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The week on disc (84)

Friday, December 31st, 2010

And that’ll be my final post of 2010. I hope to make this blog much more active in 2011, so keep your eyes here.

In case you missed the last one

Many Arms, Missing Time (Engine)

Lucian Ban & John Hébert, Enesco Reimagined (Sunnyside)

Barry Romberg’s Random Access, The Gods Must Be Smiling (Romhog)

Tony Malaby’s Tamarindo Live (Clean Feed)

Russell Malone, Triple Play (MaxJazz)

Walter Smith III, III (Criss Cross)


The week on disc (83)

Saturday, December 18th, 2010

In case you missed the last one

Tim Motzer & Markus Reuter, Descending (1k)

Aram Shelton Quartet, These Times (Singlespeed)

Mike Reed’s Loose Assembly, Empathetic Parts (482 Music)

Ken Thomson and Slow/Fast, It Would Be Easier If (Intuition)

Andrew Rathbun, The Idea of North (SteepleChase)

Phronesis, Alive (Edition)


The week on disc (82)

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

In case you missed the last one

Jason Robinson and Anthony Davis, Cerulean Landscape (Clean Feed)

Dan Tepfer Trio, Five Pedals Deep (Sunnyside)

Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory, Far Side (ECM)

Ryan Cohan, Another Look (Motéma)

Mario Pavone, Arc Suite T/Pi T/Po (Playscape)

Charlie Hunter, Public Domain (ind.)


The week on disc (81)

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

In case you missed the last one

Benoît Delbecq Trio, The Sixth Jump (Songlines)

Michaël Attias, Twines of Colesion (Clean Feed)

Mary Halvorson Quintet, Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)

Scott Colley, Empire (Cam Jazz)

The Cookers, Warriors (Jazz Legacy)

Dave Liebman Big Band, As Always (Mama)


The week on disc (80)

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

In case you missed the last one

Antonio Sanchez, Live in New York at Jazz Standard (Cam Jazz)

Mason Brothers, Two Sides One Story (Archival)

The Rosenberg Trio with Biréli Lagrène, Djangologists (Enja)

Stephan Crump & James Carney, Echo Run Pry (Clean Feed)

Jon Irabagon, Foxy (Hot Cup)

Exploding Star Orchestra, Stars Have Shapes (Delmark)


The week on disc (79)

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

In case you missed the last one

Roberto Occhipinti, A Bend in the River (ALMA)

Vox Arcana (Tim Daisy/Fred Lonberg-Holm/James Falzone), Aerial Age (Allos Documents)

Mikrokolektyw (Kuba Suchar/Artur Majewski), Revisit (Delmark)

Charles Lloyd Quartet, Mirror (ECM)

Adam Schroeder, A Handful of Stars (Capri)

Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up, Actionspeak (482 Music)


The week on disc (78)

Friday, August 20th, 2010

In case you missed the last one

Joel Yennior Trio, Big City Circus (Brass Wheel)

Sándor Szabó & Kevin Kastning, Returning (Greydisc)

The Wee Trio, Capitol Diner Vol. 2: Animal Style (Bionic)

Rafi Malkiel, Water (Tzadik)

Sandro Albert Quartet, Vertical (Daywood Drive)

Juan García-Herreros (a.k.a. Snow Owl), Art of Contrabass Guitar (Inner Circle)


The week on disc (77)

Friday, August 13th, 2010

In case you missed the last one

Alex Brown, Pianist (Sunnyside)

Michael Dease, Grace (Jazz Legacy)

Nick Rosen, Into the Sky (Porter)

Michael Gregory Jackson, Clarity (ESP-Disk)

Stephen Gauci/Kris Davis/Michael Bisio, Three (Clean Feed)

Julian Argüelles Trio, Ground Rush (Clean Feed)


The week on disc (76)

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

In case you missed the last one

Mike Mainieri, Crescent (NYC)

Sun Ra, College Tour Vol. I: The Complete Nothing Is… (ESP-Disk)

Andy Jaffe, An Imperfect Storm (Big Round)

Jacob Duncan/John Goldsby/Jason Tiemann, The Innkeeper’s Gun (Bass Lion)

Stephen Haynes, Parrhesia (Engine)

Paul Carr, Straight Ahead Soul (ind.)


The week on disc (75)

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

In case you missed the last one

Barry Harris, Live in Rennes (Plus Loin)

Kris Davis/Ingrid Laubrock/Tyshawn Sorey, Paradoxical Frog (Clean Feed)

Azar Lawrence, Mystic Journey (Further More)

Odean Pope, Odean’s List (In and Out)

Peter Evans Quartet, Live in Lisbon (Clean Feed)

José James & Jef Neve, For All We Know (Impulse!)