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Richard Brody (The New Yorker)

NEW RELEASES

REISSUES

  1. Bud Powell, Birdland 1953 (ESP-Disk)
  2. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  3. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)

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Christian Broecking (Jazz Thing, Tagesspiegel [Germany])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Irène Schweizer & Jürg Wickihalder, Spring (Intakt)
  2. Kris Davis, Waiting for You to Grow (Clean Feed)
  3. Michael Wollny, Weltentraum (ACT)
  4. Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation (Impulse)
  5. Aki Takase & Alexander von Schlippenbach, So Long Eric! Homage to Eric Dolphy (Intakt)
  6. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  7. Joëlle Léandre & Vincent Courtois, Live at Kesselhaus Berlin 08.06.2013 (Jazzdor Series)

REISSUES

  1. Peter Kowald, Discography (Jazzwerkstatt)
  2. Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian, Hamburg '72 (ECM)
  3. Charlie Haden & Jim Hall, Charlie Haden & Jim Hall (Impulse!)

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Stuart Broomer (The New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  3. Evan Parker & Joe McPhee, What/If/They Both Could Fly (Rune Grammofon)
  4. Ken Vandermark, Nine Ways to Read a Bridge (Not Two)
  5. Joe Morris, Balance (Clean Feed)
  6. Ideal Bread, Beating the Teens (Cuneiform)
  7. Sound & Fury, Pulsacion (Ektro)
  8. Mary Halvorson, Reverse Blue (Relative Pitch)
  9. Farmers by Nature, Love and Ghosts (AUM Fidelity)
  10. Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Blue (Hot Cup)

REISSUES

  1. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  2. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  3. Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd, School Days (Emanem)

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John Chacona (Erie, PA Times-News)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)
  2. Yosvany Terry, New Throned King (5 Pasion)
  3. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  4. David Virelles, Mbókò (ECM)
  5. Mary Halvorson-Michael Formanek-Tomas Fujiwara, Thumbscrew (Cuneiform)
  6. Eric Revis, In Memory of Things Yet Seen (Clean Feed)
  7. Billy Hart, One Is the Other (ECM)
  8. Farmers by Nature, Love and Ghosts (AUM Fidelity)
  9. For Living Lovers, Revealing Essence (Sunnyside)
  10. Matt Wilson + John Medeski, Gathering Call (Palmetto)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Various, Creative Music Studio: Archive Selections, Vol. 1 (Innova)
  3. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)

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Alan Chase (University of N.H. Traditional Jazz Series)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Matt Wilson + John Medeski, Gathering Call (Palmetto)
  2. Tom Harrell, Trip (HighNote)
  3. Martin Wind, Turn Out the Stars (What If? Music)
  4. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  5. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden, Last Dance (ECM)
  6. Misha Tsiganov, Artistry of the Standard (Criss Cross)
  7. Felipe Salles, Ugandan Suite (Tapestry)
  8. Jason Palmer, Places (SteepleChase)
  9. Melissa Aldana, Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio (Concord)
  10. Eric Alexander, Chicago Fire (HighNote)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)
  2. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Cedar Walton, Reliving the Moment (HighNote)

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Nate Chinen (The New York Times, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. David Virelles, Mbókò (ECM)
  2. Dan Weiss, Fourteen (Pi)
  3. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  4. Fred Hersch, Floating (Palmetto)
  5. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  6. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  7. Jeff Ballard, Time's Travels (Okeh)
  8. Mary Halvorson-Michael Formanek-Tomas Fujiwara, Thumbscrew (Cuneiform)
  9. Ryan Keberle, Into the Zone (Greenleaf)
  10. Trio 3 & Vijay Iyer, Wiring (Intakt)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  3. Charlie Haden & Jim Hall, Charlie Haden & Jim Hall (Impulse!)

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Sharonne Cohen (DownBeat, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)
  2. Herbie Hancock, The Warner Bros. Years (1969-1972) (Warner Bros.)
  3. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)

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Troy Collins (All About Jazz, Point of Departure)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kyle Bruckmann, . . . Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire (SingleSpeed Music)
  2. Marty Ehrlich, A Trumpet in the Morning (New World -13)
  3. Jason Roebke, High Red Center (Delmark)
  4. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  5. Medeski, Martin & Wood + Nels Cline, Woodstock Sessions, Vol.2 (Indirecto)
  6. Vinnie Sperrazza, Apocryphal (Loyal Label)
  7. Matthew Shipp, Root of Things (Relative Pitch)
  8. Mary Halvorson-Michael Formanek-Tomas Fujiwara, Thumbscrew (Cuneiform)
  9. Chicago Underground Duo, Locus (Northern Spy)
  10. Cookers, Time and Time Again (Motéma)

