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Karl Ackermann (All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Nate Wooley, Seven Storey Mountain V (Pleasure of the Text)
  2. Jon Lundbom, 2016: EPs: Make the Magic Happen/Play All the Notes/Bring Their 'A' Game/Make the Changes (Hot Cup)
  3. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (ECM)
  4. Raphael Malfliet, Noumenon (Ruweh)
  5. Steve Lehman, Sélébéyone (Pi)
  6. Core Trio, Live, featuring Matthew Shipp (Evil Rabbit)
  7. Avishai Cohen, Into the Silence (ECM)
  8. Bob Gluck-Billy Hart-Eddie Henderson-Christopher Dean Sullivan, Infinite Spirit: Revisiting Music of the Mwandishi Band (FMR)
  9. Jack DeJohnette, Return (Newvelle Records)
  10. Taylor Ho Bynum, Enter the PlusTet (Firehouse 12)

REISSUES

  1. Keith Jarrett, A Multitude of Angels (ECM)
  2. Cecil Taylor, Live in the Black Forest (Edel)
  3. Peter Erskine, As It Was (ECM)

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Paul Acquaro (Free Jazz Collective)

NEW RELEASES

  1. RED Trio & John Butcher, Summer Skyshift (Clean Feed)
  2. Yoni Kretzmer, Yoni Kretzmer Five (OutNow)
  3. Tim Stine, Tim Stine Trio (Astral Spirits)
  4. Abbey Rader With Kidd Jordan, Reunion (Abray)
  5. Gunwale, Polynya (Aerophonic)
  6. Anna Högberg, Attack (Omlott)
  7. Mary Halvorson, Away With You (Firehouse 12)
  8. Made to Break, Before the Code: Live (Audiographic)
  9. Forebrace, Steeped (Relative Pitch)
  10. Nels Cline, Lovers (Blue Note)

REISSUES

  1. Peter Kuhn, No Coming No Going (Living Right) (No Business)
  2. David S. Ware & Matthew Shipp, Live in Sant'Anna Arresi 2004 (AUM Fidelity)
  3. William Hooker, Light: The Early Years 1975-1989 (No Business)

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David R. Adler (JazzTimes, Stereophile)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Esperanza Spalding, Emily's D+Evolution (Concord)
  2. Mike Moreno, Lotus (World Culture)
  3. Dan Weiss, Sixteen: Drummers Suite (Pi)
  4. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Real Enemies (New Amsterdam)
  5. Tony Moreno, Short Stories (Mayimba)
  6. Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau, Nearness (Nonesuch)
  7. Rez Abbasi, Behind the Vibration (Cuneiform)
  8. Nels Cline, Lovers (Blue Note)
  9. Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance (ECM)
  10. Stephan Crump, Rhombal (Papillon Sounds)

REISSUES

  1. various, The Savory Collection, Volume 1: Body and Soul: Coleman Hawkins & Friends (Apple Music)
  2. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)
  3. Miles Davis, Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 (Columbia Legacy)

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Scott Albin (Amazon.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, Basically Baker Vol. 2 (Patois)
  2. Jason Palmer & Cédric Hanriot, City of Poets (Whirlwind)
  3. Quinsin Nachoff, Flux (Mythology)
  4. Hristo Vitchev, In Search of Wonders (First Orbit)
  5. Richardo Grilli, 1954 (Tone Rogue)
  6. Will Calhoun, Celebrating Elvin Jones (Motéma)
  7. Craig Hartley, Books on Tape Vol. 2 (Skidoo)
  8. Wendy Pedersen & Jim Gasior, We Two (Jimmy G's House of Sound)
  9. Ryan Fourt, Big Slick (Dazzle)
  10. Patrick Cornelius, While We're Still Young (Whirlwind)

REISSUES

  1. Bill Evans, Some Other Time (Resonance)
  2. Miles Davis, Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 (Columbia Legacy)
  3. Joe Lovano, Classic! Live at Newport (Blue Note)

