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2026 New Releases, Part 1
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I don't want to accept that truth. I want to love The Tradition. And in my defense of my fealty to straight ahead jazz I will say that I just got a bunch of Erroll Garner discs out of the library because somebody was writing about Garner and I wanted to dive into that rabbit hole.
But I have to admit that this list says I love playful innovation and a slightly unconventional aesthetic, but in a way that is still mindful of rhythm, melody and harmony.
Anyway, these lists are provided as guideposts. We've done the digging so you don't have to. Part II is forthcoming.
Playlist
- Miles Okazaki "Grand Prismatic" from Boomtown (Pi Recordings) 00:00
- Devin Gray featuring Andrea Parkins & Frank Gratkowski "Kirkuma" from Hz of Gold (Rataplan Records) 01:00
- Christopher Dammann "Untitled" from Dead Words (Shifting Paradigm Records) 04:25
- Steven Bernstein and Scotty Hard "Vibranium" from Ultra Resonance (Royal Potato Family) 11:42
- Amy E. Denio "Hegramatics" from Zerbrichen (Spoot Music) 18:04
- Charles Tyler Ensemble "Surf Ravin" from Voyage From Jericho (Frederiksberg Records) 26:13
- Tiptons Saxophone Quartet & Drums "Memory Bait" from Live in Portland (Sowiesound Records) 37:20
- Stephan Crump "Eager" from Slow Water (Papillon Sounds) 41:20
- Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere "Moonride" from Theta 7 (Discus Music) 47:18
- Uri Caine "Savliel" from Moloch: Book of Angels Volume 6 (Tzadik) 51:43
- James Brandon Lewis "Testify" from Omni (Intakt Records) 54:09
- Red Largo "The Baroness" from Hotel Neuf (Madame Vega's Boudoir) 1:02:10
- Hilary Jeffery "In Breath" from Green Prism: Music by Keith Tippett (Discus Music) 1:08:39
- Ishmael Ali "Every Circle a Moon" from Burn The Plastic, Sell The Copper (Amalgam Music) 1:14:09
- Signe Emmeluth's Amoeba "Amoeba 1" from With Love (Moserobie) 1:22:13
- The Vinny Golia Quintet "MKKW" from Angular Momentum (Nine Winds Records) 1:25:31
- Satoko Fujii "Interlude 1" from Katahari (Rouge Arts) 1:34:03
- Miles Davis Quintet "Nefertiti" from Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (Columbia/Legacy) 1:37:59
- Billy Bang Sextet "Abuella" from Live at Carlos 1 (Soul Note) 1:48:22
- Trish Clowes and Louise McMonagle "Dance With Me" from Colour Fields (Stoney Lane Records) 2:03:18
- The Sephardics "Caminos" from Sephardic Dialogues II... meet Oren Ambarchi and Ramesh Shotham (Umland Records) 2:08:44
- Andrew Hill "Time Lines" from Time Lines (Blue Note Records) 2:15:03
- Jesse Hackett "Nocturnes 13: The Hissing Mist" from Nocturnes (Hive Mind Records) 2:25:02
- Adam O'Farrill "Thank You Song" from ELEPHANT (Out Of Your Head Records) 2:29:24
- Marty Ehrlich / Julius Hemphill "Border Town" from Circle The Heart (Relative Pitch Records) 2:34:39
- Caleb Wheeler Curtis "A Feather is Not a Bird" from The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Imani Records) 2:42:38
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