By Date
Or A – Z
A
- Abbey Rader: from the West Coast to the Gold Coast
- Abdul Moimême – Livro das Grutas (Creative Sources, 2022)
- Abdul Moimême: Sound Sculpter / Sonic Architect
- Ab Baars – Time To Do My Lions (Stichting Wig, 2010) ****
- Adam Kahan – Rahsaan Roland Kirk: The Case of the Three Sided Dream(Monoduo Films, 2016) ****
- ADA Trio (Lonberg-Holm/Brötzmann/Nilssen-Love) – ADA (PNL, 2011) ****
- Afterfall (Clean Feed, 2010)
- Against Empire: an Interview with Bill Laswell
- Ahleuchatistas – Arrebato (International Anthem, 2015) ****
- Ahmed Ag Kaedy – Orion Congregation (Schneeball, 2018) ***½
- Albert Ayler – Bells/Prophecy (ESP, 2015)
- Albums of the Year – 2014
- Albums of the Year 2015
- Alexander von Schlippenbach and Rudi Mahall – So Far (Relative Pitch, 2018) ****
- Alex Ward Trios & Sextet – Projected / Entities / Removal (Copepod, 2015) ****
- Alon Nechushtan — Words Beyond (Buckyball Records, 2011) ****
- Amina Baraka & the Red Microphone (ESP-Disk, 2017) ****
- AMM, 9-1-2019 Exploratorium, Berlin.
- Anders Nilsson – Night Guitar (Soundatone, 2012) ****
- Andrew Bishop – De Profundis (Self, 2015) ****
- Andrew Drury – A Content Provider
- And many more …
- Angelika Niescier, Tomeka Reid, Savannah Harris – Beyond Dragons (Intakt Records, 2023)
- Anna Webber – Idiom (PI Recordings, 2021) ****½
- Anna Webber – Simple (Skirl, 2014) ****½
- Anthony Braxton – Sextet (Parker) 1993 (New Braxton House, 2018) *****
- Approaching Monk
- APUH! – Ett (Pälsrobot, 2014) ****
- Aram Bajakian and Julia Uleha – Dálava (sanasar, 2014) ****
- Aram Bajakian – there were flowers also in hell (self released, 2014) ****½
- Aram Bajakian’s Kef (Tzadik, 2011) ****½
- Aram Shelton’s Arrive- There Was… (Clean Feed, 2011) ****½
- Aruán Ortiz – Hidden Voices (Intakt, 2016) ****
- Asunder Trio (Paul Dunmall, Mark Sanders, Hasse Poulsen) – The Lamp (Kilogram Records, 2012) ****
- Atomic – Lucidity (Jazz Land, 2015) *****
- Ava Mendoza – New Spells (Relative Pitch/Astral Spirits, 2021) ****½
- Ava Mendoza – Unnatural Ways (New Atlantis,2015) ****
- Aych – As the Crow Flies (Relative Pitch Records, 2012) ****
- A L’arme Festival VI, Day 1. Berlin. 8/1/2018
- A L’arme Festival VI, Day 3. Berlin. 8/3/2018
- A L’ARME Festival Vol. 10 (Part 1)
- A L’ARME Festival Vol. 10 (Part 2)
- A L’ARME! X+I, Berlin, August 10-12, 2023 (Part I)
- A L’ARME! X+I, Berlin, August 10-12, 2023 (Part I+I)
B
- Barry Altschul -The 3dom Factor (TUM Records, 2013) ****
- BassDrumBone / Jane Ira Bloom
- Battle Trance – Palace of Wind (NNA Tapes, 2014) ****
- BB&C – The Veil (Cryptogrammophone, 2011) *****
- Ben Goldberg – Worry Later (BAG Production, 2014) ****
- Ben Golderg – Orphic Machine (BAG, 2015) ****
- Ben Holmes – Anvil of The Lord (Skirl Records, 2012) ****
- Ben Thomas – Endless Mountain Region (Lungbasket, 2012) ****
- Berlin … and Beyond
- Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden
- Beyond Jazz: Plink, Plonk & Scratch, the Golden Age of Free Music inLondon 1966–1972 (2nd Edition) – Trevor Barre (Compass Publishing, 2016) ****1/2
- Big(ger) Band Free Jazz: Ratchet Orchestra & Sonic Liberation Front
- Biliana Voutchkova: DUOS2022
- Bill Frisell / Thomas Morgan – Small Town (ECM, 2017) ****
- Bill Laswell & Wadada Leo Smith – The Stone (Akashic Meditation) (M.O.D. Technologies, 2014) ****½
- Birgit Ulher and Leonel Kaplan – Stereo Trumpets (Relative Pitch, 2015) ***½
- Black Host / Slobber Pup: Required Listening
- Blaise Siwula and Dom Minasi – The Sunshine Don't Mind My Singing(Nacht, 2014) ****
- Blaise Siwula, Harvey Valdes & Gian Luigi Diana – Tesla Coils (2014) ****½
- Bloor – Drolleries (Astral Spirits, 2019) ****
- Blow Out Festival 2018
- Bogdo Ula – Crash Canis Majoris (self-released, 2012) ****
- Bogdo Ula – Prisoners of Freedom (self-released, 2011) ****
- Born Free: The 12th German Jazz Festival (B. Free, 2015) ****½
- Brett Higgins – Atlas Revolt (Tzadik, 2015) ***½
- Brian Groder Trio – Reflexology (Latham Records, 2014) ****
- Brian Groder Trio – R Train on the D Line (Latham, 2016) ***½
- Brian Groder & Tonino Miano – FluiDensity (Latham, 2013) ****½
- Brian Questa – Jazz Booty (self released, 2013) ****
- Broken Trap Ensemble – Upés (Astral Spirits, 2014) ****
- Bruno Duplant, Paulo Chagas & Lee Noyes – As Birds (re:konstrukt, 2011) ****
- Bushman’s Revenge – A Little Bit of Big Bonanza (Rune Grammophone, 2012) ****
- Butcher, Lehn, Shipp / The Core Trio
C
- Cagematch – Missing the End All (2014) ****
- Carina Khorkhordina
- Catalytic Sound Stream: Q&A with Ken Vandermark and Sam Clapp
- Catching up with Gebhard Ullmann (Part 1 of 2)
