Terje Isungset: Hibernation (All Ice Music)
- Chris Kelsey: Not Cool (no label)
- : Houria (Zig Zag)
- : No Comment (FMP)
- Kirk Knuffke/Federico Ughi/Chris Welcome: Garden of Gifts (577)
- Franz Koglmann: Lo-Lee-Ta (Music on Nabokov)
- Peter Kowald/Vinny Golia: Mythology (Kadima)
- : Close-Up (Jazzwerkstatt)
- : Live Aux Instants Chavires (Kadima)
- : Live at Dunois (Leo)
- : 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)
- : The Damage Is Done (Not Two)
- : 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)
- Mural: Live at the Rothko Chapel (Rothko Chapel)
- 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)
- Mark O'Leary: Live in Helsinki (Re:konstrukt)
- William Parker/Giorgio Dini: Temporary (Silta)
- Mario Pavone Double Tenor Quintet: Ancestors (Playscape)
- Plaistow: Jack Bambi (Plaistow)
- 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)
- Andreas Schmidt/Samuel Rohrer/Thomas Heberer: Pieces for a Husky Puzzle (Jazzwerkstatt)
- Scoolptures: Materiale Umano (Leo)
- Gunhild Seim & Time Jungle: Morpho (Mudi)
- Elliott Sharp: Donaueschinger Musiktage 2007: War Zones (Neos)
- Matthew Shipp/Mark O'Leary: Labyrinth (FMR)
- Matthew Shipp: Nu Bop Live (RAI)
- Sing Sing Penelope + Andrzej Przybielski: Stirli People in Jazzga (Monotype)
- Torben Snekkestad: Conic Folded (Ilk)
- : 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)
- Vladimir Tarasov: Thinking of Khlebnikov (No Business)
- : 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)
- Trondheim Jazz Orchestra/Kim Myhr: Stems and Cages (MNJ)
- Mikolaj Trzaska/Clementine Gasser/Michael Zerang: Nadir & Mahora (Kilogram)
- Tyft: Smell the Difference (Skirl)
- Ken Vandermark: Resonance (Not Two)
- Peter Van Huffel Quartet: Like the Rusted Key (Fresh Sound New Talent)
- The Kris Wanders Outfit: In Remembrance of the Human Race (Not Two)
- Kris Wanders/Mani Neumeier Quintet: Taken by Surprise (Not Two)
- David S Ware Quartet: Live in Vilnius (No Business)
- Francis Wong Trio: Early Abstractions (Estrada Poznanska)
- Nate Wooley/Jason Roebke/Fred Lonberg-Holm: Throw Down Your Hammer (Porter)
- Peter Zak: Seed of Sin (Steeplechase)
- John Zorn: Femina (Tzadik)
Also recommended, but managed to hear them via streams (e.g., Rhapsody):
- Fred Anderson: Staying in the Game (ESP): **
- Borah Bergman Trio: Luminescence (Tzadik): A-
- Rob Brown Trio: Live at the Firehouse (Not Two): **
- Rob Burger: City of Strangers (Tzadik): B
- Neil Cowley Trio: Loud . . . Louder . . . Stop (Cake): ***
- Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12): ***
- The Flow Trio: Rejuvenation (ESP): B
- The Fonda/Stevens Group: Memphis (Playscape): **
- : Byzantine Monkey (Firehouse 12): ***
- Briggan Krauss' H-Alpha: Red Sphere (Skirl): *
- Joe Locke/David Hazeltine Quartet: Mutual Admiration Society 2 (Sharp Nine): *
- Carl Maguire: Sided Silver Solid (Firehouse 12): **
- Tony Malaby: Paloma Recio (New World): **
- Masada: Stolas: The Book of Angels, Vol. 12 (Tzadik): **
- Christian McBride & Inside Straight: Kind of Brown (Mack Avenue): B
- Medeski Martin & Wood: Radiolarians II (Indirecto): ***
- Medeski Martin & Wood: Radiolarians III (Indirecto): **
- John McLaughlin/Chick Corea: Five Peace Band Live (Concord): **
- Michael Musillami Trio + 3: From Seeds (Playscape): A-
- The Nu Band: Lower East Side Blues (Porter): ***
- Old Dog: By Any Other Name (Porter): **
- Profound Sound Trio: Opus de Life (Porter): A-
- The Rempis Percussion Quartet: The Disappointment of Parsley (Not Two): ***
- Matthew Shipp Quartet: Cosmic Suite (Not Two): ***
- Wadada Leo Smith/Jack DeJohnette: America (Tzadik): ***
- Grant Stewart: Plays the Music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn (Sharp Nine): **
- Ken Vandermark/Barry Guy/Mark Sanders: Fox Fire (Maya): ***
- Vandermark 5: Annular Gift (Not Two): A-
- Jeff "Tain" Watts: Watts (Dark Key): *
- Katherine Young: Further Secret Origins (Porter): B
Reissues, compilations, etc.:
- Gato Barbieri: In Search of the Mystery (1967, ESP)
- Roscoe Mitchell: Congliptious (1968, Nessa)
- Wadada Leo Smith: Procession of the Great Ancestry (1983, Nessa)
- Cecil Taylor: Piano Solo at Town Hall 1971 (1971, Disconforme)
Also recommended, but managed to hear them via streams (e.g., Rhapsody):
- Air: Air Song (1975, Why Not): ***
- Chico Freeman: Morning Prayer (1976, Why Not): **
- Roscoe Mitchell: The Solo Concert (1974, Aeco): *
2008
- : 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: (Hatology)
- : Out of Nowhere ()
- 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)
Also recommended, but managed to hear them via streams (e.g., Rhapsody):
Reissues, compilations, etc.:
Also recommended, but managed to hear them via streams (e.g., Rhapsody):
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