AMN Picks of the Week

Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended. Don’t take the categories too seriously.

Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut – 9 Months from Earth (2009, free jazz)
Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut – The World is Unsurvivable (2009, free jazz)
Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut – Everything is Happening at Once (2009, free jazz)
Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut – The American Refugee (2009, free jazz)
James Blackshaw – The Glass Bead Game (2009, acoustic guitar)
Whit Dickey Trio – Transonic (1998, free jazz)
Carl Maguire – Sided Silver Solid (2009, avant-jazz)
Nicholas Bernier / Simon Trottier (2009, experimental)
Iannis Xenakis – Complete String Quartets (2009, modern classical)
Iannis Xenakis – Complete Percussion Works (2007, modern classical)
John Hebert – Byzantine Monkey (2009, creative jazz)

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