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ALL ABOUT JAZZMuhal Richard Abrams / George Lewis / Roscoe Mitchell - Streaming (Pi)Steve Adams Trio - Surface Tension (Clean Feed) Jason Adasiewicz - Rolldown (482 Music) Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown - Varmint (Cuneiform) AGOGIC - AGOGIC (Table and Chairs Music) Ahleuchatistas - Of The Body Prone (Tzadik) Jason Ajemian's Smokeless Heat - The Art of Dying (Delmark) Ambrose Akinmusire - When The Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note) Ben Allison - Medicine Wheel (Palmetto) Ben Allison - Cowboy Justice (Palmetto) Ben Allison and Man Size Safe - Little Things Run The World (Palmetto) Ben Allison - Think Free (Palmetto) Scott Amendola Trio - Lift (Sazi Records) Fred Anderson - Timeless: Live at the Velvet Lounge (Delmark) Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake - From The River To The Ocean (Thrill Jockey) Ray Anderson / Han Bennink / Christy Doran - ABD (Hatology) Darcy James Argue's Secret Society - Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam) Arrive - There Was... (Clean Feed) Art Ensemble of Chicago - Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City: Live at Iridium (Pi) The Bad Plus - Prog (Heads Up) Billy Bang - Prayer for Peace (TUM Records) Thomas Barber's Janus Bloc - Snow Road (D Clef Records) Carlos Barretto - Radio Song (Clean Feed) BassDrumBone - The Line Up (Clean Feed) Michael Bates - A Fine Balance (Between The Lines) Michael Bates Outside Sources - Clockwise (Greenleaf Music) Matt Bauder - Day In Pictures (Clean Feed) Josh Berman - Old Idea (Delmark) Will Bernard - Blue Plate Special (Palmetto) Tim Berne - Insomnia (Clean Feed) Tim Berne, Jim Black & Nels Cline - The Veil (Cryptogramophone) Steven Bernstein - Diaspora Suite (Tzadik) Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra - We Are MTO (Mowo! Inc.) David Binney - Third Occasion (Mythology) David Binney - Graylen Epicenter (Mythology) David Binney - Barefooted Town (Criss Cross) Andy Biskin Quartet - Early American: The Music of Stephen Foster (Strudelmedia) Andy Biskin - Trio Tragico (Strudelmedia) Jim Black - Dogs of Great Indifference (Winter & Winter) Cindy Blackman - Music For The New Millennium (Sacred Sound) Michael Blake Sextet - Amor De Cosmos (Songlines) Michael Blake / Kresten Osgood - Control This (Clean Feed) Ran Blake & Anthony Braxton - A Memory Of Vienna (Hatology) Samuel Blaser Quartet - 7th Heaven (Between The Lines) Samuel Blaser - Consort in Motion (Kind of Blue) Paul Bley / Kresten Osgood - Florida (ILK) Boxhead Ensemble - Nocturnes (Atavistic) Anthony Braxton - Trio & Quintet (Town Hall) 1972 (Hatology) Anthony Braxton - Creative Orchestra (Koln) 1978 (Hatology) Anthony Braxton - Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989 (Hatology) Anthony Braxton / Joe Fonda - Duets 1995 (Clean Feed) Anthony Braxton / Milford Graves / William Parker - Beyond Quantum (Tzadik) Michael Brecker - Pilgrimage (Heads Up) Bridge 61 - Journal (Atavistic) Peter Brotzmann - The Complete Machine Gun Sessions (Atavistic) Peter Brotzmann / Peeter Uuskyla - Born Broke (Atavistic) Kevin Brow - Koptor (Fresh Sound) Rob Brown Trio - Sounds (Clean Feed) Rob Brown Ensemble - Crown Trunk Root Funk (AUM Fidelity) Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack - Intents & Purposes (482 Music) Greg Burk - Many Worlds (482 Music) Greg Burk Trio - The Path Here (482 Music) Dave Burrell - Momentum (High Two) Taylor Ho Bynum and Tomas Fujiwara - True Events (482 Music) Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet - The Middle Picture (Firehouse 12) Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet - Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths (Hatology) Uri Caine - Plays Mozart (Winter & Winter) Uri Caine Trio - Siren (Winter & Winter) James Carney Group - Ways & Means (Songlines) Daniel Carter / William Parker / Federico Ughi - The Dream (577 Records) James Carter - Present Tense (Emarcy) James Carter Organ Trio - At The Crossroads (EmArcy) Regina Carter - I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey (Verve) Thomas Chapin - Ride (Playscape) Chicago Underground Duo - In Praise of Shadows (Thrill Jockey) Chicago Underground Trio - Chronicle (Delmark) Claudia Quintet - For (Cuneiform) Claudia Quintet - Royal Toast (Cuneiform) Claudia Quintet + 1 featuring Kurt Elling & Theo Bleckmann - What Is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform) Alex Cline - Continuation (Cryptogramophone) Nels Cline - New Monastery: A View Into The Music Of Andrew Hill (Cryptogramophone) Nels Cline - Draw Breath (Cryptogramophone) Nels