notable releases 2019

I probably listened to more new *classical* music this year than in the past few years…no particular order.

also: things I listened to in 2019

New Music

Anthony Burr & Charles Curtis – Chamber Music_ Alvin Lucier & Morton Feldman
Catherine Lamb – Atmospheres Transparent/Opaque
James Tenney – Changes – 64 Studies for 6 Harps
Michael Jon Fink – Celesta
R. Andrew Lee & Bryan Christian – Each flows into the other
John Luther Adams – Become Desert
Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet – Orange
Echo Collective – Jóhann Jóhannsson: 12 Conversations with Thilo Heinzmann
Terry Riley, Amelia Cuni – Lion’s Throne
Kronos Quartet / Terry Riley – Sun Rings
Peter Thoegersen – Three Pieces in Polytempic Polymicrotonality
Frank Zappa – Orchestral Favorites (40th Anv Edition)
Loscil – Equivalents

Jazz

Tyshawn Sorey and Marilyn Crispell – The Adornment of Time
Matt Mitchell – Phalanx Ambassadors
Kris Davis – Diatom Ribbons
John Abercrombie & Don Thompson – Yesterdays
Harvey Valdes – Solitude Intones Its Echo
Pasquale Grasso – Four Blue Note EPs!

Other

Tangerine Dream – In Search Of Hades- The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979

Notable releases 2018

Some new things that came out in 2018…I can’t check out everything I want to, but I try. My recent listening lists here.

no particular order:

John Luther Adams – Everything That Rises (Cold Blue)
Kyle Gann – Hyperchromatica (Other Minds)
Mary Jane Leach – (f)lute songs (Modern Love)
Peter Garland – The Landscape Scrolls (Starkland)
Stefano Scodanibbio, Daniele Roccato, Ludus Gravis Ensemble – Alisei (ECM)
Jon Hassell – Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)
Brian Eno – Music For Installations (Opal)

Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Frisell – Lebroba (ECM)
Bobo Stenson – Contra La Indecisión (ECM)
Cuong Vu – Change In The Air (RareNoise Records)
Dave Holland – Uncharted Territories (feat Evan Parker, Craig Taiborn and Ches Smith) (Dare2 Records)
David Liebman, Adam Rudolph, Tatsuya Nakatani – the Unknowable (RareNoiseRecords)
Florian Weber – Lucent Waters (ECM)
John Coltrane – Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!)
King Crimson – Meltdown (Live in Mexico 2017) (Discipline Global Mobile)
Kris Davis and Craig Taborn – Octopus (Pyroclastic)
Marc Copland – Gary: Piano Solo (Illusions)
Mark Turner and Ethan Iverson – Temporary Kings (ECM)
Miles Okazaki – Work, the Complete Compositions of Thelonious Monk (Not On)
Tyshawn Sorey – Pillars (Firehouse 12)
Wayne Shorter – Emanon (Blue Note)
Allan Holdsworth Tokyo Dream 1984
John McLaughlin & Mahavishnu – Live in SF 2018 (Abstract Logix)

Notable releases 2017

Some new things that came out in 2017…I can’t check out everything I want to, but I try. My recent listening lists here.

Miles Okazaki – Trickster (Pi)
John Abercrombie – Up and Coming (ECM)
Ralph Towner – My Foolish Heart (ECM)
King Crimson – Live in Chicago (Panegyric/Inner Knot)
Vijay Iyler – Far From Over (ECM)
Gary Peacock – Tangents (ECM)
Matt Mitchell – Forage (Screwgun)
Matt Mitchell – A Pouting Grimace (Pi)
Tyshawn Sorey – Verisimilitude (Pi)
Dave Stryker – Strykn’ Ahead (Strikezone)
Peter Bernstein – Signs Live! (Smoke Sessions)
Brian Eno – Reflection (Warp)
Bjork – Utopia (One Little Indian)
Bill Evans – Another Time: The Hilversum Concert (Resonance Records)
Roscoe Mitchell – Bells for the South Side (ECM)
Sarah Cahill, Terry Riley – Eighty Trips Around the Sun: Music by and for Terry Riley (Irritable Hedgehog)
Pat Martino – Formidable (HighNote Records)
Thelonious Monk – Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam Records)
Ferenc Snétberger – Titok (ECM)
Bill Frisell, Thomas Morgan – Small Town (ECM)
Tim Berne’s Snakeoil – Incidentals (ECM)

Notable releases 2016

Hey gang…here’s some things I noticed in 2016. Budget restrictions mean I couldn’t check out everything I wanted to.