- Catching up with Gebhard Ullmann (Part 2 of 2)
- Catching up with Jon Irabagon
- Catching up with Ken
- Catching-up with Paul Dunmall (Day One)
- Catherine Sikora – Winter Solos (s/r, 2022)
- Catherine Sikora, Han-earl Park, Francois Grillot – Tracks in theDirt (Clockwork Mercury Press, 2013) ****
- Céline Voccia: Energetic Dissonance and Contemplative Restraint
- Charles Evans – Subliminal Leaps (More Is More, 2013) ****
- Ches Smith and These Arches – International Hoohah (For Tune, 2014) ****
- Ches Smith Trio – The Bell (ECM, 2016) *****
- Ches Smith & These Arches – Finally Out Of My Hands (Skirl, 2010)
- Chet Doxas – Rich in Symbols (Ropeadope, 2017) ****
- Chicago Reed Quartet – Western Automatic (Aerophonic, 2015) ****
- Chicago Underground Duo – Age of Energy (Northern Spy, 2012) ****
- Chick Corea (1941 – 2021)
- Chris Abrahams, Jim Denley and Robbie Avenaim – Weft (Relative Pitch, 2021) ****
- Claudio Scolari's Project – Synthesis (Principal Records, 2012) ***½
- Clean Feed @ 20: Reviews (part 2 of 2)
- Coat Cooke : Conversations and High Wire
- Colin Stetson, Billy Martin, Elliott Sharp & Payton MacDonald – Void Patrol (Infrequent Seams, 2022)
- Common Objects – Skullmarks (meena, 2019) ****
- Contemporary Noise Sextet – Ghostwriter’s Joke (Electric Eye, 2011) ****½
- Cortex – Live! (Clean Feed, 2015) ****
- Craig Taborn – Daylight Ghosts (ECM, 2017) ***½
- Creatures in black and white and music ….
D
- Dálava – The Book of Transfigurations (Songlines, 2017) ****
- Damian Allegretti, Erik Friedlander & Tony Malaby – Stoddard Place (2014) ****
- Dancing in times of plague – the Corona Diaries (III)
- Daniel Rosenboom Quintet – Fire Keeper (Orenda, 2014) ****
- Dan Weiss – Starebaby (Pi Recordings, 2018) ****
- Daren Burns – Fear Is Not The Natural State Of Civilized People (UrbanNerds Records, 2012) ****½
- Dave Rempis & the Aerophonic Download Series
- David Douglas & the Westerlies – Little Giant Still Life (Greenleaf Music, 2017) ****
- David Sewelson -Music for a Free World (FMR, 2018) ****
- David S. Ware and Matthew Shipp Duo – Live in Sant’Anna Arresi, 2004 (AUM Fidelty, 2016) ****
- David S. Ware Trio – Live in New York, 2010 (AUM Fidelity, 2017) ****½
- Days of Vandermark & Brotzmann
- Defekt – Pete’s Game Machine (Eclipse Music, 2010) ***½
- Desertion Trio – Midtown Tilt (Shhpuma, 2017) ****
- Devin Gray – Fashionable Pop Music (s/r, 2016) ****
- Devin Gray – Melt all the Guns / Cloud Sound Trio / Universal Dwellings
- Devin Gray – Most Definitely (Rataplan, 2023)
- Devin Gray – RelativE ResonancE (Skirl, 2015) ****
- Devin Gray – Socialytics (Rataplan Records, 2020) ****
- Devin Hoff – Ansible (Bandcamp, 2013) ***½
- Discogs: Paula Shocron, Germán Lamonega, Pablo Díaz – Tensegridad
- Dom Minasi Septet – The Bird, the Girl and the Donkey II (Unseen Rain, 2012) ****
- Dom Minasi & Chris Kelsey – Duets NYC/Woodstock (Tzazz Krytyk,2015) ****
- Dom Minasi (1943 – 2023)
- Dopolarians – Garden Party (Mahakala Music, 2019) ***½
- Douglas/Doxas/Swallow/Doxas – Riverside (Greenleaf,2014) ****½
- Downtown Music Gallery – Keeping the Music Alive
- Duck Baker – Confabulations (ESP Disc, 2021) *****
- Duck Baker – Spinning Song (Triple Point, 2019) ****½
- Duos
E
- Echtzeit@30: Introduction
- Echtzeit@30: Q&A with Ignaz Schick
- ECM 50 years – Catalog Favorites (part III of III)
- Ehran Elisha: Three Quintets
- Eivind Aarset – Dream Logic (ECM, 2012) ****
- Eivind Opsvik – Overseas IV (Loyal Label, 2012) *****
- Eivind Opsvik – Overseas V (Royal Label, 2017) ****½
- Elephant9 with Reine Fiske – Atlantis (Rune Grammofon, 2012) ****
- Elephant9 – live at the BBC (Rune Grammofon, 2011) ****
- Eli Wallace with Beth McDonald and Ben Cohen
- Eli Wallace – Precepts (Infrequent Streams, 2021) ****
- Elliot Cardinaux – American Thicket (Loyal Label, 2016) ****
- Elliot Sharp Aggregat – Quintet (Clean Feed, 2013) ****½
- Elliot Sharp Trio – Aggregat (Clean Feed, 2012) ****
- Elliot Sharp & Scott Fields – Afiadacampos (Neos, 2010) ****
- Elsa Nilsson Quartet – Dark is Light is (s/r, 2020) ****
- Emergency! – Live in Copenhagen (2010, JVTlandT) ****½
- Endless Field – Alive in the Wilderness (Biophilia Records, 2020) ****
- End-of-year Lists Galore
- Entr’acte – Soigne Ta Droite (Audiographic, 2019) *****
- Eric Stern (1965 – 2019)
- Erik Platz – Life after Life (Allos Documents, 2016) ****
- Evan Parker, John Edwards, John Russell – Walthamstow Moon (’61 revisited’) (Byrd Out, 2017) ****
F
- Familiar paths
- Fernando Guiomar & Paulo Chagas – Escape and Return (Zpoluras Archives, 2016) ****1/2
- Filling the Void
