David R. Adler (Philadelphia Inquirer, JazzTimes)
NEW RELEASES
1. Mario Pavone Trio Arc Playscape
2. Drew Gress The Irrational Numbers Premonition
3. Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside
4. Lionel Loueke Karibu Blue Note
5. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi
6. Angelica Sanchez Life Between Clean Feed
7. Adam Rudolph Dream Garden Justin Time
8. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM
9. Brian Blade Fellowship Season of Changes Verve
10. Hans Glawischnig Panorama Sunnyside
REISSUES
1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
2. Pendulum (Dave Liebman) Live at the Village Vanguard Mosaic Select
3. Grachan Moncur III Evolution Blue Note
VOCAL
Rosa Passos Romance Telarc
DEBUT
Ambrose Akinmusire Prelude to Cora Fresh Sound New Talent
LATIN
Rosa Passos Romance Telarc
Clifford Allen (All About Jazz New York, bagatellen.com)
NEW RELEASES
1. Bill Dixon 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur AUM Fidelity
2.Bill Dixon & Exploding Star Orchestra Thrill Jockey
3. Anthony Braxton & Joe Morris Four Improvisations (Duo) 2007 Clean Feed
4.Brotherhood of Breath Eclipse at Dawn Cuneiform
5.Globe Unity Orchestra 40 Years Intakt
6.Louis Moholo-Moholo & Marilyn Crispell Sibanye (We Are One) Intakt
7.Chris Speed-Chris Cheek-Stephen Furic Liebovici Jugendstil ESP Disk
8. Trio Vriditas Live at the Vision Festival 2001 Clean Feed
9. Joe Maneri & Peter Dolger Peace Concert Atavistic Unheard Music Series
10. Wadada Leo Smith Tabligh Cuneiform
REISSUES
1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
2.Ted Daniel Tapestry Porter
3.Paul Rutherford Solo in Berlin 1975 Emanem
VOCAL
No choice
DEBUT
Ideal Bread The Ideal Bread KMB Jazz
LATIN
No choice
Larry Applebaum (JazzTimes; WPFW-FM, Washington, D.C.)
NEW RELEASES
1. Bill Frisell History, Mystery Nonesuch
2. Kate McGarry If Less is More Palmetto
3. Paul Motian Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. II Winter & Winter
4. Joe Lovano Symphonica Blue Note
5. Francisco Mela Cirio Half Note
6. Enrico Rava & Stefano Bollani The Third Man ECM
7. Miguel Zenón Awake Marsalis Music
8. Hakon Kornstad & Ingebrigt Flaten Elise Hemlandssanger-Compunctio
9. Lionel Loueke Karibu Blue Note
10. Norma Winstone Distances ECM
REISSUES
1. Miles Davis Broadcast Sessions 1958-’59 Acrobat
2. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
3. Chico Hamilton/Elmer Bernstein Sweet Smell of Success El
VOCAL
Kate McGarry If Less Is More Palmetto
DEBUT
Moss Moss Sunnyside
LATIN
Conrad Herwig The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter Half Note
Paul Blair (Hot House)
NEW RELEASES
Listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each
Tom Beckham Rebound Apria
Tobias Gebb & Trio West An Upper West Side Story Yummy House
Chuck MacKinnon Mactet New Transmission Krispytone
Adam Nussbaum Standards Kind of Blue
Scott Robinson Forever Lasting Arbors
Todd Sicafoose Tiny Resistors Cryptogramophone
Stein Brothers Quixotic Jazzed Media
Gary Versace Outside In Criss Cross
Jack Walrath Ballroom Steeplechase
Eli Yamin You Can’t Buy Swing Yamin Music
REISSUES
No choices
VOCAL
No choice
DEBUT
Stein Brothers Quixotic Jazzed Media
LATIN
No choice
Larry Blumenfeld (Jazziz, Wall Street Journal)
NEW RELEASES
1. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM
2. William Parker Petit Oiseau AUM Fidelity
3. Gilfema Gilfema +2 Obliqsound
4. Evan Christopher Django a la Creole Lejazzetal
5. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol 1 Doxy/Emarcy
6. Microscopic Septet Lobster Leaps In Cuneiform Records
7. Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note
8. Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside
9. Dr. Michael White Blue Crescent Basin Street
10. Bill Frisell History, Mystery Nonesuch
REISSUES
1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
2. Miles Davis Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition Columbia/Legacy
3. Nina Simone To Be Free Sony/Legacy
VOCAL
Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note
DEBUT
Ambrose Akinmusire Prelude Fresh Sound New Talent
LATIN
Miguel Zenón Awake Marsalis Music
Shaun Brady (Philadelphia Daily News, Downbeat)
NEW RELEASES
1. Mario Pavone Trio Arc Playscape
2. Donny McCaslin Recommended Tools Greenleaf
3. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi
4. Adam Rudolph Dream Garden Justin Time
5. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM
6. Kurt Rosenwinkel The Remedy ArtistShare
7. Dafnis Prieto Taking the Soul for a Walk Dafnison
8. Fieldwork Door Pi
9. Aaron Parks Invisible Cinema Blue Note
10. Paul Motian Trio 2000 +Two Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. II
Winter & Winter
REISSUES
1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
2. Charlie Mariano Helen 12 Trees MPS-Promising
3. Sahib Shihab and the Danish Radio Jazz Group Oktav
VOCAL
Moss Moss Sunnyside
DEBUT
Blink The Epidemic of Ideas Thirsty Ear
LATIN
Dafnis Prieto Taking the Soul for a Walk Dafnison
Stuart Broomer (All About Jazz—New York, pointofdeparture.org)
NEW RELEASES
1. Anthony Braxton Quartet (Moscow) 2008 Leo
2. Evan Parker Boustrophedon ECM
3. Enrico Pieranunzi with Kenny Wheeler As Never Before CAM Jazz
4. Mostly Other People Do the Killing This Is Our Moosic Hot Cup
5. Stephen Gauci’s Stockholm Conference Live at Glenn Miller Café, pt. 1 & 2 Ayler
6. Brotherhood of Breath Eclipse at Dawn Cuneiform
7. Angelica Sanchez Life Between Clean Feed
8. Totem Solar Forge ESP
9. John Zorn The Dreamers Tzadik
10. Grosse Abfahrt Everything that Disappears Emanem
REISSUES
1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
2. Giuseppi Logan Quartet ESP Disk
3. Grachan Moncur III Evolution Blue Note
