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2017 Friday December 22nd 2017 Aruán Ortiz Trio Hidden Voices INTAKT CD 258 [49:12] STEFANO BOLLANI TRIO Mediterraneo: Jazz At Berlin Philharmonic VIII ACT 9849-2 CHARLES SONNANSTINE AND ROBIN WETTERAU’S GREAT PACIFIC JAZZ BAND— Play Music of the 1920’s Jazz of the “Great Gatsby Era” vols. 1& 2 Merry Makers Record Company MMRC-CD-52 & 53 Iiro Rantala and Ulf Wakenius Good Stuff ACT 9851-2 Sonny Clark Four Classic Albums AVID AMSC 1250
STEVE LANE Steve Lane Plays Vintage Jazz Music Lake LACD357 Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) - live at the Concertgebouw in 1961 Introduction by Norman Granz FONDAMENTA/DEVIALET FON-1704027 Sidney Bechet Five Classic Albums plus AVID AMSC 1278 Horace Silver – Four Classic Albums AVID AMSC1260 MONIKA LANG TRIO A Tribute To Bill Evans Gramola 99087 FREDDY RANDALL AND HIS BAND My Tiny Band Is Chosen: The Parlophone Years 1952-1957 Lake LACD358 Dieter Ilg – B-A-C-H ACT 9844-2 [52:09] DAKOTA STATON Five Classic Albums AVIDJazz AMSC 1259 STEVE GADD Band Way Back Home, Live from Rochester, NY BFM JAZZ 302 062 435 2 [67:11 + 2 DVDs] MARIUS NESET Circle Of Chimes ACT 9038-2 Roby Lakatos and Biréli Lagrène Tribute to Stéphane & Django A VANTIJAZZ 5414706 1053-3 Katie Thiroux Off Beat CAPRI RECORDS 74146-2 Sam Most Four Classic Albums AVID AMSC 1245 San Francisco String Trio May I Introduce To You RIDGEWAY RECORDS RRCD006 ED MAINA In the Company of Brothers Private Strings & Bass GRAMOLA 99140 The Imaginative Johnny Windhurst; Jazz Trumpeter Extraordinaire, his 19 Finest 1945-56 RETROSPECTIVE RTR 4316 BUGGE WESSELTOFT Everybody Loves Angels ACT 9847 - 2 Thelonious Himself Riverside Records/Original Jazz Classics/Prestige OJCCD-254-2 BRIAN LANDRUS ORCHESTRA Generations Blueland Records BLR-2017
BANDA MANDACARINHO Um Pouquinho de Carinho / A Little bit of Love MANDACARU MUSIC MCBR-001 Andrew James JOHNSON Winter’s Heart Private FABRIZIO CASSOL STRANGE FRUIT OUTHERE RECORDS OUT 660 ACT FAMILY BAND The Jubilee Concerts ACT 9860-2
Lena BLOCH Heart Knows FRESH SOUND NEW TALENT FSNT 531
GONG LINNA & BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS CLOUD RIVER MOUNTAIN CANTALOUPE MUSIC CA21133
Fabio GIACHINO North Clouds TOSKY RECORDS TSK019 James MOODY Four Classic Albums AVID JAZZ AMSC 1261 ANNE DUCROS Brother Brother ! AdLib AD 008/1 TOM KOHL Dances with the Sun PRIVATE [50:48] THE PETE MALINVERNI TRIO Heaven Saranac Records SR 1010
LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND HIS ALL STARS Live in Vancouver 1951 Upbeat URCD277 TOOTS THIELEMANS Ne Me Quitte Pas Milan Music 301 719-8
DOMINIC MILLER Silent Light ECM 572 8484