Cline - Coward (Cryptogramophone) Nels Cline Singers - Initiate (Cryptogramophone) Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble - Proverbs for Sam (Boxholder) Steve Coleman and Five Elements - Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi) Conference Call - Poetry in Motion (Clean Feed) Jim Connolly - Jim Connolly and the Gove County String Quartet (pfMentum) Contact - Five on One (Pirouet) The Cookers - Cast The First Stone (Plus Loin) Cooper-Moore - Outtakes 1978 (Hopscotch) Marc Copland - Another Place (Pirouet) Marc Copland - Crosstalk (Pirouet) Cosmologic - Eyes in the Back of My Head (Cuneiform) Jeff Davis - We Sleep outside (Loyal Label) Kris Davis - The Slightest Shift (Fresh Sound New Talent) Kris Davis - Rye Eclipse (Fresh Sound) Ernest Dawkins - The Messenger: Live At The Original Velvet Lounge (Delmark) Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble - The Prairie Prophet (Delmark) Michael Dessen Trio - Between Shadow and Space (Clean Feed) Jorrit Dijkstra - Pillow Circles (Clean Feed) The Bill Dixon Orchestra - Intents And Purposes (International Phonograph Inc.) Bill Dixon - Bill Dixon With Exploding Star Orchestra (Thrill Jockey) DJ Logic - Zen of Logic (Ropeadope) Dave Douglas - Meaning And Mystery (Greenleaf) Dave Douglas - A Single Sky (Greenleaf Music) Dave Douglas & Keystone - Spark of Being (Greenleaf Music) Dr. Mint - Visions and Nightmares (pfMENTUM) Brian Drye - Bizingas (NCM East) Scott DuBois - Banshees (Sunnyside) Marty Ehrlich's Rites Quartet - Things Have Got To Change (Clean Feed) Marty Ehrlich's Rites Quartet - Frog Leg Logic (Clean Feed) Nathan Eklund Group - The Crooked Line (Jazz Excursion) Lisle Ellis - Sucker Punch Requiem: An Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat (Henceforth) Liberty Ellman - Ophiuchus Butterfly (Pi) Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio featuring Billy Bang - Big M: A Tribute to Malachi Favors (Delmark) Booker Ervin - The Freedom Book (Prestige) Harris Eisenstadt - The All Seeing Eye + Octets (Poo-Bah) Harris Eisenstadt - Guewel (Clean Feed) Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day (Clean Feed) Amir ElSaffar - Two Rivers (Pi Recordings) Amir ElSaffar Two Rivers Ensemble - Inana (Pi) Empty Cage Quartet - Stratostrophic (Clean Feed) Empty Cage Quartet - Gravity (Clean Feed) Peter Evans Quartet - The Peter Evans Quartet (Firehouse 12) Peter Evans Quartet - Live in Lisbon (Clean Feed) Exploding Star Orchestra - We Are All From Somewhere Else (Thrill Jockey) Exploding Star Orchestra - Stars Have Shapes (Delmark) FAB Trio - History of Jazz in Reverse (TUM) Geoff Farina / Luther Gray / Nate McBride - Out Trios Volume Four: Almanac (Atavistic) Fast 'N' Bulbous - Waxed Oop (Cuneiform) Avram Fefer Trio - Ritual (Clean Feed) Joe Fiedler Trio - Plays The Music Of Albert Mangelsdorff (Clean Feed) Alvin Fielder Trio - A Measure of Vision (Clean Feed) Scott Fields Ensemble - Beckett (Clean Feed) Scott Fields Ensemble - Denouemont (Clean Feed) Scott Fields Freetet - Bitter Love Songs (Clean Feed) Scott Fields Ensemble - Samuel (New World) Fieldwork - Door (Pi) Fight the Big Bull - Dying Will Be Easy (Clean Feed) Fire Room - Broken Music (Atavistic) Flat Earth Society - Psychoscout (Crammed) The Flatlands Collective - Maatjes (Clean Feed) The Fonda/Stevens Group - Memphis (Playscape) Sonny Fortune - You and the Night and the Music (18th & Vine) The Frame Quartet - 35mm (Okka Disk) Colter Frazier Quartet - Colter Frazier Quartet (pfMentum) Free Form Funky Freqs - Urban Mythology: Volume One (Thirsty Ear) Free Range Rat - Nut Club (Clean Feed) Frequency - Frequency (Thrill Jockey) Erik Friedlander - Prowl (Cryptogramophone) Erik Friedlander - Broken Arm Trio (Skipstone) Erik Friedlander - Bonebridge (Skipstone) Bill Frisell / Ron Carter / Paul Motian - Bill Frisell / Ron Carter / Paul Motian (Nonesuch) Bill Frisell - Beautiful Dreamers (Savoy Jazz) Satoko Fujii Four - When We Were There (Polystar) Satoko Fujii Min-Yoh Ensemble - Fujin Raijin (Victo) Satoko Fujii Quartet - Bacchus (Muzak) Satoko Fujii Trio - Trace a River (Libra) Satoko Fujii Ma-Do - Heat Wave (Not Two) Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York - Summer Suite (Libra) Satoko Fujii / Natsuki Tamura - Chun (Libra) Satoko Fujii Ma-Do - Desert Ship (Not Two) Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York - ETO (Libra) The Fully Celebrated - Drunk On The Blood Of The Holy Ones (AUM Fidelity) Kenny Garrett - Beyond The Wall (Nonesuch) Jeff Gauthier's Goatette - One And The Same (Cryptogramophone) Jeff Gauthier Goatette - House of Return (Cryptogramophone) Chris