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

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jim Hall & Bill Frisell: Hemispheres (ArtistShare)
  2. Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12)
  3. Mary Halvorson-Reuben Radding-Nate Wooley: Crackleknob (Hatology)
  4. Miroslav Vitous: Remembering Weather Report (ECM)
  5. Bobby Previte: Pan Atlantic (Auand)
  6. Masada Quintet: Stolas: The Book of Angels, Vol. 12 (Tzadik)
  7. Steve Adams: Surface Tension (Clean Feed)
  8. : Un Llamp Que No S'Acaba Mai (Psi)
  9. : Dwell Time (Jazzland)
  10. Indigo Trio: Anaya (RogueArt)

REISSUES

  1. Denny Zeitlin: Mosaic Select: The Columbia Studio Trio Sessions (Mosaic)
  2. Lester Bowie: All the Numbers (Nessa)
  3. Karin Krog: Joy (Meantime/Sonet)

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Alain Drouot (Downbeat, WNUR-FM)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Michel Edelin: Kuntu (RogueArt)
  2. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  3. Miroslav Vitous: Remembering Weather Report (ECM)
  4. Louis Moholo-Moholo: Duets With Marilyn Crispell: Sibanye (We Are One) (Intakt)
  5. Sophie Agnel: Capsizing Moments (Emanem)
  6. Darren Johnston: The Edge of the Forest (Clean Feed)
  7. David Binney: Third Occasion (Mythology)
  8. Brian Groder: Groder & Greene (Latham)
  9. Matt Wilson: That's Gonna Leave a Mark (Palmetto)
  10. Rob Mazurek: Sound Is (Delmark)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um (Legacy Edition) (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree (Hatology)
  3. Grachan Moncur III: Some Other Stuff (Blue Note)

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Ken Dryden (All Music Guide, All About Jazz-New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Tolliver: Emperor March (Savant)
  2. Roberta Gambarini: So in Love (Emarcy)
  3. Fred Hersch: Live at Jazz Standard (Sunnyside)
  4. Mel Martin: Where the Warm Winds Blow (Jazzed Media)
  5. Oliver Jones & Hank Jones: Pleased to Meet You (Justin Time)
  6. Terell Stafford & Dick Oatts: Bridging the Gap (Planet Arts)
  7. Heath Brothers: Endurance (Jazz Legacy)
  8. Bud Shank: Fascinating Rhythms (Jazzed Media)
  9. Geoff Keezer: (ArtistShare)
  10. Ted Kooshian: Underdog, and Other Stories . . . (Summit)

REISSUES

  1. Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood (Hip-O Select/Verve)
  2. Oscar Peterson: Debut: The Clef/Mercury Duo Recordings 1949-1951 (Hip-O Select/Verve)
  3. Denny Zeitlin: Mosaic Select: The Columbia Studio Recordings (Mosaic)

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Donald Elfman (All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Bill Frisell: Disfarmer (Nonesuch)
  2. Tomasz Stanko: Dark Eyes (ECM)
  3. Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)
  4. Rebecca Kilgore & Dave Frishberg: Why Fight the Feeling? (Arbors)
  5. James Weidman: Three Worlds (Inner Circle)
  6. Joel Harrison: Urban Myths (HighNote)
  7. Lisa Sokolov: A Quiet Thing (Laughing Horse)
  8. Rez Abbasi: Things to Come (Sunnyside)
  9. Steve Kuhn: Mostly Coltrane (ECM)
  10. Bill Mays: Mays at the Movies (SteepleChase)

REISSUES

  1. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46) (Mosaic)
  2. Bob Wills: The Tiffany Transcriptions (Collectors' Choice)
  3. Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain (Legacy Edition) (Columbia/Legacy)