KEN COLYER All stars Colyer at Wimbledon Upbeat URCD275 GERALD CANNON Combinations WOODNECK RECORDS NO NUMBER SAMMY NESTICO A COOL BREEZE SWR BIG BAND SWR MUSIC SWR19039CD Rahsaan ROLAND KIRK documentary The Case of the Three Sided Dream Arthaus 109252 Blu-Ray DVD VALERIE GHENT Velours WEST STREET RECORDS WSR0502 JOHN KIRBY and his Onyx Club Boys The Biggest Little Band in the Land; his 28 finest, 1937-45 RETROSPECTIVE RTR 4312 REBECCA KILGORE Moonshadow Dance CHERRY PIE MUSIC CPM101 NEW ORLEANS • Original Soundtrack, Out-Takes, and Associated Music from the 1947 Cult Movie Upbeat URCD276 FREDDIE HUBBARD Four Classic Albums Avid Jazz AMSC 1244
RONNY WHYTE Shades of Whyte AUDIPHILE RECORDS ACD-353 STUART McCALLUM and Mike Walker The Space Between EDITION EDN 1082 THELONIOUS MONK Les Liasons Dangereuses 1960 Sam Records SRS-1-CD HANK MOBLEY Four Classic Albums : Second Set Avid Jazz AMSC 1243 CHICK COREA The Musician Concord 7202649 GEORGE CHISHOLM THE GENTLEMAN OF JAZZ A Centenary Tribute- His 48 Finest 1937-1962 RETROSPECTIVE RTS 4261 BEEKMAN - Vol 02 ROPEADOPE RAD317 Ray OBIEDO Latin Jazz Project Volume 1 RHYTHMUS RECORDS RR002 DUET SATOKO FUJII JOE FONDA With Special Guest Natsuki Tamura LONG SONG RECORDS LSRDC 140/2016
ANTONIO ADOLFO Hybrido : From Rio To Wayne Shorter Antonio Adolfo Music AAM 0711 ALAN BROADBENT Developing Story Eden River Records ERR-CD-02 THE BIG SHAKEUP BIG SHAKE UP BAB003 [32:58] ANDY WILLIAMS FOUR CLASSIC ALBUMS AVID POP AMSC 1247 Andy ADAMSON Quintet First Light Andros Records AR002 [48:45] LARRY YOUNG - In Paris: The ORTF Recordings RESONANCE/INA HCD-2022 ANDREW CYRILLE QUARTET The Declaration Of Musical Independence ECM 471 9575 THE SUGAR HILL TRIO The Drive SELF-PRODUCED ANDREAS SCHAERER The Big Wig ACT 9824-2 [ 52:08 + DVD] NICK FINZER Hear And Now Outside In Music OiM 1701
Kevin FITZSIMMONS
Working Day and Night
JAZZ WURX JWRO12D (Bruce M) NICOLE SAPHOS TIPTOE SELF-PRODUCED
NILS LANDGREN Christmas With My Friends V ACT 9830-2 Alex GOODMAN Second Act LYTE RECORDS LR040 [72:07] Darrell KATZ and OddSong Jailhouse Doc With Holes In Her Socks JCA RECORDINGS JCA1601 CHET BAKER featuring Bill Evans Alone Together JAZZ IMAGES 38003 AARON PARKS, THOMAS FONNESBÆK, KARSTEN BAGGE Groovements STUNT STUCD15152 SNOW OWL THE BLUE ROAD INNER CIRCLE MUSIC INCM 060 CD WOLFGANG MUTHSPIEL Rising Grace ECM 479 7962 NATALIA MATEO De Profundis ACT 9734-2 BENAUD TRIO Mixtape ABC Classics 481 4784 Arthur LIPNER Two Hands, One Heart: Best of Arthur Lipner MALLETWORKS MEDIA NO NUMBER Charlie WATTS Meets The Danish Radio Big Band Impulse! 0602557441932 Eddie THOMPSON IN THE USA HEP RECORDS HEP CD 2100 Lou DONALDSON Four Classic Albums AVID JAZZ AMSC 1251 MICHEL LEGRAND Legrand Jazz / Legrand Piano PHONO 870266 THE GREG HATZA ORGANIZATION Diggin up my roots FLIP RECORDS 2016 CELESTIAL BLUES Cosmic, political and spiritual Jazz 1970 to 1974 BGP RECORDS CDBGPD 300 RICH HALLEY 5 The Outlier Pine Eagle 009 LEE KONITZ Frescalalto Impulse! 