Source: Wikipedia. Abbey Rader (October 14, 1943 – September 2025) was an American avant-garde jazz drummer. Throughout his childhood and early career, he worked in New York City where loft jazz, bebop, and free jazz influenced him. He played and taught across Europe in the 1970s and 1980s and then returned to North America to create music that combines free jazz, martial arts, and Buddhism.

Source: Wayward Music Series. I Can't Trace Time & friendsThu. Oct. 16, 7 PM; $10 donation at the door I Can’t Trace Time emerges from the mind of Lance Watkins, with accompaniment by Casey Jones. They'll create a soundscape to envelope all of your senses and celebrate the ambient soundscape and loop-based album Fable released on Lithic Records. Opening sets by guests guitarist Eric Amrine, Ecstatic Cosmic Union, and Sacred Signs (aka Winter Parkin).

Source: DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET. October 10, 2025 Yoshiko Chuma's the School of Hard Knocks, Theaterlab Hans Young Binter Timothy Buckley Yoshiko Chuma Jeni Dahmus Shinya Lin Shoko Nagai Marisa Tornello October 4, 2025 Kevin Murray & Will Greene, Record Shop Will Greene Kevin Murray October 4, 2025 Caroline Bennett, Liz Kosack, Patrick Breiner, Record Shop Caroline Bennett Patrick Breiner Liz Kosack October 4, 2025 Caroline Bennett, Kevin Murray, Liz Kosack, Patrick Breiner, Will Greene, Record Shop Caroline Bennett Patrick Breiner Will Greene Liz Kosack Kevin Murray

Source: Musique Machine. Matt Chobote - Nagual James Opstad - Drift Julia Eckhardt - Blanca Worship - The Curve Of The Blade Bewider - Ships That Pass in the Night Koobaatoo Asparagus - Trashy Spent Stiletto - ANDAPOCKETFULLOFARSENIC

Source: 90.9fm WDCB. Chicago journalist and jazz aficionado Andy Pierce hosts "Another Place" Sundays at midnight. The show explores creative music, jazz and the avant-garde, and delves into the longer, more complex compositions and improvisations in jazz.

Source: RogueArt.

Source: Jazz Album Reviews. Otoliths Earscratcher - Rempis/Harnik/Lonberg-Holm/Daisy The Music of Pat Metheny Transcendence

Source: Cuneiform Records. HAPPY FAMILY December 13 - Silver Elephant - Tokyo, Japan JOEL HARRISON October 18 - Takoma Station - Takoma, DC October 19 - Stages Music Arts - 10 Stenersen Lane - Cockeysville MD JANEL LEPPIN with Ensemble Volcanic Ash October 18 - Martin Luther King Library - 901 G St, NW - Washington, DC ROGER C. MILLER…

Source: Big Ears. Composer, vocalist, and project-maker Lisa Bielawa joins renowned classical and new music journalist Steve Smith to discuss her extraordinary Broadcast works, with a spotlight on Knoxville Broadcast, a large-scale site-specific “spatial symphony” commissioned by Big Ears Festival. The project gathers Appalachian musicians, choirs, orchestras, and community ensembles who gradually expand outward in waves of sound, transforming the landscape into an immersive sonic experience. Bielawa also reflects on the origins of Broadcast, community participation, and her wide-ranging career.

Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that caught my attention. All of the releases listed below I have heard for the first time recently and come recommended. Oubys - Holosphere (2025)Various Artists - Codex Of Pleasure And Pain – A Sonic Tribute to Clive Barker’s Hellraiser (2025)Diego Caicedo - Eidos Daimonium (2025)Uneven Eleven - Live in Brighton (2013)Zeena Parkins, Cecilia Lopez - Redshifts (2025)

Source: Now Is. Sunday, October 12 Roosevelt University, Ganz Hall 430 S Michigan, 7th Fl 312.341.3780 1:00PM-4:00PM Ear Taxi Festival 2025 Fonema : Nathalie Colas, Dalia Chin, Emily Beisel, Kathryn Schulmeister, Sam Rowe, Yulia Block — music by Darlene Castro, Juan Campoverde, Michele Abondano, Carlos Z Arcomusical : Gregory Beyer, Raychel Taylor, Ethan Martin, Matthew Schneider, Noel Streacker, Elena Ross, with Krissy Bergmark, Matt Ulery — traditional Afro-Cuban sacred music, and music by David M Gordon, Krissy Bergmark, Gregory Beyer, Matt Ulery…

Source: JazzTrail. Sylvie Courvoisier / Wadada Leo Smith - Angel Falls Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons - Live in Philadelphia Henry Threadgill - Listen Ship Trio of Bloom - Trio of Bloom

Source: It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine. A guitarist who plays bass. A free improviser who speaks in Instantiations. A musician who finds the most complex expression through the most efficient means. Joe Morris is a singular presence in creative music, a man of profound conviction whose art cannot be neatly classified.

