Friday, February 7, 2025

Friday, February 7, 2025

Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal
  • Rafael Toral, Space
  • Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist (soundtrack)
  • Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal
  • Gerry Mulligan, Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet
  • Booker T. & the MGs, Melting Pot
  • The Soft Machine, Third (feat. Mike Ratledge)
  • Shrimp Boat, Something Grand (disc 3)
  • Yello, Essential
  • Bob Dylan, Street-Legal
  • Beyoncé, Cowboy Carter
  • Lead Belly, The Definitive Leadbelly (disc 2)

Thursday, February 6, 2025

Thursday, February 6, 2025

Evan Parker, The Heraclitean Two-Step, Etc.
  • Roedelius, 90 (disc 2)
  • Evan Parker, The Heraclitean Two-Step, Etc. (disc 4)
  • Sun Ra, Atlantis
  • Alcorn / McPhee / Vandermark, Invitation to a Dream
  • John Coltrane, One Down, One Up (Live at the Half Note) (disc 1)
  • Disco Not Disco 2
  • The Soft Machine, Volume Two (feat. Mike Ratledge)
  • The Sea and Cake, The Sea and Cake
  • Shrimp Boat, Something Grand (disc 1)
  • Bob Dylan, Saved
  • Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
RIP Mike Ratledge

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Susan Alcorn, And I Await the Resurrection of the Pedal Steel Guitar
  • Roedelius, 90 (disc 1)
  • Susan Alcorn, And I Await the Resurrection of the Pedal Steel Guitar
  • Matching Mole, Little Red Record
  • Shrimp Boat, Duende
  • Bob Dylan, Modern Times
  • Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (Volume Two)
  • John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Maleem Mahmoud Ghania with Pharoah Sanders, The Trance of Seven Colors
  • Roedelius, 90 (disc 4)
  • John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
  • Booker Little, Out Front
  • Maleem Mahmoud Ghania with Pharoah Sanders, The Trance of Seven Colors
  • Splat, And Yeah So (1981-85)
  • Shrimp Boat, Something Grand (disc 2)
  • Bob Dylan, Nashville Skyline
  • Lead Belly, The Definitive Leadbelly (disc 2)

Monday, February 3, 2025

Monday, February 3, 2025

Gabby Pahinui, Gabby
  • Roedelius, 90 (disc 3)
  • How the River Ganges Flows: Sublime Masterpieces of Indian Violin, 1933-1952
  • Eric Dolphy, Far Cry (feat. Roy Haynes)
  • Black Duck, Black Duck
  • Frank Zappa, 200 Motels (disc 1)
  • Frank Zappa, We’re Only In It for the Money
  • Master/Slave Relationship, This Lubricious Love
  • Disco Not Disco 2
  • Bob Dylan, Street-Legal
  • Booker T. & the MGs, Melting Pot
  • Gabby Pahinui, Gabby

Sunday, February 2, 2025

Sunday, February 2, 2025

Matching Mole, Matching Mole's Little Red Record
  • Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 8 (Herbert von Karajan, Deutsche Grammophon)
  • Roedelius, 90 (disc 2)
  • John Tilbury / Keith Rowe / Kjell Bjørgeengen, Sissel
  • Susan Alcorn, And I Await the Resurrection of the Pedal Steel Guitar
  • Matching Mole, Little Red Record
  • Captain Beefheart, The Spotlight Kid (feat. Elliot Ingber)
  • Frank Zappa, Freak Out! (feat. Elliot Ingber)
  • Shrimp Boat, Something Grand (disc 2)
  • Codeine, Barely Real
  • Bob Dylan, Oh Mercy
  • Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (Volume Two)
RIP Elliot Ingber (Winged Eel Fingerling)

Saturday, February 1, 2025

Saturday, February 1, 2025

Shrimp Boat, Duende
  • Roedelius, 90 (disc 1)
  • Splat, And Yeah So (1981-85)
  • Disco Not Disco: Post Punk, Electro & Leftfield Disco Classics 1974–1986
  • Shrimp Boat, Duende
  • The Coctails, Popcorn Box (disc 1)
  • Lead Belly, The Definitive Leadbelly (disc 2)
  • Skip James, The Complete Early Recordings of Skip James

