DMG/BLG's RECOMMENDED/BEST OF 2001 INSTRUMENTAL AVANT LIST:
JOHN ZORN'S MASADA - Live at Tonic (Tzadik 7334) Two cd set
DAVE DOUGLAS - Witness (RCA/BMG 63763)
MASSACRE - Meltdown (Tzadik 7606)
ANTHONY BRAXTON - Composition No. 247 (Leo 306)
CECIL TAYLOR/MARILYN CRISPELL/PAUL PLIMLEY-Complicate (Victo) 3 cd set
LOUIS SCLAVIS QUINTET - L'Affrontement des Pretendants (ECM 1750)
GREG BENDIAN'S INTERZONE - Requiem for Jack Kirby (Atavistic 125)
MARIO PAVONE OCTET - Totem Blues (KFW 292)
FRED FRITH - Clearing (Tzadik 7605)
FOUR WALLS/PHIL MINTON - and the world ain't square (Red Note No. 9)
JAH WOBBLE & EVAN PARKER - Passage to Hades (30 Hertz)
COSMOSAMATICS - s/t (Boxholder 22) w/ Sonny Simmons & Michael Marcus
JOHN ZORN - Filmworks IX - Trembling before G-d (Tzadik 7331)
TISZIJI MUNOZ - Breaking the Wheel of Life and Death (Anami)
EVAN PARKER-SCHLIPPENBACH-GUY-LYTTON-LOVENS- 2 X 3 = 5 (Leo 305)
NELS CLINE - Destroy All Nels Cline (Cryptogramophone)
HENRY THREADGILL & ZOOID - Up Popped the Two Lips (Pi Recordings 02)
HENRY THREADGILL & MAKE A MOVE - Everbody's Mouth a Book (Pi Rec 01)
EVAN PARKER - Evan Parker with Strings (Emanem 4302) three cd set
AMM - Tunes Without Measure or End (Matchless 44)
WILLIAM PARKER QUARTET - O'Neal's Porch (Centering/self-produced)
ZOOT HORN ROLLO - Bozo (self-produced)
BARRY GUY NEW ORCHESTRA - Inscape Tableaux (Intakt 66)
ORI KAPLAN PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE - Gongol (KFW 284)
JOHN OSWALD/PLUNDERPHONICS - 69/96 (Seeland) 2 cd set & booklet
MICHAEL MOORE TRIO - Jewels & Binoculars/Tribute to Bob Dylan (Ramboy 15)
RUINS - Mandala 2000/Live at Kichijoji Mandala (Tzadik 7234)
MIRIODOR - Mekano (Cuneiform 148)
TIM BERNE-CRAIG TABORN-TOM RAINEY - The Shell Game (Thirsty Ear 57099)
MATT SHIPP - Exapansion Power Release(Hatology 558)
JOHN ZORN - Filmworks X - In the Mirror of Maya Deren (Tzadik 7333)
ERIK FRIEDLANDER - Grains of Paradise (Tzadik 7154)
JOE McPHEE & HAMID DRAKE - Emancipation Proclamation (Okka 12036)
CLUSONE 3 - An Hour WithS (Hatology 554)
SAM RIVERS TRIO - Firestorm (Rivbea 102)
FRODE GJERSTAD/DEREK BAILEY/JOHN STEVENS - Hello Goodbye (Emanem)
MAGMA - La Trilogie Au Trianon (Seventh 15) live 3 cd set w/ booklet
PAUL DUNMALL-KEITH TIPPETT QUARTET - Onosante (Duns 06)
ICP ORCHESTRA - Oh My Dog (ICP 40) already out-of-print!?!
ROY CAMPBELL'S PYRAMID TRIO - Ethnic Stew and Brew (Delmark 528)
BAIKIDA CARROLL - Marionettes on a High Wire (Omnitone)
OLUYEMI THOMAS QT. - At the Center of the Threshold (Earlight 1)
HAMSTER THEATRE - Carnival Detournement (Cuneiform 146)
JAH WOBBLE & DEEP SPACE - Largely Live in Hartlepool & Manchester (30 Htz 15)
BRIAN ENO & PETER SCHWALM - Drawn from Life (Opal 10148)
LOREN M. CONNORS & DARIN GRAY - This Past Spring (Family Vineyard 6)
SPRING HEEL JACK - Masses (Thirsty Ear 570103)
JON ROSE - The Violin Factory (Hermes Disc/ReR)
STEW CUTLER TRIO - Insignia (Naim 058)
DAVE TRONZO/PETER HERBERT - segmente (Aziza Music 1001)
MARTY EHRLICH - Songs (Enja 9396)
GEORGE LEWIS/NOW ORCHESTRA - Shadowgraph Series (Spool 113)
MALACHI THOMPSON - Talking Horns (Delmark 532)
SEIGEN ONO - Maria & Maria (Saidera 1017)
VINNY GOLIA - Clarient (Meniscus 8)
IRENE SCHWEIZER - Chicago Piano Solo (Intakt 65)
JOE MORRIS - Singularity (Aum Fidelity 018)
PETER HERBERT - bassooka (Aziza 1003) for multiple solo contrabasses
JANET FEDER - Speak Puppet (ReR JF1)
MISHA MENGELBERG - Solo (Buzz 227601)
PINO MINAFRA QUARTET - Canto Libero (Victo 77)