VOCAL
No choice
DEBUT
Noah Preminger Dry Bridge Road NOWT
LATIN
No choice
Thomas Conrad (Stereophile, JazzTimes)
NEW RELEASES
1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy
2. Charles Lloyd Rabo De Nube ECM
3. Carla Bley Appearing Nightly WATT/ECM
4. Horace Silver Live At Newport ‘58 Blue Note
5. McCoy Tyner Guitars Half Note/McCoy Tyner Music
6. Enrico Rava & Stefano Bollani The Third Man ECM
7. Bobo Stenson Cantando ECM
8. Brad Mehldau Live Nonesuch
9. Patricia Barber The Cole Porter Mix Blue Note
10. Enrico Pieranunzi-Marc Johnson-Joey Baron As Never Before (CAM Jazz)
REISSUES
1. Miles Davis Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition Columbia/Legacy
2. Lionel Hampton The Complete Lionel Hampton Victor Sessions 1937-1941 Mosaic
3. Charlie Parker Washington, D.C., May 23, 1948 Uptown Jazz
VOCAL
Patricia Barber The Cole Porter Mix Blue Note
DEBUT
Mathias Eick The Door ECM
LATIN
Brazilian Trio Forests Zoho
John Corbett (Downbeat, Chicago Reader)
NEW RELEASES
1. Die Enttaüschung Die Enttaüschung Intakt
2. Atomic Retrograde Jazzland
3. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM
4. Ab Baars & Ken Vandermark Goofy June Bug WIG
5. Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live at the Village Vanguard Calle 54/Norté
6. Torbjörn Zetterberg Skildrar Kvinnans Kamp Moserobie
7. Joe McPhee & Paal Nilsson-Love Tomorrow Came Today Smalltown Superjazz
8. Sonore Only the Devil Has No Dreams Jazzwerkstatt
9. McCoy Tyner Guitars Half Note
10. Mike Reed Proliferation 482 Music
REISSUES
1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
2. Sun Ra Disco 3000 Art Yard
3. The Thing Now and Forever Smalltown Superjazz
VOCAL
Sam Phillips Don’t Do Anything Nonesuch
DEBUT
Jason Adasiewicz Rolldown 482 Music
LATIN
Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live at the Village Vanguard Calle 54/Norté
Lawrence Cosentino (Lansing City Pulse, Signal to Noise)
NEW RELEASES
1. J.D. Allen I Am, I Am Sunnyside
2. McCoy Tyner Guitars McCoy Tyner Music/Half Note
3. Eri Yamamoto Duologue AUM Fidelity
4. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM
5. Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut The Digital Box Ayler
6. William Parker Double Sunrise Over Neptune AUM Fidelity
7. Francisco Mela Cirio Half Note
8. Saxophone Summit Seraphic Light Telarc
9. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside
10. Avery Sharpe Legends and Mentors JKNM
REISSUES
1. Wayne Shorter The Soothsayer Blue Note
2. Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners Riverside/Keepnews Collection
3. Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall Riverside/Keepnews Collection
VOCAL
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings 100 Days, 100 Nights Daptone
DEBUT
Noah Preminger Dry Bridge Road NOWT
LATIN
Gabriel Alegria Neuva Mundo Saponegro
Francis Davis (Village Voice, The Atlantic)
NEW RELEASES
1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy
2. Fieldwork Door Pi
3. Tony Malaby Warblepeck Songlines
4. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi
5. Bill Dixon 17 Musicians In Search of a Sound: Darfur AUM Fidelity
6. Microscopic Septet Lobster Leaps In Cuneiform
7. Mary Halvorson Dragon’s Head Firehouse 12
8. Paul Bley About Time Justin Time
9. Charlie Haden Rambling Boy Decca
10. Nicholas Payton Into the Blue Nonesuch
REISSUES
1. Art Tatum Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine/Zenph Re-Performance Sony Classics
2. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
3. Dizzy Gillespie Showtime at the Spotlite: 52nd Street, New York City, June 1946 Uptown
VOCAL
Catherine Russell Sentimental Streak World Village
DEBUT
Ideal Bread The Ideal Bread KMB Jazz
LATIN
Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live at the Village Vanguard Calle 54-Norté
Steve Dollar (New York Sun, Time Out New York)
NEW RELEASES
1. Eri Yamamoto Duologue AUM Fidelity
2. Terry Riley The Last Camel in Paris Elision Fields
3. Mary Halvorson Dragon’s Head Firehouse 12
4. Charlie Haden Rambling Boy Decca
5. William Parker Petit Oseau AUM Fidelity
6. David Murray & Mal Waldron Silence Justin Time
7. Joe Morris High Definition hatOLOGY
8. Lafayette Gilchrist Soul Progressin’ Hyena
9. Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside
10. Matthew Herbert There’s Me and There’s You IK7
REISSUES
1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
VOCAL
Charlie Haden (various singers) Rambling Boy Decca
DEBUT
No choice
LATIN
Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside
Laurence Donohue-Greene (All About Jazz—New York)
NEW RELEASES
1. Anthony Braxton-Milford Graves-Wiliam Parker – Beyond Quantum Tzadik
2. Mario Pavone Trio Arc Playscape
3. Charles Lloyd Rabo De Nube ECM
4. Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones You Are There Emarcy
5. Taylor Ho Bynum Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths hatOLOGY
6. Mauger (Rudresh Mahanthappa-Mark Dresser-Gerry Hemingway) The Beautiful Enabler Clean Feed
7. Martial Solal Longitude Camjazz
8. Raoul Bjorkenheim-William Parker-Hamid Drake DMG @The Stone, Vol.2 DMG-Arc
9. Barry Guy-Marilyn Crispell-Paul Lytton Phases of the Night Intakt
10. Antripodean Collective Funcall Extreme
REISSUES
1. Sahib Shihab And the Danish Radio Jazz Group OKTAV Music
2. Jeremy Steig Howlin’ For Judy (Legwork/Wayfaring Stranger) Blue Note
3. Ray Russell Turn Circle Vocalion
VOCAL
Roberta Gambarini/Hank Jones You Are There Emarcy
DEBUT
John Escreet Consequences Positone
LATIN
Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live at the Village Vanguard Calle 54-Norté
Ken Dryden (Coda, All About Jazz—New York)
NEW RELEASES
1. Kenny Werner With a Song in My Heart Venus
