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Lars Gotrich (NPR)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Chris Schlarb: Psychic Temple (Asthmatic Kitty)
  2. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  3. Eli Keszler: Oxtirn (ESP-Disk)
  4. Joshua Abrams: Natural Information (Eremite)
  5. Architeuthis Walks on Land: Natura Naturans (Carrier)
  6. Rangda: False Flag (Drag City)
  7. Kris Davis-Ingrid Laubrock-Tyshawn Sorey: Paradoxical Frog (Clean Feed)
  8. Jason Ajemian & the High Life: Let Me Get That (Digital Sundmagi)
  9. Mike Reed: Stories and Negotiations (482 Music)
  10. Nate Wooley: Trumpet/Amplifier (Smeraldina-Rima)

REISSUES

  1. Bill Dixon: The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note (Black Saint)
  2. Univers Zero: Heresie (Cuneiform)

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Kurt Gottschalk (All About Jazz, WFMU)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Anthony Braxton & Gerry Hemingway: Old Dogs (2007) (Mode)
  2. Evan Parker: Set (Eminem)
  3. AMM & John Butcher: Sounding Music (Matchless)
  4. Roscoe Mitchell: Far Side (ECM)
  5. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  6. Marc Ribot: Silent Movies (Pi)
  7. Trondheim Jazz Orchestra: Stems and Cages (MNR)
  8. Tom Rainey: Pool School (Clean Feed)
  9. Hamid Drake: Reggaeology (RogueArt)
  10. Necks: Stillwater (ReR)

REISSUES

  1. Loren Connors & Jim O'Rourke: Are You Going to Stop . . . In Bern? (Hatology)
  2. Anthony Braxton & Ran Blake: Memories of Vienna (Hatology)
  3. Archie Shepp: New York Contemporary Five (Delmark)

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Steve Greenlee (Boston Globe)

NEW RELEASES

  1. William Parker: I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield (AUM Fidelity)
  2. Nels Cline Singers: Initiate (Cryptogramophone)
  3. Mike Mainieri: Crescent (NYC)
  4. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  5. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  6. Sherman Irby: Live at the Otto Club (Black Warrior)
  7. Olivier Manchon: And Miniature Chamber Orchestra (ObliqSound)
  8. Kurt Rosenwinkel: Reflections (Wommusic)
  9. Matthew Shipp: 4D (Thirsty Ear)
  10. Erik Telford: Kinetic (EJT)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint and Soul Note (CAM Jazz)
  3. Various Artists: California Concert: The Hollywood Palladium (Masterworks Jazz)

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George Grella (The Big City, The Brooklyn Rail)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Amir ElSaffar & Hafez Modirzadeh: Radif Suite (Pi)
  2. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  3. Ches Smith & These Arches: Finally Out of My Hands (Skirl)
  4. Ideal Bread: Transmit: Music of Steve Lacy (Cuneiform)
  5. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  6. Jazz Passengers: Reunited (Justin Time)
  7. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Steve Lehman: Dual Identity (Clean Feed)
  8. Pete Robbins: siLENT Z Live (Hate Laugh Music)
  9. Dan Weiss: Timshel (Sunnyside)
  10. Blue Cranes: Observatories (Blue Cranes)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra (ESP-Disk)
  3. Django Reinhardt: Musette to Maestro 1928-1937 (JSP)

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James Hale (Downbeat, JazzChronicles.blogspot.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  2. ROVA & Nels Cline Singers: The Celestial Septet (New World)
  3. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
  4. Paul Motian: Lost in a Dream (ECM)
  5. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  6. Kurt Rosenwinkel: Our Secret World (Word of Mouth)
  7. Tomasz Stanko: Dark Eyes (ECM)
  8. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)
  9. Ray Anderson & Marty Ehrlich: Hear You Say: Live in Willisau (Intuition)
  10. Allison Miller: Boom Tic Boom (Foxhaven)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)
  3. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)

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Ed Hazell (pointofdeparture.com, Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Michael Formanek: The Rub and Spare Change (ECM)
  2. Paul Motian: Lost in a Dream (ECM)
  3. Steve Colson: The Untarnished Dream (Silver Sphinx)
  4. Steve Lacy: November (Intakt)
  5. Ideal Bread: Transmit: Music of Steve Lacy (Cuneiform)
  6. Decoy & Joe McPhee: Oto (Bo'Weavil)
  7. Joost Buis & Astronotes: Zoomin (Data)
  8. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  9. Mike Reed: Stories and Negotiations (482 Music)
  10. Tony Malaby: Tamarindo Live (Clean Feed)

