Physician heal thyself Miles Davis Complete Jack Johnson Sessions feat: McLaughlin, Maupin, Corea, Shorter, DeJohnette, Hancock, Jarrett, Grossman, M. Henderson, Carter, Sharrock, Airto, Holland, Shorter, Pascoal, and others Don’t sleep on Teo Macero’s hand…

Quest (disc 3) Dave Liebman - soprano saxophone Richie Beirach - piano Ron McClure - bass Billy Hart - drums

Mark Turner - saxophone Ethan Iverson - piano Ben Street - bass Billy Hart - drums A 20+ year working quartet… “In terms of our experience level, we’ve come closer to Billy, if that’s not too egotistical to say… We’ve gotten better as musicians, more comfortable in our own skin” - Turner

Chris Potter - tenor & soprano saxophone Brad Mehldau - piano Joe Martin - acoustic bass Al Foster - drums Recorded four months before Foster’s untimely passing “there’s a lot of history between us. So, there’s a comfort level… this is some very focused music-making” - Potter

Miles Okazaki - g Craig Taborn - p Anthony Tidd - b Sean Rickman - dr “The trickster figure is an ancient archetype in human folklore. They are creative in nature, using mischief and magic to disrupt the state of things, breaking taboos and conventions, opening doorways”-Okazaki

Remember Shakti U. Srinivas – electric mandolin John McLaughlin – guitar Zakir Hussain – tabla Vikku Selvaganesh – kanjira, ghatam, mridangam The light these albums and this music brings me is always a welcome surprise

Remember Shakti variations of: Hariprasad Chaurasia – bansuri John McLaughlin – guitar, synthesizer T.H. Vikku Vinayakram – ghatam Zakir Hussain – tabla Uma Metha - tanpura

“you really can't find him playing like before or after....It's a real portrait of that band. The whole thing with Don and Terry is so special, and it always has been for Jim. He's really affected by who he's playing with” -Pat Metheny Jim Hall - g Don Thompson - b Terry Clarke - dr

“Improvisation is just a form of self-expression, and it's very gratifying to improvise in front of people. I feel I'm including them in what Im doing, taking them someplace they might like to go and haven't been to before” - Hall Jim Hall - guitar Don Thompson - bass Terry Clarke - drums

Garage cleaning soundtrack (be jealous of my Saturday night) Charlie Hunter: 8 string electric guitar, 7 string acoustic guitar Bobby Previte: electronics, electronic & acoustic drums w/ Greg Osby: alto saxophone / DJ Logic: turntables / John Medeski: hammond organ, piano

The Thelonious Monk Quartet Charlie Rouse – tenor sax Thelonious Monk – piano Larry Gales – bass Ben Riley – drums

🐐 Thelonious Monk – piano, celesta (3) Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone (all but 4) Ernie Henry – alto saxophone (1–3) Clark Terry – trumpet (5) Oscar Pettiford – double bass (1–3) Paul Chambers – double bass (5) Max Roach – drums (all but 4), timpani (5)

A nightcap for the weary mind… Mary Lou Williams - piano, composer solo and accompanied by Al Lucas - bass Jack Parker - drums

This comp purchased from the Boardwalk Virgin Megastore in the late 90’s opened the world up to me. Kentucky Girl should be a modern standard Featuring: Omer Avital group Charles Owens Quartet Zaid Nasser Quartet Across 7th Street Frank Hewitt Sextet Jason Lindner Big Band

Mark Turner - tenor saxophone Kurt Rosenwinkel - guitar Aaron Goldberg - piano Joe Martin - bass Eric Harland - drums “a showcase for Rosenwinkel’s touring group as well as his composing skills [..] Certainly, this ain’t no background music” - @svictoraaron.bsky.social

Mark Turner – Tenor Saxophone Kurt Rosenwinkel – Guitar, Piano on The Next Step Jeff Ballard – Drums Ben Street – Acoustic Bass Brad Mehldau – Piano on Zhivago

Daniel Levin - cello Mat Maneri - viola Torbjörn Zetterberg - double bass Matt Moran - vibraphone Live At Firehouse 12

From one avant duo record to another… Jeb Bishop - trombone w/ Josh Abrams - bass Hamid Drake - percussion Mats Gustafsson - reeds Fred Loberg-Holm - cello Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Ken Vandermark - reeds

Wuxtry find today… Fred Lonberg-Holm - Cello in duet w/ Jim O’Rourke, Ben Vida, Kevin Drumm, Todd Rittmann, Michael Krassner, Charles Kim, Jeb Bishop, John Corbett, Helen Mirra, Michael Zerang. Adam Sonderberg, Jim Baker - Guitar

Randy Weston… Excerpted sessions include: Piano la Mode, 1957; Little Niles, 1958; Live at the Five Spot, 1959; The Roulette Jazz CD Sampler, 1960; Uhuru Afrika (Freedom Africa), 1960; and Highlife, 1963. In addition to the reissues, there are tunes that have never been issued.