Friday, January 31, 2025

Friday, January 31, 2025

Sun Ra, The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1
  • Roedelius, Durch die Wüste
  • Pierre Schaeffer, L’Œuvre musicale (disc 3)
  • Keiji Haino, Barre Phillips & Sabu Toyozumi , Two Strings Will Do It
  • Alcorn / McPhee / Vandermark, Invitation to a Dream
  • Wadada Leo Smith, Spirit Catcher
  • Sun Ra, The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1
  • Cecil Taylor, Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil
  • Duke Ellington, The Duke’s Men: Small Groups Volume I (disc 2)
  • Black Duck, Black Duck
  • The Texas-Czech, Bohemian & Moravian Bands (Arhoolie)
RIP Susan Alcorn

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Codeine, Barely Real
  • How the River Ganges Flows: Sublime Masterpieces of Indian Violin, 1933-1952
  • Philip Glass, Music with Changing Parts
  • Brent Gutzeit, Micro-Regressions
  • Thelonious Monk, The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall
  • Gerry Mulligan, Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet
  • Codeine, Barely Real
  • Shrimp Boat, Something Grand (disc 2)
  • The Band, The Last Waltz (disc 2)
  • R.E.M., Lifes Rich Pageant
  • Disco Not Disco 2
  • Prince, Around the World in a Day
  • Booker T. & the MGs, Melting Pot

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

James Booker, Spiders on the Keys
  • Lars-Göran Ulander Trio, Live at Glenn Miller Café
  • Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy’s Diamonds: Best of the Verve Years (disc 3)
  • James Booker, Spiders on the Keys
  • The Carter Family, The Best of the Carter Family

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Joe Maneri, Barre Phillips, Mat Maneri, Tales of Rohnlief
  • Barre Phillips, Mountainscapes
  • Joe Maneri / Barre Phillips / Mat Maneri, Tales of Rohnlief
  • John Carter & Bobby Bradford Quartet, Flight for Four
  • Booker Little, Out Front
  • Black Duck, Black Duck
  • The Sea and Cake, The Sea and Cake
  • The Coctails, Popcorn Box (disc 1)
  • The Band, The Last Waltz (disc 1)
  • Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (disc 2)
  • Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (Volume Two)

Monday, January 27, 2025

Monday, January 27, 2025

The Congos, Heart of the Congos
  • Barre Phillips, Music By...
  • Alice Coltrane, Transfiguration (disc 1) (feat. Roy Haynes)
  • The Congos, Heart of the Congos (disc 1)
  • Disco Not Disco 2
  • The Fugs, First Album
  • Shrimp Boat, Something Grand (disc 2)
  • James Booker, Resurrection of the Bayou Maharajah
  • Lead Belly, The Definitive Leadbelly (disc 2)
  • John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Barry Guy, Barre Phillips, Arcus
  • Gate, Foreign Lawns (disc 4)
  • Evan Parker, The Heraclitean Two-Step, Etc. (disc 3)
  • Barry Guy & Barre Phillips, Arcus
  • Sun Ra, Black Myth / Out in Space (disc 1)
  • McCoy Tyner / Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs’ (disc 1)
  • Eric Dolphy, Far Cry
  • John Coltrane, Blue Train
  • Alice Coltrane, World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
  • Sand, Golem
  • Sam Prekop, Sam Prekop
  • Booker T. & the MGs, Melting Pot
  • The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir, Shakin’ the Rafters