2. Marian McPartland Twilight World Concord
3. Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones You Are There EmArcy
4. Eliane Elias Something For You Blue Note
5. Martin Taylor Double Standards P3 Music
6. Judy Wexler Dreams & Shadows Jazzed Media
7. Scott Robinson Forever Lasting Arbors
8. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard Planet Arts
9. Joe Locke Force of Four Origin
10. Jamie Baum Solace Sunnyside
REISSUES
1. Oscar Peterson Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings (1951-1953) Mosaic
2. Art Tatum Tatum Art Storyville
3. Lester Young Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion with Count Basie (1936-1940) Mosaic
VOCAL
Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones You Are There EmArcy
DEBUT
Alison Ruble This is a Bird Origin
LATIN
Gonzalo Rubalcaba Avatar Blue Note
Steve Feeney (Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram)
NEW RELEASES
1. Donny McCaslin Recommended Tools Greenleaf
2. John McNeil & Bill McHenry Rediscovery Sunnyside
3. Paul Motian Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. II Winter & Winter
4. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy
5. Dave Holland Pass It On Dare2/Emarcy
6. Melody Gardot Worrisome Heart Verve
7. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside
8. Mary Halvorson Dragon’s Head Firehouse 12
9. Pete Rodriguez El Alquimista (The Alchemist) Condé
10. David Sánchez Cultural Survival Concord Picante
REISSUES
1. Kenny Wheeler Gnu High ECM
VOCAL
Melody Gardot Worrisome Heart Verve
DEBUT
No choice
LATIN
Pete Rodriguez El Alquimista (The Alchemist)
Sean Fitzell (All About Jazz—New York)
NEW RELEASES
1. Jenny Scheinman Crossing The Field Koch
2. Cyro Baptista Banquet of the Spirits Tzadik
3. Steven Bernstein Diaspora Suite Tzadik
4. Ben Allison Little Things Run the World Palmetto
5. Cuong Vu Vu-tet Artist Share
6. (John Zorn) Bar Kokhba Lucifer: Book of Angels Volume 10 Tzadik
7. Todd Sickafoose Tiny Resistors Cryptogramophone
8. Bobby Previte & The New Bump Set the Alarm for Monday Palmetto
9. Drew Gress The Irrational Numbers Premonition
10. Paolo Angeli-Evan Parker-Ned Rothenberg Free Zone Appleby 2007 psi
REISSUES
1. John Zorn-George Lewis-Bill Frisell News for Lulu HatOLOGY
2. Bill Evans Portrait in Jazz Riverside/Keepnews Collection
VOCAL
No choice
DEBUT
Rob Mosher’s Storytime The Tortoise (self-released)
LATIN
Cyro Baptista Banquet of the Spirits Tzadik
Ken Franckling (Jazziz, Hot House)
NEW RELEASES
1. Danilo Perez Across the Crystal Sea EmArcy
2. Brian Blade Season of Changes Verve
3. Roy Hargrove Earfood Groovin’ High/EmArcy
4. Stein Brothers Quixotic Jazzed Media
5. Donal Fox The Scarlatti Jazz Suite Project Leonellis Music
6. Melody Gardot Worrisome Heart Verve
7. John Santos Perspectiva Fragmentada Machete
8. Avishai Cohen Gently Disturbed RazDaz
9. Generations Band Tough Guys ICA
10. Randy Brecker Randy in Brazil” MAMA
REISSUES
1. Roy Haynes A Life In Time: The Roy Haynes Story Dreyfus
2. Nina Simone To Be Free Sony/Legacy
3. Dizzy Gillespie Showtime at the Spotlite: 52nd Street, New York City, June 1946 Uptown
VOCAL
Melody Gardot Worrisome Heart Verve
DEBUT
Stein Brothers Quixotic Jazzed Media
LATIN
John Santos Perspectiva Fragmentada Machete
Phil Freeman (Metal Edge, The Wire, Village Voice)
NEW RELEASES
1. Anthony Braxton-Milford Graves-William Parker Beyond Quantum Tzadik
2. Aaron Parks Invisible Cinema Blue Note
3. Nik Bartsch’s Ronin Holon ECM
4. Bill Dixon 17 Musicians In Search of a Sound: Darfur AUM Fidelity
5. Bill Dixon & Exploding Star Orchestra Thrill Jockey
6. Stephen Haynes & Taylor Ho Bynum The Double Trio: Live at the
Festival of New Trumpet Music Engine Studios
7. Wadada Leo Smith Tabligh Cuneiform
8. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy
9. Jeff Gauthier House of Return Cuneiform
10. Totem Solar Forge ESP-Disk
REISSUES
1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
VOCAL
No choice
DEBUT
No choice
LATIN
No choice
David Fricke (Rolling Stone)
NEW RELEASES
1. Steven Bernstein Diaspora Suite Tzadik
2. Mary Halvorson Trio Dragon’s Head Firehouse 12
3. Lionel Loueke Karibu Blue Note
4. Scorch Trio Brolt! Rune Grammofon
5. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi
6. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy
7. William Parker Petit Oiseau AUM Fidelity
8. Jenny Schienman Crossing the Field Koch
9. William Parker Double Sunrise Over Neptune AUM Fidelity
10. Anthony Braxton Quartet (GTM) 2006 Important
REISSUES
1. Blue Notes The Ogun Collection Ogun
2. Various Artists Boogie Woogie and Blues Piano Mosaic Select
3. Curlew 1st Album + Live at CBGB (1980) DMG/ARC
VOCAL
No choice
DEBUT
No choice
LATIN
No choice
Will Friedwald (New York Sun)
NEW RELEASES
1. Ted Nash The Mancini Project Palmetto
2. David Berger I Had the Craziest Dream: The Music of Harry Warren Such Sweet Thunder
3. Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis Two Men With the Blues Blue Note
4. Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note
5. James Carter Present Tense Emarcy
6. Scott Robinson Forever Lasting Arbors
7. Microscopic Septet Lobster Leaps In Cuneiform
8. Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra We Are MTO Mowo
9. Joe Lovano Symphonica Blue Note
10. McCoy Tyner Guitars Half Note/McCoy Tyner Music
REISSUES
1. Lester Young Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion with Count Basie (1936-1940) Mosaic
2. Dizzy Gillespie Showtime at the Spotlite: 52nd Street, New York City, June 1946 Uptown
3. Buddy DeFranco & Nelson Riddle Cross Country Suite Universal Special Markets
VOCAL
Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis Two Men With the Blues Blue Note
DEBUT
No choice
