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

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES

  1. Billie Holiday, Banned From New York City (Uptown)
  2. Eddie Condon & Bud Freeman, Complete Commodore & Decca Sessions (Mosaic)
  3. Wild Bill Davison, The Jazz Giants (Sackville/Delmark)

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Mark Stryker (Detroit Free Press)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Wilson, Live in New York: The Vanguard Sessions (Random Act)
  2. Noah Preminger, Pivot: Live at the 55 Bar (Noah Preminger)
  3. Orrin Evans, The Evolution of Oneself (Smoke Sessions)
  4. Steve Coleman, Synovial Joints (Pi)
  5. Michael Dease, Decisions (Posi-Tone)
  6. JD Allen, Graffiti (Savant)
  7. Benny Green, Live in Santa Cruz (Sunnyside)
  8. Vijay Iyer, Break Stuff (ECM)
  9. Dave Douglas, Brazen Heart (Greenleaf)
  10. Maria Schneider, The Thompson Fields (ArtistShare)

REISSUES

  1. Barry Harris, Plays Tadd Dameron (Xanadu)
  2. Erroll Garner, The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Roland Hanna, This Must Be Love (Progressive)

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Dave Sumner (Bird Is the Worm)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Chris Lightcap, Epicenter (Clean Feed)
  2. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  3. Kamasi Washington, The Epic (Brainfeeder)
  4. PRISM Quartet, Heritage/Evolution Volume 1 (Innova)
  5. Giovanni Francesca, Rame (Auand)
  6. Tomoko Omura, Roots (Inner Circle)
  7. Greg Foat, The Dancers at the Edge of Time (Jazzman)
  8. Eric Hofbauer, Prehistoric Jazz, Vol. 1: The Rite of Spring (Creative Nation -14)
  9. Reijseger Fraanje Sylla, Count Till Zen (Winter & Winter)
  10. Ghost Rhythms, Madeleine (self-released)

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John Szwed (The Wire, JazzStudiesOnLine.org, The Center for Jazz Studies (Columbia University))

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ran Blake, Ghost Tones (A-Side)
  2. Vijay Iyer, Break Stuff (ECM)
  3. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  4. Nate Wooley, Dance to the Early Music (Clean Feed)
  5. Liberty Ellman, Radiate (Pi)
  6. Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Project, Lines of Color (Blue Note/ArtistShare)
  7. Jacob Garchik, Ye Olde (Yestereve)
  8. Irene Schweizer & Han Bennink, Welcome Back (Intakt)
  9. Adam Rudolph, Turning Towards the Light (Cunieform)
  10. Chris Lightcap, Epicenter (Clean Feed)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Keith Jarrett-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Hamburg '72 (ECM)
  3. Erroll Garner, The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia/Legacy)

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Jeff Tamarkin (JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Cecile McLorin Salvant, For One to Love (Mack Avenue)
  2. Bob Dylan, Shadows in the Night (Columbia)
  3. John Scofield, Past Present (Impulse!)
  4. Arturo O'Farrill, Cuba: The Conversation Continues (Motéma)
  5. Charles Lloyd, Wild Man Dance (Blue Note)
  6. Terry Adams, Talk Thelonious (Clang!)
  7. Steve Coleman, Synovial Joints (Pi)
  8. Jon Irabagon, Behind the Sky (Irrabagast)
  9. Fred Hersch, Solo (Palmetto)
  10. Steve Wilson, Live in New York: The Vanguard Sessions (Random Act)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Thelonious Monk, The Complete Riverside Recordings (Riverside)
  3. Miles Davis f. John Coltrane, All of You: The Last Tour, 1960 (Acrobat)

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Perry Tannenbaum (JazzTimes, Creative Loafing [Charlotte], CVNC.org)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Terell Stafford, Brotherlee Love: Celebrating Lee Morgan (Capri)
  2. Harold Mabern, Afro Blue (Smoke Sessions)
  3. Gary McFarland Legacy Ensemble, Circulation: The Music of Gary McFarland (Planet Arts)
  4. Etienne Charles, Creole Soul (MRI)
  5. Matt Mitchell, Vista Accumulation (Pi)
  6. Arturo O'Farrill, Cuba: The Conversation Continues (Motéma)
  7. Cecile McLorin Salvant, For One to Love (Mack Avenue)
  8. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis, Live in Cuba (Blue Engine)
  9. Charles Lloyd, Wild Man Dance (Blue Note)
  10. Maria Schneider, The Thompson Fields (ArtistShare)

