Archive for the ‘Six Picks’ Category


Six Picks: May 2013

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, May 2013:

JD Allen, Grace (Savant)

Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Functional Arrhythmias (Pi)

Kris Davis, Capricorn Climber (Clean Feed)

Jason Mears Electric Quintet, Book of Changes: Part I (Prefecture)

O’Farrill Brothers Band, Sensing Light (Zoho)

Thiefs (Melanine Harmonique)


Six Picks: April 2013

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, April 2013:

Ches Smith and These Arches, Hammered (Clean Feed)

Benoît Delbecq & Fred Hersch Double Trio, Fun House (Songlines)

Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran, Hagar’s Song (ECM)

Nicholas Payton, #BAM Live at Bohemian Caverns (BMF)

Kendrick Scott Oracle, Conviction (Concord)

Ben Wendel & Dan Tepfer, Small Constructions (Sunnyside)


Six Picks: March 2013

Friday, March 1st, 2013

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, March 2013:

Barry Altschul, The 3dom Factor (TUM)

Ben Goldberg, Subatomic Particle Homesick Blues (BAG)

Eric Hofbauer, American Grace (Creative Nation)

Jonathan Kreisberg, One (New For Now)

Jeremy Manasia, Green Dream (Cellar Live)

David Weiss & Point of Departure, Venture Inward (Posi-Tone)


Six Picks: February 2013

Monday, February 4th, 2013

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, February 2013:

Gregg August, Four By Six (Iacuessa)

Ryan Blotnick, Solo, Volume 1 (ind.)

Ken Hatfield Sextet, For Langston (Arthur Circle)

Rudresh Mahanathappa, Gamak (ACT)

Eric Revis, Parallax (Clean Feed)

Wayne Shorter Quartet, Without a Net (Blue Note)


Six Picks: January 2013

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013

Happy New Year! My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, January 2013:

Michaël Attias, Spun Tree (Clean Feed)

Avishai Cohen, Triveni II (Anzic)

Hal Galper Trio, Airegin Revisited (Origin)

Jon Irabagon’s Outright!, Unhinged (Irabbagast)

Reggie Quinerly, Music Inspired by Freedmantown (Redefinition)

Sonic Liberation Front, Jetway Confidential (High Two)


Six Picks: December 2012

Saturday, December 1st, 2012

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, December 2012:

Jeff Davis, Leaf House (Fresh Sound New Talent)

David Gilmore, Numerology: Live at Jazz Standard (Evolutionary Music)

Frank Kimbrough Trio, Live at Kitano (Palmetto)

Bill McHenry, La Peur du Vide (Sunnyside)

Kurt Rosenwinkel, Star of Jupiter (Wommusic)

Jacques Schwarz-Bart Quartet, The Art of Dreaming (Naïve)


Six Picks: November 2012

Sunday, November 4th, 2012

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, November 2012:

Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin, Live (ECM)

Michael Blake, In the Grand Scheme of Things (Songlines)

Dan Block, Duality (Miles High)

George Cables, My Muse (HighNote)

Dave King, I’ve Been Ringing You (Sunnyside)

Angelica Sanchez Quintet, Wires & Moss (Clean Feed)


Six Picks: October 2012

Monday, October 1st, 2012

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, October 2012:

Josh Berman and His Gang, There Now (Delmark)

Raynald Colom, Rise (harmonia mundi/Jazz Village)

Joe Fiedler’s Big Sackbut (Yellow Sound)

Roman Filiu, Musae (Dafnison Music)

Michael Formanek Quartet, Small Places (ECM)

Sean Wayland, Click Track Jazz (Seed Music)


Six Picks: September 2012

Saturday, September 1st, 2012

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, September 2012:

Riccardo Fassi, Sitting in a Song (Alice)

Jürgen Friedrich, Monosuite for String Orchestra and Improvisers (Pirouet)

Fred Hersch Trio, Alive at the Vanguard (Palmetto)

François Houle 5 + 1, Genera (Songlines)

Hafez Modirzadeh, Post-Chromodal Out! (Pi)

Arturo O’Farrill, The Noguchi Sessions (Zoho)


Six Picks: August 2012

Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, August 2012:

Harris Eisenstadt, Canada Day III (Songlines)

Russ Lossing, Drum Music: Music of Paul Motian (Sunnyside)

Giacomo Merega/Noah Kaplan/Marco Cappelli, Watch the Walls Instead (Underwolf)

Mike Reed’s People, Places & Things, Clean on the Corner (482 Music)

Luciana Souza, Duos III (Sunnyside)

Ryan Truesdell, Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans (ArtistShare)