- Filosofer and Nakama: Christian Meaas Svendsen at Work
- Flametet – A General History Of Flame (Glitch, 2014) ****
- Flamingo – Loud (Relative Pitch, 2018) ****
- Flin van Hemmen – Drums of Days (neither nor records, 2016) ****
- Florian Arbenz – Conversations
- FMP. The Living Music; Berlin 3/14/18 – 3/21/18; The Concerts
- FMP: The Living Music – Interview with Markus Müller
- Focus on Photography: Petra Cvelbar
- Focus on Photography: Ziga Koritnik
- Forebrace – Bad Folds (Copepod Records, 2013) ****½
- Forebrace – Steeped (Relative Pitch, 2016) ****½
- Frank Gratkowski: Artist Deep Dive
- Frank Lowe Quartet – Out Loud (Triple Point Records, 2014) *****
- Fred Hersch and Julian Lage – Free Flying (Palmetto Records, 2013) ****
- Fred Van Hove & Roger Turner – The Corner (Relative Pitch, 2017) *****
- Free Fall – Gray Scale (SMJZ, 2010) ****½
- Free Jazz Blog's 2018 Top 10 Lists
- Free Jazz Blog’s Album of the Year 2021
- Free Jazz Blog’s Top Album(s) of 2019
- Free Jazz Blog’s Top 10s of 2022
- Free Jazz Blog’s 2017 Top 10 Lists
- Free Jazz Blog’s 2019 Top 10s
- Free Jazz Blog’s 2020 Top 10s
- Free Jazz Blog’s 2021 Top 10s
- Free Jazz Blog’s 2023 Top 10 Lists
- Friends and Neighbors – What’s Wrong (Clean Feed, 2016) ****
- Frode Gjerstad with Matthew Shipp – We Speak (Relative Pitch, 2023)
- FUSK – Absurd Enthusiasm (Why Play Jazz, 2022)
G
- Gary Peacock Tribute
- Gary Peacock 1935 – 2020
- Gebhard Ullmann Basement Research – Impromptus and Other Short Works (Whyplayjazz, 2019) ****
- Gebhard Ullmann / Oliver Potratz / Eric Schaefer – Das Kondenstat (WhyPlayJazz, 2017) ****½
- Geißler, Seely, Punkt, and Scholz – awa (otherunwise, 2016) ****
- Giving Birth to Sound: Women in Creative Music (Buddy's Knife, 2015) ****
- Glas – Live at Brötz Gothenburg Sweden 2012 04 12 (Bandcamp,2012) ****
- Going Solo
- GPS Trio – Blast Beat Blues (Rataplan, 2019) ****
- Greg Ward & 10 Tongues – Touch My Beloved’s Thought (Greenleaf Music, 2016) ****
- Guilherme Rodrigues
- Guitars! (Part 1 of 2)
- Guitars! (Part 2 of 2)
- Guitar Roundup
- Guitar Week Coda: Henry Kaiser & Gutbucket
- Guitar Week Day 5: Luís Lopes / Slobber Pup
- Guitar Week – Day 1: Bajakian / Bjorkenheim / Hammond / MacKay / Valdes
- Guitar Week – Day 2: John Abercrombie / Scott DuBois
- Guitar Week: Bushman's Revenge – Thou Shalt Boogie (Rune Grammofon,2014) ****½
- Guitar Week: Composed and Otherwise
- Guitar Week: Duos (Day 2)
- Guitar Week: Guitar & Drum Roundup
- Guitar Week: Jazz-Rock-Folk-Americana (Day 5)
- Guitar Week: Kick off Roundup
- Guitar Week: Lisa Mezzacappa Trio – X Marks the Question (Queen Bee Records, 2013) ****
- Guitar Week: Salamanders!
- Guitar Week: Solo Guitar
- Guitar Week: Solo Guitar (Day 1)
- Guitar Week: The Power Trio
- Guitar Week: Thumbscrew and eCsTaSy
- Guitar Week: Trios (Day 3)
- Guitar – Duos (Part 1): Leading tones, sympathetic harmonies, and unobservable mysteries
- Guitar – Duos (Part 2): Spontaneous decisions and sinuous backdrops
- Guitar – Solo Part 1: Unexpected arpeggios and surprising onomatopoetics
- Guitar – Solo Part 2: Plucks, bends, wiggles, and whacks
- Guitar: Trios (part 1): Uncited, unsupported, and just gut feeling
- GuitCussion – Blue Congo (Brakophonic, 2014) ***½
- Gunter ‘Baby’ Sommer, The New Trio – Melting Game (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011) ****
H
- Hanami – The Only Way to Float Free (Eyes and Ears, 2016) ****
- Hank Roberts – Everything is Alive (Winter & Winter, 2011) ****
- Han-Earl Park – Anomic Aphasia (SLAM, 2015) ****
- Han-earl Park, Catherine Sikora and Nick Didkovsky – Eris 136199: Peculiar Velocities (baf, 2020) ****
- Harvey Valdes – Point/Counterpoint (s/r, 2016) ****
- Headbrain (Desert Poodle Records, 2011) ***½
- HeadJive – Bad Habits (Brakophonic Records, 2013) ****
- Henry Kaiser and Robert Musso – Echoes for Sonny (There, 2015) ****
- Henry Threadgill – Double Up Plus and 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg
- Holus Bolus – Pine Barrens (Prom Night, 2012) ****
- Honey Ear Trio – Steampunk Serenade (Foxhaven Records, 2011) ****
- Humanization 4tet – Live in Madison (Ayler, 2013) ****
- Hungry Cowboy – Dance (Prom Night, 2013) ****
I
- Illegal Crowns – s/t (Rouge Arts, 2016) ****
- Impressions of A L’ARME! Vol. IX (updated)
- Ingrid Laubrock Octet – Zürich Concert (Intakt Records, 2014) ****
- Ingrid Laubrock's Anti House – Strong Place (2013) ****
- Ingrid Laubrock’s Anti-House – Roulette of the Cradle (Intakt, 2015) ****½
- Ingrid Laubrock’s Sleepthief – The Madness of Crowds (Intakt, 2011) ****
- Ingrid Laubrock/Javier Carmona/Olie Brice – Catatumbo (Babel, 2012) ****
