JAZZ AMUCK: 25 notable releases of ’25 + 5

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25 notable releases of ’25 + 5

ambrose akinmusire - honey from a winter stone - nonesuch
cosmic ear - traces - we jazz
fieldwork - thereupon - pi recordings
gustafsson / vandermark / reid / taylor - pivot - silkheart
webber morris big band - unseparate - out of your head ©
perelman / wooley / moran / helias / rainy - a modicum of blues - fundacja słuchaj
dan weiss - unclassified affections - pi recordings
jon irabagon - server farm - irabbagast
marshall allen’s ghost horizons - live in philadelphia - ars nova workshop/otherly love
jacob garchick - ye olde 2: at the end of time - yestereve
tim berne - yikes too - out of your head
james brandon lewis trio - apple cores - anti-
amina claudine myers - solace of the mind - red hook
mary halvorson 4tet - the bagatelles vol. one - tzadik
camila nebbia / kit downes / andrew lisle - exhaust - relative pitch
steve lehman trio + mark turner - the music of anthony braxton - pi recordings
patricia brennan - of the near and far - pyroclastic
sylvie courvoisier & mary halvorson - bone bells - pyroclastic
camilla nebbia / marilyn crispell / lesley mok - a reflection distorts over water - relative pitch
myra melford splash trio - splash - intakt
ches smith - clone row - otherly love records
heat on - heat on - cuneiform
lina allemano 4 - the diptychs - lumo ©
michael bisio - NuMBq - mahakala
amir elsaffar - new quartet live at pierre boulez saal - maqam


+5 archival gems

the vandermark 5 - four sides to the story - catalytic sound
irène schweizer / rüdiger carl / johnny dyani / han bennink - irène’s hot four - intakt
anthony braxton - quartet (england) 1985 - burning ambulance
snakeoil - ok - screwgun
horace tapscott & pan afrikan peoples arkestra - live at widney high, …1971 -  the village
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JAZZ AMUCK playlist: january 2, '26

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friday, january 2, 2026

david ryshpan fills-in

Miles Davis - Capricorn - Water Babies - Columbia Records - 1976
John Coltrane - Satellite - Coltrane's Sound - Atlantic Records - 1961
Max Roach - Ezz-Thetic - Max Roach Plus Four - EmArcy - 1956
Herbie Nichols Trio - Wildflower - The Complete Blue Note Recordings - Blue Note - 1956
Horace Silver - Virgo - Six Pieces of Silver - Blue Note - 1956
Bobby Hutcherson - Little B's Poem - Components - Blue Note - 1966
Sambrasa Trio - Sambrasa - Em Som Maior - Som Maior - 1966
Roscoe Mitchell - Ornette - Sound - Delmark - 1966
McCoy Tyner/Joe Henderson - The Believer - Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' - Blue Note - 2024
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil - Speak No Evil - Blue Note - 1966
Air - Midnight Sun - Air Raid - Why Not - 1976
Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life - Bright Size Life - ECM - 1976
Kenny Wheeler - Gnu Suite - Gnu High - ECM - 1976
Bill Frisell - Tales from the Far Side - Quartet - Nonesuch - 1996
Jason Moran - Artists Ought To Be Writing - Artist In Residence - Blue Note - 2006
Nels Cline - Yokada Yokada/The Rumproller - New Monastery - 2006
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JAZZ AMUCK playlist: december 26, '25

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friday, december 26, 2025

david ryshpan fills-in

Miguel Zenón - El dia de mi suerte - Vanguardia Subterranea  
Billy Hart - Sonnet for Stevie - Multidirectional - Smoke Sessions  
Out Of/Into - Brothers in Arms - Motion II - Blue Note  
James Brandon Lewis - Broken Shadows - Apple Cores - ANTI- Records  
Fred Hersch - Law Years - The Surrounding Green - ECM  
Rich Brown - Heart of a Lonely Woman - Nyaeba - Whirlwind Recordings ©  
Patricia Brennan - Lyra - Of The Near and Far - Pyroclastic  
Sasha Berliner - Construction - Fantôme
Kelsey Mines - Staying With the Trouble - Everything Sacred, Nothing Serious - Origin Records  
Kassa Overall - C.R.E.A.M. - CREAM - Warp  
Jaleel Shaw - Meghan - Painter of the Invisible - Changu
Paul Cornish - Palindrome - You're Exaggerating! - Blue Note
Kate Wyatt - Murmurations - Murmurations ©
Ches Smith - Play Bell (For Nick) - Clone Row
Thomas Morgan - In The Dark - Around You Is A Forest  
Adam O'Farrill - Migration - For These Streets - Out Of Your Head Records
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JAZZ AMUCK playlist: december 19, '25

