Tom Hull's Extended Year-End Jazz List (2011)

6th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2011

Tom Hull's Extended Year-End Jazz List (2011)

As I did in 2009-10, I thought it would be useful to provide some context for where my ballot records came from, what they beat out, and what came more or less close. Every critic is constrained by what they hear, and by how much time they can spend on it. I heard approximately 600 records in 2011, almost never spending enough time with a record (although sometimes feeling like I had spent too much).

This file is extracted on Dec. 30, 2010, from a larger year 2011 list that I keep and update on my website. The longer file has a lot of non-jazz records. This file has some borderline cases I could have left out. Jazz vocals are a hazardous domain, often having little to do with traditional jazz. World music is in a flux where fusion is both coming and going, and there are postrock things that could be included or not. There's also a shared edge with euroclassical which is getting messier as more and more jazz musicians are trained in conservatories. And then there's pop jazz, which doesn't have anything in common with real jazz but sometimes confuses people (on rare occasions even appealing to my disco youth).

Records under each grade are sorted alphabetically. In my source file I try to rank them, but once I get past the first couple dozen that becomes utterly futile, suggesting precision that can't possibly be delivered.

The lists tend to peak in the B+ range, which I've divided into three tiers, then falls off pretty quickly through the lower B's. I have a pretty broad appetite for jazz, and there really aren't any significant number of bad jazz musicians (although some sometimes have bad ideas, and I can occasionally be intolerant of avant-noise or anything that sinks into the subliminal). I don't seek out bad records, and natural selection has started keeping bad records from finding me. But there is a rather large bloc listed under U: those are records I have but haven't decided what I think of. Some I've played; others I just haven't gotten to.

Following the new records, I clump together all of the old music. This is much more hit and miss, both in terms of what gets released in any given year and what I manage to get hold of (usually, not much).

New Records

A

Avram Fefer/Eric Revis/Chad Taylor: Eliyahu (Not Two)
Allen Lowe: Blues and the Empirical Truth (Music & Arts, 3CD)
Dan Raphael/Rich Halley/Carson Halley: Children of the Blue Supermarket (Pine Eagle)

A-

Muhal Richard Abrams: SoundDance (Pi, 2CD)
Andrew Atkinson Quartet: Live: Keep Looking Forward (self-released)
Yaala Ballin: On the Road (Gallery)
Harrison Bankhead Sextet: Morning Sun Harvest Moon (Engine): **
Jerry Bergonzi: Convergence (Savant)
The Chris Byars Octet: Lucky Strikes Again (SteepleChase)
James Carter Organ Trio: At the Crossroads (Emarcy)
Brian Charette: Learning to Count (SteepleChase)
Alexis Cuadrado: Noneto Ibérico (Bju'ecords)
Andrew Cyrille & Haitian Fascination: Route de Frères (TUM)
Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble: The Prairie Prophet (Delmark)
De Nazaten & James Carter: For Now (Strotbrocck)
Carlo De Rosa's Cross-Fade: Brain Dance (Cuneiform)
Mathias Eick: Skala (ECM)
Eliane Elias: Light My Fire (Concord)
Ellery Eskelin Trio: New York (Prime Source)
FAB Trio: History of Jazz in Reverse (TUM)
Joe Fiedler Trio: Sacred Chrome Orb (YSL)
Jake Fryer/Bud Shank Quartet: In Good Company (Capri)
Kieran Hebden/Steve Reid/Mats Gustafsson: Live at the South Bank (Smalltown Superjazz, 2CD)
Gerry Hemingway Quintet: Riptide (Clean Feed)
Honey Ear Trio: Steampunk Serenade (Foxhaven)
Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya: Sotho Blue (Sunnyside)
ICP Orchestra: ICP 049 (ICP -10)
Inzinzac: Inzinzac (High Two)
Darius Jones: Big Gurl (Smell My Dream) (AUM Fidelity)
Matt Lavelle: Goodbye New York, Hello World (Music Now!)
Jerry Leake & Randy Roos: Cubist Live (Rhombus Publishing)
Lim: Lim With Marc Ducret (Kopasetic): **
Charles Lloyd Quartet with Maria Farantouri: Athens Concert (ECM, 2CD)
Luis Lopes: Lisbon Berlin Trio (Clean Feed)
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Samdhi (ACT)
Maïkotron Unit: Ex-Voto (Jazz From Rant)
Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton: Play the Blues: Live From Jazz at Lincoln Center (Reprise)
Joe McPhee/Michael Zerang: Creole Gardens (A New Orleans Song) (NoBusiness)
Moon Hotel Lounge Project: Into the Ojalá (Frosty Cordial)
David Murray Cuban Ensemble: Plays Nat King Cole: En Español (Motéma)
Deborah Pearl: Souvenir of You: New Lyrics to Benny Carter Classics (Evening Star)
Adam Pieronczyk: Komeda: The Innocent Sorcerer (Jazzwerkstatt)
Phil Ranelin: Perseverance (Wide Hive): **
Claire Ritter: The Stream of Pearls Project (Zoning)
Sonny Rollins: Road Shows Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
Ted Rosenthal: Out of This World (Playscape)
Side A: A New Margin (Clean Feed)
Tommy Smith: Karma (Spartacus)
Wadada Leo Smith's Organic: Heart's Reflections (Cuneiform, 2CD)
Starlicker: Double Demon (Delmark)
Jason Stein Quartet: The Story This Time (Delmark)
Colin Stetson: New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges (Constellation): **
Tyshawn Sorey: Oblique - I (Pi)
Marcus Strickland: Triumph of the Heavy: Volume 1 & 2 (Strick Muzik, 2CD)
David S. Ware/Cooper-Moore/William Parker/Muhammad Ali: Planetary Unknown (AUM Fidelity)

B+(***)