Gestrin/Ben Monder/Dylan van der Schyff - The Distance (Songlines) Paul Giallorenzo - Get In To Go Out (482 Music) Lafayette Gilchrist - Three (Hyena) Lafayette Gilchrist - Soul Progressin' (Hyena) Hans Glawischnig - Panorama (Sunnyside) Ben Goldberg - Go Home (BAG Production) Andrew Green - Narrow Margin (Microphonic) Groundtruther - Altitude (Thirsty Ear) Tim Hagans - Alone Together (Pirouet) Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone - On and Off (Skirl) Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone - Thin Air (Thirsty Ear) Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone - Departure of Reason (Thirsty Ear) Mary Halvorson Trio - Dragon's Head (Firehouse 12) Mary Halvorson, Reuben Radding & Nate Wooley - Crackleknob (Hatology) Ross Hammond - Teakayo Mission (Prescott Recordings) Stefon Harris - African Tarantella: Dances With Duke (Blue Note) Joel Harrison - The Wheel (Innova) Emily Hay / Brad Dutz / Wayne Peet - Emil Hay / Brad Dutz / Wayne Peet (pfMENTUM) Gerry Hemingway Quintet - Demon Chaser (Hatology) Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph, Inc.) Herculaneum - Orange Blossom (482 Music) Fred Hess - How 'Bout Now (Tapestry) Fred Hess - In The Grotto (Alison) Fred Hess Band - Single Moment (Alison) Fred Hess Big Band - Hold On (Dazzle Records) Andrew Hill - Change (Blue Note) His Name Is Alive - Sweet Earth Flower: a tribute to Marion Brown (High Two) Eric Hofbauer and The Infrared Band - Myth Understanding (CNM) John Hollenbeck - Rainbow Jimmies (GPE Records) John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble - Eternal Interlude (Sunnyside) Honey Ear Trio - Steampunk Serenade (Foxhaven) Bruce Hornsby - Camp Meeting (Legacy) Ron Horton - Everything In A Dream (Fresh Sound New Talent) Wayne Horvitz - Way Out East (Songlines) Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet - One Dance Alone (Songlines) Wayne Horvitz Sweeter Than The Day - A Walk In The Dark (Independent) Human Feel - Galore (Skirl) Jason Kao Hwang - Edge (Asian Improv) Jason Kao Hwang / Edge - Stories Before Within (Innova) Jason Kao Hwang / Edge - Crossroads Unseen (Euonymus) Ideal Bread - Transmit: Vol. 2 of The Music of Steve Lacy (Cuneiform) Jon Irabagon's Outright! - Outright! (Innova) Jon Irabagon with Mike Pride - I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues (Loyal Label) Jon Irabagon - The Observer (Concord) Jon Irabagon - Foxy (Hot Cup Records) Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa - Raw Materials (Savoy) Vijay Iyer - Tragicomic (Sunnyside) Vijay Iyer Trio - Historicity (ACT Music) Keefe Jackson's Project Project - Just Like This (Delmark) Keefe Jackson Quartet - Seeing You See (Clean Feed) Joseph Jarman - As If It Were The Seasons (Delmark) The Jazz Passengers - Reunited (Justin Time) Darren Johnston - The Edge of the Forest (Clean Feed) Darius Jones Trio - Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) (AUM Fidelity) Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp - Cosmic Lieder (AUM Fidelity) Darius Jones Trio - Big Gurl (Smell My Dream) (AUM Fidelity) Kidd Jordan / William Parker / Hamid Drake - Palm of Soul (AUM Fidelity) Junk Box (Fujii / Tamura / Hollenbeck) - Fragment (Libra) Junk Box - Cloudy Then Sunny (Libra) Pandelis Karayorgis / Nate McBride / Curt Newton - Betwixt (Hatology) Pandelis Karayorgis Quintet - System Of 5 (Hatology) Fred Katz - Folk Songs For Far Out Folk (Reboot Stereophonic) Achim Kaufmann / Michael Moore / Dylan van der Schyff - Kamosc (Red Toucan) Dave King Trucking Company - Good Old Light (Sunnyside) Roland Kirk / Jack McDuff - Kirk's Work (Prestige) KLANG - Tea Music (Allos Documents) KLANG - Other Doors (Allos Documents) Kneebody - Low Electrical Worker (Colortone Media) Kneebody - You Can Have Your Moment (Winter & Winter) Kirk Knuffke Quartet - Big Wig (Clean Feed) Kirk Knuffke - Amnesia Brown (Clean Feed) Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club - Adventures (Boxholder) Alex Kontorovich - Deep Minor (Chamsa) Tim Kuhl - King (WJF Records) Steve Kuhn Trio w/ Joe Lovano - Mostly Coltrane (ECM) Steve Lacy - Esteem (Atavistic) Steve Lacy / Roswell Rudd Quartet - Early and Late (Cuneiform) Michel Lambert - Le Passant (The Wanderer) (Rant) Adam Lane / Lou Grassi / Mark Whitecage - Drunk Butterfly (Clean Feed) Steve Lantner - Paradise Road (Skycap) Steve Lantner Trio - What You Can Throw (Hatology) Lawnmower - West (Clean Feed) The Leaders - Spirits Alike (Double Moon) Steve Lehman Quintet - On Meaning (Pi) Steve Lehman Octet - Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi) Daniel Levin Trio - Fuhuffah (Clean Feed) Steuart