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Will Layman (PopMatters)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  2. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)
  3. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)
  4. Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp, Cosmic Leider: The Darkseid Recital (AUM Fidelity)
  5. Dave Douglas & Uri Caine, Present Joys (Greenleaf)
  6. Henry Butler & Steven Bernstein, Viper's Drag (Impulse)
  7. Brian Blade, Landmarks (Blue Note)
  8. Bad Plus, The Rite of Spring (Sony Masterworks)
  9. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  10. Medeski, Martin & Wood + Nels Cline, Woodstock Sessions, Vol.2 (Indirecto)

REISSUES

  1. Herbie Hancock, The Warner Bros. Years (1969-1972) (Warner Bros.)
  2. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  3. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)

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Devin Leonard (Bloomberg Businessweek)

NEW RELEASES

  1. David Binney, Anacapa (Criss Cross)
  2. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  3. Billy Hart, One Is the Other (ECM)
  4. David Virelles, Mbókò (ECM)
  5. Tyshawn Sorey, Alloy (Pi)
  6. Tom Harrell, Trip (HighNote)
  7. Walter Smith III, Still Casual (self-released)
  8. Tom Rainey, Obbligato (Intakt)
  9. Matt Brewer, Mythology (Criss Cross)
  10. Hafez Modirzadeh, In Convergence Liberation (Pi)

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Aidan Levy (JazzTimes, Village Voice)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Arturo O'Farrill, The Offense of the Drum (Motéma)
  2. Abraxas, Psychomagia (Tzadik)
  3. Nels Cline Singers, Macroscope (Mack Avenue)
  4. Trio 3 & Vijay Iyer, Wiring (Intakt)
  5. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  6. Bad Plus, The Rite of Spring (Sony Masterworks)
  7. Fabian Almazan, Rhizome (Blue Note/ArtistShare)
  8. Ryan Keberle, Into the Zone (Greenleaf)
  9. Hush Point, Blues and Reds (Sunnyside)
  10. Erik Friedlander, Nighthawks (Skipstone)

REISSUES

  1. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  2. John Lurie, The Invention of Animals (Amulet)
  3. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)

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John Litweiler (Encyclopedia Britannica, Point of Departure, WHPK-FM)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Roscoe Mitchell, Conversations II (Wide Hive)
  2. Aki Takase & Alexander von Schlippenbach, So Long Eric! Homage to Eric Dolphy (Intakt)
  3. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  4. Taylor Ho Bynum, Navigation (Firehouse 12 -13)
  5. Bobby Bradford & Frode Gjersted, Silver Cornet (Nessa)
  6. Jason Roebke, High Red Center (Delmark)
  7. Russ Johnson, Still Out to Lunch (Enja)
  8. Jason Adasiewicz, From the Region (Delmark)
  9. Potsa Lotsa Plus, Plays Love Suite by Eric Dolphy (Jazzwerkstatt)
  10. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Louis Armstrong, The Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd, School Days (Emanem)

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Martin Longley (Jazzwise, All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mehliana, Taming the Dragon (Nonesuch)
  2. C. Webster & M. Holub, Viscera (Babel)
  3. Sean Noonan & Malcolm Mooney, Pavees Dance (Noonansmusic)
  4. Peter Van Huffel, Bite My Blues (Clean Feed)
  5. Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp, Cosmic Leider: The Darkseid Recital (AUM Fidelity)
  6. Jon-Erik Kellso, The EarRegulars (Gen-Erek)
  7. Arve Henriksen, The Nature of Connections (Rune Grammofon)
  8. Eric Revis, In Memory of Things Yet Seen (Clean Feed)
  9. Matt Wilson + John Medeski, Gathering Call (Palmetto)
  10. Farmers by Nature, Love and Ghosts (AUM Fidelity)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Various, Haiti Direct (Strut)
  3. Bud Powell, Live at the Blue Note Café, Paris 1961 (ESP-Disk)

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Suzanne Lorge (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Dianne Reeves, Beautiful Life (Concord)
  2. Regina Carter, Southern Comfort (Sony Masterworks)
  3. Elio Villafranca, Caribbean Tinge (Motéma)
  4. Brianna Thomas, You Must Believe in Love (Sound on Purpose)
  5. Bad Plus, The Rite of Spring (Sony Masterworks)
  6. Branford Marsalis, In My Solitude: Live at Grace Cathedral (Okeh)
  7. Bela Fleck, Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn (Rounder)
  8. Vijay Iyer, Mutations (ECM)
  9. Norma Winstone, Dance Without Answer (ECM)
  10. Stacey Kent, The Changing Lights (Warner Bros. -13)

REISSUES

  1. Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald, The Complete Decca Sessions (1934-1941) (Mosaic -13)
  2. Vince Guaraldi, A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Fantasy)
  3. Various, Billy Strayhorn: Out of the Shadows (Storyville)