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Roland Kayn, The Ortho-Project
  • Steve Reich, Tehillim (ECM)
  • Jürg Frey, Continuité, fragilité, résonance (Quatuor Bozzini/Konus Quartett)
  • Roland Kayn, The Ortho-Project (disc 1)
  • Barre Phillips, For All It Is
  • Barre Phillips, Call Me When You Get There
  • Alice Coltrane, Ptah, the El Daoud
  • Alice Coltrane, Translinear Light
  • Black Duck, Black Duck
  • The Coctails, Popcorn Box (disc 1)
  • Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (disc 1)
  • The Texas-Czech, Bohemian & Moravian Bands (Arhoolie)

Friday, January 24, 2025

Friday, January 24, 2025

Sarah Hennies, SOVT, Elsewhere
  • Sarah Hennies, SOVT (Richard Valitutto, piano)
  • Evan Parker, The Heraclitean Two-Step, Etc. (disc 2)
  • Barre Phillips, End to End
  • Barre Phillips, Music By...
  • Gate, Foreign Lawns (disc 3)
  • Merzbow, Magnesia Nova
  • Buzzcocks, Another Music in a Different Kitchen
  • The Fugs, Second Album
  • The Band, Northern Lights — Southern Cross
  • Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (Volume Two)
  • Lead Belly, The Definitive Leadbelly (disc 2)

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Ștefan Niculescu, Ison Ia / Echos / Ison II
  • Meredith Young-Sowers, Agartha: Personal Meditation Music (disc 3)
  • Kevin Drumm, Disintegrating Day to Day Incorporeal Matters
  • Felicity Mangan, Wet on Wet
  • Ștefan Niculescu, Ison Ia / Echos / Ison II
  • Barre Phillips, Mountainscapes
  • Barre Phillips, Journal Violone II
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago, Ancient to the Future: Dreaming of the Masters Series Vol. 1
  • Band of Susans, The Word and the Flesh
  • The Fugs, First Album
  • The Band, Stage Fright
  • Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Live 1966: The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert (disc 1)
  • The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir, Shakin’ the Rafters

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Horatiu Radulescu, Intimate Rituals
  • Kevin Drumm, More (Sunday Stuff)
  • Horatiu Radulescu, Intimate Rituals
  • Peter Kowald & Barre Phillips, Die Jungen: Random Generators
  • Barre Phillips, Call Me When You Get There
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago, Dreaming of the Masters Suite
  • Wire, Snakedrill
  • Wire, Send Ultimate (disc 1)
  • Band of Susans, Love Agenda
  • The Band, The Band
  • The Texas-Czech, Bohemian & Moravian Bands (Arhoolie)

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The Trio, Conflagration
  • Horatiu Radulescu, Works for Organ & for Cello
  • George Flynn, Trinity (Fredrik Ullén, piano) (disc 2)
  • The Necks, Bleed
  • Barre Phillips, Music By...
  • The Trio, Conflagration (feat. Barre Phillips)
  • John Carter & Bobby Bradford, Self Determination Music
  • Bill Barron, The Tenor Stylings of Bill Barron
  • Gerry Mulligan, Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet
  • The Coctails, Popcorn Box (disc 1)
  • Wire, Chairs Missing
  • Wire, The Ideal Copy
  • The Fugs, Second Album
  • The Band, Music from Big Pink
RIP Garth Hudson

Monday, January 20, 2025

Monday, January 20, 2025

George Flynn, Trinity
  • Giuliano d’Angiolini, Simmetrie di ritorno
  • George Flynn, Trinity (Fredrik Ullén, piano) (disc 1)
  • Barre Phillips, Ahoy!
  • Barre Phillips, Journal Violone II
  • Bailey/Bryars/Oxley, Joseph Holbrooke ’98
  • Niklas Fite & Günter Christmann, Insisting
  • Evan Parker, Toshi Tsuchitori, William Parker, The Flow of Spirit
  • The Trio, The Trio (feat. Barre Phillips) (disc 2)
  • Ahmed, Giant Beauty (disc 3)
  • Wire, Behind the Curtain
  • Wire, Live at The Roxy, London - April 1st & 2nd 1977
  • The Fugs, First Album
  • The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir, Shakin’ the Rafters

