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Ahleuchatistas – ‘The Summer We Went West [and East] – Live 2006’ (2023)

Ahleuchatistas – ‘The Summer We Went West [and East] – Live 2006’ (2023)

Ahleuchatistas long ago proved to be a ferocious live act, so ‘The Summer We Went West [and East] – Live 2006’ is a release that needed to happen.

Location Location Location [Michael Formanek, Anthony Pirog + Mike Pride] – ‘Damaged Goods’ (2023)

Location Location Location [Michael Formanek, Anthony Pirog + Mike Pride] – ‘Damaged Goods’ (2023)

Michael Formanek, Anthony Pirog and Mike Pride produce the kind of inspired music that comes from jamming – even if the record wasn’t made that way.

Thumbscrew – ‘Multicolored Midnight’ (2022)

Thumbscrew – ‘Multicolored Midnight’ (2022)

Thumbscrew continues to perform greater than the sum of its considerable parts, as ‘Multicolored Midnight’ retains all the freshness of their first time together.

The Fourth World Quartet – ‘1975’ (2021)

The Fourth World Quartet – ‘1975’ (2021)

The Fourth Qorld Quartet’s ‘1975’ documents that brief time talented brothers and a colleague came together and really went for it blending free jazz, rock and modern classical.

Desertion Trio – ‘Numbers Maker’ (2021)

Desertion Trio – ‘Numbers Maker’ (2021)

‘Numbers Maker’ sticks with the Desertion Trio original vision, but that vision is getting rougher and rowdier. Fortunately, Nick Millevoi & Co. know how to do rough ‘n’ rowdy.

Thumbscrew – ‘Never Is Enough’ (2021)

Thumbscrew – ‘Never Is Enough’ (2021)

The highly distinctive musical personalities of Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek and Tomas Fujiwara and their superhuman telepathy are the only ingredients that carry over from one Thumbscrew album to the next. ‘Never Is Enough’ is full of new daring feats by this amazing trio.

Thumbscrew [Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek + Tomas Fujiwara] – ‘The Anthony Braxton Project’ (2020)

Thumbscrew [Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek + Tomas Fujiwara] – ‘The Anthony Braxton Project’ (2020)

There might not be a better vehicle for the genius of Anthony Braxton than Anthony Braxton himself, but in tackling a few choice selections of his material, Thumbscrew revealed further facets of his ingenuity just in how they use those compositions to take his vision to new places.

Chad Taylor Trio – ‘The Daily Biological’ (2020)

Chad Taylor Trio – ‘The Daily Biological’ (2020)

With Neil Podgurski and Brian Settles by Chad Taylor’s side, ‘The Daily Biological’ manages to cover a lot of fertile ground found in Taylor’s artistry.

Tatsuya Nakatani + Shane Parish – ‘Interactivity’ (2020)

Tatsuya Nakatani + Shane Parish – ‘Interactivity’ (2020)

There’s so much ingenuity and telepathy on Tatsuya Nakatani and Shane Parish’s ‘Interactivity,’ it’s easy to forget this is merely an acoustic guitar and some percussion.

Cheer-Accident – ‘Chicago XX’ (2020)

Cheer-Accident – ‘Chicago XX’ (2020)

Just being eccentric doesn’t make one creative, but Cheer-Accident continues to find ways to be a lot of both twenty albums in. Here’s hoping for another twenty albums by this band.