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

  • Pheeroan akLaff/Scott Robinson/Julian Thayer: aRT (ScienSonic) - jazz
  • Harry Allen/Rossano Sportiello/Bryan Carter: It Takes 3 (Night Is Alive) [02-07] - jazz
  • Allo Darlin': Bright Nights ()
  • Angles 11: Tell Them It's the Sound of Freedom (Fundacja Sluchaj) - jazz
  • Antonio Andrade: Here We Go! (Lifeshakes) [03-21]
  • Arrested Development: Adult Contemporary Hip Hop () [07-04] - hip-hop
  • Atmosphere: Jestures (Rhymesayers) [09-19] - hip-hop
  • Tarun Balani: ڪڏهن ملنداسين Kadahin Milandaasin (Berthold) [05-16] - jazz
  • The Barlow: High Spirits () [04-25]
  • Al Basile: Blues in Hand (Sweetspot) [10-09] - blues
  • Beiggja: Morning (Hubro) - jazz
  • Gregg Belisle-Chi: Slow Crawl: Performing the Music of Tim Berne (Intakt) [08-00] - jazz
  • Leif Berger: Secret, Normalization (Klaeng) [05-02] - jazz
  • Jim Black & the Schrimps: Better You Don't (Intakt) [08-00] - 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
  • Olie Brice: All It Was (West Hill) [07-18] - jazz
  • Gary Brunton: Spacecraft (Juste Une Trace) - 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 and 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
  • Deena: This Is the Time (-EP) [09-19] - singer-songwriter
  • Grey DeLisle & Friends: It's All Her Fault: A Tribute to Cindy Walker (Brooklyn Basement) [10-10] - country
  • Maya Delilah: The Long Way Around (Blue Note) [03-28]
  • 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
  • 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
  • Fred Frith/Mariá Portugal: Matter (Intakt) [10-31] - jazz
  • Tomas Fujiwara: Dream Up (Out of Your Head) [09-12] - jazz
  • Violeta Garcia: IN/OUT (Bongo Joe) [03-07] - jazz
  • Dave Gisler Trio: The Flying Mega Doghouse (Intakt) [10-24] - jazz
  • Margaret Glaspy: The Golden Heart Protector (ATO) [09-12]
  • Phillip Golub/Lesley Mok [Dream Brigade]: Dream Brigade (Infrequent Seams) [03-14] - jazz
  • GPS: Directions + Destinations (577) [06-06] - jazz
  • Devin Gray/Anthony Pirog/Dave Ballou: Live at FEMA (Out of Your Head) [09-05] - jazz
  • Jimmy Greene: As We Are Now (Green Music Works) [07-25] - jazz
  • Felix Henkelhausen Quintet: The Excruciating Pain of Boredom (self-released) [05-16] - jazz
  • The High Society New Orleans Jazz Band: Live at Birdland (Turtle Bay) [09-18] - jazz
  • Lisa Hilton: Extended Daydream (Ruby Slippers) [11-28] - jazz
  • Makiko Hirabayashi Weavers: Gifts (Enja) [01-22] - jazz
  • Anna Högberg Attack: Ensamseglaren (Fönstret) [10-03] - jazz
  • Hamilton de Holanda Trio: Live in NYC (Sony) [05-20] - 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
  • Keefe Jackson/Jakob Heinemann/Adam Shead: Stinger (Irritable Mystic) [08-01] - 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
  • 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
  • Charlie Kohlhase's Explorerer Club: A Second Life (Mandorla Music) [06-07] - 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
  • Mathias Landæus/Nina de Heney/Kresten Osgood: Dissolving Patterns (SFÄR) [03-07] - jazz
  • Led Bib: Hotel Pupik (Cuneiform) [08-29] - jazz
  • Dave Liebman/Billy Hart/Adam Rudolph: Beingness (Meta) [05-23] - jazz
  • Charles Lloyd: Figure in Blue (Blue Note) [10-10] - jazz
  • Brandon Lopez/DoYeon Kim: Syzygy Vol. 1 (577) [01-31] - jazz
  • Lord Sko: Piff () [03-28] - hip-hop
  • João Madeira/Miguel Mira: 21 07 12 - 02 05 24 (4DaRecord) [09-12] - jazz
  • Georgia Mancio/Alan Broadbent: A Story Left Untold (Roomspin) - jazz
  • Gillian Margot/Geoffrey Keezer: Gillian Margot and Geoffrey Keezer (MarKeez) [05-23] - jazz
  • Marcin Masecki Trio: Monk (BMC) - jazz
  • Roger Clark Miller: Curiosity for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble (Cuneiform) [ 02-28] - experimental rock
  • 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
  • Wolfgang Muthspiel/Scott Colley/Brian Blade: Tokyo (ECM) [09-26] - 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
  • John O'Gallagher: Ancestral (Whirlwind) [10-24] - jazz
  • Otherlands Trio [Stephan Crump/Darius Jones/Eric McPherson]: Star Mountain (Intakt) [10-17] - jazz
  • Ed Palermo Big Band: Prog vs Fusion: A War of the Agea (Sky Cat) [04-18] - jazz
  • Pan Amsterdam: Confines () [05-23] - hip-hop
  • Andrea Parkins/Eliad Wagner: Drag Drop Spin & Crawl () - jazz
  • Aaron Parks: "By All Means!!" (Blue Note) [11-07] - jazz
  • Ivo Perelman/Tyshawn Sorey: Parallel Aesthetics (Fundacja Słuchaj) [02-04] - jazz
  • Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley/Matt Moran/Mark Helias/Tom Rainey: A Modicum of the Blues (Fundacja Sluchaj) - jazz
  • Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley: Polarity 4 (Burning Ambulance) [11-07] - 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
