Sunday, November 9, 2025

• Jack DeJohnette & Bill Frisell, The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers
• Arthur Blythe, Lenox Avenue Breakdown (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• X, Smoke & Fiction
• Kiss, Alive II (disc 1)
• Soft Cell, Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing
• D’Angelo, Voodoo

Saturday, November 8, 2025

• Biota, Tumble
• Ben Hall’s She Shells String Trio, Negatively Complicating a Procedure That Is Already Flawed
• Ahmad Jamal, Cross Country Tour: 1958–1961 (disc 1)
• Miles Davis, Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (disc 1) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Jack DeJohnette, Zebra
• Tortoise, Touch
• Coil, Black Antlers
• Spitting Image, Full Sun
• Adam and the Ants, Kings of the Wild Frontier
• Joe Henry, Scar
• Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti (disc 1)
• Kiss, Alive II (disc 2)

Friday, November 7, 2025

• Biota, Awry
• John Stevens, Touching On •
• Jack DeJohnette, Pictures
• Jack DeJohnette, New Directions in Europe
• The Ahmad Jamal Trio, Complete Live at the Spotlite Club 1958 (disc 2)
• Burning Spear, Garvey’s Ghost
• Soft Cell, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
• Edith Frost, Wonder Wonder
• Los Lobos, Wolf Tracks (The Best of Los Lobos)

Thursday, November 6, 2025

• Collin Walcott, Cloud Dance (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Pat Metheny, 80/81 (disc 2) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Eddie Harris, Sings the Blues
• Deodato, Prelude
• Prince Far I, Under Heavy Manners
• X, Los Angeles
• Kiss, Alive II (disc 1)
• D’Angelo, Voodoo

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

• Biota, Biota
• The Ahmad Jamal Trio, Complete Live at the Spotlite Club 1958 (disc 1)
• Eberhard Weber, Little Movements
• John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Jack DeJohnette, Gateway
• Miles Davis, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 1) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Tortoise, Touch
• X, Smoke & Fiction
• Kiss, Alive! (disc 2)
• Joe Henry, Scar
• Paul Simon, Seven Psalms

October 2025 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Barry Gifford, Landscape with Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves (1979)
• Barry Gifford, Wild at Heart (1989)
• Michael Moorcock, The Hollow Lands (1974)
• Michael Moorcock, The End of All Songs (1976)

nonfiction:

• Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (1908)
• Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World (2023)

movies:

• Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another (2025)
• Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza (2021)
• Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia (2025)
• Fred Halsted, L.A. Plays Itself (1972)

* = re-read/re-view

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

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

• Olivier Messiaen, Complete Organ Works (Olivier Latry) (disc 1)
• Alvin Lucier, Anthony Burr / Charles Curtis (disc 1)
• Jack DeJohnette, Pictures
• Pat Metheny, 80/81 (disc 1) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Ahmad Jamal, At the Pershing: But Not for Me
• Khalil Abraham, Demo
• Coil, Black Antlers
• Soft Cell, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
• Jane’s Addiction, Nothing’s Shocking

Monday, November 3, 2025

• John Butcher / Phil Durrant / Mark Wastell, Around the Square, Above the Hill
• Tim Daisy / Jeb Bishop / Andrew Clinkman / Brittany Karlson, Resound
• The Necks, Disquiet (disc 1)
• Miles Davis, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 2) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Terje Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous, Jack DeJohnette, Terje Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous, Jack DeJohnette
• Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (disc 2)
• Deodato, Prelude
• Prince Far I, Under Heavy Manners
• Major Stars, More Colors of Sound
• Low, I Could Live in Hope
• Edith Frost, Wonder Wonder
• Soft Cell, Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing
• Tears for Fears, Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92)

Sunday, November 2, 2025

• JG Thirlwell, Dystonia (Mivos Quartet)
• Bill Evans, Trio 64
• Jack DeJohnette, New Directions
• Miles Davis, Black Beauty (disc 1) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Sasquatch Landslide
• Biota, Awry
• Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (disc 1)
• Khalil Abraham, Demo
• Bitchin Bajas, Bajascillators
• Tortoise, Touch
• Coil, Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2
• Current 93, Thunder Perfect Mind
• Edith Frost, In Space
• D’Angelo, Voodoo
• Pat Benatar, Greatest Hits
• Kiss, Alive! (disc 2)

