Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

Must Haves

Debut albums

• Vicente Archer: Short Stories (Cellar Live)
• Jeremy Dutton: Anyone Is Better Than Here (Self Produced)
• Christina Galisatus: Without Night (Slow & Steady)
• Anthony Hervey: Words from My Horn (Outside In Music)
• Simon Lucaciu Trio: STRG + X (ezz-thetics)
• Mama Terra: The Summoned (Acid Jazz)
• Astghik Martirosyan: Distance (Self Produced)
• Sean Mason: Southern Suite (Blue Engine)
• Dora Morelenbaum: Vento de Beirada (Mr. Bongo)
• Roman Norfleet: Roman Norfleet and Be Present Art Group (Mississippi Records)
• Valtteri Laurell Pöyhönen: Tigers Are Better Looking (WeJazz)
• Fergus Quill: Ferg's Imaginary Big Band (Tight Lines)
• Selma Savolainen: Horror Vacui (Whirlwind)
• Jonathan Suazo: Ricano (Ropeadope)
• ThoughtCast: Nimbus in Motion (Shifting Paradigm Records)
• Ella Zirina: Intertwined (BimHuis)
• Tima Volozh: Jubilee (Shifting Paradigm Records)

Revelations

• Richard Baratta: Off the Charts (Savant Records)
• Ana Frango Elétrico: Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua (Mr. Bongo)
• Enji: Ulaan (Squama)
• Amaury Faye Ensemble: Arise (Hypnote Records)
• l a d y y b i r d d: Tomorrow's Yesterday (Innova Recordings)
• Gabriela Martina: Homage to Grämlis (Self Produced)
• Alessia Obino: A Sound's a Million Shapes (Domanda)
• RDLplus: Bay Area Bridges Compilation (Self Produced)
• Malika Zarra: Rwa (The Essence) (D. Zel)
• Ze in the Clouds: Oportet 475 (Tuk Music)

Previously unreleased (including reissues with extra material)

• Jason Adasiewicz: Roy's World (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
• Geri Allen, Kurt Rosenwinkel: A Lovesome Thing (Motéma Music)
• Chet Baker: Blue Room (Jazz Detective)
• John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy: Evenings at the Village Gate (Impulse! Records)
• Matt Munisteri and Brock Mumford: It's Been Swell: The Hillside Recordings (Self produced)
• Joni Mitchell: Archives Volume 3 -The Asylum Years 1972-1975 (Rhino)
• Shirley Scott: Queen Talk: Live at the Left Bank (Reel to Real)
• Louis Stewart: Out on His Own (Livia Records)
• Bernie Worrell, Cindy Blackman Santana, John King: Spherical (Infrequent Seams)
• Frank Zappa: Funky Nothingness (Zappa Records)
• Frank Zappa: Over-Nite Sensation—50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition (Zappa Records)

Reissues

• Ben Allison: Action Refraction (Sonic Camera)
• Dorothy Ashby: With Strings Attached (New Land Records)
• Michael Blake: Hellbent (P&M Records)
• Betty Davis: Crashin' from Passion (Light in the Attic)
• Vusi Mahlasela, Norman Zulu, Jive Connection: Face to Face (Strut Records)
• Charles Mingus: Changes -The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recording (Atlantic Records)
• Marden Hill: Blown Away (Acid Jazz)
• Abdul Wadud: By Myself (Gotta Groove Records)
• John Zorn: Masada—30th Anniversary Edition (Tzadik Records)

