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 18 hours ago by Steve Reynolds

[mjazzg]

10 hours ago, colinmce said:

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. 

Confront seems to be consistently good at the moment. I'm enjoying these

https://confrontrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-duke-of-wellington

https://confrontrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/pozna-appropriate-density

https://confrontrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/clastic

https://confrontrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/around-the-square-above-the-hill

And one not from them

https://nivuniconnu.bandcamp.com/album/embrace

 

 

[colinmce]

Thanks! I admit to not keeping up with Confront enough, it's a lot.

Dog Star is new to me but looks excellent. 

Hammer, Roll, and Leaf is indeed great. I haven't heard Stumps from SAJ yet but Rotations is very strong, I need to pick up CDs of both sooner rather than later. And very much looking forward to hearing the new 2xCD from Cafe Oto once it hits the US, the overseas shipping is just too much for me.

Plan to check out the Foster trio and Lifeline discs (as well as the new Shifa CD on Discus).

The two latest McPhee discs on Klanggalerie and RougeArt are good quite good, as are the Graewe on Random Acoustics and the Perelman/Shipp on Tao Forms.

Some others that I have enjoyed a fair amount so far:

Das B - Love
Stefan Keuene/Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith - Two Felt Tip Pens: Live At Moers 
Ab Baars/Oscar Jan Hoogland/Uldis Vitols/Onno Govaert ‎– Loot 
Camila Nebbia/Kit Downes/Andrew Lisle - Exhaust 
Fred Moten & Brandon López – Revision 
Tatsuya Yoshida & Martin Escalante - The Sound of Raspberry

and a lot of great archival stuff: Irene Schweizer, Marco Eneidi, Rashied Ali/Frank Lowe, Joe Maneri, Jimmy Lyons, Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley, AMM/Sachiko M, Stabbins/Tippett/Moholo, Joseph Holbrooke, Sun Ra

So overall, hearing a lot of good new stuff but not a ton that is grabbing me overmuch. 

 

[Steve Reynolds]

Seeing Ghost with Joe McPhee again on 10/1 in Philly

Ghost is Michael Foster, John Moran & Joey Sullivan

last year they were spectacular at Tubby’s in Kingston, NY. McPhee played the foil to Michael. Deep respect for the great young saxophonist/musical inventor. Foster is the best of his generation as far as NYC saxophonists go.

I’ve seen the trio with Michael, Webb & Joey at least 5 times over the last 18 months. Seeing Webb with Trevor Dunn & Chris Corsano on 8/27 at The Stone. Webb is one of the best improvisers on guitar I’ve heard. Along with Chuck Roth & Luciana Bass, the best young improvisors I’ve heard on the guitar. 

13 minutes ago, colinmce said:

Thanks! I admit to not keeping up with Confront enough, it's a lot.

Dog Star is new to me but looks excellent. 

Hammer, Roll, and Leaf is indeed great. I haven't heard Stumps from SAJ yet but Rotations is very strong, I need to pick up CDs of both sooner rather than later. And very much looking forward to hearing the new 2xCD from Cafe Oto once it hits the US, the overseas shipping is just too much for me.

Plan to check out the Foster trio and Lifeline discs (as well as the new Shifa CD on Discus).

The two latest McPhee discs on Klanggalerie and RougeArt are good quite good, as are the Graewe on Random Acoustics and the Perelman/Shipp on Tao Forms.

Some others that I have enjoyed a fair amount so far:

Das B - Love
Stefan Keuene/Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith - Two Felt Tip Pens: Live At Moers 
Ab Baars/Oscar Jan Hoogland/Uldis Vitols/Onno Govaert ‎– Loot 
Camila Nebbia/Kit Downes/Andrew Lisle - Exhaust 
Fred Moten & Brandon López – Revision 
Tatsuya Yoshida & Martin Escalante - The Sound of Raspberry

and a lot of great archival stuff: Irene Schweizer, Marco Eneidi, Rashied Ali/Frank Lowe, Joe Maneri, Jimmy Lyons, Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley, AMM/Sachiko M, Stabbins/Tippett/Moholo, Joseph Holbrooke, Sun Ra

So overall, hearing a lot of good new stuff but not a ton that is grabbing me overmuch. 

 

Fwiw the trio recordings with Sandy Ewen, Damon Smith & Weasel Walter are all spectacular. Sandy Ewen is a genius. Plus she’s great to watch music with. Big ears. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Steve Reynolds

[mjazzg]

I'm definitely going to follow up on 'Hammer, Roll and Leaf' simply as it has Gouband on. I saw him a few years ago play an astonishing set on stones with Evan Parker. I don't know the other two but look forward to hearing them.

I'll be getting the new Shifa too. Still yet to catch them live which is unforgivable considering they play London more than anywhere else

Edited 1 hour ago by mjazzg

[clifford_thornton]

47 minutes ago, Steve Reynolds said:

Seeing Ghost with Joe McPhee again on 10/1 in Philly

Ghost is Michael Foster, John Moran & Joey Sullivan

last year they were spectacular at Tubby’s in Kingston, NY. McPhee played the foil to Michael. Deep respect for the great young saxophonist/musical inventor. Foster is the best of his generation as far as NYC saxophonists go.

I’ve seen the trio with Michael, Webb & Joey at least 5 times over the last 18 months. Seeing Webb with Trevor Dunn & Chris Corsano on 8/27 at The Stone. Webb is one of the best improvisers on guitar I’ve heard. Along with Chuck Roth & Luciana Bass, the best young improvisors I’ve heard on the guitar. 

Fwiw the trio recordings with Sandy Ewen, Damon Smith & Weasel Walter are all spectacular. Sandy Ewen is a genius. Plus she’s great to watch music with. Big ears. 

all of this. Tell the Ghost/McPhee hello for me!