REISSUES

  1. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
  2. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)
  3. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint and Soul Note (CAM Jazz)

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Don Heckman (The International Review of Music)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  2. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  3. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)
  4. Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (Concord)
  5. Dave Liebman: As Always (MAMA)
  6. James Moody: 4B (IPO)
  7. Denny Zeitlin: Precipice (Sunnyside)
  8. Paul Motian: Lost in a Dream (ECM)
  9. Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu: Chiaroscuro (ECM)
  10. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Various Artists: CTI Records: The Cool Revolution (Masterworks Jazz)
  3. Sonny Rollins: Way Out West (Original Jazz Classics)

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Tad Hendrickson (Spinner, AOL Radio)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  2. Marc Ribot: Silent Movies (Pi)
  3. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  4. The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast (Cuneiform)
  5. Trombone Shorty: Backatown (Verve Forecast)
  6. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  7. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)
  8. Matthew Shipp: 4D (Thirsty Ear)
  9. Michael Formanek: The Rub and Spare Change (ECM)
  10. Kneebody: You Can Have Your Moment (Winter and Winter)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Antonio Carlos Jobim: Stone Flower (Masterworks Jazz)
  3. Freddie Hubbard: Red Clay (Masterworks Jazz)

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Andrey Henkin (All About Jazz--New York)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

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W. Kim Heron (Metro Times [Detroit])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  2. Nels Cline: Dirty Baby (Cryptogramophone)
  3. Regina Carter: Reverse Thread (E1)
  4. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  5. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  6. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
  7. Geri Allen and Timeline: Live (Motema)
  8. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  9. Cassandra Wilson: Silver Pony (Blue Note)
  10. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)

REISSUES

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

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Geoffrey Himes (Washington Post, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  2. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  3. Bill Frisell: Beautiful Dreamers (Savoy Jazz)
  4. Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu: Chiaroscuro (ECM)
  5. Cyrus Chestnut: Journeys (Jazz Legacy)
  6. Guillermo Klein: Domador de Huellas: Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamon (Sunnyside)
  7. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
  8. Jason Robinson & Anthony Davis: Cerulean Landscape (Clean Feed)
  9. Dave Douglas: Spark of Being: Expand (Greenleaf)
  10. SFJazz Collective: Live 2010: The Works of Horace Silver (SFJazz)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Jimi Hendrix: Valleys of Neptune (Sony Legacy)
  3. Ray Charles: Genius + Soul = Jazz (Concord)

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Eugene Holley (Wax Poetics, allaboutjazz.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Danilo Perez: Providencia (Mack Avenue)
  2. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  3. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
  4. Rachel Z & Omar Hakim: Trio of Oz (Ozmosis)
  5. Barry Harris: Live in Rennes (Plus Loin)
  6. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
  7. Kurt Rosenwinkel: Our Secret World (Word of Mouth)
  8. Joe Chambers: Horace to the Max (Savant)
  9. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  10. Randy Weston: The Storyteller (Motema)

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. Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra (ESP-Disk)

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Lyn Horton (AllAboutJazz.com, JazzTimes.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. William Parker: Uncle Joe's Spirit House (Centering)
  2. Matthew Shipp: 4D (Thirsty Ear)
  3. David S. Ware: Saturnian (AUM Fidelity)
  4. Vox Arcana: Aerial Age (Allos Documents)
  5. Dave Rempis & Frank Rosaly: Cyrillic (482 Music)
  6. Joe McPhee-Dominic Duval-Jay Rosen-Mikolaj Trzaska: Magic (Not Two)
  7. Hamid Drake: Reggaeology (RogueArt)
  8. Mike Pride: Betweenwhile (AUM Fidelity)
  9. Odean Pope: Odean's List (In + Out)
  10. Mike Reed: Stories and Negotiations (482 Music)

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Tom Hull (Village Voice, tomhull.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Billy Bang: Prayer for Peace (TUM)
  2. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Steve Lehman: Dual Identity (Clean Feed)
  3. Adam Lane: Ashcan Rantings (Clean Feed)
  4. William Parker: I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield (AUM Fidelity)
  5. Mark Lomax: The State of Black America (Inarhyme)
  6. Angles: Epileptical West (Clean Feed)
  7. Mostly Other People Do the Killing Forty: Forty Fort (Hot Cup)
  8. First Meeting: Cut the Rope (Libra)
  9. Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell: The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer (Kabell)
  10. Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra: India & Africa (Water Baby)