- Interview with Myra Melford
- Interview with Phil Freeman from Burning Ambulance
- Interview: Cooper-Moore on Lifetime Achievement Award From Vision Festival & More
- Into the Quiet: Vesper and Time
- Irene Schweizer and Intakt Records – a Celebration
- Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp – Special Edition Box (SMP, 2020) ****½
- Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp – Le Poisson Rouge, May 7th, 2017
- Ivo Perelman – Brass and Ivory Tales (Fundacja Sluchcaj, 2021) *****
- Ivo Perelman – Reed Rapture in Brooklyn (Mahakala Music, 2022)
- Ivo Perelman / Joe Morris / Gerald Cleaver – Living Jelly (Leo, 2012) ****½
- Ivo Perelman: A Musical Storyteller – a film by Leonel Costa (2020)
- I Don't Hear Nothing But the Blues – Volume 2: Appalachian Haze (Irrabagast, 2012) ***½
J
- Jack DeJohnette – Made in Chicago (ECM, 2015) *****
- Jack DeSalvo & Dom Minasi – Soldano Dieci Anni (Unseen Rain, 2016) ****
- Jack Wright / Ben Wright – as if anything could be the same (Relative Pitch, 2014) ****½
- Jacob Garchik – Assembly (Yestereve, 2022)
- Jakob Bro – Gefion (ECM, 2015) ***½
- James Brandon Lewis – An Unruly Manifesto (Relative Pitch, 2019) ****½
- James Brandon Lewis: Eye of I … and beyond
- James Falzone's Klang! – Brooklyn Lines — Chicago Spaces (AllosDocuments, 2012) ****
- James Falzone: The Renga Ensemble – The Room Is (Allos Documents,2015) ****½
- Jamie Saft: Plymouth & The New Standard
- Jaruzelski’s Dream – Jazz Gawronski (Clean Feed, 2010) *****
- Jason Adasiewicz’s Sun Rooms – Spacer (Delmark, 2011) ****
- Jason Robinson – Tiresian Symmetry (Cuneiform Records, 2012) ****
- Jason Stein Quartet – The Story This Time (Delmark, 2011) *****
- Jazzdor Berlin 2023
- Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2023 – Part I
- Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2023 – Part II
- Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2023 – Part III
- Jazzfest Berlin 2019 (Sunday)
- Jazzfest Berlin 2020 goes virtual (a preview)
- Jazzfest Berlin 2020: Day 2 (Berlin — New York City)
- Jazzfest Berlin 2020: Day 3 (NYC — BLN)
- Jazzfest Berlin 2020: Opening Night
- Jazzfest Berlin 2021
- Jazzfest Berlin 2022: Choose Your Own (Musical) Adventure [part 1/2]
- Jazzfest Berlin 2022: Choose Your Own (Musical) Adventure [part 2/2]
- Jazzfest Berlin 2023 (1/2)
- Jazzfest Berlin 2023 (2/2)
- Jazzfest Berlin. November 1 – 4, 2018
- Jazzwerkstatt Peitz 50th Anniversary (April 27th – 30th, 2023)
- Jazz em Agosto Day 2
- Jazz em Agosto 2019, Day 1
- Jazz em Agosto 2021 – Day 1
- Jazz em Agosto 2021 – Day 2
- Jazz em Agosto 2021 – Day 3
- Jazz em Agosto 2022 (Part 2)
- Jazz em Agosto 2022 (Part 1)
- Jazz em Agosto 2022 (Part 3)
- Jazz em Agosto 2022 (Part 4)
- Jazz em Agosto, Day 3
- Jazz em Agosto, Day 4
- Jazz em Agosto, Day 5
- Jazz em Agosto, Day 6
- Jazz em Agosto, Day 7
- Jazz em Agosto, Day 8
- Jazz 2020, Lisbon, Portugal. Part I
- Jazz 2020, Lisbon, Portugal. Part II
- Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut – The Music of Everything – BFP (Creative Musicfor Creative Listeners, 2014) ****
- Jeff Cosgrove, Scott Robinson, and Ken Filiano – Hunters & Scavengers (Grizzley Music, 2018) ****
- Jeff Parker / Rob Mazurek – Some Jelly Fish Live Forever (Rouge Art, 2016) ****
- Jerry Granelli Trio – Let Go (Plunge Records, 2011) ****
- Joe McPhee / Damon Smith / Alvin Fielder – Six Situations (Not Two, 2017) *****
- Joe McPhee / Paal Nilssen-Love – Candy (PNL, 2015) ****½
- Joe McPhee’s Survival Unit III – Synchronicity (Harmonic Convergence, 2011) ****½
- Joe McPhee/Thurston Moore/Bill Nace: Last Notes (Open Mouth, 2013) ****½
- Joe Moffett – Ad Faunum (Not Two, 2012) ****½
- Joe Morris & Agustí Fernández – Ambrosia (Riti Records, 2011) ****
- Joe Morris – Camera (ESP-Disc, 2010) ****
- Joe Morris, Agustí Fernández, Nate Wooley – From the Discrete to the Particular (Relative Pitch, 2012)
- Joe Morris, William Parker, Gerald Cleaver – Altitude (Aum Fidelity, 2012) ****½
- Joe Sachse Trio – One Take (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010) ****
- John Blum and Jackson Krall – Duplexity (Relative Pitch, 2020) ****
- John Butcher – 5 LPs from Berlin (and Leipzig) on NI VU NI CONNU
- John Dieterich, Ben Goldberg, Scott Amendola – Short-Sighted Dream Colossus (s/r, 2014) ****
- John Dikeman – The Double Trio (Astral Spirits, 2014) ****
- John Escreet – Seismic Shift (Whirlwind, 2022)
- John Escreet – Sound, Space and Structures (Sunnyside, 2014) ****
- John Lundbom & Big Five Chord – Plays all the Notes & Make the Changes (HotCup, 2016) ****
