WNUR Jazz: Monthly Charts

Compiled by:

Seth Tisue, Jazz Music Director
jazz-md@wnur.org
(847) 491-7102
Evanston, IL
USA

These are the top 50 releases month by month, based on actual tabulated airplay by our 20-odd jazz DJ's. They're all together on one web page to facilitate easy searching.

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

December 1997

Steve Lacy: Associates (Robi Droli)
Jemeel Moondoc Trio: Fire in the Valley (Eremite)
Ganelin Trio*: Ancora da Capo (Leo)
Mats Gustafsson: Impropositions (Phono Suecia)
Henry Threadgill & Make a Move: Where's Your Cup? (Columbia)
Ken McIntyre*: The Complete United Artists Sessions (2 CD's) (Blue Note)
Vandermark 5: Live at the Empty Bottle (Savage Sound Syndicate)
Joey Baron: Down Home (Intuition)
Hank Crawford & Jimmy McGriff: Road Tested (Milestone)
Bennink/Borstlap/Glerum: 3 (VIA)
Fred Frith Guitar Quartet: Ayaya Moses (Ambiances Magnetique)
Le Quan Ninh: Ustensiles (For 4 Ears)
Steve Lacy@*: Trio Live (Robi Droli)
Brotzmann/Gania/Drake: The "WELS" Concert (OkkaDisk)
Kaffe Matthews: cdAnn (Annette Works)
Ellery Eskelin: One Great Day (hatOLOGY)
Evan Parker & Ned Rothenberg: Monkey Puzzle (Leo)
Ivo Perelman & Joe Morris: Strings (Leo)
Tom Bruno & Sabir Mateen: Getting Away With Murder (Eremite)
Music Revelation Ensemble: Cross Fire (DIW)
William Hooker & Billy Bang: Joy (Within)! (Silkheart)
David S. Ware Quartet: Wisdom of Uncertainty (AUM Fidelity)
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Withdrawal (1966-7) (Emanem)
Billy Bang: Bang On! (Justin Time)
Tim Berne/Bloodcount: Discretion (Screwgun)
Giancarlo Nicolai Trio: And John Tchicai (Leo)
Joe Morris & William Parker: Invisible Weave (No More)
Jim Hall: Live at the Village Vanguard (Telarc)
Bruce Eisenbeil Trio: Nine Wings (CIMP)
Phil Durrant: Sowari (Acta)
Nuzion Big Band: Hallelujah! (Third Eye)
ROVA: The Works (Volume 2) (Black Saint)
William Parker & the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra: Sunrise in the Tone World (2 CD's) (AUM Fidelity)
Sakis Papadimitriou & Lefteris Agouridakis: Plus and Minus (Leo)
various*: Crime Jazz: Music in the First Degree (Rhino)
Bradfield/Centazzo/Chadbourne/Cora/Kondo/Zorn@*: Environment for Sextet (Robi Droli)
Abash: Jazz (Dragon)
Coleman Hawkins*: Encounters Ben Webster (Verve)
Billy Hart: Oceans of Time (Arabesque)
Miles Davis*: In Concert (2 CD's) (Columbia)
Konitz/Mehldau/Haden: Alone Together (Blue Note)
C.I. Williams: When Alto Was King (Mapleshade)
ROVA: Morphological Echo (Rastascan)
Bradley Williams and his Original 21st Century Review: Songs for Swinging Sophisticates, Volume One (Sideways)
various*: Crime Jazz: Music in the Second Degree (Rhino)
Jutta Hipp@*: With Zoot Sims (Blue Note)
Matt Darriau Paradox Trio: Flying at a Slant (Knitting Factory)
Steve Khan: Got My Mental (Evidence)
Art Farmer: Silk Road (Arabesque)
Club Foot Orchestra: Plays Nino Rota (Rastascan)

