Thursday, July 16, 2026

• Mike Gangloff, Poplar Hollow
• Sonny Rollins, Silver City (disc 1)
• Khruangbin, Live at Sydney Opera House
• The Ex, Joggers and Smoggers (disc 1)
• The Ex, 1936: The Spanish Revolution
• Butthole Surfers, Rembrandt Pussyhorse
• Unrest, Kustom Karnal Blackxploitation
• Burning Spear, Creation Rebel: The Original Classic Recordings from Studio One
• The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main St.

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

• Olivier Messiaen, Complete Organ Works (Olivier Latry) (disc 1)
• Dave Rempis & Lasse Marhaug, Naancore
• David S. Ware Quartet, The Freedom Suite
• Dollar Brand, African Space Program
• Alice Coltrane, Huntington Ashram Monastery
• Autechre, NTS Session 3 (disc 2)
• The Ex + Tom Cora, And the Weathermen Shrug Their Shoulders (w/Tom Cora)
• The Ex, Singles. Period.
• Surf Legends (and Rumors): Rockin’ Instrumentals 1961–1964
• Thomas Dolby, The Flat Earth
• Madonna, Confessions II

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

• Pelt, Ayahuasca (disc 2)
• Alice Coltrane, World Galaxy
• Sonny Rollins, Silver City (disc 2)
• Coleman Hawkins, A Retrospective: 1929–1963 (disc 1)
• Berndt / Schmidt, Cloud Machines
• Autechre, NTS Session 3 (disc 1)
• The Ex, Instant (disc 2)
• The Ex, History Is What’s Happening
• Agriculture, The Spiritual Sound
• Rush, 2112
• Thomas Dolby, Aliens Ate My Buick
• John Lee Hooker, Endless Boogie

Monday, July 13. 2026

• Franz Schubert, Late String Quartets / String Quintet (Emerson String Quartet) (disc 3)
• Arnold Schoenberg, Streichquartette I–IV (disc 1)
• The Ex, Hands Up! You’re Free
• Rush, Counterparts
• Madonna, Confessions II
• The Temptations, Psychedelic Soul (disc 2)
• John Lee Hooker, Burnin’

Sunday, July 12, 2026

• Franz Schubert, Late String Quartets / String Quintet (Emerson String Quartet) (disc 1)
• James Blood Ulmer, Tales of Captain Black
• Darren Johnston, Standard Issue
• Cecil Payne, Zodiac
• Les McCann, Layers
• Boards of Canada, Music Has the Right to Children
• The Ex, Pokkeherrie
• Toots & the Maytals, Funky Kingston

Sunday, July 11, 2026

• Joe Colley, Pleasure Pressure
• Pelt, Untitled
• James Blood Ulmer, America - Do You Remember the Love?
• The Ex, Dead Fish
• Toots & the Maytals, In the Dark

Friday, July 10, 2026

• Autechre, NTS Session 2 (disc 1)
• The Ex + Tom Cora, Scrabbling at the Lock
• Lou Reed & John Cale, Songs for Drella
• Stereolab, Emperor Tomato Ketchup
• Rush, Hemispheres
• John Lee Hooker, Burnin’

Thursday, July 9, 2026

• The Rempis/Daisy Duo, Second Spring
• Les McCann, Layers
• Rush, Moving Pictures
• The Ex, Disturbing Domestic Peace
• John Lee Hooker, Endless Boogie
• The Temptations, Psychedelic Soul (disc 2)
• Toots & the Maytals, In the Dark
• Stereolab, Fab Four Suture
• Madonna, Confessions on a Dance Floor

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

• Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 8 (DGG, Vienna Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez)
• Triage (Rempis / Ajemian / Daisy), Live at the Velvet Lounge
• Darren Johnston, Standard Issue
• Herbie Mann, Live at the Whisky 1969: The Unreleased Masters (disc 2)
• Mike Gangloff, Poplar Hollow
• James Blood Ulmer, America - Do You Remember the Love?
• The Ex, Aural Guerrilla
• Agriculture, The Spiritual Sound
• Rush, Counterparts
• Roxy Music, Siren
• XTC, Drums and Wires
• Toots & the Maytals, Funky Kingston
• The Cramps, Songs the Lord Taught Us
• Surf Legends (and Rumors): Rockin’ Instrumentals 1961–1964

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

• Herbie Mann, Live at the Whisky 1969: The Unreleased Masters (disc 1)
• The Ex, 1936: The Spanish Revolution
• Rush, Power Windows
• Captain Beefheart, Safe as Milk
• John Lee Hooker, Burnin’