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Steve Feeney (Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)
  2. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  3. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
  4. Paul Motian: On Broadway, Vol.5 (Winter & Winter)
  5. Melody Gardot: My One and Only Thrill (Verve)
  6. Dan Tepfer & Lee Konitz: Duos With Lee (Sunnyside)
  7. David Binney: Third Occasion (Mythology)
  8. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
  9. Joe Martin: Not by Chance (Anzic)
  10. Gary Burton-Pat Metheny-Steve Swallow-Antonio Sanchez: Quartet Live (Concord)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (Legacy Edition) (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Dave Brubeck: Time Out (Legacy Edition) (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Horace Parlan: Up & Down (Blue Note)

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Sean Fitzell (All About Jazz-New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Hilmar Jensson: Smell the Difference (Skirl)
  2. Ron Horton: It's a Gadget World . . . (Abeat)
  3. Cyro Baptista: Infinito (Tzadik)
  4. J.D. Allen: Shine! (Sunnyside)
  5. Jim Black: Houseplant (Winter & Winter)
  6. Thirteenth Assembly: (un)sentimental (Important)
  7. John Zorn: O'o (Tzadik)
  8. Ben Perowsky: Esopus (Opus Skirl)
  9. Ben Allison: Think Free (Palmetto)
  10. Brian Groder: Groder & Greene (Latham)

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Ken Franckling (Jazziz, Hot House)

NEW RELEASES

  1. John Scofield: Piety Street (Emarcy)
  2. Joe Zawinul: 75 (Heads Up)
  3. Bill Cunliffe: Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2 (Resonance)
  4. Mike Clark: Blueprints of Jazz, Vol. 1 (Talking House)
  5. Steve Kuhn: Mostly Coltrane (ECM)
  6. Seamus Blake: Live in Italy (Jazz Eyes)
  7. : Restless Spirits (Velut Luna)
  8. : Every Second in Between (Wall-I)
  9. LeBoeuf Brothers: House Without a Door (LeBoeuf Brothers)
  10. Kat Edmonson: Take to the Sky (Convivium)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis & Sonny Rollins: The Classic Prestige Sessions, 1951-1956 (Prestige)
  2. Freddie Hubbard: Without a Song: Live in Europe 1969 (Blue Note)
  3. Scott LaFaro: Pieces of Jade (Resonance)

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Phil Freeman (Village Voice, Jazziz, The Wire)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12)
  2. David S. Ware: Live in Vilnius (NoBusiness)
  3. Joe Morris: Wildlife (AUM Fidelity)
  4. Wadada Leo Smith & Jack DeJohnette: America (Tzadik)
  5. Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi)
  6. NEW: Newtoons (Bo' Weavil)
  7. Chris Potter: Ultrahang (ArtistShare)
  8. Derek Bailey & Steve Noble: Out of the Past (Ping Pong)
  9. Wayne Escoffery: Uptown (Posi-Tone)
  10. Tyshawn Sorey: Koan (482 Music)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane: Side Steps (Prestige)
  2. Freddie Hubbard: Without a Song: Live in Europe 1969 (Blue Note)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith: Spirit Catcher (Nessa)

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David Fricke (Rolling Stone)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  2. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
  3. Jeff "Tain" Watts: Watts (Dark Key)
  4. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
  5. Wadada Leo Smith: Spiritual Dimensions (Cuneiform)
  6. Linda Oh: Entry (Linda Oh Music)
  7. Dafnis Prieto: Live at Jazz Standard NYC (Dafnison Music)
  8. Circulasione Totale Orchestra: Bandwidth (Rune Grammofon)
  9. Cyrus Chestnut: Spirit (Jazz Legacy)
  10. Joe Morris: Today on Earth (AUM Fidelity)

REISSUES

  1. Freddie Hubbard: Without a Song: Live in Europe 1969 (Blue Note)
  2. John Handy: Mosaic Select (Mosaic)
  3. Oscar Peterson: Debut: The Clef/Mercury Duo Recordings 1949-1951 (Hip-O Select/Verve)

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Jon Garelick (Boston Phoenix, Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

