Music Tracking 2024

These are 2024 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.

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New Releases

  • Monty Alexander: D Day (Pee Wee) [03-29] - jazz
  • Suzi Analogue: Onez (Disciples)
  • Antistatic: Relics (Cuneiform) [01-26] - jazz
  • Tim Armacost Chordless Quintet: Something About Believing (TMA) [08-02] - jazz
  • Lucian Ban/Mat Maneri: Transylvanian Dance (ECM) [08-30] - jazz
  • Hyeonseon Baek: Longing (You & Me Music) [04-26] - jazz
  • Basher: May Day (Sinking City) [05-31] - jazz
  • Bobby J From Rockaway & Dom Dirtee: Higher () - hip-hop
  • John Butcher/Pat Thomas/Dominic Lash/Steve Noble: Fathom (577) [09-15] - jazz
  • Alina Bzhezhinska & Tony Kofi: Altera Vita (BBE) [04-05] - jazz
  • Chloé Cailleton & Nathalie Darche: Quart d'Heure Américain: Pour vous remercier de ne pas dédaigner ce petit rien (Pépin & Plume) [09-13] - jazz
  • Obed Calvaire: 150 Million Gold Francs (Ropeadope) [04-12] - jazz
  • Daniel Carter & Playfield: Magic Heart (577) [01-19] - jazz
  • Daniel Carter/Patrick Holmes/Matthew Putman/Hilliard Greene/Federico Ughi: Telepathic Mysteries, Vol. 2 (577) [07-05] - jazz
  • William Cepeda Afro-Puerto Rican Big Band: The Sound of Puerto Rican Jazz (Casabe) - jazz
  • Church Chords: Elvis, He Was Schlager (Otherly Love)
  • Citric Du: Zen and the Arcade of Beating Your Ass (Feel It)
  • Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley: Journey to Where (Stoney Lane) [03-08] - jazz
  • Crimeapple & Apollo Brown: This, Is Not That () - hip-hop
  • Crimeapple & Preservation: El León () - hip-hop
  • Marilyn Crispell: Forest (FSR) [10-24] - jazz
  • Dal Sasso Big Band: Chick Corea's Three Quartets Revisited (Jazz & People) [05-17] - jazz
  • Dame Area: Toda la verdad sobre Dame Area (Humo Internacional/Mannequin) [09-13] - synth-punk
  • Seth Andrew Davis/Will Yager: April 8th, 1969 (Ox Cart New Music) [06-06] - jazz
  • Michael Dease: Grove's Groove (Le Coq) [08-23] - jazz
  • Joan Diaz Trio: We Sing Bill Evans (Fresh Sound) - jazz
  • DJ Ws da Igrejinha: Caça Fantasma, Vol. 1 ()
  • Axel Dörner/Guilherme Rodrigues/Jung-Jae Kim/Stephen Flinn: Chess Music (Creative Sources -23) [2023-12-10] - jazz
  • Kit Downes: Dr. Snap (Bimhuis) [04-26] - jazz
  • Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Mark Sanders: Wildlife (Fundacja Słuchaj) [03-20] - jazz
  • Paul Dunmall/Tobias Delius/Olie Brice/Mark Sanders: No Better Than Butcher Bird (Fundacja Słuchaj) [07-13] - jazz
  • DUOT & ZARM Ensemble: DUOT With Strings (Fundacja Słuchaj -23) [2023-10-15] - jazz
  • Steve Dyer: Enhlizweni: Song Stories From My Heartland (Ropeadope) - jazz
  • Euan Edmonds: Beyond Hope and Fear (Desafio Candente) [11-15] - jazz
  • Lara Eidi: Sun (self-released) [09-04] - jazz
  • Elephant9: Mythical River (Rune Grammofon) [04-19] - jazz
  • Christoph Erb/Magda Mayas/Gerry Hemingway: Hour Music (Veto) [05-03] - jazz
  • Erick the Architect: I've Never Been Here Before (self-released) [02-23] - hip-hop
  • Tanja Feichtmair/Mara Kolibri/Stefan Krist/Josef Novotny/Fredi Pröll/Julius Winter/Uli Winter: Adschi (Creative Sources) [02-27] - jazz