ELLERY ESKELIN NEW QUARTET - Vanishing Point (Hatology 577)
VANDERMARK 5 -Acoustic Machine (Atavistic 128) two cd set [no longer available]
NELS CLINE-ROD POOLE-JIM McAULEY - Acoustic Guitar Trio (Incus)
RAN BLAKE TRIO - Sonic Temples (GM 3046) two cd set
MARK HELIAS' OPEN LOOSE - New School (enja 9413)
KONK PACK - Warp Out (Grob) w/ Tim Hodgkinson, Thomas Lehn & Roger Turner
PETER HERBERT - Aktiontheatre Ensemble (Aziza Music 1002)
BARRY GUY - MARILYN CRISPELL - PAUL LYTTON - Odyssey (Intakt 70)
HEINER GOEBBELS - Surrogate Cities (ECM)
FRED FRITH-LOUIS SCLAVIS-J.P. DROUET - I Dream of You Jumping (Victo 72)
DAVE DOUGLAS - El Trilogy (RCA/BMG 63736)
MATT SHIPP - New Orbit (Thirsty Ear 57095)
DON PRESTON TRIO - Transformation (Cryptogramophone 107)
STATE OF THE UNION/ELLIOTT SHARP - 2.001 (EMF 028) various artists 3 cd set
JOHN ZORN - The Gift (Tzadik 7332)
ANTHONY BRAXTON & BRANDON EVANS - Composition No. 249 (Parallactic 27)
STEUART LEIBIG - Pomegranate (Cryptogramophone 109)
ALEX CLINE ENSEMBLE - The Constant Flame (Cryptogramophone 110)
TREY GUNN BAND - Live Encounter (First World 0113)
AMM - Fine (Matchless)
PAUL MOTIAN & THE ELECTRIC BEBOP BAND - Europe (W&W 63)
ELLERY ESKELIN - ANDREA PARKINS - JIM BLACK - The Secret Museum 
(Hatology 552)
TOM VARNER - Second Communion (Omnitone)
WILLIAM PARKER & HAMID DRAKE - Piercing the Veil (Aum Fidelity 017)
ASSIF TSAHAR-HUGH RAGIN-PETER KOWALD-HAMID DRAKE-Open Systems (Marge)
KIDD JORDAN QUARTET - New Orleans Festival Suite (Silkheart 152)
SATLAH - Exodus (Tzadik)
EMMANUELLE SOMER - Search for Peace (ES 02)
CHRIS BURN ENSEMBLE - The Place 1991 (Emanem 4056) w/ Evan Parker
DEREK BAILEY-GAVIN BRYARS-TONY OXLEY - Joseph Holbrooke '98 (Incus 39)
DEREK BAILEY & SHOJI HANO - Fish (PSF 8009)
THE NOMMONENSEMBLE -Life Cycle (Aum Fidelity 20) led by Whit Dickey
GUY KLUCEVSEK & ALAN BERN -Accordance (Winter & Winter)
KEITH TIPPETT & DARYL RUNSWICK - Set of Five (ASC 37)
PAUL DUNMALL QUARTET - EastWestNorthSouth (FMR 72)
EVAN PARKER-PAUL BLEY-BARRE PHILLIPS - Sankt Gesold (ECM)
ALAN SILVA - Sound Vision Orchestra (Eremite 026)
LONDON IMPROVISORS ORCHESTRA - The Hearing Continues (Emanem 4203)
BARRY GUY/EVAN PARKER/LAWRENCE CASSERLEY - Dividuality (Maya 101)
BYARD LANCASTER/ODEON POPE QUARTET - Philadelphia Spirit in NY (CIMP)
KALI FASTEAU - Vivid (Flying Note 9007)
PETER BROTZMANN TRIO - Fryed Fruit (Red Toucan 9316)
CRAIG TABORN TRIO - Light Made Lighter (Thirsty Ear 57111)
DANIEL SARID QUINTET - Cries of Disillusion (Earsay) w/ Assif Tsahar 
- Ori Kaplan
RAPHE MALIK QUARTET - Looking East (Boxholder 19/20) 2 cd set
DEREK BAILEY & EDDIE PREVOST - One (Arrival 1)
TIBOR SZEMZO - Invisible Story (Leo)
DAVID S. WARE - Live in the Netherlands/Solo (Splasch 825)
FRANCOIS HOULE - Cryptology (Between the Lines 012)
STEN SANDELL/FRED LONGBERG-HOLM/MICHAEL ZERANG - Disappeared (Nuscope 1009)
SATOKO FUJI & MARK FELDMAN - April Shower (EWE 6)
EVAN PARKER - Lines Burnt in Light (Psi Recordings 1)
MARILYN CRISPELL-GARY PEACOCK-PAUL MOTIAN - Amaryllis (ECM)
GRAHAM CONNAH - Because of Wayne/The Only Song We Know (Evander 13) 3cdset
COMPANY [BAILEY/FELL/DAVIES/WASTELL] - In Marseilles (Incus 44/45) 2cdset
JOE McPHEE - Trio X (Cadence 1134)
TISZIJI MUNOZ - Parallel Reality (Anami 020)
JOHN LAW QUARTET - Abacus (Hatology 567)
EVAN PARKER & PAUL ROGERS - The Ayes Have It (Emanem 4055)
GEORG GRAEWE/ERNST REIJSEGER/GERRY HEMINGWAY- Counter Fractals (Nuscope 1010)
KEVIN NORTON & HAEWON MIN - Play the Music of Anthony Braxton (BH 006)