REISSUES

  1. Thelonious Monk, The Complete Columbia Live Albums Collection (Columbia)
  2. Red Garland, The Quota (MPS)
  3. Erroll Garner, The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia/Legacy)

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Derek Taylor (Dusted in Exile)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Roscoe Mitchell, Celebrating Fred Anderson (Nessa)
  2. Henry Threadgill, In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith & John Lindberg, Celestial Weather (TUM)
  4. Peter Brötzmann, Münster Bern (Cubus)
  5. Stephen Riley & Peter Zak, Haunted Heart (Steeplechase)
  6. Joe McPhee & Paal Nilssen-Love, Candy (PnL)
  7. Nicole Mitchell-Tomeka Reid-Mike Reed, Artifacts (482 Music)
  8. Ellery Eskelin, Solo Live at Snugs (hatOLOGY)
  9. Irene Schweizer & Han Bennink, Welcome Back (Intakt)
  10. Chicago Reed Quartet, Western Automatic (Aerophonic)

REISSUES

  1. Sonny Rollins w. Don Cherry, Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962 (Solar)
  2. Ran Blake, The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note (CAM Jazz)
  3. Gil Melle, The Blue Note Years, 1952-1956 (Fresh Sound)

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Neil Tesser (Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  2. Terence Blanchard, Breathless (Blue Note)
  3. Chris Potter, Imaginary Cities (ECM)
  4. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp, Callas (Leo)
  5. Ray Anderson, Being the Point (Intuition)
  6. Chicago Reed Quartet, Western Automatic (Aerophonic)
  7. Dave Douglas, High Risk (Greenleaf)
  8. Liberation Music Collective, Silo XXI (Ad Astrum)
  9. Chico Freeman & Heiri Kanzig, The Arrival (Intakt)
  10. Rob Mazurek, Galactic Parables Vol. 1 (Cuneiform)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Erroll Garner, The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. George Lewis, The Solo Trombone Record (Sackville)

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Mark F. Turner (All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kamasi Washington, The Epic (Brainfeeder)
  2. Ike Sturm, Shelter of Trees (self-released)
  3. Jacob Garchik, Ye Olde (Yestereve)
  4. Tomoko Omura, Roots (Inner Circle)
  5. Julian Lage, World's Fair (Modern Lore)
  6. Laurent Coq & Walter Smith III, The LaFayette Suite (Jazzandpeople)
  7. José James, Yesterday I Had the Blues (Blue Note)
  8. Donny McCaslin, Fast Future (Greenleaf)
  9. Pete Rodriguez, El Conde Negro (Destiny)
  10. Nicole Mitchell-Tomeka Reid-Mike Reed, Artifacts (482 Music)

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Michael Ullman (Fanfare, Arts Fuse)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Henry Threadgill, In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi)
  2. Maria Schneider, The Thompson Fields (ArtistShare)
  3. Myra Melford, Snowy Egret (Enja/Yellowbird)
  4. Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago (ECM)
  5. Terence Blanchard, Breathless (Blue Note)
  6. Milford Graves & Bill Laswell, Space/Time Redemption (TUM)
  7. Joshua Redman & Bad Plus, Joshua Redman & Bad Plus (Nonesuch)
  8. Fred Hersch, Solo (Palmetto)
  9. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  10. Matthew Shipp, The Conduct of Jazz (Thirsty Ear)

REISSUES

  1. Sonny Rollins w. Don Cherry, Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962 (Solar)
  2. Charlie Haden & Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Tokyo Adagio (Impulse!)
  3. Weather Report, The Legendary Live Tapes 1978-1981 (Legacy)

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Ludwig vanTrikt (Cadence)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Marta Sanchez, Partenika (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  2. Christian McBride, Live at the Village Vanguard (Mack Avenue)
  3. Andrew Bishop, De Profundis (From the Depths) (Envoire)
  4. Jon Irabagon, Behind the Sky (Irrabagast)
  5. Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas, Sound Prints: Live at Monterey Jazz Festival (Blue Note)
  6. Dave Douglas, High Risk (Greenleaf)
  7. Jeremy Pelt, Tales, Musings and Other Reveries (HighNote)
  8. Laszlo Gardony, Life in Real Time (Sunnyside)
  9. Kirk Knuffke, Arms & Hands (Royal Potato Family)
  10. Joey Calderazzo, Going Home (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. Horace Silver f. Woody Shaw, Live at the Half-Note (Hi Hat)
  2. Bobby Bradford & John Carter, No U-Turn: Live in Pasadena, 1975 (Dark Tree)
  3. Andrew Hill, Hommage (East Wind)

