Music Year 2024
Of course, it's too early for a year-end list. But as the proto-fascist
organization of my youth insisted, one should always be prepared. For
records in hand, * identifies an advance copy, ** something borrowed
or streamed.
Some albums released in previous years are included here, noted by a
"-NN" (e.g., -23 for 2023) -- these are mostly imports or self-releases,
often hard to figure out official dates, but they were either December
2020 releases or unknown (to me, at least) before the current year.
I keep adding to the 2023
until the end of calendar 2024, especially where the record was known
to exist in 2023 and I'm just getting around to it.
New Records
A |
- Fay Victor: Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (Tao Forms, 2CD)
- Heems & Lapgan: Lafandar (Veena Sounds) **
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A- |
- Hurray for the Riff Raff: The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch) **
- Emmeluth's Amoeba: Nonsense (Moserobie)
- Julia Vari Feat. Negroni's Trio: Somos (Alternative Representa)
- The Paranoid Style: The Interrogator (Bar/None) **
- Dave Douglas: Gifts (Greenleaf Music)
- Kali Uchis: Orquídeas (Geffen) **
- Ballister: Smash and Grab (Aerophonic)
- Bill Ryder-Jones: Iechyd Da (Domino) **
- Romy Glod/Christian Ramond/Klaus Kugel: No ToXiC (Nemu)
- The Core: Roots (Moserobie)
- Advancing on a Wild Pitch: Disasters, Vol. 2 (Hot Cup) **
- Ivo Perelman Quartet: Water Music (RogueArt) *
- Dan Weiss: Even Odds (Cygnus)
- QOW Trio: The Hold Up (Ubuntu Music) **
- Ivo Perelman/Mark Helias/Tom Rainey: Truth Seeker (Fundacja Sluchaj) **>
- Queen Esther: Things Are Looking Up (EL)
- Thomas Anderson: Hello, I'm From the Future (Out There) **
- Jim Snidero: For All We Know (Savant)
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Transfiguration (Intakt) **
- Chris Potter/Brad Mehldau/John Patitucci/Brian Blade: Eagle's Point (Edition) **
- Kim Gordon: The Collective (Matador) **
- Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse) **
- Tierra Whack: World Wide Whack (Interscope) **
- Dave Rempis/Pandelis Karayorgis/Jakob Heinemann/Bill Harris: Truss (Aerophonic/Drift)
- Bob Vylan: Humble as the Sun (Ghost Theatre) **
- Matthew Shipp Trio: New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk)
- Amanda Gardier: Auteur: Music Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson (self-released)
- Four + Six: Four + Six (Jazz Hang)
- Charles Lloyd: The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) **
- Idit Shner & Mhondoro: Ngatibatanei [Let Us Unite!] (OA2)
- 1010benja: Ten Total (Three Six Zero) **
- Claudio Scolari Project: Intermission (Principal)
- Ivo Perelman/Barry Guy/Ramon Lopez: Interaction (Ibeji Music) **
- John Surman: Words Unspoken (ECM) **
- Joel Ross: Nublues (Blue Note) **
- Radam Schwartz: Saxophone Quartet Music (Arabesque)
- Julieta Eugenio: Stay (Cristalyn)
- Samo Salamon/Vasil Hadzimanov/Ra-Kalam Bob Moses: Dances of Freedom (Samo)
- Owen Broder: Hodges: Front and Center, Vol. Two (Outside In Music)
- Ernesto Rodrigues/Bruno Parinha/João Madeira: Into the Wood (Creative Sources)
- Mercer Hassy Orchestra: Duke's Place (Mercer Hassy)
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Pending:
Records in hand, but which haven't yet been graded (sorted by artist,
or release date if future). Those marked ** are downloads in hand.