KING UBU ORCHESTRA - Trigger Zone (FMP 117)
ED WARE'S TREE - self/titled (EW 7240)
THE NAKED ORCHESTRA - Brief Repairs (self-produced)
RASHIED ALI-LOUIE BELOGENIS-WILBUR MORRIS- Live at Tonic (DIW 940)
ANNIE GOSFIELD - Flying Sparks & Heavy Machinery (Tzadik 7069)
RAZ MESINAI - Before the Law (Tzadik 7151)
HASIDIC NEW WAVE - From the Belly of Abraham (KFW 294)
PETER BROTZMANN/FRED HOPKINS/HAMID DRAKE - Atlanta Concert (Okka) lp 
only release
IRENE SCHWEIZER & CO STREIFF- Twin Lines (Intakt 073)
DANIEL CARTER & ANDREW BARKER - s/t (Qbica 2) lp only release
WAYNE HORVITZ - From a Window (Avant 080)
THE OTHER QUARTET - Sound Stains (KFW 297)
BUCKETRIDER- Le Biphomet (Dr. Jim's 29)
FRED ANDERSON TRIO - On the Run (Delmark 534)
NAFTULE'S DREAM - Job (Tzadik)
CRACOW KLEZMER BAND - The Warriors (Tzadik)
JACKIE O-MOTHERFUCKER - Liberation (Roadcone 031)
ANTHONY BRAXTON QT/SLOVENIA RADIO ORCHESTRA - Composition 169 (Leo 320/321)
MARK DRESSER/MARK HELIAS - The Marks Brothers (DeWerf 022)
RON ANDERSON - Anything is Possible (Megaphone 022)
ZEENA PARKINS/NELS CLINE/THURSTON MOORE - Live at Easthampton Hall (JMZ 002)
SHIN TERAI - Unison (Ion 820152)
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY/IKUE MORI/ELLIOTT SHARP - Acoustiphobia Vol. 1 
(Sublingual 9/10) two cd set w/ second cd of students electronics 
pieces
FRED ANDERSON & ROBERT PARRY - Duets 2001 (Thrill Jockey 101)
EDDIE PREVOST TRIO - The Virtue in If (Matchless 43)
CHRIS JONAS' THE SUN SPITS CHERRIES - The Vermilion (Hopscotch 8)
PETER BROTZMANN TRIO - Live at Nefertiti (Ayler Disc 4)
JOHN BUTCHER - Fixations (Emanem 4045) solo saxophones
JOHN BUTCHER/DEREK BAILEY/RHODRI DAVIES - Vortices & Angels (Emanem 4049)
JOE McPHEE QUINTET - Common Threads (Deep Listening 2000)
DAVKA - Lavy's Dream (Tzadik 7140)
LOREN MAZZACANE CONNORS - Portrait of a [Lost] Soul (FBWL 201)
LOREN MAZZACANE CONNORS - The Little Match Girl (Road Cone 029)
DAVID KRAKAUER - a New Hot One (Label Bleu 6617)
DOMINIC DUVAL 5TET - Cries & Whispers (Cadence 1111)
AVRAM FEFER TRIO - Calling All Spirits (Cadence 1123)
DRESCH QUARTET - Riding the Wind (November Music 2003)
ORI KAPLAN TRIO + STEVE SWELL - Delirium (CIMP 223)
YVES WEYH - Zakarya (Tzadik 7148)
MARK DRESSER/DENMAN MARONEY - Duologues (Victo 73)
JEMEEL MOONDOC VTET - Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys (Eremite 028)
MYRA MELFORD & MARTY EHRLICH - yet can spring (Arabesque 154)
JAMES EMERY SEXTET - Luminous Cycles (Between the Lines 015)
JOE MANERI/MAT MANERI/JOE MORRIS - Out Right Now (Hatology 561)
J.A. GRANELLI & MR. LUCKY - elohelay (Love Slave 107) w/ Dave Tronzo
COMBINATION NO. 10 - Blue Pundilios (Gutbrain 02)
MICHAEL MANTLER/ROBERT WYATT - Hide and Seek (ECM 1738)
AU NI KITA -Misere et Cordes (Potlatch 101)
ROSWELL RUDD/AB BAARS QUARTET - Four (Data 12)
FRANK GRATKOWSKI/WOLTER WEIRBOS/GERRY HEMINGWAY - Kollaps (Red Toucan 9317)
PRESENT - High Infidelity (Carbon 7)
ELTON DEAN & MARK HEWINS - Bar Torque (Moonjune 001)
KAHIL EL'ZABAR & BILLY BANG - Spirits Entering (Delmark 533)
PAUL FLAHERTY-GREG KELLEY QUARTET - The Ilya Tree (Boxholder 016)
PAUL DUNMALL/PHILLIP GIBBS/PAUL ROGERS - Gwinks (Duns)
DEREK BAILEY & NOEL AKCHOTE - Close to the Kitchen (Blue Chopsticks 06)
ADD TRIO - That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles (Enja 9361) w/ Robert 
Dick & Christy Doran
EVAN PARKER & PATRICK SCHEYDER - self/titled (Leo 326)
PETER CUSACK - Your Favorite London Sounds (London Musicians Collective 1)
ELLIOTT SHARP - Suspension of Disbelief (Tzadik 7512)