LATIN
Conrad Herwig The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter Half Note
Ted Gioia (jazz.com)
NEW RELEASES
1. Joe Lovano Symphonica Blue Note
2. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy
3 Miguel Zenón Awake Marsalis Music
4. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi
5. Brad Mehldau Live Nonesuch
6. Donny McCaslin Recommended Tools Greenleaf
7. Marilyn Mazur Elixir ECM
8. Vassilis Tsabropoulos Melos ECM
9. Taylor Eigsti Let It Come to You Concord
10 McCoy Tyner Guitars Half Note/McCoy Tyner Music
REISSUES1 Miles Davis Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition Columbia/Legacy
2 Art Tatum Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine/Zenph Re-Performance Sony Classics
3 Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
VOCAL
Kate McGarry If Less is More Palmetto
DEBUT
Mathias Eick The Door ECM
LATIN
Arturo O’Farrill & Claudia Acuna In These Shoes Zoho
Kurt Gottschalk (All About Jazz, Coda)
NEW RELEASES
1. Tetuzi Akiyama-Mertin Taxt-Eivind Lonning-Espen Reinersten Varianter av dode traer Sofa
2. Jacques Demierre & Isabelle Duthoit Avenues Unit
3. Maybe Monday Unsquare Intakt
4. Barry Guy-Marilyn Crispell-Paul Lytton Phases of the Night Intakt
5. Louis Moholo-Moholo & Marilyn Crispell Sibanye (We Are One) Intakt
6. Ivor Callin & John Bissett A Schlepp from Strathbungo 2:13
7. Spring Heel Jack Songs & Themes Thirsty Ear
8. Taylor Ho Bynum Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths hatOLOGY
9. Mary Halvorson Dragon’s Head Firehouse 12
10. Marc Ribot Exercises in Futility Tzadik
REISSUES
1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
2. Matthew Shipp The Multiplication Table HatOLOGY
3. Alexander von Schlippenbach Piano Solo ’77 FMP
VOCAL
Diamanda Galas Guilty Guilty Guilty Mute
DEBUT
Nicola Cipani The Ill-Tempered Piano Long Song
LATIN
No choice
Steve Greenlee (Boston Globe)
NEW RELEASES
1. Bennie Maupin Early Reflections Cryptogramophone
2. Houston Person & Ron Carter Just Between Friends HighNote
3. Dave Liebman Negative Space Verve
4. Todd Sickafoose Tiny Resistors Cryptogramophone
5. Dave Douglas Moonshine Greenleaf
6. Donny McCaslin Recommended Tools Greenleaf
7. Adam Rudolph Dream Garden Justin Time
8. Peter Brotzmann & Peeter Uuskyla Born Broke Atavistic
9. Wadada Leo Smith Tabligh Cuneiform
10 Mario Pavone Trio Arc Playscape
REISSUES
1 Die Like a Dog The Complete FMP Recordings FMP
2 Last Exit Headfirst Into the Flames DMG
3 Sun Ra Media Dreams Art Yard
VOCAL
Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note
DEBUT
The Wee Trio Capitol Diner, Vol. 1 Bionic
LATIN
Gonzalo Rubalcaba Avatar Blue Note
Laurel Gross (JazzTimes, All About Jazz—New York)
NEW RELEASES
1. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Monday Night at the Village Vanguard Planet Arts
2. Jason Lindner Live at the Jazz Gallery Anzic
3. New Jazz Composers Octet The Turning Gate Motemo
4. Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside
5. Tony Malaby-William Parker-Nasheet Waits Tamarindo Clean Feed
6. Aaron Parks Invisible Cinema Blue Note
7. JD Allen I Am I Am Sunnyside
8. John Marshall Live at “Le Pirate” Organic
REISSUES
No choices
VOCAL
Kate McGarry If Less Is More Palmetto
DEBUT
No choice
LATIN
No choice
James Hale (Downbeat, Signal to Noise)
NEW RELEASES
1. Mary Halvorson Dragon’s Head Firehouse 12
2. Alex Cline Continuation Cryptogramophone
3. Anthony Braxton Quartet (Moscow) 2008 Leo
4. Donny McCaslin Recommended Tools Greenleaf
5. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside
6. Bennie Maupin Early Reflections Cryptogramophone
7. Anthony Braxton Trio (Victoriaville) 2007 Victo
8. Manuel Mengis Gruppe 6 The Pond hatOLOGY
9. Jane Ira Bloom Mental Weather Outline
10. Charles Lloyd Quartet Rabo De Nube ECM
REISSUES1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
2. Miles Davis Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition Columbia/Legacy
3. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Jack DeJohnette Setting Standards ECM
VOCAL
Moss Moss Sunnyside
DEBUT
Manuel Mengis Gruppe 6 The Pond hatOLOGY
LATIN
Francisco Mela – Cirio (Half Note)
Ed Hazell (Signal to Noise, pointofdeparture.org)
NEW RELEASES
1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy
2. Louis Moholo-Moholo & Marilyn Crispell Sibanye (We Are One) Intakt
3. Uri Caine Othello Syndrome Winter & Winter
4. Stan Tracey & Keith Tippett Supernova ReSteamed
5. William Parker Petit Oiseau AUM Fidelity
6. Wadada Leo Smith Talbligh Cuneiform
7. Bik Bent Braam Extemen BBB
8. Taylor Ho Bynum Asphalt Flowers, Forking Paths hatology
9. Anthony Braxton & Joe Morris Four Improvisations (Duo) 2007 Clean Feed
10. Noah Preminger Dry Bridge Road NOWT
REISSUES
1. Anthony Braxton Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
2. Blue Notes The Ogun Collection Ogun
3. Keith Jarrett Setting Standards ECM
VOCAL
No choice
DEBUT
Noah Preminger Dry Bridge Road Nowt
LATIN
No choice
Don Heckman (Los Angeles Times, International Review of Music)
NEW RELEASES
1. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM
2. Lionel Loueke Karibu Blue Note
3. Martial Solal Longitude Cam Jazz
4. Bill Frisell History, Mystery Nonesuch
5. Brian Blade Season of Changes Verve
6. Carla Bley Appearing Nightly Watt/ECM
7. Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note
8. Paul Bley About Time Justin Time
9. Patricia Barber The Cole Porter Mix Blue Note
10. Esperanza Spalding Esperanza Head Up
REISSUES
1. Miles Davis Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition Columbia. Legacy
2. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Jack DeJohnette Setting Standards ECM
3. Gary McFarland & Gabor Szabo Sketch for Summer El
VOCAL
Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note
DEBUT
No choice
LATIN
No choice
Tad Hendrickson (AOL Radio)
NEW RELEASES
1. Danilo Perez Across The Crystal Sea Decca
2. William Parker Petit Oiseau AUM Fidelity
3. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsman Pi
4. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM
5. Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside
6. McCoy Tyner Guitars HalfNote
7. Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live At The Village Vanguard Calle 54/Norté
8. Medeski Martin & Wood Radiolarians Vol. 1 Indirecto
9. Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis Two Men With the Blues Blue Note
10. Esparanza Spalding Esparanza Heads Up
REISSUES
1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recodings Mosaic
2. Miles Davis Kind Of Blue: The 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition Columbia/Legacy
VOCAL
Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis Two Men With the Blues Blue Note
DEBUT
No choice
LATIN
Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live At The Village Vanguard Calle 54/Norté
Andrey Henkin (All About Jazz—New York)
NEW RELEASES
(listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)
Peter Brøtzmann-Paal Nilssen-Mats Gustafsson The Fat Is Gone Smalltown Superjazz
Stephen Gauci Nididhyasana Clean Feed
Ingebrigt Haker Flaten & Hakon Kornstad Elise Hemlandssåger Compunctio
Terumasa Hino & Masabumi Kikuchi Counter Current Sony (Japan)
Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky & Michael Griener The Salmon Intakt
Donny McCaslin Recommended Tools Greenleaf
Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi
Bobby Previte Set the Alarm for Monday Palmetto
Jim Pugliese Live at Issue Project Room Improvisatore Involontario
Fred Van Hove Journey psi
REISSUES
(listed alphabetically; 2 points each)
Graham Collier Down Another Road/Songs for My Father/Mosaics BGO
Ray Russell Turn Circle Vocalion
John Tchicai Afrodisiaca MPS/Promising
VOCAL
No choice
DEBUT
Sean Conly Re:Action Clean Feed
LATIN
No choice
Geoffrey Himes (Washington Post, JazzTimes)
NEW RELEASES
1. David Murray & Mal Waldron Silence Justin Time
2. Bill Frisell History, Mystery Nonesuch
3. Dave Holland Pass It On Dare2/Emarcy
4. Lafayette Gilchrist Soul Progressin Hyena
5. SFJazz Collective Live 2008 SFJazz
6 Miguel Zenón Awake Marsalis Music
7 Kate McGarry If Less is More Palmetto
8. Francisco Mela Cirio Half Note
9. Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note
10 e.s.t Leucolyte Emarcy
REISSUES
1. Art Tatum Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine/Zenph Re-Performance Sony Classics
2 Augustus Pablo The Mystic World of Augustus Pablo Shanachie
3 Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners Keepnews Collection/Concord
VOCAL
Kate McGarry If Less is More Palmetto
DEBUT
No choice
LATIN
Miguel Zenón Awake Marsalis Music
Eugene Holley, Jr. (Village Voice, Batanga/Latin University)
NEW RELEASES
1. Ahmad Jamal It’s Magic Dreyfus
2. Marcus Shelby Harriet Tubman Noir
3. Pat Metheny Day Trip Nonesuch
4. Danilo Perez Across the Crystal Sea Emarcy
5. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi
6. Nicholas Payton Into the Blue Nonesuch
7. McCoy Tyner Guitars McCoy Tyner Music/Half Note
8. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM
9. Esperanza Spalding Esperanza Heads Up
10. Horace Silver Live at Newport ’58 Blue Note
REISSUES
1. Art Farmer Brass Shout!/The Aztec Suite Blue Note
2. Art Tatum Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine/Zenph Re-Performance Sony Classics
3. Helen Merrill The Helen Merrill Dick Katz Sessions Mosaic Singles
VOCAL
Nicole Henry The Very Thought of You Banister
DEBUT
Morgan Childs Time Cellar Jazz
LATIN
Conrad Herwig The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter Half Note
Lyn Horton (Downbeat, allaboutjazz.com)
NEW RELEASES
1. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside
2. Eri Yamamoto Redwoods AUM Fidelity
3. Matthew Shipp Un Piano Rogue Art
4. Klez-Edge Ancestors, Mindreles, NaGila Monsters Tzadik
5. Joe McPhee & John Heward, Voices-10 Improvisations Mode
6. Chico Hamilton & Andrew Hill Dreams Come True Joyous Shout
7. Jane Ira Bloom Mental Weather Outline
8. Nicole Mitchell Black Unstoppable Delmark
9. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM
10. This Musicship Yuganaut ESP Disk
REISSUES
1. Paul Bley Closer ESP Disk
2. Clifford Thornton Freedom & Unity Atavistic
VOCAL
Pete M Wyer Stories From the City At Night Thirsty Ear
DEBUT
Pete M Wyer Stories From the City At Night Thirsty Ear
LATIN
No choice
Tom Hull (Village Voice, tomhull.com)
NEW RELEASES
1 William Parker Double Sunrise Over Neptune AUM Fidelity
2. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside
3. Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin Holon ECM
4. Rob Brown Crown Trunk Root Funk AUM Fidelity
5. Scott Fields Bitter Love Songs Clean Feed
6. Mostly Other People Do the Killing This Is Our Moosic Hot Cup
7. Kris Davis Rye Eclipse Fresh Sound New Talent
8. Ken Vandermark 5 Beat Reader Atavistic
9. Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra We Are MTO Mowo
10. Randy Sandke Unconventional Wisdom Arbors
REISSUES
1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
2. Paul Bley Closer ESP-Disk
3. Curlew 1st Album/Live at CBGB DMG/ARC
VOCAL
Patricia Barber The Cole Porter Mix Blue Note
DEBUT
Gust Spenos Swing Theory Swing Theory
LATIN
Mike Ellis Bahia Band Alpha Pocket
Robert Iannapollo (Cadence, All About Jazz—New York)
NEW RELEASES
1. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsman Pi
2. Trio X Fall 2006 Tour CIMPol
3. Harris Eisenstadt Guewel Clean Feed
