After a 4+ hour long New Year’s Eve special and last week’s 3+ hours of music from the 2025 Favourite albums, it’s time to get rolling on 2026 in earnest. There are some extremely interested new albums sampled, including the extended “Three Suites” from drummer Colin Hinton with bassist Eivind Opsvik and pianist Santiago Leibson with music composed by Hinton during the pandemic’s surreal early months, an inevitable meeting of two giants known for free jazz duets – saxophonist Ivo Perelman and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, and trumpeter Adam O’Farrill’s first quartet, Elephant. From Europe, powerful music from pianist Agusti Fernandez from Spain, Portuguese saxophonist Jose Lencastre, England’s spiritual jazz group Work Money Death, and first time ever on this show, magical drummer Arkady Gotesman from Lithuania. And more of course. It’s a great start to ‘26.
00:00 Things Of This Nature * Things Of This Nature – Mahakala Music * Shortstop Right Wing Chicken Parm * USA
06:30 Host speaks
09:36 Adam O’Farrill’s Elephant * Elephant – Out Of Your Head * Along The Malecon * USA
12:07 Adam O’Farrill’s Elephant * Elephant – Out Of Your Head * The Three Of Us Floating * USA
16:53 Adam O’Farrill’s Elephant * Elephant – Out Of Your Head * Iris Murdoch * USA
20:19 Trondheim Jazz Orchestra * This Is Wuppertal! – Jazzland * Ehldinger * Norway
29:54 Host speaks
31:35 Agustí Fernández, Artur Majewski, Albert Cirera & Ramon Prats * SOM-HI! – Fundacja Sluchaj * Som Hi! Part Eight * Spain
38:55 Maryanne De Prophetis * Come O Light – Enna Records * Refusal #2 * USA
42:33 José Lencastre, João Hasselberg & Kresten Osgood * This Anger Is A Liar – Fundacja Sluchaj * This Anger Is A Liar * Portugal
47:25 Host speaks
49:53 Ivo Perelman & Wadada Leo Smith * Duologues 5 – Ibeji Records * Seven * USA
57:31 Asher Gamedze * A Semblance Of Return – Northern Spy * War (Of Maneuvre) * So. Africa
1:02:42 Ramiro Zayas * Familia – El Club Del Disco * An Open Question * Argentina
1:09:48 Host speaks
1:12:47 Arkady Gotesman * Music For An Imaginary Ballet – NoBusiness * Trio 1 * Lithuania
1:19:57 Ziv Taubenfeld * You Full Of Sources And Night – NoBusiness * Of The Angel In You On Tigers And Lions * Israel
1:26:35 Miguel Angelo Trio * Distopia – + Records * No Beginning Or End * Portugal
1:32:48 Host speaks
1:36:31 Colin Hinton Trio * Three Suites – Endectomorph * Skumringstid Suite Movement 2 * USA
1:43:56 Angelika Niescier * Chicago Tapes – Intakt * Fluxed * Poland
1:51:48 Host speaks
1:53:39 Work Money Death * A Portal To Here – ATA Records * Brother Earl * England