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Dan Morgenstern (Journal of Jazz Studies, Jersey Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Junko Onishi: Baroque (Verve)
  2. Dan Block: From His World to Mine (Miles High)
  3. Anat Cohen: Clarinetwork: Live at the Village Vanguard (Anzic)
  4. Microscopic Septet: Friday the Thirteenth: The Micros Play Monk (Cuneiform)
  5. James Moody: 4B (IPO)
  6. Howard Alden: I Remember Django (Arbors)
  7. Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra: India & Africa (Water Baby)
  8. Ken Peplowski: Noir (Blue Capri)
  9. Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell: The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer (Kabell)
  10. Denise Donatelli: When Lights Are Low (Savant)

REISSUES

  1. Duke Ellington: The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia, and Master Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Bob Dunn: Master of the Electric Steel Guitar (1935-1950) (Origin Jazz Library)
  3. Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Argo Trio Sessions 1956-62 (Mosaic)

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John Murph (Downbeat, JazzTimes, Washington Post)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  2. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  3. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
  4. Randy Weston: The Storyteller (Motema)
  5. : BlackMagic (Brownswood)
  6. Tia Fuller: Decisive Steps (Mack Avenue)
  7. The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast (Cuneiform)
  8. Tarbaby: The End of Fear (Posi-Tone)
  9. Lizz Wright: Fellowship (Verve)
  10. Howard Wiley: 12 Gates to the City (HNIC Music)

REISSUES

  1. Various Artists: California Concert: The Hollywood Palladium (Masterworks Jazz)
  2. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Chick Corea: Solo Piano: Improvisations/Children's Songs (ECM)

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Russ Musto (All About Jazz--New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell: The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer (Kabell)
  2. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  3. Randy Weston: The Storyteller (Motema)
  4. Mike Mainieri: Crescent (NYC)
  5. Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider (Nonesuch)
  6. James Moody: 4B (IPO)
  7. : Enescu Re-Imagined (Sunnyside)
  8. Steve Turre: Delicious and Delightful (HighNote)
  9. Jason Palmer: Nothing to Hide (SteepleChase)
  10. Cassandra Wilson: Silver Pony (Blue Note)

REISSUES

  1. Philly Joe Jones & Dameronia: Look, Stop and Listen (Uptown)
  2. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
  3. Lew Tabackin: Dual Nature (Inner City)

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Marc Myers (JazzWax.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Chet Baker: The Sesjun Radio Shows (Out of the Blue/T2)
  2. Irene Kral: Second Chance (Jazzed Media)

REISSUES

  1. Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Argo Trio Sessions 1956-62 (Mosaic)

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Michael G. Nastos (All Music Guide, Cadence; WEMU [Ypsilanti, MI])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Lee Konitz: Live at the Village Vanguard (Enja)
  2. Myra Melford: The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12)
  3. The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast (Cuneiform)
  4. Absolute Ensemble: Absolute Zawinul (Sunnyside)
  5. Cookers: Warriors (Jazz Legacy)
  6. Either/Orchestra: Mood Music for Time Travellers (Accurate)
  7. Edward Ratliff: Those Moments Before (Strudelmedia)
  8. Randy Weston: The Storyteller (Motema)
  9. Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider (Nonesuch)
  10. Ahmad Jamal: A Quiet Time (Dreyfus)

REISSUES

  1. Sun Ra: College Tour Vol. 1: The Complete Nothing Is (ESP-Disk)
  2. Archie Shepp: New York Contemporary Five (Delmark)
  3. Abbey Lincoln: Through the Years (Hip-O Select)

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Dan Ouellette (Downbeat, Napster.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tigran Hamasyan: Red Hail (Plus Loin)
  2. Chucho Valdes: Chucho's Steps (Four Quarters)
  3. John Ellis: Puppet Mischief (ObliqSound)
  4. Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society (Heads Up)
  5. The Bad Plus: Never Stop (E1)
  6. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  7. Dave Douglas: Spark of Being: Expand (Greenleaf)
  8. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  9. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)
  10. Taylor Eigsti: Daylight at Midnight (Concord)

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Ted Panken (Downbeat, Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  2. Clayton Brothers: The New Song and Dance (ArtistShare)
  3. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
  4. Danilo Perez: Providencia (Mack Avenue)
  5. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Vitoria Suite (Emarcy)
  6. Richie Beirach & Dave Liebman: Quest for Freedom (Sunnyside)
  7. Regina Carter: Reverse Thread (E1)
  8. : Spiritual Lover (Clean Feed)
  9. Lionel Loueke: Mwaliko (Blue Note)
  10. Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider (Nonesuch)

