AMN Reviews: Runes Order – No Future (1993/2026; Eighth Tower Records) No Future was released in 1993 by way of a very limited cassette run. Saved from obscurity and remastered for release on Eighth Tower Records, the album is a prescient look forward to the experimental ambient music that would…

Coming to Seattle Source: Wayward Music Series. Dream Pool presents: Shimi & FriendsSat. Dec. 27, 5:30 PM; $15 in advance / at door Poetry and ambient engross the air in an evening built for the therians of the PNW. Exploring the cacophonous silence of the desert with hypnotic percussion and…

Derek Bailey, 20 Years Gone Source: Burning Ambulance. Guitarist Derek Bailey died 20 years ago this week, on December 25, 2005. He was not a jazz musician. He played jazz at the beginning of his career, along with many other styles in many contexts — he was a professional musician who accompanied…

The Free Jazz Collective Reviews Source: The Free Jazz Collective. Phil Haynes & Free Country - Liberty Now! (Corner Store Jazz, 2025) Almufaraka – Master of Disorder (Circum-Disc, 2024) Camila Nebbia ft. Marilyn Crispell & Lesley Mok - A reflection distorts over water (Relative Pitch Records,…

AMN Reviews: Rafael Anton Irisarri – Points of Inaccessibility (2026; Black Knoll Editions) On this latest work, composer and sound artist Rafael Anton Irisarri offers four medium-to-long tracks of quasi-pastoral synth droning, each of which build and recede at a measured pace. They can be…

Inter(Space) Residency Series in NY Source: Arts For Art. Wednesday Jan. 14 7:30 pm Diego Hedez - trumpet Francisco Mela - drums 9:00 pm Trae Crudup 'n Good Company Residency Shara Lunon - vocals Ann Sylvia Clark - dance Jordyn Davis - bass Trae Crudup - drums Thursday Jan. 15 7:30 pm Alfredo…

Alice Coltrane Celebration in New Orleans Source: Jazz Generations Initiative. On January 14 & 16, Alice Coltrane will be celebrated in New Orleans with The Life, Music, and Legacy of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, a performance and multimedia series featuring renowned harpist and composer…

Coming to Detroit’s Trinosophes Source: trinosophes. Tuesday, December 23The Center for Melodic ResearchAndromeda7:30 pm | $15 suggested minimum donation For the innaugural fourth "Tuesday" residency curated by Zekkereya things are getting an extra special kick-off! Not only will Zekkereya's new…

DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET Photos Source: DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET. December 15, 2025The Ghost & Joe McPhee, RouletteMichael Foster Joe McPhee John Moran Joey Sullivan December 15, 2025Craig Taborn & Miriam Parker, RouletteMiriam Parker Craig Taborn December 15, 2025Brandon Lopez & Fred Moten, RouletteBrandon…

Another Place Show, December 22, 2025 Source: 90.9fm WDCB. Chicago journalist and jazz aficionado Andy Pierce hosts "Another Place" Sundays at midnight. The show explores creative music, jazz and the avant-garde, and delves into the longer, more complex compositions and improvisations in jazz.

AMN Reviews: Neda Mohamadpour – Where the Rain Is Stored (2025; Link Music Lab) Traditional South Asian music blurs the lines between composition and improvisation. The Persian dastgah is a looser structure than ragas in the Hindustani or Carnatic lineage. Where the Rain Is Stored, a new album…

AMN Reviews: Dan Rosenboom – Coordinates (2025; Orenda Records) Trumpeter Dan Rosenboom returns with Coordinates, an ostensible big band recording that took several years to piece together. Backed on all tracks by guitar, bass, and drums, he selected from subsets of two dozen other musicians…

2025 Best of Lists from Around the Web: Part V It’s that time again. We gather best-of-2025 lists from around the web and provide links here. All of these lists focus on the kind of music featured on these pages. Enjoy. Lee Rice Epstein's best of 2025, part 1. A Closer Listen's top modern…

AMN Picks of the Week: Born Erased / Beyond Sensory Experience / Cryo Chamber Collaboration / Tomeka Reid Quartet / Gianluca Becuzzi Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that caught my attention. All of the releases listed below I have heard for the…

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AMN Reviews: Gianluca Becuzzi – American Requiem (2025; Bandcamp) One of my more intriguing discoveries of the last several years is the music of Gianluca Becuzzi. An Italian with a discography going back four decades, he continues to actively record with roughly annual self-released albums since…

JazzTrail Reviews Source: JazzTrail. Chad Taylor Quintet - Smoke Shifter Akira Sakata - Hyperentasis Camila Nebbia / Gonçalo Almeida / Sylvain Darrifourcq - Hypomaniac Yuhan Su - Over the Moons

