Modern/Avant New Releases: A running thread

[clifford_thornton]

Uuskyla is great!

[optatio]

6 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

Uuskyla is great!

Yes, saw him often in Göttingen ... https://peeteruuskyla.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-g-ttinger-jazzfest-1999

Here in a duo with Dr.phil. Ove Volquartz, longtime chairman of the Göttingen Jazz Festival. Both contributed to the recording with Cecil Taylor – see Uuskyla's recommendation below!

 

[jlhoots]

On 7/18/2025 at 4:24 AM, Olie Brice said:

Thought I'd let people here know about this - my 4th album as bandleader/composer, featuring the amazing Rachel Musson, Alexander Hawkins and Will Glaser...

Olie Brice Quartet 'All It Was', releases today on West Hill Records

Available on bandcmap here: https://westhill.bandcamp.com/album/all-it-was

And on Squidco if you're in the States: https://www.squidco.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=S&Product_Code=36469&Category_Code=

Ordered from Squidco.

[Vaudevillian]

A new one by Mira Melford ('s trio).

Guess I'll just post the review since it sums it up pretty nicely: https://www.freejazzblog.org/2025/08/myra-melford-splash-intakt-2025.html

Increasingly, I find myself liking large portions of Intakt's output. This one is not an exception. Free yet quite "bouncy", as the reviewer puts it.

[colinmce]

the Melford is excellent. one of the few albums from this year I’ve really enjoyed. would love to hear what folks here have been into. 

[Steve Reynolds]

On 3/9/2025 at 9:41 AM, Steve Reynolds said:

Stumps Sven Ake Johansen group

some of the Ictus box

some of the Zlatko Kaucic box / the trio with Doerner is great

 Ostertag/Rose/Hemingway from mid 2010’s is incredible 

Rotations with Schick, Hautzinger & Sven / amazing

Nathan Hubbard/Kyle Motl: Obsedian

worlds with Joelle, Lotte & Kresten Osgood is stunning

Martina Verhoeven quartet: Indicator Light

Blue Plum Bloom: Buck, Mayas & Brown

Splitter Orchestra: splitter musik 3 CD set mind blowing 

 

look at my shows for new names or under the radar names to watch out for

Sandy Ewen, Maggie Cox, Chuck Roth, Michael Foster, Hans Young Binter, Orchid McRae, Webb Crawford, Brian Chase, Tim Dahl, Jessica Pavone, Joanna Mattrey, Anna Abondolo, etc.

Add

Dog Star / a few years old but stunning. Goncalo Almeida & others. Opening 26 minute piece is genius. Vasco Trilla & Yedo Gibson are the real deal.

Against Proper Objects / Michael Foster, Webb Crawford & Joey Sullivan 

Lifeline: Pat Thomas, Dominic Lash & Tony Orrell

Tectonic Plates: John Butcher, Alan Niblock & Mark Sanders 

Hammer, Roll & Leaf: Sakina Abdou, Marta Warelis & Toma Gouband

Do NOT miss the Sven Ake discs. These are all-timers. RIP. 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Steve Reynolds