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Seth Colter Walls (Pitchfork, The Guardian)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Henry Threadgill, In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi)
  2. Kamasi Washington, The Epic (Brainfeeder)
  3. Mary Halvorson, Meltframe (Firehouse 12)
  4. Vijay Iyer, Break Stuff (ECM)
  5. Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago (ECM)
  6. James Brandon Lewis, Days of FreeMan (OKeh)
  7. Steve Coleman, Synovial Joints (Pi)
  8. Tomeka Reid, Quartet (Thirsty Ear)
  9. Aaron Diehl, Space Time Continuum (Mack Avenue)
  10. Matana Roberts, Always (Relative Pitch)

REISSUES

  1. Cecil Taylor, The Complete in Berlin '88 (Destination Out)
  2. Sonny Rollins w. Don Cherry, Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962 (Solar)
  3. various, The Kitchen Improvises: 1976-1983 (Orange Mountain Music)

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Ken Waxman (The New York City Jazz Record, Jazz Word)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Roscoe Mitchell, Celebrating Fred Anderson (Nessa)
  2. Daniel Carter-William Parker-Federico Ughi, Navajo Sunrise (Rudi)
  3. François Carrier-Michel Lambert-Rafal Mazur, Unknowable (Not Two)
  4. Anna Webber, Refraction (Pirouet)
  5. Tim Berne, You've Been Watching Me (ECM)
  6. Evan Parker, Seven (Victo)
  7. Samuel Blaser, Spring Rain (Whirlwind)
  8. Akira Sakata-Giovanni Di Domenico-John Edwards-Steve Noble, Live at Cafe Oto (Clamshell)
  9. James Falzone & the Renga Ensemble, The Room Is (Allos Documents)
  10. George Freeman & Chico Freeman, All in the Family (Southport)

REISSUES

  1. Bobby Bradford & John Carter, No U-Turn: Live in Pasadena, 1975 (Dark Tree)
  2. Derek Bailey-Joëlle Léandre-George Lewis-Evan Parker, Dunois 1982 (Fou)
  3. Barry Harris, Plays Tadd Dameron (Xanadu)

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Bob Weinberg (Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago (ECM)
  2. Ku-umba Frank Lacy & the Mingus Big Band, Mingus Sings (Sunnyside)
  3. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  4. Charles Lloyd, Wild Man Dance (Blue Note)
  5. Mario Pavone, Blue Dialect (Clean Feed)
  6. Tyshawn Sorey, Alloy (Pi -14)
  7. Branford Marsalis, In My Solitude (OKeh -14)
  8. Matthew Shipp, The Conduct of Jazz (Thirsty Ear)
  9. Irene Schweizer & Han Bennink, Welcome Back (Intakt)
  10. Enrico Rava, Wild Dance (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. various, The Complete Dial Modern Jazz Sessions (Mosaic)
  2. Bobby Bradford & John Carter, No U-Turn: Live in Pasadena, 1975 (Dark Tree)
  3. David S. Ware, Birth of a Being (AUM Fidelity)

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Jason Weiss (Les Allumé du Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mary Halvorson, Meltframe (Firehouse 12)
  2. Ingrid Laubrock, Roulette of the Cradle (Intakt)
  3. Fabien Robbe, Da Bep Lec'h (Improvising Beings)
  4. Joel Forrester, About Time (Ride Symbol)
  5. Biggi Vinkeloe/François Lemonnier, Jade (Futura Voix)
  6. Henry Threadgill, In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi)
  7. Wayne Horvitz, Some Places Are Forever Afternoon (Songlines)
  8. Amir ElSaffar, Crisis (Pi)
  9. Berger-Knutsson-Spering-Schultz, Blue Blue (Country & Eastern)
  10. Frank Carlberg, Word Circus (Red Piano)

REISSUES

  1. Willem Breuker, Angoulême 18 Mai 1980 (Fou)
  2. Sonny Simmons, Reincarnation (Arhoolie)
  3. Mike Osborne, Dawn (Cuneiform)