Agogic: Agogic (Table & Chairs)
Ralph Alessi and This Against That: Wiry Strong (Clean Feed)
Harry Allen: Rhythm on the River (Challenge)
JD Allen Trio: Victory! (Sunnyside)
Ben Allison: Action-Refraction (Palmetto): **
Ernestine Anderson: Nightlife (High Note)
Lynne Arriale: Convergence (Motéma)
Clint Ashlock Big Band: New Jazz Order (self-released)
Omer Avital: Free Forever (Smalls)
BANN [Seamus Blake/Jay Anderson/Oz Noy/Adam Nussbaum]: As You Like (Jazz Eyes)
BassDrumBone: The Other Parade (Clean Feed)
Michael Bates: Acrobat: Music for, and by, Dmitri Shostakovich (Sunnyside)
Bebop Trio: Bebop Trio (Creative Nation Music)
The Louie Belogenis Trio: Tiresias (Porter)
Daniel Bennett Group: Peace & Stability Among Bears (Bennett Alliance)
Tim Berne: Insomnia (Clean Feed)
Tim Berne/Jim Black/Nels Cline: The Veil (Cryptogramophone)
Sarah Bernstein: Unearthish (Phase Frame Music)
Carlos Bica & Azul: Things About (Clean Feed)
David Binney: Graylen Epicenter (Mythology)
Jim Black/Trevor Dunn/Oscar Noriega/Chris Speed: Endangered Blood (Skirl)
Ran Blake/Dominique Eade: Whirlpool (Jazz Project)
Jane Ira Bloom: Wingwalker (Outline)
Anthony Branker & Word Play: Dialogic (Origin)
Bryan and the Haggards: Still Alive and Kickin' Down the Walls (Hot Cup)
Jaki Byard: A Matter of Black and White: Live at the Keystone Korner, Vol. 2 (1978-79, High Note)
Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet: Apparent Distance (Firehouse 12)
Uri Caine Trio: Siren (Winter & Winter): **
Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio: Les Nuages en France (Mode/Avant)
Ralph Carney's Serious Jass Project: Seriously (Smog Veil)
François Carrier/Michel Lambert/Alexey Lapin: All Out (FMR)
François Carrier/Alexey Lapin/Michel Lambert: Inner Spire (Leo)
Bruno Chevillon/Tim Berne: Old and Unwise (Clean Feed)
The Cookers: Cast the First Stone (Plus Loin Music)
Clams Casino: Instrumentals (self-released): **
Claire Daly Quintet: Mary Joyce Project: Nothing to Lose (Daly Bread)
Joseph Daley Earth Tones Ensemble: The Seven Deadly Sins (Jaro): **
Dead Cat Dance: Chance Episodes (Cuneiform)
Todd DelGiudice: Pencil Sketches (OA2)
Armen Donelian: Leapfrog (Sunnyside)
Dave Douglas: Rare Metals [Greenleaf Portable Series Volume 1] (Greenleaf Music)
Dave Douglas: United Front: Brass Ecstasy at Newport (Greenleaf Music): **
Dave Douglas/So Percussion: Bad Mango [Greenleaf Portable Series Volume 3] (Greenleaf Music)
Echoes of Swing: Message From Mars (Echoes of Swing)
Marty Ehrlich's Rites Quartet: Frog Leg Logic (Clean Feed)
Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day II (Songlines): **
Harris Eisenstadt: September Trio (Clean Feed)
Amir ElSaffar Two Rivers Ensemble: Inana (Pi)
Farmers by Nature [Gerald Cleaver, William Parker, Craig Taborn]: Out of This World's Distortions (AUM Fidelity)
Agustí Fernández: El Laberint de la Memória (Mbari Musica)
Erik Friedlander: Bonebridge (Skipstone)
Giacomo Gates: The Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs of Gil Scott-Heron (Savant)
Vinny Golia Quartet: Take Your Time (Relative Pitch): **
Dennis González/João Paulo: So Soft Yet (Clean Feed)
Charlie Haden Quartet West: Sophisticated Ladies (Decca): **
Scott Hamilton/Rossano Sportiello: Midnight at NOLA's Penthouse (Arbors): **
Eric Harland: Voyager: Live by Night (Sunnyside)
Harriet Tubman: Ascension (Sunnyside)
Roy Haynes: Roy-Alty (Dreyfus)
Julius Hemphill/Peter Kowald: Live at Kassiopeia (1987, NoBusiness, 2CD)
William Hooker: Crossing Points (1992, NoBusiness)
I Compani: Mangiare (Icdisc)
Mikko Innanen & Innkvisitio: Clustrophy (TUM)
Anne Mette Iversen Quartet: Milo Songs (Bju'ecords)
Vijay Iyer with Prasanna & Nitin Mitta: Tirtha (ACT)
Jazz Spastiks and Junclassic: Mode 7 (Hipnott): **
Darren Johnston's Gone to Chicago: The Big Lift (Porto Franco)
Dave King Trucking Company: Good Old Light (Sunnyside)
Lisa Kirchner: Something to Sing About (Albany)
Lee Konitz: Insight (1989-95, Jazzwerkstatt)
Ernie Krivda: Blues for Pekar (Capri)
The Landrus Kaleidoscope: Capsule (BlueLand)
Jeff Lederer: Sunwatcher (Jazzheads)
Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord: Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! (Hot Cup)
Brian Lynch: Unsung Heroes (Hollistic Music Works)
Tony Malaby: Tony Malaby's Novella (Clean Feed)
Mambo Legends Orchestra: ¡Ten Cuidao! Watch Out! (Zoho, 2CD)
René Marie: Black Lace Freudian Slip (Motéma Music): **
Boban & Marko Markovic Orchestra Versus Fanfare Ciocárlia: Balkan Brass Battle (Asphalt Tango)
Pat Martino: Undeniable: Live at Blues Alley (High Note)
Nilson Matta & Roni Ben-Hur: Mojave (Motéma)
Terrence McManus: Transcendental Numbers (NoBusiness)
Brad Mehldau & Kevin Hays: Modern Music (Nonesuch)
Sei Miguel/Pedro Gomes: Turbina Anthem (NoBusiness)
Yoko Miwa Trio: Live at Scullers Jazz Club (self-released)
Nils Petter Molvaer: Baboon Moon (Thirsty Ear)
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: The Coimbra Concert (Clean Feed, 2CD)
Nanette Natal: Sweet Summer Blue (Benyo Music)
New York Standards Quartet: Unstandard (Challenge)
Nordeson Shelton: Incline (Singlespeed Music)
Nordic Connect: Spirals (ArtistShare)
Sean Nowell: Stockholm Swingin' (Posi-Tone)
NY Jazz Initiative: Mad About Thad (Jazzheads)
Other Dimensions in Music featuring Fay Victor: Kaiso Stories (Silkheart)
Michael Pedicin: Ballads (Jazz Hut)
Ivo Perelman Quartet: The Hour of the Star (Leo)
Houston Person: So Nice (HighNote)
Augusto Pirodda: No Comment (Jazzwerkstatt)
Premier Roeles: Ka Da Ver (Vindu)
Preservation Hall Jazz Band & the Del McCoury Band: American Legacies (McCoury Music): **
Joshua Redman/Aaron Parks/Matt Penman/Eric Harland: James Farm (Nonesuch)
The Rempis Percussion Quartet: Montreal Parade (482 Music): **
Júlio Resende Trio: You Taste Like a Song (Clean Feed)
Matana Roberts: Live in London (Central Control): **
Daniel Rosenthal: Lines (American Melody)
Roswell Rudd: The Incredible Honk (Sunnyside)
Bobby Sanabria: Tito Puente Masterworks Live!!! (Jazzheads)
John Scofield: A Moment's Peace (Emarcy)
Karl Seglem: Ossicles (Ozella)
SFE: Positions & Descriptions: Simon H. Fell Composition No. 75 (Clean Feed)
Matthew Shipp: Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear, 2CD)
Matthew Shipp/Joe Morris: Broken Partials (Not Two): **
Sean Smith Quartet: Trust (Smithereen)
Wadada Leo Smith's Mbira: Dark Lady of the Sonnets (TUM)
Sonic Liberation Front: Meets Sunny Murray (High Two)
Terell Stafford: This Side of Strayhorn (MaxJazz)
Joan Stiles: Three Musicians (Oo-Bla-Dee)
Jamaldeen Tacuma: For the Love of Ornette (Jazzwerkstatt)
Tin Hat: The Rain Is a Handsome Animal (New Amsterdam): **
André Vasconcellos: 2 (Adventure Music)
Vicious World: Plays the Music of Rufus Wainwright (Spinaround)
Melvin Vines: Harlem Jazz Machine (Movi)
Larry Vuckovich: Somethin' Special (Tetrachord)
Doug Webb: Renovations (Posi-Tone)
Walt Weiskopf Quartet: Recorded Live April 8, 2008 Koger Hall University of South Carolina (Capri)
Ezra Weiss: The Shirley Horn Suite (Roark)
Mort Weiss: Mort Weiss Meets Bill Cunliffe (SMS Jazz)
Wellstone Conspiracy: Humble Origins (Origin)
Kenny Wheeler: One of Many (CAM Jazz)
Gerald Wilson Orchestra: Legacy (Mack Avenue): **
Kenny Werner: Balloons (Half Note)
Andrea Wolper: Parallel Lives (Jazzed Media)
World Saxophone Quartet: Yes We Can (Jazzwerkstatt)
Miguel Zenón: Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music): **

