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Troy Collins (All About Jazz, Point of Departure)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  2. Mostly Other People Do the Killing Forty: Forty Fort (Hot Cup)
  3. Dave Liebman: Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Jazzwerkstatt)
  4. Odean Pope: Odean's List (In + Out)
  5. Jason Robinson: The Two Faces of Janus (Cuneiform)
  6. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  7. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  8. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)
  9. Adam Lane: Ashcan Rantings (Clean Feed)
  10. Mario Pavone: Arc Suite T/Pi T/Po (Playscape)

REISSUES

  1. Marion Brown: Why Not? (ESP-Disk)
  2. Prince Lasha: Insight (Groove America)
  3. Dave Douglas: Constellations (Hatology)

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Thomas Conrad (JazzTimes, Stereophile)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tomasz Stanko: Dark Eyes (ECM)
  2. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  3. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  4. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
  5. Jan Garbarek & the Hilliard Ensemble: Officium Novum (ECM)
  6. Dave Holland: Pathways (Dare2)
  7. Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (Concord)
  8. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  9. Dmitry Baevsky: Down With It (Sharp Nine)
  10. Art Pepper: Unreleased Art, Vol. V (Widow's Taste)

REISSUES

  1. Philly Joe Jones & Dameronia: Look, Stop and Listen (Uptown)
  2. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
  3. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)

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J.D. Considine (The Globe and Mail [Toronto])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  2. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  3. Lina Allemano: Jargon (Independent)
  4. Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider (Nonesuch)
  5. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  6. Chucho Valdes: Chucho's Steps (Four Quarters)
  7. Michael Formanek: The Rub and Spare Change (ECM)
  8. The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast (Cuneiform)
  9. The Bad Plus: Never Stop (E1)
  10. Torben Waldorf: American Rock Beauty (ArtistShare)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Modern Jazz Quartet: Under the Jasmine Tree/Space (Capitol)
  3. Louis Armstrong: Hello Louis: The Hit Years (Hip-O Select)

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Owen Cordle (JazzTimes, The News & Observer [Raleigh, NC])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Lew Soloff, Steve Richman and Harmonie Ensemble New York: Sketches of Spain (Sheffield Lab)
  2. Frank Kimbrough: Rumors (Palmetto)
  3. Steve Turre: Delicious and Delightful (HighNote)
  4. Conrad Herwig: The Latin Side of Herbie Hancock (Half Note)
  5. Either/Orchestra: Mood Music for Time Travellers (Accurate)
  6. John Ellis: Puppet Mischief (ObliqSound)
  7. Tom Harrell: Roman Nights (High Note)
  8. Rufus Reid: Out Front (Motema)
  9. Alexis Cole: Someday My Prince Will Come (Venus)
  10. Houston Person: Moment to Moment (HighNote)

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Lawrence Cosentino (Signal to Noise, Lansing City Pulse [MI])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Thomas Savy: French Suite (Plus Loin)
  2. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  3. The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast (Cuneiform)
  4. Charnett Moffett: Treasure (Motema)
  5. Sameer Gupta: Namaskar (Motema)
  6. Steve Colson: The Untarnished Dream (Silver Sphinx)
  7. Correction: Two Nights in April (Ayler)
  8. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
  9. Benito Gonzalez: Circles (Furthermore)
  10. Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell: The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer (Kabell)

REISSUES

  1. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
  2. Sounds of Liberation: Sounds of Liberation (Porter)
  3. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)

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Michael Coyle (Cadence, WRCU-FM [Colgate University])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Benjamin Herman: Hypochristmastreefuzz: More Mengelberg (Dox)
  2. Trio X: Live on Tour 2008 (CIMP)
  3. William Parker: Uncle Joe's Spirit House (Centering)
  4. Jeff Chan: Horns of Plenty (Asian Improv)
  5. Azar Lawrence: Mystic Journey (Furthermore)
  6. Bill Gagliardi: Mr. Fubar, I Presume (CIMP)
  7. Jon Irabagon: Foxy (Hot Cup)
  8. Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky: In Search of a Standard (Leo)
  9. Ideal Bread: Transmit: Music of Steve Lacy (Cuneiform)
  10. Michael Jefry Stevens-Tim Siegel-Jeff Ferguson: Six (Konnex)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Charles Tyler: Ensemble (ESP-Disk)
  3. Sun Ra: Cosmos (Inner City)

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Francis Davis (Village Voice)

NEW RELEASES

  1. ICP Orchestra: ICP Orchestra (ICP)
  2. Dominic Duval & Cecil Taylor: The Last Dance (Cadence)
  3. Marc Ribot: Silent Movies (Pi)
  4. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  5. Myra Melford: The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12)
  6. Paul Motian: Lost in a Dream (ECM)
  7. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Steve Lehman: Dual Identity (Clean Feed)
  8. Michael Formanek: The Rub and Spare Change (ECM)
  9. Billy Bang: Prayer for Peace (TUM)
  10. Benjamin Herman: Hypochristmastreefuzz: More Mengelberg (Dox)