June 2026 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men (1995)
• Michael Moorcock, A Cure for Cancer (1971)
• Isaac Asimov, The End of Eternity (1955)

visual:

• Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1983 to 1984
• Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1985 to 1986

nonfiction:

• Michael Pollan, A World Appears (2026)
• Bill Perkins, Die with Zero (2020)

movies:

• Kane Parsons, Backrooms (2026)

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

Monday, July 6, 2026

• Phill Niblock, Touch Food (disc 2)
• Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (disc 2)
• Music Revelation Ensemble, No Wave (feat. James Blood Ulmer)
• Toots & the Maytals, In the Dark
• Lou Reed, Transformer
• Pelt, Ayahuasca (disc 1)
• Rush, Grace Under Pressure
• The Temptations, Psychedelic Soul (disc 2)

Sunday, July 5, 2026

• Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Happy Today
• The Rempis Percussion Quartet, Phalanx (disc 2)
• Sonny Rollins, On Impulse!
• James Blood Ulmer, America - Do You Remember the Love?
• The Ex, Joggers and Smoggers (disc 2)
• Don Caballero, What Burns Never Returns
• Eiko Ishibashi, Antigone
• Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
• Toots & the Maytals, Funky Kingston
• Lou Reed, Rock and Roll Heart
• Rush, Counterparts
• Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker, Hooker ’n Heat (disc 1)

Saturday, July 4, 2026

• Pelt, Max Meadows
• Air, Montreux Suisse
• The Outskirts (Rempis / Flaten / Rosaly + Warelis), Orbital (disc 2)
• Sonny Rollins, Newk’s Time
• SML, Spontaneous Music Live
• James Blood Ulmer, Revealing
• Jandek, Fort Worth Saturday (disc 2)
• The Ex, 6.4
• Butthole Surfers, Rembrandt Pussyhorse
• The Fall, A Part of America Therein
• Lou Reed, Sally Can’t Dance
• John Lee Hooker, Burning Hell

Friday, July 3, 2026

• Pelt, For Michael Hannahs
• Christof Kurzmann, El Infierno Musical II
• The Vandermark 5, Free Jazz Classics Vol. 3: Six for Rollins
• Sonny Rollins, Alfie
• Music Revelation Ensemble, In the Name Of... (feat. James Blood Ulmer)
• The Ex, Dignity of Labour
• The Fall, Fall in a Hole (disc 1)
• Lou Reed, Transformer
• Toots & the Maytals, In the Dark
• The Temptations, Psychedelic Soul (disc 2)
• John Lee Hooker, Endless Boogie

Thursday, July 2, 2026

• Phill Niblock, Touch Food (disc 1)
• Pelt, Skullfuck (Bestio Tergum Degero)
• Autechre, NTS Session 2 (disc 2)
• Air, Open Air Suit
• Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2
• James Blood Ulmer, Black Rock
• The Ex, Joggers and Smoggers (disc 1)
• Ruins, Vrresto
• Patti Smith, Horses
• The Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin
• Blue Öyster Cult, Secret Treaties
• Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker, Hooker ’n Heat (disc 2)

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

• Pelt, Pearls from the River
• Sonny Rollins, Freedom Suite
• Miles Davis, Cookin’
• Chicago Underground Duo, Hyperglyph
• Ava Mendoza, Alive Alone, Alive Together (feat. Hamid Drake)
• James Blood Ulmer, America - Do You Remember the Love?
• The Velvet Underground, The End of Cole Ave., Dallas, TX, 10-19-1969
• Unrest, Kustom Karnal Blackxploitation
• Violent Femmes, Hallowed Ground
• Toots & the Maytals, Funky Kingston
• Boards of Canada, Inferno
• Esquivel, Cabaret Mañana

RIP Mikel Dimmick (of Pelt)

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

• Dollar Brand, African Piano
• Mars Williams & Hamid Drake, I Know You Are But What Am I?
• Air, Air Lore
• Sonny Rollins, On Impulse!
• Miles Davis, Relaxin’
• James Blood Ulmer, Odyssey
• Agriculture, The Spiritual Sound
• Thomas Dolby, The Golden Age of Wireless
• Toots & the Maytals, In the Dark
• John Lee Hooker, Burning Hell

