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Lloyd Sachs (Downbeat)

NEW RELEASES

1. Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)

2. John Hollenbeck: Eternal Interlude (Sunnyside)
3. Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi)
4. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
5. Steve Kuhn: Mostly Coltrane (ECM)
6. Christian Lillinger: First Reason (Clean Feed)
7. Roswell Rudd: Trombone Tribe (Sunnyside)
8. Matthew Shipp: Harmonic Disorder (Thirsty Ear)
9. Matt Wilson: That's Gonna Leave a Mark (Palmetto)
10. Lucky 7's: Pluto Junkyard (Clean Feed)

REISSUES

1. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46) (Mosaic)
2. Air: Air Song (Why Not)
3. Tito Rodriguez: El Inolvidable: A Man and His Music (Fania)

VOCAL

Bob Dylan: Christmas in the Heart (Columbia)

DEBUT

Christian Lillinger: First Reason (Clean Feed)

LATIN

Dafnis Prieto: Live at Jazz Standard NYC (Dafnison Music)

Gene Seymour (Eye on the Arts)

NEW RELEASES

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1. Keith Jarrett: Paris/London: Testament (ECM)

2. Joshua Redman: Compass (Nonesuch)
3. Dave Douglas: Spirit Moves (Greenleaf Music)
4. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
5. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Jack DeJohnette: Yesterdays (ECM)
6. Fly: Sky & Country (ECM)
7. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
8. Jon Gordon: Evolution (ArtistShare)
9. Abdullah Ibrahim: Senzo (Sunnyside)
10. John Surman: Brewster's Rooster (ECM)

REISSUES

1. Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood (Hip-O Select/Verve)

2. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46) (Mosaic)

VOCAL

Nellie McKay: Normal as Blueberry Pie (Verve)

DEBUT

No choice.

LATIN

Mark Levine: Off & On: The Music of Moacir Santos (Left Coast Clavé)

Mike Shanley (JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

1. Chris Potter: Ultrahang (ArtistShare)

2. Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi)
3. Josh Berman: Old Idea (Delmark)
4. Ravi Coltrane: Blending Times (Savoy Jazz)
5. The Monterey Quartet: Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF/Concord)
6. Warren Smith: Old News, Borrowed Blues (Engine)
7. Rudresh Mahanthappa: Apti (Innova)
8. Flow Trio: Rejuvenation (ESP-Disk)
9. John Patitucci: Remembrance (Concord)
10. Sean Jones: The Search Within (Mack Avenue)

REISSUES

No choice.

VOCAL

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No choice.

DEBUT

No choice.

LATIN

No choice.

Bill Shoemaker (pointofdeparture.org, Downbeat)

NEW RELEASES

1. Fred Anderson: 21st Century Chase (Delmark)

2. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
3. Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12)
4. Louis Moholo-Moholo: An Open Letter to My Wife Mpumi (Ogun)
5. Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith: Abbey Road Quartet (Treader)
6. Nicole Mitchell: Renegades (Delmark)
7. Joe Morris-Simon H. Fell-Alex Ward: The Necessary and the Possible (Victo)
8. Dennis González: A Matter of Blood (Furthermore)
9. Joëlle Léandre & George Lewis: Transatlantic Visions (RogueArt)
10. Salem Washington: Strings (Cadence)

REISSUES

1. Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree (Hatology)

2. Charles Tyler: Saga of the Outlaws (Nessa)
3. Roscoe Mitchell: The Solo Concert (AECO)

VOCAL

Julie Tippetts & Martin Archer: Ghosts of Gold (Discus)

DEBUT

Alexander Hawkins: No Now Is So (FMR)

LATIN

Dafnis Prieto: Live at Jazz Standard NYC (Dafnison Music)

Hank Shteamer (Time Out New York, Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches)
NEW RELEASES

1. Ran Blake: Driftwoods (Tompkins Square)

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2. Chad Taylor: Circle Down (482 Music)