0602557208733 Scott Hamilton and Karin Krog The Best Things In Life STUNT STUCD15192 [51:58] CHET BAKER AND BUD SHANK The James Dean Story (CD + DVD) Essential Jazz Classics EJC 55703 THE TURK MURPHY JAZZ BAND On Tour! Germany 1973 & 1974 Merry Makers Record Company MMRC-CD-55 Steve SLAGLE Alto Manhattan PANORAMA RECORDS 006 SAUTER-FINEGAN ORCHESTRA OUR CLASSIC ALBUMS PLUS AMSC1246 (5 albums) The Mark Masters Ensemble Blue Skylight CAPRI RECORDS 74143-2 Thomas Clausen (piano) Francesco Cali (accordion) The Voyage Stunt Records STUCD 16032 Thelonious MONK (1917-82) Live in Paris 16 april, 1961 FREMEAUX & ASSOCIÉS FA 5653 STAN GETZ QUINTET Live At The Hi-Hat 1953 Fresh Sounds Records FSR - CD906 NEW Black Eagle JAZZ BAND Goin’ to New Orleans Own Label BE[LECD]4022-1/2 Jeff RUPERT and Richard Drexler Imagination RUPE MEDIA RM111016CD KEITH OXMAN East of the Village CAPRI RECORDS 74145-2 JAN LUNDGREN Potsdamer Platz ACT 9831 - 2 VIKTORIA TOLSTOY Meet Me At The Movies ACT 9827 - 2 DICK CATHCART Pete Kelly’s Blues His 25 Finest 1950-1959 RETROSPECTIVE RTR 4308 ROCCO JOHN Quartet Embrace the Change UNSEEN RAIN UR-9947 FRANK KIMBROUGH Solstice JazziJua Corp 700261294919 EERO KOIVISTOINEN AND THE UMO JAZZ ORCHESTRA Arctic Blues SVART 049CD PHIL WOODS Phil Woods And His European Rhythm Machine Inner City Records IC 1002 SAMMY RIMINGTON A Snapshot of His American Recordings 1995-1999 Upbeat URCD274 Humphrey LYTTELTON Dusting Off the Archives, Rare Recordings 1948-55 Recorded 1948-55 LAKE LACD352 [78:47] Dick CATHCART Pete Kelly's Blues, his 25 Finest 1950-59 RETROSPECTIVE RTR 4308 CLARENCE WILLIAMS Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home? His 26 finest 1923-1933 RETROSPECTIVE RTR 4303 [BM] CLARENCE WILLIAMS Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home? His 26 finest 1923-1933 RETROSPECTIVE RTR 4303 [JW] Ole MATTHIESSEN Flashbacks & Dedications STUNT RECORDS STUCD16042 [74:20] ROSE ELLIS Like Songs Like Moons ZenneZ Records (Self-produced) BEAT FUNKTION Green Man Do Music Records DMRCD 045 LITTLE JOHNNY RIVERO Music in Me TRUTH REVOLUTION RECORDING TRR 022 THE TURK MURPHY JAZZ BAND Recorded in Concert at the 1976 Inverness Music Festival Merry Makers Record Company MMRC-CD-54 RIK WRIGHT'S FUNDAMENTAL FORCES Subtle Energy Self-produced TAL FARLOW Trilogy Inner City Records IC 1099 JOHN STEVENS John Stevens’ Away BEAT GOES ON BGOCD1198 HELEN FORREST I’ve Heard That Song Before Centenary Tribute- Her 25 Finest 1938-1945 RETROSPECTIVE RTR 4302 [BMcC] HELEN FORREST I’ve Heard That Song Before Centenary Tribute- Her 25 Finest 1938-1945 