ISSUE 1 (March 2008)
Reviewers: David Grundy, Massimo Ricci, Stef Gijssels, Ian Thumwood, Noa Corcoran-Tadd, Michael Ardiaolo, Henry Kuntz, Will Layman, Seth Watter, Daniel Melnick, Andrew Forbes, Marcello Carlin, Anthony Whiteford
Top 10 Albums of 2007 – Issue One
- Anthony Braxton – 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006
- Charles Tolliver Big Band – With Love
- John Surman – The Spaces in Between
- William Parker – Cornmeal Dance
- Evan Parker/Matthew Shipp – Abbey Road Duos
- Peter Brotzmann/Mats Gustafsson/Paale-Nilsson Love – The Fat is Gone
- His Name is Alive – Sweet Earth Flower
- fORCH – Spin Networks
- Peter Evans – The Peter Evans Quartet
- Robert Wyatt – Comicopera
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ANDERSON, FRED/DRAKE, HAMID – From the River to the Ocean
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BANG, BILLY (QUINTET) WITH FRANK LOWE– Above and Beyond: An Evening in Grand Rapids
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BELMONDO/YUSEF LATEEF – Influence
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BENNINK, HAN – Amplified Trio
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BLANCHARD, TERENCE – A Tale of God’s Will: A Requiem for Katrina
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BLEY, CARLA – The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
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BLEY, PAUL – Solo in Mondsee
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BRAXTON, ANTHONY – 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006
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BRECKER, MICHAEL – Pilgrimage
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BROTZMANN, PETER – Guts
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BROTZMANN, PETER/GUSTAFFSON, MATS/NILSSEN-LOVE, PALLE – The Fat is Gone
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BRUBECK, DAVE – Indian Summer
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CAPECE, LUCIO/DORNER, AXEL/HAYWARD, ROBIN – Kammerlärm
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CATO SALSA EXPERIENCE & THE THING WITH JOE McPHEE – Two Bands and a Legend
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CLAUDIA QUINTET – For
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DOUGLAS, DAVE – Live at the Jazz Standard
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EDWARDS, MARC – Ion Storm
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EDWARDS, MARC – Twelve Votes
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ELLING, KURT – Nightmoves
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EL’ZHABAR, KALIL (INFINITY ORCHESTRA)- Transmigration
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EVANS, PETER – The Peter Evans Quartet
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fORCH – Spin Networks
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FORTUNE, SONNY – You and the Night and the Music
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FRIEDLANDER, ERIC – Block Ice and Propane
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GLASGOW IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA WITH BARRY GUY – Falkirk
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GUSTAFSSON, MATS/ YOSHIMI – Words on the Floor
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HANCOCK, HERBIE – River: The Joni Letters
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HARGREAVES, PHIL/WEYANT, GLENN – Friday Morning Everywhere
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HIS NAME IS ALIVE – Sweet Earth Flower: A Tribute to Marion Brown
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MARSALIS, WYNTON – From the Plantation to the Penitentiary
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METHENY, PAT/MEHLDAU, BRAD – Metheny/Mehldau Quartet
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MILLER, MARCUS – Free
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MITCHELL, ROSCOE – Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1,2 & 3
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MOSTLY OTHER PEOPLE DO THE KILLING – Shamokin!
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MONCUR III, GRACHAN – Inner Cry Blues
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MURRAY, DAVID (BLACK SAINT QUARTET) – Sacred Ground
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O’ LEARY, MARK – On the Shore
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PARKER, EVAN/SHIPP, MATTHEW – Abbey Road Duos
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PARKER, WILLIAM/DRAKE, HAMID – Summer Snow
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PARKER, WILLIAM (DOUBLE QUARTET) – Alphaville Suite
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PARKER, WILLIAM (RAINING ON THE MOON) – Cornmeal Dance
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POTTER, STEVE – Follow the Red Line: Live at the Village Vanguard
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SHEPP, ARCHIE – Gemini
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SOIL AND ‘PIMP’ SESSIONS – Pimpoint
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TYNER, McCOY – McCoy Tyner Quartet
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SCHNEIDER, MARIA – Sky Blue
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SHIPP, MATTHEW – Piano Vortex
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SURMAN, JOHN – The Spaces in Between
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VARIOUS ARTISTS – Free Jazz.org Sampler, Vol. II
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WARE, DAVID.S – Renunciation
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WASSERMANN, UTE – Birdtalking
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WEASEL WALTER – Firestorm
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WEBER, EBERHARD – Stages of a Long Journey
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WESTBROOK, MIKE (VILLAGE BAND)– The Waxeywork Show
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WYATT, ROBERT – Comicopera
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ZORN, JOHN – From Silence to Sorcery
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BRAXTON, ANTHONY/FONDA, JOE – Duets 1995
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BROTZMANN, PETER – The Complete Machine Gun Sessions
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CHERRY, DON – Live at the Café Montmartre 1966
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COLTRANE, JOHN – My Favorite Things: Coltrane Live in Newport
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COXHILL, LOL/MILLER, STEVE – The Story So Far/Oh Really?
