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Stuart Broomer (Free Jazz Blog, Musicworks, New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure, Wholenote)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Nate Wooley, Seven Storey Mountain VI (Pyroclastic)
  2. Jubileum Quartet [Joëlle Léandre-Evan Parker-Agustí Fernández-Zlatko Kaucic], A Uis? (Not Two)
  3. John Butcher-Thomas Lehn-Matthew Shipp, The Clawed Stone (RogueArt)
  4. Anthony Braxton & Eugene Chadbourne, Duo (Improv) 2017 (New Braxton House)
  5. Ken Vandermark, Unexpected Alchemy (Not Two -19)
  6. Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal (Relative Pitch)
  7. Ingrid Laubrock, Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt (Intakt)
  8. Cory Smythe, Accelerate Every Voice (Pyroclastic)
  9. Pedro Melo Alves, In Igma (Clean Feed)
  10. Aruán Ortiz With Andrew Cyrille and Mauricio Herrera, Inside Rhythmic Falls (Intakt)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Horace Tapscott With the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Ancestral Echoes: The Covina Sessions, 1976 (Dark Tree)
  2. London Jazz Composers Orchestra, That Time (1972-80, Not Two)
  3. Sam Rivers, Ricochet [Sam Rivers Archive Project, Volume 3] (1978, NoBusiness)

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Bill Brownlee (Plastic Sax, The Kansas City Star, KCUR)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jyoti, Mama, You Can Bet! (SomeOthaShip)
  2. Jennifer Curtis & Tyshawn Sorey, Invisible Ritual (New Focus)
  3. Ambrose Akinmusire, On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note)
  4. Bill Frisell, Valentine (Blue Note)
  5. Kaja Draksler Octet, Out for Stars (Clean Feed)
  6. Jeremy Pelt, The Art of Intimacy, Vol. 1 (HighNote)
  7. Angelica Sanchez & Marilyn Crispell, How to Turn the Moon (Pyroclastic)
  8. Sara Serpa, Recognition (Biophilia)
  9. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Hero Trio (Whirlwind)
  10. Brad Mehldau, Suite: April 2020 (Nonesuch)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Ambiance, Into a New Journey (1982, BBE)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  3. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Just Coolin' (1959, Blue Note)

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Greg Bryant (host of WBGO's Jazz After Hours and co-host of WBGO's Jazz United Podcast)

NEW RELEASES

  1. JD Allen, Toys/Die Dreaming (Savant)
  2. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Axiom (Ropeadope)
  3. Giveton Gelin, True Design (self-released)
  4. Christian Sands, Be Water (Mack Avenue)
  5. Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger, Force Majeure (International Anthem)
  6. Charles Tolliver, Connect (Gearbox)
  7. Robin McKelle, Alterations (Doxie)
  8. Lionel Loueke, HH (Edition)
  9. Regina Carter Freedom Band, Swing States: Harmony in the Battleground (Tiger Turn)
  10. Matthew Shipp Trio, The Unidentifiable (ESP-Disk)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  2. Charles Mingus, @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 (Sunnyside)
  3. Ella Fitzgerald, Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes (1962, Verve)

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Robert Bush (New York City Jazz Record, San Diego Reader, San Diego Troubadour)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Rich Halley-Matthew Shipp-Michael Bisio-Newman Taylor Baker, The Shape of Things (Pine Eagle)
  2. Jason Robinson, Harmonic Constituent (Playscape)
  3. Charles McPherson, Jazz Dance Suites (Chazz Mack Music)
  4. Mary Halvorson's Code Girl, Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
  5. The Warriors of the Wonderful Sound, Soundpath (Composed by Muhal Richard Abrams) (Clean Feed)
  6. Avram Fefer Quartet, Testament (Clean Feed -19)
  7. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Hero Trio (Whirlwind)
  8. Keith Jarrett, Budapest Concert (ECM)
  9. Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal (Relative Pitch)
  10. Matt Wilson Quartet, Hug! (Palmetto)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. John Coltrane, Blue World (1964, Impulse -19)
  2. The Miles Davis Quintet, The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions (Craft -19)
  3. Don Cherry, Brown Rice (1975, Verve -19)

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Dan Buskirk (WPRB [Princeton], Fun2Know Podcast)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mary Halvorson's Code Girl, Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
  2. Eri Yamamoto Trio & Choral Chameleon, Goshu Ondo Suite (AUM Fidelity -19)
  3. Sun Ra Arkestra, Swirling (Strut)
  4. Matthew Shipp Trio, The Unidentifiable (ESP-Disk)
  5. Jeff Parker, Suite for Max Brown (International Anthem)
  6. James Brandon Lewis & Chad Taylor, Live in Willisau (Intakt)
  7. Charlotte Greve-Vinnie Sperrazza-Chris Tordini, The Choir Invisible (Intakt)
  8. The Nels Cline Singers, Share the Wealth (Blue Note)
  9. Sylvie Courvoisier Trio, Free Hoops (Intakt)
  10. Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger, Force Majeure (International Anthem)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. The Heshoo Beshoo Group, Armitage Road (1970, We Are Busy Bodies)
  2. Don Cherry, Om Santi Om (1976, Black Sweat)
  3. Horace Tapscott With the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Ancestral Echoes: The Covina Sessions, 1976 (Dark Tree)