Here’s lists of things I listened to in 2016. I’ve been keeping track so I can go back and see if I need to go back and listen to anything again.

Rough year, let’s hope 2017 is better!

No particular order…

Other

Ches Smith with Craig Taborn and Matt Maneri – The Bell (ECM)
Bill Frisell – When You Wish Upon a Star (Okeh)
Nels Cline – Lovers (Blue Note)
Ralph Alessi – Quiver (ECM)
Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, Time/Life: Songs for the Whales and Other Beings (Impulse!)
Henry Threadgill’s Ensemble Double-Up, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
Wadada Leo Smith: America’s National Parks (Cuneiform)
Tyshawn Sorey – The Inner Spectrum Of Variables (Pi)
Kris Davis – Duopoly
Masabumi Kikuchi – Black Orpheus (ECM)
Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (Nonesuch)
John Scofield – Country for Old Men (Impulse!)
Gavin Bryars – The Fifth Century, Contemporary Music for Voices and Saxophones (ECM)

Reissues and Historical

Anthony Braxton – Quintet (Basel) 1977 (Hatology)
Peter Erskine with John Taylor and Palle Danielsson – As It Was (ECM)
Bill Evans, Some Other Time: The Lost Session from The Black Forest (Resonance)
Larry Young: In Paris: The ORTF Recordings, 1964-65 (Resonance)
Frank Zappa / Meat Light: The Uncle Meat Project/Object (Zappa)

A lot of cool releases from ECM

Markus Stockhausen, Florian Weber – Alba (ECM)
Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane, Matthew Garrison – In Movement (ECM)
Andrew Cyrille Quartet – The Declaration of Musical Independence (ECM)
Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith – A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (ECM)
Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance (ECM)

Ambient

Thomas Koner – Tiento de la Luz (Denovali)
Bing & Ruth – Tomorrow Was the Golden Age
Brian Eno – The Ship (Warp)

Want List

Richard Poole, Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock: In Motion (Intakt)
Kepler Quartet, Ben Johnston – String Quartets Nos. 6, 7 & 8  (New World Records)
Mary Halvorson – Away With You (Firehouse 12)

recent listening January 1-15, 2015

52nd Street, NYC

Bill Evans, Jim Hall – Intermodulation
Paul Bley – Jaco
Paul Bley – Japan Suite
Sid Jacobs – Bill Evans Guitar (instructional book CD)
Steve Kuhn – Childhood is Forever
Guitar Sounds from Lenny Breau
Joe Pass – Virtuoso #2
Mick Goodrick – Biorhythms
John Abercrombie – Current Events
John Abercrombie – Animato
Karl Berger, Dave Holland, Ed Blackwell – Transit
Kenny Wheeler – Windmill Tilter
Chad Wackerman – Forty Reasons
Allan Holdsworth – Secrets
Petr Nouzovský – Mirror Reflections
Fennesz – Black Sea
John Luther Adams – the Wind in High Places

Paul Bley Trio – JAPAN SUITE I & II [1976]

recent listening December 15-31, 2014

Steve Reich – Reich Remixed
Piccola Accademia Degli Specchi, Philip Glass, Matteo Sommacal, Wim
Mertens – Minimamachta
Kuniko Kato – Cantus
John Tilbury, Morton Feldman – Triadic Memories
Julian Lage – Sounding Point
Elvis Costello and Bill Frisell – Deep Dead Blue
Mark Turner – Lathe of Heaven
Tyshawn Sorey – Alloy
Tal Farlow – the Complete Verve Tal Farlow Sessions
Bill Evans – the Complete Riverside Recordings

