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David R. Adler (JazzTimes, Philadelphia Weekly)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Rez Abbasi: Natural Selection (Sunnyside)
  2. Paul Motian: Lost in a Dream (ECM)
  3. : Spiritual Lover (Clean Feed)
  4. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  5. Pat Metheny: Orchestrion (Nonesuch)
  6. Avishai Cohen: Introducing Triveni (Anzic)
  7. Eric Hofbauer: American Fear! (Creative Nation)
  8. David S. Ware: Onecept (AUM Fidelity)
  9. Orrin Evans: Faith in Action (Posi-Tone)
  10. SFJazz Collective: Live 2010: The Works of Horace Silver (SFJazz)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Philly Joe Jones & Dameronia: Look, Stop and Listen (Uptown)
  3. Sounds of Liberation: Sounds of Liberation (Porter)

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Scott Albin (JazzTimes, jazz.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Dave Holland: Pathways (Dare2)
  2. Mike Reed: Stories and Negotiations (482 Music)
  3. Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider (Nonesuch)
  4. Pat Mallinger: Dragon Fish (Chicago Sessions)
  5. Thomson Kneeland: Mazurka for a Modern Man (Weltschmerz)
  6. Anat Cohen: Clarinetwork: Live at the Village Vanguard (Anzic)
  7. Ahmad Jamal: A Quiet Time (Dreyfus)
  8. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
  9. Gregory Porter: Water (Motema)
  10. Julian Waterfall Pollack: Infinite Playground (Junebeat)

REISSUES

  1. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
  2. Warne Marsh & Lee Konitz: Two Not One (Storyville)
  3. Ray Charles: Genius + Soul = Jazz (Concord)

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Clifford Allen (Signal to Noise, All About Jazz--New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Bill Dixon-Aaron Siegel-Ben Hall: Weight/Counterweight (Brokenresearch)
  2. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley: Ailanthus/Altissima (Bilateral Dimensions of Two Root Songs) (Triple Point)
  3. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  4. David S. Ware: Saturnian (AUM Fidelity)
  5. Circulasione Totale Orchestra: Bandwidth (Rune Grammofon)
  6. Paul Rutherford: Tetralogy (Emanem)
  7. Joshua Abrams: Natural Information (Eremite)
  8. No Mor Musik: No Mor Musik (ugExplode)
  9. Stephen Haynes: Parrhesia (Engine Studios)
  10. Nate Wooley: Trumpet/Amplifier (Smeraldina-Rima)

REISSUES

  1. Jemeel Moondoc: The Muntu Recordings (NoBusiness)
  2. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  3. Michael Gregory Jackson: Clarity (ESP-Disk)

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A.D. Amorosi (Blurt, Philadelphia Inquirer)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Dave Liebman: As Always (MAMA)
  2. Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society (Heads Up)
  3. Mostly Other People Do the Killing Forty: Forty Fort (Hot Cup)
  4. Ches Smith & These Arches: Finally Out of My Hands (Skirl)
  5. Erik Friedlander: Fifty (Skipstone)
  6. John Zorn: Ipsissimus (Tzadik)
  7. Nellie McKay: Home Sweet Mobile Home (Verve)
  8. Toots Thielemans: The Live Takes (In+Out)
  9. Adam Rudolph & Yusef Lateef: Towards the Unknown (Meta)
  10. Jacky Terrasson: Push (Concord)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Dinah Washington: The Fabulous Miss D! The Keynote, Decca and Mercury Singles 1943-1953 (Hip-O Select)
  3. Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra (ESP-Disk)

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Larry Appelbaum (JazzTimes, WPFW-FM [Washington, DC])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  2. Rebecca Martin: When I Was Long Ago (Sunnyside)
  3. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  4. Antonio Sanchez: Live in New York at the Jazz Standard (CAM Jazz)
  5. Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes: Double Portrait (Blue Note)
  6. Danilo Perez: Providencia (Mack Avenue)
  7. Chucho Valdes: Chucho's Steps (Four Quarters)
  8. Paul Motian: Lost in a Dream (ECM)
  9. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
  10. Gregory Porter: Water (Motema)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Various Artists: CTI Records: The Cool Revolution (Masterworks Jazz)
  3. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)

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Chris Barton (Los Angeles Times)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider (Nonesuch)
  2. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  3. Nels Cline Singers: Initiate (Cryptogramophone)
  4. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  5. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
  6. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  7. Marc Ribot: Silent Movies (Pi)
  8. Geof Bradfield: African Flowers (Origin)
  9. Allison Miller: Boom Tic Boom (Foxhaven)
  10. The Bad Plus: Never Stop (E1)

REISSUES

  1. Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: The Fela reissue series (Knitting Factory)
  2. Love Cry Want: Love Cry Want (Weird Forest)
  3. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)

