Night After Night

Playlist (The memory of beautiful things).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Franz Joseph Haydn - String Quartets, Op. 76 – Quatuor Mosaïques (Naïve; 2000)

Vijay Iyer Trio - Compassion (ECM; 2024)

Keith Jarrett - Fort Yawuh (Impulse!; 1973)

Craig Taborn - Avenging Angel (ECM; 2011)

Old and New Dreams - Playing (ECM; 1981)

Billy Hart Quartet - Just (ECM; due Feb. 28, 2025)

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Nice Guys (ECM; 1979)

Gloria Cheng - Root Progressions - compositions by Anthony Davis, Jon Jang, James Newton, Arturo O’Farrill, Linda May Han Oh, and Gernot Wolfgang (Biophilia; 2025)

Philip Glass - Aguas da Amazonia - Third Coast Percussion (Rockwell; 2025)

IQ - Artrock Festival VII, Reichenbach, Germany, April 13, 2019 (ROIO/Collective Underground; 2019)

Big Big Train - Merchants of Light (English Electric; 2018)

Artemis - Arboresque (Blue Note; due Feb. 28, 2025)

Nels Cline - Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note; due March 14, 2025)

Spock's Beard - Beware of Darkness (Radiant; 1996)

Spock's Beard - X (Music Theories Recordings; 2010)

Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep (Inside Out; 2013)

Billy Gomberg - collage, january (self-released; 2025)

Vanessa Rossetto - Pictures of the Warm South (Erstwhile; 2025)

Robert Rich - Travelers' Cloth (Soundscape; 2023)

Michael Stearns - Planetary Unfolding (Continuum Montage/Projekt; 1981/2022)

Bob Dylan - Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 1, 2024 (ROIO; 2024)

Rob Brown - Walkabout (Mahakala Music; 2025)

IQ - Tales from the Lush Attic (The Major Record Company/Giant Electric Pea; 1983/2013)

IQ - The Wake (Sahara/Giant Electric Pea; 1985/2010)

IQ - Nomzamo (Mercury/Giant Electric Pea; 1987/2011)

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphonies Nos. 4 & 8; Étienne Nicolas Méhul - Symphony No. 1 in G minor; Luigi Cherubini - Lodoïska: Overture - Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Harmonia Mundi; 2022)

Yes - Live at Glastonbury Festival 2003 (nugs.net; 2003)

IQ - Are You Sitting Comfortably? (Mercury/Giant Electric Pea; 1989/2020)

IQ - Ever – 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Giant Electric Pea; 1993/2018)

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Symphonies Wq 175 & 183/4 - Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Harmonia Mundi; 2020)

Playlist (Stay a while in the present tense).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Ivo Perelman & Tyshawn Sorey - Parallel Aesthetics (Fundacja Słuchaj; due Feb. 4, 2025)

Patrick Higgins - Versus (Other People; 2024)

IQ - IQ30 (IQ Archive Collection; 2011)

Albert Ayler Quintet - At Slugs' Saloon 1966 Revisited (Ezz-thetics; 2022)

Vinnie Sperrazza Apocryphal - Sunday (Loyal Label; 2024)

numün - Opening (Centripetal Force; due Jan. 31, 2025)

Ludwig van Beethoven - The Late Quartets - Calidore Quartet (Signum Classics; 2023)

IQ - Even Live (Big Electric Tree; 2018)

Big Big Train - Folklore (English Electric; 2016)

Pekka Kuusisto - First Light: Muhly & Glass - Norwegian Chamber Orchestra (Pentatone; 2021)

Lei Liang - Dui - Wu Man, Steven Schick, Mark Dresser, Maya Beiser, loadbang, Cho-liang Lin, Zhe Lin (Islandia; due Feb. 14, 2025)

Anna Thorvaldsdottir - UBIQUE - Claire Chase, Cory Smythe, Katinka Kleijn, Seth Parker Woods (Sono Luminus; due Feb. 28, 2025)

Mystery Sonata (Mina Gajić & Zachary Carrettin) - Aequora - compositions by Maria Huld Markan Sigfusdottir, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Daníel Bjarnason, and Pall Ragnar Palsson (Sono Luminus; due Feb. 28, 2025)

IQ - De Boerderij, Zoetermeer, Holland, Dec. 16, 2016 (ROIO/Collective Underground; 2016)

Silvia Colasanti - Il canto di Atropo; La Rosa que no canto; Chaos; To Muddy Death (Dynamic; 2012)

Silvia Colasanti - String Quartets - Quartetto Noûs (Brilliant Classics; 2020)

Lea Bertucci - Of Shadow and Substance (Cibachrome Editions; 2023)

David Lynch - Eraserhead (Original Soundtrack Recording) (Sacred Bones; 2012)

Toto - Dune (Original Soundtrack Recording) (Universal; 1984)

Michael Tippett - Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage; Mark-Anthony Turnage - Guitar Concerto ("Sco"); Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5 in D - John Scofield, London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle (Stage+; 2025)

Marillion - Season's End – Deluxe Edition (EMI/Parlophone; 1989/2023)

Marillion - Holidays in Eden – Deluxe Edition (EMI/Parlophone; 1991/2022)

Marillion - Brave – Deluxe Edition (EMI/Parlophone; 1994/2018)

Sarah Hennies - SOVT - Richard Valitutto (elsewhere; due March 1, 2025)

IQ - Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, June 21, 1985 (ROIO/Collective Underground; 1985)

IQ - o2 Academy, London, England, Dec. 8, 2012 (ROIO/Collective Underground; 2012)

Playlist (Alive and half awake).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Opus (Milan; 2024)

Steve Roach - Early Years - The Passage - 1980 (Steve Roach Exclusive; 2025)