REISSUES

  1. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  2. Horace Tapscott, The Giant Is Awakened (International Phonogram)
  3. Sam Rivers, Contrasts (ECM)

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Thomas Conrad (JazzTimes, Stereophile, New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  2. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)
  3. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden, Last Dance (ECM)
  4. Frank Kimbrough, Quartet (Palmetto)
  5. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  6. Jane Ira Bloom, Sixteen Sunsets (Outline/Pure Audio -13)
  7. Indigo Mist, That the Days Go By and Never Come Again (Rare Noise)
  8. Doctor 3, Doctor 3 (Jando)
  9. Avishai Cohen, Dark Nights (Anzic)
  10. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian, Hamburg '72 (ECM)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Paris 1969 (Blue Note -13)
  3. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)

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J.D. Considine (The Globe and Mail [Canada])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer, Mutations (ECM)
  2. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  3. James Farm, City Folk (Nonesuch)
  4. Bad Plus, The Rite of Spring (Sony Masterworks)
  5. David Virelles, Mbókò (ECM)
  6. Miguel Zenón, Identities Are Changeable (Miel Music)
  7. Marianne Trudel, La Vie Commence Ici (Justin Time)
  8. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden, Last Dance (ECM)
  9. Edward Simon, Venezuelan Suite (Sunnyside)
  10. Hiromi, Alive (Telarc)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  3. Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian, Hamburg '72 (ECM)

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Owen Cordle (JazzTimes, The News & Observer)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Over Time: The Music of Bob Brookmeyer (Planet Arts)
  2. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)
  3. Cookers, Time and Time Again (Motéma)
  4. Tom Harrell, Trip (HighNote)
  5. Frank Kimbrough, Quartet (Palmetto)
  6. Jae Sinnett, Subject to Change (self-released)
  7. Afro Bop Alliance, Angel Eyes (Zoho)
  8. Carolyn Mitchell, Inner Smile (self-released)
  9. Mack Avenue Super Band, Live at Detroit Jazz Festival (Mack Avenue)
  10. Fat Babies, 18th & Racine (Delmark)

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Mark Corroto (All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Brandon Lewis, Divine Travels (Okeh)
  2. Martin Wind, Turn Out the Stars (What If? Music)
  3. Matthew Shipp, I've Been to Many Places (Thirsty Ear)
  4. Jason Adasiewicz, From the Region (Delmark)
  5. Adam Lane, Live in Ljubljana (Clean Feed)
  6. Wayne Horvitz, At the Reception (Songlines)
  7. Jason Yeager, Affirmation (Inner Circle)
  8. Audio One, The Midwest School (Audiographic)
  9. The Thing, Boot! (Trost)
  10. Steve Wilson & Lewis Nash, Duologue (MCG Jazz)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)
  2. Albert Ayler, Spiritual Unity [50th Anniversary Expanded Edition] (ESP-Disk)
  3. Sun Ra, In the Orbit of Ra (Strut)

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Michael Coyle (WRCU, The Slim & Him Show)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Henry Butler & Steven Bernstein, Viper's Drag (Impulse)
  2. Afro-Semitic Experience, Jazz Souls on Fire (Reckless)
  3. Paul Jost, Breaking Through (Dot Time)
  4. Rich Halley, The Wisdom of the Rocks (Pine Eagle)
  5. Digital Primitives, Lipsomuch/Soul Searchin' (Hopscotch -13)
  6. Dave Stryker, Eight Track (Panorama)
  7. Charlie Apicella, Big Boss (Zoho)
  8. Sam Boshnack, Exploding Syndrome (self-released)
  9. Lena Bloch, Feathery (13th Note)
  10. Ezra Weiss, Before You Know It (Roark)

REISSUES

  1. Don Pullen, Richard's Tune (Delmark)
  2. Jaki Byard, The Late Show (HighNote)
  3. Cedar Walton, Reliving the Moment (HighNote)

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Raul da Gama (Jazz da Gama, Latin Jazz Net, World Music Report)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  2. Cookers, Time and Time Again (Motéma)
  3. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  4. Craig Handy, Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith (Okeh)
  5. George Cables, Icons & Influences (HighNote)
  6. Denny Zeitlin, Stairway to the Stars (Sunnyside)
  7. Helen Sung, Anthem for a New Day (Concord)
  8. Fred Hersch, Floating (Palmetto)
  9. JD Allen, Bloom (Savant)
  10. Pete McGuinness, Strength in Numbers (Summit)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)
  3. Horace Tapscott, The Giant Is Awakened (International Phonogram)