Sunday, January 19, 2025

Tom Johnson, An Hour for Piano, Frederic Rzewski
  • Tom Johnson, An Hour for Piano (Frederic Rzewski, piano)
  • Gavin Bryars, A Man in a Room, Gambling (Point)
  • Bob James, Explosions (feat. Barre Phillips)
  • Barre Phillips, Call Me When You Get There
  • The Trio, The Trio (feat. Barre Phillips) (disc 1)
  • Band of Susans, Love Agenda
  • Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
RIP Tom Johnson

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Barre Phillips, Music By...
  • Kevin Drumm, The Gas Bill EP
  • Barre Phillips, Journal Violone 9
  • Barre Phillips, Music By...
  • Ken Vandermark & Hamid Drake, Eternal River
  • Gerry Mulligan, Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet
  • Splat, And Yeah So (1981-85)
  • Bomb, Hits of Acid
  • The Fugs, Second Album
  • Richard & Mimi Fariña, Celebrations for a Grey Day

Friday, January 17, 2025

Friday, January 17, 2025

John Carter, Bobby Bradford, Self Determination Music
  • Borbetomagus & Voice Crack, Concerto for Cracked Everyday-Electronics and Chamber Orchestra
  • Muhal Richard Abrams & Malachi Favors, Sightsong
  • Barre Phillips, Mountainscapes
  • Barre Phillips, Journal Violone II
  • John Carter & Bobby Bradford, Self Determination Music
  • Thelonious Monk, The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall
  • High Rise, Dispersion
  • The Coctails, The Early Hi-Ball Years
  • The Fugs, First Album
  • Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1–3 (disc 3)
  • Charles Angle, Another Great Sound Recording
  • Johnny Mathis, Heavenly
  • The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir, Shakin’ the Rafters

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Barre Phillips, Camouflage
  • Toshi Tsuchitori ‎, Jômonko: Pottery Drums of the Jomon Period
  • Charles Ives, Concord Sonata (Aimard/Graham)
  • Ansambul Hyperion (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
  • Borbetomagus, Zurich
  • Derek Bailey, Duo & Trio Improvisation
  • Peter Kowald & Barre Phillips, Die Jungen: Random Generators
  • Barre Phillips, Camouflage
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago, Ancient to the Future: Dreaming of the Masters Series Vol. 1
  • Jackie McLean, Destination Out
  • David Murray Quartet, Francesca
  • Yusef Lateef, Eastern Sounds
  • The Lounge Lizards, The Lounge Lizards
  • Band of Susans, Love Agenda
  • High Rise, High Rise II
  • The Fugs, It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest
  • Ed Askew, For the World
  • Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
  • Johnny Mathis, Merry Christmas

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Fugs, Second Album
  • Meredith Young-Sowers, Agartha: Personal Meditation Music (disc 2)
  • Barre Phillips, Three Day Moon
  • Sun Ra, Black Myth / Out in Space (disc 1)
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago, Dreaming of the Masters Suite
  • Eric Dolphy, Out There (feat. Roy Haynes)
  • Gerry Mulligan, Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet
  • Jim O’Rourke, Bad Timing
  • Bomb, Hits of Acid
  • The Fugs, Second Album
  • Bob Dylan, Modern Times
  • Johnny Mathis, Open Fire, Two Guitars

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Johnny Mathis, Heavenly
  • Max Roach & Cecil Taylor, Historic Concerts (disc 2)
  • Ellery Eskelin, Setting the Standard
  • Art Pepper, Smack Up
  • Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Clifford Brown * Max Roach
  • The Coctails, The Early Hi-Ball Years
  • The Fugs, First Album
  • Amon Düül II, Tanz der Lemminge
  • Pink Floyd, The Wall (disc 1)
  • Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1–3 (disc 3)
  • Johnny Mathis, Heavenly

December 2024 reading & viewing

Jean Genet, Miracle of the Rose

fiction:

  • Jean Genet, Miracle of the Rose
  • Joanna Russ, On Strike Against God

nonfiction:

  • Jeph Jerman & Aram, Yardumian, Listen: Jeph Jerman in Conversation with Aram Yardumian
  • Phil Freeman, In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylor

movies:

  • Gints Zilbalodis, Flow
  • Emerald Fennell, Saltburn

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

November 2024 reading & viewing

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

fiction:

  • Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
  • Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
  • Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
  • Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

visual:

  • Tom Gauld, Baking with Kafka

nonfiction:

  • Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology *

movies:

  • Richard Kern, The Right Side of My Brain
  • Christina Tillman & Joe Losurdo, You Weren’t There: A History of Chicago Punk 1977–1984
  • Heinz Emigholz, Maillart's Bridges

* = re-read/re-view

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

Monday, January 13, 2025

Monday, January 13, 2025

Sylvie Courvoisier, Chimaera
  • Quentin Tolimieri, Monochromes (disc 3)
  • Barre Phillips, Call Me When You Get There
  • Barre Phillips, Journal Violone II
  • Sylvie Courvoisier, Chimaera (disc 2)
  • Muhal Richard Abrams & Malachi Favors, Sightsong
  • Carla Bley, Fancy Chamber Music
  • The Lounge Lizards, The Lounge Lizards
  • Breaking Circus, Home of the Brave / Warhead (7″)
  • The Fall, Perverted by Language
  • The Stooges, Fun House
  • Souled American, Notes Campfire
  • Bob Dylan, Oh Mercy
  • The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour
  • Johnny Mathis, Merry Christmas
  • Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, Souvenirs

Sunday, January 12, 2025

Sunday, January 12, 2025

Barre Phillips, Journal Violone
  • Barre Phillips, Journal Violone
  • Barre Phillips, For All It Is
  • Carla Bley, Fleur Carnivore
  • Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Kory Reeder, Codex Vivere, Apartment House
  • Tangerine Dream, Logos Live
  • Kory Reeder, Codex Vivere (Apartment House)
  • Carla Bley, Trios
  • Barre Phillips, Mountainscapes
  • Barre Phillips, Three Day Moon
  • Band of Susans, Love Agenda
  • Bomb, Hits of Acid
  • Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks

Friday, January 10, 2025

Friday, January 10, 2025

Dave Holland, Barre Phillips, Music from Two Basses
  • Raymond Scott, Soothing Sounds for Baby (disc 2)
  • Dave Holland & Barre Phillips, Music from Two Basses
  • Paul Bley / Evan Parker / Barre Phillips, Time Will Tell
  • Sylvie Courvoisier, Chimaera (disc 1)
  • Ahmed, Giant Beauty (disc 5)
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago, Dreaming of the Masters Suite
  • Carla Bley, Escalator over the Hill (disc 2)
  • The Red Crayola, The Parable of Arable Land
  • Jim O’Rourke, Simple Songs
  • Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1–3 (disc 3)
  • Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
  • Johnny Mathis, Johnny’s Greatest Hits
  • Charles Angle, Another Great Sound Recording

Thursday, January 9, 2025

Thursday, January 9, 2025

Barre Phillips, Keiji Haino, Etchings in the Air
  • Olivia Block, 132 Ranks
  • Michael Ranta, Yuen Shan
  • Mike Bullock / Barre Phillips, At Home
  • Barre Phillips & Keiji Haino, Etchings in the Air
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago, Ancient to the Future: Dreaming of the Masters Series Vol. 1
  • Bill Barron, The Tenor Stylings of Bill Barron
  • Sonny Rollins, The Sound of Sonny (feat. Roy Haynes)
  • Thelonious Monk, The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall
  • id m theft able, Tambourine Green
  • Bob Dylan, Oh Mercy
  • Johnny Mathis, Heavenly