REISSUES

  1. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
  2. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  3. Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Argo Trio Sessions 1956-62 (Mosaic)

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Steve Dollar (Wall Street Journal, Time Out Chicago)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

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Laurence Donohue-Greene (All About Jazz--New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Evan Parker-Barry Guy-Paul Lytton-Peter Evans: Scenes in the House of Music (Clean Feed)
  2. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  3. Mostly Other People Do the Killing Forty: Forty Fort (Hot Cup)
  4. Tarbaby: The End of Fear (Posi-Tone)
  5. Juhani Aaltonen: Conclusions (TUM)
  6. : Circles and Calligrams (Songlines)
  7. Sam Newsome: Blue Soliloquy (Solo Works for Soprano Saxophone) (self-released)
  8. Julian F. Thayer-Jarmo Savolainen-Scott Robinson-Klaus Suonsaari: Norwegian Invention (KS Jazz)
  9. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
  10. Azar Lawrence: Mystic Journey (Furthermore)

REISSUES

  1. Prince Lasha: Insight (Groove America)
  2. Jemeel Moondoc: The Muntu Recordings (NoBusiness)
  3. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)

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Alain Drouot (Downbeat, WNUR-FM [Evanston, IL])

NEW RELEASES

  1. John Escreet: Don't Fight the Inevitable (Mythology)
  2. Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier: Oblivia (Tzadik)
  3. Ingrid Laubrock: Anti-House (Intakt)
  4. Little Women: Throat (AUM Fidelity)
  5. ROVA & Nels Cline Singers: The Celestial Septet (New World)
  6. Mostly Other People Do the Killing Forty: Forty Fort (Hot Cup)
  7. Ullmann/Swell 4: News? No News! (Jazzwerkstatt)
  8. Ken Thomson & Slow/Fast: It Would Be Easier If (Intuition)
  9. Manuel Mengis: Dulcet Crush (Hatology)
  10. Jason Robinson: The Two Faces of Janus (Cuneiform)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Dave Douglas: Constellations (Hatology)
  3. Sun Ra: College Tour Vol. 1: The Complete Nothing Is (ESP-Disk)

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Ken Dryden (All About Jazz--New York, Hot House)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Denny Zeitlin: Precipice (Sunnyside)
  2. Michael Dease: Grace (Jazz Legacy)
  3. Lorraine Feather: Ages (Jazzed Media)
  4. Randy Weston: The Storyteller (Motema)
  5. Microscopic Septet: Friday the Thirteenth: The Micros Play Monk (Cuneiform)
  6. Nat King Cole: The Forgotten 1949 Carnegie Hall Concert (Hep)
  7. Richie Beirach & Dave Liebman: Quest for Freedom (Sunnyside)
  8. Various Artists: Art-i-facts (New England Conservatory)
  9. Evan Christopher: The Remembering Song (Arbors)
  10. Russell Malone: Triple Play (MaxJazz)

REISSUES

  1. Duke Ellington: The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia, and Master Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
  3. Teddy Wilson: Solo, Trio, Quartet, Sextet & Big Band From 1939-1983 (Storyville)

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Donald Elfman (All About Jazz--New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Joel Harrison: The Music of Paul Motian (Sunnyside)
  2. Irene Kral: Second Chance (Jazzed Media)
  3. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  4. Jessica Williams: Touch (Origin)
  5. Randy Weston: The Storyteller (Motema)
  6. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
  7. Tomasz Stanko: Dark Eyes (ECM)
  8. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  9. Microscopic Septet: Friday the Thirteenth: The Micros Play Monk (Cuneiform)

REISSUES

  1. Bing Crosby: The CBS Radio Recordings 1954-56 (Mosaic)
  2. Nat King Cole: Riffin': The Decca, JATP, Keynote and Mercury Recordings (Hip-O Select)
  3. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)

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Steve Feeney (Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Chris Lightcap: Bigmouth Deluxe (Clean Feed)
  2. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  3. Kris Davis-Ingrid Laubrock-Tyshawn Sorey: Paradoxical Frog (Clean Feed)
  4. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
  5. Nels Cline Singers: Initiate (Cryptogramophone)
  6. Rebecca Martin: When I Was Long Ago (Sunnyside)
  7. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  8. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)
  9. Sarah Wilson: Trapeze Project (Brass Tonic)
  10. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
  2. Philly Joe Jones & Dameronia: Look, Stop and Listen (Uptown)
  3. Freddie Hubbard: Red Clay (Masterworks Jazz)

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Colin Fleming (JazzTimes, The Atlantic)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Paul Motian: Lost in a Dream (ECM)
  2. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  3. Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider (Nonesuch)
  4. William Parker: Uncle Joe's Spirit House (Centering)
  5. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)
  6. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  7. Curtis Fuller: I Will Tell Her (Capri)
  8. Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes: Double Portrait (Blue Note)
  9. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  10. Steve Tibbetts: Natural Causes (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. Bing Crosby: The CBS Radio Recordings 1954-56 (Mosaic)
  2. Nat King Cole: Riffin': The Decca, JATP, Keynote and Mercury Recordings (Hip-O Select)
  3. Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Argo Trio Sessions 1956-62 (Mosaic)