SATOKO FUJI TRIO - Junction (EWE 0034)
JOHN BUTCHER & GERRY HEMINGWAY - Shooters & Bowlers (Red Toucan 9318)
GUNTER HAMPEL TRIO - Live at the Jazz-Schmiede in Dusseldorf (Birth 057)
BIGGI VINKELOE & BARRE PHILLIPS - Maghzen (Slask 023)
BRUCE EISENBEIL/MICHAEL ATTIAS/DAVID TAYLOR/JAY ROSEN-Opium (CIMP 241)
URS LEIMGRUBER/JACQUES DEMIERRE/BARRE PHILLIPS-Wing Vane (Victo)
STEVE BERESFORD/PAT THOMAS/VERYAN WESTON - Three Pianos (Emanem)
SIMON NABATOV QUINTET - Master and Margarita (Leo 322/323) two cd set
MARK DRESSER/DAVID MOTT/GERRY HEMINGWAY - Reunion Live at Guelph Jazz 
Festival (Intrepid Ear 002)
MICRO-EAST COLLECTIVE - Fabric (Umbrella 027)
RUSS LOSSING/ADAM KOLKER/JOHN HEBERT-Changes of Time (Omnitone)
STEVE SWELL/BRUCE EISENBEIL/GREGG BENDIAN - Presents Particle Data 
Group (Cadence 1139)
SUSAN ALCORN - "Uma" -Seven Compositions for Pedal Steel Guitar (Loveletter 10)
SETH MISTERKA & THE MISTERKA CLONES - President's Day (newsonic 27)
MASASHI HARADA - Condanction Ensemble (Emanem 4041)
BRUCE LEE GALLANTER'S 2001 Pop/Vocal Recommendations List:
PETER WHITEHEAD - Now This (Out of Round)
IVA BITTOVA - Cikori (Indigos)
RADIOHEAD - Amnesiac (Capitol)
SUSSAN DEYHIM - Madman of God (Crammed 22)
SPIRITUALIZED - Let it Come Down (BMG/Dedicated)
PETER BLEGVAD - Choices Under Pressure (Resurgence)
BOREDOMS - Vision Creation New Sun (Birdman)
STEVE WYNN - Here Come the Miracles (Inner Space/Blue Rose 237) [2 cd set]
BEVIS FROND - Valediction Songs (Rubric)
OREN BLOEDOW & JENNIFER CHARLES - La Mar Enfortuna (Tzadik 7146)
SUSSAN DEYHIM - Turbulent (Isle X)
THIGHPAULSANDRA - I, Thighpaulsandra (Eskaton) [two cd set]
GIGI - Gigi (Palm Pictures) Bill Laswell production & Henry 
Threadgill arrangements
SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM - Grand Opening and Closing (Seeland 523)
JIM O'ROURKE - Insignifigance (Drag City)
VICTORIA WILLIAMS - Water to Drink (Atlantic)
RONRUINS - Big Shoes (Magabutsu 20) Japanese import
BJORK - Vespertine (One Little Indian/Elektra)
DR. JOHN - Creole Moon (Blue Note)
AIKO SHIMADA - Blue Marble (Tzadik 7231)
BOB DYLAN - "Love and Theft" (Columbia 86076)
GARY LUCAS - The Edge of Heaven (Label Bleu/Indigo)
GILLIAN WELCH - Time [The Revelator] (Acony)
BURNT SUGAR - Blood on the Leaf (Trugroid)
JAH WOBBLE & BILL LASWELL - RadioAxiom/ A Dub Transmission (Axiom/Palm 2073)
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN - The Final Moment (Birdman 33)
THOMAS MAPFUMO/LEO SMITH - Dreams & Secrets (Anonym) w/ Henry Kaiser
ETHIOPIQUES - Volume 10: Ethiopian Blues & Ballads (Buda Musique 82222)
CHRIS WHITLEY - Rocket House (ATO 0003/BMG)
BIOTA - Invisible Map (ReR)
HOLY RIVER FAMILY BAND - Earthquake Country (Wild Places)
GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI - How I Long to Feel That Summer in my Heart 
(Mantra 1025)
SPIRITUAL BEAUTY - imaginal orient (Meta 012) w/ Laswell, Jah Wobble, 
DJ Cheb i Sabbah
BADAWI - soldier of midian (ROIR 8274)
JOHNNY DOWD - Temporary Shelter (Koch)
WILLIAM PARKER - Song Cycle (Boxholder 17) w/ Ellen Christi & Lisa Sokolov
ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION - New Favorite (Rounder)
JOHN HAMMOND - Wicked Grin/The Songs of Tom Waits (Pointblank)
ROBERT RANDOLPH-JOHN MEDESKI-NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL-STARS - The Word 
(RopeADope/Atlantic)
D.F.A. - Work in Progress/Live at NearFest 2000 (Moonjune 003)
THEO BLECKMAN - origami (Songlines 1534)
JEWLIA EISENBERG - Trilectic (Tzadik 7155)