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Barre Phillips, Call Me When You Get There
  • Kevin Drumm, Crazy
  • Sarah Hennies, Motor Tapes (disc 2)
  • Bernard Parmegiani, La création du monde
  • Cornelius Cardew, Treatise (hat Hut) (disc 1)
  • The Necks, Bleed
  • Barre Phillips, Call Me When You Get There
  • Barre Phillips, Three Day Moon
  • John Coltrane, My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport (feat. Roy Haynes)
  • Oliver Nelson, The Blues and the Abstract Truth (feat. Roy Haynes)
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago, Dreaming of the Masters Suite
  • The Lounge Lizards, The Lounge Lizards
  • The Coctails, The Early Hi-Ball Years
  • MC5, Back in the USA
  • Ed Askew, Little Eyes
  • Bob Dylan, Modern Times
  • Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (Volume Two)
  • Johnny Mathis, Merry Christmas

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Derek Bailey, Barre Phillips, Figuring
  • Craig Shepard, On Foot: Aubervilliers (disc 3)
  • Kevin Drumm, “Nothing Under a Microscope”
  • Stephan Wittwer, World of Strings
  • Barre Phillips, Music By...
  • Derek Bailey & Barre Phillips, Figuring
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago with Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Sphere Monk: Dreaming of the Masters Vol. 2
  • Steve Lacy, The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy (feat. Roy Haynes)
  • Andrew Hill, Smoke Stack (feat. Roy Haynes)
  • Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Fargo, North Dakota, November 7, 1940 (disc 2)
  • Bud Freeman, The Ultimate Jazz Archive
  • MC5, High Time
  • Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1–3 (disc 3)
  • Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Monday, January 6, 2025

Monday, January 6, 2025

Barre Phillips, Journal Violone II
  • Assemblage (PBK Recordings)
  • Jim O’Rourke, Most, but Potentially All (Eivind Lønning, trumpet)
  • Barre Phillips, Journal Violone II
  • Archie Shepp, Live Newport 1965 Revisited (feat. Roy Haynes)
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago, Ancient to the Future: Dreaming of the Masters Series Vol. 1
  • Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy
  • Curtis Mayfield, Roots
  • Souled American, Frozen
  • Ed Askew, Ask the Unicorn
  • Bob Dylan, Oh Mercy
RIP Ed Askew

Sunday, January 5, 2025

Sunday, January 5, 2025

Lisa Ullén, Heirloom
  • Suzanne Ciani, Seven Waves
  • Kevin Drumm, Tannenbaum (disc 2)
  • Lisa Ullén, Heirloom
  • Barre Phillips, Three Day Moon
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago, Dreaming of the Masters Suite
  • The Lounge Lizards, The Lounge Lizards
  • Mogwai, Mogwai Young Team
  • Curtis Mayfield, Curtis
  • Bob Dylan, Modern Times

Saturday, January 4, 2025

Saturday, January 4, 2025

Barre Phillips, Mountainscapes
  • Suzanne Ciani, Improvisation on Four Sequences
  • Giuseppe Ielasi, Gesine
  • Blowhole, A Love Extreme (disc 2)
  • Barre Phillips, Mountainscapes
  • Archie Shepp, Four for Trane
  • Souled American, Sonny
  • Gary Numan, Tubeway Army
  • Johnny Mathis, Heavenly

Friday, January 3, 2025

Friday, January 3, 2025

Barre Phillips, Three Day Moon
  • Giuseppe Ielasi, Its Appearance, Reflected by Three Copies
  • Barre Phillips, Three Day Moon
  • Cecil Taylor, The Willisau Concert
  • Archie Shepp, Live Newport 1965 Revisited (feat. Barre Phillips)
  • Sonny Rollins, The Sound of Sonny (feat. Roy Haynes)
  • Bomb, Hits of Acid
  • Bob Dylan, Oh Mercy
  • The Coctails, The Early Hi-Ball Years
  • Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
  • The Texas-Czech, Bohemian & Moravian Bands (Arhoolie)
  • The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir, Shakin’ the Rafters
  • Johnny Mathis, Merry Christmas

