2021: favorites (ongoing)

Albums: 

• Maria Grand: Reciprocity (Biophilia) 
• Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: (Exit) Knarr (Odin)
• James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet: Jesup Wagon (Tao Forms) 
• Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Ole Morten Vågan: Plastic Wave (Odin)
• The Source: . . . But Swinging Doesn't Bend Them Down (Odin)
• William Parker: Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
• Irreversible Entanglements: Open the Gates (International Anthem)

 

• Flukten: Velkommen håp (ODIN)
• Anthony Joseph: The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running for Their Lives (Heavenly Sweetness) 
• John Zorn: New Masada Quartet (Tzadik)
  
• Aki Takase-Christian Weber-Michael Griener: Auge (Intakt)
• Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet: The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
• Mariá Portugal: Erosão (Staatsakt Rec.) 

 

• Mach Hommy: Pray For Haiti (Griselda Records) 
• Marthe Lea Band: Aura (Motvind)
• Luís Vicente Trio, Gonçalo Almeida, Pedro Melo Alves: Chanting In the Name Of (Clean Feed)
• Dry Cleaning: New Long Leg (4AD)  
• Madlib: Sound Ancestors (Madlib Invazion) 
• Tim Berne - Chris Speed - Reid Anderson - Dave King: Broken Shadows (Intakt)
• Andreas Røysum Ensemble: Fredsfanatiker (Motvind)

 

• Little Simz: Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)
  
• Kari Ikonen: Impressions, Improvisations and Compositions (Ozella)
• Emily D'Angelo: enargeia (Deutshce Grammofon)
  
• Punkt. Vrt. Plastik. (Kaja Draksler, Peter Eldh, Christian Lillinger): Somit (Intakt) 
• Japanese Breakfast: Jubilee (Dead Oceans)
  
• Turnstile: Glow On (Roadrunner Records)
• Henry Threadgill Zooid: Poof (Pi Recordings) 
  
• No-no Boy: 1975 (Smithsonian Folkways)
• Miguel Zenon: Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Miel)
• Claire Rousay: a softer focus (American Dream Records)  
• James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Code Of Being (Intakt)
  
• William Parker: Painters Winter (AUM Fidelity)
• Ivo Perelman: Brass and Ivory Tales (Fundacja Słuchaj) 
• Alder Ego: III (We Jazz Records)
• Ches Smith & We All Break: Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
• Thumbscrew: Never Is Enough (Cuneiform)
  
• Mario Pavone / Dialect Trio + 1: Blue Vertical (Out Of Your Head Records)
• Friends & Neighbors: The Earth Is # (Clean Feed) 
• Pedro Melo Alves' Omniae Large Ensemble: Lumina (Clean Feed)
  
• Three Layer Cake (Brandon Seabrook, Mike Watt, Mike Pride): Stove Top (Rare Noise Records)
  
• Silke Eberhard Trio:  Being the Up and Down (Intakt)
• Parquet Courts: Sympathy For Life (Rough Trade)
  
• Sibusiso Mash Mashiloane: Ihubo Labomdabu (self-released)
• Carl Magnus Neumann, Ketil Gutvik, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Paal Nilssen-Love: New Dance (PNL) 
• Whit Dickey, William Parker, Matthew Shipp: Village Mothership (Tao Forms)
  
• Fire!: Defeat (Rune Grammofon)
• Rodrigo Amado Northern Liberties: We Are Electric (Not Two)
  

 

• William Parker: Migration Of Silence Into and Out Of the Tone World (Centering Records)  
• Tom Rainey Obligato: Untucked In Hannover (Intakt)
• Ivo Perelman Trio: Garden of Jewels (Tao Forms)
• Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Standards) 2020 (New Braxton House)
• Signe Emmeluth: Hi Hello I'm Signe (Relative Pitch) 
• Koma Saxo: Live (We Jazz Records)
• Christopher Hoffman: Asp Nimbus (Out Of Your Head Records) 
  
• Body Meπa: The Work Is Slow (Hausu Mountain)
  
• Part Chimp: Drool (Wrong Speed Records)
• João Lencastre's Communion: Unlimited Dreams (Clean Feed)
  
• Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language Quartet: Let the Free Be Men (Trost)
• Mats Eilertsen: Solitude Central (Heimli) 
• Sana Nagano: Smashing Humans (577 Records)
  
• Skarbø Skulekorps: Dugnad (Hubro)
• Alexander Hawkins Feat. Evan Parker + Riot Ensemble: Togetherness Music (For Sixteen Musicians) ‎ (Intakt)
• Jeremiah Cymerman: Citadels & Sanctuaries (5049 Records)
  
• Flow Trio with Joe McPhee: Winter Garden (ESP)
• Tine Surel Lange: Works For listening 1-10 (Sofa Music)
  
• Jazmine Sullivan: Heaux Tales (RCA)
  
• Mario Pavone Tampa Quartet: Isabella (Clean Feed Records)
• Aksel Rønning Trio: ART (Øra Fonogram)
• Frode Haltli: Avant Folk II (Hubro)
  
• Butcher/Weston/Storesund/Knedal Andersen: Mapless Quiet (Motvind)
• Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Ding Dong. You're Dead (Rune Grammofon)
  
• Paul Dunmall / Percy Pursglove / Olie Brice / Jeff Williams: Plindronmes (West Hill Records) 
• Iréne Schweizer & Hamid Drake: Celebration (Intakt)
• Mdou Moctar: Afrique Victime (Matador) 
•  Barre Phillips, John Butcher, Ståle Liavik Solberg: We Met - And Then (Relative Pitch Records) 
  
• Devin Grey, Ralph Alessi & Angelica Sanchez: Melt All the Guns (Rataplan)
  
• Arne Torvik Trio: Northwestern Songs (Losen)*
  
• Barry Altschul 3Dom Factor: Long Tall Sunshine (NotTwo Records)
  
• Sons Of Kemet: Black To the Future (Impulse!)
• Mind Maintenance: Mind Maintenance (Drag City)
• Andrew Cyrille: The News (ECM) 

Vault/reissues:

• Christian Reim Sextet: Mona Lisa Suite Live at Molde, 1973 (Jazzaggression) 
• Charles Mingus: Mingus at Carnegie Hall [Deluxe Edition] (1974, Atlantic)
• Total Music Association: Walpurgisnacht(NoBusiness Records)
  
• Frode Gjerstad, Kent Carter, John Stevens: Detail-90 (NoBusiness)
  

Songs: 

• Irreversible Entanglements: "Open the Gates"
• Flukten: "Velkommen håp"
• No-no Boy: "The Best God Damn Band In Wyoming"
• Dry Cleaning: "Scratchcard Lanyard"
  

* Full disclosure: I wrote the liner notes for this release.