Music Tracking 2025

These are 2025 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

  • Nat Adderley Jr.: Took So Long (NAJ) [10-14] - jazz
  • Pheeroan akLaff/Scott Robinson/Julian Thayer: aRT (ScienSonic) - jazz
  • Matteo Alfonso/Giovanni Maier: Mingus Revisited (Caligola) [05-20] - jazz
  • Harry Allen/Rossano Sportiello/Bryan Carter: It Takes 3 (Night Is Alive) [02-07] - jazz
  • Roxana Amed: Todos Los Fuegos (Sony) [05-23] - jazz
  • Angles 11: Tell Them It's the Sound of Freedom (Fundacja Sluchaj) - jazz
  • Antonio Andrade: Here We Go! (Lifeshakes) [03-21]
  • Arcadia Dance Orchestra: St. Louis Jazz (Rivermont) - jazz
  • Arrested Development: Adult Contemporary Hip Hop () [07-04] - hip-hop
  • The Barlow: High Spirits () [04-25]
  • Al Basile: Blues in Hand (Sweetspot) [10-09] - blues
  • Beiggja: Morning (Hubro) - jazz
  • Shems Bendali Quintet: Casbah Qassioun (Jazz Family) [10-03] - jazz
  • Leif Berger: Secret, Normalization (Klaeng) [05-02] - jazz
  • Mohinder Kaur Bhamra: Punjabi Disco (Naya Beat) [10-31] - house
  • Ran Blake & Jared Sims: Night Harbor (self-released) - jazz
  • Jasper Blom Quartet + Metropole Orkest: Metropolarity (Whirlwind) [05-09] - jazz
  • Jaap Blonk: Kurt Schwitters: Ursonate (Corbett vs. Dempsey) [04-04] - jazz
  • Anneleen Boehme: Eunoia (W.E.R.F.) [04-18] - jazz
  • Emil Brandqvist Trio: Poems for Travellers (Skip) - jazz
  • Gary Brunton: Spacecraft (Juste Une Trace) - jazz
  • John Butcher/John Edwards: This Is Not Speculation (Fundacja Słuchaj) [06-01] - jazz
  • Leandro Cardenas: Against the Jazz Police (577) [10-31] - jazz
  • Daniel Carter/Ayumi Ishito/George Draguns/Ed Wilcox: Makeshift Sprituals Vol. 1 (577) [05-16] - jazz
  • Chris Cochrane's Collapsible Shoulder Big Band: Live 2019: A Map of Books (Cuneiform) [03-28] - rock
  • Isaiah Collier/Tim Regis: Live in the Listening Room (Vinyl Factory -EP) [09-24] - jazz
  • Sylvie Courvoisier: To Be Other-Wise (Intakt) - jazz
  • Caroline Davis & Dustin Carlson: Sprites (Out of Your Head) [08-29] - jazz
  • Stephen Davis Unit: The Gleaming World (577) [02-14] - jazz
  • Michael Dease: City Life: Music of Greg Hill (Origin) [06-20] - jazz
  • Diva Jazz Orchestra: A Celebration of Maurice Hines: Tappin' Thru Life (self-released) [05-13] - jazz
  • Doreen's Jazz New Orleans: Vol. 33: Walkin' Through the Streets (self-released) - jazz
  • Edition Redux [Ken Vandermark]: Broadcast Transformer (Audiographic) [01-17] - jazz
  • Mats Eilertsen: 1 (Hemli) [03-28] - jazz
  • Eduardo Elia: Desvíos ( 577) [06-20] - jazz
  • Enji: Sonor (Squama) [05-02] - jazz
  • Entre Amigos: Magpie: The Music of Joe Clark (Entre Amigos) [06-13] - jazz
  • Jimmy Farace: Hours Fly, Flowers Die (Shifting Paradigm) [04-11] - jazz
  • Margherita Fava: Murrina (self-released) [10-03] - jazz
  • Flur: Plunge (Latency) [09-05] - jazz fusion
  • FWWU+: Duos Trios (4DaRecord) [10-10] - jazz
  • Raffi Garabedian/Ben Goldberg/Danny Lubin-Laden/Ben Davis/Gerald Cleaver: Insect Life (577) [11-07] - jazz
  • Violeta Garcia: IN/OUT (Bongo Joe) [03-07] - jazz
  • Margaret Glaspy: The Golden Heart Protector (ATO) [09-12]