  • Flagboy Giz: The Culture (Injun Money)
  • Jürg Frey: Outermost Melodies (Another Timbre) [05-27] - jazz
  • Fuubutsushi: Meridians (Cached.Media) [07.08] - jazz
  • Raffi Garabedian: The Crazy Dog (Clandestine) [03-15] - jazz
  • Tim Garland: Moment of Departure (Ubuntu Music) [05-03] - jazz
  • Sally Gates/Steve Hirsh/Daniel Carter: Phosphene (Mahakala Music) [09-20] - jazz
  • Bertrand Gauguet/Difier Lasserre: Mehr (Akousis/NUNC) [11-04] - jazz
  • Leo Genovese/John Lockwood/Nat Mugavero: The Art of Not Playing (577) [04-26] - jazz
  • Leo Genovese/Demian Cabaud/Marcos Cavaleiro: Estrellero 2 (Sunnyside) [09-13] - jazz
  • Maddalena Ghezzi/Ruth Goller: Dolomite (Deng Yue) [05-17] - jazz
  • Ghost Trees: Intercept Method (self-released) [04-12] - jazz
  • Paula Rae Gibson: The Roles We Play to Disappear (33Xtreme) [10-16] - jazz
  • Girl and Girl: Call a Doctor (Sub Pop) [05-24] - alt/indie
  • Godfather Don: Thesis () [08-30] - hip-hop
  • Adam Goldfarb: Fire Lapping at the Creek (Infrequent Seams) [04-12] - jazz
  • Sunna Gunnlaugs: Ástin, Bjartsýnin Og Andskotans Blaðrið Í Fólkinu (Sunny Sky) [11-01] - jazz
  • Iro Haarla Ouranos Quartet Featuring Aija Puurtinen: Under the Firmament (Texicalli) - jazz
  • Tigran Hamasyan: The Bird of a Thousand Voices (Naive) [08-24] - jazz
  • Asmaa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou: L'bnat (EBB Music)
  • Tobias Hoffmann Trio: Start/Stop (Klaeng) [12-12] - jazz
  • François Houle/Kate Gentile/Alexander Hawkins: Fatrasies (Victo) [05-10] - jazz
  • Fernando Huergo Big Band: Relentless (Whaling City Sound) [04-19] - jazz
  • The Jazz Defenders: Memory in Motion (Haggis) [04-19] - jazz
  • Eddie Kaine & Big Ghost Ltd;: Last Exit to Crooklyn () [04-02] - hiop-hop
  • Ute Kanngießer/Eddie Prévost/Seymour Wright: Splendid Nettle (Matchless) - jazz
  • Walter Kemp 3: Black Whole Live (self-released) [01-26] - jazz
  • Will Kimbrough: For the Life of Me (Soundly Music) [05-03] - folk
  • Kokoko!: Butu (Transgressive) - African
  • Kreidler: Twists: A Visitor Arrives (Bureau B)
  • Joachim Kühn French Trio: The Way (ACT Music) [09-27] - jazz
  • Seun Kuti: Heavier Yet Lays the Crownless Head (Record Kicks) - Afrobeat
  • Harald Lassen: Opplevelser Fra N (Impro & Låt) (Jazzland) - jazz
  • Bill Laurance & Michael League: Keeping Company (ACT Music) [11-01] - jazz
  • LDL [Urs Leimgruber/Jacques Demierre/Thomas Lehn]: In the Endless Wind (Wide Ear) [04-27] - jazz
  • José Lencastre/Zbigniew Kozera/Vasco Trilla: Chymeia (Phonogram Unit) [02-02] - jazz
  • Allegra Levy: Out of the Question (SteepleChase) [05-20] - vocal jazz
  • Casimir Liberski/Tatsuya Yoshida: Troubled Water (Totalism) [03-21] - jazz
  • Jon Lloyd/John Law: Naissance (33 Jazz) - jazz
  • Jon Lloyd Quartet: Earth Songs (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
  • Mark Lockheart: Smiling (Edition) [03-29] - jazz
  • Tamara Lukasheva & INSO Lviv Orchestra: Anima (Tangible Music) [01-28] - jazz
  • Orlando Madrid: From This Moment Forward (OM) [01-12] - jazz
