To complement her interview in The Wire 512, Slovenian improvising pianist and bandleader Kaja Draksler creates an exclusive Wire mix

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For all its stunning virtuosity, the tumbling fingerstyle guitar of Swedish guitarist Finn Loxbo is always in service to a set of brilliant compositional ideas

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To accompany his article on Aspen Edities in The Wire 512, Peter Margasak compiles an annotated playlist of tracks from the Belgium label

Michael Moore, Julio Lopez, Propan

Helga Myhr, Hans P. Kjorstad, Marisa Anderson

Maurice Louca, Andrea Giordano/Kalle Moberg/Jo David Meyer Lysne

Setting, The Setting, Luise Volkmann & Kiko Dinucci

Ben LaMar Gay, Marta Warelis, Marilyn Crispell, Noura Mint Seymali, Philip Golub

Our guide to the month‘s crucial contemporary classical releases.

Alden Hellmuth, Yvonne Rogers, Olaf Rupp

Szymon Wójcik & Sara Flindt, Nietwe, Müller/Gordoa/Doskocz, Erwan Keravec

Aldous Harding, Erosão Percussion Trio, Dog Plug, Eldar Tsalikov & Marcin Masecki

Our guide to the month’s crucial contemporary classical releases.

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The Handover, Jonas Cambien, Aly Eissa, Nate Wooley, Bill Nace

The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl & Macie Stewart, Flocks, Royber Trio, Estelle Schorpp, DDK Trio + Sachiko M, Melt All the Guns, Ensemble Inverspace With Sofia Jernberg,Don Meckley

Bengt Berger, Maggie Nicols, Jeff Parker, Akiyama/Nakamura/Eubanks/Prins

Shane Parish, Aleksandra Słyż and Teoniki Rożynek, Anqi Liu

Joel Ross, Leimgruber-Demierre-Lehn, Jeong Lim Yang

Josh Berman Trio, US vs. the World

6 track album

Orcutt Shelley Miller, Oker, Judith Berkson, Kaja Draksler, Karen Ng

Margareth Kammerer, Christian Wallumrød & Jan Martin Gismervik, Maria Bertel

Cimota, Karoline Wallace, These Things Happen, Antti Virtaranta, John Butcher & friends

Melissa Aldana, Egil Kalman, Hz of Gold

Zosha Warpeha, Jana Horn, Joan Shelley

Our guide to the month’s crucial contemporary classical LPs.

Taborn/Reid/Smith, Diatribes & Clara Levy, Yoshihide/Malmendier/Škrijelj

Seamus Cater & Fredrik Rasten, Dahl/Dalen/Søvik

Our guide to the month‘s crucial contemporary classical work.

The 2026 Frequency Festival draws a line through one-bit electronics, Scottish balladry, musically hybrid fictional history, and more.

Dan Weiss Quartet, Sholto Dobie

Tortoise, Bill Frisell, Philipp Gropper's Philm, Kaufmann/Dimitriadis/Thieke, and Nicolas Collins & Birgit Ulher

Ellen Arkbro & the London Crumhorn Consort, Lukas De Clerck

Ricardo Dias Gomes, Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang, Fink Floyd

Second installment of the list, randomly ordered

The year-end rundown, randomly ordered

Roland Keijser, Christer Bothén, Stop Over 4

Sophie Agnel, Christian Marien Quartett, Saviet/Houston Duo, Schnell

The Year in Jazz: A Critics' Roundtable will take the measure of the music, the artists, and the moments that shaped improvised music in 2025. Hosted by Nate Chinen, it will feature the esteemed criti...