Monday, June 29, 2026

• Air, Air Raid
• Sonny Rollins, Newk’s Time
• Miles Davis, Steamin’
• James Blood Ulmer, Free Lancing
• Lou Reed, Transformer
• Thomas Dolby, The Flat Earth
• Rush, Snakes & Arrows
• Blue Öyster Cult, Secret Treaties
• Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker, Hooker ’n Heat (disc 2)
• Toots & the Maytals, Funky Kingston

Sunday, June 28, 2026

• Olivier Messiaen, Complete Organ Works (Olivier Latry) (disc 4)
• Kevin Drumm, Stress
• Dave Rempis / Elisabeth Harnik / Michael Zerang, Astragaloi
• The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
• Ava Mendoza, Alive Alone, Alive Together (feat. Hamid Drake)
• James Blood Ulmer, America - Do You Remember the Love?
• John Lee Hooker, The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker

Saturday, June 27, 2026

• Kevin Drumm, Now
• Haptic, Ecliptic
• Das B, Love
• Erez Dessel, Pro Fake No Reject
• Wheelhouse (Rempis / Adasiewicz / McBride), Live at WNUR
• Jon Irabagon, Raw Dog
• Miles Davis, Workin’
• Sonny Rollins, Silver City (disc 1)
• James Blood Ulmer, Tales of Captain Black
• Fela Kuti, Expensive Shit
• John Lee Hooker, Endless Boogie

Friday, June 26, 2026

• Ahmed, Play Monk (disc 2)
• The Rempis Percussion Quartet, Phalanx (disc 1)
• Josh Berman, Everybody Else’s Life, Too
• Marty Ehrlich, Cartographies of Flight “Lines Set Afloat Towards Hope”
• Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Volume 2
• James Blood Ulmer, Revealing
• Chicago Underground Duo, Hyperglyph
• Sightings, Terribly Well
• Stephen Vitiello, Second (w/ Brendan Canty & Hahn Rowe)
• Agriculture, The Spiritual Sound
• X-Ray Spex, Peel Sessions
• Rush, Snakes & Arrows
• Blue Öyster Cult, Secret Treaties
• Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker, Hooker ’n Heat (disc 1)

Thursday, June 25, 2026

• Tangerine Dream, Underwater Sunlight
• Wheelhouse (Rempis / Adasiewicz / McBride), Boss of the Plains
• Cecil Taylor, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (disc 2)
• John Coltrane, Africa/Brass
• Sonny Rollins, Silver City (disc 2)
• James Blood Ulmer, Free Lancing
• John Lee Hooker, The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker
• Rush, A Farewell to Kings
• Esquivel, Cabaret Mañana

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

• efzeg, Boogie
• Earscratcher, Otoliths
• Cecil Taylor, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (disc 1)
• The Fall, The Marshall Suite
• X-Ray Spex, Germfree Adolescents
• Rush, Counterparts
• The Who, Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy
• Muddy Waters, At Newport 1960
• John Lee Hooker, Burning Hell

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

• Steve Lacy & Joe McPhee, The Rest
• Ahmed, Play Monk (disc 1)
• The Outskirts, Orbital (disc 1)
• Junius Paul, Ism (disc 2)
• Sonny Stitt, Sonny Side Up (feat. Sonny Rollins)
• Cut Hands, Sixteen Ways Out
• Stephen Vitiello, Second (w/ Brendan Canty & Hahn Rowe)
• James Blood Ulmer, Odyssey
• Caetano Veloso, Caetano Veloso (1971)
• Rush, Clockwork Angels
• Souled American, Sanctions
• Muddy Waters, Electric Mud
• Mississippi Fred McDowell, I Do Not Play No Rock ’n’ Roll
• John Lee Hooker, The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker

Monday, June 22, 2026

• Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe)
• Dave Rempis & Tashi Dorji, Gnash
• Josh Berman, Everybody Else’s Life, Too
• Don Cherry, The Third World: Underground
• Junius Paul, Ism (disc 1)
• Gato Barbieri, Obsession
• Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2
• Miles Davis, The Musings of Miles
• James Blood Ulmer, Are You Glad to Be in America?
• Autechre, NTS Session 1 (disc 2)
• Burning Spear, Marcus Garvey
• Head of David, White Elephant
• Rush, Snakes & Arrows
• Muddy Waters, After the Rain

Sunday, June 21, 2026

• David Rempis / Darren Johnston / Larry Ochs, Spectral
• Abdullah Ibrahim, Cape Town Flowers
• Joe Pass, Virtuoso
• Sonny Rollins, Newk’s Time
• Bongwater, Double Bummer (disc 2)
• Rush, Counterparts
• The Misfits, Evilive
• Muddy Waters, His Best: 1947 to 1955