  • Tony Malaby/Josh D. Reed/Matt Smiley/Ron Coulter: Continental Divide (Keating Sound) - jazz
  • Malcria: Fantasias Histericas (Iron Lung) - Mexican
  • Brian Marsella: Imaginarium (Medietas) - jazz
  • Anna McClellan: Electric Bouquet ()
  • Meridian Brothers: Mi Latinoamérica Sufre ( Ansonia) [07-12] - cumbia
  • Lyia Meta: Next (self-released) [07-26] - jazz
  • Piotr Michalowski/Damon Smith: How to Ripen in Ice (Balance Point Acoustics) [05-17] - jazz
  • John Minnock: A Different Riff: Minnock Sings Shire (Dot Time) [04-18] - vocal jazz
  • Roscoe Mitchell: Gratitude: One Head Four People (Wide Hive) - jazz
  • Montanera: A Flor de Piel (Western Vinyl)
  • Christy Moore: A Terrible Beauty (Claddagh) [11-01] - folk
  • Fred Moten/Brandop Löpez/Gerald Cleaver: The Blacksmiths, the Flowers (Reading Group) [08-24] - jazz
  • Mxmtoon: Liminal Space (AWAL) [11-01] - bedroom pop
  • Simon Nabatov: Raging Bulgakov (Fundacja Słuchaj) - jazz
  • The National: Rome (4AD) [12-13] - alt/indie
  • Camila Nebbia/Dietrich Eichmann/John Hughes/Jeff Arnal: Chrononaux (Generate) [12-19] - jazz
  • The New Orleans Night Owls: St. Louis Rag and Other Ragtime Classics (Rivermont) - jazz
  • Paal Nilssen-Love/Ken Vandermark: Japan 2019 (PNL/Audiographic -7CD) [02-09] - jazz
  • The Nordic Quintet: Originals (AMM) [01-26] - jazz
  • Nout: Live Album (Trost) [03-07] - jazz
  • Hildegunn Øiseth: Garden on the Roof (Clap Your Hands) [05-24] - jazz
  • One Another Orchestra: One Another Orchestra (Nato) [03-24] - jazz
  • Ndubisi Onyedieke: Orile to Berlin (Sonar Kollectiv) - jazz
  • Oriental Brothers International Band: Onye Rie Ibe Ya Erie (Palenque) [09-30] - African
  • Orquesta Akokán: Caracoles (Daptone) [07-12] - Latin jazz
  • Okwy Osadebe and Highlife Soundmakers International: Egwu Mmanwu Igbo (Music of Igbo Masquerade) (Palenque) [10-04] - African
  • Simon Oslender/Steve Gadd/Will Lee: All That Matters (Leopard/Broken Silence) [10-25] - jazz
  • Magnus Öström & Dan Berglund: e.s.t. 30 (ACT Music) [05-31] - jazz
  • Matthew Ottingnon: Volant (Earshift) [07-26] - jazz
  • Painkiller: Samara (Tzadik) [11-24] - jazz
  • Rita Payés: De Camino al Camino (Sony España) [10-13] - jazz
  • Katy J Pearson: Someday, Now (Heavenly) [09-20] - art pop
  • Pedro the Lion: Santa Cruz (Polyvinyl)
  • Pentadox: As if It Were Tomorrow (Challenge) [10-11] - jazz
  • Poeji: Nant (Squama) [08-09] - jazz
  • Noah Preminger/Rob Garcia [Dead Composers Club]: Hildegard Project: The Music of Hildegard Von Bingen (Connection Works) [05-03] - jazz
  • Present: This Is NOT the End (Cuneiform) [03-29] - jazz
  • Quartet Diminished: Deerand (MoonJune) [09-19] - jazz
  • Arun Ramamurthy Trio: New Moon (Greenleaf Music) [09-20] - Indian jazz
  • Rodrigo Recabarren/Pablo Menares/Yago Yazquez: Familia (Greenleaf Music) [02-23] - jazz
  • Emilio Reyna: Los Niños Perdidos (Ropeadope Sur) [05-17] - jazz
  • Reverso: Shooting Star [Etoile Filante] (self-released) [01-19] - jazz
  • Titi Robin Quartet: Le Sable et L'Écume (Suraj Productions) - jazz
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Hamilton De Holanda: Collab (Sony Music Brazil) [07-19] - jazz