Steve Roach - Full Moon Prophesy - The Last Days in Los Angeles 1989 (Steve Roach Exclusive; 2025)

Steve Roach - Factors Unknown (Steve Roach Exclusive; 2025)

Kris Davis Trio - Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic; 2024)

Twelfth Night - Marquee Club, London, England, Aug. 23, 1983 (ROIO; 1983)

IQ - The IQ Weekender 2024 – Feb. 16 & 17, 2024, Colos-Saal, Aschaffenburg (IQ Archive Collection; 2024)

Thme - Anti Atlas (laaps; due Jan. 27, 2025)

Spencer Zahn - Sunday Painter (Cascine; 2020)

Chris Forsyth/Dave Harrington/Ryan Jewell/Spencer Zahn - First Flight (Algorithm Free; 2020)

Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn - Pigments (Merge; 2022)

Spencer Zahn, Dave Harrington, Jeremy Gustin - A Visit to Harry's House (Cascine; 2023)

Spencer Zahn - Statues Live (Leaving; 2024)

Derek Bailey/Paul Lovens/Jon Rose - Podewil (The Jon Rose Archive; 2025, recorded 1992)

more eaze & claire rousay - no floor (Thrill Jockey; due March 21, 2025)

The Living Earth Show, Terry Berlier, & Sarah Hennies - A Kind of Ache (Earthy; 2025)

Sasha Berliner - Fantome (Outside In Music; due March 28, 2025)

jeong lim yang - Synchronicity (Sunnyside; due Jan. 31, 2025)

Mariska Baars/Niki Jansen/Rutger Zuydervelt - Hardanger (laaps; 2024)

Cosimo Fiaschi/Nicolò Francesco Faraglia - Variazioni (Superpang; 2024)

Various artists - Vaughan Williams Live, Vol. 4 (Ariadne; 2023, recorded 1943–64)

Insub Meta Orchestra - Exhaustion/Proliferation (Sawyer Editions; 2025)

Morton Feldman + Tobias Hume - Intermissions - Luciana Elizondo, Guy Vandromme, Fabio Gionfrida (Sawyer Editions; 2025)

Patrick Shiroishi & Piotr Kurek - Greyhound Days (Mondoj; due March 7, 2025)

Crux Duo - My Place - compositions by Harriet Steinke, Nick Russoniello, Anne Cawrse, Erik Griswold, Elena Kats-Chernin, Martin Bresnick, and Leonard Bernstein (ABC Classics; due Jan. 17, 2025)

Christopher Cerrone - Don’t Look Down - Sandbox Percussion (Pentatone; due Feb. 21, 2025)

Chris Williams Quintet - Live (cow: Music; 2022)

Daniel Wyche & Patrick Shiroishi - Hopeful Intervals (cow: Music; 2024)

Steve Lehman - Demian as Post-Human (Pi Recordings; 2005)

Steve Lehman Quintet - On Meaning (Pi Recordings; 2007)

Steve Lehman Octet - Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi Recordings; 2009)

Steve Lehman Trio - Dialect Fluorescent (Pi Recordings; 2012)

Sélébéyone - Sélébéyone (Pi Recordings; 2016)

Lili Boulanger - Psaume 24; Romualdas Gražinis - Sutartiné; Anton Bruckner - Psalm 150; Symphony No. 6 in A - Mary Elizabeth Williams, Choeur de Radio France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (Stage+; 2024)

Hannah Kendall - O Flower of Fire; Franz Liszt - Totentanz; Erik Satie - Gnossiennes – No. 3; Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra - Alice Sara Ott, London Symphony Orchestra/Antonio Pappano (Stage+; 2023)

IQ - Live on The Road of Bones (IQ Archive Collection; 2015)

Pendragon - The Window of Life (Toff; 1993/2006)

Playlist (Waves folding in time).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Big Big Train - Summer Shall Not Fade (English Electric; 2022)

IQ - Live on the Road of Bones (self-released; 2015)

Big Big Train - The Likes of Us (InsideOut; 2024)

King Crimson - Verizon Hall, Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 12, 2014 (DGMLive; 2024)

Phish - Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, Dec. 31, 2024 (LivePhish; 2025)

Big Big Train - Empire (English Electric; 2020)

Big Big Train - Goodbye to the Age of Stream (Giant Electric Pea/English Electric; 1994/2011)

IQ - Nomzamo (Mercury/Giant Electric Pea; 1987/2011)

Steve Roach - Crossing the Bridge - Live in Boulder (Timeroom Editions; 2024)

Ambrose Akinmusire - honey from a winter stone (Nonesuch; due Jan. 31, 2025)

Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner - The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi Recordings; due Feb. 28, 2025)

Marta Sanchez Trio - Perpetual Void (Intakt; 2024)

Ludwig van Beethoven - The Late Quartets - Quatuor Mosaïgues (Naïve; 2017)

IQ - Subterranea Live at De Boerderij 2011 (self-released; 2023)

Avi C. Engel - Nocturne (Soundtrack for an Invisible Film) (Elephant Shrew Editions; 2025)

Maya Bennardo, Etienne Nillesen & Kristofer Svensson - For Violin, Snare & Kacapi (Kuyin; due Feb. 21, 2025)

Tuluum Shimmering - The Carolina Lady (self-released; 2024)

New Thread Quartet - Saxifraga (New Focus; due Jan. 24, 2025)

Scott Wollschleger - Without World; Amy Beth Kirsten - avalanche lily; Victoria Cheah - Walk for a shell

Twelfth Night - Marquee Club, London, England, Aug. 23, 1983 (ROIO; 1983)

IQ - The IQ Weekender 2024 – Feb. 16 & 17, 2024, Colos-Saal, Aschaffenburg (self-released; 2024)