- Coco Chatru Quartet: Future (Trygger Music) [03-28]
- Jazz at the Ballroom: Flying High: Big Band Canaries Who Soared (Jazz at the Ballroom) [05-03]
- Luke Stewart Silt Trio: Unknown Rivers (Pi) [05-03]
- Mike Monford: The Cloth I'm Cut From (self-released) [05-04]
- Karrin Allyson: A Kiss for Brazil (Origin) [05-17]
- Nicola Caminiti: Vivid Tales of a Blurry Self-Portrait (self-released) [05-10]
- Yelena Eckemoff: Romance of the Moon (L&H Production) [05-10]
- Christopher Zuar Orchestra: Exuberance (self-released) [05-11]
- Mute: After You've Gone (Endectomorph Music) * [05-13]
- Jason Robinson: Ancestral Numbers (Playscape) [05-14]
- Randy Weinstein: Harmonimonk (Random Chance) [05-15]
- Ethel & Layale Chaker: Vigil (In a Circle) [05-17]
- Layale Chaker & Sarafand: Radio Afloat (In a Circle) [05-17]
- Natsuki Tamura/Jim Black: NatJim (Libra) [05-17]
- Modney: Ascending Primes (Pyroclastic) [05-18]
- Carl Clements: A Different Light (Greydisc) [05-23]
- John Ambrosini: Songs for You (self-released) [06-01]
- Isrea Butler: Congo Lament (Vegas) [06-01]
- Galactic Tide Featuring Andy Timmons: The Haas Company Vol. 1 (Psychiatric) [06-01]
- Jake Hertzog: Longing to Meet You (self-released) [06-01]
- The Bruce Lofgren Group: Earthly and Cosmic Tales (Night Bird) [06-01]
- Bruno Råberg Tentet: Evolver (Orbis Music) [06-01]
- Amber Weekes: A Lady With a Song: Amber Weekes Celebrates Nancy Wilson (Amber Inn) [06-01]
- John Escreet: The Epicenter of Your Dreams (Blue Room Music) [06-07]
- Devouring the Guilt: Not to Want to Say (Kettle Hole) [06-08]
- Phillip Golub: Abiding Memory (Endectomorph Music) [06-21]
Also Noted:
Records in hand, graded B+ or below, in alphabetical order within grade
slots:
B+(***) |
- Acceleration Due to Gravity: Jonesville: Music by and for Sam Jones (Hot Cup, EP)
- Ben Allison/Steve Cardenas/Ted Nash: Tell the Birds I Said Hello: The Music of Herbie Nichols (Sonic Camera) **
- Roxana Amed: Becoming Human (Sony Music Latin)
- Sam Anning: Earthen (Earshift Music)
- Alex Beltran: Rift (Calligram)
- Blue Moods: Swing & Soul (Posi-Tone) **
- Jonas Cambien: Jonas Cambien's Maca Conu (Clean Feed) **
- Gerald Cannon: Live at Dizzy's Club: The Music of Elvin & McCoy (Woodneck) **
- The Choir Invisible [Charlotte Greve/Vinnie Sperazza/Chris Tordini]: Town of Two Faces (Intakt) **
- Stephan Crump: Slow Water (Papillon Sounds)
- Alon Farber Hagiga With Dave Douglas: The Magician: Live in Jerusalem (Origin)
- R.A.P. Ferreira & Fumitake Tamura: The First Fist to Make Contact When We Dap (Ruby Yacht) **
- Fire!: Testament (Rune Grammofon) **
- Anne Foucher & Jean-Marc Foussat: Chair Ça (Fou)
- Four Tet: Three (Text) **
- Jean-Marc Foussat/Daunik Lazro: Trente-Cinq Minutes & Vingt-Trois Secondes (Fou)
- Eric Frazier: That Place Featuring "Return of the Panther Woman" (EFP Productions)
- Friends & Neighbors: Circles (Clean Feed) **
- Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio: Jet Black (Libra)
- Laura Jane Grace: Hole in My Head (Polyvinyl) **
- Gordon Grdina/Christian Lillinger: Duo Work (Attaboygirl)
- Gordon Grdina's the Marrow: With Fathieh Honari (Attaboygirl)
- Guillermo Gregorio: Two Trios (ESP-Disk '23)
- Enrique Heredia Trio: Plays Herbie Nichols (Fresh Sound) **
- Ill Considered: Precipice (New Soil) **
