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My Favorite albums of 2020—part 5
My Favorite albums of 2020—part 5

Final thoughts and lists on the year in music for 2020

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Peter MargasakMilford Graves, Don Pullen, The Complete Yale Concert, A Stranger I May Be: Savoy Gospel 1954-1986, Bob Marovich, Horace Tapscott, Ancestral Eechoes: the Covina Sessions, Charles Curtis, Performances & Recordings 1998-2018, Harald Kisiedu, European Echoes: Jazz Experimentalism in Germany 1950-1975, Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History, Excavated Shellac, Jonathan Ward, Dust-to-Digital, Dudu Pukwana, Dudu Phukwana and the “Spears”, Blue Notes, Sun Ra, Egypt 1971, Brother Theotis Taylor, The Harry Smith B-Sides, Phil Wachsmann, Writing in Water
My Favorite albums of 2020—part 4
My Favorite albums of 2020—part 4

The final entry in the countdown of my 40 favorite albums of 2020

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Peter MargasakKiko Dinucci, Rastilho, Mary Halvorson, Mary Halvorson's Code Girl, Robert Wyatt, Artlessly Falling, Alvin Lucier, Works for Ever-Present Orchestra, Eric Revis, Slipknots Through the Looking Glass, Marc Sabat, Gioseffo Zarlino, Torbjörn Zetterberg & Den Stora Frågan, Are You Happy?, Nate Wooley, Seven Storey Mountain VI, Susan Alcorn, Pedernal, Eiko Ishibashi, Hyakki Yagyo, Laura Marling, Song for Our Daughter
My Favorite albums of 2020—part 3
My Favorite albums of 2020—part 3

Part 3 of the countdown of my 40 favorite albums of 2020

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Peter MargasakWet Ink Ensemble, Sam Pluta, Alex Mincek, Glossolalia/Lines on Black, Ambrose Akinmusire, on the tender spot of every calloused moment, Jordan Dykstra, The Arrow of Time, Horse Lords, The Common Task, Aisha Orazbayeva, For Violin Alone, Martin Arnold, Stain Ballads, Apartment House, Ash Fure, Something to Hunt, Deerhoof, Teenage Cave Artists, Sarah Hennies, Spectral Malconicities, Rob Mazurek, Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra, Dimensional Stardust
My Favorite albums of 2020--part 2
My Favorite albums of 2020--part 2

Part 2 of the countdown of my 40 favorite albums of 2020

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Peter MargasakJD Allen, Toys/Die Dreaming, Clara Iannotta, JACK Quartet, Earthing, Polwechsel, Klaus Lang, Unseen, Moor Mother, Camae Ayewa, Circuit City, Irreversible Entanglements, Siti Muharam, Siti of Unguja (Romance Revolution on Zanzibar), taraab, Ohmme, Fantasize Your Ghost, Deradoorian, Find the Sun, Anna Högberg, Anna Högberg Attack!, Lena, Alison Cotton, Only Darkness Now, Nijimusi, OOIOO
My Favorite albums of 2020—part 1
Peter MargasakJoan Shelley, Live at the Bomhard, Nathan Salsburg, Coming Down for You, Sylvie Courvoisier Trio, Free Hoops, Charles Rumback, June Holiday, Jim Baker, John Tate, Kenny Wollesen, Drew Gress, Burning Daylight, Roomful of Teeth, Michael Harrison, Just Constellations, The Opening Constellation: Summer, Deerhoof, Love-Lore, Time:Spans Festival, Benjamin Piekut, Jeff Parker, Suite for Max Brown, James Elkington, Ever-Roaming Eye, Coriky, Clean Kill, Late Jim's Lament, Shirley Collins, Heart's Ease, Bill Nace, Both, Part 2
Old Dutch Swing
Old Dutch Swing

The innovations of Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink move forward in the hands of their old bandmates and a new geneation.

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Peter MargasakKevin Whitehead, New Dutch Swing, ICP Orchestra, Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, Xavier Pamplona Septet, Play the, Raoul van der Weide, Marta Warelis, Michael Moore, Jo-Jo Jive, De Hondemepper, Nieuw Amsterdams Peil, De Purperen Sofa, Ab Baars, Joost Buis, Moods for Roswell, Two Ways, Duke Ellington, Wig Wise, Guus Janssen, Wim Janssen, Homemade Music, Azuur
Additional notes on 2019—part one
Additional notes on 2019—part one