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Larry Appelbaum (JazzTimes, WPFW-FM)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Nels Cline, Lovers (Blue Note)
  2. Catherine Russell, Harlem on My Mind (Jazz Village)
  3. John Scofield, Country for Old Men (Impulse!)
  4. Iro Haarla, Ante Lucem (ECM)
  5. Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra, Time/Life: Song for the Whales and Other Beings (Impulse!)
  6. Andy Gonzalez, Entre Colegas (Truth Revolution)
  7. Andrew Cyrille & Bill McHenry, Proximity (Sunnyside)
  8. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
  9. Tom Harrell, Something Gold, Something Blue (HighNote)
  10. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 (Columbia Legacy)
  2. Erroll Garner, Ready Take One (Octave/Legacy)
  3. Bill Evans, Some Other Time (Resonance)

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Hrayr Attarian (Jazziz, All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
  2. Jack DeJohnette-Matt Garrison-Ravi Coltrane, In Movement (ECM)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith & John Lindberg, Celestial Weather (TUM -15)
  4. Satoko Fujii & Joe Fonda, Duet (Long Song)
  5. Joseph Daley, The Tuba Trio Chronicles (JoDa Music)
  6. Jane Ira Bloom, Early Americans (Outline)
  7. Jerome Sabbagh-Simon Jermyn-Allison Miller, Lean (self-released)
  8. Julie Kjær, Dobbeltgænger (Clean Feed)
  9. Catherine Sikora, Jersey (Relative Pitch)
  10. Taylor Ho Bynum, Enter the PlusTet (Firehouse 12)

REISSUES

  1. Larry Young, In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance)
  2. James P. Johnson, Classic James P. Johnson Sessions (Mosaic -15)
  3. Miles Davis, Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 (Columbia Legacy)

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Duck Baker (The Absolute Sound, New York Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
  2. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
  3. Mark Dresser, Sedimental You (Clean Feed)
  4. Richard Poole-Marilyn Crispell-Gary Peacock, In Motion (Intakt)
  5. Rich Halley, The Outlier (Pine Eagle)
  6. I.P.A., I Just Did Say Something (Cuneiform)
  7. Friends and Neighbors, What's Wrong (Clean Feed)
  8. Jon Lundbom, 2016: EPs: Make the Magic Happen/Play All the Notes/Bring Their 'A' Game/Make the Changes (Hot Cup)
  9. Earprint, Earprint (Endectomorph)
  10. Jane Ira Bloom, Early Americans (Outline)

REISSUES

  1. Larry Young, In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance)
  2. Count Basie & Lester Young, Classic 1936-1947 Studio Sessions (Mosaic)
  3. Art Pepper & Warne Marsh, Unreleased Art: Volume 9: Art Pepper & Warne Marsh at Donte's April 26, 1974 (Widow's Taste)

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Bradley Bambarger (Listen, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Frank Kimbrough, Solstice (Pirouet)
  2. Nels Cline, Lovers (Blue Note)
  3. Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance (ECM)
  4. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
  5. Cuong Vu & Pat Metheny, Meets (Nonesuch)
  6. JD Allen, Americana (HighNote)
  7. Brad Mehldau, Blues and Ballads (Nonesuch)
  8. David Virelles, Antenna (ECM)
  9. Renku, Live in Greenwich Village (Clean Feed)
  10. Aruán Ortiz, Hidden Voices (Intakt)

REISSUES

  1. various, The Savory Collection, Volume 1: Body and Soul: Coleman Hawkins & Friends (Apple Music)
  2. Miles Davis, Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 (Columbia Legacy)
  3. Peter Erskine, As It Was (ECM)

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Chris Barton (Los Angeles Times)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jack DeJohnette-Matt Garrison-Ravi Coltrane, In Movement (ECM)
  2. Jeff Parker, The New Breed (International Anthem)
  3. Jonathan Finlayson, Moving Still (Pi)
  4. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
  5. Mary Halvorson, Away With You (Firehouse 12)
  6. Greg Ward & 10 Tongues, Touch My Beloved's Thought (Greenleaf)
  7. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (ECM)
  8. JD Allen, Americana (HighNote)
  9. Brad Mehldau, Blues and Ballads (Nonesuch)
  10. Steve Lehman, Sélébéyone (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Erroll Garner, Ready Take One (Octave/Legacy)
  2. Larry Young, In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance)
  3. Bill Evans, Some Other Time (Resonance)