November 1997

Lee Morgan@*: Live at the Lighthouse (3 CD's) (Blue Note)
Mats Gustafsson: Improposition (Phono Suecia)
Tim Berne/Bloodcount: Discretion (Screwgun)
Ellery Eskelin: One Great Day (hatOLOGY)
Tim Berne/Paraphrase: Visitation Rites (Screwgun)
Art Blakey*: Orgy in Rhythm (Blue Note)
Fred Frith Guitar Quartet: Ayaya Moses (Ambiances Magnetique)
Brotzmann/Gania/Drake: The "WELS" Concert (OkkaDisk)
Vandermark 5: Live at the Empty Bottle (Savage Sound Syndicate)
Coleman Hawkins*: Encounters Ben Webster (Verve)
Paul Rutherford*: The Gentle Harm of the Bourgeoisie (Emanem)
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Withdrawal (1966-7) (Emanem)
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: 21st Century Union March (Silkheart)
William Hooker & Billy Bang: Joy (Within)! (Silkheart)
Joe McPhee Quartet@: Legend Street One (CIMP)
Carlo Actis Dato Quartet: Blue Cairo (Splasc(h))
Jim Hall: Live at the Village Vanguard (Telarc)
Steve Lacy: Associates (Robi Droli)
Miles Davis*: In Concert (2 CD's) (Columbia)
Dave Douglas: Stargazer (Arabesque)
FJF: Blow Horn (OkkaDisk)
Jackie McLean*: Swing, Swang, Swingin' (Blue Note)
Konitz/Mehldau/Haden: Alone Together (Blue Note)
Ken McIntyre*: The Complete United Artists Sessions (2 CD's) (Blue Note)
Joe Henderson: Porgy & Bess (Verve)
Henry Threadgill & Make a Move: Where's Your Cup? (Columbia)
David S. Ware Quartet: Wisdom of Uncertainty (AUM Fidelity)
Nuzion Big Band: Hallelujah! (Third Eye)
John Zorn & Bobby Previte: Euclid's Nightmare (Depth of Field)
Lou Donaldson*: Good Gracious (Blue Note)
Jutta Hipp@*: With Zoot Sims (Blue Note)
Art Farmer: Live at Stanford Jazz Workshop (Monarch)
William Parker & the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra: Sunrise in the Tone World (2 CD's) (AUM Fidelity)
Jimmy Smith*: A New Sound, A New Star (2 CD's) (Blue Note)
Joe Morris & William Parker: Invisible Weave (No More)
Dizzy Gillespie: Bird Songs (Telarc)
Gene Ammons*: Legends of Acid Jazz (Prestige)
Phil Durrant: Sowari (Acta)
Wayne Horvitz: Monologue (Cavity Search)
ROVA: The Works (Volume 2) (Black Saint)
Jimmy Forrest*: All the Gin is Gone (Delmark)
Le Quan Ninh: Ustensiles (For 4 Ears)
Pachora: Pachora (Knitting Factory Works)
ROVA: Morphological Echo (Rastascan)
Club Foot Orchestra: Plays Nino Rota (Rastascan)
Ornette Coleman & Joachim Kuhn: Colors (Harmolodic)
Santi Debriano Group: Panamaniacs (Evidence)
Kazutoki Umezu: First Deserter (Knitting Factory Works)
Jimmy McGriff*: Greatest Hits (Blue Note)
Ira Sullivan*: Blue Stroll (Delmark)

