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Tim Niland (Music & More)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Paul Dunmall & Tony Bianco, Thank You to John Coltrane (SLAM)
  2. Black Music Disaster (Thirsty Ear)
  3. Vijay Iyer, Accelerando (ACT)
  4. Sam Rivers-Dave Holland-Barry Altschul, Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
  5. Neneh Cherry & The Thing, The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Superjazz)
  6. Steve Lehman, Dialect Fluorescent (Pi)
  7. Matthew Shipp, Elastic Aspects (Thirsty Ear)
  8. Charles Gayle, Streets (Northern Spy)
  9. Donny McCaslin, Casting for Gravity (Greenleaf)
  10. Jon Irabagon, I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues Volume 2: Appalachian Haze (Irabbagast)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Mingus, The Jazz Workshop Concerts: 1964-65 (Mosaic)
  2. World Saxophone Quartet, Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint and Soul Note (Black Saint)
  3. Don Pullen, The Complete Remastered Black Saint Recordings (Black Saint)

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Dan Ouellette (Downbeat, eMusic)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jack DeJohnette, Sound Travels (Entertainment One)
  2. Jenny Scheinman, Mischief & Mayhem (Jenny Scheinman Music)
  3. Cassandra Wilson, Another Country (eOne)
  4. Jessica Lurie, Megaphone Heart (Zippa!)
  5. Janel & Anthony, Where Is Home (Cuneiform)
  6. Béla Fleck & Marcus Roberts, Across the Imaginary Divide (Rounder)
  7. Joel Harrison, Search (Sunnyside)
  8. John Abercrombie, Within a Song (ECM)
  9. Joe Jackson, The Duke (Razor and Tie)
  10. Sara Serpa & Ran Blake, Aurora (Clean Feed)

REISSUES

  1. Jan Garbarek, Dansere (ECM)
  2. Terje Rypdal, Odyssey: In Studio & In Concert (ECM)

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Thierry Peremarti (Jazz News [France], Dallas Morning News)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)
  2. John McLaughlin, Now Here This (Abstract Logix)
  3. Jon Irabagon, Unhinged (Irabbagast)
  4. Brad Mehldau, Ode (Nonesuch)
  5. Pat Metheny, Unity Band (Nonesuch)
  6. Steve Lehman, Dialect Fluorescent (Pi)
  7. Sam Rivers-Dave Holland-Barry Altschul, Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
  8. Guillermo Klein, Carrera (Sunnyside)
  9. Mary Halvorson, Bending Bridges (Firehouse 12)
  10. Jacky Terrasson, Gouache (Universal)

REISSUES

  1. Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 50th Anniversary Collection (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. The Brecker Bros., The Complete Arista Albums Collection (Sony/Legacy)
  3. Pharoah Sanders, In the Beginning 1963-64 (ESP-Disk)

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Bob Porter (WBGO, Jazz Etc.)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jazz at the Philharmonic, Seattle 1956 (Acrobat)
  2. Hank Mobley, Newark 1953 (Uptown)
  3. Stan Getz, Swiss Radio Days (TCB)
  4. Houston Person, Naturally (HighNote)
  5. John DiMartino & Warren Vache, Impromptu (Kilaminjaro)
  6. Harry Allen, Blues for Pres & Teddy ((Japanese import))
  7. Akiko Tsurga, Sakura (American Showplace)
  8. Wycliffe Gordon, Hello Pops (Blues Back)
  9. Dr. Michael White, Adventures in New Orleans Jazz Part 2 (Basin Street)
  10. Arturo Sandoval, Dear Diz (Concord)

REISSUES

  1. Carmen McRae, The Complete Kapp Recordings (Fresh Sound)
  2. Duke Ellington, My People (Storyville)
  3. Ray Charles, Singular Genius (Concord)