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Bill Beuttler (Emerson College, Boston Globe, JazzTimes, DownBeat, Esquire)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
  2. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (ECM)
  3. Jason Moran, The Armory Concert (Band Camp)
  4. John Zorn [Craig Taborn-Christian McBride-Tyshawn Sorey], Flaga: The Book of Angels, Volume 27 (Tzadik)
  5. Tyshawn Sorey, The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi)
  6. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Real Enemies (New Amsterdam)
  7. Julian Lage, Arclight (Mack Avenue)
  8. Avishai Cohen, Into the Silence (ECM)
  9. Mary Halvorson, Away With You (Firehouse 12)
  10. Dave Holland-Chris Potter-Lionel Loueke-Eric Harland, Aziza (Dare2)

REISSUES

  1. Larry Young, In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance)
  2. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)
  3. Bill Evans, Some Other Time (Resonance)

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Nick Bewsey (Icon Magazine)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Bill Charlap, Notes From New York (Impulse!)
  2. Louis Heriveaux, Triadic Episode (Hot Shoe)
  3. Charles Lloyd, I Long to See You (Blue Note)
  4. Jack DeJohnette-Matt Garrison-Ravi Coltrane, In Movement (ECM)
  5. John Raymond, Real Feels (Shifting Paradigm)
  6. Wolfgang Muthspiel, Rising Grace (ECM)
  7. Ken Fowser, Standing Tall (Posi-Tone)
  8. Frank Kimbrough, Solstice (Pirouet)
  9. JD Allen, Americana (HighNote)
  10. Esperanza Spalding, Emily's D+Evolution (Concord)

REISSUES

  1. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)
  2. John Coltrane, The Atlantic Years in Mono (Rhino)
  3. Larry Young, In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance)

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Dan Bilawsky (All About Jazz, JAZZed Magazine)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Peter Eldridge, Disappearing Day (Sunnyside)
  2. Dave Holland-Chris Potter-Lionel Loueke-Eric Harland, Aziza (Dare2)
  3. Will Vinson, Perfectly Out of Place (5Passion)
  4. Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance (ECM)
  5. Camila Meza, Traces (Sunnyside)
  6. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
  7. Ryan Keberle, Azul Infinito (Greenleaf)
  8. Frank Kimbrough, Solstice (Pirouet)
  9. Ken Peplowski, Enrapture (Capri)
  10. Daniel Freedman, Imagine That (Anzic)

REISSUES

  1. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)
  2. Miles Davis, Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 (Columbia Legacy)

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Larry Birnbaum (Stereophile)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
  2. Anthony Braxton, 3 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011 (Firehouse 12)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
  4. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (ECM)
  5. Mary Halvorson, Away With You (Firehouse 12)
  6. Bobby Kapp & Matthew Shipp, Cactus (Northern Spy)
  7. Jack DeJohnette-Matt Garrison-Ravi Coltrane, In Movement (ECM)
  8. Avishai Cohen, Into the Silence (ECM)
  9. Pedrito Martinez, Habana Dreams (Motéma)
  10. Allen Toussaint, American Tunes (Nonesuch)

REISSUES

  1. Larry Young, In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance)
  2. Stan Getz, Moments in Time (Resonance)
  3. Sam Rivers, Fuchsia Swing Song (Blue Note)

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Larry Blumenfeld (Wall Street Journal, Jazziz, Artinfo: Blu Notes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran, The Armory Concert (Band Camp)
  2. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (ECM)
  3. Tyshawn Sorey, The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi)
  4. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
  5. Pedrito Martinez, Habana Dreams (Motéma)
  6. Andrew Cyrille, The Declaration of Musical Independence (ECM)
  7. René Marie, Sound of Red (Motéma)
  8. Herlin Riley, New Directions (Mack Avenue)
  9. Evan Christopher, Bayou Chant (STR Digital)
  10. Adam O'Farrill, Stranger Days (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 (Columbia Legacy)
  2. David S. Ware & Matthew Shipp, Live in Sant'Anna Arresi 2004 (AUM Fidelity)
  3. Charlie Haden & Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Tokyo Adagio (Impulse! -15)

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Bob Blumenthal (freelance)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family, Beginning of a Memory (Palmetto)
  2. Taylor Ho Bynum, Enter the PlusTet (Firehouse 12)
  3. Renee Rosnes, Written in the Rocks (Smoke Sessions)
  4. Giovanni Guidi, Ida Lupino (ECM)
  5. Tyshawn Sorey, The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi)
  6. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
  7. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
  8. Carla Bley-Andy Sheppard-Steve Swallow, Andando el Tiempo (ECM)
  9. Ken Schaphorst, How to Say Goodbye (JCA)
  10. Kenny Barron, Book of Intuition (Impulse!)