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Thierry Peremarti (Visiting Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Danilo Perez: Providencia (Mack Avenue)
  2. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  3. John McLaughlin: For the One (Mediastarz/Abstract Logix)
  4. Nels Cline: Dirty Baby (Cryptogramophone)
  5. Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider (Nonesuch)
  6. Stephan Crump: Reclamation (Sunnyside)
  7. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)
  8. The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast (Cuneiform)
  9. Cindy Blackman: Another Lifetime (Four Quarters)
  10. New York Art Quartet: Old Stuff (Cuneiform)

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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Bob Porter (WGBO-FM, jazzetc.net)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Moody: 4B (IPO)
  2. Evan Christopher: The Remembering Song (Arbors)
  3. Warren Vache & John Allred: Top Shelf (Arbors)
  4. Bill Easley: Love Stories (American Showplace)
  5. Catherine Russell: Inside This Heart of Mine (World Village)
  6. Evan Christopher: Finesse (Fremeaux)
  7. Houston Person: Moment to Moment (HighNote)
  8. Mac Gollehon: Mac Straight Ahead (American Showplace)
  9. Harry Allen: New York State of Mind (Challenge)
  10. John Bunch: Do Not Disturb (Arbors)

REISSUES

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

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Doug Ramsey (Rifftides, The Wall Street Journal)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Moody: 4B (IPO)
  2. Tarbaby: The End of Fear (Posi-Tone)
  3. Chet Baker: The Sesjun Radio Shows (Out of the Blue/T2)
  4. Randy Weston: The Storyteller (Motema)
  5. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  6. Jessica Williams: Touch (Origin)
  7. Irene Kral: Second Chance (Jazzed Media)
  8. Alan Broadbent: Live at Giannelli Square, Volume 1 (Chilly Bin)
  9. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  10. Kirk Knuffke: Amnesia Brown (Clean Feed)

REISSUES

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

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Derk Richardson (Afar, The Absolute Sound, KPFA-FM [Berkeley, CA])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Nels Cline: Dirty Baby (Cryptogramophone)
  2. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  3. Myra Melford: The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12)
  4. Robin Holcomb & Wayne Horvitz: The Point of It All (Songlines)
  5. Exploding Star Orchestra: Stars Have Shapes (Delmark)
  6. Marilyn Crispell & David Rothenberg: One Dark Night I Left My Silent House (ECM)
  7. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  8. : Remembrance (ECM)
  9. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  10. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Abbey Lincoln: Through the Years (Hip-O Select)
  3. Clifford Brown: The Emarcy Master Takes (Hip-O Select)

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Joel Roberts (All About Jazz--New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Randy Weston: The Storyteller (Motema)
  2. Regina Carter: Reverse Thread (E1)
  3. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
  4. Howard Wiley: 12 Gates to the City (HNIC Music)
  5. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  6. Jeremy Pelt: Men of Honor (HighNote)
  7. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  8. Jean-Michel Pilc: True Story (Dreyfus)
  9. Contact: Five on One (Pirouet)
  10. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)

REISSUES

  1. Philly Joe Jones & Dameronia: Look, Stop and Listen (Uptown)
  2. Various Artists: California Concert: The Hollywood Palladium (Masterworks Jazz)

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Chris Robinson (Downbeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Liam Sillery: Phenomenology (OA2)
  2. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Steve Lehman: Dual Identity (Clean Feed)
  3. Roscoe Mitchell: Far Side (ECM)
  4. Dave Douglas: Spark of Being: Burst (Greenleaf)
  5. Alaturka: Tamam Abi (Tzigane)
  6. Ray Anderson & Marty Ehrlich: Hear You Say: Live in Willisau (Intuition)
  7. Sarah Wilson: Trapeze Project (Brass Tonic)
  8. Ken Thomson & Slow/Fast: It Would Be Easier If (Intuition)
  9. Dan Gailey: What Did You Dream? (OA2)
  10. John Scofeld-Vince Mendoza-Metropole Orkest: 54 (Emarcy)

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Britt Robson (TK)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Myra Melford: The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12)
  2. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  3. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  4. Louis Sclavis-Craig Taborn-Tom Rainey: Eldorado Trio (Clean Feed)
  5. Dave Holland: Pathways (Dare2)
  6. Rufus Reid: Out Front (Motema)
  7. Ryan Keberle: Heavy Dreaming (Alternate Side)
  8. Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (Concord)
  9. Frank Kimbrough: Rumors (Palmetto)
  10. SFJazz Collective: Live 2010: The Works of Horace Silver (SFJazz)