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Derk Richardson (AFAR, The Absolute Sound, KPFA 94.1 FM)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Paradoxical Frog, Union (Clean Feed)
  2. Marilyn Crispell-Mark Dresser-Gerry Hemingway, Play Braxton (Tzadik)
  3. Tim Berne, Snakeoil (ECM)
  4. Wadada Leo Smith, Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)
  5. Mary Halvorson, Bending Bridges (Firehouse 12)
  6. Ron Miles, Quiver (Enja/Yellowbird)
  7. Tin Hat, The Rain Is a Handsome Animal: 17 Songs from the Poetry of E.E. Cummings (New Amsterdam)
  8. Henry Threadgill, Tomorrow and Sunny/The Revelry, Spp (Pi)
  9. Hafez Modirzadeh, Post-Chromodal Out (Pi)
  10. Joel Harrison, Search (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. Art Ensemble, Early Combinations (Nessa)
  2. David Murray, Octets: The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note (CAM Jazz)
  3. Clare Fischer, Extension (International Phonograph)

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Joel Roberts (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ravi Coltrane, Spirit Fiction (Blue Note)
  2. Chick Corea-Eddie Gomez-Paul Motian, Further Explorations (Concord Jazz)
  3. Ryan Truesdell, Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans (ArtistShare)
  4. Sam Rivers-Dave Holland-Barry Altschul, Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
  5. Branford Marsalis, Four MFs Playin' Tunes (Marsalis Music)
  6. Marc Johnson & Eliane Elias, Swept Away (ECM)
  7. Tom Harrell, Number Five (HighNote)
  8. Jimmy Owens, The Monk Project (IPO)
  9. Steve Turre, Woody's Delight (HighNote)
  10. Bobby Hutcherson, Somewhere in the Night (Kind of Blue)

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Chris Robinson (Downbeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Edmar Castaneda, Double Portion (Arpa y Vo)
  2. Sam Rivers-Dave Holland-Barry Altschul, Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
  3. Miguel Zenón & Laurent Coq, Rayuela (Sunnyside)
  4. Vijay Iyer, Accelerando (ACT)
  5. David Virelles, Continuum (Pi)
  6. Ehud Asherie & Harry Allen, Upper West Side (Posi-Tone)
  7. Jon Irabagon, I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues Volume 2: Appalachian Haze (Irabbagast)
  8. Mark Masters, Ellington Saxophone Encounters (Capri)
  9. Branford Marsalis, Four MFs Playin' Tunes (Marsalis Music)
  10. Ryan Truesdell, Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans (ArtistShare)

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Britt Robson (eMusic, JazzTimes, Minneapolis Star Tribune)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer, Accelerando (ACT)
  2. Henry Threadgill, Tomorrow and Sunny/The Revelry, Spp (Pi)
  3. Eri Yamamoto, The Next Page (AUM Fidelity)
  4. Amy Cervini, Digging Me, Digging You (Anzic)
  5. Jon Irabagon, Unhinged (Irabbagast)
  6. Christian Scott, Christian aTunde Adjuah (Concord)
  7. The Cookers, Believe (Motéma)
  8. Luis Perdomo, Universal Mind (RKM)
  9. Donny McCaslin, Casting for Gravity (Greenleaf)
  10. Bad Plus, Made Possible (Entertainment One)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Mingus, The Jazz Workshop Concerts: 1964-65 (Mosaic)
  2. Gil Scott-Heron, The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters (BGP)
  3. Thelonious Monk, The Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection (Columbia/Legacy)

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Michael Rosenstein (Point of Departure, Dusted)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Joe Morris, Graffiti in Two Parts (RogueArt)
  2. Alexander von Schlippenbach, Plays Monk (Intakt)
  3. Eddie Prévost-Evan Parker-John Edwards, Meetings with Remarkable Saxophonists, Volume 1 (Matchless)
  4. Nate Wooley-Christian Weber-Paul Lytton, Six Feet Under (NoBusiness)
  5. Sam Rivers-Dave Holland-Barry Altschul, Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
  6. John Butcher & Mark Sanders, Daylight (Emanem)
  7. Ames Room, Bird Dies (Clean Feed)
  8. Frank Lowe, The Loweski (ESP-Disk)
  9. Alex Ward-Tim Hill-Dominic Lash-Mark Sanders, Predicate (FMR)
  10. Simon H Fell, Frank & Max (Bo'Weavil)

REISSUES

  1. Steve Lacy, The Sun (Emanem)
  2. Peter Brotzmann-Harry Miller-Louis Moholo, The Nearer the Bone, the Sweeter the Meat (FMP/Cien Fuegos)
  3. Don Pullen, The Complete Remastered Black Saint Recordings (Black Saint)

