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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