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Any Hair-Raising Jazz Released This Year?

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I’m in the mood for something new and hair-raising. Any suggestions?

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  2. One man’s hair-raising is another man’s shiny bald pate. You could try these they may tickle your follicles but I doubt they’ll make your hair stand on end.
    The Cosmic Tones Research Trio – The Cosmic Tones Research Trio.
    Christer Bothén – L’ Invisible.
    Myra Melford Splash.
    Sinsuke Fujieda Group – Fukushima.
    Cosmic Ear – Traces.
    Amina Claudine Myers – Solace of the Mind.
    When I remember more I’ll post again.

  3. Some of these would raise my hair, if I had some.
    Includes a few previously-unreleased vintage live shows.

    Dave Manington’s Riff Raff – Weightless
    John Zorn’s Bagatelles Vol. 1 – Mary Halvorson Quartet
    Marshall Allen – New Dawn
    PAZ – Variation And Creation: The Story Of PAZ
    Yazz Ahmed – A Paradise In The Hold
    Joe Armon-Jones – All The Quiet Pt. I & Pt. II
    Artemis – Arboresque
    Nels Cline – Consentrik Quartet
    Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith – Defiant Life
    Ketil Bjørnstad – Evening Song-Aftensang
    Gary Peacock, Bill Frisell – It Happened Again
    Muriel Grossman РMGQ Live In King Georg, K̦ln
    Jon Balke – Skrifum
    Tony Coe – The Buds Of Time
    Sun Ra – Uncharted Passages
    Sun Ra – Hidden Fire
    Sault – 10
    Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates, Dave Holland – After The Last Sky
    The Tubby Hayes Quintet – Antibes ’62
    SAROST – Aurora
    Emma Rawicz, Gwilym Simcock – Big Visit
    Hiromi’s Sonicwonder – Out There
    Vega Trails – Sierra Tracks
    Emma-Jean Thackray – Weirdo
    Shai Maestro – Solo: Miniatures & Tales
    Mary Halvorson – About Ghosts
    Donovan Haffner – Alleviate
    Theo Croker – Dream Manifest
    Phi-Psonics – Expanding To One
    Brandee Younger – Gadabout Season
    Allexa Nava – No Language
    The Bobby Wellins/Kenny Wheeler Quintet – The Endangered Species
    Kokoroko – Tuff Times Never Last
    Neil Charles – Dark Days
    Geoff Castle – Impressions Of New York
    Tingvall Trio – Pax
    Gerald Clayton – Ones & Twos
    Brad Mehldau – Ride Into The Sun
    Linda May Han Oh, Ambrose Akinmusire, Tyshawn Sorey – Strange Heavens
    Chip Wickham – The Eternal Now
    Christian McBride Big Band – Without Further Ado, Vol. 1
    Jim Watson – Calling You Home
    Mujician – In Concerts
    Tom Skinner – Kaleidoscopic Visions
    Ruby Rushton – Legacy!
    Andrea Vicari – Lost In Dreams
    Mulatu Astatke – Mulatu Plays Mulatu
    C̩cile McLorin Salvant РOh Snap
    Gordon Beck – Pay Now, Live Later: Live At The Bass Clef ’85
    Alfa Mist – Roulette
    Nala Sinephro – The Smashing Machine
    John Taylor, Marc Johnson, Joey Baron – Tramonto

    • I’ve heard a surprising number of those. I regret not buying the limited edition CD of Tubby Hayes. And Cécile McLorin Salvant is probably the most hair-raising.

      I’ll definitely listen to the ones I’ve not heard.

    • Mike_H certainly has named some good ‘uns there.

      I’ve also enjoyed:

      Steve Okonski – Entrance Music
      Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano & Jan Lundgren – Mare Nostrum IV
      GoGo Penguin – Necessary Fictions

      Plus reissues:
      Kristen Nogu̬s & John Surman РDiriaou
      Grant Green – Solid (Blue Note Classic Vinyl series)

    • Concur with the Mulatu Astatke choice – fabulous.
      Would also suggest Charles Lloyd -, Figure in Blue – some lovely playing and merges some Blues into the pieces.

  6. Don’t know if these will fit your definition of Hair-raising but try these recent releases from Australia.

    Max Alduca – Monastery. Max is an “up-and-coming” bass player who seems to have arrived. This is his first album under his own name. Produced by Lloyd Swanton from The Necks

    Evans-Robson Quartet – Zenith. Sandy Evans and Andrew Robson are well established brilliant sax players and the rhythm section of Brett Hirst and Hamish Stuart have played with everyone

    Chloe Kim – Music For Six Double Bassists. Chloe Kim is an expat South Korean drummer who composed all this music although she doesn’t actually play on it.

    https://peoplesound.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-six-double-bassists

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