B+(**)

Antonio Adolfo: Chora Baião (AAM)
Ambrose Akinmusire: When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note): **
Amina Alaoui: Arco Iris (ECM)
Eric Alexander: Don't Follow the Crowd (High Note)
Aimée Allen: Winters & Mays (Azuline Music)
The Ambush Party: The Ambush Party (De Platenbakkerij)
The Ames Room: Bird Dies (Clean Feed)
Arrive: "There Was . . ." (Clean Feed)
Christian Artmann: Uneasy Dreams (self-released)
Pablo Aslan Quintet: Piazzolla in Brooklyn (Soundbrush)
Mike Baggetta Quartet: Source Material (Fresh Sound New Talent)
Banquet of the Spirits: Caym: The Book of Angels Volume 17 (Tzadik): **
Stefano Battaglia Trio: The River of Anyder (ECM)
Stephane Belmondo: The Same as It Never Was Before (Sunnyside)
David Berkman: Self-Portrait (Red Piano): **
Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra: MTO Plays Sly (Royal Potato Family)
Ketil Bjørnstad/Svante Henryson: Night Song (ECM)
Dan Blake: The Aquarian State (Bju'ecords)
Matt Blostein/Vinnie Sperrazza: Paraphrase (Yeah-Yeah)
T.K. Blue: Latinbird (Motéma)
Bones & Times: Bones & Tones (Freedom Art)
Ralph Bowen: Power Play (Posi-Tone)
Bobby Bradford/Mark Dresser/Glenn Ferris: Live in LA (Clean Feed)
Wolfert Brederode Quartet: Post Scriptum (ECM)
Zach Brock: The Magic Number (Secret Fort)
Greg Burk Trio: The Path Here (482 Music)
Kenny Burrell: Tenderly: Solo Guitar Concert (High Note)
The New Gary Burton Quartet: Common Ground (Mack Avenue): **
Frank Carlberg: Uncivilized Ruminations (Red Piano)
Brian Carpenter's Ghost Train Orchestra: Hothouse Stomp: The Music of 1920s Chicago and Harlem (Accurate)
François Carrier: Entrance 3 (Ayler)
Terri Lyne Carrington: The Mosaic Project (Concord): **
Ron Carter: Ron Carter's Great Big Band (Sunnyside)
Ernesto Cervini Quartet: There (Anzic)
Gerald Cleaver/Uncle June: Be It as I See It (Fresh Sound New Talent): **
Cloning Americana: For Which It Stands (Sunnyside)
Todd Clouser: A Love Electric (Ropeadope)
Avishai Cohen: Seven Seas (Sunnyside)
Freddy Cole: Talk to Me (High Note)
Laurence Cook/Eric Zinman: Double Action (Ayler)
Jacques Coursil: Trails of Tears (Sunnyside)
Shirley Crabbe: Home (self-released)
Adam Cruz: Milestone (Sunnyside): **
Mark Dagley: Mystery of the Guitar (Abaton Book)
Kris Davis: Aeriol Piano (Clean Feed)
Chuck Deardorf: Transparence (Origin)
The Dynamic Les DeMerle Band: Gypsy Rendezvous, Volume Two (Origin)
Mike DiRubbo: Chronos (Posi-Tone)
Mike DiRubbo & Larry Willis: Four Hands, One Heart (Ksanti)
Dave Douglas: Orange Afternoons [Greenleaf Portable Series Volume 2] (Greenleaf Music)
Benjamin Drazen: Inner Lights (Posi-Tone)
Kermit Driscoll: Reveille (Nineteen-Eight)
Lajos Dudas/Hubert Bergmann: What's Up Neighbor? (Jazz Sick)
Yelena Eckemoff: Flying Steps (Yelena Music)
Yelena Eckemoff: Grass Catching the Wind (Yelena Music)
Eco D'Alberi: Eco D'Alberi (Porter)
Empirical: Elements of Truth (Naim Jazz): **
Orrin Evans: Freedom (Posi-Tone)
Kali Z. Fasteau/William Parker/Cindy Blackman: An Alternate Universe (1991-92, Flying Note)
Michael Feinberg: With Many Hands (self-released)
Scott Fields & Multiple Joyce Orchestra: Moersbow/OZZO (Clean Feed)
Scott Fields/Matthias Schubert: Minaret Minuets (Clean Feed)
FivePlay Jazz Quintet: Five of Hearts (Auraline)
The Flail: Live at Smalls (Smalls Live)
Flow Trio: Set Theory: Live at the Stone (Ayler)
Joel Forrester/Phillip Johnston: Live at the Hillside Club (Asynchronous)
Ken Fowser/Behn Gillece: Duotone (Posi-Tone)
Paolo Fresu: Mistico Mediterraneo (ECM)
Bill Frisell: All We Are Saying . . . (Savoy Jazz)
Bill Frisell: Sign of Life (Savoy Jazz)
Satoko Fujii Min-Yoh Ensemble: Watershed (Libra)
Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Eto (Libra)
Curtis Fuller: The Story of Cathy & Me (Challenge)
Rob Garcia 4: The Drop and the Ocean (Bju'ecords)
The Jeff Gauthier Goatette: Open Source (Cryptogramophone)
David Gibson: End of the Tunnel (Posi-Tone)
Otzir Godot: Kas Kas (Epatto -09)
Mac Gollehon: Odyssey of Nostalgia (American Showplace Music)
Aaron Goldberg and Guillermo Klein: Bienestan (Sunnyside)
Jerry Gonzalez: Jerry Gonzalez y el Comando de la Clave (Sunnyside)
The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble: Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff (ECM)
Gutbucket: Flock (Cuneiform)
Iro Haarla Quintet: Vespers (ECM)
Tim Hagans: The Moon Is Waiting (Palmetto)
Rich Halley Quartet: Requiem for a Pit Viper (Pine Eagle)
Donald Harrison: This Is Jazz: Live at the Blue Note (Half Note)
Werner Hasler/Karl Berger/Gilbert Paeffgen: Hasler/Paeffgen/Berger (NoBusiness)
Kevin Hays: Variations (Pirouet)
Ig Henneman Sextet: Cut a Caper (Stichting Wig)
Mace Hibbard: Time Gone By (MHM)
Lisa Hilton: Underground (Ruby Slippers)
Art Hirahara: Noble Path (Posi-Tone)
Marika Hughes: Afterlife Music Radio: 11 New Pieces for Solo Cello (DD)
Marika Hughes: The Simplest Thing (DD)
Julia Hülsmann Trio: Imprint (ECM)
Robert Hurst: Bob Ya Head (Bebob)
Jason Kao Hwang/Edge: Crossroads Unseen (Euonymous)
Hybrid 10tet: On the Move (BBB)
Iron Dog: Field Recordings 1 (Iron Dog Music)
Daniel Jamieson's Danjam Orchestra: Sudden Appearance (OA2)
Billy Jenkins: Jazz Gives Me the Blues (VOTP): **
Darren Johnston/Aram Shelton/Lisa Mezzacappa/Kjell Nordeson: Cylinder (Clean Feed)