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Michael Rosenstein (Signal to Noise, ParisTransatlantic.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sum: Invenio Ergo (Matchless)
  2. Sei Miguel: (Clean Feed)
  3. Steve Lacy: November (Intakt)
  4. Circulasione Totale Orchestra: Bandwidth (Rune Grammofon)
  5. Decoy & Joe McPhee: Oto (Bo'Weavil)
  6. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  7. Evan Parker & Sten Sandell: Psalms (Psi)
  8. Jon Irabagon: Foxy (Hot Cup)
  9. Mike Reed: Stories and Negotiations (482 Music)
  10. Trio Braam DeJoode Vatcher: Quartet (BBB)

REISSUES

  1. Jemeel Moondoc: The Muntu Recordings (NoBusiness)
  2. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)
  3. John Butcher: Invisible Ear (Weight of Wax)

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Lloyd Sachs (JazzTimes, Downbeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)
  2. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  3. Randy Weston: The Storyteller (Motema)
  4. Chris Lightcap: Bigmouth Deluxe (Clean Feed)
  5. Jason Adasiewicz: Sun Rooms (Delmark)
  6. Ingrid Laubrock: Anti-House (Intakt)
  7. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  8. Tomasz Stanko: Dark Eyes (ECM)
  9. Ben Goldberg: Go Home (Bag)
  10. Evan Christopher: The Remembering Song (Arbors)

REISSUES

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

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Gene Seymour (Eye on Dance and the Arts)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Regina Carter: Reverse Thread (E1)
  2. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  3. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
  4. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  5. Ted Nash & Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Portrait in Seven Shades (JLCO)
  6. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)
  7. Cassandra Wilson: Silver Pony (Blue Note)
  8. Anat Fort: And If (ECM)
  9. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  10. Anat Cohen: Clarinetwork: Live at the Village Vanguard (Anzic)

REISSUES

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

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Mike Shanley (JazzTimes, shanleyonmusic.blogspot.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Paul Motian: Lost in a Dream (ECM)
  2. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
  3. Jon Lundbom: Accomplish Jazz (Hot Cup)
  4. Mike Reed: Stories and Negotiations (482 Music)
  5. Dave Holland: Pathways (Dare2)
  6. Lee Konitz: Live at the Village Vanguard (Enja)
  7. Ideal Bread: Transmit: Music of Steve Lacy (Cuneiform)
  8. Marilyn Crispell & David Rothenberg: One Dark Night I Left My Silent House (ECM)
  9. Myra Melford: The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12)
  10. Keefe Jackson: Seeing You See (Clean Feed)

REISSUES

  1. Sun Ra: College Tour Vol. 1: The Complete Nothing Is (ESP-Disk)
  2. Archie Shepp: New York Contemporary Five (Delmark)
  3. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)

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Bill Shoemaker (Point of Departure)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Decoy & Joe McPhee: Oto (Bo'Weavil)
  2. Michael Formanek: The Rub and Spare Change (ECM)
  3. Microscopic Septet: Friday the Thirteenth: The Micros Play Monk (Cuneiform)
  4. Anthony Braxton & Gerry Hemingway: Old Dogs (2007) (Mode)
  5. Yusef Lateef & Adam Rudolph: Towards the Unknown (Meta)
  6. Odean Pope: Odean's List (In + Out)
  7. Schlippenbach Trio: Bauhaus Dessau (Intakt)
  8. Cookers: Warriors (Jazz Legacy)
  9. Ullmann/Swell 4: News? No News! (Jazzwerkstatt)
  10. : Ground Rush (Clean Feed)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)
  3. Ran Blake: That Certain Feeling (Hatology)

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Hank Shteamer (Time Out New York, The Wire)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Dan Weiss: Timshel (Sunnyside)
  2. Chris Lightcap: Bigmouth Deluxe (Clean Feed)
  3. Harris Eisenstadt: Woodblock Prints (NoBusiness)
  4. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  5. Mike Pride: Betweenwhile (AUM Fidelity)
  6. Cookers: Warriors (Jazz Legacy)
  7. Weasel Walter: Invasion (ugExplode)
  8. The Bad Plus: Never Stop (E1)
  9. Jon Irabagon: Foxy (Hot Cup)
  10. Chicago Underground Duo: Boca Negra (Thrill Jockey)

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