4. Taylor Ho Bynum Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths HatOLOGY
5. Szilard Mezei Ensemble Nad/Reed Red Toucan
6. Jason Kao Hwang Edge—Stories Before Within Innova
7. Michael Blake The World Awakes: A Tribute To Eli “Lucky” Thompson Stunt
8. William Parker Petite Oiseau AUM Fidelity
9. ICP Orchestra Live At The Bimhuis ICP
10. Wadada Leo Smith Tabligh Cuneiform
REISSUES
1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
2. Mike Osborne All Night Long Ogun
3. Sahib Shihab And The Danish Radio Jazz Group Oktav
VOCAL
No choice
DEBUT
No choice
LATIN
No choice
Willard Jenkins (Downbeat, JazzTimes)
NEW RELEASES
1. Charles Lloyd Rabo De Nube ECM
2. Rosa Passos Romance, Telarc
3. Sonny Rollins Road Shows Doxy/Emarcy
4. Dave Holland Pass It On, Dare 2/Emarcy
5. Marcus Shelby Harriet Tubman Noir
6. Bennie Maupin Early Reflection Cryptogramophone
7. Mike Reed The Speed of Change 482 Music
8. Evan Christopher Django ala Creole Classic Jazz
9. Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note
10. Jose James The Dreamer Brownswood
REISSUES
No choices
VOCAL
Rosa Passos Romance Telarc
DEBUT
Eric McPherson Continuum, Smalls
LATIN
Marty Sheller Why Deny PVR
Martin Johnson (Wall Street Journal, theroot.com)
NEW RELEASES
1. Jenny Scheinman Crossing the Field Koch
2. Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note
3. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy
4. Matana Roberts The Chicago Project Central Control
5. John McNeil & Bill McHenry Rediscovery Sunnyside
6. Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside
7. Noah Preminger Dry Bridge Road NOWT
8. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside
9. Mary Halvorson Dragon’s Head Firehouse 12
10. Brad Mehldau Live Nonesuch
REISSUES
No choice
VOCAL
Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note
DEBUT
Noah Preminger Dry Bridge Road NOWT
LATIN
Francisco Mela Cirio: Live at the Blue Note Half Note
Mike Joyce (JazzTimes, Washington Post)
NEW RELEASES
1. Charles Lloyd Rabo De Nube ECM
2. David Murray & Mal Waldron Silence Justin Time
3. Dave Liebman Negative Space Verve
4. Brian Blade Fellowship Season of Changes Verve
5. James Carter Present Tense Emarcy
6. Anat Cohen Notes From the Village Anzic
7. Roy Hargrove Earfood Emarcy
8. Bill Frisell History, Mystery Nonesuch
9. Avishai Cohen Gently Disturbed Razdaz
10. Lionel Loueke Karibu Blue Note
REISSUES1. Charlie Parker Washington, D.C., May 23, 1948 Uptown Jazz
2. Art Tatum Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine/Zenph Re-Performance Sony Classics
3. Return to Forever The Anthology Concord
VOCAL
Patricia Barber The Cole Porter Mix Blue Note
DEBUT
No choice
LATIN
David Sánchez Cultural Survival Concord Picante
George Kanzler (Hot House, JazzTimes, All About Jazz—New York)
NEW RELEASES
1. Randy Sandke Unconventional Wisdom Arbors
2. Michael Blake The World Awakes-A Tribute to Eli Lucky Thompson Stunt
3. Kenny Davern & Bob Wilber Soprano Summit in 1975 and More Arbors
4. Aaron Weinstein & John Pizzarelli Blue Too Arbors
5. Gary Smulyan High Noon: The Jazz Side of Frankie Laine Reservoir
6. James Moody & Hank Jones Our Delight IPO
7. Michael Moore & Fred Hersch This We Know Palmetto
8. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard Planet Arts
9. Anat Cohen Notes from the Village Anzic
10. Kenny Barron The Traveler Sunnyside
REISSUES1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
2. Charlie Parker Bird In Time, 1940-1947 ESP Disk
3. Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall Riverside/Keepnews Collection
VOCAL
Patricia Barber The Cole Porter Mix Blue Note
DEBUT
Vitaly Golovnev To Whom It May Concern Tippin’
LATIN
Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live at the Village Vanguard Callé 54/Norté
Fred Kaplan (Slate, Stereophile)
NEW RELEASES
1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy
2. Shirley Horn Live at the 1994 Monterey Jazz Festival MJF/Concord
3.Frank Kimbrough Air Palmetto
4.Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi
5.Carla Bley Appearing Nightly ECM
6.Paul Bley About Time Justin Time
7.David Murray & Mal Waldron Silence Justin Time
8.Wynton Marsalis & Willie Nelson Two Men with the Blues Blue Note
9.Steven Bernstein Diaspora Suite Tzadik
10. Jeff Gauthier House of Return Cryptogramophon
REISSUES
1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
2. Nina Simone To Be Free Sony/Legacy
3. Maria Schneider Coming About [remastered] ArtistShare
VOCAL
Shirley Horn Live at the 1994 Monterey Jazz Festival MJF/Concord
DEBUT
Noah Preminger Dry Bridge Road NOWT
LATIN
No choice
Larry Kart (Jazz in Search of Itself)
NEW RELEASES
1. Keefe Jackson Just Like This Delmark
2. Bik Bent Braam Extremen BBB
3. Jason Ajemian The Art of Dying Delmark
4. Matana Roberts The Chicago Project Central Control
5. Organissimo Grooveadelphia Big O Records
6. Grant Stewart Young At Heart Sharp Nine
7. Jason Adasiewicz Roll Down 482 Music
8. Horace Silver Live At Newport ’58 Blue Note
9. David Sherr Otherworld Music Bel Air Jazz
10. Randy Sandke Unconventional Wisdom Arbors
REISSUES
1. Roscoe Mitchell Noonah Nessa
2. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
3. Dizzy Gillespie Showtime at the Spotlite: 52nd Street, New York City, June 1946 Uptown
VOCAL
Norma Winstone Amoroso … Only More So Trio
DEBUT
Jason Adasiewicz Roll Down 482 Music
LATIN
Luis Bonilla’s Trombonilla Terminal Clarity Now Jazz Consortium
Elzy Kolb (Hot House, Westchester Journal News)
NEW RELEASES
(listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)
Carla Bley Appearing Nightly Watt/ECM
Andrea Brachfeld Into the World: A Musical Offering Shaneye
Eliane Elias Something for You: Eliane Sings & Plays Bill Evans Blue Note