Saturday, November 1, 2025

• John Duncan, Dark Market Broadcast
• Bill Orcutt, Music for Four Guitars
• Keith Jarrett & Jack DeJohnette, Ruta and Daitya
• John Abercrombie, Timeless (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Elvin Jones & Jimmy Garrison, Illumination!
• Joe Henry, Scar
• Coil, Black Antlers
• Jane’s Addiction, Nothing’s Shocking
• Kiss, Alive! (disc 1)
• Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti (disc 2)
• Nina Simone, Pastel Blues

Friday, October 31, 2025

• Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 3)
• John Duncan, Incoming
• Peter Brötzmann & Han Bennink, Still Quite Popular After All Those Years
• Jack DeJohnette, Pictures
• John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Jack DeJohnette, Gateway 2
• Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (disc 3)
• Spacemen 3, The Perfect Prescription (disc 2)
• Major Stars, More Colors of Sound
• Kiss, Alive II (disc 1)
• Pat Benatar, Greatest Hits
• Tears for Fears, Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92)
• Al Green, The Belle Album

Thursday, October 30, 2025

• Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (disc 2)
• Biota, Awry
• Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Clifford Brown * Max Roach
• Lee Konitz, Satori (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Miles Davis, At Fillmore (disc 1) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Deodato, Prelude
• Khalil Abraham, Demo
• Luke Vibert, Stop the Panic (w/ B.J. Cole)

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

• Laura Cetilia, Gorgeous Nothings (Elsewhere)
• Charles Curtis, Ultra White Violet Light/Sleep (disc 1)
• Pierre Henry, Apocalypse de Jean (disc 2)
• Hello Spiral, Loss Prevention
• Biota, Tumble
• Jack DeJohnette, Pictures
• Pat Metheny, 80/81 (disc 2) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 5)
• Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (disc 1)
• Tortoise, Touch
• Jane’s Addiction, Nothing’s Shocking
• Joe Henry, Scar
• Nina Simone, Pastel Blues

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

• J.S. Bach, An Imaginary Dance (Charles Curtis)
• Hello Spiral, Detached Objects
• Jack DeJohnette & Bill Frisell, The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers
• Pat Metheny, 80/81 (disc 1) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Eberhard Weber, Endless Days
• Shoko Numao, The Siwnin Sails
• Oneohtrix Point Never, Replica
• Khalil Abraham, Demo
• Soft Cell, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
• Pat Benatar, Greatest Hits
• Kiss, Alive II (disc 2)

RIP David Ball (of Soft Cell)

Monday, October 27, 2025

• Samuel Reinhard, For 10 Musicians (Elsewhere)
• Pita, Get Out
• Rafael Toral, Traveling Light
• Machine Gun, Machine Gun
• Jack DeJohnette, Special Edition
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 5)
• Biota, Awry
• Tortoise, Touch
• Coil, Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2
• D’Angelo, Voodoo
• Tears for Fears, Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92)
• Kiss, Alive! (disc 1)
• Lead Belly, The Definitive Leadbelly (disc 3)

RIP Jack DeJohnette

Sunday, October 26, 2025

• Robert Musso, Absolute Music
• Machine Gun, Open Fire
• The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Sasquatch Landslide
• Nina Simone, Pastel Blues
• Major Stars, More Colors of Sound
• Jane’s Addiction, Nothing’s Shocking

Saturday, October 25, 2025

• Olivier Messiaen, Turangalîla-Symphonie (Nelsons/BSO)
• Olivier Messiaen, Complete Organ Works (Olivier Latry) (disc 4)
• Costin Miereanu, Poly-Art Recordings 1976–1982 (disc 6)
• Natural Information Society, Perseverance Flow
• D’Angelo, Black Messiah
• Kiss, Alive! (disc 2)

