Music Tracking 2022
These are 2022 releases that I've taken note of, listed alphabetically
by artist, with VA comps at the bottom. My grades, where available, are
in brackets at the end of the line (stars in B+ range). Lines in
blue indicate that I have a physical copy
(albeit sometimes just a promo CDR); in green
are records that I graded based on a Rhapsody stream or other such
source. Most records have release dates and a brief generic note.
Unheard records are prioritized 0-3 (graded records are 4-5).
The priotization is based subjectively on personal interests,
reviews I've noticed, reviewers I particularly respect, what
I know about the artists, etc. Roughly speaking: 0 is something
I have no reason to consider (default page omits 0); 1 has been
noted as having some cred somewhere; 2 is something I have some
specific reason to search out; 3 is something I'll listen to
ASAP.
Option selectors:
Genre switches (selection not implemented yet):
New Releases
Reissues, Etc.
- Pablo Ablanedo: Christreza (Newvelle) [07-15] - jazz
- Rabih Abou-Khalil: The Flood and the Fate of the Fish (2017-18, Enja) [03-11] - jazz [**]
- Pepper Adams With the Tommy Banks Trio: Live at Room at the Top (1972, Reel to Real -2CD) [04-23] - jazz [***]
- Geri Allen/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian: Live at the Village Vanguard (Unissued Tracks) (1990, DIW) [01-19] - jazz [**]
- Peck Allmond Quartet: Live at Yoshi's 1994 (Eastlawn) - jazz
- Louis Armstrong: Louis Wishes You a Cool Yule (Verve) - holiday jazz
- Ashbury Stabbins Duo: Fire Without Bricks (1976, Corbett vs Dempsey -21) [2021-06-15] - jazz [*]
- Brian Auger and the Trinity: Far Horizons (1967-70, Soul Bank -4CD) - jazz
- Albert Ayler: La Cave Live Cleveland 1966 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics -2CD) [01-20] - jazz [***]
- Albert Ayler Quartet With Don Cherry: European Recordings Autumn 1964 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) [01-28] - jazz [***]
- Albert Ayler Quintet: At Slugs' Saloon 1966 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) [06-16] - jazz [*]
- Albert Ayler: Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings (Elemental Music -4CD) - jazz
- Don Ayler: In Florence 1981 (Railroad Town Music) [05-25] - jazz [A-]
- Derek Bailey: Domestic Jungle (Scatter) [06-09] - jazz [***]
- Derek Bailey: Domestic Jungle DAT (Scatter) [06-09] - jazz
- Chet Baker: Tune Up: Live in Paris (1980, Circle) [05-04] - jazz [*]
- Chet Baker Trio: Live in Paris: The Radio France Recordings 1963-1964 (Elemental -2CD) [04-30] - jazz [*]
- Chris Barber: Just One More for All Time: A History of Chris Barber's Bands 1949-2008 (Lake) [06-24] - jazz
- Danny Barker: Save the Bones (1988, Tipitina's Record Club) [02-01] - jazz
- Salome Bey: Salome Bey (1970, Pickwick) - vocal jazz
- Jim Black: My Choice (Winter & Winter -21) [2021-10-08] - jazz [**]
- Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band: Live From the Archives: Bootleg June 15, 2000 (Stoner Hill) [08-19] - jazz
- Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: With Thelonious Monk [Deluxe Edition] (1958, Rhino) - jazz
- Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: In Concert: '62 (SteepleChase) - jazz
- Blue Notes: Blue Notes in Concert (1977, Ogun) [04-22] - jazz [***]
- Larry Bluth Trio: Never More Here (1996-2001, Fresh Sound) - jazz
- Alan Braufman: Live in New York City: February 8, 1975 (Valley of Search) [04-01] - jazz
- Roy Brooks: Beat (Verve) - jazz
- Peter Brotzmann/Han Bennink: Schwarzwaldfahrt (1977, Trost) [11-01] - jazz
- Peter Brotzmann/Fred van Hove/Han Bennink: Jazz in Der Kammer Nr 71: Deutsches Theater/Berlin/GDR/04/11/1974 (Trost) [05-20] - jazz [***]