Melvin Jones: Pivot (Turnaround)
Kidd Jordan: On Fire (Engine): **
Kaze: Rafale (Libra)
Søren Kjaergaard/Ben Street/Andrew Cyrille: Femklang (ILK): **
Jan Klare/Jeff Platz/Meinrad Kneer/Bill Elgart: Modern Primitive (Evil Rabbit)
Landon Knoblock/Jason Furman: Gasoline Rainbow (Fractamodi)
Adam Kolker: Reflections (Sunnyside)
Lee Konitz/Brad Mehldau/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian: Live at Birdland (ECM)
Oliver Lake & Jahani Sundance: Lakes at the Stone (Passin Thru): **
The Brian Landrus Quartet: Traverse (Blueland)
Okkyung Lee: Noisy Love Songs (Tzadik): **
Daniel Levin: Inner Landscape (Clean Feed)
Daniel Levin Quartet: Organic Modernism (Clean Feed)
Helge Lien: Natsukashii (Ozella)
Mark Alban Lotz & Istak Köpek: Istanbul Improv Sessions May 4th (Evil Rabbit)
Joe Lovano/Us Five: Bird Songs (Blue Note)
Steven Lugerner: These Are the Words/Narratives (self-released, 2CD)
Will Martina: The Dam Levels (self-released)
Nicolas Masson: Departures (Fresh Sound New Talent)
Christian McBride: Conversations With Christian (Mack Avenue): **
Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood: MSMW Live: In Case the World Changes Its Mind (Indirecto, 2CD)
Brad Mehldau: Live in Marciac (Nonesuch, 2CD+DVD)
Eddie Mendenhall: Cosine Meets Tangent (Miles High)
Metta Quintet: Big Drum/Small World (Jazzreach)
Miles Español: New Sketches of Spain (Entertainment One, 2CD)
Nicole Mitchell: Awakening (Delmark)
Soren Moller: Christian X Variations (Audial)
Carol Morgan Quartet: Blue Glass Music (Blue Bamboo Music)
Leszek Mozdzer: Komeda (ACT)
Wolfgang Muthspiel: Drumfree (Material)
Native Soul: Soul Step (Talking Drum)
Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis: Here We Go Again: Celebrating the Music of Ray Charles (Blue Note): **
New Tricks: Alternate Side (New Tricks)
The New Universe Music Festival 2010 (Abstract Logix, 2CD)
Harold Lopez Nussa Trio: El País de las Maravillas (World Village)
Bill O'Connell: Triple Play Plus Three (Zoho)
Ocote Soul Sounds: Taurus (ESL Music)
Nils Økland/Sigbjørn Apeland: Lysøen/Homage to Ole Bull (ECM)
Harold O'Neal: Marvelous Fantasy (Smalls)
Orchestre National de Jazz: Around Robert Wyatt (Bee Jazz)
Orchestre National de Jazz: Shut Up and Dance (Bee Jazz, 2CD)
Oregon: In Stride (CAM Jazz -10)
Christian Pabst Trio: Days of Infinity (Challenge)
Dida Pelled: Plays and Sings (Red)
Rich Pellegrin Quintet: Three-Part Odyssey (OA2)
Oscar Peñas: From Now On (Bju'ecords)
Ken Peplowski: In Search of . . . (Capri)
Enrico Pieranunzi Latin Jazz Quintet: Live at Birdland (CAM Jazz -10)
Jean-Michel Pilc: Essential (Motéma)
Alex Pinto Quartet: Inner State (self-released)
Pitom: Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes (Tzadik)
Plunge: Tin Fish Tango (Immersion)
Noah Preminger: Before the Rain (Palmetto)
Q.E.D. [Ben Thomas/Chris Stover/Alex Chadsey]: Yet What Is Any Ocean . . . (Origin)
Mark Rapp's Melting Pot: Good Eats (Dinemec)
Michel Reis: Point of No Return (Armored)
Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libre (Constellation): **
Samo Salamon Trio: Almost Almond (Sanje)
Angelica Sanchez: A Little House (Clean Feed)
Poncho Sanchez/Terence Blanchard: Chano y Dizzy! (Concord Picante): **
Jake Saslow: Crosby Street (14th Street)
Dred Scott: Prepared Piano (Ropeadope)
Dred Scott Trio: Going Nowhere (Ropeadope)
Mark Segger Sextet: The Beginning (18th Note)
The Lee Shaw Trio: Live at Art Gallery Reutlingen (ARC)
Aaron Shragge & Ben Monder: The Key Is in the Window (Tzviryu Music)
Jen Shyu/Mark Dresser: Synastry (Pi)
Audrey Silver: Dream Awhile (Messy House)
Alex Sipiagin: Destinations Unknown (Criss Cross)
Jim Snidero: Interface (Savant)
The Spokes: Not So Fast (Strudelmedia)
Colin Stetson: Those Who Didn't Run (Constellation, EP): **
John Stowell/Michael Zilber Quartet: Shot Through With Beauty (Origin)
Ira Sullivan & Stu Katz: A Family Affair (Origin)
Travis Sullivan: New Directions (Posi-Tone)
Helen Sung: (Re)Conception (SteepleChase)
The Tierney Sutton Band: American Road (BFM Jazz)
Craig Taborn: Avenging Angel (ECM)
Tarana: After the Disquiet (EP) (self-released, EP)
3 Cohens: Family (Anzic)
William Tyler: Behold the Spirit (Tompkins Square): **
Gianluigi Trovesi/Gianni Coscia: Frère Jacques: Round About Offenbach (ECM)
Tunnel Six: Lake Superior (OA2)
Diego Urcola Quartet: Appreciation (CAM Jazz)
Warren Vaché: Ballads and Other Cautionary Tales (Arbors): **
Colin Vallon Trio: Rruga (ECM)
Johnny Varro: Speak Low (Arbors): **
Cuong Vu 4-tet: Leaps of Faith (Origin)
Giancarlo Vulcano: Unfinished Spaces (Distant)
Cedar Walton: The Bouncer (High Note)
Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Faithful (ECM)
Weasel Walter/Mary Halvorson/Peter Evans: Electric Fruit (Thirsty Ear)
David Weiss & Point of Departure: Snuck Out (Sunnyside)
Neil Welch: Boxwork (Table & Chairs)
Kenny Werner with the Brussels Jazz Orchestra: Institute of Higher Learning (Half Note)
Ben Williams: State of Art (Concord Jazz): **
Jessica Williams Trio: Freedom Trane (Origin)
Marty Williams: Long Time Comin' (In Moon Bay)
Anthony Wilson: Campo Belo (Goat Hill)
Sam Yahel: From Sun to Sun (Origin)
Samir Zarif: Starting Point (Mythology)
John Zorn: Nova Express (Tzadik): **