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Andrew Gilbert (San Jose Mercury News, Boston Globe)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Darren Johnston: The Edge of the Forest (Clean Feed)
  2. Ben Goldberg-Charlie Hunter-Scott Amendola-Ron Miles: Go Home (BAG)
  3. David Binney: Third Occasion (Mythology)
  4. Dafnis Prieto: Live at Jazz Standard NYC (Dafnison Music)
  5. Jim Hall & Bill Frisell: Hemispheres (ArtistShare)
  6. Charles Tolliver: Emperor March (Savant)
  7. The Monterey Quartet: Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF/Concord)
  8. Fly: Sky & Country (ECM)
  9. Bill Henderson: Live at the Vic: Beautiful Memory (Ahuh)
  10. Jackie Ryan: Doozy (Open Art)

REISSUES

  1. Denny Zeitlin: Mosaic Select: The Columbia Studio Trio Sessions (Mosaic)
  2. John Handy: Mosaic Select (Mosaic)
  3. Codona (Don Cherry-Nana Vasconcelos-Collin Walcott): The Codona Trilogy (ECM)

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Ted Gioia (tedgioia.com, The History of Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Egberto Gismonti: (ECM)
  2. Gretchen Parlato: In a Dream (ObliqSound)
  3. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
  4. Cyminology: As Ney (ECM)
  5. Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
  6. Bobby Sanabria: Kenya Revisited Live!!! (Jazzheads)
  7. Andy Sheppard: Movements in Colour (ECM)
  8. Julian Lage: Sounding Point (Emarcy)
  9. Bad Plus: For All I Care (Heads Up)
  10. Tierney Sutton: Desire (Telarc)

REISSUES

  1. Denny Zeitlin: Mosaic Select: The Columbia Studio Trio Sessions (Mosaic)
  2. Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um (Legacy Edition) (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Art Pepper: The Art History Project: Unreleased Art Vol. IV (Widow's Taste)

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Kurt Gottschalk (All About Jazz-New York, Signal to Noise)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Polwechsel & John Tilbury: Field (Hatology)
  2. John Butcher: somethingtobesaid (Weight of Wax)
  3. Tyondai Braxton: Central Market (Warp)
  4. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
  5. Tyshawn Sorey: Koan (482 Music)
  6. WHO Trio (Michael Wintsch-Barry Oester-Gerry Hemingway): Less Is More (Clean Feed)
  7. Larry Ochs: Stone Shift (RogueArt)
  8. Jim McAuley: The Ultimate Frog (Drip Audio)
  9. Anthony Braxton-Milford Graves-William Parker: Beyond Quantum (Tzadik)
  10. : Full Blast/Black Hole (Atavistic)

REISSUES

  1. Roscoe Mitchell: Nonaah (Nessa)
  2. Anthony Braxton: (Hatology)
  3. Sun Ra: Strange Strings (Atavistic)

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Steve Greenlee (Boston Globe)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Carter-John Medeski-Christian McBride-Adam Rogers-Joey Baron: Heaven on Earth (Half Note)
  2. Jerry Bergonzi: Simply Put (Savant)
  3. J.D. Allen: Shine! (Sunnyside)
  4. Wadada Leo Smith: Spiritual Dimensions (Cuneiform)
  5. Kat Edmonson: Take to the Sky (Convivium)
  6. Gretchen Parlato: In a Dream (ObliqSound)
  7. Darius Jones: Man'ish Boy (AUM Fidelity)
  8. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  9. Chris Potter: Ultrahang (ArtistShare)
  10. Rudder: Matorning (Nineteen-Eight)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane: Side Steps (Prestige)
  2. Miles Davis & Sonny Rollins: Classic Prestige Sessions, 1951-1956 (Prestige)
  3. Sun Ra: On Jupiter (Art Yard)

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David Hajdu (The New Republic)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Fred Hersch: Live at Jazz Standard (Sunnyside)
  2. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
  3. Bill Frisell: Disfarmer (Nonesuch)
  4. Buika & Chucho Valdes: (WEA International)
  5. Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood (Hip-O Select/Verve) *
  6. Tyshawn Sorey: Koan (482 Music)
  7. Peggy Lee: New Code (Drip Audio)
  8. John Hebert: Byzantine Monkey (Firehouse 12)
  9. Tom Harrell: Prana Dance (HighNote)
  10. Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)

* 3 points for Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood transferred to reissues.