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Nick Bewsey (Icon, jazzinspace.blogspot.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (Concord)
  2. Gail Pettis: Here in the Moment (OA2)
  3. John Escreet: Don't Fight the Inevitable (Mythology)
  4. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)
  5. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  6. Dave Holland & Pepe Habichuela: Hands (Dare2)
  7. Aldo Romano: Origine (Dreyfus)
  8. Houston Person: Moment to Moment (HighNote)
  9. Larry Goldings & Harry Allen: When Larry Met Harry ()
  10. Matt Slocum: Portraits (Chandra)

REISSUES

  1. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
  2. Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Argo Trio Sessions 1956-62 (Mosaic)
  3. Various Artists: California Concert: The Hollywood Palladium (Masterworks Jazz)

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Larry Birnbaum (Stereophile)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  2. Art Pepper: Unreleased Art, Vol. V (Widow's Taste)
  3. James Moody: 4B (IPO)
  4. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  5. Roscoe Mitchell: Far Side (ECM)
  6. Matthew Shipp: 4D (Thirsty Ear)
  7. Lee Konitz: Live at the Village Vanguard (Enja)
  8. Tom Harrell: Roman Nights (High Note)
  9. Dave Holland: Pathways (Dare2)
  10. Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali: Spirits Aloft (Porter)

REISSUES

  1. Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Argo Trio Sessions 1956-62 (Mosaic)
  2. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  3. Nat King Cole: Riffin': The Decca, JATP, Keynote and Mercury Recordings (Hip-O Select)

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Paul Blair (Hot House)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ryan Keberle: Heavy Dreaming (Alternate Side)
  2. Odean Pope: Odean's List (In + Out)
  3. Tom Harrell: Roman Nights (High Note)
  4. Dmitry Baevsky: Down With It (Sharp Nine)
  5. Wee Trio: Capitol Diner, Vol. 2 (Bionic)
  6. Erica Lindsay & Sumi Tonooka: Initiation (ARC)
  7. Michael Janisch: Purpose Built (Whirlwind)
  8. David Hazeltine: Inversions (Criss Cross)
  9. Dan Block: From His World to Mine (Miles High)
  10. Microscopic Septet: Friday the Thirteenth: The Micros Play Monk (Cuneiform)

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Larry Blumenfeld (Wall Street Journal, Village Voice)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  2. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)
  3. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  4. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  5. Chucho Valdes: Chucho's Steps (Four Quarters)
  6. Guillermo Klein: Domador de Huellas: Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamon (Sunnyside)
  7. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  8. William Parker: I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield (AUM Fidelity)
  9. Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (Concord)
  10. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Jemeel Moondoc: The Muntu Recordings (NoBusiness)
  3. Various Artists: Cabaret Echoes: New Orleans Jazzers at Work, 1918-1927 (Archeophone)

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Philip Booth (JazzTimes, Downbeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)
  2. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  3. Mike Mainieri: Crescent (NYC)
  4. John Ellis: Puppet Mischief (ObliqSound)
  5. Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider (Nonesuch)
  6. Cassandra Wilson: Silver Pony (Blue Note)
  7. Lionel Loueke: Mwaliko (Blue Note)
  8. Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society (Heads Up)
  9. Ken Berman: Looking Forward (MMG)
  10. Jeff Berlin: High Standards (M.A.J.)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
  3. Philly Joe Jones & Dameronia: Look, Stop and Listen (Uptown)

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Michael Boume (WGBO-FM, Downbeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Bobby McFerrin: VOCAbuLaries (Emarcy)
  2. Hilary Kole: You Are There (Justin Time)
  3. Dee Dee Bridgewater: Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee (Emarcy)
  4. Mose Allison: The Way of the World (Anti-)
  5. John Pizzarelli: Rockin' in Rhythm (Telarc)
  6. Jamie Cullum: The Pursuit (Verve)
  7. Leny Andrade: Alma Mia (Microchoice Brazil)
  8. Catherine Russell: Inside This Heart of Mine (World Village)
  9. Carolyn Leonhart: Tides of Yesterday (Savant)
  10. Gregory Porter: Water (Motema)

REISSUES

  1. Frank Sinatra: New York (Rhino)

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Shaun Brady (JazzTimes, Philadelphia Daily News)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  2. Danilo Perez: Providencia (Mack Avenue)
  3. Chris Lightcap: Bigmouth Deluxe (Clean Feed)
  4. Nels Cline Singers: Initiate (Cryptogramophone)
  5. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  6. The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast (Cuneiform)
  7. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  8. Orrin Evans: Faith in Action (Posi-Tone)
  9. Rez Abbasi: Natural Selection (Sunnyside)
  10. John Escreet: Don't Fight the Inevitable (Mythology)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Sounds of Liberation: Sounds of Liberation (Porter)