3. Jon Irabagon & Mike Pride: I Don't Hear Nothin' but the Blues (Loyal Label)
4. John Hollenbeck: Eternal Interlude (Sunnyside)
5. Darius Jones: Man'ish Boy (AUM Fidelity)
6. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
7. Borah Bergman: Luminescence (Tzadik)
8. Jim Black: Houseplant (Winter & Winter)
9. Charles Evans & Neil Shah: Live at Saint Stephens (Hot Cup)
10. Loren Stillman: Winter Fruits (Pirouet)

REISSUES

1. Walt Dickerson: Tell Us Only the Beautiful Things (Why Not)

2. Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree (Hatology)
3. Revolutionary Ensemble: Vietnam (ESP-Disk)

VOCAL

No choice.

DEBUT

Darius Jones: Man'ish Boy (AUM Fidelity)

LATIN

No choice.

Slim (Cadence)
NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

Dee Alexander: Wild Is the Wind (Blujazz)

Raoul Bjorkenheim-William Parker-Hamid Drake: DMG @ The Stone Vol 2 (DMG/Arc)
Michael Blake & Kresten Osgood: Control This (Clean Feed)
FAB Trio: Live at Ironworks (Konnex)
Gerold Genssler-Uli Jennessen-Henrik Waldsdorff: LAX Live (Jazzwerkstatt)
Dennis González: Renegade Spirits (Furthermore)
Billy Lester: Visceral (Coppens)
John Miller: Stage Door Johnny Takes on Broadway (PS Classics)
Janet Planet: Of Thee I Sing (Stellar)
Trio 3 & Irène Schweizer: Berne Concert (Intakt)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

Ted Curson: Jubilant Power (InnerCity)

Peter Kowald: Open Secrets (FMP)
Charles Tyler: Saga of the Outlaws (Nessa)

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VOCAL

Dee Alexander: Wild Is the Wind (Blujazz)

DEBUT

No choice.

LATIN

No choice.

Zan Stewart (Newark Star-Ledger)

NEW RELEASES

1. James Moody: 4A (IPO)

2. Cedar Walton: Voices Deep Within (HighNote)
3. Frank Wess: Once Is Not Enough (Labeth Music)
4. Lanny Morgan: 6 (ACM)
5. McCoy Tyner: Solo: Live From San Francisco (Half Note)
6. Luis Bonilla: I Talking Now! (Planet Arts)
7. Grant Stewart: Plays the Music of Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (Sharp Nine)
8. SFJazz Collective: Live 2009: The Works of McCoy Tyner (SFJazz)
9. Bobby Hutcherson: Wise One (Kind of Blue)
10. Ed Palermo: Eddy Loves Frank (Cuneiform)

REISSUES

1. Billie Holiday: The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters (Hip-O Select/Verve)
2. John Coltrane: Side Steps (Prestige)
3. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46) (Mosaic)

VOCAL

Madeline Eastman: Can You Hear Can Me Now? (Mad-Kat)

DEBUT

Carol Bach-y-Rita: What Love Is (Arugula)

LATIN

Mark Levine: Off & On: The Music of Moacir Santos (Left Coast Clavé)

Michael Steinman (Cadence, All About Jazz-New York)

NEW RELEASES

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1. Dan Block-Jon-Erik Kellso-Andrew Scott: Nostalgia (Sackville)

2. Joel Press & Kyle Aho: Untying the Standard (Cadence Jazz)
3. Grant Stewart: Plays the Music of Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (Sharp Nine)
4. Marty Grosz: Hot Winds, the Classic Sessions (Arbors)
5. Dick Hyman: Thinking About Bix (Reference)
6. Soprano Summit: Live in '75 and More (Arbors)

REISSUES

1. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46) (Mosaic)
2. Various Artists: Professor Visits Harlem: Swing Strings (AB Fable)
3. Peter Ecklund: Horn of Plenty (Classic Jazz)

VOCAL

Lyle Ritz & Rebecca Kilgore: I Wish You Love (PDX Music)

DEBUT

No choice.