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Dave Cantor (DownBeat, The Chicago Reader)

NEW RELEASES

  1. The Necks, Three (Northern Spy)
  2. The Nels Cline Singers, Share the Wealth (Blue Note)
  3. Eric Revis, Slipknots Through a Looking Glass (Pyroclastic)
  4. Thumbscrew, The Anthony Braxton Project (Cuneiform)
  5. Aaron Parks, Little Big II: Dreams of a Mechanical Man (Ropeadope)
  6. Nduduzo Makhathini, Modes of Communication: Letters From the Underworlds (Blue Note)
  7. Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal (Relative Pitch)
  8. Sylvie Courvoisier Trio, Free Hoops (Intakt)
  9. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Hero Trio (Whirlwind)
  10. JD Allen, Toys/Die Dreaming (Savant)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Horace Tapscott With the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Ancestral Echoes: The Covina Sessions, 1976 (Dark Tree)
  2. Bob James, Once Upon a Time: The Lost 1965 New York Studio Sessions (Resonance)
  3. Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe, Duo Exchange: Complete Sessions (1972, Survival)

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John Chacona (Erie [PA] Times-News, All About Jazz, Postgenre Media, Let's Call This)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tyshawn Sorey, Unfiltered (self-released)
  2. Mary Halvorson's Code Girl, Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
  3. Irreversible Entanglements, Who Sent You? (International Anthem)
  4. Ingrid Laubrock + Kris Davis, Blood Moon (Intakt)
  5. Manuel Valera New Cuban Express Big Band, José Martí En Nueva York (Greenleaf Music)
  6. Dayna Stephens, Right Now! Live at the Village Vanguard (Contagious Music)
  7. Eric Revis, Slipknots Through a Looking Glass (Pyroclastic)
  8. Thumbscrew, The Anthony Braxton Project (Cuneiform)
  9. Matthew Shipp, The Piano Equation (Tao Forms)
  10. Ambrose Akinmusire, On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note)

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Nate Chinen (WBGO, NPR Music)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note)
  2. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords (ArtistShare)
  3. Keith Jarrett, Budapest Concert (ECM)
  4. Jyoti, Mama, You Can Bet! (SomeOthaShip)
  5. Immanuel Wilkins, Omega (Blue Note)
  6. Jeff Parker, Suite for Max Brown (International Anthem)
  7. Dan Weiss Starebaby, Natural Selection (Pi)
  8. Micah Thomas, Tide (self-released)
  9. Mary Halvorson's Code Girl, Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
  10. The Nels Cline Singers, Share the Wealth (Blue Note)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  2. Milford Graves & Don Pullen, The Complete Yale Concert, 1966 (Corbett vs Dempsey)
  3. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)

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Brad Cohan (JazzTimes, Bandcamp Daily, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Matthew Shipp Trio, The Unidentifiable (ESP-Disk)
  2. Jeff Parker, Suite for Max Brown (International Anthem)
  3. Fay Victor's SoundNoiseFunk, We've Had Enough! (ESP-Disk)
  4. Irreversible Entanglements, Who Sent You? (International Anthem)
  5. Ingrid Laubrock, Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt (Intakt)
  6. Steph Richards, Supersense (Northern Spy)
  7. Devin Gray & Gerald Cleaver, 27 Licks (Rataplan)
  8. Paul Bryan, Cri$el Gems (self-released)
  9. Bright Dog Red, Somethin' Comes Along (Ropeadope)
  10. The Flake, Plays Clinkers (Amalgam)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  2. Charles Mingus, @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 (Sunnyside)
  3. Lenny Pickett, Bad Dreams (1988, self-released)

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Aaron Cohen (Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Molecular (Intakt)
  2. Ron Miles, Rainbow Sign (Blue Note)
  3. Geof Bradfield-Ben Goldberg-Dana Hall Trio, General Semantics (Delmark)
  4. Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra, Dimensional Stardust (International Anthem)
  5. Eric Revis, Slipknots Through a Looking Glass (Pyroclastic)
  6. Matthew Shipp Trio, The Unidentifiable (ESP-Disk)
  7. Immanuel Wilkins, Omega (Blue Note)
  8. Alexander Hawkins & Tomeka Reid, Shards and Constellations (Intakt)
  9. Eric Reed, For a Time Such as This (Smoke Sessions)
  10. Charles Rumback, June Holiday (Astral Spirits)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)