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Giovanni Russonello (JazzTimes, CapitalBop)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer, Accelerando (ACT)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith, Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)
  3. Sam Rivers-Dave Holland-Barry Altschul, Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
  4. Rafiq Bhatia, Yes It Will (Rest Assured)
  5. Ravi Coltrane, Spirit Fiction (Blue Note)
  6. Miguel Zenón & Laurent Coq, Rayuela (Sunnyside)
  7. Robert Glasper, Black Radio (Blue Note)
  8. Chick Corea-Eddie Gomez-Paul Motian, Further Explorations (Concord Jazz)
  9. Branford Marsalis, Four MFs Playin' Tunes (Marsalis Music)
  10. Jason Robinson, Tiresian Symmetry (Cuneiform)

REISSUES

  1. Don Cherry, Organic Music Society (Caprice)

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Lloyd Sachs (JazzTimes, jazzespress)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ryan Truesdell, Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans (ArtistShare)
  2. Jason Kao Hwang, Burning Bridge (Innova)
  3. Mary Halvorson, Bending Bridges (Firehouse 12)
  4. Masabumi Kikuchi, Sunrise (ECM)
  5. Sam Rivers-Dave Holland-Barry Altschul, Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
  6. Steve Lehman, Dialect Fluorescent (Pi)
  7. Bill McHenry, La Peur du Vide (Sunnyside)
  8. Ravi Coltrane, Spirit Fiction (Blue Note)
  9. Brad Mehldau, Where Do You Start (Nonesuch)
  10. Omer Avital, Suite of the East (Anzic)

REISSUES

  1. Coleman Hawkins, Classic Sessions 1922-1947 (Mosaic)
  2. Hal Russell, NRG Ensemble (Nessa)
  3. Clare Fischer, Extension (International Phonograph)

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Bret Saunders (Denver Post, KBCO-FM)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)
  2. Neneh Cherry & The Thing, The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Superjazz)
  3. Vijay Iyer, Accelerando (ACT)
  4. William Parker, Essence of Ellington (AUM Fidelity)
  5. Mary Halvorson, Bending Bridges (Firehouse 12)
  6. Tim Berne, Snakeoil (ECM)
  7. Steve Lehman, Dialect Fluorescent (Pi)
  8. Ahmad Jamal, Blue Moon (JazzVillage)
  9. Ravi Coltrane, Spirit Fiction (Blue Note)
  10. Sam Rivers-Dave Holland-Barry Altschul, Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Mingus, The Jazz Workshop Concerts: 1964-65 (Mosaic)
  2. Don Pullen, The Complete Remastered Black Saint Recordings (Black Saint)
  3. Coleman Hawkins, Classic Sessions 1922-1947 (Mosaic)

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Gene Seymour

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ron Miles, Quiver (Enja/Yellowbird)
  2. Ravi Coltrane, Spirit Fiction (Blue Note)
  3. Vijay Iyer, Accelerando (ACT)
  4. Henry Threadgill, Tomorrow and Sunny/The Revelry, Spp (Pi)
  5. Luciana Souza, Duos III (Sunnyside)
  6. Dave Douglas, Be Still (Greenleaf)
  7. Fred Hersch, Alive at the Village Vanguard (Palmetto)
  8. John Abercrombie, Within a Song (ECM)
  9. Sam Rivers-Dave Holland-Barry Altschul, Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
  10. Bobby Hutcherson, Somewhere in the Night (Kind of Blue)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Mingus, The Jazz Workshop Concerts: 1964-65 (Mosaic)

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Mike Shanley (JazzTimes, shanleyonmusic)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mike Reed, Clean on the Corner (482 Music)
  2. Vijay Iyer, Accelerando (ACT)
  3. Sam Rivers-Dave Holland-Barry Altschul, Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
  4. Rob Mazurek, Stellar Pulsations (Delmark)
  5. Michael Formanek, Small Places (ECM)
  6. Henry Threadgill, Tomorrow and Sunny/The Revelry, Spp (Pi)
  7. Aram Shelton, Everything for Someone (Singlespeed)
  8. Ravi Coltrane, Spirit Fiction (Blue Note)
  9. Ron Miles, Quiver (Enja/Yellowbird)
  10. Spectrum Road, Spectrum Road (Palmetto)