  • Remedy [Thomas Heberer/Joe Fonda/Joe Hertenstein]: Hipp Hipp Hooray: Celebrating the Centennial of Jutta Hipp (Fundacja Słuchaj) [02-04] - jazz
  • Diego Rivera: West Circle (Posi-Tone) [04-25] - jazz
  • Joris Roelofs/Guus Janssen/Han Bennink: Rite of Spring (ICP) [05-08] - 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
  • Samo Salamon/Kevin Miller/Dan Blake: Burnt Pages () - jazz
  • Brandon Sanders: Lasting Impression (Savant) [11-07] - 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
  • SML: How You Been (International Anthem) [11-07] - jazz
  • Claudia Solal & Benjamin Moussay: Punk Moon (Jazzdor) [03-07] - jazz
  • Sonic Chambers Quartet: Kiss of the Earth (577) [04-11] - jazz
  • Kandace Springs: Lady in Satin (SRP) [05-09] - jazz
  • Eric St-Laurent: El Choclo (Kazenmuzik) [05-27] - jazz
  • Ben Stapp: Uzmic Ro'Samg (577) [10-24] - jazz
  • Jason Stein/Marilyn Crispell/Damon Smith/Adam Shead: Live at the Hungry Brain (Trost) [10-31] - jazz
  • Dayna Stephens: Monk'D (Contagious Music) [10-10] - jazz
  • Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl (Republic) [10-03] - alt-pop
  • SWRM: Lights Off (Cuneiform) [07-25] - dark synth pop
  • John Taylor/Marc Johnson/Joey Baron: Tramonto (ECM) [09-19] - jazz
  • Claude Tchamitchian Quartet: Vortice (Emouvance) [01-04] - jazz
  • David Torn: Peace Upon You (self-released) [03-05] - jazz
  • TGrinary System: The Hard Machine (Cuneiform) [10-31] - 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 Group) [04-25] - jazz
  • Eli Winter: A Trick of the Light (Three Lobed) [05-02] - jazz
  • Wrens: Half of What You See (Out of Your Head) [11-21] - jazz
  • Tal Yahalom: Mirror Image (Adhyâropa) [03-21] - 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
  • Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Strasbourg 82 (Gearbox) [10-11] - jazz
  • Paul Bley: Open, to Love (1973, ECM) - jazz [*]
  • Anthony Braxton: Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) [06-04] - jazz
  • Chick Corea: Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971, ECM) [04-18] - jazz [*]
  • Curlew: East/West/Also (1990, Cuneiform) [03-28] - jazz
  • Bizimungu Dieudonne: Inzovu Y'imirindi (Mississippi) [11-14] - African
  • 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-]
  • Nancy Harrow: Wild Women Don't Have the Blues (1960, Candid) - vocal jazz [A-]
  • Andrew Hill: Grass Roots (1968, Blue Note) [07-04] - 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 Kirk Quartet: Domino (1963, MIG) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • 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-]
  • Daunik Lazro/Tristan Honsinger/Jean-Jacques Avenel: True & Whole Rhythms au Danois 9 Mai 1982 (Fou) - jazz
  • Edison Machado: Edison Machado & Boa Nova (1978, Far Out) [03-28] - Brazilian jazz
  • Bennie Maupin: The Jewel in the Lotus (1974, ECM) [05-16] - jazz [B]
  • Marian McPartland: At the Peninsula Library 1972 (Liberation Hall) [04-11] - jazz
  • Charles Mingus: Mingus at Monterey (1964, Candid) [04-12] - jazz
  • Hank Mobley: Roll Call (1960, Blue Note) [03-20] - jazz [A-]
  • Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Himself (1957, Craft) [05-23] - jazz [B]
  • Thelonious Monk: Bremen 1965 (Sunnyside) [12-12] - jazz
  • 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]
  • Joe Pass: Virtuoso (1973, Craft) [03-14] - jazz [[**]]
  • Ike Quebec: The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions (1959-62, Blue Note, 2CD) [10-10] - jazz
  • 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
  • Max Roach: We Insist: Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (1960, Vinyl Me Please) - jazz [A-]
  • Pharaoh Sanders: Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (1973, Strata East/Mack Avenue) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Manfred Schoof Ochestra: European Echoes (1969, FMP) [02-28] - jazz
  • Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble: The Complete Live at Antibes (1970, BYG/Actuel) [04-12] - jazz
  • Wayne Shorter: Introducing Wayne Shorter (1960, Craft) [08-29] - jazz [A-]
  • Horace Silver: Silver in Seatte: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) [10-24] - jazz
  • Sloth Racket: Ten Years of Live Sloths (2015-24, Luminous Label) [02-03] - jazz
  • Snakeoil [Tim Berne]: Snakeoil OK (2013, Screwgun) [03-07] - 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
  • Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia: Live at Leverkusen 1994 (Repertoire) - jazz
  • Bugge Wesseltoft: It's Still Snowing on My Piano (1997, ACT Music) [10-31] - jazz
  • 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)
  • Spiritual Jazz 18: Behind the Iron Curtain: Esoteric, Modal, and Progressive Jazz From Central and Eastern Europe (1962-1988) (Jazzman) [06-06] - jazz

Priority Counts

  • Priority 2: 171
  • Priority 3: 23

Total: 194