- Peter Brotzmann/Milford Graves/William Parker: Historic Music Past Tense Future (2002, Black Editions) [01-01] - jazz [***]
- Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet: Ultraman vs Alien Metron (Corbett vs Dempsey) - jazz
- Marion Brown Quartet: Mary Ann: Live in Bremen 1969 (Moosicus) - jazz
- Dave Brubeck Trio: Live From Vienna 1967 (Brubeck Editions) [04-15] - jazz [A-]
- Donald Byrd: Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux (1973, Blue Note) [12-09] - jazz [*]
- Doug Carn: Adam's Apple (1974, Black Jazz/Real Gone Music -21) [2021-12-17] - jazz [*]
- Jean-Charles Capon: Jean-Charles Capon/Philippe Mate/Lawrence "Butch" Morris/Serge Rahoerson (1977, Souffle Continu -21) [2021-11-26] - jazz [***]
- Chapter Seven: Thums Up (1987, Caprice) - jazz
- Ray Charles: Genius + Soul = Jazz (Analog Productions Originals) [01-28] - jazz
- Don Cherry: Where Is Brooklyn? & Eternal Rhythm Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) [04-01] - jazz [A-]
- John Clark: I Will (1997, Postcards) [01-04] - jazz
- Ornette Coleman: Round Trip: Ornette Coleman on Blue Note (1965-69, Blue Note Tone Poet -6LP) [12-11] - jazz
- Ornette Coleman: New York Is Now & Love Call Revisited (1968, Ezz-Thetics -21) [2021-12-10] - jazz [A-]
- Ornette Coleman: Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary Albums (1958-59, Craft) - jazz
- Alice Coltrane: Ptah the El Daoud (1970, Verve by Request/Third Man) [09-21] - jazz
- John Coltrane Quartet: Song of Praise: New York 1965 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) [03-02] - jazz [***]
- John Coltrane: My Favorite Things [60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] (1962, Rhino -2CD) - jazz
- John Coltrane: Favorites [Naima/My Favorite Things/A Love Supreme] Revisited (1963-65, Ezz-Thetics) [04-28] - jazz [A-]
- John Coltrane Quartet: Crescent (1964, Impulse!) [01-14] - jazz
- Chick Corea: The Montreux Years (1981-2010, BMG) [09-22] - jazz
- Curlew: CBGBs, NYC, 1987 (Cuneiform) - jazz
- Andrew Cyrille/Elliot Sharp/Richard Teitelbaum: Evocation (2011, Infrequent Seams) [09-30] - jazz
- Miles Davis Quintets: Stockholm Live 1967 & 1969 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) [03-11] - jazz [A-]
- Miles Davis Quintet: Live Europe 1960 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz [A-]
- Miles Davis: Live: What It Is: Montreal 7/7/83 (Columbia/Legacy) [06-18] - jazz [***]
- Miles Davis: That's What Happened [The Bootleg Series, Vol 7: 1982-1985 (Columbia/Legacy -3CD) [09-16] - jazz [**]
- Miles Davis Quintet: 2nd Session 1956 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz [A-]
- Elton Dean/Steve Miller/Pip Pyle: Home Brewed (1976, British Progressive Jazz) [12-02] - jazz [***]
- Elton Dean Quartet: On Italian Roads: Live at Teatro Cristallo, Milan, 1979 (British Progressive Jazz) [08-12] - jazz [***]
- Al Di Meola/Jean-Luc Ponty/Stanley Clarke: Rite of Strings: Live at Montreux 1994 (Mercury) - jazz
- Lajos Dudas: Radio Days Vol 2 (Ra) - jazz
- Roy Eldridge Quartet/Ella Fitzgerald Quintet: In Concert: Falkoner Centret, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 21, 1959 (SteepleChase) - jazz [***]
- Don Ellis: The Hindustani Jazz Sextet Live at UCLA (1966, Sleepy Night) [06-23] - jazz
- Ellery Eskelin/Gerry Hemingway: From the Archives: Live at the Stone in NYC, 2010 (Auricle) [04-08] - jazz [***]
- Bill Evans: You Must Believe in Spring (1977, Craft) - jazz
- Bill Evans: Morning Glory: The 1973 Concert at the Teatro Gran Rex, Buenos Aires (Resonance) [01-19] - jazz [A-]
- Bill Evans: Inner Spirit: The 1979 Concert at the Teatro General San Martin, Buenos Aires (Resonance) [03-08] - jazz [***]