LATIN

No choice.

W. Royal Stokes (jazzhouse.org; wroyalstokes.com)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

Fred Anderson: 21st Century Chase (Delmark)

Joshua Breakstone: No One New (Capri)
Diva Jazz Trio: Never Never Land (Arbors)
Keith Jarrett: Paris/London: Testament (ECM)
Ramsey Lewis: Songs From the Heart (Concord)
Irvin Mayfield: Book One (World Village/Harmonia Mundi)
Resonance Big Band: Tribute to Oscar Peterson (Resonance)
Roswell Rudd: Trombone Tribe (Sunnyside)
Carol Sudhalter: The Octave Tunes (Alfa)
Mark Weinstein & Omar Sosa: Tales From the Earth (Otà)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

Dave Brubeck: Time Out (Legacy Edition) (Columbia/Legacy)

John Coltrane: Side Steps (Prestige)
Artie Shaw: Classic Artie Shaw Bluebird and Victor Sessions (Mosaic)

VOCAL

Tierney Sutton: Desire (Telarc)

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DEBUT

Kristina Train: Spilt Milk (Blue Note)

LATIN

Positive Catastrophe: Garbatos Volume One (Cuneiform)

Jeff Stockton (All About Jazz-New York)

NEW RELEASES

1. Charles Evans: The King of All Instruments (Hot Cup)

2. Nicole Mitchell: Renegades (Delmark)
3. Warren Smith: Old News, Borrowed Blues (Engine)
4. Darius Jones: Man'ish Boy (AUM Fidelity)
5. Jeff "Tain" Watts: Watts (Dark Key)
6. Flow Trio: Rejuvenation (ESP-Disk)
7. Miroslav Vitous: Remembering Weather Report (ECM)
8. John Surman: Brewster's Rooster (ECM)
9. Burnt Sugar: Making Love to the Dark Ages (Live Wired)
10. Fred Anderson: Live at Velvet Lounge Volume III (Asian Improv)

REISSUES

No choice.

VOCAL

No choice.

DEBUT

Darius Jones: Man'ish Boy (AUM Fidelity)

LATIN

No choice.

Mark Stryker (Detroit Free Press)

NEW RELEASES

1. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)

2. Tom Harrell: Prana Dance (HighNote)
3. Miroslav Vitous: Remembering Weather Report (ECM)
4. John Hollenbeck: Eternal Interlude (Sunnyside)
5. Jeff "Tain" Watts: Watts (Dark Key)

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6. Clayton Brothers: Brother to Brother (ArtistShare)

7. Steve Kuhn: Mostly Coltrane (ECM)
8. Chris Potter: Ultrahang (ArtistShare)
9. Dana Hall: Into the Light (Origin)
10. Grant Stewart: Plays the Music of Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (Sharp Nine)

REISSUES

1. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46) (Mosaic)
2. Roscoe Mitchell: Congliptious (Nessa)
3. Freddie Hubbard: Without a Song: Live in Europe 1969 (Blue Note)

VOCAL

Kurt Elling: Dedicated to You (Concord)

DEBUT

Dana Hall: Into the Light (Origin)

LATIN

Miguel Zenón: Esta Plena (Marsalis Music)

John F. Szwed (Signal to Noise, The Wire)

NEW RELEASES

1. Atomic: Retrograde (Jazzland)

2. Louis Armstrong: Fleischmann's Yeast Show (Jazz Society)
3. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
4. Satoko Fujii & Myra Melford: Under the Water (Libra)
5. Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & Håkon Kornstad: Elise (Compunctio)
6. Geir Lysne: The Greig Code (ACT)
7. Burnt Sugar: Making Love to the Dark Ages (Live Wired)
8. Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12)
9. David Binney: Third Occasion (Mythology)
10. Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi)