  • GPS: Directions + Destinations (577) [06-06] - jazz
  • Devin Gray/Anthony Pirog/Dave Ballou: Live at FEMA (Out of Your Head) [09-05] - jazz
  • Michael Hampton: Into the Public Domain (SMN/So) [12-12] - funk guitar
  • Hedonist: Scapulimancy () [08-01] - death metal
  • Felix Henkelhausen Quintet: The Excruciating Pain of Boredom (self-released) [05-16] - jazz
  • Lisa Hilton: Extended Daydream (Ruby Slippers) [11-28] - jazz
  • Makiko Hirabayashi Weavers: Gifts (Enja) [01-22] - jazz
  • Homeboy Sandman: Soli Deo Gloria () - hip-hop
  • Luis Ianes/Noël Akchoté: Seuil (self-released) [03-18] - jazz
  • Dieter Ilg Trio: Motherland (Jazzline) [02-28] - jazz
  • Sean Imboden Large Ensemble: Communal Heart (self-released) [04-18] - jazz
  • Kim Jung Jae: Shamanism (Relative Pitch) [06-20] - jazz
  • Naissam Jalal: Souffles (Les Couleurs Du Son) [05-30] - jazz
  • Kazzrie Jaxen & Don Messina: The Dance (New Artists) [04-11] - jazz
  • Barb Jungr and Her Trio Featuring Simon Wallace: Hallelujah on Desolation Row: The Songs of Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen (Kristalyn) - vocal jazz
  • Juno 3 [Han-earl Park/Lara Jones/Pat Thomas]: Proxemics (Buster and Friends) [01-15] - jazz
  • Kristoff K.Roll: Les Ombres De La Nuit (Mazeto Square) [05-16] - jazz
  • Sylvain Kassap/Steve Swell/Benjamin Duboc/Chad Taylor: Edges (RogueArt) - jazz
  • Keelepeksjad: Kalev Tuli Koju (Ava Muusika) [03-23] - jazz
  • Dave Keyes: Two Trains (MoMojo) [10-24] - blues
  • Carla Kihlstedt: 26 Little Deaths (Cantaloupe Music) [03-28] - jazz
  • Mark Kirschenmann: Tonics: 7 Melodies for Trumpet With Bamboo Mouthpipe (Infrequent Seams) [01-17] - jazz
  • Alexey Kruglov: Transfiguration 100 Duos (Solyd) [02-12] - jazz
  • Mabel Kwan/Mauricio Pauly/Carrie Shaw Trio: Lunches for the Week (Out of Your Head) [06-27] - jazz
  • Joëlle Léandre/Evan Parker: Long Bright Summer (RogueArt) [11-10] - jazz
  • Led Bib: Hotel Pupik (Cuneiform) [08-29] - jazz
  • Brandon Lopez/DoYeon Kim: Syzygy Vol. 1 (577) [01-31] - jazz
  • Lord Sko: Piff () [03-28] - hip-hop
  • Igor Lumpert Quartet: Resistance of the Earth (Ears&Eyes) [10-24] - jazz
  • João Madeira/Miguel Mira: 21 07 12 - 02 05 24 (4DaRecord) [09-12] - jazz
  • Georgia Mancio/Alan Broadbent: A Story Left Untold (Roomspin) [05-05] - jazz
  • Gillian Margot/Geoffrey Keezer: Gillian Margot and Geoffrey Keezer (MarKeez) [05-23] - jazz
  • Marcin Masecki Trio: Monk (BMC) - jazz
  • Raúl Monsalve Y Los Forajidos: SOL (Olindo) [03-21] - jazz
  • Jason Moran/Trondheim Jazz Orchestra/Ole Morten Vagan: Go to Your North (Yes) [07-14] - jazz
  • Camila Nebbia/James Banner/Max Andrzejewski: Presencia (Ears & Eyes) [11-07] - jazz
  • Jef Neve & Teus Nobel: Esho Funi (Blue Keys Productions) [02-14] - jazz
  • Lou Nevins: The Fumes (Cavetone) [07-04] - rock
  • New Origin: The Poet's Walk (Fundacja Słuchaj) [04-05] - jazz
  • Eva Novoa: The Freedom Suite, Novoa/Carter/Mela Trio, Vol. 2 (577) [10-03] - jazz
  • Eva Novoa: Novoa/Gress/Gray Trio, Vol. 2 (577) - jazz
  • Organology [Gilad Atzmon/Ross Stanley/Joel Barford]: Organology (Aesthetiko) [11-28] - jazz