David Tudor at 100 Exhibition in Philadelphia Source: BOWERBIRD. From Thursday - 5:00pm (ET) January 15, 2026 To Saturday - 5:00pm (ET) March 21, 2026 Pearlstein Gallery 3401 Filbert St Philadelphia 19104 A View from Inside: David Tudor at 100 celebrates the life, work, and legacy of David Tudor…

New Releases From Sawyer Editions Source: Sawyer Editions. Michael Pisaro-Liu – Concentric Rings in Magnetic LevitationSawyer Editions presents a new recording of American composer Michael Pisaro-Liu’s expansive composition Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation, realized by Forming, an ad hoc…

Coming to Downtown Music Gallery  Source: Downtown Music Gallery. Tuesday, December 23rd: Mixed Holiday Celebration6:30: BEYOND FLUTE GROUP: CHERYL PYLE - C & Alto Flutes / GENE COLEMAN - Bass Flute & Piccolo / AYUMI ISHITO - Tenor Sax / RAS MOSHE BURNETT - C flute & tenor sax7:30: BEN GOLDBERG -…

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AMN Reviews: Tomeka Reid – dance! skip! hop! (2026; Out Of Your Head Records) Each time a new album from Tomeka Reid, Mary Halvorson, Tomas Fujiwara, or a number of others who circulate among these musicians is released, I have the same reaction. I am tempted to state, "If you like their last…

AMN Reviews: The Sephardics – Sephardic Dialogues I-III (2025; Umland Records) Sephardic Dialogues is really three albums in one. Each disc features a different guest, and each one yanks the Essen-based Sephardics out of their comfort zone in different directions. The group certainly aimed high,…

The Elite Extremophile Reviews Source: The Elite Extremophile. Artist: Gianni Carlin | Album: In nessun luogo | Genre: Progressive rock | Bandcamp Band: Hesse Kassel | Album: La Brea | Genre: Post-rock | Bandcamp Band: Ábrete Gandul | Album: Suciedad Contemporánea | Genre: Progressive rock |…

Coming to Chicago Source: Now Is. Saturday, December 20 Front Porch Art Center 5851 W Madison 2:00PM Live scoring session to a screening of Octavia Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" David Boykin with special guest First Presbyterian Church of Chicago 6400 S Kimbark 773.363.0505…

Jazzword Reviews Source: Jazzword. Terry Riley The Columbia Recordings Valley Voice Stars, Engines Uli Kempendorff’s Field Who are You Sending This Time Jason Kao Hwang Myths of Origin Gustafsson/Reid/Vandermark/Taylor Pivot Cut Trio Accelerator Matthieu Donarier Coastline

Winter 2026 at the ISSUE Project Room Source: ISSUE Project Room. After Nan Shepherd: Nate Wooley with Joan La Barbara & Yarn/Wire Friday, January 30, 2026 - 8:00 pm Brooklyn Music School ISSUE’s 2026 Winter Season Opening concert, After Nan Shepherd, co-presented with Brooklyn Music School is a…

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AMN Reviews: The Crossing / Donald Nally – David Lang: the sense of senses (2025; Cantaloupe) David Lang has put a lot of effort over the years into setting the biblical Song of Songs. The Crossing's new release features two such pieces, including the titular the sense of senses. Lang's music is…

2025 Best of Lists from Around the Web: Part IV It’s that time again. We gather best-of-2025 lists from around the web and provide links here. All of these lists focus on the kind of music featured on these pages. Enjoy. Best of lists from contributors to The Wire. Best of 2025 jazz from Hank…

The Squid’s Ear Reviews Source: The Squid's Ear. Michel Doneda / Frederic Blondy - Points of Convergences (Relative Pitch) Larry Stabbins / Mark Sanders - Cup & Ring (Discus) Elliott Sharp - The Squid's Ear Interview Olie Brice Quartet (Brice / Musson / Hawkins / Glaser) - All It Was (West Hill…

Coming to San Francisco Source: Bay Improviser Calendar. Saturday, December 20 Sat 12/20 12:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology Cybersentics Book Club, no. 2: reading Bio-Music (1971) by Manford Eaton! Sat 12/20 7:30 PM Audium 1000 Whispers From Our Future by Pat Mesiti-Miller Sat 12/20 8:00 PM…

Dusted Reviews Source: Dusted. Listed: Andrew Weathers Robbie Lynn Hunsinger and Tatsu Aoki— Robbie Lynn Hunsinger and Tatsu Aoki Vol 1 (Asian Improv) Sam Shalabi / Mike Gangloff & Liam Grant — Mont-real (Carbon)