Shirley Horn Live at the 1994 Monterey Jazz Festival MJF/Concord
Virginia Mayhew A Simple Thank You Renma
David Murray & Mal Waldron Silence Justin Time
Stanton Moore Emphasis! (on Parenthesis) Telarc
Saxophone Summit Seraphic Light Telarc
Shakers n’ Bakers Yearning for Zion little[i]music)
Sumi Tonooka Long Ago Today ARC
REISSUES
No choices
VOCAL
Shirley Horn Live at the 1994 Monterey Jazz Festival MJF/Concord
LATIN
No choice
Art Lange (Fanfare, pointofdeparture.org)
NEW RELEASES
1. Evan Parker Boustrophedon ECM
2. Tiziano Tononi Peace Warriors (Forgotten Children) Black Saint
3. Mike Reed Proliferation 482 Music
4. Alexander von Schlippenbach-Daniel D’Agaro-Tristan Honsinger Friulian Sketches psi
5. Adam Lane-Lou Grassi-Mark Whitecage Drunk Butterfly Clean Feed
6. Anthony Braxton Piano Music 1968-2000 Leo
7. Orange Room Orange Room El Gallo Rojo
8. Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky Caprichos Leo
9. Jerry Bergonzi Tenor Talk Savant
10. Connie Crothers & Bill Payne Conversations New Artists
REISSUES
1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
2. Humphrey Lyttelton Classic “Live” Concerts Lake
3. Stan Tracey The Early Works ReSteamed
VOCAL
No choice
DEBUT
Orange Room Orange Room El Gallo Rojo
LATIN
No choice
Suzanne Lorge (All About Jazz—New York)
NEW RELEASES
1. Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note
2. Max Raabe & Palast Orchester Heute Nacht Oder Nie SPV
3. Norma Winstone Distances ECM
4. Matt Turner/Peg & Bill Carothers, The Voices That Are Gone: The Music of Stephen Foster Illusions
5. Robin McKelle Modern Antique Cheap Lullabye
6. Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones You Are There Emarcy
7. Dianne Reeves When You Know Blue Note
8. Karrin Allyson Imagina Concord
9. Stacey Kent Breakfast On The Morning Tram Blue Note
10. Yoon Sun Choi & Jacob Sacks Imagination Yeah-Yeah
REISSUES
1. Nina Simone To Be Free Sony/Legacy
2. Carmen McRae Live At The Flamingo Jazz Club, London, May 1961 Acrobat
3) Sarah Vaughan & Woody Herman On The Radio: The 1963 ‘Live’ Guard Sessions Acrobat
VOCAL
Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note
DEBUT
Dee Casella I’m Here Now (s/r)
LATIN
Karrin Allyson Imagina Concord
Kevin Lynch (Capitol Times [Madison], Downbeat)
NEW RELEASES
1. Kurt Rosenwinkel The Remedy: Live at The Village Vanguard ArtistShare
2. Omar Sosa Afreecanos Ota
3. Otis Taylor Recapturing the Banjo Telarc Blues
4. Marc Copland-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian Voices: New York Recordings Vol. 2 Pirouet
5. James Carter PresentTense Emarcy
6. Loren Stillman Blind Date Pirouet
7. Pete Robbins Do the Hate Laugh Shimmy Fresh Sound New Talent
8. Marcus Shelby Harriet Tubman Noir
9. Martin Wasilewski January ECM
10. Dafnis Prieto Taking the Soul for a Walk DafnisonMusic
REISSUES
1. Ornette Coleman Town Hall 1962 ESP Disk
2. Albert Ayler The Hilversum Session ESP Disk
3. Various Artists When Blues Met Rock Starbucks
VOCAL
Luciana Souza The New Bossa Nova Verve
DEBUT
Tim Whalen Magnus Way Hay
LATIN
Conrad Herwig The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter Half Note
John McDonough (Downbeat, Wall Street Journal)
NEW RELEASES
1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy
2. Horace Silver Live at Newport 1958 Blue Note
3. Martial Solal Longitude Cam Jazz
4. Buddy DeFranco Charlie Cat 2 Arbors
5. Chick Corea & Gary Burton Crystal Silence Concord
6. Aaron Weinstein & John Pizzarelli Blue Too Arbors
7. Joe Lovano Symphonica Blue Note
8. Dick Hyman Thinking About Bix Hyman
9. Bireli Lagrene Just the Way You Are Dreyfus
10. Bob Wilber & Nick Payton Swinging the Changes Arbors
REISSUES
1. Lester Young Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion with Count Basie (1936-1940) Mosaic
2. Benny Goodman Columbia and Okeh Sessions Mosaic
3. Miles Davis Broadcast Sessions 1958-59 Acrobat
VOCAL
Lorraine Feather Language Jazzed Media
DEBUT
No choice
LATIN
No choice
Jim Macnie (Downbeat, Village Voice)
NEW RELEASES
1. Dafnis Prieto Taking The Soul Out For a Walk Dafnison
2. Jane Ira Bloom Mental Weather Artist Share
3. Lionel Loueke Karibu Blue Note
4. Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside
5. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi
6. Adam Kolker Flag Day Sunnyside
7. Francisco Mela Cirio HalfNote
8. Bill Carrothers Home Row
9. Martial Solal Longitude CamJazz
10. Ben Allison Little Things Run the World Palmetto
RESISSUES
1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
2. Muhal Richard Abrams & Malachi Favors SightSong Black Saint (digital)
3. John Carter Dauwhe Black Saint (digital)
VOCAL
Kate McGarry If Less Is More Palmetto
DEBUT
Mathias Eick The Door ECM
LATIN
Pete Rodriguez El Alquimista Condé
Howard Mandel (Miles, Ornette, Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz)
NEW RELEASES
1. James Carter Present Tense Emarcy
2.Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note
3. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi
4. Lafayette Gilchrist Soul Progressin’ Hyena
5. Free Form Funky Freqs Urban Mythology Volume 1 Thirsty Ear
6. Lee Konitz & Minsarah Deep Lee Enja
7.Sonny Rollins Road Shows: Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy
8. Saxophone Summit Seraphic Light Telarc
9. Mostly Other People Do the Killing This Is Our Moosic Hot Cup
10. Nicole Mitchell Black Unstoppable Delmark
REISSUES
1. Charlie Parker Bird in Time 1940–1947 ESP Disk
2. Giuseppi Logan Quartet ESP Disk
3. Art Tatum Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine/Zenph Re-Performance Sony Classics
VOCAL
Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note
DEBUT
No choice
LATIN
Arturo O’Farrill Song for Chico Zoho
Peter Margasak (Chicago Reader, Downbeat)