  • Ed Palermo Big Band: Prog vs Fusion: A War of the Ages (Sky Cat) [04-18] - jazz
  • Pan Amsterdam: Confines () [05-23] - hip-hop
  • Andrea Parkins/Eliad Wagner: Drag Drop Spin & Crawl () - jazz
  • Zeena Parkins: Modesty of the Magic Thing (Tzadik) [08-15] - jazz
  • Ivo Perelman/Tyshawn Sorey: Parallel Aesthetics (Fundacja Słuchaj) [02-04] - jazz
  • Ivo Perelman/Ray Anderson: 12 Stages of Spiritual Alchemy (Fundacja Słuchaj) [10-01] - jazz
  • Phill Most Chill: I'm (Volume One & Volume Two) () [04-29] - hip-hop
  • Zoe Pia & Mats Gustafsson: Rite (Parco Della Musica) [03-00] - jazz
  • Posi-Tone Swingtet: In Jazz We Trust (Posi-Tone) [02-28] - jazz
  • Ra Bishop [Avreeayl Ra & Jeb Bishop]: Of the Essence (Amalgam) [04-04] - jazz
  • Real Bad Man & Genevieve Artgadi: Everything Is Under Control (Real Bad Man) [10-03] - hip-hop
  • Vernon Reid: Hoodoo Telemetry (Artone/The Players Club) [10-03] - funk
  • Remedy [Thomas Heberer/Joe Fonda/Joe Hertenstein]: Hipp Hipp Hooray: Celebrating the Centennial of Jutta Hipp (Fundacja Słuchaj) [02-04] - jazz
  • Dan Rosenboom: Coordinates (Orenda) [08-29] - jazz
  • Ted Rosenthal Trio: High Standards (TMR Music) [03-00] - jazz
  • Thom Rotella: Right Time Left (HighNote) [09-30] - jazz
  • Kyle Roussel: Church of New Orleans (self-released) [01-24] - jazz
  • Talibah Safiya: A Lil More Black Magic (High Water) [02-28] - r&b
  • Samo Salamon/Kevin Miller/Dan Blake: Burnt Pages () - jazz
  • Paula Sanchez/Katharina Weber: . . . And Discovering Fishes That Have Their Own Light (Cubus) [05-10] - jazz
  • Eric Schmitt: Wait for the Night (self-released) [04-11]
  • Senso Di Voce: Through Itself (Sonic Transmissions) [09-12] - jazz
  • Sifters: Sifters (Obliquity) [10-24] - jazz
  • Yotam Silberstein: Standards Vol. 2 (Jojo) [04-18] - jazz
  • Harri Sjöström: SoundScapes #4 Festival Berlin 2023 (Fundacja Słuchaj) [02-04] - jazz
  • Claudia Solal & Benjamin Moussay: Punk Moon (Jazzdor) [03-07] - jazz
  • Eric St-Laurent: El Choclo (Kazenmuzik) [05-27] - jazz
  • Dayna Stephens: Monk'D (Contagious Music) [10-10] - jazz
  • SWRM: Lights Off (Cuneiform) [07-25] - dark synth pop
  • Claude Tchamitchian Quartet: Vortice (Emouvance) [01-04] - jazz
  • Rafael Toral: Traveling Light (Drag City) [10-24] - ambient
  • David Torn: Peace Upon You (self-released) [03-05] - jazz
  • Trinary System: The Hard Machine (Cuneiform) [10-31] - jazz
  • Frances-Marie Uitti/Milana Zarić/Elisabeth Harnik: Unified Field (Strange Strings) [04-24] - jazz
  • Ken Vandermark: Snapshots: Complete (Kilogram) [2023-05-02] - jazz
  • Cassie Watson Francillon & Sasha Masakowski: Suite (self-released) [02-25] - jazz
  • Tom Weeks: Paranoid II (Wolfsblood) [02-14] - jazz
  • Spike Wilner Trio Contrafactus: The Children & the Warlock (Cellar Music) [04-25] - jazz
  • Eli Winter: A Trick of the Light (Three Lobed) [05-02] - jazz
  • Wussy Duo: On the Factory Floor (Shake It)
  • Tal Yahalom: Mirror Image (Adhyâropa) [03-21] - jazz
  • Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad: Jazz Is Dead 24: Dom Salvador (Jazz Is Dead) [07-11] - jazz
  • Bailey Zimmerman: Different Night Same Rodeo () - country

Reissues, Etc.