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DAVIS, MILES – The Complete On the Corner Sessions
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ERVIN, BOOKER – The Freedom Book
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GREENE, BURTON – Bloom in the Commune
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HILL, ANDREW – Compulsion
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HOWARD, NOAH – The Black Ark
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HOWARD, NORMAN – Burn Baby Burn
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MAUPIN, BENNIE – The Jewel in the Lotus
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MINGUS, CHARLES – Cornell ’64
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MURRAY, SUNNY – Sunny Murray
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PARKER, EVAN/ LEWIS, GEORGE/LYTTON, PAUL – Hook, Drift and Shuffle
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RA, SUN – Night of the Purple Moon
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RA, SUN – Strange Strings
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TIPPET, KEITH – Ovary Lodge
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TRIO OF DOOM (John McLaughlin, Jaco Pastorius, Tony Williams)– Trio of Doom
ISSUE 2 (September 2008)
Reviewers: Roger Farbey, David Grundy, Stef Gijssels, Daniel Melnick, Tomasz Nadrowski
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ARTHURS / HOIBY / RITCHIE – Explications
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AUTECHRE – Quaristice
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BJORNSTAD, KETL / RYPDAL, TERJE – Life in Leipzig
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BY ANY MEANS – Live at Crescendo
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CAMPBELL, ROY – Akhenaten Suite
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CHABALA, BARRY/ HARGREAVES, PHIL – Musick for Two Machines
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CLOAKS – Serene
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CONVERGENCE QUARTET– Live in Oxford
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COWLEY, NEIL (TRIO)- Loud…Louder…Stop!
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D’ANGELO, ANDREW – Skadra Degis
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DUNMAL/ STEPHENS/ MARSH– All Said and Dun
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DUNMALL, PAUL/ MINTS, ROMAN – Exodus
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FLOWER/ CORSANO DUO – The Radiant Mirror
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EL’ ZABAR, KAHIL (RITUAL TRIO FEAT. PHAROAH SANDERS) – Ooh Live!
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FERNANDEZ/ PARKER/ GUY/ LYTTON – Topos
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FIELDWORK – At the Door
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fURT PLUS – Equals
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IYER, VIJAY – Tragicomic
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JN, Ilton – The Rats Rain Down
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KALLERDAHL, LINDA – Gold
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LIEBMAN/ ESKELIN/ MARIANO/ BLACK – Renewal
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LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA/ GLASGOW IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA– Separately and Together
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LYCANTHROPE OBOE– Hiding in the Long Grass/ Staring at the Waking Sky