Remarkable

• Joshua Abrams: Natural Information Society: Since Time Is Gravity (Eremite)
• Chief Xian Atunde Adjuah: Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning (Ropeadope)
• Aka Moon: Quality of Joy (Outhere)
• Ambrose Akinmusire: Beauty Is Enough (Origami Harvest)
• Ambrose Akinmusire: Owl Song (Nonesuch)
• Costanza Alegiani: Folkways Lucio dove sei? (Parco della Musica)
• Sophie Alour: Le temps virtuose (Music from Source)
• Art Ensemble Of Chicago: The Sixth Decade (RogueArt)
• Artemis: In Real Time (Blue Note Records)
• Jeff Babko, David Piltch: The Libretto Show (Self Produced)
• Lucian Ban, Mat Maneri: Oedipus Redux (Sunnyside Records)
• Lakecia Benjamin: Phoenix (Whirlwind)
• Camille Bertault: Bonjour mon amour (Vita)
• Johnathan Blake: Passage (Blue Note Records)
• Samuel Blaser: Routes (Enja Records)
• Celine Bonacina: Jump (Cristal Records)
• Jaimie Branch: Fly Or Die Fly Or Die Fly Or Die (World War) (International Anthem)
• Jamie Breiwick: Awake: Volume 2 -The Music of Don Cherry (Shifting Paradigm Records)
• Vilhelm Bromander: In This Forever Unfolding Moment (Thanatosis)
• Peter Brötzmann, Majid Bekkas, Hamid Drake: Catching Ghosts (ACT Music)
• Francesco Chiapperini: Transmigration (Splasc(H) Records)
• Billy Childs: The Winds of Change (Mack Avenue Records)
• Rob Clearfield: Ashes and Diamonds (ears&eyes Records)
• Isaiah Collier: Parallel Universe (Night Dreamer)
• Franco D'Andrea: Sketches of the 20th Century (Parco della Musica)
• Caroline Davis's Alula: Captivity (Ropeadope)
• Deadeye: Live (Dox Records)
• Maria Pia De Vito: This Woman's Work (Parco della Musica)
• Cettina Donato, Zoe Pia: Mito (Alfa Music)
• Enemy: The Betrayal (WeJazz)
• Peter Epstein: Two Legs Bad (Shifting Paradigm Records)
• Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Spirit Gatherer -A Tribute to Don Cherry (Spiritmuse)
• Alan Ferber Nonet: Up High, Down Low (Sunnyside Records)
• Sammy Figueroa: Searching for a Memory (Ashé Records)
• Michael Formanek: Elusion Quartet As Things Do (Intakt Records)
• Erik Friedlander: She Sees (Skitpstone)
• Anat Fort Trio: The Berlin Sessions (Sunnyside Records)
• Asher Gamedze: Turbulence and Pulse (International Anthem)
• Miha Gantar: Amsterdam (Clean Feed Records)
• Leo Genovese, Demian Cabaud, Marcos Cavaleiro: Estrellero (Sunnyside Records)
• Luigi Grasso: Dantesca (LP3 45)
• John Hadfield: Drum of Stories (In a Circle Records)
• Roy Hargrove: The Love Suite: In Mahogany (Blue Engine)
• Benjamin Herman: Nostalgia Blitz (Dox Records)
• Alexander Hawkins Trio: Carnival Celestial (Intakt Records)
• Mette Henriette Drifting (ECM Records)
• Hiromi: Sonicwonderland (Telarc)
• Ikiru: Plays Satie (Collectif surnatural)
• Illegal Crowns: Unclosing (Out of your Head Records)
• Naïssam Jalal Healing Rituals (Les couleurs du son)
• Kenneth Jimenez Sonnet to Silence (WeJazz)
• Jim & The Schrimps Ain't No Saint (Intakt Records)
• Kaisa's Machine: Taking Shape (Greenleaf Music)
• Logan Kane: Floor Plans (Ghost Note Records)
• Guillermo Klein: Quinteto Telmo's Tune (Sunnyside Records)
• Andrew Krasilnikov: Bloody Belly Comb Jelly (Rainy Days Records)
• Marie Kruttli: Transparence (Intakt Records)
• Bill Laurance, Michael League: Where You Wish You Were (ACT Music)
• Rickie Lee Jones: Pieces of Treasure (Modern Recordings)
• Legraux Tobrogoï: Barbarismes (Freddy Morezon)
• James Brandon Lewis Trio: Eye of I (Anti-)
• Antti Lotjonen Quintet East: Circus/Citadel WeJazz
• Hannah Marks: Outside Outlier (Out of your Head Records)
• Branford Marsalis: Rustin—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Netflix)