Liebig Tee-Tot Quartet - Always Outnumbered (pfMentum) David Liebman and Ellery Eskelin - Renewal (Hatology) John Lindberg / Karl Berger - Duets 1 (Between The Lines) Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio - Terminal Valentine (Atavistic) Russ Lossing / Mat Maneri / Mark Dresser - Metal Rat (Clean Feed) Joe Lovano - Streams of Expression (Blue Note) Joe Lovano Us Five - Folk Art (Blue Note) Joe Lovano Us Five - Bird Songs (Blue Note) Allen Lowe - Blues and the Empirical truth (Music & Arts) Lucky 7's - Pluto Junkyard (Clean Feed) Rudresh Mahanthappa - Codebook (Pi) Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition - Apti (Innova) Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green - Apex (Pi Recordings) Tony Malaby / Angelica Sanchez / Tom Rainey - Alive In Brooklyn, Vol. 2 (Sarama) Tony Malaby - Tamarindo (Clean Feed) Tony Malaby Cello Trio - Warblepeck (Songlines) Tony Malaby - Paloma Recio (New World) Tony Malaby's Apparitions - Voladores (Clean Feed) Michael Marcus and Ted Daniel - Duology (Boxholder) Michael Marcus - Lotus Symphony (Not Two) Denman Maroney - Udentity (Clean Feed) Billy Martin / John Medeski - Mago (Amulet) Sabir Mateen - Prophecies Come To Pass (577 Records) Mauger - The Beautiful Enabler (Clean Feed) Rob Mazurek Quintet - Sound Is (Delmark) Pete McCann - Most Folks (Omnitone) Donny McCaslin - In Pursuit (Sunnyside) Donny McCaslin Trio - Recommended Tools (Greenleaf Music) Donny McCaslin - Declaration (Sunnyside) Donny McCaslin - Perpetual Motion (Greenleaf) John McNeil - East Coast Cool (Omnitone) Joe McPhee & Ingebrigt Haker Flaten - Blue Chicago Blues (Not Two) Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood - Out Louder (Indirecto) Medeski, Martin & Wood - Zaebos: The Book of Angels, Vol. 11 (Tzadik) John Medeski / Matthew Shipp - Scotty Hard's Radical Reconstructive Surgery (Thirsty Ear) Brad Mehldau - House On Hill (Nonesuch) Myra Melford's Be Bread - The Image of Your Body (Cryptogramophone) Myra Melford / Tanya Kalmanovitch - Heart Mountain (Perspicacity) Lisa Mezzacappa & Nightshade - Cosmic Rift (Leo Records) Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble - Black Unstoppable (Delmark) Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble - Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia Butler (Firehouse 12) Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings - Renegades (Delmark) Mi3 - Free Advice (Clean Feed) The Microscopic Septet - Lobster Leaps In (Cuneiform) Modo Trio with Jamie Saft - The Uninvited (482 Music) Joe Morris Quartet - Beautiful Existence (Clean Feed) Joe Morris Bass Quartet - High Definition (Hatology) Joe Morris / Petr Cancura / Luther Gray - Wildlife (AUM Fidelity) Joe Morris Quartet - Today On Earth (AUM Fidelity) Rob Mosher's Storytime - The Tortoise (Independent) Mostly Other People Do The Killing - Shamokin!!! (Hot Cup) Mostly Other People Do The Killing - This Is Our Moosic (Hot Cup) Paul Motian Band - Garden of Eden (ECM) Mungenast/Field/Bloom/Proudman - No Such Animal (Innova) David Murray Black Saint Quartet - Sacred Ground (Justin Time) Mushroom with Eddie Gale - Joint Happening (Hyena) Michael Musillami - Fragile Forms (Playscape) Michael Musillami Trio with Mark Feldman - The Treatment (Playscape) Michael Musillami Trio + 3 - From Seeds (Playscape) Michael Musillami Trio - Old Tea (Playscape) Quinsin Nachoff - Magic Numbers (Songlines) Quinsin Nachoff - Horizons Ensemble (Independent) Ted Nash - In The Loop (Palmetto) Roy Nathanson - Sotto Voce (AUM Fidelity) The New Mellow Edwards - Big Choantza (Skirl) New York Art Quartet - Old Stuff (Cuneiform) Sean Noonan - Brewed By Noons (Songlines) Nordic Connect - Spirals (Artist Share) Opsvik and Jennings - Commuter Anthems (Rune Grammofon) Opsvik and Jennings - A Dream I Used To Remember (Loyal Label) Eivind Opsvik - Overseas III (Loyal Label) Rick Parker Collective - Finding Space (WJF) William Parker - Long Hidden: The Olmec Series (AUM Fidelity) William Parker and Hamid Drake - Summer Snow (AUM Fidelity) William Parker's Raining On The Moon - Corn Meal Dance (AUM Fidelity) William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune (AUM Fidelity) William Parker Quartet - Petit Oiseau (AUM Fidelity) William Parker Organ Quartet - Uncle Joe's Spirit House (Centering Records) Alan Pasqua - The Antisocial Club (Cryptogramophone) John Patitucci Trio - Remembrance (Concord) Jessica Pavone - Songs of Synastry and Solitude (Tzadik) Mario Pavone Sextet - Deez to Blues (Playscape) Mario Pavone - Trio Arc (Playscape) Mario Pavone Double Tenor Quintet - Ancestors (Playscape) Ben Perowsky