REISSUES

1. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46) (Mosaic)
2. Denny Zeitlin: Mosaic Select: The Columbia Studio Trio Sessions (Mosaic)
3. Various Artists: Freedom Rhythm & Sound: Revolutionary Jazz 1963-82 (Soul Jazz)

VOCAL

Gretchen Parlato: In a Dream (ObliqSound)

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DEBUT

Etienne Charles: Folklore (Etienne Charles)

LATIN

Bobby Sanabria: Kenya Revisited Live!!! (Jazzheads)

Neil Tesser (Jazziz, examiner.com)

NEW RELEASES

1. Pierre Dørge: Whispering Elephants (SteepleChase)

2. Luis Bonilla: I Talking Now! (Planet Arts)
3. Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
4. Martial Solal: Live at the Village Vanguard (CAM Jazz)
5. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
6. Evan Parker: The Moment's Energy (ECM)
7. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
8. Gary Burton-Pat Metheny-Steve Swallow-Antonio Sanchez: Quartet Live (Concord)
9. Dave Douglas: A Single Sky (Greenleaf Music)
10. Derrick Gardner: Echoes of Ethnicity (Owl Studios)

REISSUES

1. Denny Zeitlin: Mosaic Select: The Columbia Studio Trio Sessions (Mosaic)
2. Billie Holiday: The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters (Hip-O Select/Verve)
3. Bill Bruford: The Summerfold Collection 1987-2008 (Summerfold)

VOCAL

Roberta Gambarini: So in Love (Emarcy)

DEBUT

Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)

LATIN

Mario Adnet & Philippe Baden Powell: Afro Samba Jazz (Adventure Music)

Greg Thomas (Jazz It Up!, National Jazz Museum in Harlem)

NEW RELEASES

1. Roy Hargrove: Emergence (Verve)

2. Bobby Broom: Plays for Monk (Origin)
3. Christian McBride: Kind of Brown (Mack Avenue)

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4. Benny Golson: New Time, New 'Tet (Concord)

5. Kurt Elling: Dedicated to You (Concord)
6. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
7. Jon Gordon: Evolution (ArtistShare)
8. Cyrus Chestnut: Spirit (Jazz Legacy)
9. Robert Glasper: Double Booked (Blue Note)
10. Dominick Farinacci: Lover's Tales and Dances (Koch)

REISSUES

1. Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood (Hip-O Select/Verve)

2. Freddie Hubbard: Without a Song: Live in Europe 1969 (Blue Note)
3. Johnny Griffin: From Johnny Griffin With Love (Storyville)

VOCAL

Kurt Elling: Dedicated to You (Concord)

DEBUT

Gerald Clayton: Two-Shade (ArtistShare)

LATIN

Chembo Corniel: Things I Wanted To Do (ChemboroRecords)

George Varga (San Diego Union-Tribune, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

1. Keith Jarrett: Paris/London: Testament (ECM)

2. James Moody: 4A (IPO)
3. Linda Oh: Entry (Linda Oh Music)
4. Branford Marsalis: Metamorphosen (Marsalis Music)
5. Ravi Coltrane: Blending Times (Savoy Jazz)
6. Jim Hall & Bill Frisell: Hemispheres (ArtistShare)
7. Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)
8. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
9. Martial Solal: Live at the Village Vanguard (CAM Jazz)
10. Matthew Shipp: Harmonic Disorder (Thirsty Ear)

REISSUES

1. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46) (Mosaic)
2. Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection (Columbia/Legacy)
3. John Coltrane: Side Steps (Prestige)

VOCAL

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Gretchen Parlato: In a Dream (ObliqSound)

DEBUT

Linda Oh: Entry (Linda Oh Music)

LATIN

Miguel Zenón: Esta Plena (Marsalis Music)

Jason Weiss (Shuffle Boyle, Signal to Noise)