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MAUPIN, BENNIE (QUARTET) – EARLY REFLECTIONS
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MEKURYA, GETATCHEW/ THE EX – Moa Anbessa
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MERZBOW – Here
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METHENY, PAT (TRIO) – Day Trip
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PARKER, EVAN/ TRANSATLANTIC ART ENSEMBLE – Boustrophedon
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RETURN OF THE NEW THING – Alchemy
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ROBERTS, MATANA – The Chicago Project
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SCHIZO QUARTET – Don’t Answer It
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SMITH, WADADA LEO (GOLDEN QUARTET) – Tabligh
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SPRING HEEL JACK – Songs and Themes
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SURMAN, JOHN / MOODY, HOWARD – Rain on the Window
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TAZARTES, GHEDALIA – Hysterie off Musique
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TOTALITARIAN MUSICAL SECT – Warm Things Vol. 2, Live in GES-21
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TOTEM – Solar Forge
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VIOLENCE JAZZ – Protection
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WATTS, TREVOR / HARRIS, JAMIE – Ancestry
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WELCOME, CHRIS – Quartet
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WILKINSON, ALAN / PREVOST, EDDIE – So Are We, So Are We
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WINSTONE, NORMA (TRIO) – DISTANCES
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AYLER/ CHERRY/ TCHICAI/ RUDD/ PEACOCK/ MURRAY – New York Eye and Ear Control
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COLEMAN, ORENTTE – Town Hall 1962
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DANIEL, TED (QUINTET) – Tapestry
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GARRICK, MICHAEL – Promises
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GRAVES, MILFORD – Percussion Ensemble
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GRIMES, HENRY (Trio) – The Call
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HARPER, BILLY – In Concert: Live From Poland (DVD)
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LEWIS, GEORGE – A Power Stronger Than Itself (BOOK)
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GUISEPPI LOGAN – Quartet
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LANCASTER, BYARD (UNIT)- Live at Macalester College
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LOWE, FRANK– Black Beings
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McLEAN, JACKIE – New and Old Gospel
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WESTBROOK, MIKE/KATE – London Bridge is Broken Down
ISSUE 3 (March 2009)
Reviewers: Andrew Forbes, David Grundy, Aaron Hicks, Sandy Kindness, Ian Thumwood
- BELORUKOV/ STOLYAR/ POPOVSKIY – Dots and Lines
- BEVAN/ CORSANO/ LASH – Monster Club
- BLEY, CARLA (& HER REMARKABLE BIG BAND) – Appearing Nightly
- CADAVRE ESQUIS – Imperfect Silence: Cadavre Esquis Compilation One
- DIXON, BILL – 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur
- FLAHERTY/ COLBOURNE – Bridge Out!
- GINNUNGAGAP – Crashed Like Wretched Moth
- GOLIA/ JOSEPHSON/ KAISER/ KENEALLY/ MORRIS / SMITH/ WALTER – Healing Force: The Songs of Albert Ayler