  • Alice Russell: I Am (Tru Thoughts) [04-05]
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus (Milan)
  • Masahiko Satoh & Takeo Moriyama Feat. Leon Brichard & Idris Rahman: Live at Café Oto (BBE) [09-06] - jazz
  • Satya: Songs of the Fathers: A Celebration of the Music of Abdullah Ibrahim (Resonant Artists) [03-22] - jazz
  • Kenny Segal & K-The-I???: Genuine Dexterity () - hip-hop
  • Hannah Selin: Dream Journal & the Apocalypse (Gold Bolus) [04-12] - classical
  • Elliott Sharp: Ere Guitar (Intakt) [06-21] - jazz
  • Marlon Simon and the Nagual Spirits: On Different Paths (Truth Revolution) [01-26] - jazz
  • Alex Sipiagin: Horizons (Blue Room Music) [05-24] - jazz
  • Mama Sissoko: Live (Meruba-ML) [02-16] - African
  • Wadada Leo Smith & Joe Morris: Earth's Frequencies (Fundacja Słuchaj) [01-30] - jazz
  • The Softies: The Bed I Made (Father/Daughter) [08-23] - twee pop
  • Spaces Unfolding + Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Shadow Figures (Bead) [11-15] - jazz
  • Miro Sprague/Marty Jaffe/Jason Ennis: Tone Forest (Outside In Music) [08-20] - jazz
  • Milton Suggs: Pure Intention (Imani) [07-12] - jazz
  • Tierney Sutton and San Gabriel 7: Good People (JRL-SGS) [03-01] - vocal jazz
  • Micah Thomas: Mountains (Artwork) [09-13] - jazz
  • Pat Thomas/Dominic Lash/Tony Orrell: BleySchool: Where? (577) [08-02] - jazz
  • Trance Macabre: Trance Macabre (Redscroll) [07-05] - jazz
  • Rebecca Trescher Tentet: Character Pieces (self-released) [05-03] - jazz
  • Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway: Into the Wild () - country
  • Federico Ughi: Infinite Cosmos Calling You You You, Vol. 1 (577) [03-08] - jazz
  • Petra Van Nuis & Dennis Luxion: From Me to You (String Damper) [05-13] - vocal jazz
  • Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: Centennial: The Music of Thad Jones: Live at the Village Vanguard (BCM+D) [08-30] - jazz
  • Juliet Varnedoe Jazz Band: Cajun Bleu (self-released) [04-12] - jazz
  • April Varner: April (Cellar Music) [06-29] - jazz
  • Donald Vega: As I Travel (Imagery/Tiger Turn) [10-27] - jazz
  • Benjamin Vergara & Amanda Irrarrazabal: Último Sosiego (577) [01-04] - jazz
  • The Wall 4tet [Carlos "Zingaro"/Florian Stoffner/Fred Lonberg-Holm/João Madeira]: Na Parade (Catalytic) - jazz
  • Jennifer Walshe/Tony Conrad: In the Merry Month of May (Blue Chopsticks) [05-24] - jazz
  • Greg Ward/Ziv Ravitz/Matthew Stevens/Leo Genovese: Full Cream (Sugah Hoof) [11-01] - jazz
  • Florian Weber: Imaginary Cycle (ECM) [09-13] - jazz
  • White Denim: 12 (Bella Union) [12-06] - alt/indie
  • Andrew Wilcox: Dear Mr. Hill (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) [08-16] - jazz
  • Norma Winstone: Wheeler With Words (AMM) [11-01] - vocal jazz
  • Michael Wollny & Joachim Kühn: Duo (ACT Music) [01-26] - jazz
  • Otomo Yoshihide/Chris Pitsiokos: Uncanny Mirror (Eleatic) [05-17] - jazz
  • Rebeka Rusjan Zajc: Prelude (Clean Feed) [01-26] - jazz
  • Alice Zawadzki/Fred Thomas/Misha Mullov-Abbado: Za Górami (ECM) [09-13] - jazz
  • John Zorn: Her Melodious Lay (Tzadik) [05-31] - jazz

Reissues, Etc.