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Jim Macnie (DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  2. Tom Rainey, Obbligato (Intakt)
  3. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  4. Hush Point, Blues and Reds (Sunnyside)
  5. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)
  6. Scott Wendholt/Adam Kolker, And Them (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  7. Michael Blake, Tiddy Boom (Sunnyside)
  8. Steffano Bollani, Joy in Spite of Everything (ECM)
  9. Ideal Bread, Beating the Teens (Cuneiform)
  10. Fred Hersch, Floating (Palmetto)

REISSUES

  1. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  2. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  3. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)

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Peter Margasak (Chicago Reader, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. David Virelles, Mbókò (ECM)
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  4. Jason Roebke, High Red Center (Delmark)
  5. Hush Point, Blues and Reds (Sunnyside)
  6. Tyshawn Sorey, Alloy (Pi)
  7. Tom Rainey, Obbligato (Intakt)
  8. Matt Bauder, Nightshades (Clean Feed)
  9. Michael Blake, Tiddy Boom (Sunnyside)
  10. Jason Adasiewicz, From the Region (Delmark)

REISSUES

  1. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  2. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Horace Tapscott, The Giant Is Awakened (International Phonogram)

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Matt Marshall (All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Nels Cline Singers, Macroscope (Mack Avenue)
  2. Satoko Fujii, Shiki (Libra)
  3. Vijay Iyer, Mutations (ECM)
  4. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  5. Chick Corea, Trilogy (Stretch/Concord)
  6. Pat Metheny, Kin (Nonesuch)
  7. Jon Irabagon, It Takes All Kinds (Irabbagast/Jazzwerkstatt)
  8. Tom Harrell, Trip (HighNote)
  9. Magos & Limón, Dawn (Okeh)
  10. Jane Ira Bloom, Sixteen Sunsets (Outline/Pure Audio -13)

REISSUES

  1. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  2. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  3. Charlie Haden & Jim Hall, Charlie Haden & Jim Hall (Impulse!)

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Lee Mergner (JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Brian Blade, Landmarks (Blue Note)
  2. Chick Corea, Trilogy (Stretch/Concord)
  3. Regina Carter, Southern Comfort (Sony Masterworks)
  4. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden, Last Dance (ECM)
  5. Dave Douglas & Uri Caine, Present Joys (Greenleaf)
  6. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)
  7. Bill Frisell, Guitar in the Space Age! (Okeh)
  8. Avishai Cohen, Dark Nights (Anzic)
  9. Cookers, Time and Time Again (Motéma)
  10. Danilo Pérez, Panama 500 (Mack Avenue)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Round Midnight: The Complete Blue Note Recordings (Blue Note))
  3. Jaco Pastorius, Modern American Music . . . Period! The Criteria Sessions (Omnivore)

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Milo Miles (NPR, Boston Arts Fuse, Miles to Go)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  2. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)
  3. Dave Liebman, A Tribute to Wayne Shorter (MAMA)
  4. Westerlies, Wish the Children Would Come on Home (Songlines)
  5. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  6. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)
  7. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Worker (Royal Potato Family)
  8. The Microscopic Septet, Manhattan Moonrise (Cuneiform)
  9. Greg Abate, Motif (Whaling City Sound)
  10. Erik Friedlander, Nighthawks (Skipstone)

REISSUES

  1. Charlie Haden & Jim Hall, Charlie Haden & Jim Hall (Impulse!)
  2. Sun Ra, In the Orbit of Ra (Strut)
  3. Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian, Hamburg '72 (ECM)

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Ralph A. Miriello (NotesonJazzBlogspot, Huffington Post, Hot House, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Adam Unsworth-Byron Olson-John Vancore, Balance (Acoustical Concept)
  2. Jane Ira Bloom, Sixteen Sunsets (Outline/Pure Audio -13)
  3. Ernie Watts, A Simple Truth (Flying Dolphin)
  4. Michael Blake, Tiddy Boom (Sunnyside)
  5. Joe Beck, Get Me Joe Beck (Whaling City Sound)
  6. David Ullmann, Corduroy (Little Sky)
  7. Matt Wilson + John Medeski, Gathering Call (Palmetto)
  8. Dan Weiss, Fourteen (Pi)
  9. Dewa Budjana, Jorged Kahyangan (MoonJune)
  10. Denny Zeitlin, Stairway to the Stars (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Michael Bloomfield, From His Head to His Heart to His Hands (Legacy)

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Chris Monsen (Musikkmagasinet, Jazznytt, Perfect Sounds)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Moskus, Mestertyven (Hubro)
  2. Jemeel Moondoc, The Zookeeper's House (Relative Pitch)
  3. Max Johnson, The Invisible Trio (Fresh Sound)
  4. Mary Halvorson, Reverse Blue (Relative Pitch)
  5. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  6. Peter Van Huffel-Michael Bates-Jeff Davis, Boom Crane (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  7. James Brandon Lewis, Divine Travels (Okeh)
  8. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  9. The Microscopic Septet, Manhattan Moonrise (Cuneiform)
  10. Paal Nilssen-Love, Erta Ale (PNL)