B+(*)

Rez Abbasi's Invocation: Suno Suno (Enja): **
Jason Adasiewicz's Sun Roms: Spacer (Delmark)
Mario Adnet: More Jobim Jazz (Adventure Music)
Howard Alden: I Remember Django (Arbors): **
Fabian Almazan Trio: Personalities (Biophilo)
Eliane Amherd: Now and From Now On (ELI)
AsGuests: Universal Mind (Origin)
Baloni: Fremdenzimmer (Clean Feed)
Billy Bang/Bill Cole: Billy Bang/Bill Cole (Shadrack)
Rahsaan Barber: Everyday Magic (Jazz Music City)
John Basile: Amplitudes (StringTime Jazz)
Randy Brecker with DR Big Band: The Jazz Ballad Song Book (Red Dot Music)
Katie Bull: Freak Miracle (Innova)
Jane Bunnett & Hilario Duran: Cuban Rhapsody (ALMA)
David Caceres: David Caceres (Sunnyside)
Michael Cain: Solo (Native Drum Music)
Uri Caine/Arditti String Quartet: Twelve Caprices (**)
Vinicius Cantuária & Bill Frisell: Lágrimas Mexicanas (E1): **
William Carn: William Carn's Run Stop Run (Mythology)
Bill Carrothers Trio: A Night at the Village Vanguard (Pirouet, 2CD)
Cecilia Coleman Big Band: Oh Boy! (PandaKat)
Steve Coleman and Five Elements: The Mancy of Sound (Pi)
Francis Coletta/Jonas Tauber: Port Saïd Street (Origin)
Marc Copland: Crosstalk (Pirouet)
Marc Copland/John Abercrombie: Speak to Me (Pirouet)
Patrick Cornelius: Maybe Steps (Posi-Tone)
Larry Coryell: With the Wide Hive Players (Wide Hive): **
Yamandu Costa/Hamilton de Holanda: Live! (Adventure Music)
François Couturier: Tarkovsky Quartet (ECM)
John Daversa: Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album (BFM Jazz)
Joey DeFrancesco: 40 (High Note)
Papa John DeFrancesco: A Philadelphia Story (Savant)
Michael Dessen Trio: Forget the Pixel (Clean Feed)
Claire Dickson: Scattin' Doll (NDR)
Al Di Meola: Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody (Telarc): *
Chris Dingman: Waking Dreams (Between Worlds Music): *
Shauli Einav: Opus One (Plus Loin Music)
Shane Endsley and the Music Band: Then the Other (Low Electrical)
Peter Erskine/Bob Mintzer/Darek Oles/Alan Pasqua: Standards 2: Movie Music (Fuzzy Music)
John Escreet: The Age We Live In (Mythology)
European Movement Jazz Orchestra: EMJO: Live in Coimbra (Clean Feed)
Orrin Evans: Captain Black Big Band (Posi-Tone)
Peter Evans Quintet: Ghosts (More Is More)
Jeff Fairbanks' Project Hansori: Mulberry Street (Bju'ecords)
Fattigfolket: Park (Ozella Music)
The Four Bags: Forth (NCM East)
Fourthought: Fourthought (Nambulo Music)
Danny Frankel: The Interplanetary Note/Beat Conference (self-released -10)
Fred Fried and Core: EnCore (Ballet Tree)
Hal Galper Trio: Trip the Light Fantastic (Origin)
Laszlo Gardony: Signature Time (Sunnyside)
Tania Gill: Bolger Station (Barnyard)
Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra: Córdoba (Zoho)
Glows in the Dark: Beach of the War Gods (self-released)
Otzir Godot: Drum Poems (Epatto)
Larry Goldings: In My Room (BFM Jazz)
Danny Grissett: Stride (Criss Cross): **
Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone: Departure of Reason (Thirsty Ear): *
Sir Roland Hanna: Colors From a Giant's Kit (IPO): **
Tom Harrell: The Time of the Sun (High Note)
Stefon Harris/David Sanchez/Christian Scott: Ninety Miles (Concord Picante): **
Joel Harrison String Choir: The Music of Paul Motian (Sunnyside)
Atsuko Hashimoto: . . . Until the Sun Comes Up (Capri)
Gilad Hekselman: Hearts Wide Open (Le Chant du Monde)
Yaron Herman Trio: Follow the White Rabbit (ACT)
Fred Hersch: Alone at the Vanguard (Palmetto)
High Fiddelity: Tell Me! (High Fiddelity)
Marquis Hill: New Gospel (self-released)
Ari Hoenig: Lines of Oppression (Naïve): **
Jason Kao Hwang/Spontaneous River: Symphony of Souls (Mulatta)
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Race Riot Suite (Royal Potato Family)
Maria Jameau and Blue Brazil: Gema (Challenge)
Keith Jarrett: Rio (ECM, 2CD)
Jazzvox Presents: In Your Own Backyard (OA2)
Darius Jones/Matthew Shipp: Cosmic Lieder (AUM Fidelity)
Etta Jones & Houston Person: The Way We Were: Live in Concert (2000, High Note)
Sean Jones: No Need for Words (Mack Avenue)
Tony Jones: Pitch, Rhythm, and Consciousness (New Artists)
Dave Juarez: Round Red Light (Posi-Tone)
Benji Kaplan: Meditações No Violão (Circo Mistico)
Paul Kikuchi: Portable Sanctuary Vol. 1 (Present Sounds)
Stan Killian: Unified (Sunnyside)
AJ Kluth's Aldric: Anvils and Broken Bells (OA2)
Kathleen Kolman: Dream On (Walkin' Foot Productions)
Ben Kono: Crossing (19/8)
Lama: Oneiros (Clean Feed)
Travis Laplante: Heart Protector (Skirl)
Adia Ledbetter: Take 2: Rendezvous With Yesterday (Jazzijua)
Mike LeDonne: Keep the Faith (Savant)
Les Doigts de l'Homme: 1910 (ALMA)
Amy London: Let's Fly (Motéma)
Duda Lucena Quartet: Live (Borboleta)
Tom Luer: Project Popular (Origin)
Vincent Lyn: Heaven Bound (Budo)
Denman Maroney: Double Zero (Porter)
Jessie Marquez: All I See Is Sky (Carena)
Delfeayo Marsalis: Sweet Thunder (Troubador Jass)
Marilyn Mazur: Celestial Circle (ECM)
Christian McBride Big Band: The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue): **
Donny McCaslin: Perpetual Motion (Greenleaf Music)
Chad McCullough & Bram Weijters: Imaginary Sketches (Origin)
Bill McHenry: Ghosts of the Sun (Sunnyside)
John Medeski & Lee Shaw: Together Again: Live at the Egg (ARC)
Susie Meissner: I'm Confessin' (Lydian Jazz)
Francisco Mela & Cuban Safari: Tree of Life (Half Note)
Pat Metheny: What's It All About (Nonesuch)
Silvano Monasterios: Unconditional (Savant)
Martin Moretto: Martin Moretto Quintet (self-released)
Paul Motian: The Windmills of Your Mind (Winter & Winter): **
Motif: Art Transplant (Clean Feed)
Alphonse Mouzon: Angel Face (Tenacious)
Mozik: Mozik (self-released)
Josh Nelson: Discoveries (Steel Bird)
The Nice Guy Trio: Sidewalks and Alleys/Walking Music (Porto Franco)
Olavi Trio & Friends: Triologia (TUM)
Mark O'Leary/Peter Friis-Nielsen/Stefan Pasborg: Støj (Ayler)
The Oscuro Quintet: Music for Tango Ensemble (Big Round)
Evan Parker & Konstrukt: Life at Akbank Jazz Festival (Re:konstrukt): **
Chris Parrello: Chris Parrello + Things I Wonder (Popopomo Music)
Jeremy Pelt: The Talented Mr. Pelt (High Note)
Pilc Moutin Hoenig: Threedom (Motema)
Debbie Poryes/Bruce Williamson: Two & Fro (OA2)
Potsa Lotsa: The Complete Works of Eric Dolphy (Jazzwerkstatt, 2CD): **
Mike Prigodich: A Stitch in Time (Mexican Mocha Music)
Scott Ramminger: Crawstickers (Arbor Lane Music)
Enrico Rava Quintet: Tribe (ECM)
R|E|D|S: Sign of Four (Origin)
Rufus Reid & Out Front: Hues of a Different Blue (Motéma)
Greg Reitan: Daybreak (Sunnyside)
Jochen Rueckert: Somewhere Meeting Nobody (Pirouet)
Florencia Ruiz: Luz de la Noche (Light of the Night) (Adventure Music)
Sanda: Gypsy in a Tree (Barbes)
Scenes: Silent Photographer (Origin)
Elliott Sharp: Binibon (Henceforth)
Avery Sharpe: Running Man (JKNM)
Marcus Shelby Orchestra: Soul of the Movement (Porto Franco)
Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Beans/Hprizm: Knives From Heaven (Thirsty Ear)
Liam Sillery: Priorité (OA2)
John Stein: Hi Fly (Whaling City Sound)
Andrew Sterman: Wet Paint (Innova)
Rick Stone Trio: Fractals (Jazzand)
Jane Stuart: Don't Look Back (JSM)
JC Stylles: Exhilaration and Other States (Motema Music)
Frank Tate: Thanks for the Memory: Frank Tate's Musical Tribute to Bobby Short (Arbors): **
Tin/Bag: Bridges (MabNotesMusic)
Toca Loca: Shed (Henceforth)
Jeremy Udden's Plainville: If the Past Seems So Bright (Sunnyside)
John Vanore & Abstract Truth: Contagious Words (Acoustical Concepts)
The Tommy Vig Orchestra 2012: Welcome to Hungary! (Klasszikus Jazz): *
Ricardo Villalobos/Max Loderbauer: Re: ECM (ECM, 2CD)
Alex Vittum: Prism (Prefecture)
Giancarlo Vulcano: My Funny Detective (Distant Second)
Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet: To Hear From There (Patois)
Greg Ward: Greg Ward's Phonic Juggernaut (Thirsty Ear): *
Mark Weinstein: Jazz Brasil (Jazzheads)
Jeff Williams: Another Time (Whirlwind)
Mark Winkler: Sweet Spot (Cafe Pacific)
Woody Witt: Pots and Kettles (Blue Bamboo Music)
Denny Zeitlin: Labyrinth: Live Solo Piano (Sunnyside)