- John Oswald, Henry Kaiser, Paul Plimley – At One Time (Improvisations for Cecil Taylor) (Metalanguage, 2021)
- John Scofield Trio – Swallow Tales (ECM, 2020) ****
- John Scofield – Uncle John’s Band (ECM, 2023)
- Johs Lund and Henrik Pultz Melbye – Play Baritone Saxophones (Svala Records / Aether Productions, 2018) ***½
- Jon Irabagon Solo: Bird with Streams & Legacy
- Jon Irabagon Trio – It Takes All Kinds (Jazzwerkstatt, 2014) ****
- Jon Irabagon’s Outright – Unhinged – (Irrabagast, 2012) ****½
- Jon Irabagon, Hernani Faustino, Gabriel Ferrandini – Absolut Zero (Not Two, 2013) *****
- Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord – No New Tunes (Hot Cup, 2012) ****
- Jorrit Dijkstra: New Crosscurrents – Live Bimhuis Amsterdam (Driff Records, 2014) ****
- José Lencastre Nau Quartet – Fragments Of Always (FMR, 2017) ****
- Jose Lencastre Nau Quartet- Eudimonia (FMR, 2018) ****
- Josh Sinton – Stone Cold Classics of 21st-Century Sax Repertory
- João Lencastre – No Gravity (s/r, 2020) ****
- JR3 – Happy Jazz (Relative Pitch, 2017) ****
- Julian Lage Trio – Arclight (Mack Avenue, 2016) ****
- Julian Lage: an Interview
- Just the two of us
K
- Kali Z Fasteau – Piano Rapture (Flying Note, 2014) ****
- Karl Berger & Kirk Knuffke – Moon (Double Review)
- Kate Gentile – Mannequins (Skirl, 2017) ****
- Ken Aldcroft & Dave Clark – Hat & Beard /The Music Of Thelonious Monk (Trio Recordings, 2011) ****
- Ken Vandermark and Nate Wooley – Deeply Discounted/Sequences of Snow (Audiographic/Pleasures of the Text, 2018) ****½
- Ken Vandermark and Paul Lytton – Distant Cousins (Audiographic, 2023)
- Ken Vandermark on Catalytic Sound, a Virtual Festival, and Making Music in a Pandemic
- Ken Vandermark – Momentum 1: Stone (Audiographic Records, 2016) *****
- Ken Vandermark – Momentum 2 & 3 (Audiographic, 2018) ****½
- Ken Vandermark – Momentum 5: Stammer (triptych) (Audiographic, 2021) ****½
- Ken Vandermark – Site Specific (Audiographic, 2015) ****
- Ken Vandermark / István Grencsó / Róbert Benkő – Burning River Melting Sea (Égő Folyó Olvadó Tenger) (Audiographic Records, 2020) ****½
- Ken Vandermark / Paal Nilssen-Love – Lightning Over Water (Laurence Family Records, 2014) ****½
- KERN and Kosack – Poles and Pulse (Trouble in the East, 2020) ****
- Kiev, Florence, Liverpool and Brooklyn
- Kirk Knuffke/ Ben Goldberg – Uncompahgre (Relative Pitch Records, 2018) ****
- Kongsberg Jazz Festival, July 2018
- Kresten Osgood, Bob Moses and Tisziji Muñoz – Spiritual Drum Kinship (Gotta Let It Out, 2023)
- Kris Davis / Craig Taborn @ Roulette, NYC 10/2/16
- Kris Wanders – Mani Neumeier Quintet – Taken By Surprise (Not Two, 2011) ****
- Kyle Bruckmann’s Degradient – Dear Everyone (Not Two, 2017) ****
- Kyle Motl – Katabasis (2017) & Apperception (2017)
L
- Lama & Joachim Badenhorst – The Elephant’s Journey (Clean Feed, 2015) ****½
- Lama – Oneiros (Clean Feed, 2011) *****
- Lama + Chris Speed – Lamacal (Clean Feed, 2013) ****
- Landon Knoblock’s CACAW – Stellar Power (Skirl ,2013) ****
- Lawnmower – Lawnmower II (Clean Feed, 2014) ****
- Leap of Faith Orchestra – Hyperbolic Spirals Vols 1 & 2 (EvilClown, 2015) ****
- Leap of Faith Orchestra – Supernovae (Evil Clown, 2016) ****
- Leap of Faith w/Steve Swell – Live at New Revolution Arts,Brooklyn,8-15-15
- Leap of Faith – Principles of an Open Future (Relative Pitch, 2020) ****
- Leap of Faith – Regenerations (Evil Clown, 2015) ****
- Leimgruber / Turner / Dorner / da Boff / Flesh – Untitled (London Leipzig Luzern) (Euphorium, 2021) ****
- Lisa Mezzacappa and Nightshade – Cosmic Rift (Leo, 2011) ****
- Lisa Mezzacappa – Glorious Ravage (New World Records, 2017) ****
- Lisbon Berlin Trio (Clean Feed, 2011) ****
M
- Magda Mayas & Jim Denley – Tempe Jetz (Relative Pitch, 2017) ****
- Magnet Festival – Wiesbaden, Germany, May 12 – 14, 2023
- Maikotron Unit – Ex Voto (Jazz from Rant, 2011) ****
- Marcelo dos Reis – FLORA (JACC, 2023)
- Marcin Wasilewski Trio – Faithful, ECM 2011 ***½
- Marc Ribot Trio – Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi, 2014) *****
- Marc Ribot – Silent Movies (Pi Recordings, 2010)
- Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog – Your Turn (Northern Spy, 2013) *****
- Markus Müller – FMP: The Living Music (Wolke, 2022) *****
- Mark Dresser – Nourishments (Clean Feed, 2013) ****
- Mark Nauseef – All in All in All (Relative Pitch, 2018) ****
- Mars Williams Presents An Ayler Xmas Vol. 4: Chicago vs. NYC (Astral Spirits / Soul What, 2020) ****½
- Mars Williams Presents – An Ayler Xmas (s/r, 2017) ****
- Mars Williams Presents: an Ayler Xmas Vol. 3 Live in Krakow (NotTwo, 2019) ****