Quartet - Esopus Opus (Skirl) Phoenix Ensemble / Mark Lieb - Clarinet Quintets: Morton Feldman, Milton Babbitt (Innova) Odean Pope - Odean's List (In + Out) Noah Preminger - Dry Bridge Road (Nowt) Bobby Previte and the New Bump - Set The Alarm For Monday (Palmetto) Chris Potter - Underground (Sunnyside) Powerhouse Sound - Oslo / Chicago: Breaks (Atavistic) Bobby Previte - The Coalition of the Willing (Ropeadope) Dafnis Prieto Sextet - Taking the Soul for a Walk (Dafnison Music) Sun Ra - Strange Strings (Atavistic) Sun Ra - The Night Of The Purple Moon (Atavistic) Sun Ra - Some Blues But Not The Kind Thats Blue (Atavistic) Sun Ra - Secrets of the Sun (Atavistic) Rashanim - Shalosh (Tzadik) Edward Ratliff - Those Moments Before (Strudelmedia) Rob Reddy's Gift Horse - A Hundred Jumping Devils (Reddy Music) Rob Reddy's Small Town - The Book of the Storm (Reddy Music) Mike Reed's Loose Assembly - Last Year's Ghost (482 Music) Mike Reed - The Speed of Change & Proliferation (482 Music) Mike Reed's People, Places & Things - About Us (482 Music) Mike Reed's People, Places & Things - Stories and Negotiations (482 Music) Mike Reed's Loose Assembly Featuring Roscoe Mitchell - Empathetic Parts (482 Music) Reut Regev - This is R Time (Ropeadope) Dave Rempis Percussion Quartet - Rip Tear Crunch (482 Music) Dave Rempis / Frank Rosaly - Cyrillic (482 Music) The Rempis Percussion Quartet - Montreal Parade (482 Music) Marc Ribot - Asmodeus: Book of Angels, Vol. 7 (Tzadik) Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog - Party Intellectuals (Pi) RIDD Quartet - Fiction Avalanche (Clean Feed) Jason Rigby - The Sage (Fresh Sound New Talent) Max Roach & Archie Shepp - The Long March (Hatology) Matana Roberts - The Chicago Project (Central Control) Jason Robinson & Anthony Davis - Cerulean Landscape (Clean Feed) Jason Robinson - The Two Faces of Janus (Cuneiform) Josh Roseman - New Constellations: Live In Vienna (Accurate Records) Roswell Rudd / Mark Dresser - Airwalkers (Clean Feed) George Russell Sextet - Ezz-Thetics (Riverside) Carl Hancock Rux - Good Bread Alley (Thirsty Ear) Robert Sabin - Romero (Ranula Music) Sacks / Opsvik / Maneri / Motian - Two Miles A Day (Loyal Label) Angelica Sanchez - Life Between (Clean Feed) Sau Paulo Underground - Tres Cabecas Loucuras (Cuneiform) Matthias Schubert Quartet - Trappola (Red Toucan) George Schuller's Circle Wide - Like Before, Somewhat After (Playscape) Seabrook Power Plant - Seabrook Power Plant (Loyal Label) Seabrook Power Plant - Seabrook Power Plant II (Loyal Label) Sex Mob - Sexotica (Thirsty Ear) Avery Sharpe - Legends and Mentors (JKNM) Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens - Two Cities (Delmark) Brad Shepik Trio - Places You Go (Songlines) Brad Shepik - Human Activity Suite (Songlines) Matthew Shipp - Piano Vortex (Thirsty Ear) Matthew Shipp Trio - Harmonic Disorder (Thirsty Ear) Shot x Shot - Let Nature Square (High Two) Shoup / Burns / Radding / Campbell - The Levitation Shuffle (Clean Feed) Asaf Sirkis and the Inner Noise - The Song Within (SAM Productions) Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls - Seize The Time (NAIM) Slow Poke - At Home (Palmetto) Ches Smith & These Arches - Finally Out Of My Hands (Skirl) Dr. Lonnie Smith - Jungle Soul (Palmetto) Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet - Tabligh (Cuneiform) Wadada Leo Smith / Jack DeJohnette - America (Tzadik) Sound In Action Trio - Gate (Atavistic) Russ Spiegel - Chimera (Steeplechase) Spring Heel Jack - Song and Themes (Thirsty Ear) Heiner Stadler - Tribute to Bird & Monk (Labor Records) Ben Stapp Trio - Ecstasis (Uqbar) Starlicker - Double Demon (Delmark) Jamie Stewardson - Jhaptal (Fresh Sound New Talent) Bill Stewart - Incandescence (Pirouet) Billy Stein - Hybrids (Barking Hoop) String Trio of New York with Oliver Lake - Frozen Ropes (Barking Hoop) John Surman - Flashpoint: NDR Jazz Workshop - April '69 (Cuneiform) Tain and the Ebonix - Folk's Songs (Dark Key Music) Horace Tapscott - The Dark Tree (Hatology) Chad Taylor - Circle Down (482 Music) John Tchicai / Charlie Kohlhase / Garrison Fewell - Good Night Songs (Boxholder) The Thirteenth Assembly - (un)sentimental (Important) Henry Threadgill Zooid - This Brings Us To, Volume I (Pi Recordings) Henry Threadgill Zooid - This Brings us To, Volume II (Pi Recordings) Tin/Bag - And Begin Again (Evander) Charles Tolliver Big Band - With Love (Blue Note) Charles Tolliver Big Band - Emperor March: Live at the Blue Note (Half Note) Tortoise - Beacons Of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey) Transit - Transit (Clean Feed) Trio M - The Guest House (Enja) Tyft - Smell The Difference (Skirl) McCoy Tyner - Guitars (Half Note) Jeremy Udden - Plainville (Fresh Sound New Talent) Jeremy Udden's Plainville - If the Past Seems So Bright (Sunnyside) Gebhard Ullmann - New Basement Research (Soul Note) The Ullmann / Swell 4 - News? No News! (Jazzwerkstatt) James "Blood" Ulmer - Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions (Hyena) The Vandermark 5 - Free Jazz Classics, Vol. 3 & 4 (Atavistic) The Vandermark 5 - A Discontonuous Line (Atavistic) The Vandermark 5 - Beat Reader (Atavistic) The Vandermark 5 - Annular Gift (Not Two) Various Artists - Healing Force: The Songs of Albert Ayler (Cuneiform) Various Artists - Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked (Impulse!) Cuong Vu - Vu-Tet (Artist Share) Rob Wagner / Hamid Drake / Nobu Ozaki - Trio (Valid Records) Torben Waldorff - Afterburn (ArtistShare) David S. Ware Quartet - BalladWare (Thirsty Ear) David S. Ware - Shakti (AUM Fidelity) David S. Ware / Cooper-Moore / William Parker / Muhammad Ali - Planetary Unknown (AUM Fidelity) Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse - Cries From Tha Ghetto (Pi) Howard Wiley - The Angola Project (H.N.I.C. Music) Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts - The Scenic Route (Palmetto) Ethan Winogrand - Tangled Tango (Clean Feed) Ben Wolfe - No Strangers Here (MaxJazz) John Zorn - From Silence To Sorcery (Tzadik) John Zorn / Bar Kokhba Sextet - Lucifer: The Book of Angels Vol. 10 (Tzadik) John Zorn / Masada Quintet Featuring Joe Lovano - Stolas: Book of Angels, Volume 12 (Tzadik) John Zorn - O'o (Tzadik) John Zorn - Femina (Tzadik) Zu with Mats Gustafsson - How To Raise An Ox (Atavistic) Zu with Nobuzaku Takemura - Identification With The Enemy (Atavistic) Zu - Carboniferous (Ipecac) Live Review -
Joe Morris Trio at Tonic [August, 10, 2006] Multiple
Review - New Exit From Brooklyn: Chris Speed's Skirl Records POINT OF DEPARTUREJD Allen Trio - Victory! (Sunnyside)Rodrigo Amado - Searching For Adam (Not Two) Celano Baggiani Group - Alienology (Trytone) BassDrumBone - The Other Parade (Clean Feed) Michael Bates - Acrobat: Music for, and by, Dmitri Shostakovich (Sunnyside) Paul Bley, Franz Koglmann, Gary Peacock - Annette (Hatology) Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet - Apparent Distance (Firehouse 12) Andrea Centazzo - Moon in Winter (Ictus) Chicago Underground Duo - Boca Negra (Thrill Jockey) Gerald Cleaver Uncle June - Be It As I See It (Fresh Sound New Talent) Steve Coleman and Five Elements - The Mancy of Sound (Pi Recordings) Kris Davis / Ingrid Laubrock / Tyshawn Sorey - Paradoxical Frog (Clean Feed) Kris Davis - Aeriol Piano (Clean Feed) Carlo De Rosa's Cross-Fade - Brain Dance (Cuneiform) Bill Dixon - Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12) Dave Douglas' Tiny Bell Trio - Constellations (Hatology) Kermit Driscoll - Reveille (19/8 Records) Scott DuBois - Black Hawk Dance (Sunnyside) Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day II (Songlines) Amir ElSaffar and Hafez Modirzadeh - Radif Suite (Pi Recordings) Empirical - Out 'n' In (Naim) Empty Cage Quartet & Soletti/Besnard - Take Care of Floating (Rude Awakening) Endangered Blood - Endangered Blood (Skirl) Ellery Eskelin, Andrea Parkins & Jim Black - One Great Day... (hatOLOGY) Peter Evans Quintet - Ghosts (More Is More Records) Farmers By Nature - Out Of This World’s Distortions (AUM Fidelity) Fight The Big Bull - All is Gladness in the Kingdom (Clean Feed) Tomas Fujiwara & Taylor Ho Bynum - Stepwise (Not Two) Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up - Actionspeak (482 Music) Ricardo Gallo's Tierra De Nadie - The Great Fine Line (Clean Feed) Frank Gratkowski & Hamid Drake - Frank Gratkowski & Hamid Drake (Valid) Rich Halley Quartet - Requiem for a Pit Viper (Pine Eagle Records) Mary Halvorson Quintet - Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12) Joel Harrison String Choir - The Music of Paul Motian (Sunnyside) Gerry Hemingway Quintet - Riptide (Clean Feed) Fred Hess Big Band - Into The Open (Alison Records) Darren Johnston's Gone To Chicago - The Big Lift (Porto Franco) Lee Konitz New Quartet - Live at the Village Vanguard (Enja) Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra - Ashcan Rantings (Clean Feed) Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth - Deluxe (Clean Feed) Tony Malaby's Novela - Tony Malaby's Novela (Clean Feed) Myra Melford's Be Bread - The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12) Lisa Mezzacappa's Bait & Switch - What Is Known (Clean Feed) The Microscopic Septet - Friday The 13th: The Micros Play Monk (Cuneiform) Allison