B

Geri Allen: A Child Is Born (Motéma Music)
Bill Anschell: Figments (Origin)
Patti Austin: Sound Advice (Shanachie)
Diego Barber: The Choice (Sunnyside)
Patricia Barber: Monday Night: Live at the Green Mill Vol. 2 (Fast Atmosphere): **
Ran Blake: Grey December: Live in Rome (Tompkins Square): **
Brent Canter: Urgency of Now (Posi-Tone)
Buzz Bros Band: Ppff Unk (Buzz)
Cinque: Catch a Corner (ALMA)
Emmet Cohen: In the Element (BadaBeep)
Chick Corea/Stefano Bollani: Orvieto (ECM)
Matija Dedic Trio: MD in NYC (Origin)
Lars Dietrich: Stand Alone (self-released)
Eldar Djangirov: Three Stories (Masterworks Jazz)
Dollshot: Dollshot (Underwolf)
Jack Donahue: Parade: Live in New York City (Two Maples)
Falkner Evans: The Point of the Moon (CAP)
5 After 4: Rome in a Day (ALMA)
Garage a Trois: Always Be Happy, but Stay Evil (The Royal Potato Family): **
Volker Goetze Orchestra: NY 10027 (G*Records)
Jared Gold: All Wrapped Up (Posi-Tone)
GRASS on Fire: Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society Plays Catch a Fire (Mightly Gowanus)
Noah Haidu: Slipstream (Posi-Tone)
Thomas Heberer's Clarino: Klippe (Clean Feed)
Pablo Held: Glow (Pirouet)
Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica: Presents . . . Third River Rangoon (Tiki)
Kambar Kalendarov & Kutman Sultanbekov: Jaw (Cantaloupe Music)
Majid Khaliq: The Basilisk (self-released)
Jonathan Kreisberg: Shadowless (New for Now Music)
Itai Kriss: The Shark (Avenue K)
Nguyên Lê: Songs of Freedom (ACT)
Le Boeuf Brothers: In Praise of Shadows (19/8)
Lisa Lindsley: Everytime We Say Goodbye (self-released)
Steve Lipman: There's a Song in My Heart (Locomotion)
Curtis Macdonald: Community Immunity (Greenleaf Music)
Thomas Marriott: Human Spirit (Origin)
Marius Neset: Golden Xplosion (Edition): **
New York Electric Piano: Keys to the City: Volumes 1 & 2 (Buffalo Puppy, 2CD)
Oz Noy: Twisted Blues Volume 1 (Abstract Logix)
Operation Id: Legs (Table & Chairs)
Beata Pater: Blue (B&B)
Oscar Perez Nuevo Comienzo: Afropean Affair (Chandra)
Ed Reed: Born to Be Blue (Blue Shorts)
Eric Reed: The Dancing Monk (Savant)
Dino Saluzzi: Navidad de los Andes (ECM)
Jonathan Scales: Character Farm & Other Short Stories (Le Rue)
Sara Serpa: Mobile (Inner Circle Music)
Kenny Shanker: Steppin' Up (Posi-Tone)
Sonore: Cafe Oto/London (Trost): **
The Taal Tantra Experience: Sixth Sense (Ozella)
Nicholas Urie: My Garden (Red Piano)
Freddy V: Easier Than It Looks (Watersign Productions)
Geoff Vidal: She Likes That (Arts and Music Factory)
Roseanna Vitro: The Music of Randy Newman (Motéma)
Westchester Jazz Orchestra: Maiden Voyage Suite (WJO)
Andréa Wood: Dhyana (Wood)
Nate Wooley Quintet: (Put Your) Hands Together (Clean Feed)