Friday, October 24, 2025

• Olivier Messiaen, Complete Organ Works (Olivier Latry) (disc 5)
• Lasse Marhaug, The Shape of Rock to Come
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 5)
• Sister John Angela, Burns Canyon
• Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (disc 3)
• Coil, Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2
• Crass, Best Before 1984
• Kiss, Alive! (disc 1)
• Tears for Fears, Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92)
• D’Angelo, Voodoo
• Nina Simone, Pastel Blues
• Lead Belly, The Definitive Leadbelly (disc 3)

Thursday, October 23, 2025

• Olivier Messiaen, Complete Organ Works (Olivier Latry) (disc 1)
• Cecil Taylor, In Florescence
• The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Sasquatch Landslide
• Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (disc 2)
• Joe Henry, Scar
• Kiss, Alive! (disc 2)

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

• Scott Smallwood, Desert Winds: Six Windblown Sound Pieces
• Olivier Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin du temps
• Cecil Taylor, Looking (Berlin Version) Trio
• Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (disc 1)
• Crass, Ten Notes on a Summer’s Day
• Kiss, Alive! (disc 1)

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

• Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 1)
• Costin Miereanu, Poly-Art Recordings 1976–1982 (disc 5)
• Pedestrian Deposit, Dyers’ Hands
• Sister John Angela, Burns Canyon
• Crass, Best Before 1984
• D’Angelo, Brown Sugar
• Prince, Parade
• Nina Simone, Pastel Blues
• Lead Belly, The Definitive Leadbelly (disc 3)

Monday, October 20, 2025

• David First, Revolutions
• San Agustin, The Expanding Sea (disc 1)
• The Elephant Table Album (disc 2)
• Coil, Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2
• Brian Eno, Another Green World
• Tears for Fears, Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92)
• Kiss, Alive! (disc 2)

Sunday, October 19, 2025

• Costin Miereanu, Poly-Art Recordings 1976–1982 (disc 4)
• brekekekexkoaxkoax, Sudden Empire of Tears
• Keiji Haino, My Lord Music...
• Herbie Hancock, Speak Like a Child
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 5)
• The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Sasquatch Landslide
• Coil, Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1
• Crass, Ten Notes on a Summer’s Day
• Kiss, Alive! (disc 1)
• Yellow Magic Orchestra, Technodelic

Saturday, October 18, 2025

• Lasse Marhaug, Provoke
• Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke, Pareidolia
• Jeb Bishop, Tim Daisy & Mark Feldman, Begin, Again
• Sir Richard Bishop, Tangier Sessions
• Sister John Angela, Burns Canyon
• Black Pus, All My Relations
• Crass, Best Before 1984
• Kiss, Destroyer
• Al Green, I’m Still in Love with You
• Lead Belly, The Definitive Leadbelly (disc 3)

RIP Ace Frehley

Friday, October 17, 2025

• Costin Miereanu, Poly-Art Recordings 1976–1982 (disc 1)
• The Necks, Disquiet (disc 3)
• Ornette Coleman, The Complete Science Fiction Sessions (disc 1)
• Bobby Hutcherson, Patterns
• Pentangle, Reflection
• Al Green, The Belle Album
• The Feelies, Rewind

Thursday, October 16, 2025

• Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 2)
• Farmers Manual, fsck
• Jim O’Rourke, Some Kind of Pagan
• The Necks, Disquiet (disc 2)
• The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Sasquatch Landslide
• Pentangle, Cruel Sister
• Crass, Ten Notes on a Summer’s Day
• Yellow Magic Orchestra, Technodelic
• Bohannon, The Collection

RIP Danny Thompson (of Pentangle)

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

• Mark Fell, Psychic Resynthesis (disc 2)
• Orton Socket, 99 Explosions
• The Necks, Disquiet (disc 1)
• Cecil Taylor & Louis Moholo, Remembrance
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 5)
• Sister John Angela, Burns Canyon
• Bohannon, Keep on Dancin’

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

• India: Festival Music of Kerala (JVC)
• J.S. Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier (András Schiff, 2011) (disc 1)
• Steve Reich, Tehillim (ECM)
• Crass, Ten Notes on a Summer’s Day
• The Feelies, Rewind
• Bohannon, Bohannon
• Al Green, The Belle Album

