JAZZ AMUCK playlist: january 23, '26

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friday, january 23, 2026

jill of all - aretha tillotson - kinda out west - bent river © (4:31)
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blue transient pt. 7 - robertson / dell / ramond / kugel - blue transient - nemu (13:50)
substance p - peter evans and mike pride - a window basically - relative pitch (5:14)
holotype - dan weiss - unclassified affections - pi recordings (7:28)
antila - patricia brennan - of the near and far - pyroclastic (7:31)
assembly of all beings - thomas morgan / ambrose akinmusire - around you is a forest - loveland (9:08)
spindrift - christopher hoffman - rex - out of your head (4:17)
oo long! - tomeka reid 4tet - dance! skip! hop! - out of your head (6:40)
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enchant - craig taborn / tomeka reid / ches smith - dream archives - ecm (11:46)
gamuts - steve hirsh - root causes (feat. eri yamamoto & wlliam parker)  - mahakala (9:14)
folding - iva bittová / marilyn crispell /benedicte maurseth / david rothenberg - four fold - terra nova music (7:48)
mirror foil - john butcher - away, i was - relative pitch (2:39)
driving through flood water - nebbia / crispell / mok - a reflection distorts over water - relative pitch (10:29)
who are you telling, gus - alabaster deplume - a blade because a blade is whole - international anthem (3:58)
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list of demands - damon locks - list of demands - international anthem (2:56)
the signal is hot - damon locks - list of demands - international anthem (1:44)
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JAZZ AMUCK playlist: january 16, '26

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friday, january 16, 2026
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glorious mahalia: iv sometime I feel like a motherless child  - kronos 4tet - glorious mahalia - smithsonian folkways
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blowing on embers - bellbird - the call - constellation © (6:57)
tell them it’s the sound of freedom - martin küchen angels 11 - tell them it’s the sound of freedom - fsr (11:34)
gnistran / hematopoesi / emlodi - anna högberg attack - ensamseglaren - fönstret (15:51)
free angela ! - hélène labarrière - puzzle - jazzdor series (12:32)
un art du temp - hugo blouin - le buffet - ambiances magnétiques © (3:55)
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night - taylor ho bynum - life (live at firehouse 12) - sg3 (6:11)
coalesce - lina allemano 4 - the diptychs - lumo © (5:32)
landing - tom varner - a new planet - tom varner music (3:38)
sea triptych pts. 1,2,3 - adam o’farrill - elephant - out of your head (10:45)
rain in the wee small hours - satoko fujii 4tet - burning wick - libra (9:03)
sunrise - jakob bro, wadada leo smith, marilyn crispell & andrew cyrille - the montclair session - loveland (11:30)
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light a thing dub (edit) - h ii regions - h ii regions - self release ©
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JAZZ AMUCK playlist: january 9, '26

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friday, january 9, 2026

gestations - the messthetics / james brandon lewis - deface the currency - impulse! (5:13)
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left alone - james brandon lewis 4tet - abstraction is deliverance - intakt (9:24)
diadromous - otherlands trio (stephan crump / darius jones / eric mcpherson) - star mountain - intakt (7:30)
unknown suite # 1, #4 - luke stewart / chad taylor / aymeric avice - deep in the earth high in the sky - rogueart (14:44)
river road - luke stewart / silt remembrance ensemble - the order - cuneiform (6:56)
best believe - history dog - root systems - otherly love (3:40)
space ghost - marshall allen’s ghost horizons - live in philadelphia - otherly love (7:43)
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rejoice, disrupt, resist - angelika niesicer - chicago tapes - intakt (8:20)
double consciousness - yuhan su - over the moons - endectomorph (7:53)
mist/missed - webber morris big band - unseparate - out of your head © (7:35)
existential banger infinite ceiling - brandon seabrook - hellbent daydream - pyroclastic (7:00)
autumn comes - amir elsaffar - new quartet live at pierre boulez saal - maqim (8:53)
aquila - patricia brennan - of the near and far - pyroclastic (7:13)
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prince eugene (edit) - james brandon lewis - apple cores - anti-
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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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