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Ken Franckling (JazzTimes, Hot House)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Pat Metheny: Orchestrion (Nonesuch)
  2. Jacky Terrasson: Push (Concord)
  3. Dave Holland: Pathways (Dare2)
  4. Ellen Rowe: Wishing Well (PKO)
  5. Tamir Hendelman: Destinations (Resonance)
  6. Jean-Michel Pilc: True Story (Dreyfus)
  7. Christine Jensen: Treelines (Justin Time)
  8. Dave Bass: Gone (Dave Bass Music)
  9. Omar Sosa & NDR Bigband: Ceremony ()
  10. Art Pepper: Unreleased Art, Vol. V (Widow's Taste)

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. Freddie Hubbard: Red Clay (Masterworks Jazz)

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Phil Freeman (Village Voice, Burning Ambulance, The Wire)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley: Ailanthus/Altissima (Bilateral Dimensions of Two Root Songs) (Triple Point)
  2. David Weiss: Snuck In (Sunnyside)
  3. John Zorn: Ipsissimus (Tzadik)
  4. Little Women: Throat (AUM Fidelity)
  5. Dan Pratt: Toe the Line (Posi-Tone)
  6. Dave Holland: Pathways (Dare2)
  7. Amir ElSaffar & Hafez Modirzadeh: Radif Suite (Pi)
  8. William Parker: I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield (AUM Fidelity)
  9. John Escreet: Don't Fight the Inevitable (Mythology)
  10. Exploding Star Orchestra: Stars Have Shapes (Delmark)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Jemeel Moondoc: The Muntu Recordings (NoBusiness)
  3. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)

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David Fricke (Rolling Stone)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
  2. Dave Holland: Pathways (Dare2)
  3. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  4. Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell: The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer (Kabell)
  5. Marc Ribot: Silent Movies (Pi)
  6. Ideal Bread: Transmit: Music of Steve Lacy (Cuneiform)
  7. Carlos Bica & Materia-Prima: Carlos Bica & Materia-Prima (Clean Feed)
  8. Eli Degibri: Israeli Song (Anzic)
  9. The Bad Plus: Never Stop (E1)
  10. David S. Ware: Onecept (AUM Fidelity)

REISSUES

  1. Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Argo Trio Sessions 1956-62 (Mosaic)
  2. Jimmy Smith: Respect/Livin' It Up (Hip-O Select)
  3. Sun Ra: College Tour Vol. 1: The Complete Nothing Is (ESP-Disk)

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Richard Gehr (Village Voice, eMusic)

NEW RELEASES

  1. The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast (Cuneiform)
  2. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  3. Terje Rypdal: Crime Scene (ECM)
  4. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  5. Microscopic Septet: Friday the Thirteenth: The Micros Play Monk (Cuneiform)
  6. : Llyria (ECM)
  7. John McNeil & Bill McHenry: Chill Morn He Climb Jenny (Sunnyside)
  8. The Bad Plus: Never Stop (E1)
  9. Nels Cline Singers: Initiate (Cryptogramophone)
  10. Bryan and the Haggards: Pretend It's the End of the World (Hot Cup)

REISSUES

  1. Ken Nordine: Word Jazz, The Complete 1950s Recordings (100% Womon)
  2. Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra (ESP-Disk)
  3. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)

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Andrew Gilbert (San Jose Mercury News, JazzTimes, Boston Globe)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Myra Melford: The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12)
  2. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  3. Tomasz Stanko: Dark Eyes (ECM)
  4. Joel Harrison: The Music of Paul Motian (Sunnyside)
  5. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  6. Tom Harrell: Roman Nights (High Note)
  7. Either/Orchestra: Mood Music for Time Travellers (Accurate)
  8. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  9. Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra & Jimmy Heath: The Endless Search (Origin)
  10. Antonio Sanchez: Live in New York at the Jazz Standard (CAM Jazz)

REISSUES

  1. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)
  2. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  3. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)

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Ted Gioia (The History of Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider (Nonesuch)
  2. Anat Fort: And If (ECM)
  3. Herbie Hancock: The Imagine Project (Herbie Hancock)
  4. Pat Metheny: Orchestrion (Nonesuch)
  5. Dave Holland: Pathways (Dare2)
  6. : Llyria (ECM)
  7. Bobby McFerrin: VOCAbuLaries (Emarcy)
  8. Anat Cohen: Clarinetwork: Live at the Village Vanguard (Anzic)
  9. Regina Carter: Reverse Thread (E1)
  10. James Moody: 4B (IPO)

REISSUES

  1. Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Argo Trio Sessions 1956-62 (Mosaic)
  2. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)

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