B-

George Benson: Guitar Man (Concord)
Taylor Ho Bynum/Joe Morris/Sara Schoenbeck: Next (Porter)
James Carter: Caribbean Rhapsody (Decca)
Rondi Charleston: Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Motema)
Come Sunday: Crosscurrents (self-released)
Roxy Coss: Roxy Coss (self-released)
Deep Blue Organ Trio: Wonderful! (Origin)
Chris Donnelly: Metamorphosis (ALMA)
Peter Eldridge: Mad Heaven (Palmetto)
Kurt Elling: The Gate (Concord): **
Alekos Galas: Mediterranean Breeze (Ehos -10)
Richard Nelson Large Ensemble: Pursuit (Heliotrope)
Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: 40 Acres and a Burro (Zoho)
Open Graves with Stuart Dempster: Flightpatterns (Prefecture)
Gretchen Parlato: The Lost and Found (ObliqSound): **
Storms/Nocturnes [Geoffrey Keezer/Joe Locke/Tim Garland]: Via (Origin)
Susan SurfTone: Shore (Acme Brothers)
Anthony Wilson: Seasons: Live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Goat Hill)

C+

Phil Dwyer Orchestra: Changing Seasons (ALMA)
Bill Orcutt: How the Thing Sings (Editions Mego): **

C

C-

D+

Mark Moultrup: Relaxin' . . . On the Edge (Mark Moultrip Music)

U

Afro Bop Alliance: Una Más (OA2)
Aimtoronto Orchestra: Year of the Boar (Barnyard)
Amikaeyla & Trelawny Rose: To Eva, With Love: A Celebration of Eva Cassidy Live! (Patois)
Bryan Anthony: A Night Like This (Mercator Media)
Available Jelly: Plushlok, Baarle-Nassau, Set 1 (Ramboy)
Available Jelly: Plushlok, Baarle-Nassau, Set 2 (Ramboy)
Axel's Axiom: Uncommon Sense (Armored)
Matt Baker: Underground (self-released)
Pat Battstone and Richard Poole: Mystic Nights (Bat's Tones Music)
Chris Bauer: In a Yuletide Groove: Harmonica Jazz for the Holidays (self-released)
Sylvia Bennett: Sonrie (Out of Sight Music)
David Budway: A New Kiss (MaxJazz)
Michel Camilo: Mano A Mano (Decca): *
Michael Campagna: Moments (Challenge)
Mindy Canter: Fluteus Maximum (Mindela Music)
Marco Cappelli: In the Shadow of No Towers (Mode)
Fredrik Carlquist: Playing Cool (FCJazz)
Tito Carrillo: Opening Statement (Origin)
Erik Charlston: Jazz Brasil: Essentially Hermeto (Sunnyside)
Liz Childs Quartet: Take Flight (self-released)
Maureen Choi: Quartet (self-released)
Tony R Clef: Tuesday Afternoon (Big Round)
Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi: Think Thoughts (self-released)
Mike Cottone: Just Remember (Mike Cottone Music)
Kevin Crabb: Waltz for Dylan (Crabbclaw)
Norman David and the Eleventet: At This Time (CoolCraft)
Ryan Davidson: Ryan Davidson Trio (Debris Field)
Jonathan Elias: Path to Zero: Prayer Cycle (Downtown)
The Falconaires: Sharing the Freedom (The USAF Academy Band)
Danny Fox Trio: The One Constant (Songlines)
Carlos Franzetti/Allison Brewster Franzetti: Alborada (Amapola)
Chantale Gagné: Wisdom of the Water (self-released)
The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra: All Out of Peaches (New Folk)
David Greenberger/Jupiter Circle: Never Give Up Study (Pel Pel)
David Greenberger/Ralph Carney: OH, PA (Pel Pel)
David Greenberger/Bangalore: How I Became Uncertain (Pel Pel)
David Greenberger/Mark Greenberg: Tell Me That Before (Pel Pel)
Grupo Falso Baiano: Simplicidade: Live at Yoshi's (Massaroca)
Jürgen Hagenlocher: Leap in the Dark (Intuition)
Tianna Hall: Never Let Me Go (Blue Bamboo Music)
Taylor Haskins: Recombination (19/8)
Nick Hempton: The Business (Posi-Tone)
Pamela Hines Trio with April Hall: Lucky's Boy (Spice Rack)
Holshauser, Bennink & Moore: Live in NYC (Ramboy)
Human Element: Human Element (Abstract Logix)
In One Wind: How Bright a Shadow! (Primary)
Jackson Garrett: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (self-released)
Melvin Jones: Pivot (Turnaround)
Kenny & Leah: All About Love (K&L)
Edgar Knecht: Good Morning Lilofee (Ozella)
Sinikka Langeland Group: The Land That Is Not (ECM)
Neil Leonard: Marcel's Window (Gasp)
The George Lernis Jazz Quartet: Shapes of Nature (self-released)
Elisabeth Lohninger Band: Christmas in July (JazzSick)
Alex Lopez: We Can Take This Boat (Lopez Music)
Ellis Marsalis: A New Orleans Christmas Carol (ELM)
Lisa Maxwell: Happy (Happy)
Jocelyn Medina: We Are Water (self-released)
Michael Moore Quintet: Amsterdam (Ramboy)
Michael Moore Quintet: Rotterdam (Ramboy)
Michael Moore Quartet: Easter Sunday (Ramboy)
Youn Sun Nah: Same Girl (ACT -10)
Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto: Current (Adventure Music)
The New World Jazz Composers Octet: Breaking News (Big and Phat)
Mark O'Connor Quintet: Suspended Reality (OA2)
Mark O'Toole: The Crooner (self-released)
Matt Panayides: Tapestries of Song (Pacific Coast Jazz)
Sam Pannunzio: Goin' Home (Eastside Jazz)
Evan Parker/Wes Neal/Joe Sorbara: At Somewhere There (Barnyard)
Alexis Parsons: Alexis Parsons (Ellick)
Alan Pasqua: Twin Bill: Two Piano Music of Bill Evans (BFM Jazz)
Oscar Peterson: Unmistakable [Zenph Re-Performance] (Sony Masterworks)
Tan Ping: Paradise (Goody Heart Productions)
Planet Z: Planet Z Featuring Susan Aquila (Blue Chair)
Ponykiller: The Wilderness (Housecore)
Rampersaud Shaw Martin Neal Krakowiak: Halcyon Science 130410 (Barnyard)
Lola Regenthal: With You (Origin)
Kate Reid: The Love I'm In (self-released)
Nadav Remez: So Far (Bju'ecords)
John Samorian: Out on a Limb (self-released)
Lalo Schifrin: Invocations: Jazz Meets the Symphony #7 (Aleph)
Matt Slocum: After the Storm (Chandra)
Enoch Smith Jr.: Misfits (self-released)
Cinzia Spata: Into the Moment (Koine)
Stranahan/Zaleski/Rosato: Anticipation (Capri)
Sultans of String: Move (Independent)
Kayla Taylor: You'd Be Surprised (SMartyKat)
Dan Tepfer: Goldberg Variations/Variations (Sunnyside)
TriBeCaStan: New Deli (Evergreene Music)
TRP (The Reese Project): Evening in Vermont (Rhombus)
Turn Around Norman: We Turn Around (TAND)
The United States Air Force Band: The Jazz Heritage Series 2011 Radio Broadcasts (United States Air Force Band, 3CD)
Jim Van Slyke: The Sedaka Sessions (LML Music)
Yvonne Washington with Gary Norman: Trust in Me (Mercator Media)
Bastian Weinhold: River Styx (self-released)
Mark Weinstein: El Cumbanchero (Jazzheads)