Source: a closer listen. Patrick Shiroishi ~ Forgetting Is Violent NYOS ~ Growl Midori Komachi ~ Chashitsu: Auditory Tea Room Yara Asmar ~ everyone I love is sleeping and I love them so much U ~ ARCHENFIELD Bryan Senti ~ La Marea Forbes Ukraine ~ Music of Data: A New Experience in Business Media Consumption Glacis ~ Borders

Cryo Chamber's seventh entry in its ongoing Tomb series opens strongly with a pairing of Apocryphos & Pœna Sensus. Their track, The Sigh of Archaic Tragedy, is weighty and oppressive, built from deep drones, bass-heavy descending chords, and unstructured percussion that evokes places of burial and stillness. The rest of the album explores similar themes in different ways. The variety on this compilation is remarkable considering that each piece adheres to a common aesthetic framework.

Source: Burning Ambulance. The core of the Moscow Composers Orchestra is pianist Vladimir Miller. Born in the UK, he developed an interest in contemporary theater and performance art while a student, gradually drifting toward jazz and solo performance in the late ’80s. In the early ’90s, he began traveling to Eastern Europe to perform and form creative alliances with musicians there. Working together with Russian producer Nikolai Dmitriev, he assembled the MCO.

Source: Downtown Music Gallery. Tuesday, October 14th:6:30: MICHAEL EATON - Soprano Sax / MAX KUTNER - Guitar / KEVIN SHEA - Drums7:30: JEFF PEARRING - Alto Sax / STEPHEN GAUCI - Tenor Sax / EVAN PALMER - Bass / PATRICK GOLDEN - Drums8:30: LEE ODOM - Soprano Sax / JEFF MILES - Guitar / ZACH SWANSON - Bass / KEN KOBAYASHI - Drums…

Source: Jazzword. Steve Tintweiss and the Purple Why Live in Tompkins Square Park 1967 Jimmy Lyons Live from Studio Rivbea Craig Taborn, Nels Cline, Marcus Gilmore Trio of Bloom Gregg Belisle-Chi Slow Crawl (Performing the Music of Tim Berne) Phil Haynes/Ben Monder Transition (s)

Source: Nameless Sound. THEY, WHO SOUND on Monday, October 13 will feature: David Dove/Joe McPhee/Carmina Escobar & Israel McCloud/Jawwaad Taylor David Dove (Houston, TX) - trombone Joe McPhee (Poughkeepsie, NY) - saxophones, trumpet Carmina Escobar (Mexico/California) - voice Israel McCloud (Houston) - voice, words, instruments Jawwaad Taylor (Houston) - voice, words, trumpet, electronics They, Who Sound is funded in part by the City of Houston Through Houston Arts Alliance and The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts

Source: Bay Improviser Calendar. Friday, October 10 Fri 10/10 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares Other Dimensions in Sound + Eye-Full Films Presents Bruce Ackley - winds, Kjell Nordeson - percussion Fri 10/10 7:00 PM 2727 California St Acoustic string show: Kumi Maxson/Kanoko Nishi-Smith/Mariah Auler, Eleanora, Sadie Siskin/Tobias Banks/Isabelle Waldner Kalb Fri 10/10 7:30 PM Center for New Music Come celebrate the new HARJOalone release by composer/guitarist Brent Miller!

Source: Dusted. Katie Porter — Conversation No. 1: Collecting Rocks from the Places We’ve Been (Relative Pitch) Albumen — S-T (Eiderdown) Listed: Sam Amidon

Source: 5:4. Warsaw Autumn 2025 (Part 1) Fermata MEbU Neglected symphonies: Rued Langgaard Neglected symphonies: Lepo Sumera – Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6

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Source: Bandcamp Daily. All kinds of experimental music can be found on Bandcamp: free jazz, avant-rock, dense noise, outer limits electronics, deconstructed folk, abstract spoken word, and so much more. If an artist is trying something new with an established form or inventing a new one completely, there’s a good chance they’re doing it on Bandcamp. Each month, Marc Masters picks some of the best releases from across this wide, exploratory spectrum.