NEW RELEASES
1. Atomic Retrograde Jazzland
2. Donny McCaslin Recommended Tools Greenleaf
3. Mike Reed Proliferation 482 Music
4. Martial Solal Longitude CamJazz
5. Mary Halvorson Dragon’s Head Firehouse 12
6. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside
7. John McNeil & Bill McHenry Rediscovery Sunnyside
8. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi
9. Lafayette Gilchrist Soul Progressin’ Hyena
10. Andrew Hill & Chico Hamilton Dreams Come True Joyous Shout
REISSUES
1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
2. Chris McGregor Very Urgent Fledgling
3. Roscoe Mitchell Nonaah Nessa
VOCAL
Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note
DEBUT
Ambrose Akinmusire Prelude Fresh Sound New Talent
LATIN
Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live at the Village Vanguard Calle 54/Norté
Ken Micallef (Downbeat, Modern Drummer)
NEW RELEASES
1. Jeff Babko Mondo Trio Abstract Logix
2.Dafnis Prieto Taking the Soul for a Walk Dafnison
3. Alan Pasqua Standards Fuzzy Music
4.Pat Metheny Day Trip Nonesuch
5.Brian Blade Season of Changes Verve
6.Cindy Blackman Music for the New Millennium Synth Sound
7. Marcin Wasilewski January ECM
8. Wadada Leo Smith Tabligh Cuneiform
9. Dave Holland Pass It On Dare 2/Emarcy
10. Arturo O’Farrill Song for Chico Zoho
REISSUES
1. Charlie Parker Washington, D.C., May 23, 1948 Uptown Jazz
2. Cal Tjader Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1958-1980 MJF/Concord
3. Return to Forever The Anthology Concord
VOCAL
Eliane Elias Bossa Nova Stories Blue Note
DEBUT
No choice
LATIN
Arturo O’Farrill Song for Chico Zoho
Bill Milkowski (JazzTimes, The Absolute Sound)
NEW RELEASES
1. Joe Lovano Symphonica Blue Note
2. Ari Hoenig Bert’s Playground Dreyfus
3. Bill Frisell History, Mystery Nonesuch
4. Brian Blade Season of Changes Verve
5. Saxophone Summit Seraphic Light Telarc
6. Charles Lloyd Rabe De Nube ECM
7. Chick Corea & Gary Burton New Crystal Silence Concord
8. Kurt Rosenwinkel The Remedy ArtistShare
9. Various Artists Miles From India 4 Quarters/Times Square
10. Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra We Are MTO Mowo
REISSUES
1. Miles Davis Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition Columbia/Legacy
2. Eric Dolphy At the Five Spot Prestige
3. Return To Forever The Anthology Concord
VOCAL
Sheila Jordan Winter Sunshine Justin Time
DEBUT
Noah Preminger Dry Bridge Road NOWT
LATIN
David Sánchez Cultural Survival Concord Picante
Dan Morgenstern (Annual Review of Jazz Studies, Jersey Jazz)
NEW RELEASES
l. James Moody & Hank Jones Our Delight IPO
2 Anat Cohen Notes from the Village Anzic
3. Scott Robinson Forever Lasting Arbors
4. Bob Mover It Amazes Me Zoho
5. Martial Solal Longitude CamJazz
6. Joe Temperley The Sinatra Songbook Hep
7. Mark Masters Farewell Walter Dewey Redman Capri
8. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. l Doxy/EmArcy
9. Ehud Asherie Swing Set Positone
10. Avishai Cohen Flood Anzic
REISSUES
l. Lester Young Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion with Count Basie (1936-1940) Mosaic
2. Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabakin Big Band Mosaic Select
3. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic
VOCAL
Daryl Sherman New O’leans Jazzology
DEBUT
Theo Crocker In the Tradition Arbors
LATIN
Conrad Herwig The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter Half Note
Russ Musto (All About Jazz—New York)
NEW RELEASES
1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy
2. Dave Holland Sextet Pass It On Dare2/Emarcy
3. Kurt Rosenwinkle The Remedy ArtistShare
4. Brian Blade Season of Changes Verve
5. Brad Mehldau Live Nonesuch
6. James Moody & Hank Jones Our Delight IPO
7. Ted Nash The Mancini Project Palmetto
8. Saxophone Summit Seraphic Light Telarc
9. Dafnis Prieto Taking The Soul For A Walk Dafnison
10. Francisco Mela Cirio HalfNote
REISSUES
1. Ornette Coleman Town Hall 1962 ESP Disk
2. Wayne Shorter The Soothsayer Blue Note
3. Lester Young Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion with Count Basie (1936-1940) Mosaic
VOCAL
Rebecca Martin The Growing Season Sunnyside
DEBUT
Ambrose Akinmusire Prelude to Coda Fresh Sound New Talent
LATIN
Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live At The Village Vanguard Calle 54/Norté
Ivana Ng (All About Jazz—New York)
NEW RELEASES
1. Anat Cohen Notes from the Village Anzic
2. Mostly Other People Do the Killing This Is Our Moosic Hot Cup
3. Joe McPhee & John Heward Voices: 10 Improvisations Mode
4. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside
5. Peter Brötzmann & Han Bennink Amherst 2006 Eremite
6. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy
7. Dave Holland Pass It On Dare2/Emarcy
REISSUES
1. Art Tatum Tatum Art Storyville
2. Charlie Parker Bird in Time 1940-1947 ESP Disk
3. New York Eye and Ear Control ESP Disk
VOCAL
Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note
DEBUT
This Musicianship Yuganaut ESP Disk
LATIN
No choice
Dan Ouellette (Downbeat, napster.com)
NEW RELEASES
1. Jenny Scheinman Crossing the Field Koch
2. Bobby Previte Set the Alarm for Monday Palmetto
3. Erik Friedlander-Mike Serin-Trevor Dunn Broken Arm Trio Skipstone
4. Joe Lovano Symphonica Blue Note
5. Marco Benevento Invisible Baby Hyena
6. McCoy Tyner Guitars Half Note
7. Ben Allison Little Things Run the World Palmetto
8. Ahmad Jamal It’s Magic Dreyfus
9. Anat Cohen Notes From the Village Anzic
10. Chick Corea & Gary Burton The New Crystal Silence Concord
REISSUES
No choices
VOCAL
Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note
DEBUT
No choice
LATIN
No choice
This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on December 31, 2008