BEST OF 2002
 
Ken Waxman: Derek Taylor: Steve Koenig: Fred Jung:
       
John Butcher / Miya Masaoka / Gino Robair
Guerilla Mosaics
482 Records
Albert Ayler
The Copenhagen Tapes
ayler records
Albert Ayler
The Copenhagen Tapes
ayler records
Albert Ayler
The Copenhagen Tapes
ayler records
       
The Electrics
Chain of Accidents
ayler records

Steven Bernstein
Diaspora Blues
Tzadik

Paul Bianco / Paul Dunmall / Marcio Mattis / Paul Rodgers
Hourglass
Emanem
Han Bennink / Evan Parker
the grass is greener
psi records
       
James Emery
Fourth World
between the lines
Ornette Coleman Trio
At the Golden Circle, Volumes 1 & 2
Blue Note
Anthony Braxton and Taylor Ho Bynum
Duets (Wesleyan) 2002
Innova
Steven Bernstein
Diaspora Blues
Tzadik
       
Martin Fondse Oktemble
Ere Ibeji
Bvhaast
Von Freeman
The Improvisor
Premonition Records
Peter Brötzmann / Fred Van Hove / Han Bennink
Balls
Atavistic

Anthony Braxton
Quartet (Dortmund) 1976
hatOLOGY

       
Satoko Fujii
Bell the Cat!
Tokuma Japan Communications
Jimmy Halperin Trio
Cycle Logical
Cadence Jazz Records
Charlie Christian
Genius of the Electric Guitar
Columbia Jazz Legacy
Peter Brötzmann / Die Like a Dog Quartet
Aoyama Crows
FMP
       
Joe Giardullo / Joe McPhee / Mike Bisio / Tani Tabbal
Shadow & Light
Drimala Records
Keith Jarrett Trio
Always Let Me Go
ECM
Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble
Seasoning The Greens
Boxholder
Peter Brötzmann / Fred Van Hove / Han Bennink
Balls
Atavistic
       
Barry Guy / Marilyn Crispell / Paul Lytton
Odyssey
Intakt Records
John La Porta
Theme and Variations
Fantasy
Bill Dixon / Franz Koglmann / Steve Lacy
Opium
between the lines
Von Freeman
The Improvisor
Premonition Records
       
Daunik Lazro / Carlos Alves Zingaro / Joëlle Léandre / Paul Lovens
Madly You
Potlatch
Raphé Malik Quartet
Companions
Eremite
The Ganelin Trio
Ttaango...In Nickelsdorf
Leo Records
Maneri Ensemble
Going to Church
AUM Fidelity
       
Roscoe Mitchell & the Note Factory
Song for My Sister
Pi Recordings
Joe McPhee's Bluette
Let Paul Robeson Sing
CIMP
Phil James
First Places: Shakuhachi Improvisations
Sparkling Beatnik
Joe McPhee's Bluette
Let Paul Robeson Sing
CIMP
       
Tony Oxley / The B.I.M.P. Quartet
Floating Phantoms
a/l/l
Joe Morris
Age of Everything
Riti
Brett Larner and Taku Sugimoto
Deluxe Nakamura
Sparkling Beatnik
Evan Parker / Joe McPhee
Chicago Tenor Duets
Okka Disk
       
William Parker
Raining On the Moon
Thirsty Ear
  Ramon Lopez
Duets 2 Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Leo Records
John Rapson
Water and Blood: The Billy Higgins Improvisations
9Winds
       
Herb Robertson
The Legend of the Missing Link
Splasc(H) Records
  K. Curtis Lyle / Julius Hemphill
The Collected Poem for Blind Lemon Jefferson
IkeF Records
Paul Rutherford
Chicago 2002
Emanem
       
Ursel Schlicht's Implicate Order
Sound Quest
Cadence Jazz Records
  Roscoe Mitchell & the Note Factory
Song for My Sister
Pi Recordings
Manfred Schoof
European Echoes
Atavistic
       
Jeff Song & Lowbrow
Diasporama
Stellar Sound Productions
  Myra Melford Trio
Alive In The House of the Saints
hatOLOGY
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet
The Year of the Elephant
Pi Recordings
       
    Sunny Murray
Sunshine / An Even Break (Never Give A Sucker)
Fuel2000
Cecil Taylor
The Willisau Concert
Intakt Records
       
    Phill Niblock
A Listener?s Guide to Phill Niblock
XI
 
       
    Evan Parker / George Lewis
from saxophone and trombone
psi records
 
       
    Evan Parker / Paul Lytton
collective calls (urban) (two microphones)
psi records
 
       
    Roland Ramanan / Marcio Mattos / Simon Fell / Mark Sanders
Shaken
Emanem
 
       
    Michael Schumacher
01-01-18 Improvisation/Guitar Electrica
Quakebasket
 
       
    Still Point (Chris Burns, Rhodri Davies, Phil Durrant, Mark Wastell)
Assumed Possibilities
Rossbin
 
       
    What We Live
Especially The Traveller Tomorrow
Metalanguage
 
       


Koenig would also like to give a special shout-out to the entire Atavistic Unheard Music
Series for both music and packaging, reproducing original covers and both LP label sides.