October 1997

Joe McPhee Quartet@: Legend Street One (CIMP)
Brotzmann/Gania/Drake: The "WELS" Concert (OkkaDisk)
FJF: Blow Horn (OkkaDisk)
David S. Ware Quartet: Wisdom of Uncertainty (AUM Fidelity)
Fred Frith Guitar Quartet: Ayaya Moses (Ambiances Magnetique)
Art Farmer: Live at Stanford Jazz Workshop (Monarch)
William Parker & the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra: Sunrise in the Tone World (2 CD's) (AUM Fidelity)
Ken McIntyre*: The Complete United Artists Sessions (2 CD's) (Blue Note)
Gold Sparkle Band: Downsizing (Nu)
Scott Fields Ensemble: Five Frozen Eggs (Music & Arts)
Henry Threadgill & Make a Move: Where's Your Cup? (Columbia)
Billy Bang: Commandment (No More)
Miles Davis*: Live-Evil (2 CD's) (Columbia)
Peep: The Joy of Being (Knitting Factory)
Dizzy Gillespie: Bird Songs (Telarc)
ROVA: Morphological Echo (Rastascan)
Ellery Eskelin: One Great Day (hatOLOGY)
Jon Jang Octet: Island: The Immigrant Suite No. 1 (Soul Note)
William Hooker: Mindfulness (Knitting Factory)
Dave Douglas: Stargazer (Arabesque)
Sonny Stitt*: Made For Each Other (Delmark)
Jimmy Smith*: A New Sound, A New Star (2 CD's) (Blue Note)
Sweet Basil Trio: You're My Everything (Evidence)
Nuzion Big Band: Hallelujah! (Third Eye)
Chicago Jazz Ensemble: The Chicago Jazz Ensemble (CMG)
ROVA: The Works (Volume 2) (Black Saint)
Carlo Actis Dato Quartet: Blue Cairo (Splasc(h))
Bernie McGann: Playground (Terra Nova)
John Zorn & Bobby Previte: Euclid's Nightmare (Depth of Field)
King/Bluiett Trio: Makin' Whoopee (Mapleshade)
New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars: The Big Kibosh (Shanachie)
Phil Durrant: Sowari (Acta)
Ornette Coleman & Joachim Kuhn: Colors (Harmolodic)
Horace Tapscott: Thoughts of Dar Es Salaam (Arabesque)
Michael Zerang: The Ballad of Frankie and Johnny (Eighth Day)
Matthew Shipp & Joe Morris: Thesis (hat ART)
Gene Ammons*: Legends of Acid Jazz (Prestige)
Charles Earland: Blowing the Blues Away (HighNote)
Kazutoki Umezu: First Deserter (Knitting Factory Works)
Pachora: Pachora (Knitting Factory Works)
Water Shed 5tet: Blue Plate Tectonics (Rastascan)
J.J. Johnson: The Brass Orchestra (Verve)
Marco Eneidi & Glenn Spearman: Creative Music Orchestra (Music & Arts)
Jean Derome: Je me souviens (Ambiances Magnetique)
Joe Henderson: Porgy & Bess (Verve)
Cedar Walton Sextet: The Art Blakey Legacy (Evidence)
Jack Wright@: Thaw (JW)
David Murray Quartet: Long Goodbye (DIW)
Tommy Flanagan Trio: Sea Changes (Evidence)
Andy Haas: Arnhem Land (Avant)