EUGENE CHADBOURNE & THE ZU BAND - Motorhellington (Felmay 7021)
DAEVID ALLEN'S - University of Errors 2 (InnerSpace)
THE DANIELSON FAMILE - "Fetch the Compass Kids" (secretly canadian 45)
DAVID THOMAS & TWO PALE BOYS - Surf's Up! (Thirsty Ear 57096)
[STEVE BERNSTEIN'S] SEX MOB - Does Bond (Rope-a-Dope 93054)
EDITH FROST - Wonder Wonder (Drag City 209)
JAMES BLOOD ULMER/THIRD RAIL - Blue Blood (Inner Rhythmic 005)
MARIA KALANIEMI & ALDARGAZ - Ahma (Northside 6053)
BRIGITTE FONTAINE - Kekeland (Virgin/France 06612)
ANJA GARBAREK - Smiling & Waving (Virgin/Norway)
OLU DARA - neighborhoods (Atlantic 83391)
STEREOLAB - Sound-Dust (Elektra 62676)
THE LANGLEY SCHOOLS MUSIC PROJECT - Innocence and Despair (Bar None 122)
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III - The Last Man on Earth (Red House 158)
MARK EITZEL - The Invisible Man (Matador)
SAM PHILLIPS - Fan Dance (Nonesuch)
THE DUTELLS - No Knowledge of Music Required (Shimmy/KFW)
SECRET CHIEFS 3 - Book M (Mimicry)
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT - Poses (Dream Works)
TOWNES VAN ZANDT/STEVE EARLE/GUY CLARK - Together at the Bluebird Café (Koch)
VARTTINA - Ilmatar (Northside)
A QUI AVEC GABRIEL - Utsuho (Tzadik)
WIZZ JONES - Lucky Man (Scenesof 1009)
KAMPEC DOLORES - a bivaly hatan (ReR KD2)
MARCIA BALL - presumed innocent (Alligator 4879)
TONY SCHERR - Come Around (self-produced)
FANTOMAS - Director's Cut (Ipecac)
UMAR BIN HASSAN - To The Last (Baraka Foundation 016)
LITTLE ANNIE - Diamonds Made of Glass (Streamline)
REBECCA MOORE - Home Wreckordings 1997-1999 (KFW 279)
BARAKA ORCHESTRA - 5 Worlds (Baraka Foundation 0031) w/ Umar Bin Hassan
ESTRADASHPERE - Buck Fever (Mimicry)
TOMAHAWK - s/t (Ipecac 18) Mike Patton w/ members of Melvins, Cows, 
Helmet & DK3
SPAIN - I Believe (Restless 73737)
XTATIKA - Tongue Bath (Tzadik)
NORMAN BLAKE - Flower from the Fields of Alabama (Shanachie 6053)
MIKE KINEALLY - wooden smoke (Exowax 2405)
TARA JANE O'NEIL - in the sun lines (quarterstick records 71)
LAURIE ANDERSON - Life on a String (Nonesuch 79539)
MERCURY REV - All Is Dream (V2)
VIVIAN SISTERS - self/titled (Avant 079)
WOLF KRAKOWSKI - Transmigrations: Gilgul (Tzadik 7150)
HERBIE HANCOCK - Future 2 Future (Transparent 500112)
SEPTIMANIA - Welcome to Septimania (Commodify This! 001)
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? [OST] (Lost Highway) w/ Alison Krauss, Cox FamilyS
AVALON BLUES - Tribute to the Music of Mississippi John Hurt 
(Vanguard 79582) w/ Chris Smither, Bruce Cockburn, Victoria Williams, 
Bill Morrissey, John Hiatt, Taj Mahal, Geoff Muldaur, Gillian WelchS
BLG'S CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL & ELECTRONIC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 2001
JOSE MACEDA - Gongs and Bamboos (Tzadik 7067)
TERRY RILEY/WALTER BOURDREAU - In C (Atma 22251)
STEFANO SCODANIBBIO/ARDITTI STRING QT. - Six Duos (New Albion 113)
JOHN ZORN - Songs from the Hermetic Theatre (Tzadik 7066)
LUIGI NONO - Voices of Protest (Mode 87)
IANCU DUMITRESCU - ANA-MARIA AVRAM - Soleil Explosant (Edition Modern)
GIANCINTO SCELSI - The Orchestral Works One (Mode 95)
JOHN ZORN - Madness, Love and Mysticism (Tzadik)
POIRE Z - Presque_Chic (Sonoris 42)
BANG-ON-A-CAN ALL-STARS - Renegade Heaven (Canteloupe 21001)
MORTON FELDMAN/S.E.M. ENSEMBLE - For Philip Guston (Dog w/ a Bone 02)
MARCEL DUCHAMP - The Entire Musical Work (Dog with a Bone 01)
IANNIS XENAKIS - Pleiades (Harmonia Mundi 1905185)
LUIGI NONO - La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura (Kairos 1210)
