The Mystery Lesson part 346 5th 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

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The Mystery Lesson part 345 5th 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

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The Mystery Lesson part 344 8th 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 11th 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 13th 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

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The Mystery Lesson part 341 7th October 2024

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

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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

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The Mystery Lesson part 339 21st December 2022

1.     James Brandon Lewis Quartet / Cesaire / Intakt

2.     Chad Taylor Trio / Omniverse / Astral Spirits

3.     Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity / Acoustic Dance Music / ECM

4.     Dave Douglas Quintet / A Fowler’s Snare / Greenleaf Music

5.     Barber Mouse / Carolina Moon / Auand

6.     Tomasz Dabrowski & The Individual Beings / In Transit / April

7.     Anteloper / Baby Bota Halloceanation / International Anthem

8.     Spacefood / I Can’t See His Shadow / Square Ears

9.     Sun Ra Arkestra / Somebody Else’s Idea / Omni

10.  Patricia Brennan / El Nahualli (The Shadow Soul) / Pyroclastic

11.  Jeff Parker/Eric Revis/Nasheet Waits / Similar Limits / RogueArt

12.  Heart Of The Ghost / Summons / No Quarter

13.  JakTar / Mitch Bryan / Discus

14.  Hedvig Mollestad & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra / On The Horizon Part 2 / Rune Grammofon

15.  Elton Dean Quartet / Seven For Lee / British Progressive Jazz

16.  Karl Jenkins / Penumbra II Third Movement / Jazz In Britain

17.  John Taylor Sextet / The Other One 1 / Jazz In Britain

18.  Ron English / Bees / Strut

19.  Trevor Dunn’s trio-convulsant avec folie à quatre / Saint-Médard / Pyroclastic

20.  Georg Gräwe Quintet / Pink Pong / Corbett Vs. Dempsey

21.  Tom Prehn’s Kvartet / Solherv 4 / Corbett Vs. Dempsey

22.  William Parker / Tails Of A Peacock / Centering

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The Golden Road part 21 December 20th 2022

1.     Chouk Bwa & The Ångströmers / Agwetaroyo / Bongo Joe

2.     Al-Qasar / Mal Wa Jamal / Glitterbeat

3.     Eman el Bahr Darwish / Mahsoebak Endas / We Want Sounds

4.     Pedro Lima / Philomene / Bongo Joe

5.     The Movers / Kudala Sithandana / Analog Africa

6.     Congotronics International / Tita Tita / Crammed Discs

7.     Los Royals De Pucallpa / Descarga Royal / Analog Africa

8.     Los Kenya / Omelembe / Musica Infinita

9.     Gustavo Yashimura / Tierra Bendita / Hive Mind

10.  Yanna Momina / My Family Won’t Let Me Marry The Man I Love (I Am Forced To Wed My Uncle) / Glitterbeat

11.  Alhaj Waziri Oshomah / My Luck / Luaka Bop

12.  Almon Memela / Ntshonalanga / We Are Busy Bodies

13.  L’Orchestre Massako / Temedy / Analog Africa

14.   Noori & His Dorpa Band / Qwal / Ostinato

15.  Abdel Halim Hafez / Mawood Part 3 / We Want Sounds

16.  Shadi Fathi & Bijan Chemirani / Asayesh / Buda

17.  Mohamad Zatari Trio / Longa Ferafeza / Zehra

18.  Nasim Kushnawaz / Sahargah / Worlds Within Worlds

19.  Pabitra Chatterjee / Tu Mera Chand / Buda

20.  Roopa Panesar / Rag Gujri Todi – Madhya Laya Gat in Tal Teental / Asian Arts Agency

21.  Ustad Noor Bakhsh / Maanj / Honiunhoni

22.  Master Musicians of Jajouka / Opening The Gate / Glitterbeat

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The Golden Road part 20 June 7th 2022

1.     Ravi Shankar & Ustad Vilayat Khan / Raga Desi-Roopak Taal / EMI India

2.     Unknown performers / Sikh song on Hindu/Moslem unity / Sublime Frequencies

3.     Saroj Narang / Simla Folk Song / Sublime Frequencies

4.     Unknown performers / Temples bells and drums / Sublime Frequencies

5.     Sawai Khan / Morchang / Amarrass

6.     Bhona & Mangal Mukerjee / Raga Kafi / Sublime Frequencies

7.     Unknown performers / Improvisation on film tune / Sublime Frequencies

8.     Sakar Khan / Train Song 2 / Amarrass

9.     Mangey Khan / Challa Challa / Amarrass

10.  Nikal Khan / Seela Gaja Maru / Amarrass

11.  Jai Chand Bagat & Babu / Bhajan / Sublime Frequencies

12.  Lado and Pappu Khan / Ambabari – Alfat in Bin / Amarrass

13.  Kheta Khan & Company / Lunagarh (Mehuda Barse) / Amarrass

14.  Kalipada Das / Methosur / Sublime Frequencies

15.  Sudeshna Bhattacharya / Ragashree, Alap / Losen

16.  Jyotish CH Choudhury / Raga Zila / Sublime Frequencies

17.  Ali Akbar Khan / Raga Zila Kafi / Owsley Stanley Foundation

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