The Mystery Lesson

The Mystery Lesson part 364 22^nd July 2026

1.     James Brandon Lewis Quartet / Line Upon Line / Intakt

2.     New West Quartet / Come Up / Park West

3.     Michael Marcus Quartet / That Far is NOW! / ESP-Disk

4.     Tom Challenger / Sherryelardee / Earconnector

5.     CP Unit / Encore / Eleatic

6.     OM / Behind the Eye / Intakt

7.     Tres Hongos / Dormitory Squad / Relative Pitch

8.     Futuro Ancestrale / Ghostline / Unsounds

9.     Ted Byrnes & Anju Singh / Transients / scatterArchive

10.  Nu Jazz / Recombination / Orange Milk

11.  Pat Thomas/Olie Brice/Gary Wilcox / The Calligrapher’s Blues / Jazz Now

12.  Milton Michaeli/Asaf Shchori/Hamid Drake / For Wilbur Ware - We Travel the Space Ways / 577

The Mystery Lesson part 363 24^th June 2026

1.     Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (Exit) Knarr / Chaos Pad / Sauajazz

2.     Luciana Bass/Ezekiel Jaime/Federico Isasti / Jalea de membrillo / Relative Pitch

3.     Victor Viera-Branco’s Bark Culture / Palace / Temperphantom

4.     WRENS / Charlie Parker / Out Of Your Head

5.     Otomo Yoshihide & Kei Matsumaru / Utatane / Trost

6.     Leverton Fox / Seals for Spronky / Not Applicable

7.     Savina Yannatou/Gonçalo Almeida/Costis Drygianakis / Auto_Nomos / Defkaz

8.     Mat Maneri Quartet / Song 22 / Sunnyside

9.     Micah Thomas / Door / self-released 

10.  Teiku / Odir Bimlikhe (Lunski melody) / Gingko

11.  Nduduzo Makhathini / Imvunge Kantu / Blue Note

12.  Camila Nebbia & Chris Corsano / Shattered Things / Relative Pitch

Miles... out!

One hour of Miles's Davis's most experimental/avant-garde sounds.

1) The Mask (part 1) - from The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions

2) Directions - from Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2

3) This - from Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2

4) Rated X - from The Complete On The Corner Sessions

5) Tatu (Part 2) - from Dark Magus

6) Bitches Brew - from Miles at the Fillmore – Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3

7) The Mask (Parts 1 & 2) - from Miles at the Fillmore – Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3

