Playlist (Bouncing gently ’round the room).

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

Günter Schlienz – Zeitmaschine (Grisaille; 2025)

[Ahmed] – New Jazz Imagination (Umlaut; 2017)

[Ahmed] – Super Majnoon (Otoroku; 2023)

[Ahmed] – [Ahmed] (A Cheeseboard Production; 2022)

[Ahmed] – Nights on Saturn (communication) (Astral Spirits; 2022)

[Ahmed] – Wood Blues (Astral Spirits; 2024)

Phish – Moon Palace Resort, Riviera Maya, Mexico, Jan. 29, 2025 (LivePhish; 2025)

Phish – Live Phish 01 12/14/95 Broome County Arena, Binghamton, NY (Elektra; 2001)

[Ahmed] – Giant Beauty (fönstret; 2024)

Taylor Deupree – Sti.ll (arr. Joseph Branciforte) (Nettwerk/greyfade; 2024)

Dream Brigade (Phillip Golub & Lesley Mok) – Dream Brigade (Infrequent Seams; 2025)

Altus – Legends of Altus: Book 1 (self-released; 2025)

Gerald Clayton – Ones & Twos (Blue Note; due Apr. 11, 2025)

Cole Pulice – Land’s End Eternal (Leaving; due May 9, 2025)

Ringdown (Caroline Shaw & Danni Lee Parpan) – Lady on the Bike (Nonesuch; due May 9, 2025)

IQ – Zeche, Bochum, Germany, June 17, 2010 (ROIO/Collected Underground; 2010)

Bent Knee – Say So (Cuneiform; 2016)

Sofia Gubaidulina – Offertorium – Gidon Kremer, Boston Symphony Orchestra/Charles Dutoit; Hommage à T.S. Eliot – Christine Whittlesey, Gidon Kremer, Isabelle van Keulen, Tabea Zimmermann, David Geringas, Alois Posch, Eduard Brunner, Klaus Thunemann, Radovan Vlatković (Deutsche Grammophon; 1989)

Kara-Lis Coverdale – “Daze” from From Where You Came (Smalltown Supersound; due May 9, 2025)

Bryn Harrison – Time Becoming (Neu; 2021)

repetitions in extended time – Plus-Minus Ensemble/Mark Knoop; How Things Come Together – Ensemble Contrechamps/Vimbayi Kaziboni

King Crimson – Supper Club New York, NY, Nov. 12, 2000 (Nugs.net; 2025)

Kaisa’s Machine – Moving Parts (Greenleaf Music; 2025)

Fuubutsushi – Harmony of Irrelevant Facts (Whited Sepulchre; 2025)

Amy Denio – Varieté (Klanggalerie; 2025)

Ted Reichman – The Border Land – Selected Film Music 2020-2023 (self-released; 2025)

Steven Wilson – The Overview (Fiction; 2025)

nudo – alma blindada (Halcyon Veil; 2024)

David Murray Quartet – Birdly Serenade (Impulse!; due Apr. 25, 2025)

David Parsons/Stephen Hill – Deep Tones (David Parsons Retrospective, Part 2) (Hearts of Space; 2025)

Augusta Holmès – La Nuit et l’Amour, Interlude de l’ode symphonique Ludus pro Patria – Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra/Patrick Davin (Marco Polo; 1994)

William Grant Still – Threnody in Memory of Jean Sibelius – Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Avlana Eisenberg (Naxos; 2022)

Augusta Holmès – Symphonic Poems – Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz/Michael Francis (CPO; 2024)

Steve Reich – Jacob’s Ladder – Synergy Vocals, New York Philharmonic/Jaap van Zweden; Traveler’s Prayer – Synergy Vocals, Colin Currie Group (Nonesuch; 2025)

Various artists – Thomas de Hartmann Rediscovered (Pentatone; 2024)

Violin Concerto – Joshua Bell, INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra/Dalia Stasevska; Cello Concerto – Matt Haimovitz, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra/Dennis Russell Davies

Nels Cline – Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note; 2025)

IQ – Zeche, Bochum, Germany, June 17, 2010 (ROIO/Collected Underground; 2010)

David Parsons/Stephen Hill – Long Tones (David Parsons Retrospective, Part 2) (Hearts of Space; 2025)

Steve Lacy – “Brilliant Corners” and “Off Minor” (unreleased/Playback with Lewis Porter!; 1961)

Steve Lacy with Don Cherry – Evidence (New Jazz; 1962)

Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd – Monk’s Dream (Verve; 2000)

Branford Marsalis Quartet – Belonging (Blue Note; due March 28, 2025)

Goose – Everything Must Go (No Coincidence; due April 25, 2025)

IQ – The Met, Bury, England, Feb. 14, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)

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