- Mars Williams – An Ayler Xmas Vol 2 (ESP Disc, 2018) ****
- Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone – Departure of Reason (Thirsty Ear, 2011) ****
- Mary Halvorson & Noël Akchoté (s/r, 2016) ****
- Mats Gustafsson/Thurston Moore: Play Some Fucking Stooges (Quasi Pop/Dumpster Diving Lab, 2012) ****½
- Matthew Shipp and Mat Walerian Duo – Live in Okuden (ESP-Disk, 2015) ****
- Matthew Shipp at 60, an Interview
- Matthew Shipp & Joe Morris – Broken Partials (NotTwo, 2011) ****
- Matthew Shipp – Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear, 2011) ****½
- Matthew Shipp – The Reward: Solo Piano Suite in Four Movements (RogueArt, 2020) ****½
- Matt Lavelle, Jack De Salvo & Tom Cabrera – Sumari (Unseen Rain, 2015) ***½
- Matt Mitchell – førage (Screwgun Records, 2017) ****½
- Matt Nelson – Lower Bottoms (Tubapede Records, 2014) ****
- Matt Turner and Hal Rammel – As on a Pivot of Air (Penumbra, 2016) ****
- Mat Maneri and Daniel Levin – The Transcendent Function (Clean Feed, 2015) ****
- Máximo Endrek – Extraño Hábitat (Self, 2014) ****
- Medeski, Martin and Wood – The Stone: Issue Four (Tzadik, 2010)
- Mette Rasmussen Chris Corsano Duo – All The Ghosts At Once (Relative Pitch Records, 2015) ****½
- Michael Bisio – Accortet (Relative Pitch, 2015) ****
- Michael Bisio/Matthew Shipp – Floating Ice (Relative Pitch, 2012) ****
- Michael Formanek’s Ensemble Kolossus: The Distance (ECM, 2016) ****½
- Mike Faloon – The Other Night at Quinn’s: New Adventures In The Sonic Underground (Razorcake / Gorsky Press, 2018) ****½
- Minus Zero: Putting the Music to Work
- Modern Jazz Round Up
- Modo Trio with Wayne Horvitz – Dog Leg (death defying records, 2010)
- Mofaya! – Like One Long Dream (Trost, 2021) ****½
- Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015>2019 (Audiographic, 2019) *****
- Monk, mostly
- More Guitar: John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner
- Mostly Other People Do the Killing – Blue (Hot Cup, 2014)
- Mostly Other People Do the Killing – Paint (Hotcup Records, 2017) ****½
- Mostly Other People Do The Killing – Slippery Rock (HotCup, 2013) *****
- Mujician – 10 10 10 (Cuneiform, 2021) ****½
- Myra Melford – For the Love of Fire and Water (Rogue Art, 2022) *****
- Myra Melford – Snowy Egret (Enja, 2015) ****
- Myra Melford’s Fire and Water Quintet – Institut Français Berlin, 5/4/2022
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- Nate Wooley and Ken Vandermark – East by Northwest (Audiographic, 2014) *****
- Nate Wooley – Battle Pieces (Relative Pitch, 2015) ****
- Nate Wooley – Mutual Aid Music (Pleasure of the Text Records, 2021) *****
- Nate Wooley – The Almond (Pogus, 2012)
- Nate Wooley / Scott R. Looney / Damon Smith / Weasel Walter – Scowl (ugEXPLODE, 2011) ****½
- Nathan Hubbard/Skeleton Key Orchestra – Furiously Dreaming (Orenda Records, 2016) ****
- Nature Work – s/t (Sunnyside, 2019) ****
- Nels Cline Trio – Silencer (Enja, 2011) ****
- Nels Cline & Elliot Sharp – Open the Door (Public Eye Sore, 2013) ****
- Nels Cline & Julian Lage – Room (Mack Avenue, 2014) *****
- New Design … Same Blog
- New from FMP
- New (y)Ears Roundtable 2020
- Nick Millevoi – Streets of Philadelphia Limited Edition music book (s/p, 2019)
- Noah Kaplan Quartet – Cluster Swerve (HatHut, 2017) ****
- Northern Spy Record Label Profile
- Now Out from OutNow, Right Now
- No Base Trio – s/t/ (Setola di Maiale, 2020) ****
- No Pair – Chaos and Order (Long Song Records, 2015) ****
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- Pandelis Karayorgis Quintet – Afterimage (Driff Records, 2014) ****½
- Pandelis Karayorgis Roundup
- Paradoxical Frog – Union (Clean Feed, 2012)
- Pascal Niggenkemper – have you ever wondered (Subran Musiques Aventureuses, 2023)
- Patricia Brennan – More Touch (Pyroclastic, 2022)
- patrick brennan sOnic Openings – Tilting Curvaceous (Clean Feed, 2023)
- Pat Thomas, John Butcher & Ståle Solberg – Fictional Souvenirs (Astral Spirits, 2019) ****
- Paula Shocron and Pablo Diaz – Algo en un Espacio Vacio (Nendo Dango, 2021) ****
- Paula Shocron and Pablo Diaz: Always In Motion (part 1)
- Paula Shocron / Germán Lamonega / Pablo Diaz – Tensegridad (Hatology, 2017) ****½
- Paula Shocron, Pablo Díaz, Guillermo Gregorio – Diálogos & SLD Trio – EL Contorno Del Espacio
- Paulo Chagas – Saxophone Solos (liner notes)
- Paul Bley Tribute
- Paul Dunmall at the Cardiff School of Music
- Paul Dunmall & Tony Bianco – Thank You To John Coltrane (Slam,2012) ****½
- Paul Flaherty and Chris Corsano – Low Cost Space Flights (Feedtube Records, 2014) ****
- People Band 10-14-18. Exploratorium, Berlin.