REISSUES

  1. Count Basie & Lester Young, Classic 1936-1947 Studio Sessions (Mosaic)
  2. Albert Ayler, European Radio Studio Recordings 1964 (Hatology)
  3. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)

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Philip Booth (JazzTimes, Jazziz, Relix, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Orrin Evans, #knowingishalfthebattle (Smoke Sessions)
  2. Dave Holland-Chris Potter-Lionel Loueke-Eric Harland, Aziza (Dare2)
  3. Jack DeJohnette-Matt Garrison-Ravi Coltrane, In Movement (ECM)
  4. Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family, Beginning of a Memory (Palmetto)
  5. Nolatet, Dogs (Royal Potato Family)
  6. Jane Ira Bloom, Early Americans (Outline)
  7. Hendrik Meurkens, Harmonicus Rex (Height Advantage)
  8. Marquis Hill, The Way We Play (Concord Jazz)
  9. René Marie, Sound of Red (Motéma)
  10. John Beasley, MONK'estra, Vol. 1 (Mack Avenue)

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Cisco Bradley (JazzRightNow)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Anthony Braxton, 3 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011 (Firehouse 12)
  2. Ches Smith, The Bell (ECM)
  3. Taylor Ho Bynum, Enter the PlusTet (Firehouse 12)
  4. Anais Maviel, Houle Gold (Bolus)
  5. Tom Rainey, Hotel Grief (Intakt -15)
  6. Rafal Mazur & Keir Neuringer, Diachronic Paths (Relative Pitch)
  7. Ava Mendoza's Unnatural Ways, We Aliens (Tzadik)
  8. Tyshawn Sorey, The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi)
  9. Mary Halvorson, Away With You (Firehouse 12)
  10. Mat Walerian-Matthew Shipp-Hamid Drake, Jungle: Live at Okuden (ESP-Disk)

REISSUES

  1. David S. Ware, Birth of a Being (AUM Fidelity)
  2. Peter Kuhn, No Coming No Going (Living Right) (No Business)

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Shaun Brady (JazzTimes, Philadelphia Inquirer)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
  2. Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance (ECM)
  3. Rez Abbasi, Behind the Vibration (Cuneiform)
  4. Stephan Crump, Rhombal (Papillon Sounds)
  5. Kris Davis, Duopoly (Pyroclastic)
  6. David Murray-Geri Allen-Teri Lyn Carrington, Perfection (Motéma)
  7. Nels Cline, Lovers (Blue Note)
  8. Julian Lage, Arclight (Mack Avenue)
  9. Jaimeo Brown Transcendence, Work Songs (Motéma)
  10. Bobby Avey, Inhuman Wilderness (InnerVoice)

REISSUES

  1. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)
  2. various, The Savory Collection, Volume 1: Body and Soul: Coleman Hawkins & Friends (Apple Music)
  3. Art Pepper, Live at Fat Tuesday's (Elemental)

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Marcela Breton (JJA)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Andy Gonzalez, Entre Colegas (Truth Revolution)
  2. Jane Bunnett & Maqueque, Oddara (Linus Entertainment)
  3. Melissa Aldana, Back Home (Wommusic)
  4. Pedrito Martinez, Habana Dreams (Motéma)
  5. Michael Spiro & Wayne Wallace, Canto America (Patois)
  6. Little Johnny Rivero, Music in Me (Truth Revolution)
  7. Harold Lopez-Nussa, El Viaje (Mack Avenue)
  8. Orbert Davis, Havana Blue (CD Baby)
  9. Lou Caputo, Uh Oh! (Jazz Cat)
  10. Gregorio Uribe, Cumbia Universal (Zoho)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters (Impulse!)
  2. various, Classic Savoy Be-Bop Sessions 1945-49 (Mosaic)
  3. Abbey Lincoln, Love Having You Around: Live at the Keystone Korner, v. 2 (HighNote)

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Richard Brody (The New Yorker)

NEW RELEASES

REISSUES

  1. various, Classic Savoy Be-Bop Sessions 1945-49 (Mosaic)
  2. various, The Savory Collection, Volume 2: Jumpin' at the Woodside: The Count Basie Orchestra Featuring Lester Young (Apple Music)
  3. Larry Young, In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance)

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