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Troy Collins (Point of Departure)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Matt Wilson Quartet, Hug! (Palmetto)
  2. Jeff Cosgrove-John Medeski-Jeff Lederer, History Gets Ahead of the Story (Grizzley Music)
  3. Adam Caine Quartet, Transmissions (NoBusiness)
  4. Chicago Underground Quartet, Good Days (Astral Spirits)
  5. Jeff Parker, Suite for Max Brown (International Anthem)
  6. Dave Douglas, Dizzy Atmosphere: Dizzy Gillespie at Zero Gravity (Greenleaf Music)
  7. Jason Robinson, Harmonic Constituent (Playscape)
  8. The Nels Cline Singers, Share the Wealth (Blue Note)
  9. Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra, Dimensional Stardust (International Anthem)
  10. WHO Trio, Strell: The Music of Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington (Clean Feed)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. New York Contemporary Five, Consequences Revisited (1963-64, Ezz-thetics)
  2. Marion Brown, Why Not? Porto Novo! Revisited (1966-67, Ezz-thetics)
  3. Sun Ra, Celestial Love (1982, Modern Harmonic)

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

NEW RELEASES

  1. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords (ArtistShare)
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire, On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note)
  3. Immanuel Wilkins, Omega (Blue Note)
  4. Gerald Clayton, Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
  5. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Hero Trio (Whirlwind)
  6. Joel Ross, Who Are You (Blue Note)
  7. Jason Palmer, The Concert: 12 Musings for Isabella (Giant Steps Arts)
  8. Bill Frisell, Valentine (Blue Note)
  9. Anja Lechner & Francois Couturier, Lontano (ECM)
  10. Oded Tzur, Here Be Dragons (ECM)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Hank Mobley, The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70 (Mosaic -19)
  2. Charles Mingus, @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 (Sunnyside)
  3. Charles Lloyd Quartet, Montreux Jazz Festival 1967 [Swiss Radio Days Volume 46] (TCB -19)

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J.D. Considine (DownBeat, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords (ArtistShare)
  2. JD Allen, Toys/Die Dreaming (Savant)
  3. Bill Frisell, Valentine (Blue Note)
  4. Michael Formanek Quartet, Untamed . . . Pre-Apocalyptic (Out of Your Head)
  5. John Scofield, Swallow Tales (ECM)
  6. Mary Halvorson's Code Girl, Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
  7. Junk Magic, Compass Confusion (Pyroclastic)
  8. Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio, Angels Around (Heartcore)
  9. Tim Berne's Snakeoil, The Deceptive 4 (Intakt)
  10. Dan Weiss Starebaby, Natural Selection (Pi)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Paul Desmond, The Complete 1975 Toronto Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  3. Neil Swainson Quintet, 49th Parallel (1988, Reel to Real)

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Kevin Coultas (inonthecorner.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Junk Magic, Compass Confusion (Pyroclastic)
  2. Jennifer Curtis & Tyshawn Sorey, Invisible Ritual (New Focus)
  3. WHO Trio, Strell: The Music of Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington (Clean Feed)
  4. Mary Halvorson's Code Girl, Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
  5. Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal (Relative Pitch)
  6. The Warriors of the Wonderful Sound, Soundpath (Composed by Muhal Richard Abrams) (Clean Feed)
  7. Ingrid Laubrock, Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt (Intakt)
  8. Ron Miles, Rainbow Sign (Blue Note)
  9. Steph Richards, Supersense (Northern Spy)
  10. Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra, Dimensional Stardust (International Anthem)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Charles Mingus, @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 (Sunnyside)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  3. Ivan Zagni & Steve Garden, Trouble Spots (1984, Rattle Echo)

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Michael Coyle (WRCU, Colgate University)

NEW RELEASES

  1. The Jerry Granelli Trio, Plays Vince Guaraldi & Mose Allison (RareNoise)
  2. Thumbscrew, The Anthony Braxton Project (Cuneiform)
  3. Lafayette Gilchrist, Now (Lafayette Gilchrist Music)
  4. JD Allen, Toys/Die Dreaming (Savant)
  5. New Orleans High Society, New Orleans High Society (1718 Records/Slammin' Media)
  6. Charlie Ballantine, Vonnegut (Green Mind)
  7. Lakecia Benjamin, Pursuance: The Coltranes (Ropeadope)
  8. Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal (Relative Pitch)
  9. Diana Krall, This Dream of You (Verve)
  10. Matt Wilson Quartet, Hug! (Palmetto)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  2. Ella Fitzgerald, Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes (1962, Verve)
  3. Bill Evans, Live at Ronnie Scott's (1968, Resonance)