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Francis Davis (Poll Master)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Over Time: The Music of Bob Brookmeyer (Planet Arts)
  2. David Virelles, Mbókò (ECM)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  4. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)
  5. Dave Douglas & Uri Caine, Present Joys (Greenleaf)
  6. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  7. Allen Lowe, Mulatto Radio: Field Recordings 1-4 (Or: A Jew at Large in the Minstrel Diaspora (Constant Sorrow)
  8. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  9. Westerlies, Wish the Children Would Come on Home (Songlines)
  10. James Brandon Lewis, Divine Travels (Okeh)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Lennie Tristano, Chicago April 1951 (Uptown)
  3. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)

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Anthony Dean-Harris (Nextbop, DownBeat, Jazz 91.7 KRTU San Antonio)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Phronesis, Life to Everything (Editon)
  2. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  3. Bad Plus, Inevitable Western (Okeh)
  4. Harvey Mason, Chameleon (Concord)
  5. Jeff Ballard, Time's Travels (Okeh)
  6. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)
  7. BADBADNOTGOOD, III (Innovative Leisure)
  8. Mario Castro, Estrella de Mar (Interrobang)
  9. Takuya Kuroda, Rising Son (Blue Note)
  10. Sly5thAve, Akuma (self-released)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)

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Steve Dollar (Stomp and Stammer, Wall Street Journal)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Darius Jones, The Oversoul Manual (AUM Fidelity)
  2. Eric Revis, In Memory of Things Yet Seen (Clean Feed)
  3. Matthew Shipp, I've Been to Many Places (Thirsty Ear)
  4. Edward Ricart & Paul Dunmall, Chamaeleon (New Atlantis)
  5. Tony Malaby, Scorpion Eater (Clean Feed)
  6. Mary Halvorson, Reverse Blue (Relative Pitch)
  7. John Zorn, Valentine's Day (Tzadik)
  8. Pharoah Sanders & the Underground, Spiral Mercury (Clean Feed)
  9. Phantom Orchard Ensemble, Through the Looking Glass (Tzadik)
  10. Farmers by Nature, Love and Ghosts (AUM Fidelity)

REISSUES

  1. Sun Ra, iTunes reboots (El Saturn/iTunes)

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Laurence Donohue-Greene (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Bad Plus, The Rite of Spring (Sony Masterworks)
  2. Steve Wilson & Lewis Nash, Duologue (MCG Jazz)
  3. Wayne Horvitz, At the Reception (Songlines)
  4. Sylvie Courvoisier, Double Windsor (Tzadik)
  5. Jason Adasiewicz, From the Region (Delmark)
  6. Jacques Coursil & Alan Silva, Free Jazz Art (RogueArt)
  7. Aram Bajakian, There Were Flowers Also in Hell (Sanasar)
  8. Orphéon Célesta, Cuisine au Jazz (Fremeaux & Associes)
  9. Torbjörn Zetterberg, Och Den Stora Frågan (Moserobie)
  10. Gunter "Baby" Sommer-Michel Godard-Patrick Bebelaar, Three Seasons (HGBS)

REISSUES

  1. John Carter & Bobby Bradford, Flight for Four (International Phonograph)
  2. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)
  3. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)

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Troy Dostert (Free Jazz Collective)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  2. Marty Ehrlich, A Trumpet in the Morning (New World -13)
  3. Franco D'Andrea, Monk and the Time Machine (Parco Della Musica)
  4. Kris Davis, Waiting for You to Grow (Clean Feed)
  5. Ivo Perelman, The Other Edge (Leo)
  6. Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love, Lightning Over Water (Laurence Family)
  7. Peter Van Huffel-Michael Bates-Jeff Davis, Boom Crane (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  8. Angles 9, Injuries (Clean Feed)
  9. Max Johnson, The Invisible Trio (Fresh Sound)
  10. Audio One, An International Report (Audiographic)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian, Hamburg '72 (ECM)
  3. Sun Ra, In the Orbit of Ra (Strut)

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Alain Drouot (Downbeat, WNUR-FM)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Angles 9, Injuries (Clean Feed)
  2. Tarbaby-Oliver Lake-Marc Ducret, Fanon (RogueArt)
  3. Led Bib, The People in Your Neighborhood (Cuneiform)
  4. Cory Wright, Apples + Oranges (Singlespeed)
  5. Joachim Kühn, Voodoo Sense (ACT)
  6. Evan Parker & Sylvie Courvoisier, Either Or And (Relative Pitch)
  7. James Brandon Lewis, Divine Travels (Okeh)
  8. Ken Thomson, Settle (NCM-East)
  9. Matt Bauder, Nightshades (Clean Feed)
  10. Jamie Saft-Steve Swallow-Bobby Previte, The New Standard (Rare Noise)

REISSUES

  1. Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch (Blue Note Japan)
  2. Steve Lacy, Cycles (Emanem)
  3. Don Pullen, Richard's Tune (Delmark)

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