  • Rashied Ali/Leroy Jenkins: Swift Are the Winds of Life [Expanded Edition] (1975, Survival) [01-31] - jazz [A-]
  • Tony Allen & La Bogotá Orquesta Afrobeat: La BOA Meets Tony Allen (2011, Comet) [02-02] - afrobeat
  • Albert Ayler Trio: Prophecy Live First Visit (1964, Ezz-Thetics) [02-28] - jazz
  • Albert Ayler With Don Cherry: Europe 1964 (ORG Music) [11-28] - jazz
  • Paul Bley: Open, to Love (1973, ECM) - jazz [*]
  • Clifford Brown/Max Roach: Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954-55, Verve) [12-12] - jazz [A-]
  • John Coltrane: A Love Supreme [60th Anniversary Edition] (1964, Impulse!) [11-25] - jazz [A+]
  • John Coltrane: A Love Supreme [Monophonic Edition] (1964, Impulse!) [11-25] - jazz [A+]
  • John Coltrane: The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings (Impulse! -7LP) [10-24] - jazz [A]
  • John Coltrane: The John Coltrane Quartet Plays (1965, Verve) [08-29] - jazz [A-]
  • Chick Corea: Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971, ECM) [04-18] - jazz [*]
  • Sonny Criss: Sonny's Dream (Birth of the New Cool) (1968, Craft) [09-26] - jazz [***]
  • Curlew: East/West/Also (1990, Cuneiform) [03-28] - jazz
  • Miles Davis: The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (Columbia/Legay) [11-28] - jazz [A]
  • Miles Davis: Live at the Plugged Nickel: December 23, 1965: Second Set (Columbia/Legacy) [11-28] - jazz [A]
  • Miles Davis: Agharta (1975, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab) - jazz [A-]
  • Miles Davis: Walkin' (1954, Craft) [04-18] - jazz [***]
  • Bizimungu Dieudonne: Inzovu Y'imirindi (Mississippi) [11-14] - African
  • Kenny Drew Trio: Kenny Drew Trio (1956, Craft) [09-26] - jazz [B+]
  • John Fogerty: Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years [John's Version] (Concord) [08-22] - rock
  • Patrick Forgas: Cocktail (1977, Cuneiform) [03-28] - jazz-rock
  • Kenny Garrett: Sounds From the Ancestors (2021, Mack Avenue) [05-01] - jazz [**]
  • Dexter Gordon: Our Man in Paris (1963, Blue Note) [07-03] - jazz [A-]
  • Green Cosmos: Morgenmusiken (1983, Frederiksberg) - jazz
  • Jim Hall: Concierto [50th Anniversary Edition] (1975, Sony Music/Elemental Music) [01-24] - jazz [***]
  • Nancy Harrow: Wild Women Don't Have the Blues (1960, Candid) - vocal jazz [A-]
  • Andrew Hill: Grass Roots (1968, Blue Note) [07-04] - jazz [*]
  • Joseph Holbrooke: Last Live 2001: In Memoriam Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley (2001, Tzadik) [08-00] - jazz
  • Freddie Hubbard: Here to Stay (1962, Blue Note) [06-23] - jazz [***]
  • Michael Gregory Jackson: Frequency Equilibrium Koan (1977, Moved-by-Sound) [02-24] - jazz
  • Clifford Jordan: Glass Bead Games (1973, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Roland Keijser Kvartett: Öppet 03/Tre (1968-69, Caprice) [09-26] - jazz
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith (1967, Verve) [01-26] - jazz [A]
  • Steve Lacy Three: Live Lugano 1984 First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) [02-08] - jazz
  • Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd/Kent Carter/Beaver Harris: Trickles (1976, Black Saint) - jazz [B-]