  • 2R+2B [Gunārs Rozenbergs/Raimonds Raubiško/Boriss Bannihs/Vladmirs Boldirevs]: Live at the Tbilisi Jazz Festival 1978 (Jersika) [07-12] - jazz
  • John Abercrombie/Dave Holland/Jack DeJohnette: Gateway (1975, ECM) [05-31] - jazz [***]
  • The Cannonball Adderley Quintet: Live in Montreal: May 1975 (Liberation Hall) [05-17] - jazz
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago: A Jackson in Your House (1969, BYG Actuel) [02-02] - jazz [**]
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago: Message to Our Folks (1969, BYG Actuel) [06=07] - jazz [***]
  • Jean-Jacques Avenel/Daunik Lazro: Duo: Bibliothèque De Massy 13 Novembre 1980 (Fou) [12-00] - jazz
  • Sidney Bechet: Live in Paris: 1952-1958 (Frémeaux & Associés -3CD) [10-00] - jazz
  • Gordon Beck's Gyroscope: Progress (1973-74, Jazz in Britain) [10-21] - jazz
  • Steve Beresford/Anne Marie Beretta: Dancing the Line (1985, WeWantSounds) [09-06] - jazz
  • Tim Berne: Live in Someplace Nice (1984, Screwgun) [09-06] - jazz
  • Faruq Z. Bey: Atlant-Tan Suite (1982, Entropy Stereo) [11-06] - jazz
  • Anthony Braxton: Solo Bern 1984 [First Visit] (Ezz-Thetics) [04-19] - jazz
  • Broadcast: Distant Call: Collected Demos 2000-2006 (Warp) [09-28] - electronic
  • Marion Brown: Three for Shepp to Gesprächsfetzen Revisited (1966-68, Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • John Coltrane 4tet: Live in France July 27/28 1965: The Complete Concerts (Fingerpoppin) - jazz
  • Ford Dabney's Syncopated Orchestras: After Midnight (1917-22, Archeophone) [05-17] - jazz
  • Duke Ellington: The Far East Suite (1966, Music on Vinyl) [07-19] - jazz [A+]
  • Georgann Eubanks: Song Keepers: A Music Maker Foundation Anthology (Music Maker -4CD) [01-08] - blues
  • Joe Fonda: From the Source (1998, Fundacja Słuchaj -23) [2023-12-15] - jazz
  • Jan Garbarek Quartet: Afric Pepperbird (1970, ECM) [01-03] - jazz [***]
  • Stan Getz & Bill Evans: Previously Unreleased Recordings (1963, Verve) [02-23] - jazz
  • Jimmie Dale Gilmore and the Flatlanders: All American Music (1973, Omnivore) [11-15] - country
  • Herbie Hancock: Speak Like a Child (1968, Blue Note) [04-19] - jazz [*]
  • Hampton Hawes: For Real! (1958, Craft) [05-17] - jazz [A-]
  • Bobby Hutcherson: Medina (1969, Blue Note Tone Poet) [08-02] - jazz [A-]
  • Harold Land: The Fox (1960, Craft) [04-12] - jazz [**]
  • Daunik Lazro/Paul Lovens/Annick Nozati/Fred Van Hove: Résumé of a Century (1999, Fou) [11-04] - jazz
  • Linda Gail Lewis: Rockabilly Queen ()
  • Megan Thee Stallion: Megan: Act II (Hot Girl Productions) [10-25] - hip-hop
  • Pat Metheny: Bright Size Life (1975, ECM) [08-09] - jazz [**]
  • Charles Mingus: Mingus Takes Manhattan: The Complete Birdland Dates: 1961-1962 (New Land) [01-05] - jazz
  • Hank Mobley: Workout (1962, Blue Note Classic Vinyl) [05-17] - jazz [***]
