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Ted Panken (DownBeat, Jazziz, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Yosvany Terry, New Throned King (5 Pasion)
  2. Anthony Braxton, Trio (New Haven) 2013 (New Braxton House)
  3. Bad Plus, The Rite of Spring (Sony Masterworks)
  4. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)
  5. Tom Harrell, Trip (HighNote)
  6. Edward Simon, Venezuelan Suite (Sunnyside)
  7. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  8. Danilo Pérez, Panama 500 (Mack Avenue)
  9. Orrin Evans, Liberation Blues (Smoke Session)
  10. Sean Jones, Im·pro·vise Never Before Seen (Mack Avenue)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Louis Armstrong, The Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings (Mosaic)
  3. Bill Evans, Symbiosis (Edel:Kultur)

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Thierry Peremarti (Jazz News [France])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Aaron Goldberg, The Now (Sunnyside)
  2. Avishai Cohen, Dark Nights (Anzic)
  3. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  4. Miguel Zenón, Identities Are Changeable (Miel Music)
  5. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  6. Alfredo Rodriguez, The Invasion Parade (Mack Avenue)
  7. Wayne Horvitz, At the Reception (Songlines)
  8. Jerome Sabbagh, The Turn (Sunnyside)
  9. Franck Amsallem, Sings(Vol. II) (Fram)
  10. Matt Ulery, In the Ivory (Greenleaf)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)
  2. Chubby Jackson, New York City 1949 (Uptown)
  3. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)

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Sergio Piccirilli (El Instruso)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  2. Peter Evans, Destination: Void (More Is More)
  3. Tyshawn Sorey, Alloy (Pi)
  4. Farmers by Nature, Love and Ghosts (AUM Fidelity)
  5. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  6. Aki Takase & Alexander von Schlippenbach, So Long Eric! Homage to Eric Dolphy (Intakt)
  7. Dan Weiss, Fourteen (Pi)
  8. Kyle Bruckmann, . . . Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire (SingleSpeed Music)
  9. Jeremiah Cymerman-Evan Parker-Nate Wooley, World of Objects (5049)
  10. Daunik Lazro-Benjamin Duboc-Didier Laserre, Sens Radiants (Dark Tree)

REISSUES

  1. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  2. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)

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Bob Porter (WBGO/IAJRC Journal)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Evan Christopher, Django a la Creole-Live (Fremeaux)
  2. Houston Person, The Melody Lingers On (HighNote)
  3. Jane Ira Bloom, Sixteen Sunsets (Outline/Pure Audio -13)
  4. Sax Gordon, In the Wee Small Hours (Delmark)
  5. Catherine Russell, Bring It Back (Jazz Village)
  6. Frank Wess, Magic 201 (IPO)
  7. Marlene VerPlanck, I Give Up, I'm In Love (Audiophile)
  8. Eric Alexander, Chicago Fire (HighNote)
  9. Barbara Morrison, I Love You, Yes I Do (Savant)

REISSUES

  1. The "5" Royales, Soul & Swagger (Rockbeat)
  2. Buddy Tate, Texas Tenor (Sackville)
  3. Frank Wess & Johnny Coles, Two at the Top (Uptown)

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Craig Premo (Improvised Blog)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  2. Anna Webber, Simple (Skirl)
  3. RED Trio & Mattias Ståhl, North and the Red Stream (NoBusiness)
  4. Max Johnson, The Prisoner (NoBusiness)
  5. Jorrit Dijkstra, Live Bimhuis Amsterdam (Driff)
  6. Samuel Blaser-Benoit Delbecq-Gerry Hemingway, Fourth Landscape (Nuscope)
  7. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  8. Stephen Gauci-Kirk Knuffke-Ken Filiano, Chasing Tales (Relative Pitch)
  9. Luis Vicente-Rodrigo Pinheiro-Hernani Faustino-Marco Franco, Clocks and Clouds (FMR)
  10. Anthony Braxton, Trio (New Haven) 2013 (New Braxton House)

REISSUES

  1. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  2. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Howard Riley, Angle/The Day Will Come (Hux)

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

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  2. Mary Halvorson-Michael Formanek-Tomas Fujiwara, Thumbscrew (Cuneiform)
  3. Nels Cline Singers, Macroscope (Mack Avenue)
  4. Hafez Modirzadeh, In Convergence Liberation (Pi)
  5. Eric Vloeimans, Oliver's Cinema (Challenge)
  6. Vijay Iyer, Mutations (ECM)
  7. Myra Melford & Alister Spence, Everything Here Is Possible (Alister Spence Music)
  8. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  9. Matthew Shipp, Root of Things (Relative Pitch)
  10. John McLaughlin, The Boston Record (Abstract Logix)

