Raw data: David R. Adler (Philadelphia Inquirer, JazzTimes) NEW RELEASES 1. Mario Pavone Trio Arc Playscape 2. Drew Gress The Irrational Numbers Premonition 3. Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside 4. Lionel Loueke Karibu Blue Note 5. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi 6. Angelica Sanchez Life Between Clean Feed 7. Adam Rudolph Dream Garden Justin Time 8. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM 9. Brian Blade Fellowship Season of Changes Verve 10. Hans Glawischnig Panorama Sunnyside REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Pendulum (Dave Liebman) Live at the Village Vanguard Mosaic Select 3. Grachan Moncur III Evolution Blue Note VOCAL Rosa Passos Romance Telarc DEBUT Ambrose Akinmusire Prelude to Cora Fresh Sound New Talent LATIN Rosa Passos Romance Telarc Clifford Allen (All About Jazz New York, bagatellen.com) NEW RELEASES 1. Bill Dixon 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur AUM Fidelity 2.Bill Dixon & Exploding Star Orchestra Thrill Jockey 3. Anthony Braxton & Joe Morris Four Improvisations (Duo) 2007 Clean Feed 4.Brotherhood of Breath Eclipse at Dawn Cuneiform 5.Globe Unity Orchestra 40 Years Intakt 6.Louis Moholo-Moholo & Marilyn Crispell Sibanye (We Are One) Intakt 7.Chris Speed-Chris Cheek-Stephen Furic Liebovici Jugendstil ESP Disk 8. Trio Vriditas Live at the Vision Festival 2001 Clean Feed 9. Joe Maneri & Peter Dolger Peace Concert Atavistic Unheard Music Series 10. Wadada Leo Smith Tabligh Cuneiform REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2.Ted Daniel Tapestry Porter 3.Paul Rutherford Solo in Berlin 1975 Emanem VOCAL No choice DEBUT Ideal Bread The Ideal Bread KMB Jazz LATIN No choice Larry Applebaum (JazzTimes; WPFW-FM, Washington, D.C.) NEW RELEASES 1. Bill Frisell History, Mystery Nonesuch 2. Kate McGarry If Less is More Palmetto 3. Paul Motian Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. II Winter & Winter 4. Joe Lovano Symphonica Blue Note 5. Francisco Mela Cirio Half Note 6. Enrico Rava & Stefano Bollani The Third Man ECM 7. Miguel Zenón Awake Marsalis Music 8. Hakon Kornstad & Ingebrigt Flaten Elise Hemlandssanger-Compunctio 9. Lionel Loueke Karibu Blue Note 10. Norma Winstone Distances ECM REISSUES 1. Miles Davis Broadcast Sessions 1958-'59 Acrobat 2. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 3. Chico Hamilton/Elmer Bernstein Sweet Smell of Success El VOCAL Kate McGarry If Less Is More Palmetto DEBUT Moss Moss Sunnyside LATIN Conrad Herwig The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter Half Note Paul Blair (Hot House) NEW RELEASES Listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each Tom Beckham Rebound Apria Tobias Gebb & Trio West An Upper West Side Story Yummy House Chuck MacKinnon Mactet New Transmission Krispytone Adam Nussbaum Standards Kind of Blue Scott Robinson Forever Lasting Arbors Todd Sicafoose Tiny Resistors Cryptogramophone Stein Brothers Quixotic Jazzed Media Gary Versace Outside In Criss Cross Jack Walrath Ballroom Steeplechase Eli Yamin You Can't Buy Swing Yamin Music REISSUES No choices VOCAL No choice DEBUT Stein Brothers Quixotic Jazzed Media LATIN No choice Larry Blumenfeld (Jazziz, Wall Street Journal) NEW RELEASES 1. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM 2. William Parker Petit Oiseau AUM Fidelity 3. Gilfema Gilfema +2 Obliqsound 4. Evan Christopher Django a la Creole Lejazzetal 5. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol 1 Doxy/Emarcy 6. Microscopic Septet Lobster Leaps In Cuneiform Records 7. Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note 8. Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside 9. Dr. Michael White Blue Crescent Basin Street 10. Bill Frisell History, Mystery Nonesuch REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Miles Davis Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition Columbia/Legacy 3. Nina Simone To Be Free Sony/Legacy VOCAL Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note DEBUT Ambrose Akinmusire Prelude Fresh Sound New Talent LATIN Miguel Zenón Awake Marsalis Music Shaun Brady (Philadelphia Daily News, Downbeat) NEW RELEASES 1. Mario Pavone Trio Arc Playscape 2. Donny McCaslin Recommended Tools Greenleaf 3. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi 4. Adam Rudolph Dream Garden Justin Time 5. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM 6. Kurt Rosenwinkel The Remedy ArtistShare 7. Dafnis Prieto Taking the Soul for a Walk Dafnison 8. Fieldwork Door Pi 9. Aaron Parks Invisible Cinema Blue Note 10. Paul Motian Trio 2000 +Two Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. II Winter & Winter REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Charlie Mariano Helen 12 Trees MPS-Promising 3. Sahib Shihab and the Danish Radio Jazz Group Oktav VOCAL Moss Moss Sunnyside DEBUT Blink The Epidemic of Ideas Thirsty Ear LATIN Dafnis Prieto Taking the Soul for a Walk Dafnison Stuart Broomer (All About Jazz-New York, pointofdeparture.org) NEW RELEASES 1. Anthony Braxton Quartet (Moscow) 2008 Leo 2. Evan Parker Boustrophedon ECM 3. Enrico Pieranunzi with Kenny Wheeler As Never Before CAM Jazz 4. Mostly Other People Do the Killing This Is Our Moosic Hot Cup 5. Stephen Gauci's Stockholm Conference Live at Glenn Miller Café, pt. 1 & 2 Ayler 6. Brotherhood of Breath Eclipse at Dawn Cuneiform 7. Angelica Sanchez Life Between Clean Feed 8. Totem Solar Forge ESP 9. John Zorn The Dreamers Tzadik 10. Grosse Abfahrt Everything that Disappears Emanem REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Giuseppi Logan Quartet ESP Disk 3. Grachan Moncur III Evolution Blue Note VOCAL No choice DEBUT Noah Preminger Dry Bridge Road NOWT LATIN No choice Thomas Conrad (Stereophile, JazzTimes) NEW RELEASES 1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 2. Charles Lloyd Rabo De Nube ECM 3. Carla Bley Appearing Nightly WATT/ECM 4. Horace Silver Live At Newport '58 Blue Note 5. McCoy Tyner Guitars Half Note/McCoy Tyner Music 6. Enrico Rava & Stefano Bollani The Third Man ECM 7. Bobo Stenson Cantando ECM 8. Brad Mehldau Live Nonesuch 9. Patricia Barber The Cole Porter Mix Blue Note 10. Enrico Pieranunzi-Marc Johnson-Joey Baron As Never Before (CAM Jazz) REISSUES 1. Miles Davis Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition Columbia/Legacy 2. Lionel Hampton The Complete Lionel Hampton Victor Sessions 1937-1941 Mosaic 3. Charlie Parker Washington, D.C., May 23, 1948 Uptown Jazz VOCAL Patricia Barber The Cole Porter Mix Blue Note DEBUT Mathias Eick The Door ECM LATIN Brazilian Trio Forests Zoho John Corbett (Downbeat, Chicago Reader) NEW RELEASES 1. Die Enttaüschung Die Enttaüschung Intakt 2. Atomic Retrograde Jazzland 3. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM 4. Ab Baars & Ken Vandermark Goofy June Bug WIG 5. Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live at the Village Vanguard Calle 54/Norté 6. Torbjörn Zetterberg Skildrar Kvinnans Kamp Moserobie 7. Joe McPhee & Paal Nilsson-Love Tomorrow Came Today Smalltown Superjazz 8. Sonore Only the Devil Has No Dreams Jazzwerkstatt 9. McCoy Tyner Guitars Half Note 10. Mike Reed Proliferation 482 Music REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Sun Ra Disco 3000 Art Yard 3. The Thing Now and Forever Smalltown Superjazz VOCAL Sam Phillips Don't Do Anything Nonesuch DEBUT Jason Adasiewicz Rolldown 482 Music LATIN Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live at the Village Vanguard Calle 54/Norté VOCAL Patricia Barber The Cole Porter Mix Blue Note DEBUT Mathias Eick The Door ECM LATIN Brazilian Trio Forests Zoho John Corbett (Downbeat, Chicago Reader) NEW RELEASES 1. Die Enttaüschung Die Enttaüschung Intakt 2. Atomic Retrograde Jazzland 3. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM 4. Ab Baars & Ken Vandermark Goofy June Bug WIG 5. Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live at the Village Vanguard Calle 54/Norté 6. Torbjörn Zetterberg Skildrar Kvinnans Kamp Moserobie 7. Joe McPhee & Paal Nilsson-Love Tomorrow Came Today Smalltown Superjazz 8. Sonore Only the Devil Has No Dreams Jazzwerkstatt 9. McCoy Tyner Guitars Half Note 10. Mike Reed Proliferation 482 Music REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Sun Ra Disco 3000 Art Yard 3. The Thing Now and Forever Smalltown Superjazz VOCAL Sam Phillips Don't Do Anything Nonesuch DEBUT Jason Adasiewicz Rolldown 482 Music LATIN Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live at the Village Vanguard Calle 54/Norté Lawrence Cosentino (Lansing City Pulse, Signal to Noise) NEW RELEASES 1. J.D. Allen I Am, I Am Sunnyside 2. McCoy Tyner Guitars McCoy Tyner Music/Half Note 3. Eri Yamamoto Duologue AUM Fidelity 4. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM 5. Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut The Digital Box Ayler 6. William Parker Double Sunrise Over Neptune AUM Fidelity 7. Francisco Mela Cirio Half Note 8. Saxophone Summit Seraphic Light Telarc 9. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside 10. Avery Sharpe Legends and Mentors JKNM REISSUES 1. Wayne Shorter The Soothsayer Blue Note 2. Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners Riverside/Keepnews Collection 3. Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall Riverside/Keepnews Collection VOCAL Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings 100 Days, 100 Nights Daptone DEBUT Noah Preminger Dry Bridge Road NOWT LATIN Gabriel Alegria Neuva Mundo Saponegro Francis Davis (Village Voice, The Atlantic) NEW RELEASES 1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 2. Fieldwork Door Pi 3. Tony Malaby Warblepeck Songlines 4. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi 5. Bill Dixon 17 Musicians In Search of a Sound: Darfur AUM Fidelity 6. Microscopic Septet Lobster Leaps In Cuneiform 7. Mary Halvorson Dragon's Head Firehouse 12 8. Paul Bley About Time Justin Time 9. Charlie Haden Rambling Boy Decca 10. Nicholas Payton Into the Blue Nonesuch REISSUES 1. Art Tatum Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine/Zenph Re-Performance Sony Classics 2. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 3. Dizzy Gillespie Showtime at the Spotlite: 52nd Street, New York City, June 1946 Uptown VOCAL Catherine Russell Sentimental Streak World Village DEBUT Ideal Bread The Ideal Bread KMB Jazz LATIN Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live at the Village Vanguard Calle 54-Norté Steve Dollar (New York Sun, Time Out New York) NEW RELEASES 1. Eri Yamamoto Duologue AUM Fidelity 2. Terry Riley The Last Camel in Paris Elision Fields 3. Mary Halvorson Dragon's Head Firehouse 12 4. Charlie Haden Rambling Boy Decca 5. William Parker Petit Oseau AUM Fidelity 6. David Murray & Mal Waldron Silence Justin Time 7. Joe Morris High Definition hatOLOGY 8. Lafayette Gilchrist Soul Progressin' Hyena 9. Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside 10. Matthew Herbert There's Me and There's You IK7 REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic VOCAL Charlie Haden (various singers) Rambling Boy Decca DEBUT No choice LATIN Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside Laurence Donohue-Greene (All About Jazz-New York) NEW RELEASES 1. Anthony Braxton-Milford Graves-Wiliam Parker - Beyond Quantum Tzadik 2. Mario Pavone Trio Arc Playscape 3. Charles Lloyd Rabo De Nube ECM 4. Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones You Are There Emarcy 5. Taylor Ho Bynum Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths hatOLOGY 6. Mauger (Rudresh Mahanthappa-Mark Dresser-Gerry Hemingway) The Beautiful Enabler Clean Feed 7. Martial Solal Longitude Camjazz 8. Raoul Bjorkenheim-William Parker-Hamid Drake DMG @The Stone, Vol.2 DMG-Arc 9. Barry Guy-Marilyn Crispell-Paul Lytton Phases of the Night Intakt 10. Antripodean Collective Funcall Extreme REISSUES 1. Sahib Shihab And the Danish Radio Jazz Group OKTAV Music 2. Jeremy Steig Howlin' For Judy (Legwork/Wayfaring Stranger) Blue Note 3. Ray Russell Turn Circle Vocalion VOCAL Roberta Gambarini/Hank Jones You Are There Emarcy DEBUT John Escreet Consequences Positone LATIN Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live at the Village Vanguard Calle 54-Norté Ken Dryden (Coda, All About Jazz-New York) NEW RELEASES 1. Kenny Werner With a Song in My Heart Venus 2. Marian McPartland Twilight World Concord 3. Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones You Are There EmArcy 4. Eliane Elias Something For You Blue Note 5. Martin Taylor Double Standards P3 Music 6. Judy Wexler Dreams & Shadows Jazzed Media 7. Scott Robinson Forever Lasting Arbors 8. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard Planet Arts 9. Joe Locke Force of Four Origin 10. Jamie Baum Solace Sunnyside REISSUES 1. Oscar Peterson Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings (1951-1953) Mosaic 2. Art Tatum Tatum Art Storyville 3. Lester Young Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion with Count Basie (1936-1940) Mosaic VOCAL Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones You Are There EmArcy DEBUT Alison Ruble This is a Bird Origin LATIN Gonzalo Rubalcaba Avatar Blue Note Steve Feeney (Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram) NEW RELEASES 1. Donny McCaslin Recommended Tools Greenleaf 2. John McNeil & Bill McHenry Rediscovery Sunnyside 3. Paul Motian Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. II Winter & Winter 4. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 5. Dave Holland Pass It On Dare2/Emarcy 6. Melody Gardot Worrisome Heart Verve 7. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside 8. Mary Halvorson Dragon's Head Firehouse 12 9. Pete Rodriguez El Alquimista (The Alchemist) Condé 10. David Sánchez Cultural Survival Concord Picante REISSUES 1. Kenny Wheeler Gnu High ECM VOCAL Melody Gardot Worrisome Heart Verve DEBUT No choice LATIN Pete Rodriguez El Alquimista (The Alchemist) Sean Fitzell (All About Jazz-New York) NEW RELEASES 1. Jenny Scheinman Crossing The Field Koch 2. Cyro Baptista Banquet of the Spirits Tzadik 3. Steven Bernstein Diaspora Suite Tzadik 4. Ben Allison Little Things Run the World Palmetto 5. Cuong Vu Vu-tet Artist Share 6. (John Zorn) Bar Kokhba Lucifer: Book of Angels Volume 10 Tzadik 7. Todd Sickafoose Tiny Resistors Cryptogramophone 8. Bobby Previte & The New Bump Set the Alarm for Monday Palmetto 9. Drew Gress The Irrational Numbers Premonition 10. Paolo Angeli-Evan Parker-Ned Rothenberg Free Zone Appleby 2007 psi REISSUES 1. John Zorn-George Lewis-Bill Frisell News for Lulu HatOLOGY 2. Bill Evans Portrait in Jazz Riverside/Keepnews Collection VOCAL No choice DEBUT Rob Mosher's Storytime The Tortoise (self-released) LATIN Cyro Baptista Banquet of the Spirits Tzadik Ken Franckling (Jazziz, Hot House) NEW RELEASES 1. Danilo Perez Across the Crystal Sea EmArcy 2. Brian Blade Season of Changes Verve 3. Roy Hargrove Earfood Groovin' High/EmArcy 4. Stein Brothers Quixotic Jazzed Media 5. Donal Fox The Scarlatti Jazz Suite Project Leonellis Music 6. Melody Gardot Worrisome Heart Verve 7. John Santos Perspectiva Fragmentada Machete 8. Avishai Cohen Gently Disturbed RazDaz 9. Generations Band Tough Guys ICA 10. Randy Brecker Randy in Brazil MAMA REISSUES 1. Roy Haynes A Life In Time: The Roy Haynes Story Dreyfus 2. Nina Simone To Be Free Sony/Legacy 3. Dizzy Gillespie Showtime at the Spotlite: 52nd Street, New York City, June 1946 Uptown VOCAL Melody Gardot Worrisome Heart Verve DEBUT Stein Brothers Quixotic Jazzed Media LATIN John Santos Perspectiva Fragmentada Machete Phil Freeman (Metal Edge, The Wire, Village Voice) NEW RELEASES 1. Anthony Braxton-Milford Graves-William Parker Beyond Quantum Tzadik 2. Aaron Parks Invisible Cinema Blue Note 3. Nik Bartsch's Ronin Holon ECM 4. Bill Dixon 17 Musicians In Search of a Sound: Darfur AUM Fidelity 5. Bill Dixon & Exploding Star Orchestra Thrill Jockey 6. Stephen Haynes & Taylor Ho Bynum The Double Trio: Live at the Festival of New Trumpet Music Engine Studios 7. Wadada Leo Smith Tabligh Cuneiform 8. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 9. Jeff Gauthier House of Return Cuneiform 10. Totem Solar Forge ESP-Disk REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic VOCAL No choice DEBUT No choice LATIN No choice David Fricke (Rolling Stone) NEW RELEASES 1. Steven Bernstein Diaspora Suite Tzadik 2. Mary Halvorson Trio Dragon's Head Firehouse 12 3. Lionel Loueke Karibu Blue Note 4. Scorch Trio Brolt! Rune Grammofon 5. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi 6. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 7. William Parker Petit Oiseau AUM Fidelity 8. Jenny Schienman Crossing the Field Koch 9. William Parker Double Sunrise Over Neptune AUM Fidelity 10. Anthony Braxton Quartet (GTM) 2006 Important REISSUES 1. Blue Notes The Ogun Collection Ogun 2. Various Artists Boogie Woogie and Blues Piano Mosaic Select 3. Curlew 1st Album + Live at CBGB (1980) DMG/ARC VOCAL No choice DEBUT No choice LATIN No choice Will Friedwald (New York Sun) NEW RELEASES 1. Ted Nash The Mancini Project Palmetto 2. David Berger I Had the Craziest Dream: The Music of Harry Warren Such Sweet Thunder 3. Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis Two Men With the Blues Blue Note 4. Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note 5. James Carter Present Tense Emarcy 6. Scott Robinson Forever Lasting Arbors 7. Microscopic Septet Lobster Leaps In Cuneiform 8. Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra We Are MTO Mowo 9. Joe Lovano Symphonica Blue Note 10. McCoy Tyner Guitars Half Note/McCoy Tyner Music REISSUES 1. Lester Young Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion with Count Basie (1936-1940) Mosaic 2. Dizzy Gillespie Showtime at the Spotlite: 52nd Street, New York City, June 1946 Uptown 3. Buddy DeFranco & Nelson Riddle Cross Country Suite Universal Special Markets VOCAL Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis Two Men With the Blues Blue Note DEBUT No choice LATIN Conrad Herwig The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter Half Note Ted Gioia (jazz.com) NEW RELEASES 1. Joe Lovano Symphonica Blue Note 2. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 3 Miguel Zenón Awake Marsalis Music 4. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi 5. Brad Mehldau Live Nonesuch 6. Donny McCaslin Recommended Tools Greenleaf 7. Marilyn Mazur Elixir ECM 8. Vassilis Tsabropoulos Melos ECM 9. Taylor Eigsti Let It Come to You Concord 10 McCoy Tyner Guitars Half Note/McCoy Tyner Music REISSUES 1 Miles Davis Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition Columbia/Legacy 2 Art Tatum Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine/Zenph Re-Performance Sony Classics 3 Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic VOCAL Kate McGarry If Less is More Palmetto DEBUT Mathias Eick The Door ECM LATIN Arturo O'Farrill & Claudia Acuna In These Shoes Zoho Kurt Gottschalk (All About Jazz, Coda) NEW RELEASES 1. Tetuzi Akiyama-Mertin Taxt-Eivind Lonning-Espen Reinersten Varianter av dode traer Sofa 2. Jacques Demierre & Isabelle Duthoit Avenues Unit 3. Maybe Monday Unsquare Intakt 4. Barry Guy-Marilyn Crispell-Paul Lytton Phases of the Night Intakt 5. Louis Moholo-Moholo & Marilyn Crispell Sibanye (We Are One) Intakt 6. Ivor Callin & John Bissett A Schlepp from Strathbungo 2:13 7. Spring Heel Jack Songs & Themes Thirsty Ear 8. Taylor Ho Bynum Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths hatOLOGY 9. Mary Halvorson Dragon's Head Firehouse 12 10. Marc Ribot Exercises in Futility Tzadik REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Matthew Shipp The Multiplication Table HatOLOGY 3. Alexander von Schlippenbach Piano Solo '77 FMP VOCAL Diamanda Galas Guilty Guilty Guilty Mute DEBUT Nicola Cipani The Ill-Tempered Piano Long Song LATIN No choice Steve Greenlee (Boston Globe) NEW RELEASES 1. Bennie Maupin Early Reflections Cryptogramophone 2. Houston Person & Ron Carter Just Between Friends HighNote 3. Dave Liebman Negative Space Verve 4. Todd Sickafoose Tiny Resistors Cryptogramophone 5. Dave Douglas Moonshine Greenleaf 6. Donny McCaslin Recommended Tools Greenleaf 7. Adam Rudolph Dream Garden Justin Time 8. Peter Brotzmann & Peeter Uuskyla Born Broke Atavistic 9. Wadada Leo Smith Tabligh Cuneiform 10 Mario Pavone Trio Arc Playscape REISSUES 1 Die Like a Dog The Complete FMP Recordings FMP 2 Last Exit Headfirst Into the Flames DMG 3 Sun Ra Media Dreams Art Yard VOCAL Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note DEBUT The Wee Trio Capitol Diner, Vol. 1 Bionic LATIN Gonzalo Rubalcaba Avatar Blue Note Laurel Gross (JazzTimes, All About Jazz-New York) NEW RELEASES 1. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Monday Night at the Village Vanguard Planet Arts 2. Jason Lindner Live at the Jazz Gallery Anzic 3. New Jazz Composers Octet The Turning Gate Motemo 4. Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside 5. Tony Malaby-William Parker-Nasheet Waits Tamarindo Clean Feed 6. Aaron Parks Invisible Cinema Blue Note 7. JD Allen I Am I Am Sunnyside 8. John Marshall Live at "Le Pirate" Organic REISSUES No choices VOCAL Kate McGarry If Less Is More Palmetto DEBUT No choice LATIN No choice James Hale (Downbeat, Signal to Noise) NEW RELEASES 1. Mary Halvorson Dragon's Head Firehouse 12 2. Alex Cline Continuation Cryptogramophone 3. Anthony Braxton Quartet (Moscow) 2008 Leo 4. Donny McCaslin Recommended Tools Greenleaf 5. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside 6. Bennie Maupin Early Reflections Cryptogramophone 7. Anthony Braxton Trio (Victoriaville) 2007 Victo 8. Manuel Mengis Gruppe 6 The Pond hatOLOGY 9. Jane Ira Bloom Mental Weather Outline 10. Charles Lloyd Quartet Rabo De Nube ECM REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Miles Davis Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition Columbia/Legacy 3. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Jack DeJohnette Setting Standards ECM VOCAL Moss Moss Sunnyside DEBUT Manuel Mengis Gruppe 6 The Pond hatOLOGY LATIN Francisco Mela - Cirio (Half Note) Ed Hazell (Signal to Noise, pointofdeparture.org) NEW RELEASES 1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 2. Louis Moholo-Moholo & Marilyn Crispell Sibanye (We Are One) Intakt 3. Uri Caine Othello Syndrome Winter & Winter 4. Stan Tracey & Keith Tippett Supernova ReSteamed 5. William Parker Petit Oiseau AUM Fidelity 6. Wadada Leo Smith Talbligh Cuneiform 7. Bik Bent Braam Extemen BBB 8. Taylor Ho Bynum Asphalt Flowers, Forking Paths hatology 9. Anthony Braxton & Joe Morris Four Improvisations (Duo) 2007 Clean Feed 10. Noah Preminger Dry Bridge Road NOWT REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Blue Notes The Ogun Collection Ogun 3. Keith Jarrett Setting Standards ECM VOCAL No choice DEBUT Noah Preminger Dry Bridge Road Nowt LATIN No choice Don Heckman (Los Angeles Times, International Review of Music) NEW RELEASES 1. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM 2. Lionel Loueke Karibu Blue Note 3. Martial Solal Longitude Cam Jazz 4. Bill Frisell History, Mystery Nonesuch 5. Brian Blade Season of Changes Verve 6. Carla Bley Appearing Nightly Watt/ECM 7. Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note 8. Paul Bley About Time Justin Time 9. Patricia Barber The Cole Porter Mix Blue Note 10. Esperanza Spalding Esperanza Head Up REISSUES 1. Miles Davis Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition Columbia. Legacy 2. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Jack DeJohnette Setting Standards ECM 3. Gary McFarland & Gabor Szabo Sketch for Summer El VOCAL Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note DEBUT No choice LATIN No choice Tad Hendrickson (AOL Radio) NEW RELEASES 1. Danilo Perez Across The Crystal Sea Decca 2. William Parker Petit Oiseau AUM Fidelity 3. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsman Pi 4. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM 5. Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside 6. McCoy Tyner Guitars HalfNote 7. Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live At The Village Vanguard Calle 54/Norté 8. Medeski Martin & Wood Radiolarians Vol. 1 Indirecto 9. Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis Two Men With the Blues Blue Note 10. Esparanza Spalding Esparanza Heads Up REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recodings Mosaic 2. Miles Davis Kind Of Blue: The 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition Columbia/Legacy VOCAL Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis Two Men With the Blues Blue Note DEBUT No choice LATIN Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live At The Village Vanguard Calle 54/Norté Andrey Henkin (All About Jazz-New York) NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each) Peter Brøtzmann-Paal Nilssen-Mats Gustafsson The Fat Is Gone Smalltown Superjazz Stephen Gauci Nididhyasana Clean Feed Ingebrigt Haker Flaten & Hakon Kornstad Elise Hemlandssåger Compunctio Terumasa Hino & Masabumi Kikuchi Counter Current Sony (Japan) Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky & Michael Griener The Salmon Intakt Donny McCaslin Recommended Tools Greenleaf Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi Bobby Previte Set the Alarm for Monday Palmetto Jim Pugliese Live at Issue Project Room Improvisatore Involontario Fred Van Hove Journey psi REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each) Graham Collier Down Another Road/Songs for My Father/Mosaics BGO Ray Russell Turn Circle Vocalion John Tchicai Afrodisiaca MPS/Promising VOCAL No choice DEBUT Sean Conly Re:Action Clean Feed LATIN No choice Geoffrey Himes (Washington Post, JazzTimes) NEW RELEASES 1. David Murray & Mal Waldron Silence Justin Time 2. Bill Frisell History, Mystery Nonesuch 3. Dave Holland Pass It On Dare2/Emarcy 4. Lafayette Gilchrist Soul Progressin Hyena 5. SFJazz Collective Live 2008 SFJazz 6 Miguel Zenón Awake Marsalis Music 7 Kate McGarry If Less is More Palmetto 8. Francisco Mela Cirio Half Note 9. Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note 10 e.s.t Leucolyte Emarcy REISSUES 1. Art Tatum Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine/Zenph Re-Performance Sony Classics 2 Augustus Pablo The Mystic World of Augustus Pablo Shanachie 3 Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners Keepnews Collection/Concord VOCAL Kate McGarry If Less is More Palmetto DEBUT No choice LATIN Miguel Zenón Awake Marsalis Music Eugene Holley, Jr. (Village Voice, Batanga/Latin University) NEW RELEASES 1. Ahmad Jamal It's Magic Dreyfus 2. Marcus Shelby Harriet Tubman Noir 3. Pat Metheny Day Trip Nonesuch 4. Danilo Perez Across the Crystal Sea Emarcy 5. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi 6. Nicholas Payton Into the Blue Nonesuch 7. McCoy Tyner Guitars McCoy Tyner Music/Half Note 8. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM 9. Esperanza Spalding Esperanza Heads Up 10. Horace Silver Live at Newport '58 Blue Note REISSUES 1. Art Farmer Brass Shout!/The Aztec Suite Blue Note 2. Art Tatum Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine/Zenph Re-Performance Sony Classics 3. Helen Merrill The Helen Merrill Dick Katz Sessions Mosaic Singles VOCAL Nicole Henry The Very Thought of You Banister DEBUT Morgan Childs Time Cellar Jazz LATIN Conrad Herwig The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter Half Note Lyn Horton (Downbeat, allaboutjazz.com) NEW RELEASES 1. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside 2. Eri Yamamoto Redwoods AUM Fidelity 3. Matthew Shipp Un Piano Rogue Art 4. Klez-Edge Ancestors, Mindreles, NaGila Monsters Tzadik 5. Joe McPhee & John Heward, Voices-10 Improvisations Mode 6. Chico Hamilton & Andrew Hill Dreams Come True Joyous Shout 7. Jane Ira Bloom Mental Weather Outline 8. Nicole Mitchell Black Unstoppable Delmark 9. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM 10. This Musicship Yuganaut ESP Disk REISSUES 1. Paul Bley Closer ESP Disk 2. Clifford Thornton Freedom & Unity Atavistic VOCAL Pete M Wyer Stories From the City At Night Thirsty Ear DEBUT Pete M Wyer Stories From the City At Night Thirsty Ear LATIN No choice Tom Hull (Village Voice, tomhull.com) NEW RELEASES 1 William Parker Double Sunrise Over Neptune AUM Fidelity 2. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside 3. Nik Bärtsch's Ronin Holon ECM 4. Rob Brown Crown Trunk Root Funk AUM Fidelity 5. Scott Fields Bitter Love Songs Clean Feed 6. Mostly Other People Do the Killing This Is Our Moosic Hot Cup 7. Kris Davis Rye Eclipse Fresh Sound New Talent 8. Ken Vandermark 5 Beat Reader Atavistic 9. Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra We Are MTO Mowo 10. Randy Sandke Unconventional Wisdom Arbors REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Paul Bley Closer ESP-Disk 3. Curlew 1st Album/Live at CBGB DMG/ARC VOCAL Patricia Barber The Cole Porter Mix Blue Note DEBUT Gust Spenos Swing Theory Swing Theory LATIN Mike Ellis Bahia Band Alpha Pocket Robert Iannapollo (Cadence, All About Jazz-New York) NEW RELEASES 1. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsman Pi 2. Trio X Fall 2006 Tour CIMPol 3. Harris Eisenstadt Guewel Clean Feed 4. Taylor Ho Bynum Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths HatOLOGY 5. Szilard Mezei Ensemble Nad/Reed Red Toucan 6. Jason Kao Hwang Edge-Stories Before Within Innova 7. Michael Blake The World Awakes: A Tribute To Eli "Lucky" Thompson Stunt 8. William Parker Petite Oiseau AUM Fidelity 9. ICP Orchestra Live At The Bimhuis ICP 10. Wadada Leo Smith Tabligh Cuneiform REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Mike Osborne All Night Long Ogun 3. Sahib Shihab And The Danish Radio Jazz Group Oktav VOCAL No choice DEBUT No choice LATIN No choice Willard Jenkins (Downbeat, JazzTimes) NEW RELEASES 1. Charles Lloyd Rabo De Nube ECM 2. Rosa Passos Romance, Telarc 3. Sonny Rollins Road Shows Doxy/Emarcy 4. Dave Holland Pass It On, Dare 2/Emarcy 5. Marcus Shelby Harriet Tubman Noir 6. Bennie Maupin Early Reflection Cryptogramophone 7. Mike Reed The Speed of Change 482 Music 8. Evan Christopher Django ala Creole Classic Jazz 9. Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note 10. Jose James The Dreamer Brownswood REISSUES No choices VOCAL Rosa Passos Romance Telarc DEBUT Eric McPherson Continuum, Smalls LATIN Marty Sheller Why Deny PVR Martin Johnson (Wall Street Journal, theroot.com) NEW RELEASES 1. Jenny Scheinman Crossing the Field Koch 2. Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note 3. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 4. Matana Roberts The Chicago Project Central Control 5. John McNeil & Bill McHenry Rediscovery Sunnyside 6. Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside 7. Noah Preminger Dry Bridge Road NOWT 8. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside 9. Mary Halvorson Dragon's Head Firehouse 12 10. Brad Mehldau Live Nonesuch REISSUES No choice VOCAL Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note DEBUT Noah Preminger Dry Bridge Road NOWT LATIN Francisco Mela Cirio: Live at the Blue Note Half Note Mike Joyce (JazzTimes, Washington Post) NEW RELEASES 1. Charles Lloyd Rabo De Nube ECM 2. David Murray & Mal Waldron Silence Justin Time 3. Dave Liebman Negative Space Verve 4. Brian Blade Fellowship Season of Changes Verve 5. James Carter Present Tense Emarcy 6. Anat Cohen Notes From the Village Anzic 7. Roy Hargrove Earfood Emarcy 8. Bill Frisell History, Mystery Nonesuch 9. Avishai Cohen Gently Disturbed Razdaz 10. Lionel Loueke Karibu Blue Note REISSUES 1. Charlie Parker Washington, D.C., May 23, 1948 Uptown Jazz 2. Art Tatum Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine/Zenph Re-Performance Sony Classics 3. Return to Forever The Anthology Concord VOCAL Patricia Barber The Cole Porter Mix Blue Note DEBUT No choice LATIN David Sánchez Cultural Survival Concord Picante George Kanzler (Hot House, JazzTimes, All About Jazz-New York) NEW RELEASES 1. Randy Sandke Unconventional Wisdom Arbors 2. Michael Blake The World Awakes-A Tribute to Eli Lucky Thompson Stunt 3. Kenny Davern & Bob Wilber Soprano Summit in 1975 and More Arbors 4. Aaron Weinstein & John Pizzarelli Blue Too Arbors 5. Gary Smulyan High Noon: The Jazz Side of Frankie Laine Reservoir 6. James Moody & Hank Jones Our Delight IPO 7. Michael Moore & Fred Hersch This We Know Palmetto 8. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard Planet Arts 9. Anat Cohen Notes from the Village Anzic 10. Kenny Barron The Traveler Sunnyside REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Charlie Parker Bird In Time, 1940-1947 ESP Disk 3. Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall Riverside/Keepnews Collection VOCAL Patricia Barber The Cole Porter Mix Blue Note DEBUT Vitaly Golovnev To Whom It May Concern Tippin' LATIN Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live at the Village Vanguard Callé 54/Norté Fred Kaplan (Slate, Stereophile) NEW RELEASES 1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 2. Shirley Horn Live at the 1994 Monterey Jazz Festival MJF/Concord 3.Frank Kimbrough Air Palmetto 4.Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi 5.Carla Bley Appearing Nightly ECM 6.Paul Bley About Time Justin Time 7.David Murray & Mal Waldron Silence Justin Time 8.Wynton Marsalis & Willie Nelson Two Men with the Blues Blue Note 9.Steven Bernstein Diaspora Suite Tzadik 10. Jeff Gauthier House of Return Cryptogramophon REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Nina Simone To Be Free Sony/Legacy 3. Maria Schneider Coming About [remastered] ArtistShare VOCAL Shirley Horn Live at the 1994 Monterey Jazz Festival MJF/Concord DEBUT Noah Preminger Dry Bridge Road NOWT LATIN No choice Larry Kart (Jazz in Search of Itself) NEW RELEASES 1. Keefe Jackson Just Like This Delmark 2. Bik Bent Braam Extremen BBB 3. Jason Ajemian The Art of Dying Delmark 4. Matana Roberts The Chicago Project Central Control 5. Organissimo Grooveadelphia Big O Records 6. Grant Stewart Young At Heart Sharp Nine 7. Jason Adasiewicz Roll Down 482 Music 8. Horace Silver Live At Newport '58 Blue Note 9. David Sherr Otherworld Music Bel Air Jazz 10. Randy Sandke Unconventional Wisdom Arbors REISSUES 1. Roscoe Mitchell Noonah Nessa 2. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 3. Dizzy Gillespie Showtime at the Spotlite: 52nd Street, New York City, June 1946 Uptown VOCAL Norma Winstone Amoroso . . . Only More So Trio DEBUT Jason Adasiewicz Roll Down 482 Music LATIN Luis Bonilla's Trombonilla Terminal Clarity Now Jazz Consortium Elzy Kolb (Hot House, Westchester Journal News) NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each) Carla Bley Appearing Nightly Watt/ECM Andrea Brachfeld Into the World: A Musical Offering Shaneye Eliane Elias Something for You: Eliane Sings & Plays Bill Evans Blue Note Shirley Horn Live at the 1994 Monterey Jazz Festival MJF/Concord Virginia Mayhew A Simple Thank You Renma David Murray & Mal Waldron Silence Justin Time Stanton Moore Emphasis! (on Parenthesis) Telarc Saxophone Summit Seraphic Light Telarc Shakers n' Bakers Yearning for Zion little[i]music) Sumi Tonooka Long Ago Today ARC REISSUES No choices VOCAL Shirley Horn Live at the 1994 Monterey Jazz Festival MJF/Concord LATIN No choice Art Lange (Fanfare, pointofdeparture.org) NEW RELEASES 1. Evan Parker Boustrophedon ECM 2. Tiziano Tononi Peace Warriors (Forgotten Children) Black Saint 3. Mike Reed Proliferation 482 Music 4. Alexander von Schlippenbach-Daniel D'Agaro-Tristan Honsinger Friulian Sketches psi 5. Adam Lane-Lou Grassi-Mark Whitecage Drunk Butterfly Clean Feed 6. Anthony Braxton Piano Music 1968-2000 Leo 7. Orange Room Orange Room El Gallo Rojo 8. Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky Caprichos Leo 9. Jerry Bergonzi Tenor Talk Savant 10. Connie Crothers & Bill Payne Conversations New Artists REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Humphrey Lyttelton Classic "Live" Concerts Lake 3. Stan Tracey The Early Works ReSteamed VOCAL No choice DEBUT Orange Room Orange Room El Gallo Rojo LATIN No choice Suzanne Lorge (All About Jazz-New York) NEW RELEASES 1. Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note 2. Max Raabe & Palast Orchester Heute Nacht Oder Nie SPV 3. Norma Winstone Distances ECM 4. Matt Turner/Peg & Bill Carothers, The Voices That Are Gone: The Music of Stephen Foster Illusions 5. Robin McKelle Modern Antique Cheap Lullabye 6. Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones You Are There Emarcy 7. Dianne Reeves When You Know Blue Note 8. Karrin Allyson Imagina Concord 9. Stacey Kent Breakfast On The Morning Tram Blue Note 10. Yoon Sun Choi & Jacob Sacks Imagination Yeah-Yeah REISSUES 1. Nina Simone To Be Free Sony/Legacy 2. Carmen McRae Live At The Flamingo Jazz Club, London, May 1961 Acrobat 3) Sarah Vaughan & Woody Herman On The Radio: The 1963 'Live' Guard Sessions Acrobat VOCAL Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note DEBUT Dee Casella I'm Here Now (s/r) LATIN Karrin Allyson Imagina Concord Kevin Lynch (Capitol Times [Madison], Downbeat) NEW RELEASES 1. Kurt Rosenwinkel The Remedy: Live at The Village Vanguard ArtistShare 2. Omar Sosa Afreecanos Ota 3. Otis Taylor Recapturing the Banjo Telarc Blues 4. Marc Copland-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian Voices: New York Recordings Vol. 2 Pirouet 5. James Carter PresentTense Emarcy 6. Loren Stillman Blind Date Pirouet 7. Pete Robbins Do the Hate Laugh Shimmy Fresh Sound New Talent 8. Marcus Shelby Harriet Tubman Noir 9. Martin Wasilewski January ECM 10. Dafnis Prieto Taking the Soul for a Walk DafnisonMusic REISSUES 1. Ornette Coleman Town Hall 1962 ESP Disk 2. Albert Ayler The Hilversum Session ESP Disk 3. Various Artists When Blues Met Rock Starbucks VOCAL Luciana Souza The New Bossa Nova Verve DEBUT Tim Whalen Magnus Way Hay LATIN Conrad Herwig The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter Half Note John McDonough (Downbeat, Wall Street Journal) NEW RELEASES 1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 2. Horace Silver Live at Newport 1958 Blue Note 3. Martial Solal Longitude Cam Jazz 4. Buddy DeFranco Charlie Cat 2 Arbors 5. Chick Corea & Gary Burton Crystal Silence Concord 6. Aaron Weinstein & John Pizzarelli Blue Too Arbors 7. Joe Lovano Symphonica Blue Note 8. Dick Hyman Thinking About Bix Hyman 9. Bireli Lagrene Just the Way You Are Dreyfus 10. Bob Wilber & Nick Payton Swinging the Changes Arbors REISSUES 1. Lester Young Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion with Count Basie (1936-1940) Mosaic 2. Benny Goodman Columbia and Okeh Sessions Mosaic 3. Miles Davis Broadcast Sessions 1958-59 Acrobat VOCAL Lorraine Feather Language Jazzed Media DEBUT No choice LATIN No choice Jim Macnie (Downbeat, Village Voice) NEW RELEASES 1. Dafnis Prieto Taking The Soul Out For a Walk Dafnison 2. Jane Ira Bloom Mental Weather Artist Share 3. Lionel Loueke Karibu Blue Note 4. Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside 5. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi 6. Adam Kolker Flag Day Sunnyside 7. Francisco Mela Cirio HalfNote 8. Bill Carrothers Home Row 9. Martial Solal Longitude CamJazz 10. Ben Allison Little Things Run the World Palmetto RESISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Muhal Richard Abrams & Malachi Favors SightSong Black Saint (digital) 3. John Carter Dauwhe Black Saint (digital) VOCAL Kate McGarry If Less Is More Palmetto DEBUT Mathias Eick The Door ECM LATIN Pete Rodriguez El Alquimista Condé Howard Mandel (Miles, Ornette, Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz) NEW RELEASES 1. James Carter Present Tense Emarcy 2.Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note 3. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi 4. Lafayette Gilchrist Soul Progressin' Hyena 5. Free Form Funky Freqs Urban Mythology Volume 1 Thirsty Ear 6. Lee Konitz & Minsarah Deep Lee Enja 7.Sonny Rollins Road Shows: Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 8. Saxophone Summit Seraphic Light Telarc 9. Mostly Other People Do the Killing This Is Our Moosic Hot Cup 10. Nicole Mitchell Black Unstoppable Delmark REISSUES 1. Charlie Parker Bird in Time 1940-1947 ESP Disk 2. Giuseppi Logan Quartet ESP Disk 3. Art Tatum Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine/Zenph Re-Performance Sony Classics VOCAL Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note DEBUT No choice LATIN Arturo O'Farrill Song for Chico Zoho Peter Margasak (Chicago Reader, Downbeat) NEW RELEASES 1. Atomic Retrograde Jazzland 2. Donny McCaslin Recommended Tools Greenleaf 3. Mike Reed Proliferation 482 Music 4. Martial Solal Longitude CamJazz 5. Mary Halvorson Dragon's Head Firehouse 12 6. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside 7. John McNeil & Bill McHenry Rediscovery Sunnyside 8. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi 9. Lafayette Gilchrist Soul Progressin' Hyena 10. Andrew Hill & Chico Hamilton Dreams Come True Joyous Shout REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Chris McGregor Very Urgent Fledgling 3. Roscoe Mitchell Nonaah Nessa VOCAL Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note DEBUT Ambrose Akinmusire Prelude Fresh Sound New Talent LATIN Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live at the Village Vanguard Calle 54/Norté Ken Micallef (Downbeat, Modern Drummer) NEW RELEASES 1. Jeff Babko Mondo Trio Abstract Logix 2.Dafnis Prieto Taking the Soul for a Walk Dafnison 3. Alan Pasqua Standards Fuzzy Music 4.Pat Metheny Day Trip Nonesuch 5.Brian Blade Season of Changes Verve 6.Cindy Blackman Music for the New Millennium Synth Sound 7. Marcin Wasilewski January ECM 8. Wadada Leo Smith Tabligh Cuneiform 9. Dave Holland Pass It On Dare 2/Emarcy 10. Arturo O'Farrill Song for Chico Zoho REISSUES 1. Charlie Parker Washington, D.C., May 23, 1948 Uptown Jazz 2. Cal Tjader Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1958-1980 MJF/Concord 3. Return to Forever The Anthology Concord VOCAL Eliane Elias Bossa Nova Stories Blue Note DEBUT No choice LATIN Arturo O'Farrill Song for Chico Zoho Bill Milkowski (JazzTimes, The Absolute Sound) NEW RELEASES 1. Joe Lovano Symphonica Blue Note 2. Ari Hoenig Bert's Playground Dreyfus 3. Bill Frisell History, Mystery Nonesuch 4. Brian Blade Season of Changes Verve 5. Saxophone Summit Seraphic Light Telarc 6. Charles Lloyd Rabe De Nube ECM 7. Chick Corea & Gary Burton New Crystal Silence Concord 8. Kurt Rosenwinkel The Remedy ArtistShare 9. Various Artists Miles From India 4 Quarters/Times Square 10. Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra We Are MTO Mowo REISSUES 1. Miles Davis Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition Columbia/Legacy 2. Eric Dolphy At the Five Spot Prestige 3. Return To Forever The Anthology Concord VOCAL Sheila Jordan Winter Sunshine Justin Time DEBUT Noah Preminger Dry Bridge Road NOWT LATIN David Sánchez Cultural Survival Concord Picante Dan Morgenstern (Annual Review of Jazz Studies, Jersey Jazz) NEW RELEASES l. James Moody & Hank Jones Our Delight IPO 2 Anat Cohen Notes from the Village Anzic 3. Scott Robinson Forever Lasting Arbors 4. Bob Mover It Amazes Me Zoho 5. Martial Solal Longitude CamJazz 6. Joe Temperley The Sinatra Songbook Hep 7. Mark Masters Farewell Walter Dewey Redman Capri 8. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. l Doxy/EmArcy 9. Ehud Asherie Swing Set Positone 10. Avishai Cohen Flood Anzic REISSUES l. Lester Young Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion with Count Basie (1936-1940) Mosaic 2. Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabakin Big Band Mosaic Select 3. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic VOCAL Daryl Sherman New O'leans Jazzology DEBUT Theo Crocker In the Tradition Arbors LATIN Conrad Herwig The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter Half Note Russ Musto (All About Jazz-New York) NEW RELEASES 1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 2. Dave Holland Sextet Pass It On Dare2/Emarcy 3. Kurt Rosenwinkle The Remedy ArtistShare 4. Brian Blade Season of Changes Verve 5. Brad Mehldau Live Nonesuch 6. James Moody & Hank Jones Our Delight IPO 7. Ted Nash The Mancini Project Palmetto 8. Saxophone Summit Seraphic Light Telarc 9. Dafnis Prieto Taking The Soul For A Walk Dafnison 10. Francisco Mela Cirio HalfNote REISSUES 1. Ornette Coleman Town Hall 1962 ESP Disk 2. Wayne Shorter The Soothsayer Blue Note 3. Lester Young Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion with Count Basie (1936-1940) Mosaic VOCAL Rebecca Martin The Growing Season Sunnyside DEBUT Ambrose Akinmusire Prelude to Coda Fresh Sound New Talent LATIN Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live At The Village Vanguard Calle 54/Norté Ivana Ng (All About Jazz-New York) NEW RELEASES 1. Anat Cohen Notes from the Village Anzic 2. Mostly Other People Do the Killing This Is Our Moosic Hot Cup 3. Joe McPhee & John Heward Voices: 10 Improvisations Mode 4. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside 5. Peter Brötzmann & Han Bennink Amherst 2006 Eremite 6. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 7. Dave Holland Pass It On Dare2/Emarcy REISSUES 1. Art Tatum Tatum Art Storyville 2. Charlie Parker Bird in Time 1940-1947 ESP Disk 3. New York Eye and Ear Control ESP Disk VOCAL Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note DEBUT This Musicianship Yuganaut ESP Disk LATIN No choice Dan Ouellette (Downbeat, napster.com) NEW RELEASES 1. Jenny Scheinman Crossing the Field Koch 2. Bobby Previte Set the Alarm for Monday Palmetto 3. Erik Friedlander-Mike Serin-Trevor Dunn Broken Arm Trio Skipstone 4. Joe Lovano Symphonica Blue Note 5. Marco Benevento Invisible Baby Hyena 6. McCoy Tyner Guitars Half Note 7. Ben Allison Little Things Run the World Palmetto 8. Ahmad Jamal It's Magic Dreyfus 9. Anat Cohen Notes From the Village Anzic 10. Chick Corea & Gary Burton The New Crystal Silence Concord REISSUES No choices VOCAL Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note DEBUT No choice LATIN No choice Ted Panken (Downbeat, Jazziz, WKCR-FM) NEW RELEASES 1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy 2. Dafnis Prieto Taking The Soul For a Walk Dafnison 3. Saxophone Summit Seraphic Light Telarc 4. Bill Frisell History, Mystery Nonesuch 5. Dave Holland Pass It On Dare2/Emarcy 6. Greg Osby Nine Levels Inner Circle 7. David Sánchez Cultural Survival Concord Picante 8. Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside 9. Hank Jones & James Moody Our Delight IPO 10. Anthony Braxton Quartet (Moscow) 2008 Leo REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Art Tatum Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine/Zenph Re-Performance Sony Classics 3. Dizzy Gillespie Showtime at the Spotlite: 52nd Street, New York City, June 1946 Uptown VOCAL Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note DEBUT No choice LATIN Arturo O'Farrill Song for Chico Zoho Thierry Peremarti (Jazzman) NEW RELEASES 1. Lionel Loueke Karibu Blue Note 2. Wadada Leo Smith Tabligh Cuneiform Records 3. John McLaughlin Floating Point Abstract Logix 4. Bennie Maupin Early Reflections Cryptogramophone 5. Joe Lovano Symphonica Blue Note 6. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi 7. Donny McCaslin In Pursuit Sunnyside 8. Sonny Rollins Road Shows Vol. 1 Doxy Records 9. Adam Kolker Flag Day Sunnyside Records 10. Victor Wooten Palmystery Heads Up REISSUES 1. Miles Davis Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition Columbia/Legacy 2. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 3. Art Tatum Tatum Art Storyville VOCAL Natalie Cole Still Unforgettable DMI DEBUT José James The Dreamer Brownswood LATIN Dafnis Prieto Taking the Soul For a Walk Dafnison Bob Porter (WBGO-FM) NEW RELEASES 1. Soprano Summit In 1975 and More Arbors 2. Warren Vaché & John Allred Live at Marion's Room Arbors 3. Dr. Michael White Blue Crescent Basin Street 4. Harry Allen & Joe Cohn Stompin' the Blues Arbors 5. Scott Hamilton Across the Tracks Concord 6. Lionel Hampton Basel 1953, Vol. 2 TCB 7. Joe Temperley The Sinatra Songbook Hep 8. Lars Edegren New Orleans Jazz GHB REISSUES 1. Charlie Parker Washington, D.C., May 23, 1948 Uptown Jazz 2. Lester Young Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion with Count Basie (1936-1940) Mosaic 3. John Coltrane Soultrane Prestige VOCAL Dave Frishberg & Rebecca Kilgore Why Fight the Feeling? Arbors DEBUT No choice LATIN No choice Doug Ramsey (Wall Street Journal, rifftides [dougramsey.com]) NEW RELEASES 1. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Monday Live at the Village Vanguard Planet Art 2. Chuck Berghofer The Film Music of Ralph Rainger Fresh Sound 3. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/EmArcy 4. Roger Kellaway Live at the Jazz Standard IPO 5. Hans Glawischnig Panorama Sunnyside 6. Rebecca Kilgore & Dave Frishberg Why Fight the Feeling? Arbors 7. Benny Maupin Early Reflections Cryptogramophone 8. Norma Winstone Distances ECM 9. Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note 10. Various Artists Miles From India Times Square REISSUES 1. Louis Armstrong Fleishmann's Broadcasts and Home Recordings Jazz Society 2. Ernestine Anderson Hot Cargo Fresh Sound 3. Sahib Shihab And the Danish Radio Jazz Group Oktav VOCAL Rebecca Kilgore & Dave Frishberg Why Fight the Feeling? (Arbors) DEBUT Greg Reitan Some Other Time Sunnyside LATIN Felipe Salles South American Suite Curare Derk Richardson (sfgate.com, The Absolute Sound) NEW RELEASES 1. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside 2. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi 3. Marilyn Crispell Vignettes ECM 4. Wadada Leo Smith Tabligh Cuneiform 5. Steven Bernstein Diaspora Suite Tzadik 6. Satoko Fujii Summer Suite Libra 7. Bill Frisell History, Mystery Nonesuch 8. William Parker Petit Oiseau AUM Fidelity 9. Dave Douglas Moonshine Greenleaf 10. Carla Bley Appearing Nightly ECM REISSUES 1. Roscoe Mitchell Nonaah Nessa 2. Steve Lacy The Forest and the Zoo ESP Disk 3. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic VOCAL Ed Reed The Song Is You Blue Shorts DEBUT No choice LATIN John Santos Perspectiva Fragmentada Joel Roberts (All About Jazz-New York) NEW RELEASES 1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 2. Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Forked Tongue Cuneiform 3. Lionel Loueke Karibu Blue Note 4. Third World Love New Blues Anzic 5. John Ellis Dance Like There's No Tomorrow Hyena 6. Danilo Perez Across the Crystal Sea Emarcy 7. Steve Turre Rainbow People HighNote 8. James Carter Present Tense Emarcy 9. Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note 10. Al Foster Love, Peace & Jazz! JazzEyes REISSUES 1. Nina Simone To Be Free Sony/Legacy 2. Art Tatum Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine/Zenph Re-Performance Sony Classics 3. Wayne Shorter The Soothsayer Blue Note VOCAL Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note DEBUT No choice LATIN Conrad Herwig The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter Half Note Gene Seymour (Newsday, The Nation) NEW RELEASES 1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 2. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi 3. Ted Nash The Mancini Project Palmetto 4. Mario Pavone Trio Arc Playscape 5. James Carter Present Tense Emarcy 6. Paolo Fresu-Richard Galliano-Jan Lundgren Mare Nostrum ACT 7. Charles Lloyd Quartet Rabo de Nube ECM 8. Pat Metheny Day Trip Nonesuch 9. Michael Moore & Fred Hersch This We Know Palmetto 10. Brian Blade Season of Changes Verve REISSUES No choices VOCAL Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis Two Men with the Blues Blue Note DEBUT Noah Preminger Dry Bridge Road NOWT LATIN Bebo Valdés & Javier Molina Live at the Village Vanguard Calle 54/Norté Bill Shoemaker (pointofdeparture.org, Downbeat) NEW RELEASES 1. Uri Caine The Othello Syndrome Winter & Winter 2. William Parker Double Sunrise Over Neptune AUM Fidelity 3. Wadada Leo Smith Tabligh Cuneiform 4. Connie Crothers & Bill Payne Conversations New Artists 5. Rova The Juke Box Suite Not Two 6. Anthony Braxton Trio (Victoriaville) 2007 Victo 7. Mike Reed Proliferation 482 Music 8. Lisle Ellis Sucker Punch Requiem Henceforth 9. Nicole Mitchell Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia Butler Firehouse 12 10. Evan Parker Boustrophedon ECM REISSUES 1. Blue Notes The Blue Notes Collection Ogun 2. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 3. Stan Tracey The Early Works ReSteamed VOCAL Norma Winstone Distances ECM DEBUT Ideal Bread The Ideal Bread KMB Jazz LATIN Omar Sosa Afreecanos Ota Hank Shteamer (Time Out New York, darkforcesswing.blogspot.com) NEW RELEASES 1. Chico Hamilton & Andrew Hill Dreams Come True Joyous Shout 2. Harris Eisenstadt Guewel Clean Feed 3 Wadada Leo Smith Tabligh Cuneiform 4. Ideal Bread The Ideal Bread KMB Jazz 5 Eivind Opsvik Overseas III Loyal Label 6. Bill Dixon 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur AUM Fidelity 7. Ari Hoenig Bert's Playground Dreyfus 8. Fieldwork Door Pi 9. Sonny Simmons & Bobby Few True Wind Hello World! 10. Don Cherry Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966, Vol. 2 ESP Disk REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic VOCAL No choice DEBUT Ideal Bread The Ideal Bread KMB Jazz LATIN No choice Slim (Cadence) NEW RELEASES 1. Donald Brown The Classic Introvert Spacetime 2. Mikko Innanen Paa-Da-Pap Tum 3. Ethnic Heritage Ensemble Hot n Heavy-Live at the Ascension Loft Delmark 4. Gerold Genssler-Uli Jennessen-Henrik Walsdorff LAX Live Jazzwerkstatt 5. Bill Dixon 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur AUM Fidelity 6. Satoko Fujii Trace a River Libra 7. Dennis Gonzalez Dance of the Soothsayer's Tongue Clean Feed 8. Rob Brown Crown Trunk Root Funk AUM Fidelity 9. William Parker Petit Oiseau Aum Fidelity 10. Jimmy Burns Live at B.L.U.E.S Delmark REISSUES 1. Nathan Davis Peace Treaty SFP 2. Johnny Shines Too Wet to Plow Labor 3. Eddie Palmeri Harlem River Drive EMI VOCAL Liane Carrol Slow Down Splasch Point DEBUT Teraesa Vinson Next to You" Amplified LATIN No choice Michael Steinman (All About Jazz-New York) NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each) BED Four + 1 Blue Swing John Bunch Plays Irving Berlin Arbors Echoes of Swing Four Jokers in the Pack EOS Marty Grosz & Mike Peters Acoustic Heat Sackville Jeff Hamilton If Dreams Come True Jeff Hamilton Jazz Tardo Hammer Dial B for Beauty Sharp Nine Dick Hyman Thinking of Bix Reference Manhattan Ragtime Orchestra At the Jazz Band Ball Stomp Off Frank Roberscheuten Three Wise Men TFR Grant Stewart Young at Heart Sharp Nine REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each) Louis Armstrong Fleischmann's Yeast/Home Tapes Jazz Heritage Dick Cary The Wonderful World of Hoagy Carmichael Kenneth Lester Young Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion with Count Basie (1936-1940) Mosaic VOCAL BED Four + 1 Blue Swing DEBUT No choice LATIN No choice Zan Stewart (Newark Star Ledger) NEW RELEASES 1. Sonny Rollins Roadshows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 2. James Moody & Hank Jones Our Delight IPO 3. Joe Lovano Symphonica Blue Note 4. Cedar Walton Seasoned Wood HighNote 5. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard Planet Arts 6. Joe Magnarelli Persistence Reservoir 7. Dave Holland Pass It On Dare2/Emarcy 8. Nicholas Payton Into the Blue Nonesuch 9. Dave Stryker-Steve Slagel Band The Scene ZoHo 10. Conrad Herwig The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter HalfNote REISSUES 1. Dizzy Gillespie Showtime at the Spotlite: 52nd Street, New York City, June 1946 Uptown 2. Lester Young Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion with Count Basie (1936-1940) Mosaic 3. Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band Mosaic Select VOCAL Karrin Allyson Imagina: Songs of Brasil Concord Jazz DEBUT Jonathan Voltzok More to Come Kol Yo LATIN Conrad Herwig The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter HalfNote Jeff Stockton (All About Jazz-New York) NEW RELEASES 1. William Parker Double Sunrise Over Neptune AUM Fidelity 2. David Murray & Mal Waldron Silence Justin Time 3. Roy Campbell Akhnaten Suite AUM Fidelity 4. Adam Kolker Flag Day Sunnyside 5. Ken Vandermark 5 Beat Reader Atavistic 6. William Parker Petit Oiseau AUM Fidelity 7. Matana Roberts Chicago Project Central Control 8. Sonny Simmons Introducing Black Jack Pleasanton Hello World 9. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 10. Mario Pavone Ancestors Playscape REISSUES No choices VOCAL No choice DEBUT No choice LATIN Conrad Herwig Latin Side of Wayne Shorter Half Note W. Royal Stokes (jazzhouse.org, wroyalstokes.com) NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each) Carla Bley Appearing Nightly Watt/ECM Evan Christopher Django à la Créole Classic Jazz Bill Frisell History, Mystery Nonesuch Grace Kelly & Lee Konitz Gracefullee Pazz Sherrie Maricle and Five Play What the World Needs Now is Love Arbors Microscopic Septet Lobster Leaps In Cuneiform Sonny Rollins Road Shows Vol. 1 Doxy McCoy Tyner Guitars Half Note Harry Whitaker One Who Sees All Things Smalls Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each) Woody Herman Thundering Herd, 1960s Mosaic Select Nina Simone To Be Free Sony/Legacy Lester Young Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion with Count Basie (1936-1940) Mosaic VOCAL Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note DEBUT Stephen D. Anderson Forget Not Summit LATIN Papo Vazquez & the Mighty Pirates Marooned/Aislado Picaro Mark Stryker (Detroit Free Press) NEW RELEASES 1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy 2. Dafnis Prieto Taking the Soul for a Walk Dafnison 3. Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside 4. James Moody & Hank Jones Our Delight IPO 5. Dave Liebman Further Conversations - Live True Azul 6. Donny McCaslin Recommended Tools Greenleaf 7. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard Planet Arts 8. Drew Gress The Irrational Numbers Premonition 9. Danny Grissett Encounters Criss Cross 10. John McNeil & Bill McHenry Rediscovery Sunnyside REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Hank Jones Piano Solo Fresh Sound 3. Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band Mosaic Select VOCAL Champian Fulton Sometimes I'm Happy Venus DEBUT Ambrose Akinmusire Prelude to Cora Fresh Sound New Talent LATIN Dafnis Prieto Taking the Soul for a Walk Dafnison John Szwed (Signal to Noise; Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University) NEW RELEASES 1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 2. Charles Lloyd Rabo De Nube ECM 3. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside 4. Mostly Other People Do the Killing This is Our Moosic Hot Cup 5. George Russell Sextet Live in Bremen and Paris 1964 Gambit 6. Various Artists Miles from India Times Square/4Q 7. Andrew D'Angelo Skadra Degis Skirl 8. Uri Caine The Othello Syndrome Winter & Winter 9. Angela Sanchez Life Between Clean Feed 10. Erik Friedlander-Mike Serin-Trevor Dunn Broken Arm Trio Skipstone REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. John Tchicai Afrodisiaca MPS/Promising 3. Art Tatum Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine/Zenph Re-Performance Sony Classics VOCAL Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note DEBUT John Escreet Consequences Positone LATIN Dafnis Prieto Taking the Soul for a Walk Dafnison Music Jeff Tamarkin (JazzTimes) NEW RELEASES 1. Anat Cohen Notes From the Village Anzic 2. Boz Scaggs Speak Low Decca 3. Miles from India Four Quarters/Times Square 4. Gilfema + 2 ObliqSound 5. James Carter Present Tense Emarcy 6. Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra We Are MTO Mowo 7. Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note 8 Bill Frisell History, Mystery Nonesuch 9. Martial Solal Longitude Cam Jazz 10. Todd Sickafoose Tiny Resistors Cryptogramophone REISSUES 1. Miles Davis Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition Columbia/Legacy 2. Art Tatum Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine/Zenph Re-Performance Sony Classics 3. Return to Forever The Anthology Concord VOCAL Boz Scaggs Speak Low Decca DEBUT No choice LATIN Francisco Mela Cirio: Live at the Blue Note Half Note Neil Tesser (Chicago Reader, jazz.com) NEW RELEASES 1. Various Artists Miles From India Times Square 2. Nicholas Payton Into the Blue Nonesuch 3. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol 1 Doxy/Emarcy 4. Miguel Zenón Awake Marsalis Music 5. Martial Solal Longitude CamJazz 6. Taylor Eigsti Let It Come to You Concord 7. Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside 8. Dave Douglas Moonshine Greenleaf 9. William Parker Petit Oiseau AUM Fidelity 10. Mike Reed Proliferation 482 Music REISSUES 1. Ornette Coleman Town Hall 1962 ESP Disk 2. Sonny Rollins Freedom Suite Riverside/Keepnews Collection 3. Bud Powell Live at the Blue Note Café, Paris 1961 ESP Disk VOCAL Delirium Blues Project (with Roseanna Vitro) Serve Or Suffer Half Note DEBUT Corey Wilkes Drop It Delmark LATIN Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside George Varga (San Diego Union-Tribune, JazzTimes) NEW RELEASES 1. Brad Mehldau Trio Live Nonesuch 2. Bennie Maupin Early Reflections Cryptogramophone 3. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Pi 4. James Moody & Hank Jones Our Delight IPO 5. Carla Bley Appearing Nightly ECM/Watt 6. Anat Cohen Notes From the Village Anzic 7. Todd Sickafoose Tiny Resistors Cryptogramophone 8. David Sánchez Cultural Survival Concord Picante 9. Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali Going to the Ritual Porter 10. Cosmologic Eyes In The Back of My Head Cuneiform REISSUES 1. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 2. Oscar Peterson Trio The Complete Clef/Mercury Recordings Mosaic 3. Lester Young Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion with Count Basie (1936-1940) Mosaic VOCAL Catherine Russell Sentimental Streak World Village DEBUT David Hurley Outer Nebula Inner Nebula Porter LATIN Arturo O'Farrill Song For Chico Zoho Jason Weiss (Shuffle Boil, Signal to Noise) NEW RELEASES 1. Brotherhood of Breath Eclipse at Dawn Cuneiform 2. Louis Moholo & Marilyn Crispell Sibanye (We Are One) Intakt 3. Don Cherry Live at Café Montmartre 1966, Vol. 2 ESP Disk 4. Chris Speed-Chris Cheek-Stephane Furic Leibovici Jugendstil ESP Disk 5. Misha Alperin Her First Dance ECM 6. Paul Shapiro Essen Tzadik 7. Evan Parker Boustrophedon ECM 8. Adam Rudolph Dream Garden Justin Time 9. Wadada Leo Smith Tabligh Cuneiform 10. Ideal Bread The Ideal Bread KMB Jazz REISSUES 1. Blue Notes The Ogun Collection Ogun 2. John Tchicai Afrodisiaca MPS/Promising 3. Karel Velebny SHQ ESP VOCAL No choice DEBUT Ideal Bread The Ideal Bread KMB Jazz LATIN No choice Michael J. West (JazzTimes, Washington City Paper) NEW RELEASES 1. Benny Maupin Early Reflections Cryptogramophone 2. Courtney Pine's Jazz Warriors Afropeans Destin-E 3. Marcus Shelby Harriet Tubman Noir 4. Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside 5. Greg Osby 9 Levels Inner Circle 6. Avishai Cohen Gently Disturbed Razdaz 7. Ahmad Jamal It's Magic Dreyfus 8. Dapp Theory Layers of Chance Obliqsound 9. Broken Arm Trio (Erik Friedlander-Mike Sarin-Trevor Dunn) Skipstone 10. Lionel Loueke Karibu Blue Note REISSUES 1. Nat Adderley Work Song Riverside/Keepnews Collection 2. Grachan Moncur III Evolution Blue Note 3. Coleman Hawkins The Hawk Flies High Riverside/Keepnews Collection VOCAL Esperanza Spalding Esperanza Heads Up DEBUT Noah Preminger Dry Bridge Road NOWT LATIN Guillermo Klein Filtros Sunnyside K. Leander Williams (Time Out New York, JazzTimes) NEW RELEASES 1. Wadada Leo Smith Tabligh Cuneiform 2. Martial Solal Longitude CamJazz 3. JD Allen I Am I Am Sunnyside 4. Toumani Diabate The Mandé Variations Nonesuch 5. Steven Bernstein Diaspora Suite Tzadik 6. Bobby Previte Set the Alarm for Monday Palmetto 7. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy 8. James Carter Present Tense Emarcy 9. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube ECM 10. David Berger I Had the Craziest Dream: The Music of Harry Warren Such Sweet Thunder REISSUES 1. Grachan Moncur III Evolution Blue Note 2. Bill Evans Portrait In Jazz Riverside 3. Ornette Coleman Town Hall 1962 ESP Disk VOCAL Mayra Andrade Navega Stern's DEBUT No choice LATIN Fernando Otero Pagina de Buenos Aires Nonesuch Josef Woodard (Downbeat, JazzTimes) NEW RELEASES 1. SFJazz Collective Live 2008 SFJazz 2. Bobo Stenson Cantanda ECM 3. Vince Mendoza Blauklang ACT 4.Wadada Leo Smith Tabligh Cuneiform 5.Anthony Braxton 12+ 1tet (Victoriaville) Victo 6.Django Bates Spring Is Here (Shall We Dance?) Lost Marbles 7.Marcin Wasilewski Trio January ECM 8.Dave Douglas Moonshine Greenleaf 9.Joe Lovano Symphonica Blue Note 10. Brad Mehldau Trio Live Nonesuch REISSUES 1. Ornette Coleman Town Hall 1962 ESP Disk 2. Miles Davis Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition Columbia/Legacy 3. Grachan Moncur III Evolution Blue Note VOCAL Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note DEBUT No choice LATIN David Sánchez Cultural Survival Concord Picante Ron Wynn (Nashville City Paper, JazzTimes) NEW RELEASES 1. Dave Murray & Mal Waldron Silence Justin Time 2. James Moody & Hank Jones Our Delight IPO 3. McCoy Tyner Guitars McCoy Tyner Music/Half Note 4 Joe Lovano Symphonica Blue Note 5. Wynton Marsalis & Willie Nelson Two Men With the Blues Blue Note 6. Roy Hargrove Earfood Emarcy 7. Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note 8. Dave Holland Pass It On Dare 2/Emarcy 9. James Carter Past Tense Emarcy 10. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 Doxy/Emarcy REISSUES 1. Willie "The Lion" Smith & Don Ewell Stride Piano "Duets Delmark 2.John Coltrane The Impulse Albums, Vol. 2 Impulse/Universal VOCAL Wynton Marsalis & Willie Nelson Two Men With the Blues Blue Note DEBUT Corey Wilkes Drop It Delmark LATIN Buena Vista Social Club Live At Carnegie Hall Nonesuch/World Circuit Scott Yanow (The Jazz Singers, Jazz on Film) NEW RELEASES 1. Various Artists Miles From India Times Square 2. Miguel Zenón Awake Marsalis Music 3. Pat Metheny Day Trip Nonesuch 4. Hiromi Beyond Standard Telarc 5. Dr. Michael White Blue Crescent Basin Street 6. Phil Norman 10 Summit 7. Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones You Are There Emarcy 8. Louis Mazetier Tributes, Portraits And Other Stories Arbors 9. Martial Solal Longtitude CamJazz 10. Soprano Summit 1975 Arbors REISSUES 1. Oscar Peterson The Complete Trio Studio Recordings 1951-1953 Mosaic 2. Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic 3. John Coltrane First Giant Steps Rare Live VOCAL Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones You Are There Emarcy DEBUT No choice LATIN Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina Live At The Village Vanguard Calle 54/Norté