  • Thelonious Monk: Criss-Cross (1963, Columbia/Pure Pleasure) - jazz [A-]
  • Jason Moran: Ten (2010, Blue Note) [06-21] - jazz [***]
  • Lee Morgan: Search for the New Land (1964, Blue Note) [02-16] - jazz [A-]
  • Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder (1963, Blue Note) - jazz [A-]
  • New Direction for the Arts: Projection: The Complete Inspiration and Power Live at Shinjuku Art Theater (1973, Jinya Disc) - jazz
  • King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: Centennial (1923, Archeophone -4CD) - jazz
  • Abdallah Oumbadougou: Amghar: The Godfather of Tuareg Music Vol 1 (Strong Place) [03-01] - Saharan rock
  • Oscar Peterson: City Lights: Live in Munich 1994 (Mack Avenue) [11-15] - jazz
  • Prince Lasha Quintet Featuring Sonny Simmons: The Cry! (1962, Craft) [09-06] - jazz
  • Pharoah Sanders: Thembi (1970-71, Impulse!) [08-09] - jazz [*]
  • Nisse Sandström Group: Öppet Ett (1965-67, Caprice -23) [2023-09-15] - jazz
  • Archie Shepp: Poem for Malcolm (1969, BYG Actuel) [06-21] - jazz [**]
  • Archie Shepp: Live at the Panafrican Festival (1971, BYG Actuel) [11-29] - jazz [***]
  • Wayne Shorter: Odyssey of Iska (1970, Blue Note Tone Poet) [07-05] - jazz [**]
  • Slow Poke: At Home (1998, P&M) - jazz [A-]
  • Juma Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society: Father of Origin (1970, Eremite) [08-24] - jazz
  • Sun Ra Akrestra: Live at Pit-Inn Tokyo, Japan 8-8-1988 (Super Fuji Discs) - jazz
  • Sun Ra: Roma 1980 () - jazz
  • Cecil Taylor Unit: Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (Ezz-Thetics) [03-01] - jazz
  • Cecil Taylor Unit: Live at Fat Tuesday's February 10, 1980 [First Visit] (Ezz-Thetics) [10-31] - jazz
  • Television: Marquee Moon (1977, Rhino) - new wave [A]
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Singles Collection As & Bs 1939-1950 (Acrotab -3CD) [04-09] - gospel
  • Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One: A Centennary Tribute: Her 50 Finest 1944-62 () - vocal jazz
  • Mal Waldron: The Quest (1962, Craft/OJC) [09-27] - jazz [B]
  • Bobby Watson: Love Remains (1986, RED) - jazz [A]
  • Kenny Wheeler: Angel Song (1996, ECM) [05-31] - jazz [B]
  • Gerald Wiggins: Classic Trio Sessions 1956-1957 (Fresh Sound) - jazz
  • Cootie Williams: Concerto for Cootie: Selected Recordings 1928-62 (Acrobat) [01-09] - jazz
  • Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996 (Light in the Attic) [10-18] - Ukraine
  • Legends & the Lost: Rare & Hot Jazz 1929-1931 (Frog) - jazz
  • Love Hides All Faults: Deep Gospel Soul Selected by Jumbo (Elusive Vinyl/Pyramid) - gospel
  • New Jill Swing 1988-94 (Ace)
  • Nigerian Guitar Roots: Juju, Guitar Band Highlife 1936-1968 (El Sur -2CD) - African
  • Spiritual Jazz 16: Riverside () - jazz

Priority Counts

  • Priority 2: 207
  • Priority 3: 24

Total: 231