AMN Reviews: Sakina Abdou/Bill Nace – Rinse Cycle (2025; Open Mouth) The title of Rinse Cycle is not a subtle metaphor. After Sakina Abdou and Bill Nace are through, you might feel like you've been drenched and kicked around the inside of a washing machine. They didn't call it Delicate Cycle for…

New Releases From Edgetone Records Source: Edgetone Records. Dream Suite (for Lily Loomis) Bill Noertker Elegies, Dedication To Lost Friends Rent Romus, Heikki Koskinen, Otherworld Ensemble, featuring The Jazz Preacher Markku Salo Lament to Joy (The return of the blessed sons) Rent Romus, Heikki…

5:4 Reviews Source: 5:4. Enno Poppe – Körper HCMF 2025 (Part 2) HCMF 2025 (Part 1) Chiyoko Szlavnics – Memory Spaces Sacrum Profanum 2025 (Part 2) Sacrum Profanum 2025 (Part 1)

Rabble Without A Cause Show – December 17, 2025 Source: CKCU. Mujician in concert, plus new music from Paul Dunmall.

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Something Else! Reviews Source: Something Else! Chad Taylor Quintet – ‘Smoke Shifter’ (2025) Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber – ‘If You Can’t Dazzle Them With Your Brilliance …’ (2025) Horace Silver – ‘Silver In Seattle: Live At The Penthouse’ (1965, 2025 release) Ivo Perelman + Ray Anderson – ’12…

AMN Reviews: Ahn Trio Ensemble – Plays Laurie Spiegel (2025; Maria Ahn Music) It's not even two full steps from this EP back to Charles Ives. One of Laurie Spiegel's best-loved pieces is titled The Unquestioned Answer, a response of sorts to Ives's 1908 chamber work, The Unanswered Question. Ives…

Morton Feldman Centennial Marathon in LA, January  Source: Piano Spheres. Date: January 11, 2026 Time: 3:00 pm - 9:00 pm The Wende Museum 10808 Culver Blvd Culver City, CA 90230 United States Piano Spheres celebrates the centennial of one of the 20th century’s greatest composers with a marathon…

Coming to Seattle Source: Wayward Music Series. Katherine Whatley/Robert Millis/Noel KennonWed. Dec. 17, 8 PM; $5 - $20 at the door Music and sounds for the koto, viola, electronics, ukulele and more featuring Robert Millis (Climax Golden Twins,Sublime Frequencies), Katherine Whatley and Noel…

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Santa Sangre Reviews Source: Santa Sangre. Subverge – Triox Rudna X Marks The Pedwalk – Insomnia IKSRE – expansion b (north)

The Free Jazz Collective Reviews Source: The Free Jazz Collective. Angles 11 - Tell Them It's The Sound Of Freedom (Fundacja Słuchaj, 2025) Lao Dan - To Hit a Pressure Point (Relative Pitch, 2025) MOTUSNEU + Steve Swell - War der Clown gar nicht echt? (Boomslang, 2025) Ches Smith - The Self…

AMN Reviews: Televizyon – Mom! I’m Growing Up (2025; Sauajazz) Some contemporary music gets classified as jazz because there isn't any other place to put it. Mom! I'm Growing Up is one of those albums. The tunes are art-pop with dashes of samples and electronica. But the band sometimes drifts into…

Matthew Shipp Interview Source: The Ideas Letter. The great and ferociously original jazz pianist Matthew Shipp riffs with Leonard Benardo on what it means for a musician to find a truly personal sound—something deeper than virtuosity, rooted in instinct, risk, and a kind of “unlearning” of…

Performances Coming to Holyoke and Philadelphia HOLYOKE, MA - HOLYOKE MEDIAWednesday, Deceber 17, 2025, 7:00pm1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA Sam GasCan - electronics, keyboards, vocals, tape collage+ Wednesday Knudsen - ambient flute, guitar, alto sax++ Irman Peck - amplified cello KanePasleyBonnie…

Musique Machine Reviews  Source: Musique Machine. Danheim - Heimferd Stärker - Spectral Rose Tang & Patrick Golden - A White Horse Is Not a Horse Howard Stelzer - Five Thousand Pretenders Who Passed the Test By Lu Paolo Tortora - Waves of Fading Memories

DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET Photos Source: DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET. December 12, 2025David Watson Solo, Lava ClubDavid Watson December 12, 2025Cleek Schrey, David Watson, Sean Meehan, Lava ClubSean Meehan Cleek Schrey David Watson December 12, 2025Cleek Schrey & Sean Meehan, Lava ClubSean Meehan Cleek Schrey…