MORTON FELDMAN - The String Quartet II (Hat Now 144) four cd set
OTOMO YOSHIHIDE - Anode (Tzadik 7073)
IKUE MORI - Labyrinths (Tzadik 7068)
SACHIKO M/TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA - do (Erstwhile 013)
PHIL DURRANT - THOMAS LEHN - RADU MALFATTI - Dach (Erstwhile 014)
OTOMO - Mottomo (Trost 076) compiled by Otomo w/ Keith Rowe, Poire Z, Hoahio
SARAH PEEBLES - Insect Groove (Studio Excelo) cdr
ILHAN MIMAROGLU - Outstanding Warrants (Southport 0088) reissue
MORTON SUBOTNICK - Volume One: Electronic Works (Mode 97) reissue
TERRY RILEY - You're NoGood (Cortical Foundation) 2 cd set from 1968
LUCIA DLUGOSZEWSKI - Music of Lucia Dlugoszewski (CRI 859)
JOHN CAGE - The Works for Violin 4 (Mode 100)
CONRAD SCHNITZLER - Blau and Bonus (Marginal Talent 507) reissue from 1974
JOHN CALE - Sun Blindness Music (Table of the Elements 75)
TREVOR WISHART - Voiceprints (EMF 029)
MORTON FELDMAN - Piano and String Quartet (Hat Now 128)
GIANCINTO SCELSI - Natura Renovatur (Kairos 1216)
MUSIC ELECTRONICA VIVA - Spacecraft/Unified PatchworkS (Alga Marghen 38)
VINKO GLOBOKAR - Oblak Semen (Sargasso 28037)
ANDREW POPPY - Time at Rest Devouring Its Secret (Source Research 1)
KURT RALSKE - Amor 0 + 01 (Sub Rosa 175)
DAVID LEE MYERS - Ourobouros (Pulsewidth 01)
KAIJA SAARIAHO - From the Grammar of Dreams (Ondine 9582)
AXEL DORNER & KEVIN DRUMM - self-titled (Erstwhile 015)
TV POW & STILLUPPSTEYPA - We Are Everyone in the Room (Erstwhile 016)
JON CATLER - Evolution for Guitar and Orchestra (Free Note)
MARTY WALKER - Dancing on Water (Cold Blue 0005)
EVAN ZIPORYN - This is Not a Clarinet (Cantaloupe 21002)
BANG ON A CAN - Lost Objects (Teldec 8573841072)
FENNESZ - Endless Summer (Mego 035)
PAULINE OLIVEROS - no mo/something else/bog road (Pogus 21023) from 1966
KAIJA SAARIAHO - Prisma (Montaigne 782087)
KAIJA SAARIAHO - New Gates (Mode 91)
DAVID ROSENBOOM - Invisible Gold (Pogus 21022)
POIRE Z - Presque-Chic (Sonoris 42) Gunter Muller, Erik M & Voice Crack
IKUE MORI - Labyrinth (Tzadik 7068)
STRAYLIGHT - s/t (Deep Listening 15)
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER - Box Series (Quakebasket) Ltd edition 2 cdr's in cigar box
DELUXE IMPROVISATION SERIES - Volume 2 (ASE 03) w/ ISO, Carl Stone, 
Richard Teitelbaum, Taku Sugimoto, E. Sharp, Scott Fields, Gene 
ColemanS
KEITH ROWE/TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA - Weather Sky (Erstwhile 018)
COR FUHLER/GERT-JAN PRINS - The Flirts (Erstwhile 017)
CONRAD SCHNITZLER - Conal 2001 (Submergence 0053)
MARKUS SCHMICKLER - Param (A-Musik 20)
FRANCOIS BAYLE - Camera Oscura/Espaces Inhabitables (Ina Gram 1400)
HELMUT LACHENMANN - Allegro Sostenuto (Kairos 12212)
E.A.R. [EXPERIMENTAL AUDIO RESEARCH] - Continuum (Space Age Orbit 026)
ICEBREAKER - Extractions (Between the Lines 018)
RICHARD LAINHART - Ten Thousand Shades of Blue (Experimental Intermedia 115)
CHAS SMITH - Aluminum Overcast (Cold Blue 0007)
RICK COX - Maria Falling Away (Cold Blue 0006)
GIANCINTO SCELSI - Music for High Winds (Mode 102)
HENRY COWELL - Dancing with Henry (Mode 101)
OASIS: MUSIC FROM MILLS 2001 - (Mills 4) w/ 3 pieces by Fred Frith & 
other works by Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, Maggi Payne & Chris 
Brown
GREG KELLEY/JASON LESCALLEET - Forlorn Green (Erstwhile 019)
GIUSEPPE IELASI/DOMENICO SCIAJNO - Right After (Erstwhile 020)
LAURIE SPIEGEL - Obsolete Systems (Electronic Music Foundation 019)
ASMUS TEITCHENS & DAVID LEE MYERS - Flussdichte (Disco Bruit 002)