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Ken Weiss (Cadence, Jazz Inside)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  2. Joe McPhee & Paal Nilssen-Love, Candy (PnL)
  3. Jon Irabagon, Behind the Sky (Irrabagast)
  4. Laszlo Gardony, Life in Real Time (Sunnyside)
  5. Aki Takase & Alexander Von Schlippenbach, So Long, Eric! Hommage to Eric Dolphy (Intakt -14)
  6. Steve Swell, Hommage a Bartok (Silkheart)
  7. Henry Threadgill, In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi)
  8. Ochion Jewell, Volk (Mythology)
  9. Maria Schneider, The Thompson Fields (ArtistShare)
  10. Romain Collin, Press Enter (ACT)

REISSUES

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Michael J. West (Washington City Paper, JazzTimes, Washington Post)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Antonio Sanchez, The Meridian Suite (CAM Jazz)
  2. Kamasi Washington, The Epic (Brainfeeder)
  3. Makaya McCraven, In the Moment (International Anthem)
  4. Todd Marcus, Blues for Tahrir Marcus (Hipnotic)
  5. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin - Chapter Three: River Run Thee (Constellation)
  6. Ernest Dawkins, Memory in the Center: Homage to Nelson Mandela (Dawk)
  7. Steve Coleman, Synovial Joints (Pi)
  8. Henry Threadgill, In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi)
  9. Maria Schneider, The Thompson Fields (ArtistShare)
  10. Stanley Cowell, Juneteenth (Vision Fugitive)

REISSUES

  1. Erroll Garner, The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Andrew Hill, Point of Departure (Blue Note)
  3. Thelonious Monk, The Complete Riverside Recordings (Riverside)

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Kevin Whitehead (Fresh Air [NPR], TONE Audio)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

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Jim Wilke (KPLU-FM [Seattle])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Maria Schneider, The Thompson Fields (ArtistShare)
  2. Terell Stafford, Brotherlee Love: Celebrating Lee Morgan (Capri)
  3. Fred Hersch, Solo (Palmetto)
  4. Ernestine Anderson, Swings the Penthouse (HighNote)
  5. Jill Townsend, Legacy: Music of Ross Taggart (Cellar Live)
  6. Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Project, Lines of Color (Blue Note/ArtistShare)
  7. Kurt Elling, Passion World (Concord)
  8. Charles McPherson, The Journey (Capri)
  9. Roberta Gambarini/Heath Bros., Connecting Spirits (Groovin' Higher)
  10. Bryan Lynch & Emmet Cohen, Questioned Answer (Hollistic MusicWorks -14)

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Josef Woodard (DownBeat, Jazziz, Los Angeles Times)

NEW RELEASES

  1. John Scofield, Past Present (Impulse!)
  2. Karrin Allyson, Many a New Day (Motema)
  3. Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago (ECM)
  4. Jakob Bro, Gefion (ECM)
  5. Maria Schneider, The Thompson Fields (ArtistShare)
  6. Brad Mehldau, 10 Years Solo Live (Nonesuch)
  7. Cecile McLorin Salvant, For One to Love (Mack Avenue)
  8. Dave Douglas, High Risk (Greenleaf)
  9. Cassandra Wilson, Coming Forth by Day (Legacy)
  10. Tom Rainey, Hotel Grief (Intakt)

REISSUES

  1. Billie Holiday, The Centennial Collection (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Wes Montgomery, In the Beginning (Resonance)
  3. Django Reinhardt, At the Movies (Cherry Red)

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Scott Yanow (DownBeat, Jazziz, L.A. Jazz Scene, Inside Jazz, The Jazz Rag)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Gary McFarland Legacy Ensemble, Circulation: The Music of Gary McFarland (Planet Arts)
  2. Ghost Train Orchestra, Hot Town (Accurate)
  3. Andy Schumm, Bix Off the Record (Lake)
  4. Erik Friedlander, Oscalypso (Skipstone)
  5. Mon David, This Is All I Ask (Human Connection)
  6. Eddie Henderson, Collective Portrait (Smoke Sessions)
  7. Edsel Gomez, Road to Udaipur (Zoho)
  8. Edwin G. Hamilton, The Whole World Must Change (EGHM)
  9. Carl Sonny Leyland, King of the Barrelhouse (Piano/Mania Music)
  10. Gordon Goodwin, A Big Phat Christmas (1201 Music)

REISSUES

  1. Eddie Condon & Bud Freeman, Complete Commodore & Decca Sessions (Mosaic)
  2. Wes Montgomery, In the Beginning (Resonance)
  3. Miles Davis, At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)

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