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Marcela Breton (Jazz Journalists Association)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Afrocubism: Afrocubism (Nonesuch)
  2. Omar Sosa & NDR Bigband: Ceremony ()
  3. : De la Habana a Nueva York (Vero)
  4. Paquito D'Rivera: Tango Jazz: Live at Lincoln Center (Sunnyside)
  5. Anat Cohen: Clarinetwork: Live at the Village Vanguard (Anzic)
  6. Manolito y su Trabuco: Beat Cubano (BIS)
  7. Federico Britos: Voyage (Sunnyside)
  8. Big Band Mamborama: Big Band Mamborama (Russi)
  9. Dmitry Baevsky: Down With It (Sharp Nine)
  10. : Pucusana (Saponegro)

REISSUES

  1. Tito Puente: The Complete 78s Vols 3 & 4 (Fania/Codigo)
  2. Tito Puente: El Rey: A Man and His Music (Fania/Codigo)
  3. Stan Kenton: This Is an Orchestra (Tantara)

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Christian Broecking (Jazz Thing, Broecking Verlag [Germany])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Andrew Cyrille & Greg Osby: Low Blue Flame (TUM)
  2. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  3. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)
  4. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  5. Marc Ribot: Silent Movies (Pi)
  6. Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (Concord)
  7. Kris Davis-Ingrid Laubrock-Tyshawn Sorey: Paradoxical Frog (Clean Feed)
  8. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  9. Steve Lacy: November (Intakt)
  10. Billy Bang: Prayer for Peace (TUM)

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Stuart Broomer (All About Jazz--New York, Point of Departure)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Evan Parker-Barry Guy-Paul Lytton-Peter Evans: Scenes in the House of Music (Clean Feed)
  2. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  3. AMM & John Butcher: Sounding Music (Matchless)
  4. Derek Bailey: More 74 (Incus)
  5. Peter Evans: Live in Lisbon (Clean Feed)
  6. Anthony Braxton: GTM (Outpost) 2003 (Leo)
  7. Ross Bolleter: Night Kitchen (2002-2009) (Emanem)
  8. Marc Ribot: Silent Movies (Pi)
  9. John Russell: Hyste (Psi)
  10. Jon Irabagon: Foxy (Hot Cup)

REISSUES

  1. Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Argo Trio Sessions 1956-62 (Mosaic)
  2. Philly Joe Jones & Dameronia: Look, Stop and Listen (Uptown)
  3. Steve Beresford-Nigel Coombes-John Russell-Dave Solomon-Garry Todd: Teatime (Emanem)

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Brent Burton (JazzTimes, Washington City Paper)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  2. Supersilent: 10 (Rune Grammofon)
  3. Tomasz Stanko: Dark Eyes (ECM)
  4. Nils Petter Molvaer: Hamada (Thirsty Ear)
  5. Food: Quiet Inlet (ECM)
  6. Soft Machine: NDR Jazz Workshop, Germany, May 17, 1973 (Cuneiform)
  7. Eivind Aarset: Live Extracts (Jazzland)
  8. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  9. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  10. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Et Cetera: Knirsch (MPS/Promising)
  3. Arild Andersen: Green in Blue: Early Quartets (ECM)

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John Chacona (Signal to Noise, Erie [PA] Times-News)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  2. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Steve Lehman: Dual Identity (Clean Feed)
  3. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)
  4. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  5. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  6. Abraham Inc.: Tweet Tweet (Table Pounding)
  7. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  8. Guillermo Klein: Domador de Huellas: Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamon (Sunnyside)
  9. Myra Melford: The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12)
  10. Nels Cline Singers: Initiate (Cryptogramophone)

REISSUES

  1. Duke Ellington: The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia, and Master Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  3. Commitment: The Complete Recordings 1981/1983 (NoBusiness)

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Nate Chinen (New York Times, JazzTimes, The Gig)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  2. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  3. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  4. : The Sixth Jump (Songlines)
  5. Chris Lightcap: Bigmouth Deluxe (Clean Feed)
  6. Kris Davis-Ingrid Laubrock-Tyshawn Sorey: Paradoxical Frog (Clean Feed)
  7. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  8. Myra Melford: The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12)
  9. The Bad Plus: Never Stop (E1)
  10. Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider (Nonesuch)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Argo Trio Sessions 1956-62 (Mosaic)
  3. Various Artists: California Concert: The Hollywood Palladium (Masterworks Jazz)

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Fred Cisterna (Signal to Noise, iTunes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)
  2. Amir ElSaffar & Hafez Modirzadeh: Radif Suite (Pi)
  3. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  4. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  5. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  6. Kris Davis-Ingrid Laubrock-Tyshawn Sorey: Paradoxical Frog (Clean Feed)
  7. Taylor Ho Bynum & Tomas Fujiwara: Stepwise (Not Two)
  8. Guillermo Klein: Domador de Huellas: Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamon (Sunnyside)
  9. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)
  10. Roscoe Mitchell: Far Side (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. Wes Montgomery: Boss Guitar (Concord)
  2. Miles Davis: Dig (Concord)
  3. Bill Evans: Waltz for Debby (Concord)

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