- Bill Evans Trio: Trio '65 (Verve) - jazz
- Ella Fitzgerald: Jukebox Ella: The Complete Singles Volume 1 (Verve) [11-19] - vocal jazz
- Ella Fitzgerald: Ella at the Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook (1958, Verve) [06-24] - vocal jazz [***]
- Ronnie Foster: Two Headed Freap (1972, Blue Note) [05-27] - jazz [*]
- Hal Galper: Ivory Forest Redux (1979, Origin) [11-18] - jazz [***]
- Hal Galper Trio: Invitation to Openness: Live at Big Twio (2008, Origin) [03-18] - jazz [**]
- Nikki Giovanni: The Way I Feel (1975, Modern Harmonic -21) [2021-10-29] - jazz
- Dexter Gordon: Soul Sister (1962-63, SteepleChase) [04-15] - jazz [***]
- Georg Graewe/Frank Gratkowski/Fred Lonberg-Holm: Trilinear Polarity (2004, Fundacja Sluchaj) [08-26] - jazz
- Georg Grawe Quintet: Pink Pong (Corbett vs Dempsey) - jazz
- Grand Union Orchestra: Made by Human Hands (Redgold) - jazz
- Grateful Dead: Lyceum Theatre, London, England - 5/26/72 (Rhino) - jazz
- Vince Guaraldi: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: Music From the Soundtrack (1966, Craft) - jazz
- Vince Guaraldi: A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965, Craft) - jazz
- Jim Hall: It's Nice to Be With You: In Berlin (MPS) - jazz
- Lionel Hampton Orchestra: 1958: The Mess Is Here Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) [09-09] - jazz [***]
- Joe Harriott Quintet: Swings High () - jazz
- Tubby Hayes Quartet: The Complete Hopbine '69 (Jazz in Britain -2CD -21) [2021-12-03] - jazz [***]
- Joe Henderson: Mirror Mirror (MPS) - jazz
- Joe Henderson: Inner Urge (1965, Blue Note) - jazz
- Andrew Hill: Point of Departure to Compulsion!!!!! Revisited (1964-65, Ezz-Thetics) [09-22] - jazz [A-]
- Allan Holdsworth & Alan Pasqua: Proto-Cosmos (Blue Canoe) - jazz
- David Holland Quartet: Conference of the Birds (1972, ECM) [08-05] - jazz
- Freddie Hubbard: Music Is Here: Live at Studio 104 Maison De La Radio (ORTF) Paris 1973 (Wewantsounds) [06-18] - jazz
- Dick Hyman: One Step to Chicago: The Legacy of Frank Teschemacher and the Austin High Gang (1992, Rivermont) [07-15] - jazz [++]
- ICP Orchestra: 30 Yr Jubileum 1997: Day 1 (ICP) [01-30] - jazz [***]
- ICP Orchestra: 30 Yr Jubileum 1997: Day 2 (ICP) [01-30] - jazz [A-]
- ICP Orchestra: 30 Yr Jubileum 1997: Day 3 (ICP) [01-30] - jazz [***]
- Masaru Imada Trio + 1: Planets (1977, BBE) - jazz
- Ahmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1963-1964 (Jazz Detective/Elemental -2CD) [12-02] - jazz [A-]
- Ahmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1965-1966 (Jazz Detective/Elemental -2CD) [12-02] - jazz [B+(***)]
- Ahmad Jamal: Live in Paris (1971) (Transversales Disques) [10-14] - jazz [A-]
- Khan Jamal's Creative Arts Ensemble: Drum Dance to the Motherland (1973, Aguirre) [10-28] - jazz
- The Jazz Passengers: Reunited (2010, Enja/Yellowbird) [03-22] - jazz [**]
- Elvin Jones: Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub (1967, Blue Note) [11-18] - jazz [***]
- Frank Kimbrough: 2003-2006: Lullabluebye/Play (Palmetto -2CD) [08-12] - jazz [***]
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Blacknuss (1972, Modern Harmonic) [12-09] - jazz
- Dickie Landry/Lawrence Weiner: Having Been Built on Sand/With Another Base (Basis) in Fact (1978, Unseen Worlds) [11-11] - jazz [**]
- Daunik Lazro/Jouk Minor/Thierry Madiot/David Chiesa/Louis-Michel Marion: Sonoris Causa (2003, NoBusiness) [04-22] - jazz [**]
- Daunik Lazro/Carlos Zingaro/Sakis Papadimitriou/Jean Bolcato: Periφeria (1993, Fou) [08-28] - jazz
- Peggy Lee: Peggy Lee on the Ed Sullivan Show 1963-1969 (SOFA-AV) [05-13] - vocal jazz
- Abbey Lincoln: Straight Ahead (1961, Candid) [10-21] - jazz