Saturday, June 20, 2026

• Kevin Drumm & Taku Unami, Zero Talk (disc 2)
• Spectral (Rempis / Johnston / Ochs), Empty Castles
• Dollar Brand, African Piano
• Miles Davis, Workin’
• James Blood Ulmer, Free Lancing
• Bongwater, Double Bummer (disc 1)
• Caetano Veloso, Transa
• John Lee Hooker, The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker

Friday, June 19, 2026

• Frédéric Chopin, Etudes, Ballades, Nocturnes & Polonaise-Fantaisie (Svjatoslav Richter)
• Kevin Drumm & Taku Unami, Zero Talk (discs 1 & 3)
• Chicago Reed Quartet, Western Automatic
• Dollar Brand, African Space Program
• James Blood Ulmer with The Thing, Baby Talk
• Stephen Vitiello, Second (w/ Brendan Canty & Hahn Rowe)
• Boards of Canada, Inferno
• Bongwater, Breaking No New Ground!
• Siouxsie and the Banshees, Juju
• Lou Reed, Street Hassle

Thursday, June 18, 2026

• The Rempis/Daisy Duo & Guests, Dodecahedron (disc 1)
• Gato Barbieri & Dollar Brand, Confluence
• Music Revelation Ensemble, In the Name Of... (feat. James Blood Ulmer)
• Butthole Surfers, Hairway to Steven
• Lou Reed, Transformer
• Kurt Vile, Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me
• Howlin’ Wolf, Moanin’ in the Moonlight
• John Lee Hooker, Burning Hell

RIP Abdullah Ibrahim (aka Dollar Brand)

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

• Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 9 (Herbert von Karajan, Deutsche Grammophon)
• Derek Bailey, To Play: The Blemish Sessions
• Wheelhouse (Rempis / Adasiewicz / McBride), Live at WNUR
• Sonny Rollins, Our Man in Jazz
• Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, The Freedom Rider
• Miles Davis, My Funny Valentine / “Four” and More (disc 2)
• James Blood Ulmer, Revealing
• Butthole Surfers, Locust Abortion Technician
• Lewsberg, Out and About
• Howlin’ Wolf, Howlin’ Wolf
• John Lee Hooker, The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

• Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 8 (Herbert von Karajan, Deutsche Grammophon)
• Franz Schubert, Late String Quartets / String Quintet (Emerson String Quartet) (disc 3)
• Derek Bailey, This Guitar
• Dave Rempis & Avreeayl Ra, Bennu
• Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders
• James Blood Ulmer, Tales of Captain Black
• Caetano Veloso, Caetano Veloso (1971)
• John Lee Hooker, House of the Blues
• Ultra-Lounge: Organs in Orbit

Monday, June 15, 2026

• Berndt / Schmidt, Cloud Machines
• Bibliotheca Hermetica, One
• Dave Rempis / Elisabeth Harnik / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Tim Daisy, Earscratcher
• Sonny Rollins, A Night at the Village Vanguard (disc 2)
• Ahmad Jamal, Cross Country Tour: 1958–1961 (disc 2)
• Vince Guaraldi, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
• Louis Armstrong, The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings (disc 1)
• Music Revelation Ensemble, No Wave
• Jim O’Rourke, Halfway to a Threeway
• Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Ease Down the Road
• Mississippi Fred McDowell, I Do Not Play No Rock ’n’ Roll

Sunday, June 14, 2026

• David Rempis / Jason Adasiewicz / Chris Corsano, Dial Up
• Sonny Rollins, The Bridge
• James Blood Ulmer, Are You Glad to Be in America?
• Miles Davis, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 4)
• Esquivel, Cabaret Mañana
• Boards of Canada, Inferno
• Kurt Vile, Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me
• John Lee Hooker, Burning Hell

Saturday, June 13, 2026

• Tony Oxley, Philipp Wachsmann, Wolfgang Fuchs, Hugh Metcalfe, The Glider & the Grinder
• Wheelhouse (Rempis / Adasiewicz / McBride), House and Home
• Sonny Rollins, The Sound of Sonny
• Miles Davis, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 3)
• James Blood Ulmer, Free Lancing
• Serge Gainsbourg, Aux armes et cætera
• Wire, Chairs Missing
• R.E.M., Fables of the Reconstruction
• John Lee Hooker, House of the Blues