September 1997

Cecil Taylor*: Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come (2 CD's) (Revenant)
Raphe Malik: The Short Form (Eremite)
Fred Anderson: Fred: Chicago Chamber Music (2 CD's) (Southport)
Riot Trio: Riot Trio (Day Job)
Ornette Coleman*: In All Languages (Harmolodic/Verve)
Dean/Dunmall/Levin/Rogers/Rudd/Tippett: Bladik (Cuneiform)
Joe Morris Quartet: You Be Me (Soul Note)
Steve Lacy: 5 x Monk, 5 x Lacy (Silkheart)
McPhee/Vandermark/Kessler: A Meeting in Chicago (Eighth Day)
Matt Moran: Larobok I (Geode)
James Moody & Mark Turner: Warner Jams Vol. 2 (Warner Bros.)
Davis/Beirach/Moutin: Explorations and Impressions (Double-Time)
Roscoe Mitchell: Sound Songs (2 CD's) (Delmark)
Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble: Chicago Now--Thirty Years of Great Black Music, Vol. 2 (Silkheart)
Doneda/Papaux/Zbinden: Instant Songs (For 4 Ears)
Roy Hargrove's Crisol: Habana (Verve)
Matthew Shipp Quartet: The Flow of Things (2.13.61)
Chris Kelsey Trio: The Ingenious Gentleman of the Lower East Side (CIMP)
various*: FMP Story (Musica Jazz)
various: Sonance Quarry (Tautology)
Andrew Cyrille & Richard Teitelbaum: Double Clutch (Silkheart)
Phillip Johnston: Normalology (Eighth Day)
Derek Bailey & Min Tanaka*: Music and Dance (Revenant)
David Murray*: Flowers for Albert (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
Andrew Cyrille Quintet: Ode to the Living Tree (Evidence)
Clusone Trio: Love Henry (Gramavision)
Zusaan Kali Fasteau: Sensual Hearing (Flying Note)
Ab Baars: Verderame (GeestGronden)
Famoudou Don Moye*: Jam For Your Life (AECO/Southport)
Duke Ellington: Berlin '65/Paris '67 (Pablo)
Lee Konitz: It's You (Steeplechase)
Simultan Quartett: Speech (For 4 Ears)
Abdullah Ibrahim: Cape Town Flowers (Enja)
Ray Charles*: Genius+Soul=Jazz (Rhino)
various: Ambiances Magnetiques Vol. 2 (Ambiances Magnetiques)
Christopher Cauley: FINland (Eremite)
Sylvie Courvoisier: Birds of a Feather (Unit)
Ivano Torre: Primadorainpoi (Altri Suoni)
Broken Wire: Broken Wire (Eighth Day)
Johnny Coles@*: Little Johnny C (Blue Note)
Kismet: Curious Yellow (Daisy Lane)
Mads Vinding Trio: The Kingdom (Stunt)
Bill Watrous: Space Available (Double-Time)
Bill Dixon: Vade Mecum II (Soul Note)
Pierre Favre: Portrait (Unit)
various: Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf: The 20th Anniversary Album (no label)
Jeff Colella Trio: Letting Go (Sea Breeze)
Steve Lacy: Bye-Ya (Free Lance)
George Russell Living Time Orchestra: It's About Time (Label Bleu)
Richie Vitale Quintet@: live at smalls (TCB)