- HERBERT, MATTHEW (BIG BAND) – There’s Me and There’s You
- JENSEN, RICK (QUARTET) – The Mosaicist
- KHOURY/ SODERBERG – Volumen Drei
- LEIBIG, STEUART/ TEE-TOT QUARTET – Always Outnumbered
- McCASLIN, DONNY – Recommended Tools
- O’ MALLEY/ CSIHAR – 6oF Skyquake
- PARKER, WILLIAM – Double Sunrise Over Neptune
- PETERS, STEVE – The Webster Cycles
- SONIC YOUTH/ MATS GUSTAFFSON/ MERZBOW – Andre Sider af Sonic Youth
- PETERS, STEVE – The Webster Cycles
- VANDERMARK FIVE – Beat Rider
- BIRIGWA – Birigwa
- BLEY, PAUL (Quintet) – Barrage
- DAVIDSON, LOWELL – Trio
- GRIMES, HENRY- Signs Along the Road (BOOK)
- HYDER, KEN/ TALISKER – Dreaming of Glenisla
- ISOTOPE – Golden Section
- LEVITTS – We are the Levitts
- MITCHELL, ROSCOE – Nonaah
- SARMANTO, HEIKKI/ SERIOUS MUSIC ENSEMBLE – A Boston Date
- YOSHIHIDE, OTOMO – Music(s) (DVD)
ISSUE 4 (August 2009)
Reviewers: Nick Dart, David Grundy, Sandy Kindness, Oscar Lomas
- BOZZO, FABRIZIO/ SALLIS, ANTONELLO – Burst
- GRIMES, HENRY/ ALI, RASHIED – Going to the Ritual
- FUTTERMAN, JOEL/LEVIN, IKE/ FIELDLER, ALVIN- Travelling Through Now
- HARGREAVES, PHIL/DUPLANT, BRUNO/ NOYES, LEE – Malachi
- HASSELL, JON – Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Her Clothes in The Street
- MAGGEE, MASSIMO/ NOYES, LEE – All Angles
- McAULEY, JIM – The Ultimate Frog
- MOLVAER, NILS PETTER – Hamada
- MORRIS, JOE – Wildlife
- PHOSPHOR – Phosphor II
- POPE, ODEAN – Plant Life
- SALIS, ANTONELLO – Pianosolo
- SCHWEIZER, IRENE/ ANDERSON, FRED/ DRAKE, HAMID – Willisau and Taktlos
- SHEPP, ARCHIE – Phat Jam in Milano
- S UNN O))) – Monoliths and Dimensions
- TAKASE, AKI/ MAHALL, RUDI – Evergreen
- VARIOUS – Spectra: Guitar in the 21st Century
- WALTER, WEASEL/ KAISER, HENRY/ SMITH, DAMON – Plane Crash
- WATTS, TREVOR/ HARRIS, JAMIE – Live in Sao Paulo, Brasil
- WATTS, TREVOR/ KNIGHT, PETER – Reunion
- WRIGHT, SEYMOUR – Seymour Wright of Derby
- YEH, C. SPENCER – The Strangler
- YOSHIDA, AMI/ NAKAMURA, TAKAMARU – Soba to Bora
- BARBIERI, GATO – In Search of the Mystery
- CHERRY, DON – Live at Cafe Montmartre, Vol. 3
- HOPPER, HUGH – Hopper Tunity Box
- FITZGERALD, G.F./COXHILL, LOL – Echoes of Duneden
- OSBORNE, MIKE (TRIO) – Force of Nature
- SUN RA ARKESTRA FEATURING PHAROAH SANDERS AND BLACK HAROLD- Le Sun Ra Arkestra Live at Judson Hall
- WINDO, PAM/GARY – Avant Gardeners
- WOODS, JIMMY (SEXTET) – Conflict
ISSUE 5 (March 2010)
Reviewers: David Grundy, Sandy Kindness, Daniel Larwood, Ian Thumwood
- AIDA SEVERO – Aida Severo
- ALLEN, CORY – The Fourth Way
- ARGUE, JAMES DARCY – Infernal Machines
- BARNACLED – Charles
- COTE, MICHEL F./DONTIGNY, A_- La Notte Fa
- DIXON, BILL – Tapestries for Small Orchestra
- FUTTERMAN, JOEL – Transition One: Solo Piano
- GIGANTOMACHIA – The Naked Future
- HARGROVE, ROY (BIG BAND) – Emergence
- LEE, PEGGY – New Code
- HOULE, VIVIEN – Treize
- KREBS, ANNETTE/ NAKAMURA, TOSHIMARU – Siyu
- MERSON HESS, DAVE – Music from the film ‘Presence’
- MIMESYS – Mimesys
- PROFOUND SOUND TRIO – Opus de Life
- SCOTT-HERON, GIL – I’m New Here
- SKARABEE – Tlon
- TAZARTES, GHEDALIA – Repas Froid
- THE THING – Bag It!
- THE THING – Now & Forever
- tUSK – 10 Greatest Hits!
- WHOLE VOYALD, THE – In Repose (EP)
- WILSON, TONY (SEXTET) – The People Look Like Flowers At Last
- WALTER, WEASEL/ EDWARDS, MARC – Mysteries Beneath the Planet
- WOZZECK – Act I
- YAMOMOTO, ERI – Duologue
- YXIMALOO – Unpop
- BOYKINS, RONNIE – The Will Come, Is Now
- BRADFORD, BOBBY – With John Stevens & The Spontaneous Music Ensemble
- LANCASTER, BYARD – Personal Testimony: Then & Now
- THE REVOLUTIONARY ENSEMBLE – Vietnam