Friday, June 12, 2026

• Autechre, NTS Session 1 (disc 1)
• Dave Rempis & Mars Williams, Hornithology
• Sonny Rollins, Tour de Force
• Louis Armstrong, The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings (disc 1)
• Ultra-Lounge: Organs in Orbit
• James Blood Ulmer, Black Rock
• Killdozer, Twelve Point Buck
• feedtime, Shovel
• John Lee Hooker, Documenting the Sensation Recordings 1948–1952 (selected tracks)
• Mississippi Fred McDowell, I Do Not Play No Rock ’n’ Roll

Thursday, June 11, 2026

• Franz Schubert, Late String Quartets / String Quintet (Emerson String Quartet) (disc 2)
• Charles Ives, Symphonies Nos. 1–4; Orchestral Sets Nos. 1–2 (Decca) (disc 2)
• Maurizio Bianchi, CMRS/OPEA (disc 1)
• James Blood Ulmer, Harmolodic Guitar with Strings
• Rashied Ali Quintet, Rashied Ali Quintet (feat. James Blood Ulmer)
• David Murray, Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club
• Darren Johnston, Life in Time
• Sonny Rollins, Freedom Suite
• Stephen Vitiello, Second (w/ Brendan Canty & Hahn Rowe)
• Kurt Vile, Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

• Morton Feldman / Howard Skempton, Triadic Memories/Notti Stellate a Vagli (John Tilbury, piano) (disc 2)
• Miles Davis, My Funny Valentine / “Four” and More (disc 1)
• Sonny Rollins, A Night at the Village Vanguard (disc 1)
• Arthur Blythe, Illusions (feat. James Blood Ulmer)
• James Blood Ulmer, Odyssey
• John Lee Hooker, House of the Blues
• Oxbow, An Evil Heat

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

• Franz Schubert, Late String Quartets / String Quintet (Emerson String Quartet) (disc 3)
• Erik Satie, Socrate (Edition Wandelweiser)
• Morton Feldman / Howard Skempton, Triadic Memories / Notti Stellate a Vagli (John Tilbury, piano) (disc 1)
• Roscoe Mitchell, Sound Songs (disc 2)
• Arthur Blythe, Lenox Avenue Breakdown (feat. James Blood Ulmer)
• Sonny Rollins, Plus 4
• John Lee Hooker, Documenting the Sensation Recordings 1948–1952 (selected tracks)

RIP James Blood Ulmer

Monday, June 8, 2026

• Franz Schubert, Late String Quartets, String Quintet (Emerson String Quartet) (disc 2)
• Roscoe Mitchell, Sound Songs (disc 1)
• Sonny Rollins, Freedom Suite
• Miles Davis, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 2)
• Kurt Vile, Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me

Sunday, June 7, 2026

• Alban Berg, Violin Concerto, Lyric Suite, 3 Orchestral Pieces
• Roscoe Mitchell, Sound Songs (disc 1)
• Miles Davis, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 1)
• Ultra-Lounge: Organs in Orbit
• Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Nocturama
• Lou Reed, Street Hassle
• John Lee Hooker, House of the Blues
• Howlin’ Wolf, The Real Folk Blues

Saturday, June 6, 2026

• Harrison Birtwistle, Complete String Quartets
• EKG, Electricals
• Sonny Rollins, East Broadway Run Down
• Miles Davis, My Funny Valentine / “Four” and More (disc 2)
• Louis Armstrong, The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings (disc 1)
• Esquivel, Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music
• Stephen Vitiello, Second (w/ Brendan Canty & Hahn Rowe)
• Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Live from KCRW
• Howlin’ Wolf, More Real Folk Blues
• John Lee Hooker, Documenting the Sensation Recordings 1948–1952 (selected tracks)

Friday, June 5, 2026

• Arnold Schoenberg, Chamber Music (Montaigne) (disc 2)
• Harrison Birtwistle, Theseus Games / Earth Dances (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Howard Riley, Three Is One
• Sonny Rollins, Freedom Suite
• Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker, Hooker ’n Heat (disc 1)
• Kurt Vile, Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me

Thursday, June 4, 2026

• Ludwig van Beethoven, Complete Music for Piano and Violoncello (ECM) (disc 1)
• Arnold Schoenberg, Pelleas and Melisande op 5 / Variations op 31 / Violin Concerto op 36 / Piano Concerto op 42 (Erato) (disc 1)
• Pierre Boulez, Piano Sonatas Nos. 1–3 (İdil Biret, piano) (Naxos)
• Harrison Birtwistle, Orchestral Music (Etcetera)
• Luciano Berio, Sinfonia / Ekphrasis (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Kevin Drumm, Behind a Sheet of Broken Glass
• The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, Communication
• Sonny Rollins, Alfie
• Louis Armstrong, The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings (disc 4)
• Esquivel, Cabaret Mañana
• Tetuzi Akiyama, Don’t Forget to Boogie
• John Lee Hooker, I’m John Lee Hooker