recent listening December 1-14, 2014

Jon Hassell – The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound
Michael Mantler – the Jazz Composers Update
Jim Hall – All Across the City
Jim Hall – Live!
Wordless Music Orchestra – Tubular Bells
Tal Farlow – the Swinging Guitar of…..
Tal Farlow’s Finest Hour
Lenny Breau – Swingin’ On a Seventh String
Joe Pass – Virtuoso
David Sylvian – there’s a light that enters houses with no other house in sight
Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian – Hamburg ’72
Stick Men – Open
Stick Men – Deep
Yes – Like It Is, Yes at the Bristol Hippodrome
Joni Mitchell – Love Has Many Faces: a Quartet, a Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced

recent listening November 16-30, 2014

In addition to the short list below, I’ve been digging into a collection of audience recordings. Mahavishnu Orchestra (3rd edition with Stu Goldberg), One Truth Band, John McLaughlin (with Jack Bruce, Stu Goldberg and Billy Cobham) Hamburg, Oct 1979, The Translators and Scott Henderson, Jeff Berlin, Dennis Chambers – NYC, May 2014.

Philip Glass – The Complete Piano Etudes
Chuck Wayne – Tasty Pudding
Adam Holtzman, Fernando Sor – Grandes Sonates, Divertissement, 8 Small Pieces (Naxos)
Nels Cline and Julian Lage – Room
Nels Cline – Destroy All Nels Cline
Ron Carter – In Memory of Jim
John McLaughlin – Belo Horizonte
Kluster – Klopfzeichen
Kluster – Zweiosterei
Capt Beefheart – Sun Zoom Spark, Out-Takes disc
Rolling Stones – Hampton Coliseum, live in 1982
Procol Harum – Home

recent listening May 1-10, 2014

Philip Glass – North Star
Philip Glass – Kundun
The Dublin Guitar Quartet Performs Philip Glass (Orange Mountain Music)
Marilyn Nonken, Morton Feldman – Triadic Memories (Mode DVD)
Morton Feldman – First Recordings: 1950s (Mode)
Harold Budd – Perhaps
Terry Riley – No Man’s Land (Plainisphare)
Terry Riley – Atlantis Nath (Sri Moonshine Music)
Jon Hassell – Flash of the Spirit
Jon Hassell – The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound
Jon Hassell – Earthquake Island
Hariprasad Charuasia – Raga Lalit (Nimbus)
Nancy Lesh – Cello (Raga Multani & Bhupali)
U Srinivas and Michael Brook – Dream (Real World)
Anthology Of World Music: North Indian Classical Music (UNESCO/Rounder)
Ralph Towner – Old and New Friends (ECM)
Eivind Aarset – Electronique Noire
Eivind Aarset – Sonic Codex
Stephan Micus – Ocean (ECM)

recent listening April 19-30, 2014

Philip Glass – the Secret Agent
Philip Glass – Mishima
Terry Riley – Persian Surgery Dervishes
Terry Riley – Descending Moonshine Dervishes
Morton Feldman – Violin and Orchestra (ECM)
John Adams – Chamber Symphony/Grand Pianola Music (Nonesuch)
Jon Hassell – Dressing For Pleasure (Warner Bros)
Holger Czukay & Rolf Dammers – Canaxis (Music Factory)
Michael Gordon – Light is Calling (Nonesuch)
Alice Coltrane – Huntington Ashram Monastery (Impulse!)
Art Bears – Hopes and Fears
Brian Eno & Karl Hyde – Someday World (Warp)

Charlemagne Palestine – Four Manifestations on Six Elements (Barooni Records)
Charlemagne Palestine – Godbear (Barooni Records)
Charlemagne Palestine – Strumming Music
Charlemagne Palestine ‎– Alloy (Golden 1) (Alga Marghen)
Charlemagne Palestine – Music for Big Ears (Staalplaat)
Charlemagne Palestine – the Golden Mean (Shiiin)

Steve Reich: Works 1965–1995 (Nonesuch)

I’ve owned this for years, lately I’ve been digging in.