- Percussion duos
- Peter Brötzmann Tribute (Day 2 of 3)
- Peter Brötzmann Tribute (Day 3 of 3)
- Peter Kuhn: In With the Old, In With The New
- Peter Van Huffel's Gorilla Mask – Bite My Blues (Clean Feed, 2014) ****
- Pete Robbins Transatlantic Quartet – Live in Basel (Hate Laugh Music, 2011) ****
- Phil Freeman – Ugly Beauty (Zero Books, 2022)
- Phonogram Unit: A Force in Motion
- Piho Hupo – Foump (Indigo, 2014) ****
- Polls 2023!
- Polls!
- Polyorchard, part II
- Potentiale Festival: Shhh … It’s a Secret
- Premature Burial – The Conjuring (New Atlantis, 2015) ****
- Pulverize the Sound – Pulverize the Sound (Relative Pitch, 2015) *****
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- Raoul Björkenheim, Anders Nilsson, Gerald Cleaver – Kalabalik (DMG,2012) *****
- Raoul Bjorkenheim, Bill Laswell, Morgan Agren – Blixt (Cuneiform, 2011) ****½
- Ra-Kalam Bob Moses – Sacred Exhalations (Ra-Kalam Records,2012) ****
- Reed Trio – Last Train to the First Station (Kilogram Records 2011) ****½
- Reverso – Suite Ravel (Phonoart, 2018) ****
- Re-examining the 70s
- Rhys Chatham – Pythagorean Dream (FOOM, 2016) ***1/2
- Rich Halley, Matthew Shipp, Michael Bisio, Newman Taylor Baker – The Shape of Things (Pine Eagle, 2020) ****½
- Ritual Habitual – Pagan Chant (Clean Feed, 2021) ****½
- Robert Dick with Nicola L. Hein and Adam Caine: Flute and Guitar
- Rob Brown Trio -Unknown Skies (RogueArt, 2011) ****
- Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Electro Acoustic Ensemble – The Space Between (Delmark, 2013) ****
- Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd – Indeterminate (Improvisations for Piano and Drums) (Nuvoid, 2013) ***½
- Rodrigo Amado – Let the Free Be Men (Trost, 2021) *****
- Rodrigo Amado – Refraction Solo / The Attic – Love Ghosts (Day 1/2)
- Ronny Graupe Off The Record – The Call (Out of the Shed, 2022)
- Ron Stabinsky – Free For One (HotCup, 2016) ****
- Ross Hammond and Sameer Gupta – Upward (Prescott, 2016) ***½
- Ross Hammond Quartet – Adored (Prescott Recordings, 2012)****
- Ross Hammond – Cathedrals (Prescott Recordings, 2013) ****½
- Ross Hammond – Humanity Suite (Prescott Records, 2014) ****
- Ross Hammond – Revival Trio (self released, 2012) ***½
- Ross Hammond – Shiner (Prescott Records, 2014) ****
- Roundup: More Guitars
- Round Up: New Ears from Norway
- Round-Up: Fighter Planes & Praying Mantis, Arson and Graceless
- Round-Up: Oct 4, 2013
- Rudi Mahall Olaf Rupp Kasper Tom – s/t (Barefoot Records, 2019) ****
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- Sammy Stein – Women in Jazz: The Women, The Legends & Their Fight (8th House press, 2019) ****½
- Samo Salamon – Dolphyology: Complete Eric Dolphy for Solo Guitar (Samo Records, 2022)
- Samuel Blaser Quartet – As The Sea (hatOLOGY, 2012) ****½
- Sam Rivers Archive Series (NoBusiness, 2023)
- Sana Nagano – Smashing Humans (577 Records, 2021) ****
- Saxophone Round Up, Part 1: Jon Irabagon
- Saxophone Round Up, Part 2: Nick Mazzarella / Dave Rempis / NoahPreminger / Jonah Parzen-Johnson
- Schlippenbach and Schubert Duo @ Kunststation Kleinsassan 8-25-18
- Schrödingers Cat – Schrödingers Cat (AUT, 2014) ****
- Scorch Trio with Mars Williams – Made in Norway (Rune Grammophone, 2012) ****
- Scott Fields, Matthias Schubert – Minaret Minuets (Clean Feed, 2111) ****
- Secret Keeper – Emerge (Intakt, 2015) ****
- Secret Keeper – Super 8 (Intakt, 2013) ****
- Serious Series 2023
- Sexmob – Cultural Capital (Rax Records, 2017) ****
- Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz : Abraxas: The Book Of Angels Vol. 19 (Tzadik, 2012) ****
- Shelter – Shelter (Audiographic, 2017) ****½
- Side A – In the Abstract (NotTwo, 2014) ****½
- Simão Costa – Beat With Out Byte (un)Learning Machine (Cipsela, 2021) ****
- SLD Trio – Anfitrion (s/r, 2015) ****
- Soft Machine – Switzerland 1974 / Hugh Hopper – Memories Box Set
- Soft Works – Abracadabra In Osaka (Moonjune, 2020) ****
- Solo Guitar
- Solo Guitar: Shane Parish and Ross Hammond
- Solo Guitar: Susan Alcorn / Ross Hammond / Julian Lage / David Torn
- Solo: Catherine Sikora and Paulo Chagas
- Sonar with David Torn – Vortex (RareNoiseRecords, 2018) ****
- Sounds from Portugal
- Sounds of the City
- Steffen Roth’s Musical World
- Stephen Gauci, Kirk Knuffke, Ken Filiano – Chasing Tales (RelativePitch, 2014) ****
- Steve Dalachinsky (1946-2019)
- Susan Alcorn – Evening Tales (Mystra Records, 2016) ****
- Swimmer (Bandcamp, 2011) ****
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- Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls Vs. the Forces of Evil **** (Naim, 2011)