- Charles Lloyd: Trio of Trios (Blue Note -3CD) - jazz
- Malik's Emerging Force Art Trio: Time and Condition (Moved-by-Sound) [06-01] - jazz [***]
- Pat Matshikiza/Kippie Moketsi: Tshona! (1975, As-Shams) [04-15] - jazz [A-]
- Pat Matshikiza Featuring Kippie Moketsi: Sikiza Matshikiza (As-Shams) [06-17] - jazz [***]
- Koichi Matsukaze Trio Featuring Ryojiro Furusawa: At the Room 427 (1975, BBE) [01-21] - jazz [A-]
- Brother Jack McDuff: Moon Rappin' (1969, Blue Note) [05-27] - jazz [**]
- Jack McDuff: Live at Parnell's (1982, Soul Bank) [09-02] - jazz [**]
- John McLaughlin: The Montreux Years (1978-2016, BMG) [03-04] - jazz [**]
- Lloyd Miller: Orientations (1960-2021, Fountain AVM) [06-03] - jazz
- Charles Mingus: The Lost Album: From Ronnie Scott's (1972, Resonance -3CD) [04-29] - jazz [***]
- Charles Mingus: Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (1961, Candid) - jazz [[A-]]
- Mishagas: 1996-1997 (Astral Spirits) [11-04] - jazz
- Hank Mobley: Curtain Call (Blue Note) [04-22] - jazz
- Kippie Moeketsi/Hal Singer: Blue Stompin' (1977, As-Shams -21) [2021-07-22] - jazz [**]
- Thelonious Monk: Celebrating 75 Years of His Firt Recordings Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) [10-28] - jazz [***]
- Thelonious Monk Quartet: Live Five Spot 1958 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) [11-17] - jazz [A-]
- Sal Mosca: For Lennie Tristano: Solo Piano 1970 & 1997 (Fresh Sound) [03-31] - jazz [**]
- James Newton: Flute Music (1977, Morning Trip) [02-11] - jazz
- No Safety: Spill (1991-92, Cuneiform -21) [2021-07-23] - jazz
- No Safety: Live in Italy 1994 (Cuneiform -21) [2021-07-23] - jazz
- Noertker's Moxie: Walking on Blue Eggshells in Billville (Edgetone -21) [2021-10-26] - jazz [**]
- Noertker's Moxie: More Fun in Billville (Edgetone -21) [2021-12-00] - jazz [**]
- Noertker's Moxie: Pantomime in Billville (Edgetone -21) [2021-12-00] - jazz [*]
- Charles K Noyes: Devil Trap (1978, Zoar) [09-02] - jazz
- Jim O'Rourke & Mats Gustafsson: Xylophonen Virtuosen (Trost) - jazz
- Tony Oxley: Unreleased 1974-2016 (Discus Music) [04-08] - jazz [*]
- William Parker: Universal Tonality (2002, Centering/AUM Fidelity -2CD) [09-30] - jazz [A]
- Oscar Peterson: On a Clear Day: The Oscar Peterson Trio - Live in Zurich, 1971 (Mack Avenue) [11-25] - jazz [**]
- Michel Petrucciani: Solo in Denmark (1990, Storyville) [09-02] - jazz [***]
- Lionel Pillay: Shrimp Boats (1979-80, As-Shams) [04-08] - jazz [**]
- Sam Rivers: Caldera [Sam Rivers Archive Project, Volume 6] (2002, NoBusiness) [04-18] - jazz [A-]
- Max Roach: We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (1961, Candid) [04-23] - jazz
- George Russell: Ezz-thetics & The Stratus Seekers Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) [04-14] - jazz [A-]
- Pee Wee Russell/Coleman Hawkins: Jazz Reunion (1961, Candid) - jazz
- Akira Sakata/Takeo Moriyama: Mitochondria (Trost) [01-21] - jazz [***]
- Hideto Sasaki/Toshiyuki Sekine Quartet + 1: Stop Over (BBE -20) [2020-03-27] - jazz
- Bernardo Sassetti Trio: Culturgest 2007 (Clean Feed) [03-18] - jazz [***]
- Alexander von Schlippenbach: Globe Unity (1966, Corbett vs Dempsey) - jazz
- Cathy Segal-Garcia & Phillip Strange: Live in Japan (1992, Origin, 2CD) [05-20] - jazz [C+]
- Archie Shepp: Fire Music to Mama Too Tight Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) [08-20] - jazz [**]
- Wayne Shorter: Adam's Apple (1966, Blue Note) - jazz
- Horace Silver Quintet: Live New York Revisited (1964-66, Ezz-Thetics) [08-13] - jazz [A]
- Nina Simone: Feeling Good: Her Greatest Hits & Remixes (Verve -2CD) [02-11] - jazz
- Sirone: Artistry (1978, Moved-by-Sound) [06-30] - jazz [*]
- Slickaphonics: Live (1987, Radio Legs) [04-01] - jazz