• Terrace Martin: Fine Tune (Sounds of Crenshaw)
• Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra: Lightning Dreamers (International Anthem)
• Christian McBride's New Jawn: Prime (Mack Avenue Records)
• Tobias Meinhart Berlin People: Dark Horse (Sunnyside Records)
• Vince Mendoza, Metropole Orkest: Olympians (Modern Recordings)
• Billy Mohler: Ultraviolet (Contagious Music)
• MoonMot: 350 Million Herring (Enja Records)
• Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, Brian Blade: Dance of the Elders (ECM Records)
• MeShell NdegeOcello: The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note Records)
• Clovis Nicolas: The Contrapuntist (Sunnyside Records)
• Thomas Naïm: The Far Side (Rootless Blues)
• Aruán Ortiz Trio: Serranías: Sketchbook for Piano Trio (Intakt Records)
• Papanosh: A Very Big Lunch (Enja Records)
• Gretchen Parlato, Lionel Loueke: Lean In (Edition Records)
• Tineke Postma: Aria (Edition Records)
• Chris Potter: Got The Keys To The Kingdom -Live at the Village Vanguard (Edition Records)
• Simona Premazzi: Wave in Gravity (Self Produced)
• Zoe Rahman: Wave in Gravity (Manushi Records)
• Andre Roligheten: Marbles (Odin Records)
• Emma Rawicz: Chroma (ACT Music)
• Roots Magic Sextet: Long Old Road (Clean Feed Records)
• Charley Rose Trio: Dada Pulp (Menace)
• Ben Rosenblum: Nebula Project A Thousand Pebbles (One Trick Dog Records)
• Rudy Royston: Flatbed Buggy Day (Greenleaf Music)
• Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Borrowed Roses (Topo Stop)
• Felipe Salles: Interconnections Ensemble Home Is Here (Tapestry)
• The Angelica Sanchez Nonet: Nighttime Creatures (Pyroclastic Records)
• John Scofield: Uncle John's Band (ECM Records)
• Sketchbook Quartet: Kekova (Waschsalon Records)
• Walter Smith III: Return to Casual (Blue Note Records)
• Ken Stubbs: Southern Soul (Cherry K Records)
• Mark Solborg: Babel (Ilk Music)
• Helen Svoboda: The Odd River (Earshift Music)
• Yuhan Su: Liberated Gesture (Sunnyside Records)
• Dan Tepfer, Miguel Zenon: Internal Melodies (Main Door Music)
• Henry Texier: An Indian's Life (Label Bleu)
• A Tonic for the Troops: Realm of Opportunities (Odin Records)
• Tiziano Tononi: Water Counts (Felmay)
• Ralph Towner: At First Light (ECM Records)
• Trickster: Live in Brooklyn (Self Produced)
• Trio Grande: Urban Myth (Whirlwind)
• Gianluigi Trovesi, Stefano Montanari: Stravaganze consonanti (ECM Records)
• Stephen Ulrich: Music from This American Life (Barbes Records)
• The Vampires: Nightjar (Earshift Music)
• Ken Vandermark, Hamid Drake: Eternal River (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
• Ben Wendel: All One (Edition Records)
• Gaia Wilmer: Folia (Sunnyside Records)
• Anthony Wilson: Collodion (Colorfield)
• Ben Wolfe: Unjust (Resident Arts)
• Brandee Younger: Brand New Life (Impulse! Records)
• Miguel Zenon, Luis Perdomo: El arte del Bolero -Vol. 2 (Miel)

Ubridled Fun

• Deadjazz: Plays the Music of the Grateful Dead (B-Flat)
• Kait Dunton: Keyboards Real and Imagined Music)
• Kurt Elling, Charlie Hunter: SuperBlue: Guilty Pleasures (Edition Records)
• Nicole Johänntgen: Labyrinth (Selmabird)
• Greg Joseph: Drop the Rock (Sunnyside Records)
• Magic Carpet: Broken Compass (FPE)
• Endea Owens: Feel Good Music (Self Produced)
• Nicholas Payton: Drip! (Paytone)
• Leo Sidran: What's Trending (Bonsai Music/(Nardis)
• Erik Truffaz: Clap (Blue Note Records)
• Erik Truffaz: Rollin' (Blue Note Records)
• Various Artists: The Mexico City Experiment (Ropeadope)

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