The Mystery Lesson

The Mystery Lesson part 349 28^th May 2025

1.     Luke Stewart/Silt Remembrance Ensemble / Remember / Cuneiform

2.     MOPCUT / SISMICA / Heat Crimes

3.     Tatsuya Yoshida & Martín Escalante / Six Simple Saxophones / Wash and Wear

4.     Eric Shorter / Worthy of Badgers / 577

5.     Uivo Zebra / Nerve Eterna / Phonogram Unit

6.     Masahiko Satoh & Giotis Damianidis / Bloodgood / Trost

7.     Johan Graden/Nils Agnas/Pär Ola Landin/Vilhelm Bromander / Stanza / Aspen Edities

8.     Larry Stabbins & Mark Sanders / Ring No. 5 / Discus

9.     Samir Boehringer Sazzerac / Night Vortex / 577

10.  Manoeuvres Sentimentales / A Memorial Crumb / Circum-Disc

11.  Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation / Conversations 1 / Sunnyside

12.  José Lencastre & Flak / Howl At The Sky / Phonogram Unit

13.  Eva Novoa / From Left To Right / 577

14.  Maggie Nicols & Dan Johnson / Contact / TBC Editions

15.  Michael Thieke & Beat Keller / Looks / Ftarri

The Mystery Lesson part 348 30^th April 2025 

1.     Archer / Omen / Aerophonic 

2.     Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons / Stay Lifted / Ars Nova Workshop

3.     Sun Ra / The World of Lightning / Strut

4.     Pat Thomas / Soca Time / Konnekt

5.     Alexander Hawkins / Song of Interdependence / Intakt

6.     Ancient Psychic Triple Hyper Octopus / Drinking Songs Of The Quaidacabondish / Not Applicable

7.     Rapid Zen / Catalyzing Zen / Defkaz

8.     Tatsuya Nakatani & Rent Romus / And the fires are stoked / Edgetone

9.     Sam Weinberg Trio / Back Matter / Bandcamp

10.  Sarost / Boreas Curtains / Jazz Now  

11.  Amelie Dahl / Habit I / Sauajazz

The Mystery Lesson part 347 2^nd April 2025

1.     Silke Eberhard Trio / What's In Your Bag / Intakt

2.     Myra Melford / Freewheeler / Intakt 

3.     Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson / Silly Walk / Pyroclastic

4.     Sophie Agnel & John Butcher / Rare III / Les Disques Victo

5.     Yuki Fujiwara / The Red Devil Who Cried / Defkaz

6.     Purple Trap / Part II / Karlrecords  

7.     William Hooker feat. David S. Ware & Alan Braufman / Movement 7 / Valley of Search

8.     Natsuki Tamura /Satoko Fujii /Ramon Lopez / Cold Water / Not Two

9.     Jeong/Bisio Duo with Joe McPhee & Jay Rosen / Point Expands To World / ESP-Disk

10.  Blind Io / Windle Poons / Rat 

11.  Favela Trio / Heavy Light / ears & eyes

12.  Vilhelm Bromander Unfolding Orchestra / For Dewey / Thanatosis Produktion

13.  Ra Bishop / Overtones / Amalgam

The Mystery Lesson part 346 5^th March 2025

1.     Christopher Dammann / No Hope At All Other Than I Don’t Want To Die Today: Part 3 / Out Of Your Head

2.     Stefan Keune/Steve Noble/Dominic Lash / Set 2,2 / Scatter Archive

3.     Hollenberg, Weston, Spiker Trio / From Freedom Comes Indifference / Park West

4.     Ken Vandermark & Terrie Ex / Short Circuits / Terp

5.     Fred Frith & Shelley Burgon / Adventures in Red / Relative Pitch

6.     Roy Haynes / Tangiers / Wewantsounds

7.     John Surman / Undercurrent / Cuneiform

8.     Dream Brigade / Reverse Palindrome / Infrequent Seams

9.     Egil Kalman & Hans Hulbækmo / Heilo / Motvind

10.  Tom Ward & Adam Fairhall / Dinitrogen Pentoxide / Raw Tonk

11.  Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton / Side A / ESP-Disk

12.  John Dikeman/Sun-Mi Hong/Aaron Lumley/Marta Warelis / Let’s Try / Relative Pitch

The Mystery Lesson part 345 5^th February 2025

1.     Chicago Edge Ensemble / Invasive Species / Lizard Breath

2.     Stian Larsen/Colin Webster/Ruth Goller/Andrew Lisle / Haunt of Crows / Relative Pitch

3.     ES Trio / Ornaments (Streets Of Neukölln) / Relative Pitch

4.     Chris Brown/Ben Davis/Zeena Parkins/William Winant / Minotaur / Relative Pitch

5.     The Noah Howard Quartet / Fire March / Cien Fuegos

6.     Noah Howard Group / New York Subway / Cien Fuegos

7.     Sarah Belle Reid & Vinny Golia / Red Crested Floobog / Infrequent Seams

8.     Jason Alder/Thanos Chrysakis/Charlotte Keeffe/James O'Sullivan / Part II / Aural Terrains

9.     Amanda Irarrázabal & Marco Albert / Witblits / Public Eyesore

10.  Hearts & Minds / Imaging / Astral Spirits

11.  Michael Sarian/Matthew Putman/Ledian Mola/Federico Ughi / Water and Fish / 577

12.  Tim Berne / Yikes 2 / Screwgun/Out Of Your Head

13.  STEMESEDER LILLINGER with Craig Taborn / Typus / Intakt

The Mystery Lesson part 344 8^th January 2025 

1.     Die Like A Dog / No 1 / TROST

2.     Peter Brötzmann/Fred Van Hove/Han Bennink / Garten / FMP

3.     Peter Brötzmann & Han Bennink / Schwarzenbachtalsperre Nr. 8 / FMP

4.     Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love / Strain My Taters / ACT