- Vijay Iyer: Compassion (ECM) **
- Jlin: Akoma (Planet Mu) **
- Kaze: Unwritten (Circum/Libra)
- Anni Kiviniemi Trio: Eir (We Jazz) **
- Matt Lavelle & the 12 Houses: The Crop Circles Suite Part One (Mahakala Music) **
- Ellie Lee: Escape (self-released)
- Adrianne Lenker: Bright Future (4AD) **
- Les Amazones d'Afrique: Musow Danse (Real World) **
- Corb Lund: El Viejo (New West) **
- Brady Lux: Ain't Gone So Far (6483357 DK) **
- Nicole McCabe: Live at Jamboree (Fresh Sound) **
- Ron McClure: Just Sayin' (SteepleChase) **
- Eliza McLamb: Going Through It (Royal Mountain) **
- Charles McPherson: Reverence (Smoke Sessions) **
- Ava Mendoza/Dave Sewelson: Of It but Not Is It (Mahakala Music) **
- The Messthetics/James Brandon Lewis: The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) **
- Riley Mulherkar: Riley (Westerlies)
- Emile Parisien Quartet: Let Them Cook (ACT) **
- Ivo Perelman/Tom Rainey: Duologues 1: Turning Point (Ibeji Music) **
- Travis Reuter: Quintet Music (self-released)
- Ron Rieder: Latin Jazz Sessions (self-released)
- Diego Rivera: With Just a Word (Posi-Tone) **
- Jeremy Rose & the Earshift Orchestra: Discordia (Earshift Music)
- Angelica Sanchez/Chad Taylor: A Moster Is Just an Animal You Haven't Met Yet (Intakt) **
- Marta Sanchez Trio: Perpetual Void (Intakt)
- Scheen Jazzorkester & Cortex: Frameworks: Music by Thomas Johansson (Clean Feed) **
- Adam Schroeder/Mark Masters: CT! Adam Schroeder & Mark Masters Celebrate Clark Terry (Capri)
- Dave Schumacher & Cubeye: Smoke in the Sky (Cellar)
- Shakira: Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Sony Latin) **
- Josh Sinton: Couloir & Book of Practitioners Vol. 2: Book W (Form Is Possibility, 2CD)
- Matthew Shipp/Steve Swell: Space Cube Jazz (RogueArt) *
- Geoff Stradling & the StradBand: Nimble Digits (Origin)
- Sunny Five [Tim Berne/David Torn/Ches Smith/Devin Hoff/Marc Ducret]: Candid (Intakt) **
- Michael Thomas: The Illusion of Choice (Criss Cross) **
- Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood (Anti-) **
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B+(**) |
- Nicki Adams/Michael Eaton: The Transcendental (SteepleChase LookOut) **
- Cyrille Aimée: À Fleur De Peau (Whirlwind) **
- Neal Alger: Old Souls (Calligram)
- Florian Arbenz: Conversation #10 & #11: ON! (Hammer) **
- Lynne Arriale Trio: Being Human (Challenge)
- Jim Baker/Steve Hunt/Jakob Heinemann: Horizon Scanners (Clean Feed) **
- Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter (Parkwood/Columbia) **
- Ian Carey & Wood Metal Plastic: Strange Arts (Slow & Steady)
- Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble: Elegy for Thelonious (Sunnyside)
- Willi Carlisle: Critterland (Signature Sounds) **
- The Castellows: A Little Goes a Long Way (Warner Music Nashville, EP) **
- Mina Cho's Grace Beat Quartet: "Beat Mirage" (International Gugak Jazz Institute)
- Chromeo: Adult Contemporary (BMG) **
- Daggerboard: Escapement (Wide Hive)
- The Rob Dixon/Steve Allee Quintet: Standards Deluxe (self-released)
- Arnaud Dolmen/Leonardo Montana; LéNo (Quai Son)
- Giuseppe Doronzo/Andy Moor/Frank Rosaly: Futuro Ancestrale (Clean Feed) **
- Empress Of: For Your Consideration (Major Arcana/Giant) **
- Peter Erskine and the Jam Music Lab All-Stars: Bernstein in Vienna (Origin)
