Published: October 14, 2025
Alternative rock icon Thurston Moore shares details of his upcoming art book celebrating the world of vinyl culture offering a visual experience for passionate music collectors.
Former Sonic Youth singer and guitarist Thurston Moore has announced an art book for record collectors. "
NOW JAZZ NOW: 100 Essential Free Jazz & Improvisation Recordings [1960-80]" is due to be released on December 5 via Thurston Moore & Eva Prinz's Ecstatic Peace Library. The book features 277-pages of beatific album art, labels, sleeve notes and collector musings on their life-long obsessions of record collecting, with a distinct focus on the recorded history of Free Jazz and Free Improvisation.
Musicians Mats Gustafsson, Neneh Cherry, Joe McPhee, Thurston Moore, along with music writer Byron Coley have contributed to an illustrated collector's guide to records. The art book has compiled personal archives with discussions and debates of their selections of recordings which could be contenders within a list defined by a parameter of 100 most essential releases presented in chronologic order.
"NOW JAZZ NOW: 100 Essential Free Jazz & Improvisation Recordings [1960-80]" is available to Pre-Order Here.
Pre-orders will ship in the week of December 8 from the U.S. for delivery in time for the Christmas holidays.