5.     Peter Brötzmann/Majid Bekkas/Hamid Drake / Balini / Relative Pitch

6.     Peter Brötzmann/Fred Hopkins/Rashied Ali / Two Birds In A Feather / FMP

7.     Peter Brötzmann/William Parker/Hamid Drake / Halfhearted Beast / Eremite

8.     The Peter Brötzmann Octet / Machine Gun / BRÖ

9.     Peter Brötzmann/John Edwards/Steve Noble/Jason Adasiewicz / Set 1, Night 1 / OTOROKU

The Mystery Lesson part 343 11^th December 2024

1.     Darin Gray/Pak Yan Lau/Steve Noble/Alan Wilkinson / Turn IV / Shrike

2.     Hungry Ghosts / small bits of pus and blood / Nakama

3.     Joe Fonda Quartet / Inspiration Opus #1 / Long Song

4.     Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra / White River / International Anthem

5.     Tomeka Reid/Taylor Ho Bynum/Kyoko Kitamura/Joe Morris / Between Wor(l)ds / Relative Pitch

6.     Dominic Lash & Pat Thomas / You Don’t Need Diamonds / Scatter Archive

7.     microplastique / Native Ants / Irritable Mystic

8.     Sakina Abdou/Marta Warelis/Toma Gouband / Leaf The Hammer / Relative Pitch

9.     Dans Les Arbres / Les oreilles voient / Aspen Edities

10.  Dennis Gonzalez Legacy Band / Hymn for Mbizo/Document for Toshinori Kondo / Astral Spirits 

The Mystery Lesson part 342 13^th November 2024

 1.     Darius Jones / No More My Lord / AUM Fidelity

2.     Ohad Talmor / Trio Variations on Tune 11 / Intakt

3.     Satoko Fujii Quartet / Not Together / Libra

4.     Kevin Figes & Julie Tippetts / Dune Dimensions / SLAM

5.     Semay Wu / Da Dah Du Moon / Scatter Archive

6.     John Butcher/Florian Stoffner/Chris Corsano / Disaster Laugh / Relative Pitch

7.     Fictional Souvenirs / Crimps / TROST

8.     William Parker/Hugo Costa/Philipp Ernsting / Words of Freedom / No Business

9.     José Lencastre/Margaux Oswald/João Carreiro / The Six Essays / Phonogram Unit

10.  Pacho Dávila/Gonçalo Almeida/Vasco Furtado / Confrontation / Phonogram Unit

11.  The Attic / Peau / No Business

1.     Arashi with Takeo Moriyama / Colour Flames / TROST

2.     Joachim Kühn French Trio / Homogeneous Emotions / ACT 

3.     BARK! / Take 20 / Scatter Archive

4.     The Kris Davis Trio / Softly, As You Wake / Pyroclastic

5.     Sophie Agnel/John Edwards/Steve Noble / Part 3 / OTOROKU 

6.     Pat Thomas / For George Saliba / OTOROKU

7.     Weird of Mouth / Dogs In Orbit / Otherly Love

8.     Asher Gamedze / Elaboration / International Anthem

9.     Jim Clouse/Patrick Golden/Matt Hollenberg / Unknowable Truth / Park West

10.  Charles Gayle/Milford Graves/William Parker / C3 / Black Editions Archive

The Mystery Lesson part 340 10th October 2023

1.     Irreversible entanglements / Free Love / Impulse!

2.     KVL / Pink Void / Astral Spirits 

3.     Joe Chambers / Caravanserai / Blue Note

4.     Joachim Kuhn / Roman II / ACT

5.     Kendrick Scott / Threshold / Blue Note

6.     Harold Land / Step Right Up To The Bottom / WeWantSounds

7.     Max Roach / Absolutions / Arc

8.     Ornette Coleman / Man On The Moon / ezz-thetics

9.     Transatlantic Five / Around Town / Nemu

10.  The Bridge / Personal Mountains / Trost

11.  Oiro pena / Puna / We Are Busy Bodies

12.  Pharoah Sanders / Memories Of` Edith Johnson / Luaka Bop

13.  Tyshawn Sorey Trio / Reincarnation Blues / Pi

14.  Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns / Go At Your Peril 1 / Rune Grammofon

15.  Frank Zappa / Twinkle Tits / Zappa Records

16.  Nucleus / Song For The Bearded lady / Be With

17.  Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express / Freedom Jazz Dance / Soul Bank

18.  Luther Thomas Human Arts Ensemble / Funky Donkey / WeWantSounds

19.  Peter Brötzmann/Majid Bekkas/Hamid Drake / Chalaba / ACT