August 1997

Cecil Taylor*: Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come (2 CD's) (Revenant)
Ornette Coleman*: In All Languages (Harmolodic/Verve)
Davis/Beirach/Moutin: Explorations and Impressions (Double-Time)
Roscoe Mitchell: Sound Songs (2 CD's) (Delmark)
Derek Bailey & Min Tanaka*: Music and Dance (Revenant)
Raphe Malik: The Short Form (Eremite)
Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble: Chicago Now--Thirty Years of Great Black Music, Vol. 2 (Silkheart)
Bill Dixon: Vade Mecum II (Soul Note)
McPhee/Vandermark/Kessler: A Meeting in Chicago (Eighth Day)
David Murray*: Flowers for Albert (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
Roy Hargrove's Crisol: Habana (Verve)
Matthew Shipp Quartet: The Flow of Things (2.13.61)
Chris Kelsey Trio: The Ingenious Gentleman of the Lower East Side (CIMP)
Simultan Quartett: Speech (For 4 Ears)
Christopher Cauley: FINland (Eremite)
Fred Anderson: Fred: Chicago Chamber Music (2 CD's) (Southport)
Riot Trio: Riot Trio (Day Job)
Pierre Favre: Portrait (Unit)
various: Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf: The 20th Anniversary Album (no label)
Lee Konitz: It's You (Steeplechase)
Matt Moran: Larobok I (Geode)
Dean/Dunmall/Levin/Rogers/Rudd/Tippett: Bladik (Cuneiform)
Broken Wire: Broken Wire (Eighth Day)
Andrew Cyrille & Richard Teitelbaum: Double Clutch (Silkheart)
Andrew Cyrille Quintet: Ode to the Living Tree (Evidence)
various*: FMP Story (Musica Jazz)
Joe Morris Quartet: You Be Me (Soul Note)
Doneda/Papaux/Zbinden: Instant Songs (For 4 Ears)
Jeff Colella Trio: Letting Go (Sea Breeze)
Clusone Trio: Love Henry (Gramavision)
Abdullah Ibrahim: Cape Town Flowers (Enja)
Zusaan Kali Fasteau: Sensual Hearing (Flying Note)
various: Sonance Quarry (Tautology)
Steve Lacy: Bye-Ya (Free Lance)
George Russell Living Time Orchestra: It's About Time (Label Bleu)
Johnny Coles@*: Little Johnny C (Blue Note)
Kismet: Curious Yellow (Daisy Lane)
Richie Vitale Quintet@: live at smalls (TCB)
Steve Lacy: 5 x Monk, 5 x Lacy (Silkheart)
Ab Baars: Verderame (GeestGronden)
Ray Charles*: Genius+Soul=Jazz (Rhino)
Mads Vinding Trio: The Kingdom (Stunt)
Sylvie Courvoisier: Birds of a Feather (Unit)
Steam: Real Time (Eighth Day)
Famoudou Don Moye*: Jam For Your Life (AECO/Southport)
Hamid Drake & Mats Gustafsson: For Don Cherry (OkkaDisk)
Barrett Deems*: Deemus (Delmark)
James Moody & Mark Turner: Warner Jams Vol. 2 (Warner Bros.)
Junk: Continuation of Madness (Faffco)
Ivano Torre: Primadorainpoi (Altri Suoni)

July 1997

Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble: Chicago Now--Thirty Years of Great Black Music, Vol. 2 (Silkheart)
Fred Anderson: Fred: Chicago Chamber Music (2 CD's) (Southport)
Andrew Cyrille & Richard Teitelbaum: Double Clutch (Silkheart)
David Murray*: Flowers for Albert (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
Duke Ellington: Berlin '65/Paris '67 (Pablo)
Hamid Drake & Mats Gustafsson: For Don Cherry (OkkaDisk)
Chicago Underground Orchestra: Playground (no label)
Bailey/Metheny/Bendian/Wertico: The Sign of 4 (3 CD's) (Knitting Factory)
Steam: Real Time (Eighth Day)
Riot Trio: Riot Trio (Day Job)
Clusone Trio: Love Henry (Gramavision)
Roy Hargrove's Crisol: Habana (Verve)
Abdullah Ibrahim: Cape Town Flowers (Enja)
San: Song (Nor-CD)
Nigel Coombes & Steve Beresford: Two to Tangle (Emanem)
Zusaan Kali Fasteau: Sensual Hearing (Flying Note)
Maneri/Morris/Maneri@: Three Men Walking (ECM)
Matthew Shipp Quartet: The Flow of Things (2.13.61)
Bill Watrous: Space Available (Double-Time)
Andrew Cyrille Quintet: Ode to the Living Tree (Evidence)
various*: FMP Story (Musica Jazz)
Steve Lacy: 5 x Monk, 5 x Lacy (Silkheart)
Gianluigi Trovesi Octet: Les Hommes Armes (Soul Note)
Ab Baars: Verderame (GeestGronden)
Lee Konitz: It's You (Steeplechase)
Cannonball Adderley Quintet: Paris, 1960 (Pablo)
Bill Dixon: Vade Mecum II (Soul Note)
Andy Goodrich: Motherless Child (Delmark)
McPhee/Vandermark/Kessler: A Meeting in Chicago (Eighth Day)
DKV Trio: Baraka (OkkaDisk)
Matt Moran: Larobok I (Geode)
Joe Morris Quartet: You Be Me (Soul Note)
Doneda/Papaux/Zbinden: Instant Songs (For 4 Ears)
Steve Lacy: Bye-Ya (Free Lance)
Fred Anderson: Fred Anderson/DKV Trio (OkkaDisk)
Debris: Errata (Eighth Day)
George Russell Living Time Orchestra: It's About Time (Label Bleu)
Helge Hinteregger: The Comforts of Madness (Durian)
Glenn Horiuchi@: Mercy (Music & Arts)
Phillip Johnston: Normalology (Eighth Day)
Ned Rothenberg@: Power Lines (New World)
Barrett Deems*: Deemus (Delmark)
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Quintessence 1 (Emanem)
Jeff Colella Trio: Letting Go (Sea Breeze)
Ron Affif Trio: Ringside (Pablo)
Eugene Chadbourne & John Zorn@: In Memory of Nikki Arane (Incus)
Joseph Jarman & Famoudou Don Moye*: Egwu-Anwu (Sun Song) (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
various: Sonance Quarry (Tautology)
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Quintessence 2 (Emanem)
various: The October Revolution (Evidence)