Legend: * indicates that review was based on a really crappy promo copy which bears little if any resemblance to the real product (unless the real product is really, really crappy); ** indicates that the review was based on downloading or streaming the music, and trying to figure out background info by poking around the web. These ratings should be taken with an extra grain of salt.

Reissues, Compilations, Vault Music

A

Duke Ellington: Meets Coleman Hawkins/And John Coltrane (1962, Impulse)
Cartagena! Curro Fuentes & the Big Band Cumbia and Descarga Sound of Colombia 1962-72 (Sounday)

A-

Billy Bang's Survival Ensemble: Black Man's Blues/New York Collage (1977-78, NoBusiness, 2CD)
Art Blakey: Jazz Messengers!!!!!/A Jazz Message (1961-63, Impulse)
Miles Davis Quintet: Live Europe 1967: Bootleg Vol. 1 (Columbia/Legacy, 3CD)
Sonny Rollins: On Impulse!/There Will Never Be Another You (1965, Impulse)
Archie Shepp: For Losers/Kwanza (1968-69, Impulse)
Randy Weston: Blue Moses (1972, CTI/Masterworks Jazz)

B+(***)

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Last Time Out: December 26, 1967 (1967, Columbia/Legacy, 2CD): [n]
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew Live (1969-70, Columbia/Legacy)
Jim Hall: Concierto (1975, CTI/Sony Masterworks)
Coleman Hawkins: Today and Now/Desafinado (1963, Impulse)
Freddie Hubbard: Straight Life (1970, CTI/Sony Masterworks)
Ahmad Jamal: Poinciana Revisited/Freeflight (1969-71, Impulse)
Eartha Kitt: The Essential Eartha Kitt (1952-57, RCA/Legacy, 2CD)
Pharoah Sanders: Village of the Pharoahs/Wisdom Through Magic (1971-73, Impulse)
John Surman: Flashpoint: NDR Workshop - April '69 (1969, Cuneiform)

B+(**)

Chris Barber: Memories of My Trip (1958-2010, Proper, 2CD): **
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: The Sesjun Radio Shows (1978-83, T2 Entertainment, 2CD): [n]
Corrie en de Grote Brokken: Vier! (Brokken)
Deodato: Prelude (1972, CTI/Sony Masterworks)
Lajos Dudas: 50 Years With Jazz Clarinet: The Best of Lajos Dudas (Jazz Sick, 2CD)
Milt Jackson: Statements/Jazz 'n' Samba (1962-64, Impulse)
Clarence "Jelly" Johnson: Low Down Papa (1920s, Delmark)
Django Reinhardt: The Essential Django Reinhardt (1949-50, RCA/Legacy, 2CD)
Gabor Szabo: The Sorcerer/More Scorcery (1967, Impulse)
Stanley Turrentine: Salt Song (1971, CTI/Sony Masterworks)
Stanley Turrentine: Don't Mess With Mister T. (1973, CTI/Sony Masterworks)
McCoy Tyner: Inception/Reaching Fourth (1962-63, Impulse)

B+(*)

George Benson: Beyond the Blue Horizon (1971, CTI/Sony Masterworks)
Joe Farrell: Outback (1970, CTI/Masterworks Jazz)
Freddie Hubbard: First Light (1971, CTI/Sony Masterworks)
Freddie Hubbard: Pinnacle: Live & Unreleased From the Keystone Korner (1980, Resonance): [n] **
Elvin Jones: Illumination/Dear John C. (1962-65, Impulse)
Vesa-Matti Loiri: 4+20 (1971, Porter)
Heikki Sarmanto Big Band: Everything Is It (1972, Porter)
Warren Smith: Dragon Dave Meets Prince Black Knight From the Darkside of the Moon (1988, Porter)

B

Albert Ayler: Love Cry/The Last Album (1967-69, Impulse)
George Benson: White Rabbit (1971, CTI/Sony Masterworks)
George Benson: Body Talk (1973, CTI/Sony Masterworks)
Ron Carter: All Blues (1973, CTI/Sony Masterworks)
Paul Desmond: Pure Desmond (1974, CTI/Sony Masterworks)
Kali Z. Fasteau: Prophecy (1990-92, Flying Note)
Milt Jackson: Sunflower (1972, CTI/Sony Masterworks)
Hubert Laws: In the Beginning (1974, CTI/Sony Masterworks)
Shirley Scott: For Members Only/Great Scott!! (1963-64, Impulse)
Don Sebesky: Giant Box (1973, CTI/Sony Masterworks)