KEVIN DRUMM & RALF WEHOWSKY - Cases (Selektion 030)
IANCU DUMITRESCU/ANNA-MARIA AVRAM - Les' Objets (Edition Modern 1017)
JOHN CALE - Dream Interpretation: Volume 2 (Table of the Elements 79)
HENRI POUSSEUR - Liege a Paris (Sub Rosa 117)
TRIANGLES [KEVIN DRUMM] - self/titled (Mokai 13)
IF, BWANA - I, Angelica (Pogus 21024) two cd set
BLG'S RECOMMENDED REISSUES & HISTORIC RELEASES FOR 2001:
SONNY SHARROCK - Monkey Pocky Boo (BYG/Get Back) lp only
SONNY SHARROCK - Black Woman (4 Men with Beards 103) lp & cd reissues
JIMMY LYONS - Other Afternoons (BYG/Get Back) lp only
THE JAZZ ACTUEL BOX SET (Charly 1373) 3cd & 6lp box sets
MILES DAVIS - The Complete 'In a Silent Way' Sessions (Columbia 65362) 3cd set
SUN RA ARKESTRA - Nuclear War (Atavistic UMS) cd only
STEVE LACY - Morning Joy (Hatology 556) cd only
JOHN ZORN - Archery (Tzadik 7316) 3 cd set w/ unreleased rehearsal cd
ANTHONY BRAXTON QUINTET - [Basel] 1977 (Hatology 545)
KEITH TIPPETT [OVARY LODGE] - Blue Print (LaCooka Ratcha 146)
GLOBE UNITY ORCHESTRA - Globe Unity '67/'70 (Atavistic UMS 223)
JOHN COLTRANE - The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording (Impulse! 1140)
GOLDEN YEARS OF SOVIET NEW JAZZ - Volume 1 (Leo GYN 401-404) four cd set
PRINCE LASHA QUINTET - The Cry (OJC 1945)
DETAIL [JOHNNY DYANNI-FRODE GJERSTAD-JOHN STEVENS] - Backwards & 
Forwards (Impetus 18203) includes unreleased material
MAD RIVER - Mad River/Paradise Bar & Grill (Collector's Choice 172)
CECIL TAYLOR - Air Above Mountains (enja 3005) solo piano
CECIL TAYLOR - It Is In the Brewing Luminous (Hatology 562)
MUSIC ELECTRONICA VIVA-Spacecraft/Unified Patchwork Theory (Alga Marghen 038)
KAORU ABE & MASAYUKI TAKAYANAGI - Mass Projection (DIW 424)
KAORU ABE & MASAYUKI TAKAYANAGI - Gradually Projection (DIW 425)
TERJE RYPDAL - Bleakhouse (Polydor/Norway) pre-ECM rarity
LUTHER THOMAS - Funky Donkeys Vols. 1 & 2 (Atavistic UMS 215)
JOE McPHEE TRIO - Trinity (Atavistic UMS 214)
EDDIE PREVOST - Silver Pyramid (Matchless 40) London 1969 rarity
MOSAIC SEXTET [w/ Dave Douglas] - s/t (GM 3045) 2 cd set w/ Mark Feldman
BILL DIXON - STEVE LACY - FRANZ KOGLMANN - Opium (BTL 011)
DON CHERRY - Eternal Rhythm (MPS/Japan) live reissue from '68 w/ Sonny Sharrock
ARCHIE SHEPP - Life at Donaueschingin Music Festival (MPS/Japan) '67 reissue
MARILYN CRISPELL - Selected Works '83-'86 (Leo GY 11) 2 cd set
MUSIC REVELATION ENSEMBLE - After Dark (DIW 855) w/ David Murray from 91
SERGEY KURYOKHIN - The Ways of Freedom (Leo GY 14) from 1981
MATCHING MOLE - Smoke Signals (Cuneiform 150) unreleased live set from 1972
ALAN SILVA - The Celestial Communications Orchestra (BYG/Get Back 
342-344) 3 lp live set on vinyl only
COMPANY - Epiphany (Incus 42/43) 2 cd set reissue w/ Fred Frith, 
Keith & Julie Tippetts, George Lewis, Derek Bailey, Phil Wachsmann, 
etc. from 1982
LOL COXHILL - Digswell Duets (Emanem 4052) w/ 30 minutes of bonus tracks
SANDY BULL - Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo (Vanguard 79119/Italy) from 1963
PETER BROTZMANN GROUP - Fuck de Boere (Atavistic UMS 211) from '68 & '70
SUN RA HIS GALACTIC ARKESTRA - It is Forbidden (Total Energy 3029) - 1974
[SUN RA & BLUES PROJECT] - The Sensational Guitars of Dan & Dale Play 
'Batman & Robin' (Universe 016) cd & lp reissue
TIM BUCKLEY - The Dream Belongs to Me (Manifesto 40705) unreleased from '68, 73
HAAZZ & COMPANY - Unlawful Noise (Atavistic UMS 219) w/ Peter 
Brotzmann, Johnny Dyani, Louis Moholo, Han Bennink, etc.
