Abstract Truths: An Evolving Jazz Compendium – Volume 8

The return of Abstract Truths. This series began in 2016 as a way to highlight jazz in all its many forms. The selector for this installment’s dig finds musician and collage artist Ilyas Ahmed weaving a two-plus hour tapestry of sound, spanning 1964-2021.

Jan Johansson – Visa fran Utanmyra | Pat Martino – What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? | Ted Curson – Tears for Dolphy | Nala Sinephro – Space 8 | Miles Davis – Ascent | Sam Wilkes – Tonight | Charles Mingus – Peggy’s Blue Skylight | Pino Palladino & Blake Mills – Just Wrong | Tony Williams – Love Song | Gabor Szabo – Space | Pharoah Sanders-Japan | Shabaka Hutchings/Tom Herbert/Tom Skinner/Dave Okumu – Undo | Lennie Tristano – Line Up | Terry Gibbs & Alice Coltrane – Little S | Jim Hall – Round Midnight | Yusef Kamaal – Yo Chavez | Ahmad Jamal – When I Look In Your Eyes | Marcus Belgrave – Odoms Cave | Marion Brown – Bismillahi Rrahmani Rrahim | art Helen Frankenthaler