REISSUES

  1. Commitment: The Complete Recordings 1981/1983 (NoBusiness)
  2. Sounds of Liberation: Sounds of Liberation (Porter)
  3. Eero Koivistoinen: 3rd Version (Porter)

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Peter Hum (The Ottawa Citizen, jazzblog.ca)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Danilo Perez: Providencia (Mack Avenue)
  2. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)
  3. Alan Ferber: Chamber Songs: Music for Nonet and Strings (Sunnyside)
  4. Dave Douglas: Spark of Being: Burst (Greenleaf)
  5. Chris Lightcap: Bigmouth Deluxe (Clean Feed)
  6. Baptiste Trotignon: Suite . . . (Naive)
  7. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  8. Frank Kimbrough: Rumors (Palmetto)
  9. Kurt Rosenwinkel: Our Secret World (Word of Mouth)
  10. Geof Bradfield: African Flowers (Origin)

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. Stanley Turrentine: Sugar (Masterworks Jazz)

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Robert Iannapollo (Cadence, All About Jazz--New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tony Malaby: Tamarindo Live (Clean Feed)
  2. Ullmann/Swell 4: News? No News! (Jazzwerkstatt)
  3. Paul Motian: Lost in a Dream (ECM)
  4. Dominic Duval & Cecil Taylor: The Last Dance (Cadence)
  5. Michael Formanek: The Rub and Spare Change (ECM)
  6. Garrison Fewell: Sound Particle 47 (Creative Nation)
  7. Steve Lacy: November (Intakt)
  8. Michael Musillami: Old Tea (Playscape)
  9. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  10. Steve Colson: The Untarnished Dream (Silver Sphinx)

REISSUES

  1. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)
  2. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
  3. Jemeel Moondoc: The Muntu Recordings (NoBusiness)

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Josh Jackson (WGBO-FM, Live at the Village Vanguard [NPR Music])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
  2. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)
  3. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  4. Abdullah Ibrahim: Bombella (Sunnyside)
  5. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  6. Avishai Cohen: Introducing Triveni (Anzic)
  7. Jason Adasiewicz: Sun Rooms (Delmark)
  8. Chris Lightcap: Bigmouth Deluxe (Clean Feed)
  9. Microscopic Septet: Friday the Thirteenth: The Micros Play Monk (Cuneiform)
  10. Tarbaby: The End of Fear (Posi-Tone)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
  3. Various Artists: California Concert: The Hollywood Palladium (Masterworks Jazz)

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Patrick Jarenwattananon (NPR Music)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  2. Guillermo Klein: Domador de Huellas: Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamon (Sunnyside)
  3. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)
  4. Bill Carrothers: Joy Spring (Pirouet)
  5. Maurice Brown: The Cycle of Love (Brown)
  6. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  7. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
  8. Fight the Big Bull: All Is Gladness in the Kingdom (Clean Feed)
  9. Chris Lightcap: Bigmouth Deluxe (Clean Feed)
  10. Mike Reed: Stories and Negotiations (482 Music)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Argo Trio Sessions 1956-62 (Mosaic)

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Willard Jenkins (The Independent Ear, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Randy Weston: The Storyteller (Motema)
  2. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  3. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  4. Azar Lawrence: Mystic Journey (Furthermore)
  5. Regina Carter: Reverse Thread (E1)
  6. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  7. Steve Colson: The Untarnished Dream (Silver Sphinx)
  8. Omar Sosa & NDR Bigband: Ceremony ()
  9. Clayton Brothers: The New Song and Dance (ArtistShare)
  10. Danilo Perez: Providencia (Mack Avenue)

REISSUES

  1. Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Argo Trio Sessions 1956-62 (Mosaic)
  2. Freddie Hubbard: Red Clay (Masterworks Jazz)
  3. Fela Kuti: The Best of the Black President (Kalakuta/Knitting Factory)

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Martin Johnson (Wall Street Journal, theroot.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mike Reed: Stories and Negotiations (482 Music)
  2. Chris Lightcap: Bigmouth Deluxe (Clean Feed)
  3. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  4. : Enescu Re-Imagined (Sunnyside)
  5. Scott Amendola: Lift (Sazi)
  6. John Escreet: Don't Fight the Inevitable (Mythology)
  7. Fight the Big Bull: All Is Gladness in the Kingdom (Clean Feed)
  8. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  9. Howard Wiley: 12 Gates to the City (HNIC Music)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)

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