REISSUES

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

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Joel Roberts (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Brian Blade, Landmarks (Blue Note)
  2. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden, Last Dance (ECM)
  3. Miguel Zenón, Identities Are Changeable (Miel Music)
  4. Joshua Redman, Trios Live (Nonesuch)
  5. Azar Lawrence, The Seeker (Sunnyside)
  6. James Brandon Lewis, Divine Travels (Okeh)
  7. Gregory Tardy, Hope (SteepleChase)
  8. Craig Handy, Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith (Okeh)
  9. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)
  10. Preservation Hall Jazz Band, That's It (Legacy -13)

REISSUES

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

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Britt Robson (JazzTimes, Wondering Sound, Minneapolis Star Tribune)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  2. Sean Jones, Im·pro·vise Never Before Seen (Mack Avenue)
  3. Dhafer Youssef, Birds Requiem (Okeh)
  4. Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp, Cosmic Leider: The Darkseid Recital (AUM Fidelity)
  5. Melissa Aldana, Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio (Concord)
  6. Eric Revis, In Memory of Things Yet Seen (Clean Feed)
  7. SFJazz Collective, 10th Anniversary: Best of SFJazz (SFJazz)
  8. Farmers by Nature, Love and Ghosts (AUM Fidelity)
  9. Cookers, Time and Time Again (Motéma)
  10. Orrin Evans, Mother's Touch (Posi-Tone)

REISSUES

  1. Sun Ra, In the Orbit of Ra (Strut)
  2. Gil Scott-Heron, Pieces of a Man (BGP/Flying Dutchman)
  3. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)

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Kara Rusch ("Slim") (WRCU DJ host, Slim's Spins, The Slim & Him Show)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Juhani Aaltonen, Reminiscence (TUM)
  2. Jane Ira Bloom, Sixteen Sunsets (Outline/Pure Audio -13)
  3. John Brown, Quiet Time (Brown Boulevard)
  4. Ezra Weiss, Before You Know It (Roark)
  5. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  6. Archie Shepp, I Hear the Sound (Archi Ball)
  7. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)
  8. Cookers, Time and Time Again (Motéma)
  9. Jon Irabagon, It Takes All Kinds (Irabbagast/Jazzwerkstatt)
  10. Catalano-Chamberlin-Jones-Benjamin-Poland, Love Supreme Collective (Ropeadope)

REISSUES

  1. Don Pullen, Richard's Tune (Delmark)
  2. Albert Ayler, Spiritual Unity [50th Anniversary Expanded Edition] (ESP-Disk)
  3. Chris Greco, Standards Vol 1 (Gwsfourwinds)

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Giovanni Russonello (CapitalBop, JazzTimes, Washington Post)

NEW RELEASES

  1. David Virelles, Mbókò (ECM)
  2. Battle Trance, Palace of Wind (New Amsterdam)
  3. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  4. Bobby Avey, Authority Melts From Me (Whirlwind)
  5. James Brandon Lewis, Divine Travels (Okeh)
  6. Darius Jones, The Oversoul Manual (AUM Fidelity)
  7. Brian Blade, Landmarks (Blue Note)
  8. Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp, Cosmic Leider: The Darkseid Recital (AUM Fidelity)
  9. Kesivan & the Lights, Brotherhood (Babu/Sony/ATV)
  10. Tyshawn Sorey, Alloy (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Sun Ra, In the Orbit of Ra (Strut)

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Lloyd Sachs (JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tyshawn Sorey, Alloy (Pi)
  2. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)
  3. Jason Roebke, High Red Center (Delmark)
  4. Avishai Cohen, Dark Nights (Anzic)
  5. Mike Reed, Second Cities, Vol. 1 (482 Music -13)
  6. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  7. David Virelles, Mbókò (ECM)
  8. Mary Halvorson-Michael Formanek-Tomas Fujiwara, Thumbscrew (Cuneiform)
  9. Made to Break, Cherchez la Femme (Trost)
  10. Billy Hart, One Is the Other (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  2. Charlie Haden & Jim Hall, Charlie Haden & Jim Hall (Impulse!)
  3. Hal Russell + Charles Tyler, Generation (Nessa)

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Bret Saunders (Denver Post, KBCO-FM)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mary Halvorson, Reverse Blue (Relative Pitch)
  2. Pharoah Sanders & the Underground, Spiral Mercury (Clean Feed)
  3. Ron Miles, Circuit Rider (Enja/Yellowbird)
  4. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  5. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  6. Nels Cline Singers, Macroscope (Mack Avenue)
  7. Farmers by Nature, Love and Ghosts (AUM Fidelity)
  8. Regina Carter, Southern Comfort (Sony Masterworks)
  9. Anthony Braxton, Trio (New Haven) 2013 (New Braxton House)
  10. James Brandon Lewis, Divine Travels (Okeh)

REISSUES

  1. Louis Armstrong, The Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)
  3. Sun Ra, Sign of the Myth (Roaratorio)

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Richard Scheinin (San Jose Mercury News and Bay Area News Group)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)
  2. Chick Corea, Trilogy (Stretch/Concord)
  3. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)
  4. Cyrus Chestnut, Midnight Melodies (Smoke Sessions)
  5. Marquis Hill, The Poet (Skiptone)
  6. Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Jazz Racine Haiti (Motéma)
  7. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  8. Mario Castro, Estrella de Mar (Interrobang)
  9. Charles Davis, For the Love of Lori (Reade Street)
  10. John Escreet, Sound, Space and Structures (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)
  3. Charlie Haden & Jim Hall, Charlie Haden & Jim Hall (Impulse!)