- TYLER, CHARLES – Charles Tyler Ensemble
- MARTIN WILLIAMS – The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue & The Remaking of Modern Music
- GILLES PETERSON, GILLES/ STUART BAKER- Freedom, Rhythm & Sound: Revolutionary Jazz Cover Art 1965-83
- MATTIN/ANTHONY ILES (eds.) – Noise & Capitalism
ISSUE 6 (March 2011)
Reviewers: David Grundy, Sandy Kindness, Ted Harms
ANOTHER TIMBRE: GUITAR SERIES
- Küchen/ Rowe/ Wright (AT29)
- Volden/ Nakamura (AT26)
- Ap’Strophe (AT28)
ANOTHER TIMBRE: DUOS WITH BRASS
- Davies / Dorner (AT31)
- Hübsch/ Spiller (AT32)
- Fabbriciani/Hayward (AT30)
ALL OTHER REVIEWS
- AKIYAMA, TETUZI/ NAKAMURA, TOSHIMARU – Semi-Impressionism
- AUTECHRE – Oversteps
- BENZENE / TOMMY BABIN – Your Body is Your Prison
- CHALMERS, STUART – God of Decay
- COSOTTINI/ MELANI/ MIANO / PISANI – Cardinal
- CURRENT 93 – Haunted Waves, Moving Graves
- DAWN OF MIDI – First
- DIATRIBES & BARRY GUY – Multitude
- D’ INCISE – Sécheresse Plantée En Plein Ciel
- DUNMALL, PAUL/ CORSANO, CHRIS – Identical Sunsets
- ERGO – Multitude, Solitude
- FARMER, PATRICK/ LASH, DOMINIC – Bestiaries
- FOND OF TIGERS – Continent & Western
- GUIONNET/ THOMAS/ GUTHRIE – The Ames Room
- HARDING, RICHARD/ HARGREAVES, PHIL – Graculus
- HEU(S-K)ACH – un
- HOOKER, WILLIAM (Trio) – Yearn for Certainty
- INHABITANTS – A Vacant Lot
- JOOKLO DUO – The Warrior
- FUTTERMAN, JOEL/ LEVIN, IKE – Dialogues & Connections
- FUTTERMAN, JOEL/ JORDAN, ‘KIDD’ – Interaction
- FUTTERMAN, JOEL/ JORDAN, ‘KIDD’/ FIELDER, ALVIN – Live at Tampere
- KONITZ / CHEEK/ LEIBOVICI – Jugendstil II
- LOGAN, GIUSEPPI – The Giuseppi Logan Quintet
- NoMoreShapes – Creesus Crisus
- ORFEO 5 – A Year On The Ice
- PISARO, MICHAEL/ SUGIMOTO, TAKU – 2 Seconds/ B Minor / Wave
- PISARO, MICHAEL – Fields Have Ears
- POTSA LOTSA – The Complete Works of Eric Dolphy
- ROLLDOWN/ JASON ADASIEWICZ – Varmint
- SAINCT LAURENS – Self-titled
- TAKASE, AKI – A Week Went By
- tusK – Bug
- SWANS – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to The Sky
- WARE, DAVID S. – Saturnian (Solo Saxophones, Vol. 1)
- JACKSON, MICHAEL GREGORY – Clarity
- SIMMONS, SONNY – Staying on the Watch
- WATERS, PATTY – Sings
ISSUE 7 (March 2012)
Reviewers: David Grundy, Sandy Kindness, Ted Harms
ANOTHER TIMBRE: SILENCE AND AFTER 1
- Arena Ladridos (AT35)
- Davies / Patterson / Toop (AT36)
- Looper (AT38)
ANOTHER TIMBRE: SILENCE AND AFTER 2 – CUTTING EDGES
- Tierce (AT43)
- James Saunders (AT44)
- Droplets (AT45)
- No Islands (AT/46)
- A Pauper’s Guide to John Cage (ATB-08)
- AEROPLANE TRIO – Naranja Ha
- BERROCAL / FENNECH / TAZARTÈS – Superdisque
- BEVAN / OBERMAYER / MARKS / LASH – A Big Hand
- CHATHAM, RHYS – Outdoor Spell
- CHICAGO UNDERGROUND DUO – Age of Energy
- CORNFORD, STEPHEN / RODGERS, SAMUEL – Zinc [extracts]
- CLEAVER, GERALD (UNCLE JUNE) – Be It as I See It
- CUNDY / LASH – Two Plump Daughters
- DUNN, LAWRENCE – If I in my north room
- DUPLANT, BRUNO – Deux Trois Choses Ou Presque
- FUTTERMAN, JOEL – Remembering Dolphy
- FUTTERMAN / JORDAN / PARKER / FIELDER – Live at the Guelph Jazz Festival 2011
- GAYLE, CHARLES (TRIO) – Streets
- GRDINA, GORD (TRIO) (feat. MATS GUSTAFFSON) – Barrel Fire
- G9 GIPFEL – Berlin
- KOCHER, JONAS – Solo
- NAKAMURA, TOSHIMARU – Maruto
- SKARABEE – Eardrum / tusK – Happy Shopper [split]
- SUBTLE LIP CAN – Subtle Lip Can
- UNDIVIDED – Moves Between Clouds: Live in Warsaw
- VARIOUS – 60 Interpretations of 60 Seconds by 60 Solo Improvisers
Historical / Re-Issues
- MALFATTI, RADU – Wechseljahre Einer Hyäne
- MITCHELL, ROSCOE – Before There Was Sound