RETROSPECTIVE RTR 4302 [JW] SARAH VAUGHAN Live At Rosy’s RESONANCE RECORDS HCD-2017 MARIUS NESET, LONDON SINFONIETTA Snowmelt ACT 9035 - 2 Ben Cohen with the Sonny Dee All-Stars Remembering Ben Cohen 2 LAKE LACD353 Various Edinburgh Jazz ‘n’ Jive Club – The Big 16 Own Label JNJ003 Duke Ellington Festival Session JAZZ IMAGES 38004 ANNETTE HANSHAW The Personality Girl Her 53 Finest 1926-1934 RETROSPECTIVE RTS 4304 GERRY GIBBS THRASHER DREAM TRIO We're Back Whaling City Sound WCS 069 NACIO HERB BROWN Singin’ in the Rain: The Songs of Nacio Herb Brown Retrospective RTR 4299 The Crane River Jazz Band with Ken Colyer Reunited Upbeat URCD272 Frank Kohl Quartet Rising Tide PONY BOY RECORDS PB50186-2 [51:16] MICHAEL WOLLNY TRIO Nachtfahrten ACT 9592-2 IRO HAARLA Ante Lucem : For Symphony Orchestra And Jazz Quintet ECM 473 2371 AUDREY SILVER Very Early Messy House Productions MHO 103 BILLY MAY THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN TOUCH A Centenary Tribute His 52 Finest 1939-1961 RETROSPECTIVE RTS 4297 David Friesen Star Dance INNER CITY RECORDS IC 1019 [41:30] Neil Ardley Harmony of the Spheres ESOTERIC RECORDINGS ELEC 2096 [46:47] Hibla Gerzmava and the trio of Daniel Kramer Opera, Jazz, Blues MELODIYA MEL C 10 02466 Nick Finzer Hear & Now OUTSIDE INSIDE MUSIC OIM1701 SUN RA COSMOS INNER CITY RECORDS IC 1020 MARK EGAN Truth Be Told Wavetone WT8642 EDDIE JEFFERSON THE JAZZ SINGER INNER CITY RECORDS IC 1016 Bhattacharya/Grønseth/Wessel Quartet PLING MUSIC PLING015 [54:53] Julie London Cry Me A River; her 62 Finest, 1955-62 RETROSPECTIVE RTS 4300 CYBILL SHEPHERD Cybill Getz Better Inner City IC1097 THE HARRY WARREN SONGBOOK DOUG MUNRO and LA POMPE ATTACK GOT MUSIC RECORDS GMR 1004 Bill EVANS (1929-1980) Bill Evans Trio Portrait in Jazz Jazz Images 38001 [52:26] DANIELA SCHÄCHTER Vanheusenism : A Tribute To Jimmy Van Heusen Self-produced GARY BURTON Something’s Coming! / The Groovy Sound Of Music/ The Time Machine BGO RECORDS BGOCD1241 The Fred Hughes Trio Matrix SHORE THING RECORDS STR1116 DERRICK HODGE The Second Blue Note 002452102 Nguyên Lê & Ngô Hòng Quang The Hà Nôi Duo ACT 9828-2 ROGER DAVIDSON SOLO PIANO LIVE AT CAFFE VIVALDI VOLUME 3 SOUNDBRUSH RECORDS SR 4003 GRÉGORY PRIVAT TRIO Family Tree ACT 9834-2 JACK TEAGARDEN & DON GOLDIE A Portrait of Mt. T & Mr. G Their 21 finest 1959-1962 RETROSPECTIVE RTR 4216 Eddie Higgins Great Trio Sessions PHONO 870269 [79:04 + 79:39] CLARE FISCHER Out of the Blue Produced by Brent Fischer CLAVO RECORDS CR201509 PETER SALTZMAN Blues, Preludes And Feuds : A Musical Memory Self-produced Le Boeuf Brothers + Jack Quartet Imaginist NEW FOCUS RECORDINGS PAN06-637813 8396 73 [48:33] ZACH LARMER ELECTRIC BAND Inner Circle Self produced A TRIBUTE TO HERBIE +1 DICK OATS / MATS HOLMQUIST NEW YORK JAZZ ORCHESTRA MAMA RECORDS MAA 1049 David GORDON Trio Alexander Scriabin’s Ragtime Band MISTER SAM RECORDS SAMCD004 LARRY WILSON No Secrets No Lies Self produced Archie Shepp Doodlin’ INNER CITY RECORDS IC 1001 CHARL DU PLESSIS TRIO Baroqueswing Vol II Claves 50 -1609 ABBEY LINCOLN GOLDEN LADY INNER CITY RECORDS IC 1117 CRESCENT BAY JAZZ BAND— New Orleans Style Jazz Featuring cornetist Ray Ronnei Merry Makers Record Company MMRC-CD-51 Hank MOBLEY– Three Classic Albums Plus AVID AMSC 1215 Dinosaur Together as One Edition EDN1078 THE ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND Tiger Rag Retrospective RTR 4296 Ted Curson and Company Jubilant Power INNER CITYRECORDS IC 1017 Ken Schaphorst Big Band How to Say Goodbye JCA Recordings 1602 SENRI OE AND COMPANY Answer July PND Records 88295 45908 George Shearing Lullaby of Birdland: The Shearing Touch Arthaus Musik DVD109216 PETER ELDRIDGE Disappearing Day Sunnyside Communications SSC1458 Oscar Pettiford & Jan Johansson Featuring Stan Getz – In Denmark 1959-1960 STUNT RECORDS STUCD 16022 Os Clavelitos - Arriving SUONOFRITTATA OC313 Tom McCormick South Beat (Self Produced) 2016 The Judy Roberts Band INNER CITY RECORDS IC 1078 [37:1] SUZANNE DEAN Come To Paradise Promotional Chet Baker – Broken Wing INNER CITY RECORDS IC 1120 [43:00] THE FRANK SINATRA COLLECTION: Ol’ Blue eyes Is Back & The Main Event. EREDV1241 JOCHEN RÜECKERT Charm Offensive PIROUET PIT3095 JOHN COLTRANE TRANE 90 ACROBAT MUSIC ACQCD7105 Abbey LINCOLN Golden Lady Inner City Records IC1117 [SA] COME SHINE + KORK Norwegian Caravan LAWO Classics LWC1104 NEW Black Eagle JAZZ BAND 25th Anniversary vols. 1 & 2 Own Label BE[LECD]4021-1/2 Renaud-Gabriel Pion – New York Sketches DUX 1267 Milt Jackson Sunflower; Goodbye BEAT GOES ON BGOCD1252 DANIELLE TALAMANTES AND HENRY DEHLINGER A Duke Ellington Songbook MSR Jazz MS1617 NACIO HERB BROWN Singin’ in the Rain: The Songs of Nacio Herb Brown Retrospective RTR 4299 DOMINICK FARINACCI Short Stories MACK AVENUE MAC1112 Florent Ghys Bonjour CANTALOUPE CA21120 OSCAR PETTIFORD AND JAN JOHANSSON In Denmark 1959 - 1960 Stunt Records STUCD 16022 The Girshevich Trio Algorithmic Society TAPESTRY 76026-2 THE EBERLY BROTHERS - CENTENARY TRIBUTE RETROSPECTIVE RTR 4289 Eddie Jefferson – The Main Man INNER CITY IC 1033 MARK EGAN About Now Wavetone WT8650 New Black eagle jazz band The Last of the First! • A Memorial Concert for Chester Zardis BEDVD102 Jimmy Smith – The Cat Strikes Again INNER CITY RECORDS IC 1121 52nd Street – Scrapple to the Apple Wendy Simon (vocals) INNER CITY RECORDS IC 1165 MAGIC MOMENTS 9 In The Spirit Of Jazz ACT 9820-2 TOM McCORMICK South Beat tommccormick music.com (self produced) Click here for reviews for 2016 |