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friday, december 19, 2025

lost in geneva - kris davis trio - lost in geneva - pyroclastic © (3:59)
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astral  - fieldwork - thereupon - pi recordings (4:10)
avenue b social club - eri yamamoto matthew shipp - horizon - mahakala (7:30)
streamside - camilla nebbia / marilyn crispell / lesley mok - a reflection distorts over water - relative pitch (5:23)
burning wick - satoko fujii 4tet - burning wick - libra (10:00)
antistrophe - remedy (herberer / fonda / hertenstein) + aki takase - remedy + aki takase - fundacja słuchaj (5:32)
H - henry threadgill - listen ship - pi recordings (6:23)
luqman the wise - pat thomas - hikmah - tao forms (3:59)
beauty beneath the rubble meditation - kris davis trio - run the gauntlet - pyroclastic (4:48) © 2024
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dance! skip! hop! - tomeka reid 4tet - dance! skip! hop! - out of your head (10:13)
october 26th - chad taylor 5tet - smoke shifter - otherly love (5:25)
paradise lawns / october 29th - chad taylor 5tet - smoke shifter - otherly love (9:54)
egyptian suite - chicago underground duo - hyperglyph - international anthem (12:42)
drops of sorrow. accelerating - gustafsson / vandermark / reid / taylor - pivot - silkheart (6:47)
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ma'oz tzur (hanukkah) - truth is marching in - jingle bells (edit) - mars williams - … presents an ayler xmas - soul what 2017
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JAZZ AMUCK playlist: december 12, '25

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friday, december 12, 2025

when kabuya dances - craig taborn / tomeka reid / ches smith - dream archives - ecm (7:30)
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sensuous - amina claudine myers - solace of the mind - red hook (5:19)
drift - myra melford - splash - intakt (10:46)
avian shadow - chad taylor 5tet - smoke shifter - otherly love (7:10)
blue transient - part 5 - robertson / dell / ramond / kugel - blue transient - nemu (13:07)
unclassified affections - dan weiss - unclassified affections - pi recordings (4:34)
a modicum of the blues, part 3 - perelman / wooley / moran / helias / rainey - a modicum of the blues - fundacja słuchaj (7:33)
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care - eeg coherence (brahja / shalabi /moore / o’neill) - eeg coherence - rr gems © (11:44) 2024
already here - muriel grossmann - breakthrough - rr gems (9:32)
a body to match - the dwarfs of agouza - sasquatch landslide - constellation © (9:55)
from couplets to corpuscles - three layer cake - sounds the color grounds - otherly love (4:07)
third nature - booker stardrum - close-up on the outside - we jazz (5:43)
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sphere of influence - aretha tillotson - kinda way out west - bent river © (5:31)
dawn chorus - led bib - hotel pupik - cuneiform (4:08)
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JAZZ AMUCK playlist: december 5, '25

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friday, december 5, 2025

fruit gathering - zoh amba - sun - smalltown supersound (2:17)
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the golden light - william parker - the golden light - aum fidelity (5:45)
one for archie - moor mother / nicole mitchell / nduduzo makhathini - one for archie - enjoy jazz (4:06)
journey for 3 blue stones - nicole mitchell’s black earth ensemble  - hope, future and destiny - dreamtime 2005 (9:59)
blasé - archie shepp - blasé - byg actuel 1969 (10:20)
abantwana belanga - nduduzo makathini - in the spirit of ntu - blue note 2022 (6:52)
melancholia - asher gamedze & the black lungs - constitution - international anthem 2024 (7:15)
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broken horse - chad taylor 5tet - smoke shifter - otherly love (7:38)
substance m - peter evans / mike pride - a window, basically - relative pitch (6:44)
negative - lina allemano 4 - the diptychs - lumo © (7:21)
miss america - talk show (steph richards / qasim naqvi) - miss america - we jazz © (5:23)
autumn comes - amir elsafar new quintet  - live at pierre boulez saaal - maqam (8:53)
night - taylor ho bynum  - life (live at firehouse 12) - sg3 (6:11)
plusgood - dan weiss - unclassified affections - pi recordings (7:45)
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sophisticated lady - archie shepp - blasé - byg actuel 1969 (5:10)
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JAZZ AMUCK playlist: november 28, '25

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friday, november 28, 2025

slingshot - anna webber - simpletrio2000 - intakt © (5:49)
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hikmah - pat thomas - hikmah - tao forms (4:24)
catalogue (part 2) - alexander hawkins / taylor ho bynum - a near permanent state of wonder - rogueart (4:51)
avenue b social club - eri yamamoto / matthew shipp - horizon - mahakala (7:30)
from the distance of my freedom - aruan ortiz - creole renaissance - intakt (7:45)
olo’upnea and lightning - sylvie courvoisier / wadada leo smith - angel falls - intakt (8:36)
r - henry threadgill - listen ship - pi recordings (7:59)
transitoriness - camilla nebbia / marilyn crispell / lesley mok - a reflection distorts over water - relative pitch (5:18)
fire city - fieldwork - thereupon - pi recordings (3:58)
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vehicle (for magnus broo) - vandermark 5 - four sides to the story - catalytic sound (8:58)
conic sections - construction party - instruments of change - catalytic sound (8:00)
green mars - the last quintet - extraordinary popular delusions - corbett vs dempsey (29:18)
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soupe pragmatique - hugo blouin - le buffet - ambiances magnétiques © (5:44)
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