My ten favorite reissues/archival titles from 2019

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Peter MargasakThe Time for Peace is Now, Stan Getz, Getz at the Gate, Fernando Falcão, Memória das Águas, Louis Moholo Octet, Spirits Rejoice!, Eric Dolphy, Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions, Roland Kayn, Scanning (Kybernetische Musik IV), Marion Brown, Le Temps Fou, Jeanne Lee & Ran Blake, The Newest Sound You Never Heard, Winfried Mühlum-Pyrápheros, Musica Nova Contemplativa, Nat “King” Cole, Hittin’ the Ramp: The Early Years (1936–1943)Comment
My 40 favorite albums of 2019—part 4
My 40 favorite albums of 2019—part 4

The final installment in the countdown of the 40 albums from 2019 that most floated my boat

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Peter MargasakJoshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, Mandatory Reality, Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis, Øyvind Torvund, The Exotica Album, Ahmed, Super Majnoon [East Meets West], Pat Thomas, Seymour Wright, Joel Grip, Antonin Gerbal, Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Petter Eldh, Koma Saxo, Christian Lillinger, Jonas Kullhammar, Mikko Innanen, Otis Sandsjö, Catherine Lamb, Atmospheres Transparent/Opaque, Rebecca Lane, Ensemble Dedalus, Anna Webber, Clockwise, Richard Dawson, 2020, Aldous Harding, Designer
My 40 favorite albums of 2019—part 3
My 40 favorite albums of 2019—part 3

Part three of my look into my favorite albums from 2019—Nos. 20-11

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Peter MargasakArt Ensemble of Chicago, We are on the Edge: a 50th Anniversary Celebration, Benedicte Maurseth, Nils Økland, Lumen Drones, Hardanger fiddle, Dustin Laurenzi, Snaketime: The Music of Moondog, Moondog, Fredrik Ljungkvist, Atlantis, Bill Orcutt, Odds Against Tomorrow, JD Allen, Barracoon, The Immortal (H. Lacks), Nathalie Joachim, Spektral Quartet, Fanm d’Ayiti, 75 Dollar Bill, I Was Real, Philip Thomas, Morton Feldman Piano, Morton Feldman, Cassandra Miller, Songs About Singing, Juliet Fraser, Plus-Minus Ensemble
My 40 favorite albums of 2019—part 2
My 40 favorite albums of 2019—part 2

Part two of my look into the 40 albums I most enjoyed in 2019—nos. 30-21

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Peter MargasakBill Callahan, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest, Brian Beattie, Glass Eye, James Brandon Lewis, Jaimie Branch, Luke Stewart, Trae Crudup III, Ava Mendoza, Eve Risser, Anthony Pirog, An UnRuly Manifesto, Caroline Shaw, Attaca Quartet, Orange, Nate Wooley, Columbia Icefield, Mary Halvorson, Susan Alcorn, Ryan Sawyer, Après un Rêve, Buddy and Julie Miller, Lizzo, Cuz I Love You, Rustin Man, Paul Webb, Talk Talk, Mark Hollis, Beth Gibbons, Drift Code, Breakdown on 20th Ave. South
My 40 favorite albums of 2019—part 1
My 40 favorite albums of 2019—part 1

Part one in my countdown of the 40 albums I enjoyed most in 2019—at least on the date I compiled the damn things!

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Peter MargasakJulia Reidy, In Real Life, Sarah Hennies, Reservoir 1, Rob Mazurek, Desert Encrypts Vol. 1, Kris Davis, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Chad Taylor, Nature Work, Greg Ward, Jason Stein, Jim Black, Eric Revis, Jamila Woods, Legacy! Legacy!, Michael Kiwanuka, Kiwanuka, Hanna Hartman, Gattet, Dafne Vicente-Sandoval, Theo Nabicht, Pancrace, Prune Bécheau, Léo Maurel, Fluid Hammer, Oya Sextett!, Sebastian Bergström, Blue Notes, South African jazz, Anna Högberg, Elin Forkelid, Niklas Barnö, Konrad Agnas, Ville Bromander, Jeremy Udden, Three in Paris, Steve Lacy, John Betsch, Nicolas MoreauxComment
75 Dollar Bill and Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society yield plenty from the leanest of materials
75 Dollar Bill and Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society yield plenty from the leanest of materials

Each group has masterfully extended its sound on their latest and best recordings

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Peter Margasak75 Dollar Bill, I Was Real, Tetuzi Akiyama, Rick Brown, Che Chen, Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, Mandatory Reality, Andrew Lafkas, Sue Garner, Cheryl Kingan, Nick Mazzarella, Jason Stein, Ben LaMar Gay, Lisa Alvarado, Hamid Drake, Mikel Patrick Avery, Ben Boye, Memory's Prism, Karen Waltuch
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Peter Margasak is a long-time music journalist who has also programmed the weekly Frequency Series at Constellation in Chicago since 2013.