REISSUES

  1. Bill Evans: Turn Out the Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings (Nonesuch)
  2. Grant Green: Matador (Blue Note)
  3. Freddie Hubbard: Without a Song: Live in Europe 1969 (Blue Note)

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James Hale (Downbeat, Signal to Noise)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  2. : Esta Plena (Marsalis Music)
  3. Michael Musillami: From Seeds (Playscape)
  4. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
  5. Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
  6. Enrico Rava: New York Days (ECM)
  7. Jim Hall & Bill Frisell: Hemispheres (ArtistShare)
  8. Chris Potter: Ultrahang (ArtistShare)
  9. Jon Hassell: Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street (ECM)
  10. Dave Douglas: Spirit Moves (Greenleaf Music)

REISSUES

  1. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46) (Mosaic)
  2. Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um (Legacy Edition) (Columbia/Legacy)

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Ed Hazell (pointofdeparture.org, Signal to Noise)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Darius Jones: Man'ish Boy (AUM Fidelity)
  2. Profound Sound Trio: Opus de Life (Porter)
  3. Harry Miller: Full Steam Ahead (Reel)
  4. Joe Morris: High Definition (Hatology)
  5. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  6. Chad Taylor: Circle Down (482 Music)
  7. : Berne Concert (Intakt)
  8. Jim Hall & Bill Frisell: Hemispheres (ArtistShare)
  9. : Transatlantic Visions (RogueArt)
  10. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Tyler: Saga of the Outlaws (Nessa)
  2. Elton Dean: Happy Daze/Oh! For the Edge (Ogun)
  3. Gerry Hemingway: Demon Chaser (Hatology)

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Tad Hendrickson (AOL Radio, Spinner)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Joe Morris: Today on Earth (AUM Fidelity)
  2. Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)
  3. Kurt Elling: Dedicated to You (Concord)
  4. : Esta Plena (Marsalis Music)
  5. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
  6. Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
  7. Ben Allison: Think Free (Palmetto)
  8. Roberta Gambarini: So in Love (Emarcy)
  9. Wayne Wallace: (Patois)
  10. Gerald Wilson: Detroit (Mack Avenue)

REISSUES

  1. Mulatu Astatke: New York-Addis-London: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965-75 (Strut)
  2. Eddie Harris & Ellis Marsalis: Homecoming (ELM)

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Andrey Henkin (All About Jazz-New York)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES

  1. : Piano Dazibao (Futura)
  2. Ulrich Gumpert: (Jazzwerkstatt)
  3. Revolutionary Ensemble: Vietnam (ESP-Disk)

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Geoffrey Himes (JazzTimes, Washington Post)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Bill Frisell: Disfarmer (Nonesuch)
  2. Fly: Sky & Country (ECM)
  3. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
  4. Dave Douglas: A Single Sky (Greenleaf Music)
  5. Branford Marsalis: Metamorphosen (Marsalis Music)
  6. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  7. David Binney: Third Occasion (Mythology)
  8. Matt Wilson: That's Gonna Leave a Mark (Palmetto)
  9. Hal Galper: Art-Work (Origin)
  10. Roswell Rudd: Trombone Tribe (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. Billie Holiday: The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters (Hip-O Select/Verve)
  2. Bill Frisell: The Best of Bill Frisell, Vol. 1: Folk Songs (Nonesuch)
  3. Freddie Hubbard: Without a Song: Live in Europe 1969 (Blue Note)

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