Immanuel Wilkins - as Micah Thomas - p Daryl Johns - b Kweku Sumbry - dr featuring: Farafina Kan Percussion Ensemble Elena Pinderhughes - flute “the sound of turning away from ourselves to get back to ourselves, of how abandon can be organized into liberation” -Harmony Holiday

Immanuel Wilkins - alto saxophone Micah Thomas - piano Daryl Johns - acoustic bass Kweku Sumbry - drums Wilkins is ready. Jason Moran, who produced Omega, says something true: “Immanuel … blends traditions in a way that only his generation knows how to do.” -JazzTimes/Conrad

Kenny Burrell - guitar w/ Tina Brooks - tenor saxophone Bobby Timmons - piano Roland Hanna - piano Ben Tucker - bass Art Blakey - drums

Bob Weinstock believed in treating music and album covers equally as serious art, and 'WAIL,' by Chris Entwistle and Mark Havens, reveals how that conviction produced a graphic legacy still being imitated today. The Tonearm's Bill Kopp speaks to the authors. The Unsung Canvas of Prestige Records:

Okay, yes, the album is massive, thick and heady, with ideas atomically colliding. But it’s also music to simply listen to, which is one aspect of Pillars that shouldn’t be ignored [..] it’s there when you need it, you have to start by letting it in” FreeJazzBlog Credits in alt

Ambrose Akinmusire honey from a winter stone feat: Kokayi, Sam Harris, Chiquitamagic, Justin Brown, Mivos Quartet Akinmusire says, “In many respects this entire work is inspired by and is an homage to the work of the composer Julius Eastman and his organic music concept."

Immanuel Wilkins - as Joel Ross - vib David Virelles - p Dezron Douglas - b Johnathan Blake - dr “Blake’s ability to float elusively around a groove while implying an emphatic snap that’s felt rather than heard is the constant undertow to this intricate but always open music” - Fordham/Gaurdian

Greg Tuohey - guitar Aaron Parks - piano David Ginyard Jr. - bass Jongkuk Kim - drums

Mark Turner - tenor saxophone Kurt Rosenwinkel - guitar Aaron Goldberg - piano Joe Martin - bass Eric Harland - drums “a showcase for Rosenwinkel’s touring group as well as his composing skills [..] Certainly, this ain’t no background music” - @svictoraaron.bsky.social

Mark Turner – Tenor Saxophone Kurt Rosenwinkel – Guitar, Piano on The Next Step Jeff Ballard – Drums Ben Street – Acoustic Bass Brad Mehldau – Piano on Zhivago

Björn Meyer 6-string electric bass “To listen is to accept that distance, to recognize that meaning does not diminish as it travels, and to sit quietly with the feeling that something vast has chosen, briefly and generously, to make itself known.” -Tyran Grillo (ECMReviews)

Björn Meyer - 6-string Electric And Acoustic Bass Guitars

Nik Bärtsch's Ronin “Originally characterized as zenfunk because of its combination of minimalistic emptiness and highly intensive groove, the band's style now develops into a kind of nanofunk with even more refinement, details and nuances on the micro level of music making.”

“As you listen to this music, I invite you to free your imagination and encourage you to look not only inward and upward, but also to seek the light of hope amidst the darkness of the abyss.” Patricia Brennan Brooklyn, May 12, 2025

Jon Irabagon - alto & sopranino saxophones Mark Shim - tenor saxophone Adam O’Farrill - trumpet (with electronics on tracks 1, 3, 9) Patricia Brennan - vibraphone with electronics, marimba Kim Cass - bass Marcus Gilmore - drums Mauricio Herrera - percussion

Patricia Brennan - vibraphone with electronics, marimba Kim Cass - bass Marcus Gilmore - drums Mauricio Herrera - percussion

Jackalope Loren Stillman - alto & soprano saxophone John Abercrombie - guitar Bob Meyer - drums

Regina Carter - Violin Ellery Eskelin - Tenor Saxophone Mark Helias - Bass Tom Rainey -Drums and percussion Epizo Bangoura - Djembe and percussion

Arild Andersen - bass Ralph Towner - guitars Nana Vasconcelos - percussion Audun Kleive - snare drum

Björn Meyer 6-string electric bass “To listen is to accept that distance, to recognize that meaning does not diminish as it travels, and to sit quietly with the feeling that something vast has chosen, briefly and generously, to make itself known.” -Tyran Grillo (ECMReviews)

Björn Meyer - 6-string Electric And Acoustic Bass Guitars

Mark Dresser - McLagen 5 string bass (4, 8, 11, 12) & McLagan 4 string bass “With these innovative double basses, Dresser experiments, sculpts and orchestrates microtonal, produces soft and exotic flute-like sounds, or crafts mysterious polyphonic dialogs with himself” -FreeJazzBlog

Mark Dresser - Contrabass Knitting Factory Records from 1995.

Peter Kowald - contrebasse, voix William Parker - contrebasse “ hear a sound become a sound respond to sound

Midwest represent Kent Kessler – bass Michael Zerang – dumbek on 3, 7, 11)

Ed Schuller - Acoustic Bass

Decided today is going to be all low end… Michael Formanek - Double Bass (4th and 5th Tunings)

Ethnic Heritage Ensemble Henry ‘Light’ Huff - soprano saxophone, harp, percussions Ed Wilkerson - tenor saxophone, woodwinds, piano Kahil El’Zabar - drums, percussions

Abdul Wadud - cello

Jeff Parker: electric guitar, effects, samplers