- Chad Fowler/Shanyse Strickland/Sana Nagano/Melanie Dyer/Ken Filiano/Anders Griffen: Birdsong (Mahakala Music) **
- The Fully Celebrated Orchestra: Sob Story (Relative Pitch) **
- Kenny Garrett & Svoy: Who Killed AI? (Mack Avenue) **
- Jose Gobbo Trio: Current (self-released)
- Gossip: Real Power (Columbia) **
- Vanisha Gould and Chris McCarthy: Life's a Gig (Fresh Sound New Talent) **
- Frank Gratkowski/Ensemble Modern: Mature Hybrid Talking (Maria de Alvear World Edition) **
- Noah Haidu: Standards II (Sunnyside)
- Mary Halvorson: Cloudward (Nonesuch) **
- Dave Harrington/Max Jaffe/Patrick Shiroishi: Speak, Moment (AKP) **
- Keyon Harrold: Foreverland (Concord) **
- Helado Negro: Phasor (4AD) **
- Brittany Howard: What Now (Island) **
- Idles: Tangk (Partisan) **
- Jon Irabagon's Outright!: Recharge the Blade (Irabbagast) **
- Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones: New Monuments (We Jazz) **
- Katy Kirby: Blue Raspberry (Anti-) **
- Last Word Quintet: Falling to Earth (Origin)
- Andy Laverne: Spot On (SteepleChase) **
- David Leon: Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic)
- Liquid Mike: Paul Bunyan's Slingshot (self-released) **
- Little Simz: Drop 7 (Forever Living Originals, EP) **
- João Madeira/Margarida Mestre: Voz Debaixo (4DaRecord)
- Mannequin Pussy: I Got Heaven (Epitaph) **
- Shawn Maxwell: J Town Suite (Cora Street)
- Mike McGinnis + 9: Outing: Road Trip II (Sunnyside) **
- Kjetil Mulelid: Agoja (Odin) **
- Richard Nelson/Makrokosmos Orchestra: Dissolve (Adhyâropa)
- Cornelia Nilsson: Where Do You Go? (Stunt) **
- The Michael O'Neill Sextet: Synergy: With Tony Lindsay (Jazzmo)
- Mali Obomsawin/Magdalena Abrego: Greatest Hits (Out Of Your Head) **
- Lothar Ohlmeier/Tobias Klein: Left Side Right (Trytone)
- Ulysses Owens Jr. and Generation Y: A New Beat (Cellar Music) **
- Jonah Parzen-Johnson: You're Never Really Alone (We Jazz) **
- Ivo Perelman/Chad Fowler/Reggie Workman/Andrew Cyrille: Embracing the Unknown (Mahakala Music) **
- Dave Pietro: The Talisman (SteepleChase) **
- PNY Quintet: Over the Wall (RogueArt) *
- Reggie Quinerly: The Thousandth Scholar (Redefinition)
- Shabaka: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!) **
- Sheer Mag: Playing Favorites (Third Man) **
- Sarah Shook & the Disarmers: Revelations (Abeyance) **
- Vera Sola: Peacemarker (Spectraphonic/City Slang) **
- Simon Spiess Quiet Tree: Euphorbia (Intakt) **
- Peter Stampfel/Eli Smith/Walker Shepard: Wildernauts (Don Giovanni) **
- The Dave Stryker Trio With Bob Mintzer: Groove Street (Strikezone)
- Curtis Taylor: Taylor Made (Curtis Taylor Music) **
- Akiko Tsugura: Beyond Nostalgia (SteepleChase) **
- Tyla: Tyla (Epic) **
- Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us (Columbia) **
- Hein Westergaard/Katt Hernandez/Raymond Strid: The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn (Gotta Let It Out)
- Yard Act: Where's My Utopia? (Island) **
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B+(*) |
- Albare: Beyond Belief (AM)
- Bob Anderson: Live! (Jazz Hang)
- Bill Anschell: Improbable Solutions (Origin)
- John Basile: Heatin' Up (StringTime Jazz)
- Stix Bones/Bob Beamon: Olimpik Soul (BONE Entertainment)
- Peter Brötzmann/Paal Nilssen-Love: Chicken Shit Bingo (Trost) **