Monday, October 13, 2025

• Ustad Bismillah Khan, The Shehnai’s Humble Master (disc 2)
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Eroica Variations / 32 Variations / 6 Variations / Bagatelles (Glenn Gould) (disc 1)
• Franz Schubert, Late String Quartets, String Quintet (Emerson String Quartet) (disc 1)
• Mark Fell, Psychic Resynthesis (disc 1)
• Jürg Frey, Weites Land, Tiefe Zeit: Räume 1-8 (disc 1)
• Bill Evans, Trio 64
• Bobby Hutcherson, Patterns
• Henry Kaiser, The Deep Unreal
• Sir Richard Bishop, Tangier Sessions
• Wire, Mind Hive
• Yellow Magic Orchestra, Technodelic
• Al Green, Let’s Stay Together

Sunday, October 12, 2025

• Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto, Love, Love
• Sister John Angela, Burns Canyon
• Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 3)
• Wire, Not About to Die (Studio Demos 1977–1978)
• Al Green, Let’s Stay Together

Saturday, October 11, 2025

• Thelonious Monk, Straight, No Chaser
• Lee Morgan, The Procrastinator
• Crass, Best Before 1984
• Wire, 10:20
• The Feelies, Rewind
• Al Green, The Belle Album

Friday, October 10, 2025

• Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas, Automaginary
• Steve Lacy, The Beat Suite
• David Murray, Ming
• John McLaughlin, Devotion
• Dome, Dome 2
• Crass, Ten Notes on a Summer’s Day
• The Feelies, Time for a Witness

Thursday, October 9, 2025

• John Cage, Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) (disc 5)
• Music Before Revolution (disc 4)
• Alvin Curran / Roberto Laneri / Giancarlo Schiaffini / Frances-Marie Uitti / Tony Ackerman / Bruno Tommaso, The Beat 72 Lost Date
• Crass, Penis Envy
• The Feelies, Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground
• Bonnie “Prince” Billy, I Have Made a Place

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

• Jürg Frey, String Trio (Apartment House)
• Gene Coleman, Exploratorium
• Sophie Agnel & Michael Zerang, Draw Bridge
• Darren Johnston & Tim Daisy, Crossing Belmont
• Cecil Taylor, The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert at the Town Hall NYC November 4, 1973 (disc 2)
• Ornette Coleman, Croydon Concert
• Charles Mingus, Mingus
• Bill Evans, Trio 64
• Crass, The Feeding of the 5000
• The Feelies, Rewind
• Bohannon, Phase II
• Al Green, The Belle Album
• Lead Belly, The Definitive Leadbelly (disc 3)

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

• Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 3)
• Pierre Henry, Apocalypse de Jean (disc 1)
• Kevin Drumm, Eremition 3
• AMM, Fine
• Darren Johnston, Life in Time
• Wayne Shorter, Native Dancer
• Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 3)
• Crass, Best Before 1984
• Bohannon, Bohannon

Monday, October 6, 2025

• Salamat Ali Khan, Metamusik Festival Berlin ’74
• Éliane Radigue, Ψ 847 (disc 1)
• Taku Sugimoto, Opposite
• Cecil Taylor, Respiration
• Marion Brown, Porto Novo
• Willem Breuker Kollektief, Celebrating 25 Years on the Road (disc 2)
• Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 2)
• Slovenly, We Shoot For the Moon
• Crass, 1979 John Peel Session
• Galaxie 500, Today
• Bohannon, Keep on Dancin’
• Al Green, Let’s Stay Together

Sunday, October 5, 2025

• Kory Reeder, Homestead (Apartment House)
• Alan Watts, This Is It
• Willem Breuker Kollektief, Celebrating 25 Years on the Road (disc 1)
• Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 1)
• The Elephant Table Album (disc 1)
• Yellow Magic Orchestra, Technodelic
• The Feelies, Rewind
• The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers
• Bohannon, Phase II
• Al Green, The Belle Album
• Billboard’s Top Rock ’n’ Roll Hits: 1969

August/September 2025 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Jean Genet, The Thief’s Journal (1949)
• Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin (1957)
• Michael Moorcock, An Alien Heat (1972)
• Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake (2024)
• Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man (1951)
• Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (1961)
• Stephen King, Carrie (1974)
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (1912) *

nonfiction:

• Jane Giles, The Cinema of Jean Genet: Un chant d’amour

movies:

• Jean Genet, Un chant d’amour (1954) *
• Chuck Jones, The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965) *
• Saul Bass, Phase IV (1974)
• Eliza Hittman, Beach Rats (2017)
• Rob Reiner, The Princess Bride (1987)
• Eugenio Martín, Horror Express (1972)
• Steve Scott, Rough Cut (1979)
• Fatty Arbuckle, Coney Island (1917)
• Luca Guadagnino, Challengers (2024)

* = re-read/re-view

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

Saturday, October 4, 2025

• Walter Marchetti, Natura Morta (Cramps)
• Alvin Lucier, String Noise (disc 2)
• Olivia Block, Breach
• Kevin Drumm, The Real Sound of Small Talk
• Brent Gutzeit, Micro-Regressions
• Andrew Cyrille / Jeanne Lee / Jimmy Lyons, Nuba
• Allan Holdsworth, Metal Fatigue
• Bohannon, Bohannon
• Paul McCartney, McCartney II
• Pat Benatar, Greatest Hits
• Enya, Watermark

Friday, October 3, 2025

• Jürg Frey, Les Signes Passagers (Elsewhere)
• Daniel Lentz, Missa Umbrarum
• Kevin Drumm, Eremition II
• Gescom, Minidisc
• Merzbow, Nil Vagina for Mice (7")
• Yan Jun, Voice Solo
• Bobby Hutcherson, Patterns
• Squarepusher, Numbers Lucent
• The Elephant Table Album (disc 2)
• Iron Lung, Adapting // Crawling
• Crass, 1979 John Peel Session
• Codeine, Barely Real
• Bohannon, Essential Dance Floor Artists Vol. 4
• Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Ain’t That a Bitch

Thursday, October 2, 2025

• Kevin Drumm, Eremition
• Francisco Meirino, Recordings of Voltage Errors, Magnetic Fields, On-Site Testimonies & Tape Tension
• Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship
• Paul Motian, Time and Time Again
• Marion Brown, Porto Novo
• Omar Souleyman, Jazeera Nights
• The Elephant Table Album (disc 1)
• Unrest, Kustom Karnal Blackxploitation
• Chrome, Red Exposure
• Bohannon, Bohannon
• Al Green, Let’s Stay Together
• Billboard’s Top Rock ’n’ Roll Hits: 1969

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

• Sun Ra, Calling Planet Earth (disc 2)
• Paul Motian Trio 2000 + Two, Live at the Village Vanguard, Volume II
• Herbie Hancock, Speak Like a Child
• Bohannon, Phase II

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

• Sun Ra, Calling Planet Earth (disc 2)

Monday, September 29, 2025

• The Elephant Table Album (disc 2)
• Bohannon, Keep on Dancin’
• Al Green, Let’s Stay Together

Sunday, September 28, 2025

• Bohannon, Phase II

Saturday, September 27, 2025

• Jürg Frey, String Trio (Apartment House)
• McCoy Tyner / Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs’ (disc 2)
• The Elephant Table Album (disc 1)
• Bohannon, Bohannon

Friday, September 26, 2025

• Bohannon, Gittin’ Off

Thursday, September 25, 2025

• The Haters, Clici-Clic 1992
• Derek Bailey & Henry Kaiser, Wireforks
• Willem Breuker Kollektief, Celebrating 25 Years on the Road (disc 2)
• The Weird Weeds, I Miss This
• Bohannon, Summertime Groove

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

• Lou Gare, No Strings Attached
• Willem Breuker Kollektief, Celebrating 25 Years on the Road (disc 1)
• Joseph Jarman, Song For
• Charles Mingus, Mingus
• Obscuress, Maltha
• The Elephant Table Album (disc 2)
• Frank Zappa, Trance-Fusion
• Bohannon, The Collection
• Al Green, Let’s Stay Together

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

• Lasse Marhaug, Science Fiction Room Service
• The Elephant Table Album (disc 1)
• Aphex Twin, Chosen Lords
• Bohannon, Phase II
• Al Green, I’m Still in Love with You
• Tall Dwarfs, Stumpy
• Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 2)