There is an insane amount of music getting uploaded to @Bandcamp. INSANE amounts. In the jazz section, it's new music, old releases, live sessions, demos, on-the-fly quarantine sessions, everything. It's all I can do to keep my lists organized. I'm gonna share what I'm finding.

This will be the first of several mega-threads of recommendations, shout-outs, points of interest, asides, random comments, and vague references as I go through the new jazz release listings on @Bandcamp.

If you’re stuck at home, quarantined, isolated, or in desperate need of distraction, I am going to keep you occupied with all kinds of music to check out.

Let's begin.

Okay, first album up has us off to a promising start. It's a 2018 live performance recording from Irreversible Entanglements http://irreversibleentanglements.bandcamp.com/album/irreversible-live-in-italy

Hey, this is good. Luis Pedromo has added a couple of recent-ish releases. There's this one, "Twenty-Two" and also "Montage." http://luisperdomo.bandcamp.com/album/twenty-two

I'm a big fan of Alban Darche. His music is inventive, strange af & often quite beguiling. Along w/music on the Yolk Records label, he's uploaded older albums w/his L'Orphicube ensemble. Also, anytime you see Sylvain Rifflet's name on an album, just buy it http://albandarche.bandcamp.com/album/lorphicube

This intrigues me. At least enough to put it on the list to circle back later and give it a listen. https://bradwalkermusic.bandcamp.com/album/trionomicon-live-at-the-sidebar-videos-special-release

And that's how it works, really. I go through every damn album in the new release listings, one after the other, & just look for something to give me a reason to circle back later. Might not like it later, or I might. But that first step is just marching through the new releases.

And OMFG here we GO! Doug Hammond has created a BC page, and that means you get to hear an OUTSTANDING old-school Tribe Records release "Reflections in the Sea of Nurnen." Just go buy this thing right now. https://doughammond.bandcamp.com/album/reflections-in-the-sea-of-nurnen

I rarely ever write about an older album in my recommendations column. Too much great music being made today. But I'm making an exception on this one. The track "Miss Slow" is just gonna be on repeat all night long. https://doughammond.bandcamp.com/track/miss-slow 

Uh oh. I think my cat may have just run through the living room with a mouse clamped down in its jaws.

You have not lived until you've witnessed me fend off a frenzied cat with one foot while trying to corral a panicked mouse into a cup so I can take it outside and let it loose in the backyard near the neighbor's fence.

(Please hold)

Update: Cat (Siddons) slouched over in the writing room looking disgruntled, either b/c the mouse got away, or there was no mouse in the first place, or it died quickly so there was nothing left to do but the mouse corpse in a shoe, or I'm not giving her enough treats.

I'm happy to announce that Posi-Tone Records has started building up a Bandcamp page. Here's a recent release from the ensemble Lioness. I'm liking what I'm hearing from Alexa Tarantino. And Allison Miller on drums, so there's that too https://lionessjazz.bandcamp.com/album/pride-joy 

Intriguing. On the list. Group called Prospectus. https://prospectus.bandcamp.com/album/i 

Hey a new Tiptons Sax Quartet album. Jessica Lurie is awesome. https://jessicalurie.bandcamp.com/album/wabi-sabi 

Here, bonus rec: This has been on BC for a little while, but IIRC this was the album that first hooked me on Lurie's music. "Licorice & Smoke" w/Todd Sickafoose, Scott Amendola & Nels Cline. https://jessicalurie.bandcamp.com/album/licorice-smoke

Oooh totally getting distracted with a nostalgic trip thru Jessical Lurie's discography. This was probably the 2nd album of hers I purchased. "Shop of Wild Dreams" w/Allison Miller, Erik Deutsch, Brandon Seabrook, & Sickafoose https://jessicalurie.bandcamp.com/album/shop-of-wild-dreams

God that feels like a long time ago. Would've been back around the time I was on the old AllAboutJazz forum, when me and some forum friends first started dedicating time to listening to new jazz releases.

Interesting release on Adam Rudolph's Meta Records from the Turkish ensemble Rom Blue https://romblue.bandcamp.com/album/letafet 

Here's a 2015 release by some musicians now associated with the excellent Barcelona-based label (and community center) Underpool https://marcellibayer.bandcamp.com/album/east-of-the-sun

Hey, here's a release on the Dodicilune label. There's always a few albums per year from that label that grab my ear. Don't know that I wrote about this one. Often very heavy with the folk and classical influence, but not always. https://francescoalemannomusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-nearness-of-you

On the list. A piano-drums duo calling themselves Serendipity. https://serendipityduomusic.bandcamp.com/album/rosy-fingered-dawn

On the list. Didn't even listen to it. But it has saxophonist Catherine Sikora, so I'm definitely circling back to it when I'm ready to just kick back and start listening to entire albums. https://catherinesikora.bandcamp.com/album/the-paris-sessions-volume-1-mimesis

Let me take this moment to apologize to any musicians' names I've misspelled in this thread, will misspell in this thread, have ever misspelled in any thread or any context, there are a great many of you, and you could all make your own wing in the jazz hall of fame.

Oh hey new album from violinist Laura Schuler. IIRC her last release was an Album of the Day feature on my site. Philipp Gropper is on this recording, and he's made some delightful music on the WhyPlayJazz label. Interested to hear this one https://lauraschulerquartet.bandcamp.com/album/metamorphosis

An older Clean Feed Records release got uploaded to BC. Nate Wooley + RED Trio "Stem" https://rodrigopinheiro.bandcamp.com/album/stem