- Martin Budde: Back Burner (Origin)
- Burial: Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above/b> (XL, EP) **
- Caporaso Ensemble: Encounter (Psychosomatic)
- Commodore Trio: Communal - EP (self-relesed, EP)
- Gui Duvignau/Jacob Sacks/Nathan Ellman-Bell: Live in Red Hook (Sunnyside) **
- Christian Fabian Trio: Hip to the Skip (Spicerack)
- Hannah Frances: Keeper of the Shepherd (Ruination) **
- Hilary Gardner: On the Trial With the Lonesome Pines (Anzic) **
- María Grand With Marta Sánchez: Anohin (Biophilia) **
- Alexander Hawkins/Sofia Jernberg: Musho (Intakt) **
- Arve Henriksen/Harmen Fraanje: Touch of Time (ECM) **
- Abdullah Ibrahim: 3 (Gearbox) **
- Jon Irabagon: Survivalism (Irabbagast) **
- Ethan Iverson: Technically Acceptable (Blue Note) **
- Jazz Ensemble of Memphis: Playing in the Yard (Memphis International)
- Benji Kaplan: Untold Stories (self-released)
- Julien Knowles: As Many, as One (Biophilia)
- Anysia Kym: Truest (10k, EP) **
- Julian Lage: Speak to Me (Blue Note) **
- The Last Dinner Party: Prelude to Ecstasy (Island) **
- Molly Lewis: On the Lips (Jagjaguwar) **
- Doug MacDonald: Sextet Session (DMAC Music)
- Kali Malone: All Life Long (Ideologic Organ) **
- Moor Mother: The Great Bailout (Anti-) **
- Willie Morris: Attentive Listening (Posi-Tone) **
- Ms. Boogie: The Breakdown (self-released) **
- Old 97's: American Primitive (ATO) **
- Sam Outlaw: Terra Cotta (Black Hills) **
- Chuck Owen & Resurgence: Magic Light (Origin)
- Charlie Parr: Little Sun (Smithsonian Folkways) **
- Pissed Jeans: Half Divorced (Sub Pop) **
- Andy Pratt: Trio (Thrift Girl)
- Robert Prester & Adriana Samargia: Quenara (Commonwealth Ave. Productions)
- Zach Rich: Solidarity (OA2)
- Ride: Interplay (Wichita) **
- Schoolboy Q: Blue Lips (Interscope) **
- Altin Sencalar: Discover the Present (Posi-Tone) **
- Nadine Shah: Filthy Underneath (EMI North) **
- Skee Mask: ISS010 (Ilian Tape) **
- Håkon Skogstad: 8 Concepts of Tango (Øra Fonogram)
- Ches Smith: Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic)
- Ronny Smith: Struttin' (Pacific Coast Jazz)
- Viktoria Tolstoy: Stealing Moments (ACT) **
- Rafael Toral: Spectral Evolution (Moikai) **
- Tucker Brothers: Live at Chatterbox (Midwest Crush Music)
- The Umbrellas: Fairweather Friend (Tough Love) **
- Jordan VanHemert: Deep in the Soil (Origin)
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B |
- Black Art Jazz Collective: Truth to Power (HighNote) **
- Annie Chen: Guardians (JZ Music)
- David Friesen: This Light Has No Darkness (Origin)
- Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly of Shadows: Heartland Radio (SoundSpore)
- Gruff Rhys: Sadness Sets Me Free (Rough Trade) **
- Jim Rotondi: Finesse (Cellar Music) **
- Jacob Shulman: High Firmament (Endectomorph Music) *
- Jacob Shulman: Ferment Below (Endectomorph Music) *
- The Smile: Wall of Eyes (XL) **
- Sleater-Kinney: Little Rope (Loma Vista) **
- Mary Timony: Untame the Tiger (Merge) **
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B- |
- Glass Beach: Plastic Death (Run for Cover) **
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Limited sampling: Records I played parts of, but not enough
to grade: -- means no interest, - not bad but not a prospect,
+ some chance, ++ likely prospect.