CECIL TAYLOR UNIT - Dark to Themselves (Enja 2084) w/ David S. Ware, 
Jimmy Lyons, Raphe Malik & Marc Edwards
JOHNNY DYANI & MAL WALDRON - Some Juke Ass Boer (Jazzunite 102)
ANTHONY BRAXTON - [those usual wacky symbols] (Get Back 315) lp only, from'69
ANDREW CYRILLE - What About (BYG/Get Back 316) lp only, solo drums from 1969
DAVE BURRELL - Echo (BYG/Get Back 320) w/ Archie Shepp, Arthur Jones, 
Clifford Thorton, Grachan Moncur III, Alan Silva & Sunny Murray - lp 
only
SPONTANEOUS MUSIC ENSEMBLE - The Challenge (Emanem 4053) 1966 & 1967
HOWARD RILEY TRIO - Overground (Emanem 4054)
FAMOUDOU DON MOYE-JOHN TCHICAI-HARTMUT GEERKEN - The African Tapes 
(Leo GY 9/10) 2 cd set from 1985
THE GANELIN TRIO - Strictly for Our Friends (Leo GY 13)
EMBRYO - we keep on (Disconforme 1936)
ORANGE THEN BLUE - While You Were Out (GM 3028) w/ Dave Douglas, 
Cuong Vu, Chris Speed, Matt Darriau & Dave Ballou - 2 cd set
MICHAEL SHRIEVE-BILL FRISELL-WAYNE HORVITZ - Fascination (Times Square 9019)
GRAHAM COLLIER MUSIC - Darius, Midnight Blue, New Conditions, 
Symphony of Scorpions, The Day of the Dead/Triptych [2cd] & Something 
BritishS(Disconforme)
CHRIS McGREGOR'S BROTHERHOOD OF BREATH - Travelling Somewhere [Cuneiform 152]
HERB ROBERTSON -Transparency (W&W JMT 919002)
STEVE COLEMAN GROUP - Motherland Pulse (W&W JMT 919001)
SPONTANEOUS MUSIC ENSEMBLE - Plus Equals (Emanem 4062)
KENT CARTER - Beauvais Cathedral (Emanem 4061) solo contrabass
ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO - Live in Milano (Leo GYN 16)
JULIUS HEMPHILL - Roi Boye & The Gotham Minstrels (Sackville 3014/15) 2 cd set
DON PULLEN - Solo Piano Album (Sackville 3008)
GEORGE LEWIS - Solo Trombone Record (Sackville 3012)
STEVE COLEMAN & FIVE ELEMENTS - On the Edge of Tomorrow (W&W - JMT)
CASSANDRA WILSON - Point of View (W&W JMT 919004)
SPONTANEOUS MUSIC ENSEMBLE - Birds of a Feather (Get Back 410) lp only
JAPANESE INDEPENDENT MUSIC [BOOK & CD] (Sonore/French import)
JOE McPHEE - Underground Railroad/Live at Holy Cross Monastery (Atavistic 226)
BERESFORD-TOOP-KONDO-HONSINGER - Double Indemnity/Imitation... (Ata 224)
BILL DIXON 7-TET/ARCHIE SHEPP & THE N. Y.CONTEMPORARY FIVE - s/t 
(Savoy/Atlantic 93008)
THE ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO & HARTMUT GEERKEN - Zero Sun/No Point 
[Dedicated to Sun Ra] (Leo 329-330)
ANTHONY DAVIS - Of Blues & Dreams (Sackville 3020)
BARRY ALTSCHUL TRIO - Brahma (Sackville 3023)
STEPHAN WINTER - The Little Trumpet (W&W/JMT 919007)
CRAIG HARRIS & TAILGATORS TALES - Shelter (W&W/JMT 919008)
CLIFFORD THORTON - Freedom & Unity (Atavistic 225) cd only reissue
CLIFFORD THORNTON - Ketchaoua (Get Back 323).
FAUST - BBC Sessions Plus (Recommended ReR F5)
XHOL CARAVAN - Motherfuckers Live (Durtro 5/6) 2 cd set
KARL BERGER & DAVE HOLLAND - All Kinds of Time (Sackville 3010)
ANTHONY DAVIS - Of Blues and Dreams (Sackville 3020)
MARZETTE WATTS - s/t (ESP 1044/Get Back ) cd & lp reissue
SONNY SIMMONS - Staying on the Watch (ESP 1030/Get Back) lp & cd release
BYRON MORRIS & UNITY - Blowing Thru Your Mind (Universal 17)
DEWEY REDMAN - Tarik (BYG/Get Back 334) w/ Malachi Favors & Ed Blackwell-lp
JACQUES COURSIL UNIT - Way Ahead (BYG/Get Back 319) lp only
BARRY ALTSCHUL TRIO - Brahma (Sackville 3023)
ANTHONY BRAXTON QUARTET - Dortmund 1976 (Hatology 557)
MYRA MELFORD TRIO - Alive in the House of Saints (Hat 570) 2 cd set 
w/ unreleased 2nd cd
CORNELIUS CARDEW - Chamber Music 1955-1964/Apartment House (Matchless 45)
THE STICKMEN - Insatiable (Cuneiform 151) reissue w/ unreleased live 
trax & cd-rom
THE ELECTRIC PRUNES - Lost Dreams (Birdman)
GRATEFUL DEAD - Dick's Picks Volume 19 (GD 4039) 3 cd set from 1973
DUN - Eros (Soleil Atreides 03)
PHILIP COHRAN - The Artistic Heritage Ensemble (Actuarium 01)