May 2026 reading

fiction:

• Samuel M. Moss, The Veldt Institute (2025)
• Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) (2020)
• Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels (1955)

visual:

• Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1981 to 1982

nonfiction:

• Caroline Tracey, Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History (2026)

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

• Ludwig van Beethoven, Complete Music for Piano and Violoncello (ECM) (disc 2)
• Arnold Schoenberg, Pelleas and Melisande op 5 / Variations op 31 / Violin Concerto op 36 / Piano Concerto op 42 (Erato) (disc 2)
• Pierre Boulez, Répons / Dialogue de l’ombre double
• John Cage, Etudes Boreales / Harmonies / 10'40.3'' (Wergo)
• Patricia Bosshard & Simon Grab, MRI
• Derek Bailey, To Play: The Blemish Sessions
• Christmann/Altena/Lovens, Weavers
• Sonny Rollins, Tenor Madness
• Duke Ellington, The Great Paris Concert (disc 2)
• Louis Armstrong, The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings (disc 3)
• Boards of Canada, Inferno
• Oxbow, An Evil Heat
• John Lee Hooker, Documenting the Sensation Recordings 1948–1952 (selected tracks)
• Serge Gainsbourg, Aux armes et cætera
• Ultra-Lounge: Organs in Orbit

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

• Jack DeJohnette, Music We Are
• Eddie Harris, Plug Me In
• Ramsey Lewis, Maiden Voyage
• Vince Guaraldi, Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown
• Sonny Rollins, Sonny Meets Hawk
• Duke Ellington, The Great Paris Concert (disc 1)
• Steve Lacy, Soprano Sax
• Coleman Hawkins, A Retrospective: 1929-1963 (disc 2)
• Louis Armstrong, The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings (disc 2)
• John Lee Hooker, House of the Blues
• Circle Jerks, Group Sex
• Suns of Arqa, Seven
• Japanese Breakfast, Jubilee

Monday, June 1, 2026

• Kevin Drumm, Sheer Hellish Miasma II (disc 2)
• Tom Johnson, The Chord Catalogue
• Pierre Boulez, Le Marteau sans maître / Dérives 1 & 2
• Arnold Schoenberg, Chamber Music (Montaigne) (disc 1)
• Berg: Violin Concerto; Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (BBC Music)
• Easley Blackwood, String Quartets (Pacific Quartet)
• Liof Munimula, The Jonah Syndrome (feat. Don Meckley)
• Company, Trios
• Sonny Rollins, Freedom Suite
• Jim Hall, Concierto
• Tetuzi Akiyama, Don’t Forget to Boogie
• Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker, Hooker ’n Heat (disc 2)
• Captain Beefheart, Doc at the Radar Station

RIP Don Meckley

Sunday, May 31, 2026

• Morton Feldman, For Samuel Beckett (Kairos)
• Easley Blackwood, Microtonal Compositions
• Sonny Rollins, Work Time
• Louis Armstrong, The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings (disc 1)
• Serge Gainsbourg, Aux armes et cætera
• 13th Floor Elevators, Easter Everywhere
• Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker, Hooker ’n Heat (disc 1)
• How Low Can You Go? (Dust to Digital) (disc 3)
• Te Roopu Tangai, Maori Action Songs: 20 Hakas and Pois

Saturday, May 30, 2026

• Derek Bailey, To Play: The Blemish Sessions
• Joe McPhee, Musings of a Bahamian Son (Poems and Other Words)
• Miles Davis, The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 3)
• Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2
• Autechre, Chiastic Slide
• Esquivel, Cabaret Mañana
• Ultra-Lounge: Organs in Orbit
• Suns of Arqa, Seven
• Dinosaur, Kiss Me Again
• Japanese Breakfast, Jubilee
• Sly & the Family Stone, Stand!
• The Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin
• Blue Öyster Cult, Secret Treaties
• John Lee Hooker, Documenting the Sensation Recordings 1948–1952 (selected tracks)
• Huun‐Huur‐Tu, 60 Horses in My Herd: Old Songs and Tunes of Tuva