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John Sharpe (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)
  2. The Thing With Barry Guy, Metal! (NoBusiness)
  3. William Parker, Centering: Unreleased Early Recordings 1976-1987 (NoBusiness)
  4. Tom Rainey, Camino Cielo Echo (Intakt)
  5. Matthew Shipp, Elastic Aspects (Thirsty Ear)
  6. Gerry Hemingway & Marilyn Crispell, Affinities (Intakt)
  7. Alexander Hawkins, All There, Ever Out (Babel)
  8. David S. Ware, Live at Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2011 (AUM Fidelity)
  9. Peter Brötzmann, Walk, Love, Sleep (Smalltown Superjazz)
  10. Kidd Jordan, On Fire (Engine)

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Hank Shteamer (Time Out New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Billy Hart, All Our Reasons (ECM)
  2. Steve Lehman, Dialect Fluorescent (Pi)
  3. Jim Black, Somatic (Winter & Winter)
  4. Darius Jones, Book of Mæ'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise) (AUM Fidelity)
  5. Federico Ughi, Songs for Four Cities (Skycap)
  6. Henry Threadgill, Tomorrow and Sunny/The Revelry, Spp (Pi)
  7. Joel Harrison & Lorenzo Feliciati, Holy Abyss (Cuneiform)
  8. David Virelles, Continuum (Pi)
  9. Tim Berne, Snakeoil (ECM)
  10. The Cookers, Believe (Motéma)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Mingus, The Jazz Workshop Concerts: 1964-65 (Mosaic)
  2. John Kirby, Biggest Little Band in the Land (Classic Jazz Records)

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Karl Stark (Philadelphia Inquirer)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Pat Martino, Alone Together (HighNote)
  2. Amit Friedman, Sunrise (Origin)
  3. Fred Hersch, Alive at the Village Vanguard (Palmetto)
  4. Anat Cohen, Claroscuro (Anzic)
  5. Orrin Evans, Flip the Script (Posi-Tone)
  6. Kurt Rosenwinkel, Star of Jupiter (Wommusic)
  7. Brad Mehldau, Ode (Nonesuch)
  8. Joey DeFrancesco, Wonderful! Wonderful! (HighNote)
  9. Adam Kromelow, Youngblood (Zoho)
  10. Chick Corea-Eddie Gomez-Paul Motian, Further Explorations (Concord Jazz)

REISSUES

  1. Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 50th Anniversary Collection (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Charles Mingus, The Jazz Workshop Concerts: 1964-65 (Mosaic)
  3. The Brecker Bros., The Complete Arista Albums Collection (Sony/Legacy)

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Chip Stern (Radio Free Chip, Positive Feedback, Playbill)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

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Zan Stewart (freelance)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tom Harrell, Number Five (HighNote)
  2. John Scofield, A Moment's Peace (EmArcy)
  3. Wes Montgomery, Echoes of Indiana Avenue (Resonance)
  4. Freddie Hubbard, Pinnacle (Resonance)
  5. Bob Mintzer, For the Moment (MCG)
  6. Chick Corea-Eddie Gomez-Paul Motian, Further Explorations (Concord Jazz)
  7. George Cables, My Muse (HighNote)
  8. Mark Masters, Ellington Saxophone Encounters (Capri)
  9. Eric Reed, The Baddest Monk (Savant)
  10. Alex Sipiagan, Destinations Unknown (Criss Cross -11)

REISSUES

  1. The Quintet, Jazz at Massey Hall (Original Jazz Classics)
  2. Hank Crawford, Don't You Worry About a Thing (Masterworks Jazz)

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Jeff Stockton (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer, Accelerando (ACT)
  2. Tim Berne, Snakeoil (ECM)
  3. Sam Rivers-Dave Holland-Barry Altschul, Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
  4. William Parker, Centering: Unreleased Early Recordings 1976-1987 (NoBusiness)
  5. Andrew Lamb, Honeymoon on Saturn (CIMP)
  6. Angles 8, By Way of Deception (Clean Feed)
  7. Jon Irabagon, Unhinged (Irabbagast)
  8. Henry Threadgill, Tomorrow and Sunny/The Revelry, Spp (Pi)
  9. Wadada Leo Smith, Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)
  10. JD Allen, The Matador and the Bull (Savant)

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