Reissues/Compilations/Vault Music:
In previous years I tried to separate reissues from compilations,
including newly released vault items in the latter. This made sense
when I was reviewing a lot of Recycled Goods material, but led to
other problems with year-end lists, so anything containing
any previously released material is collected here, and anything that
is wholly previously unreleased is treated as new, above.
A- |
- Sonny Rollins: Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance, 3CD)
- Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) **
- Mal Waldron/Steve Lacy: The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music, 2CD)
- Mal Waldron/Terumasa Hino: Reminscent Suite (1973, BBE) **
- Franco & O.K. Jazz: Franco Luambo Makiadi Presents Les Editions Populaires (1968-1970) (Planet Ilunga) **
- Mixmaster Morris/Jonah Sharp/Haruomi Hosono: Quiet Logic (1998, WRWTFWW) **
- Rail Band: Buffet Hotel De La Gare, Bamako (1973, Mississippi) **
- Art Tatum: Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance, 3CD)
- Merengue Típico, Nueva Generación! (1960s-70s, Bongo Joe) **
- Austin Peralta: Endless Planets [Deluxe Edition] (2011, Brainfeeder) **
- Roberto Magris: Love Is Passing Thru: Solo/Duo/Trio/Quartet (2004, JMood)
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Pending
Records in hand, sorted by artist, or release date if future. Those
marked ** are downloads in hand.
Also Noted:
B+(***) |
- Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Guebru: Souvenirs (1977-85, Mississippi) **
- Gush: Afro Blue (1998, Trost) **
- Joe Henderson: Power to the People (1969, Craft) **
- Pharoah Sanders: Festival de Jazz de Nice, Nice, France, July 18, 1971 (1971, Kipepeo Publishing) **
- Sonic Youth: Walls Have Ears (1985, Goofin') **
- Jack Wood: The Gal That Got Away: The Best of Jack Wood, Featuring Guest Niehaud Fitzgibbon (Jazz Hang)
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B+(**) |
- Chet Baker & Jack Sheldon: In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album (1972, Jazz Detective)
- Burnt Sugar/The Arkestkra Chamber: The Reconstru-Ducted Repatriation Road-Rage ReMiXeS (Avantgroidd) **
- George Cartwright's GloryLand PonyCat: Black Ants Crawling (Mahakala Music) **
- Sven-Åke Johansson und Alexander von Schlippenbach: Über Ursache und Wirkung der Meinungsverschiedenheiten Beim Turmbau zu Babel (1994, Trost) **
- Yusef Lateef: Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music, 2CD)
- Lou Reed: Hudson River Wind Meditations (2007, Light in the Attic) **
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B+(*) |
- John Coltrane Quartet + Stan Getz + Oscar Peterson: Live/Dusseldorf March 28th, 1960 (Lantower) **
- Ghetto Brothers: Power-Fuerza (1972, Vampisoul) **
- Pete Jolly: Seasons (1970, Future Days) **
- Microstoria: Init Ding + _Snd (1995-96, Thrill Jockey, 2CD) **
- Sun Ra: At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective, 2CD)
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