  • Bennie Maupin: The Jewel in the Lotus (1974, ECM) [05-16] - jazz [B]
  • Ken McIntyre/Eric Dolphy: Looking Ahead (1961, Craft) [07-25] - jazz [*]
  • Marian McPartland: At the Peninsula Library 1972 (Liberation Hall) [04-11] - jazz
  • Hank Mobley: Roll Call (1960, Blue Note) [03-20] - jazz [A-]
  • Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Himself (1957, Craft) [05-23] - jazz [B]
  • Wes Montgomery: The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (1960, Craft) [02-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Wes Montgomery With the Wynton Kelly Trio: Smokin' in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1966, Resonance) [04-12] - jazz [***]
  • Gerry Mulligan & Thelonious Monk: Mulligan Meets Monk (1957, Craft) [04-12] - jazz [+]
  • Red Norvo: World Broadcast Recordings (1944-45, Circle/Jazzology) [ 01-28] - jazz
  • Jeff Parker: The New Breed (2016, International Anthem) [06-27] - jazz [B]
  • William Parker: In Order to Survive (1993, Black Saint) [10-03] - jazz [A-]
  • Joe Pass: Virtuoso (1973, Craft) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Lee "Scratch" Perry: Crucial Cuts From the Heart of the Ark [1973-78] () - reggae
  • Ike Quebec: The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions (1959-62, Blue Note, 2CD) [10-10] - jazz [A-]
  • Enrico Rava: Il Giro Del Giorno in Mondi 80 (1972, Eargong) [02-21] - jazz [**]
  • The Reference Group: File Under Unpopular (2007-08, Cuneiform) [03-28] - rock
  • Rilo Kiley: That's How We Choose to Remember It (Saddle Creek)
  • Sam Rivers: A New Conception (1966, Blue Note) [12-09] - jazz [***]
  • Max Roach: We Insist: Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (1960, Vinyl Me Please) - jazz [A-]
  • Pharoah Sanders: Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (1973, Strata East/Mack Avenue) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Manfred Schoof Ochestra: European Echoes (1969, FMP) [02-28] - jazz
  • Wayne Shorter: Introducing Wayne Shorter (1960, Craft) [08-29] - jazz [A-]
  • Sloth Racket: Ten Years of Live Sloths (2015-24, Luminous Label) [02-03] - jazz
  • Snakeoil [Tim Berne]: Snakeoil OK (2013, Screwgun) [03-07] - jazz
  • Snakeoil [Tim Berne]: In Lieu Of (2012, Screwgun) [09-16] - jazz
  • Sun Ra: Hidden Fire (1988, Strut) [09-19] - jazz
  • Cecil Taylor Unit: Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) [02-27] - jazz
  • Cecil Taylor Unit: Live at Fat Tuesday's February 10, 1980 First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) [02-02] - jazz
  • Keith Tippett: The Unlonely Raindancer (1979, Jazz in Britain) - jazz [**]
  • Bugge Wesseltoft: It's Still Snowing on My Piano (1997, ACT Music) [10-31] - jazz
  • Jingle Jangle Morning (The 1960's US Folk Rock Explosion) [Cherry Red]
  • Prisoners' Day Compilation Vol. 1 (Majazz Project/Palestinian Sound Archive) [04-17] - Arabic
  • Secret Superstar Sounds: Scraping Bubblegum Off My Soul 1977-80: Punk /Powerpop/New Wave/DIY (Soul Jazz)

Priority Counts

  • Priority 2: 156
  • Priority 3: 41

Total: 197