- Soft Machine: Facelift: France & Holland (1970, Cuneiform -2CD) [03-25] - fusion [*]
- Tomasz Stanko Quintet: Wooden Music I (Astigmatic) - jazz
- John Stein: Lifeline (1989-2021, Whaling City Sound, 2CD) [06-17] - jazz
- Sun Ra Arkestra/Salah Ragab/The Cairo Jazz Band: Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab in Egypt (Strut) [04-08] - jazz [***]
- Sun Ra Arkestra: Nothing Is . . . Completed & Revisited (1966, Ezz-Thetics) [03-17] - jazz [***]
- Sun Ra: The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra [60th Anniversary Edition] (Craft) [07-19] - jazz
- Sun Ra & His Blue Universe Arkestra: Universe in Blue (1971, Cosmic Myth) [10-07] - jazz [**]
- Esbjorn Svensson: Home.S. (2008, ACT) [11-18] - jazz [*]
- Mototeru Takagi/Kim Dae Hwan/Choi Sun Bae: Seishin-Seido (1995, NoBusiness) [08-30] - jazz [**]
- Yuji Takahashi/Sabu Toyozumi: The Quietly Clouds and a Wild Crane (1998, NoBusiness) [08-30] - jazz [***]
- Masayuki Takayanagi/New Direction: Station '70: Call in Question/Live Independence (Black Editions) - jazz
- Horace Tapscott Quintet: Legacies for Our Grandchildren (1995, Dark Tree) [06-17] - jazz [A-]
- Horace Tapscott Quintet: The Quintet (1969, Mr Bongo) [09-09] - jazz [***]
- Buddy Tate & White Label: Tate's Delight (1982, Storyville) [12-09] - jazz [***]
- Cecil Taylor: The World of Cecil Taylor (1961, Candid) [08-26] - jazz [[A]]
- Cecil Taylor: The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert: The Town Hall, NYC November 4, 1973 (Oblivion) [02-15] - jazz [A-]
- Cecil Taylor: Respiration: Live in Warsaw '68 (Fundacja Sluchaj) [05-31] - jazz
- Cecil Taylor: With (Exit) to Student Studies Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) [05-31] - jazz [***]
- Clark Terry Big Bad Band: Live in Holland 1979 (Storyville) [07-15] - jazz [*]
- Pat Thomas: Remembering: New Jazz Jungle (1997, Feedback Moves) [10-07] - jazz
- Steve Tibbetts: Hellbound Train: An Anthology (1981-2017, ECM -2CD) - jazz
- Steve Tintweiss Spacelight Band: Live at NYU: 1980 (Inky Dot Media) [10-22] - jazz
- Lennie Tristano: Personal Recordings, 1946-1970 (Mosaic -6CD) - jazz
- McCoy Tyner/Freddie Hubbard Quintet: Live at Fabrik (1986, NDR Kultur) [04-08] - jazz
- Gebhard Ullmann/Steve Swell/Hilliard Greene/Barry Altschul: We're Playing in Here? (2007, NoBusiness) [08-30] - jazz [***]
- Bo Van De Graaf: Eccentric Music for Audio Hunters (2002-16, Icdisc -21) [2021-00-00] - jazz [B]
- Mal Waldron: Searching in Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert (Tompkins Square) [09-23] - jazz [***]
- David Wertman: Sun Ensemble (1983, BBE) [03-18] - jazz
- Mike Westbrook: London Brige: Live in Zurich 1990 (Westbrook) - jazz
- Bob Wilber With Dave McKenna and Pug Horton: Original Wilber (1978, Phontastic) - jazz [*]
- Barney Wilen: Zodiac (1966, We Are Busy Bodies) [06-10] - jazz
- Anthony Williams: Life Time & Spring Revisited (1964-65, Ezz-Thetics) [02-22] - jazz [A-]
- Tony Williams: Play or Die (1980, MIG) [05-27] - jazz
- Denny Zeitlin: The Name of This Terrain (1969, Now-Again Reserve) - jazz
- Blue Note Re:imagined II () - jazz
- Classic Black & White Jazz Sessions (1942-49, Mosaic, 11CD) - jazz
- Mainstream Funk: Funk, Soul, Spiritual Jazz 1971-75 (WeWantSounds) [01-28] - jazz [**]
- Music for Ukraine (We Jazz) - jazz
- John Sinclair Presents: Detroit Artists Workshop: Community, Jazz and Art in the Motor City 1965-1981 (Strut/Art Yard) [10-14] - jazz [A-]
- They Shall Not Pass/No Pasaran! (2007-22, Trost) [05-20] - jazz [*]
Priority Counts
- Priority 1: 494
- Priority 2: 158
- Priority 3: 2
- Priority 4: 591
- Priority 5: 307
Total: 1552
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