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)
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