Thursday, January 2, 2025

Thursday, January 2, 2025

Bob James, Explosions
  • Traditional Korean Music, Sanjo and Vocal Music (King)
  • Edgar Froese, Pinnacles
  • Franco Battiato, Juke Box
  • Evan Parker, The Heraclitean Two-Step, Etc. (disc 1)
  • Bob James, Explosions (feat. Barre Phillips)
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago, Ancient to the Future: Dreaming of the Masters Series Vol. 1
  • The Lounge Lizards, The Lounge Lizards
  • Mogwai, Mogwai Young Team
  • Bob Dylan & The Band, The Basement Tapes Raw: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11 (disc 2)
  • id m theft able, Tambourine Green

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Barre Phillips, End to End
  • Kevin Drumm, Winter
  • Barre Phillips, End to End
  • Cecil Taylor, Qu’a Yuba: Live at the Iridium Vol. 2
  • The Art Ensemble of Chicago, The Alternate Express
  • Albert Ayler, Lörrach/Paris 1966
  • Count Basie, Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion Lester Young with Count Basie (1936-1940) (disc 1)
  • Bud Freeman, The Ultimate Jazz Archive
  • Chuck Mangione, Feels So Good
  • Big Boys, The Skinny Elvis
  • Ramones, Road to Ruin
  • Bob Dylan, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
  • Charles Angle, Another Great Sound Recording
RIP Barre Phillips

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The Coctails, Live at Lounge Ax
  • The Coctails, Live at Lounge Ax

Monday, December 30, 2024

Sunday, December 29, 2024

Sunday, December 29, 2024

Albert Ayler, More Lost Performances Revisited
  • Albert Ayler, More Lost Performances Revisited
  • Tangerine Dream, Hyperborea

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Die Enttäuschung, Music Minus One
  • Die Enttäuschung, Music Minus One
  • Andrew Hill, Point of Departure

Friday, December 27, 2024

Friday, December 27, 2024

Andrew Cyrille, Good to Go, with a Tribute to Bu
  • Andrew Cyrille, Good to Go, with a Tribute to Bu
  • Don Cherry, Complete Communion

Thursday, December 26, 2024

Thursday, December 26, 2024

Loren Connors, Suzanne Langille, Let the Darkness Fall
  • Loren Connors & Suzanne Langille, Let the Darkness Fall
  • Damon & Naomi, More Sad Hits

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Johnny Mathis, Merry Christmas
  • Lou Reed, Take No Prisoners (disc 2)
  • Johnny Mathis, Merry Christmas

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Psychic TV, Force the Hand of Chance
  • Rafael Toral, Spectral Evolution
  • Duke Ellington, The Duke’s Men: Small Groups Volume I (disc 2)
  • Cecil Taylor / Elvin Jones / Dewey Redman, Momentum Space
  • The San Lucas Band, Music of Guatemala
  • Psychic TV, Force the Hand of Chance
  • Lou Reed, Take No Prisoners (disc 1)

Monday, December 23, 2024

Monday, December 23, 2024

Mogwai, Mogwai Young Team
  • Cecil Taylor, In Florescence
  • SML, Small Medium Large
  • Chuck Mangione, Feels So Good
  • Destroy All Monsters, 1974–1976 (disc 2)
  • Strafe für Rebellion, Vögel
  • Mogwai, Mogwai Young Team
  • Deerhoof, Miracle-Level
  • U.K. Subs, Brand New Age

Sunday, December 22, 2024

Sunday, December 22, 2024

Hands To, Egress
  • 10 + 2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces (1750 Arch)
  • Hands To, Egress
  • Wolfgang Fuchs / Hans Koch / Evan Parker / Louis Sclavis, Duets, Dithyrambisch (disc 1)
  • Cecil Taylor, Iwontunwonsi: Live at Sweet Basil
  • Destroy All Monsters, 1974-1976 (disc 1)
  • U.K. Subs, Another Kind of Blues
  • The Coctails, Live at Lounge Ax