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Gene Seymour

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  2. Allen Lowe, Mulatto Radio: Field Recordings 1-4 (Or: A Jew at Large in the Minstrel Diaspora (Constant Sorrow)
  3. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)
  4. Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation (Impulse)
  5. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)
  6. David Weiss, When Words Fail (Motéma)
  7. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  8. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  9. Matt Wilson + John Medeski, Gathering Call (Palmetto)
  10. The Microscopic Septet, Manhattan Moonrise (Cuneiform)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)

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Mike Shanley (JazzTimes, shanleyonmusic)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Roebke, High Red Center (Delmark)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  3. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  4. Jason Adasiewicz, From the Region (Delmark)
  5. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)
  6. Trio 3 & Vijay Iyer, Wiring (Intakt)
  7. Eric Revis, In Memory of Things Yet Seen (Clean Feed)
  8. Matthew Shipp, I've Been to Many Places (Thirsty Ear)
  9. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)
  10. Nels Cline Singers, Macroscope (Mack Avenue)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  3. Bud Powell, Birdland 1953 (ESP-Disk)

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John Sharpe (The New York City Jazz Record, All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Nicole Mitchell, The Secret Escapades of Velvet Anderson (RogueArt)
  2. Farmers by Nature, Love and Ghosts (AUM Fidelity)
  3. Rodrigo Amado & Peter Evans, The Freedom Principle (NoBusiness)
  4. Barry Guy, Amphi/Radio Rondo (Intakt)
  5. Matthew Shipp, Root of Things (Relative Pitch)
  6. Peter Brötzmann, Mental Shake (OTOroku)
  7. Daunik Lazro & Joëlle Léandre, Hasparren (NoBusiness)
  8. Alexander Hawkins, Step Wide, Step Deep (Babel)
  9. Tomas Fujiwara, Variable Bets (Relative Pitch)
  10. Sylvie Courvoisier, Double Windsor (Tzadik)

REISSUES

  1. Frank Lowe, Out Loud (Triple Point)

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Bill Shoemaker (Point of Departure)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  2. Bobby Bradford & Frode Gjersted, Silver Cornet (Nessa)
  3. Black Top, No. 1 (Babel)
  4. Lafayette Gilchrist, The Go-Go Suite (Creative Differences)
  5. Aki Takase & Alexander von Schlippenbach, So Long Eric! Homage to Eric Dolphy (Intakt)
  6. Decoy & Joe McPhee, Spontaneous Combustion (OTOroku -13)
  7. Mary Halvorson-Michael Formanek-Tomas Fujiwara, Thumbscrew (Cuneiform)
  8. Alexander Hawkins, Song Singular (Babel -13)
  9. Farmers by Nature, Love and Ghosts (AUM Fidelity)
  10. Tarbaby-Oliver Lake-Marc Ducret, Fanon (RogueArt)

REISSUES

  1. Horace Tapscott, The Giant Is Awakened (International Phonogram)
  2. Various, Creative Music Studio: Archive Selections, Vol. 1 (Innova)
  3. Steve Lacy, Avignon and After (Emanem)

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Hank Shteamer (Time Out New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  2. Frank Kimbrough, Quartet (Palmetto)
  3. Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation (Impulse)
  4. Sarah Manning, Harmonious Creature (Posi-Tone)
  5. David Weiss, When Words Fail (Motéma)
  6. Johnathan Blake, Gone But Not Forgotten (Criss Cross)
  7. Dave Douglas & Uri Caine, Present Joys (Greenleaf)
  8. David Virelles, Mbókò (ECM)
  9. Us Free [Bill McHenry-Henry Grimes-Andrew Cyrille], Fish Stories (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  10. Louis Hayes, Return of the Jazz Communicators (Smoke Sessions)

REISSUES

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

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Jon Solomon (Westword)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Brian Blade, Landmarks (Blue Note)
  2. Bad Plus, Inevitable Western (Okeh)
  3. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  4. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  5. Nels Cline Singers, Macroscope (Mack Avenue)
  6. Ron Miles, Circuit Rider (Enja/Yellowbird)
  7. Vijay Iyer, Mutations (ECM)
  8. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)
  9. Nels Cline & Julian Lage, Room (Mack Avenue)
  10. Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation (Impulse)

REISSUES

  1. Charlie Haden & Jim Hall, Charlie Haden & Jim Hall (Impulse!)
  2. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  3. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)

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W. Royal Stokes (wroyalstokes.com, JJA News)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

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