- Terje Rypdal – Conspiracy (ECM, 2020) ****½
- Theoral – Conversations with Hamid Drake and William Parker (s/r, 2016) ****
- The Alliteration – The Alliteration (Creative Sources, 2014) ****
- The Art of the Improv Trio (3 of 3)
- The Catalytic Sound Festival with Ken Vandermark and Brock Stuessi
- The Continuing Adventures of Damon Smith
- The Dorf Aliens – Industrial Memory (s/r, 2021) ***½
- The Few – Fragments of a Luxury Vessel (Two Cities, 2017) ****½
- The Few -Beauty at Low Temperatures (s/r 2019) ****½
- The Free Jazz Blog Talks on Situation Fluxus
- The Grand Reportage Ensemble Deluxe & Lucien Dubuis – Live from the Surface of the Sun (Altrisuoni, 2011) ****½
- The Kris Wanders Outfit – In Remembrance of the Human Race (Not Two, 2011) ****
- The October Revolution Part 2: Saturday and Sunday
- The October Revolution: Part 1, Thursday and Friday
- The phenomenal Mats Gustafsson
- The Red Trio and John Butcher – Summer Skyshift (Clean Feed, 2016) ****½
- The Rempis/Marhaug Duo – Naancore (Aerophonic, 2014) ****
- The Selva – Camarão-Girafa (Clean Feed, 2023)
- The Spanish Donkey – Raoul (Rare Noise, 2015) ****
- The Spanish Donkey -XYX (Northern Spy, 2011) ****
- The Thing w/Jim O’Rourke: Shinjuku Growl (Smalltown Superjazz, 2011) ****½
- The Whammies – Play the Music of Steve Lacy (Driff Records, 2012) ****
- The 2016 Free Jazz Blog Reviewer's Top 10s
- Thollem/Cline/Wimberly – Radical Empathy (Relative Pitch, 2015) ****
- Thomas Chapin – Night Bird Song ('Olena Productions, 2016) *****
- Three by Loren Connors
- Three Day A’Larme!
- Tim Berne – Snakeoil (ECM, 2012) *****
- Tim Berne's Snakeoil – Shadow Man (ECM, 2013) *****
- Tim Berne's Snakeoil – You've Been Watching Me (ECM, 2015) *****
- Tim Daisy and Jason Stein – Alive at the Woodland Book Center (Relay,2014) ****
- Tim Daisy and Jason Stein – Bascule (Peira, 2013) ****
- Tomasz Stańko Tribute, Part II of II
- Tomasz Stańko Tribute, Part I of II
- Tomas Fujiwara – Triple Double (Firehouse 12 Records, 2017) ****½
- Tom Rainey Trio – Camino Cielo Echo (Intakt, 2012) ****
- Tony Malaby – Novela (Clean Feed, 2011) *****
- Tony Malaby – Tamarindo & Tubacello
- Ton Trio II – On and On (Singlespeed Music, 2014) ****
- Top Recordings 2022
- Touch and Go Sextet – Live at the Novara Jazz Festival (self-released, 2014) ****
- To Cecil Taylor (Part 2 of 3)
- To Ornette Coleman
- Transmit – Radiation (MonotypeRec, 2015) ****
- Trevor Barre – Convergences, Divergences & Affinities: The second wave of Free Improvisation in England, 1973–1979 (Compass, 2017) ****
- Trio Xolo – In Flower, In Song (577 Records, 2022)
- Trumpet and piano
- Trumpet-guitar duets
- Two Sides of the Same Bill
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- Vandermark / Drake / Trovalusci / Ceccarelli – Open Border (Audiographic Records, 2020) ****
- Verneri Pohjola & Black Motor – Rubidium (Tum, 2013) ****
- Vijay Iyer Trio @ Miller Theater, Columbia University, NYC 10-22-2016
- Vinny Golia Sextet – Abstractions and Retrocausalities (NineWinds, 2011)****½
- Vision Festival #23 2018 – Day 3
- Vision Festival #23 2018 – Day 5
- Vision Festival #23 2018 – Day 6
- Vision Festival #24 – 2019 – Day 1
- Vision Festival 2017 – Day 1: Calling All Visions
- Vision Festival 2017 – Day 2: The Resistance Begins
- Vision Festival 2017 – Day 3: Pause and Reflection
- Vision Festival 2017 – Day 4: Don't Let Them Take Your Joy Away
- Vision Festival 2017 – Day 5: Letting the Music Speak
- Vision Festival 2017 – Day 6: Seeking Optimism
- Vision Festival 2022: Lasting Impressions
- Vortex of Cortex, their Friends and Neighbors too …
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- Wayne Horvitz: Conductor, Composer, Inspiration
- Ways + Simon Toldam – Fortunes (Lorna Records, 2020) ****½
- Weasel Walter & Chris Pitsiokos – Drawn and Quartered (2015) ****
- Weasel Walter, Mary Halvorson, Peter Evans – Electric Fruit (Thirsty Ear, 2011) ****½
- Weekend Roundup: Fractures, Fragments, Moments and More
- Weekend Round Up: Bobrytskyy, Old Time Musketry, Ambrosio et al.
- Williams, Haker Flaten, Daisy – Moments Form (Idyllic Noise, 2013) ****
- William Parker – Migration of Silence Into and Out Of the Tone World (Centering, 2021) ****
- William Parker, Cooper-Moore, Hamid Drake, and Rob Brown @ Shapeshifter Lab July 12, 2017
- Will Guthrie – Sacrée Obsession (iDEAL, 2015) ****
- Winter Jazzfest '18: New York City
- Wolfgang Muthspiel – Where The River Goes (ECM, 2019)