REISSUES

  1. Horace Tapscott, The Giant Is Awakened (International Phonogram)
  2. Ted Daniel, Interconnection (NoBusiness)
  3. Sun Ra, In the Orbit of Ra (Strut)

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John Frederick Moore (Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)
  2. Miguel Zenón, Identities Are Changeable (Miel Music)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  4. Steve Wilson & Lewis Nash, Duologue (MCG Jazz)
  5. Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation (Impulse)
  6. Jimmy Cobb, The Original Mob (Smoke Sessions)
  7. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  8. Trio 3 & Vijay Iyer, Wiring (Intakt)
  9. Eric Harland, Vipassana (GSI)
  10. Karen Mantler, Business Is Bad (Xtra Watt)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)

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Dan Morgenstern (Jersey Jazz, Journal of Jazz Studies)

NEW RELEASES

  1. 3 Cohens, Tightrope (Anzic -13)
  2. Brian Lynch & Emmet Cohen, Questioned Answer (Hollistic)
  3. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)
  4. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Over Time: The Music of Bob Brookmeyer (Planet Arts)
  5. Avishai Cohen, Dark Nights (Anzic)
  6. Lena Bloch, Feathery (13th Note)
  7. Adam Schroeder, Let's! (Capri)
  8. Romero Lubambo, Brazilian Essence (Sunnyside)
  9. Jack Mouse & Scott Robinson, Snakeheads & Ladybugs (Tall Grass)
  10. Ed Palermo, Oh No! Not Jazz!! (Cuneiform)

REISSUES

  1. Louis Armstrong, The Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Chubby Jackson, New York City 1949 (Uptown)
  3. Various, Dinnertime for Hungry Collectors: Mostly Unissued Performances of the Legends of Jazz(1926-1952) (Doctor Jazz)

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Russ Musto (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Red Garland, Swingin' on the Korner (Elemental)
  3. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)

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Michael G. Nastos (Cadence, Hot House, WDEE-TV.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  2. Mary Halvorson, Reverse Blue (Relative Pitch)
  3. Tani Tabbal, Wizards (Tabbalia Sound)
  4. Cookers, Time and Time Again (Motéma)
  5. Omer Avital, New Song (Motéma)
  6. Russ Johnson, Still Out to Lunch (Enja)
  7. Yard Byard: The Jaki Byard Project, Inch by Inch (GM)
  8. Jason Adasiewicz, From the Region (Delmark)
  9. Ellen Rowe, Courage Music (PKO)
  10. Ibrahim Electric, Rumours From Outer Space (ILK)

REISSUES

  1. Various, Creative Music Studio: Archive Selections, Vol. 1 (Innova)
  2. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  3. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)

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Stuart Nicholson (Jazzwise)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Michael Wollny, Weltentraum (ACT)
  2. Chick Corea, Solo Piano: Portraits (Concord)
  3. Mike Westbrook, Glad Day Live (Westbrook)
  4. Michal Wróblewski, Jazz I Orkiestra (Ellite)
  5. Phillipe le Baraillec, Invisible Wound (Amji Series)
  6. Manu Katché, Live in Concert (ACT)
  7. Slowly Rolling Camera, Slowly Rolling Camera (Edition)
  8. Phronesis, Life to Everything (Editon)
  9. Sebastian Sternal, Sternal Symphonic Society (Traumton)
  10. Shahin Novrasli, Bayati (Bee Jazz)

REISSUES

  1. Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald, The Complete Decca Sessions (1934-1941) (Mosaic -13)
  2. Jimmy Deuchar, The Complete Tempo Recordings 1955-8 (Acrobat)
  3. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)

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Tim Niland (Music & More)

NEW RELEASES

  1. John Zorn, Valentine's Day (Tzadik)
  2. Audio One, The Midwest School (Audiographic)
  3. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  4. Lean Left, Live at the Area Sismica (Unsounds)
  5. Eric Revis, In Memory of Things Yet Seen (Clean Feed)
  6. Brandon Seabrook, Sylphid Vitalizers (New Atlantis)
  7. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)
  8. Nels Cline Singers, Macroscope (Mack Avenue)
  9. Chicago Underground Duo, Locus (Northern Spy)
  10. Raoul Björkenheim, Ecstasy (Cuneiform)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)

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Dan Ouellette (DownBeat, Wondering Sound, ZEALnyc.com, biography author (Ron Carter, Bruce Lundvall))

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  2. Vijay Iyer, Mutations (ECM)
  3. Miguel Zenón, Identities Are Changeable (Miel Music)
  4. Billy Childs, Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro (Sony Masterworks)
  5. Mike Stern & Eric Johnson, Eclectic (Heads Up)
  6. Bad Plus, The Rite of Spring (Sony Masterworks)
  7. Abdullah Ibrahim, Mukashi: Once Upon a Time (Intuition/Sunnyside)
  8. Helen Sung, Anthem for a New Day (Concord)
  9. Melissa Aldana, Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio (Concord)
  10. David Krakauer, The Big Picture (Table Pounding)

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