Miller - BOOM TIC BOOM (Foxhaven) Minamo - Kuroi Kawa - Black River (Tzadik) Dom Minasi String Quartet - Dissonance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder (Konnex) Nicole Mitchell - Awakening (Delmark) Jason Moran - Ten (Blue Note) Rakalam Bob Moses & Greg Burk - Ecstatic Weanderings (Jazzwerkstatt) Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Forty Fort (Hot Cup) Mario Pavone Orange Double Tenor - Arc Suite T/Pi T/Po (Playscape) Ivo Perelman Quartet - The Hour of the Star (Leo Records) Tom Rainey Trio - Pool School (Clean Feed) Ned Rothenberg - Quintet for Clarinet and Strings (Tzadik) Ned Rothenberg - Ryu Nashi/No School-New Music for Shakuhachi (Tzadik) Rova + Nels Cline Singers - The Celestial Septet (New World) Paul Rutherford - Tetralogy (Emanem) Samo Salamon Trio - Almost Almond (Sanje) Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore - Three Kinds of Happiness (Not Two) Jason Stein Quartet - The Story This Time (Delmark) Trio BraamDeJoodeVatcher - Quartet (Bik Bent Braam) Vox Arcana - Aerial Age (Allos Documents) Weasel Walter, Mary Halvorson, Peter Evans - Electric Fruit (Thirsty Ear) Greg Ward's Phonic Juggernaut - Greg Ward's Phonic Juggernaut (Thirsty Ear) David S. Ware - Onecept (AUM Fidelity) Nate Wooley Quintet - (Put Your) Hands Together (Clean Feed) BAGATELLENBrian Allen with Tony Malaby and Tom Rainey - Synapse (Braintone)The Microscopic Septet - History of the Micros, Vols. 1 & 2 (Cuneiform) Jason Moran - Artist In Residence (Blue Note) ONE FINAL NOTEPeter Apfelbaum and the Hieroglyphics Ensemble - It Is Written (ACT)Michaël Attias Trio - Renku (Playscape) Michaël Attias - Credo (Clean Feed) Sam Bardfeld - Periodic Trespasses (Fresh Sound New Talent) Beans - Only (Thirsty Ear) Michael Blake Trio - Right Before Your Very Ears (Clean Feed) Rob Brown Quartet - Radiant Pools (Rogue Art) Taylor Ho Bynum and SpiderMonkey Strings - Other Stories [Three Suites] (482 Music) James Carter - Out of Nowhere (Half Note) James Carter/Cyrus Chestnut/Reginald Veal/Ali Jackson - Gold Sounds (Brown Brothers) Claudia Quintet - Semi-Formal (Cuneiform) Dave Douglas - Keystone (Greenleaf) Decision Dream - Steamroom Variations (Red Toucan) Zé Eduardo/Jack Walrath Quartet - Bad Guys (Clean Feed) Marty Ehrlich - News on the Rail (Palmetto) James Finn - Plaza De Toros (Clean Feed) Erik Friedlander - Interview, December 2005 Ben Goldberg - The Door, the Hat, the Chair, the Fact (Cryptogramophone) Vinny Golia - Sfumato (Clean Feed) Groundtruther - Longitude (Thirsty Ear) Gerry Hemingway Quintet - Double Blues Crossing (Between The Lines) Andrew Hill - Time Lines (Blue Note) Lindsey Horner - Don't Count On Glory (Cadence) Last Exit - Köln (Atavistic) Steve Lehman - Demian As Posthuman (Pi) Rob Mazurek - Interview, March 2006 John McNeil - East Coast Cool (Omnitone) Joe McPhee and John Snyder - Pieces of Light (Atavistic) Roscoe Mitchell Quintet - Turn (Rogue Art) Michael Musillami Trio - Dachau (Playscape) MTKJ Quartet - Day Of The Race (Nine Winds) Odyssey The Band - Back In Time (Pi) Eivind Opsvik - Overseas II (Fresh Sound New Talent) William Parker Quartet - Sound Unity (AUM Fidelity) Mike Reed - In The Context Of (482 Music) Tone Collector [Malaby/Opsvik/Davis] - Tone Collector (Jazzaway) Dylan van der Schyff - The Definition of a Toy (Songlines) The Vandermark 5 - The Color of Memory (Atavistic) Zu - How to Raise an Ox + The Way of the Animal Powers (Atavistic + Xeng) JUNKMEDIABen Allison and Medicine Wheel - Buzz (Palmetto)Scott Amendola Band - Believe (Cryptogramophone) Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake - Back Together Again (Thrill Jockey) Art Ensemble of Chicago - Sirius Calling (Pi Recordings) Tim Berne's Big Satan - Souls Saved Hear (Thirsty Ear) Steven Bernstein - Diaspora Hollywood (Tzadik) Blue Series Continuum - GoodandEvil Sessions (Thirsty Ear) Blues Explosion - Damage (Sanctuary) Björk - Medulla (Elektra) Anthony Braxton Quartet - Four Compositions (GTM) 2000 (Delmark) Dave Burrell's Full-Blown Trio - Expansion (High Two) Don Byron - Ivey-Divey (Blue Note) Can - The First Four Albums (Mute, remastered reissues) James Carter/Cyrus Chestnut/Reginald Veal/Ali Jackson - Gold Sounds (Brown Brothers) Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - B-Sides and Rarities (Mute) Chicago Underground Trio - Slon (Thrill Jockey) Tom Christensen - New York School (Playscape) Nels Cline and Vinny Golia - The Entire Time (Nine Winds) Nels Cline Singers - The Giant Pin (Cryptogramophone) Nels Cline - Interview, January 2005 Alice Coltrane - Translinear Light (Impulse!) Contemporary Jazz Quintet - Actions 