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Raul da Gama (JazzDaGama (Global Music Media))

NEW RELEASES

  1. George Lewis-Oxana Omelchuk-Studio Dan, Breaking News (Ezz-thetics)
  2. Thumbscrew, The Anthony Braxton Project (Cuneiform)
  3. Mary Halvorson's Code Girl, Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
  4. Nate Wooley, Seven Storey Mountain VI (Pyroclastic)
  5. Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal (Relative Pitch)
  6. Webber/Morris Big Band, Both Are True (Greenleaf Music)
  7. David Helbock, Playing John Williams: Piano Works XIV (ACT Music)
  8. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Molecular (Intakt)
  9. Michael Olatuja, Lagos Pepper Soup (Whirlwind)
  10. Sten Källman & Sanba Zao, Mapou (Country & Eastern)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  2. Albert Ayler, Quartets 1964: Spirits to Ghosts Revisited (Ezz-thetics -19)
  3. New York Contemporary Five, Consequences Revisited (1963-64, Ezz-thetics)

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Francis Davis (NPR, pollmaster)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal (Relative Pitch)
  2. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords (ArtistShare)
  3. Matthew Shipp Trio, The Unidentifiable (ESP-Disk)
  4. The Warriors of the Wonderful Sound, Soundpath (Composed by Muhal Richard Abrams) (Clean Feed)
  5. Joshua Redman-Brad Mehldau-Christian McBride-Brian Blade, Round Again (Nonesuch)
  6. Thumbscrew, The Anthony Braxton Project (Cuneiform)
  7. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Hero Trio (Whirlwind)
  8. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Molecular (Intakt)
  9. Liberty Ellman, Last Desert (Pi)
  10. Lucian Ban-John Surman-Mat Maneri, Transylvanian Folk Songs (Sunnyside)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  2. Paul Desmond, The Complete 1975 Toronto Recordings (Mosaic)
  3. Borah Bergman-Wilber Morris-Sunny Murray, Monks (1996, SomeRealMusic)

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Anthony Dean-Harris (KRTU San Antonio, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Pat Metheny, From This Place (Nonesuch)
  2. Bill Frisell, Valentine (Blue Note)
  3. Jeff Parker, Suite for Max Brown (International Anthem)
  4. Makaya McCraven, Universal Beings E&F Sides (International Anthem)
  5. Takuya Kuroda, Fly Moon Die Soon (First Word)
  6. Kurt Elling, Secrets Are the Best Stories (Edition)
  7. Chicago Underground Quartet, Good Days (Astral Spirits)
  8. Lionel Loueke, HH (Edition)
  9. David Lord, Forest Standards Vol. 2 (BIG EGO)
  10. Norah Jones, Pick Me Up Off the Floor (Blue Note)

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Steve Dollar (freelance)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Matthew Shipp Trio, The Unidentifiable (ESP-Disk)
  2. Okuden Quartet [Mat Walerian/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Hamid Drake], Every Dog Has His Day but It Doesn't Matter Because Fat Cat Is Getting Fatter (ESP-Disk)
  3. Carla Bley-Andy Sheppard-Steve Swallow, Life Goes On (ECM)
  4. Mary Halvorson's Code Girl, Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
  5. Sun Ra Arkestra, Swirling (Strut)
  6. The Jerry Granelli Trio, Plays Vince Guaraldi & Mose Allison (RareNoise)
  7. Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra, Dimensional Stardust (International Anthem)
  8. Jeff Parker, Suite for Max Brown (International Anthem)
  9. Tim Berne, Sacred Vowels (Screwgun)
  10. Brandon Seabrook With Cooper-Moore & Gerald Cleaver, Exultations (Astral Spirits)

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

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Lloyd, 8: Kindred Spirits (Live From the Lobero) (Blue Note)
  2. Barre Phillips, Thirty Years in Between (Les Disques Victo)
  3. Matt Wilson Quartet, Hug! (Palmetto)
  4. Rufus Reid & Sullivan Fortner, Always in the Moment (Newvelle)
  5. Kirk Knuffke, Tight Like This (SteepleChase)
  6. Daniel Bingert, Berit in Space (Moserobie)
  7. Juhani Aaltonen-Jonas Kullhammar-Christian Meaas Svendsen-Ilmari Heikinhei, The Father, the Sons & the Junnu (Moserobie)
  8. Jon-Erik Kellso, Sweet Fruits Salty Roots (Jazzology)
  9. Andrea Keller, Journey Home (self-released)
  10. Collocutor, Continuation (On the Corner)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Alan Wakeman, The Octet Broadcasts: 1969 & 1979 (Gearbox)
  2. Charles Mingus, @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 (Sunnyside)
  3. Nathan Davis Sextet, Peace Treaty (1965, SFP-Sam)

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