NEW RELEASES

1. Tony Malaby: Warblepeck (Songlines)

2. Ab Baars & Ken Vandermark: Goofy June Bug (Wig)
3. Cliff Korman: trainsofthought (Almonds & Roses)
4. Roswell Rudd: Trombone Tribe (Sunnyside)
5. Bengt Berger: Beches Brew (Country & Eastern)
6. Frank Carlberg: The American Dream (Red Piano)
7. Denis Colin: Subject to Change (Le Chant du Monde)
8. Jeremy Udden: Plainville (Fresh Sound New Talent)
9. Joe Morris: Colorfield (ESP-Disk)
10. Jason Adasiewicz: Varmint (Cuneiform)

REISSUES

1. Elton Dean: Happy Daze/Oh! For the Edge (Ogun)

2. Revolutionary Ensemble: Vietnam (ESP-Disk)
3. Eddy Louiss: D'un jour à l'autre . . . (Tempo)

VOCAL

Frank Carlberg: The American Dream (Red Piano)

DEBUT

No choice.

LATIN

No choice.

Michael J. West (Washington City Paper, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

1. Ramsey Lewis: Songs From the Heart (Concord)

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2. Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)

3. Rakalam Bob Moses: Father's Day B'hash (Sunnyside)
4. Gretchen Parlato: In a Dream (ObliqSound)
5. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
6. Arve Henriksen: Cartography (ECM)
7. Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi)
8. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
9. Jeff "Tain" Watts: Watts (Dark Key)
10. Robert Glasper: Double Booked (Blue Note)

REISSUES

1. Roscoe Mitchell: Congliptious (Nessa)

2. Tony Bennett & Bill Evans: The Complete Recordings (Fantasy)
3. Tony Williams: Spring (Blue Note)

VOCAL

Gretchen Parlato: In a Dream (ObliqSound)

DEBUT

Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)

LATIN

Bebo & Chucho Valdes: Juntos Para Siempre (Callé 54)

Josef Woodard (Downbeat, JazzTimes, Los Angeles Times)

NEW RELEASES

1. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)

2. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
3. Dave Douglas: Spirit Moves (Greenleaf Music)
4. Jim Beard: Revolutions (Sunnyside)
5. The Monterey Quartet: Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF/Concord)
6. Melody Gardot: My One and Only Thrill (Verve)
7. Joshua Redman: Compass (Nonesuch)
8. Arve Henrisksen: Cartography (ECM)
9. Jeff "Tain" Watts: Watts (Dark Key)
10. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)

REISSUES

1. Codona (Don Cherry-Nana Vasconcelos-Collin Walcott): The Codona Trilogy (ECM)

2. Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain (Legacy Edition) (Columbia/Legacy)
3. Lee Konitz & Martial Solal: Star Eyes 1983 (Hatology)

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VOCAL

Melody Gardot: My One and Only Thrill (Verve)

DEBUT

No choice.

LATIN

Miguel Zenón: Esta Plena (Marsalis Music)

Ron Wynn (Nashville City Paper, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

1. James Carter-John Medeski-Christian McBride-Adam Rogers-Joey Baron: Heaven on

Earth (Half Note)
2. Kurt Elling: Dedicated to You (Concord)
3. Robert Glasper: Double Booked (Blue Note)
4. Steve Kuhn: Mostly Coltrane (ECM)
5. Jackie Ryan: Doozy (Open Art)
6. Tierney Sutton: Desire (Telarc)
7. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
8. Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)
9. Miguel Zenón: Esta Plena (Marsalis Music)
10. Stefon Harris: Urbanus (Concord)

REISSUES

1. Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um (Legacy Edition) (Columbia/Legacy)

2. Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain (Legacy Edition) (Columbia/Legacy)
3. John Coltrane: Side Steps (Prestige)

VOCAL

Kurt Elling: Dedicated to You (Concord)

DEBUT

No choice.

LATIN

Miguel Zenón: Esta Plena (Marsalis Music)

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