1966-67 (Atavistic) Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask (Epitaph) Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble - Mean Ameen (Delmark) Dirty Three - She Has No Strings Apollo (Touch and Go) Dirty Three - Cinder (Touch and Go) DJ Spooky and Dave Lombardo - Drums of Death (Thirsty Ear) Dave Douglas - Freak In (Bluebird/RCA) Dave Douglas - Bow River Falls (Premonition) Mark Dresser/Denman Maroney - Time Changes (Cryptogramophone) Electric Masada - 50th Birthday Celebration (Tzadik) Ellery Eskelin - Arcanum Moderne (hATOLOGY) Ellery Eskelin - Ten (hATOLOGY) Kahil El'Zabar and David Murray - We Is (Delmark) Fast N' Bulbous - Pork Chop Blue Around The Rind (Cuneiform) Fieldwork - Simulated Progress (Pi Recordings) FME - Cuts (Okka Disk) Erik Friedlander - Quake (Cryptogramophone) Vinny Golia - A Gift For The Unusual (Nine Winds) Drew Gress - 7 Black Butterflies (Premonition) Groundtruther - Latitude (Thirsty Ear) Gerry Hemingway Quartet - Devil's Paradise (Clean Feed) Gerry Hemingway Quintet - Double Blues Crossing (Between The Lines) Gerry Hemingway Quartet - The Whimbler (Clean Feed) Fred Hersch - Trio + 2 (Palmetto) Fred Hess Quartet - Crossed Paths (Tapestry) Charlie Hunter - Come In Red Dog, This Is Tango Leader (Ropeadope) Vijay Iyer - Reimagining (Savoy) Russ Johnson - Save Big (Omnitone) Mike Ladd & Vijay Iyer - In What Language? (Pi Recordings) Mike Ladd - Negrophilia (Thirsty Ear) Mike Ladd - Father Divine (ROIR) John Lindberg Quartet - Winter Birds (Between The Lines) Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio - Other Valentines (Atavistic) Rudresh Mahanthappa - Mother Tongue (Pi Recordings) Mat Maneri - Pentagon (Thirsty Ear) Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre and the Light - Morning Song (Delmark) Medeski, Martin and Wood - End of the World Party [just in case] (Blue Note) Ron Miles Quartet - Laughing Barrel (Sterling Silver) Jason Moran - Same Mother (Blue Note) MTKJ Quartet - Making Room For Spaces (Nine Winds) Ted Nash and Odeon - La Espada de la Noche (Palmetto) New Salt - New Salt (Xeng) Opsvik and Jennings - Floyel Files (NCM) Greg Osby - St. Louis Shoes (Blue Note) Greg Osby - Channel III (Blue Note) Jeff Parker - Like-Coping (Delmark) Jeff Parker and Scott Fields - Song Songs Song (Delmark) Jeff Parker - The Relatives (Thrill Jockey) Jeff Parker - Interview, February 2005 William Parker - Scrapbook (Thirsty Ear) William Parker - Luc's Lantern (Thirsty Ear) William Parker - Sound Unity (AUM Fidelity) Bobby Previte and Bump - Counterclockwise (Palmetto) Quasi - Interview, September 2003 Rashanim - Masada Rock (Tzadik) Revolutionary Ensemble - And Now ... (Pi Recordings) Marc Ribot - Spiritual Unity (Pi Recordings) Rosenberg/Baker/Hatwich/Daisy - New Folk, New Blues (482 Music) Rova :: Orkestrova - Electric Ascension (Atavistic) Jenny Scheinman - 12 Songs (Cryptogramophone) Wadada Leo Smith - Lake Biwa (Tzadik) Sonic Liberation Front - Ashe A Go-Go (High Two) Sun Ra - Space Is The Place, DVD reissue, interview with director & producer Sex Mob - Dime Grind Palace (Ropeadope) Matthew Shipp - Equilibrium (Thirsty Ear) Matthew Shipp - Harmony And Abyss (Thirsty Ear) Matthew Shipp - Interview, October 2004 Nancy Sinatra - Nancy Sinatra (Sanctuary) Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (Sub Pop) Chris Speed's Yeah NO - Swell Henry (Squealer) Spring Heel Jack - The Sweetness Of The Water (Thirsty Ear) John Surman - Way Back When (Cuneiform) Chad Taylor Interview, January 2004 John Tchicai, Garrison Fewell Quintet - Big Chief Dreaming (Soul Note) Thirsty Ear Label Profile, August 2003 Triptych Myth - The Beautiful (AUM Fidelity) Vandermark 5 - Airports For Light (Atavistic) David S. Ware Quartet - The Freedom Suite (AUM Fidelity) Mike Watt - The Secondman's Middle Stand (Columbia) Matt Wilson Quartet - Humidity (Palmetto) Matt Wilson's Arts and Crafts - Wake Up (To What's Happening) (Palmetto) Yohimbe Brothers - The Tao of Yo (Thirsty Ear) John Zorn - Voices in the Wilderness (Tzadik) John Zorn - The Unknown Masada (Tzadik) John Zorn - Magick (Tzadik) John Zorn's Masada - Sanhedrin (Tzadik) John Zorn - Mysterium (Tzadik) John Zorn / Masada String Trio - Azazel: Book of Angels, Vol. 2 (Tzadik) JAZZMATAZZWayne Shorter - Alegria (Verve)Albert Ayler - Music is the Healing Force of the Universe (Impulse!) Earl Hines - Once Upon a Time (Impulse!) Steve Kuhn, Gary McFarland - The October Suite (Impulse!) Sam Rivers - Crystals (Impulse!) Pee Wee Russell - Ask Me Now! (Impulse!) Archie Shepp - Attica Blues (Impulse!) CADENCE MAGAZINEAhmed
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