8) Theme from Jack Johnson - from Agharta

The Mystery Lesson part 362 27^th May 2026

1.     Charles Downs Quartet / Inner 4 / ESP-Disk

2.     [Ahmed] / Epistrophy / OTOROKU

3.     Paal Nilssen-Love Circus / Seven Times / PNL

4.     Alan Braufman / Angels / Valley of Search

5.     Alexander Hawkins / Mirror No Border / Intakt

6.     Philip Golub / Mutiny Meeting / Berthold

7.     Lao Dan Chicago Quartet / Green Tongue / Trost

8.     Joel Futterman & William Parker / Part 3 / Burning Ambulance

9.     Marion Brown / Epiphanie / NoBusiness

10.  Michael Foster/Christian Weber/Michael Griener / Fire in the Flesh / Relative Pitch

11.  Tyshawn Sorey / Equipoise (Pt. 1) / Pi

The Mystery Lesson part 361 29^th April 2026

1.     Nat Birchall Quartet / Visitation of the Spirits / Ancient Archive of Sound

2.     Vinicius Cajado/Kit Downes/Lukas Koenig / Saturday Night / Sonic Transmissions

3.     Rodrigo Amado/Joe McPhee/Kent Kessler/Chris Corsano / Wailers / European Echoes

4.     Joachim Kühn / Station 122 / ACT

5.     Re-Ghoster Extended / Dreaming With The Lights On / Konnect

6.     Bagman / 1^st Playground / scatterArchive

7.     Cath Roberts & Olie Brice / Gritstone Tors / Relative Pitch

8.     Ivo Perelman / Ivo/Sharp – Seven / Mahakala

9.     Ayman Fanous / Trio With Mark Feldman, Tomas Ulrich 3 / Infrequent Seams

10.  Loom & Thread / Dispersion / Macro

11.  Transition Unit / Action Beat / Phonogram Unit

12.  The Outskirts / Four Feet of Slush/Glass Part 2 / Aerophonic

The Mystery Lesson part 360 1^st April 2026

1.     Amalie Dahl / Intro / Sonic Transmissions

2.     Sylvie Courvoisier Trio / Just Twisted / Intakt

3.     Fie Schouten/Vincent Courtois/Sofia Borges/Pierre Baux / The Street / Relative Pitch

4.     Henriette Eilertsen Trio / Medieval + Moren / Motvind

5.     Chrome Hill & Dōjō / Fjord Fairlane / Clean Feed

6.     Walter Thompson/Sam Day Harmet/Billy Martin / Friction Hitch / 577

7.     Luis Nacht & Camila Nebbia / Me condiciona el nombre / ears&eyes

8.     Jon Lipscomb/Martin Küchen/Kresten Osgood / Skall five / scatterarchive

9.     Andrea Parkins/Frank Gratkowski/Devin Gray / Longsterism / Rataplan

10.  Dietrichs / Encore / Relative Pitch

11.  LDL / Part B / Relative Pitch

The Mystery Lesson part 359 4^th March 2026

1.     Bonney Kane Karlsen / Fabric of Memory / Earconnector

2.     David/David / Chetiri / 577

3.     Ishmael Ali / The Cut and the Turn / Amalgam

4.     These Things Happen / Well You Needn’t / Corbett Vs. Dempsey

5.     Jonas Cambien/Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard/Dag Erik Knedal Andersen / Sudden Squirrel / Motvind

6.     The One / Blood Vine / Park West

7.     Shawn Lovato / Spling / Endectomorph Music

8.     Masayo Koketsu & Nava Dunkelman / 初雷–hatsurai / Relative Pitch

9.     Asteroid Ekosystem / Cirrus / Alister Spence Music

10.  Oker / Equinoctial Tide / W Aspen Edities

The Mystery Lesson part 358 4^th February 2026

1.     Pat Thomas & XT / Zurich ONE / WeJazz

2.     Angelika Niescier / Rejoice, Disrupt, Resist / Intakt

3.     Schlippenbach Trio / Beelzebub's Tales: Revised / Cien Fuegos

4.     Craig Taborn/Tomeka Reid/Ches Smith / Mumbo Jumbo / ECM

5.     Haeun Joo / Salt and Silence / 577

6.     Hatka / Nokia Calling / Mustik Motel

7.     The Thunks / Swarm Patterns I / TROST

8.     Alex Bonney Quartet / Wise Inhabitants / Earconnector

9.     sOnic alchemy / I / scatterArchive

10.  Toshiyuki Tsuchitori & Ryuichi Sakamoto / 綾 (Aya) / WeWantSounds

The Mystery Lesson part 357 7^th January 2026 

1.     Charles Tyler Ensemble / Voyage from Jericho / Frederiksberg

2.     Bobby Naughton Trio / Nauxtagram / NoBusiness

3.     Arkady Gotesman / Quartet 1 / NoBusiness

4.     José Lencastre/João Hasselberg/Kresten Osgood / Showing the Way / FSR

5.     John Butcher / After Chihuahuan (for Joe McPhee) / Relative Pitch

6.     Derek Bailey / Undated Letter Cassette / ScatterArchive

7.     Ziv Taubenfeld/Helena Espvall/João Sousa / Where the River is More Blue / NoBusiness

8.     Oliver Lake / Six Beats Out / NoBusiness

9.     Andreas Røysum Ensemble with Marvin Tate / Monkey Bars / Motvind

10.  Microplastique / Gwere / Irritable Mystic

1.     Dave Rempis/Jason Adasiewicz/Chris Corsano / Down That Path Madness / Aerophonic

2.     Camila Nebbia/Marilyn Crispell/Lesley Mok / There Is No Land / Relative Pitch

3.     Camila Nebbia/James Banner/Max Andrzejewski / Choco / ears&eyes

4.     Peter Evans & Mike Pride / Substance X / Relative Pitch

5.     [Ahmed] / Isma'a / OTOROKU

6.     Zhuyang Liu & Zheng Hao / Load in / ScatterArchive

7.     Ava Trio / Phasis III / Tora

8.     Mia Dyberg & Axel Filip / Running Horses / Relative Pitch

9.     GIO / Corey Mwamba, Daniel Wilfred, Ken Slaven & David Wilfred / Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings

10.  Last Dream of the Morning / Afterglow / Fundacja Słuchaj

11.  Mujician / Birmingham / Jazz In Britain