June 1997

Fred Anderson: Fred: Chicago Chamber Music (2 CD's) (Southport)
McPhee/Vandermark/Kessler: A Meeting in Chicago (Eighth Day)
Steve Lacy: Bye-Ya (Free Lance)
Lee Konitz: It's You (Steeplechase)
Joseph Jarman & Famoudou Don Moye*: Egwu-Anwu (Sun Song) (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
Fred Anderson: Fred Anderson/DKV Trio (OkkaDisk)
Steam: Real Time (Eighth Day)
DKV Trio: DKV Live (OkkaDisk)
N.Y. Hardbop Quintet@: Rokermotion (TCB)
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Quintessence 2 (Emanem)
various: Sonance Quarry (Tautology)
Italian Instabile Orchestra@: Skies of Europe (ECM)
Hamid Drake & Mats Gustafsson: For Don Cherry (OkkaDisk)
Cannonball Adderley Quintet: Paris, 1960 (Pablo)
various: The October Revolution (Evidence)
various*: Critics' Pick Sampler Vol. 1 (Black Saint/Soul Note)
Broken Wire: Broken Wire (Eighth Day)
Irene Schweizer: Many and One Direction (Intakt)
Chicago Underground Orchestra: Playground (no label)
DKV Trio: Baraka (OkkaDisk)
various: Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf: The 20th Anniversary Album (no label)
Debris: Errata (Eighth Day)
Louis Hayes & Woody Shaw: Swiss Radio Days vol. 5 (TCB)
Joe Pass Quartet: Nuages (Pablo)
David Murray*: Flowers for Albert (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
Oliver Lake: Matador of 1st and 1st (Passin' Thru)
John Coltrane*: Blue Train (Blue Note)
Buck Clayton All Stars: Swiss Radio Days vol. 7 (TCB)
Louis Armstrong/King Oliver/Bessie Smith*: High Society (Tradition)
Muhal Richard Abrams@: One Line, Two Views (New World)
Hersch/Moore/Hemingway: Thirteen Ways (GM)
Anthony Braxton & Georg Graewe: Duo (Amsterdam) 1991 (OkkaDisk)
Charles Gayle Quartet: Delivered (2.13.61)
Ray Brown: Super Bass (Telarc)
Clifford Jordan Big Band: Play What You Feel (Mapleshade)
Charlie Parker*: Yardbird Suite (2 CD's) (Rhino)
various: CIMPosium Vol. 2 (CIMP)
Shim: Shim (Big Tiny)
Cecil Payne: Scotch and Milk (Delmark)
Andrew Cyrille Quintet: Ode to the Living Tree (Evidence)
Sun Ra & his Intergalaxtic Arkestra: Stardust From Tomorrow (2 CD's) (Leo)
Elias Haslanger: For the Moment (Heart)
Cecil McBee*: Alternate Spaces (India Navigation)
Parker/Guy/Lytton & Marilyn Crispell: Natives and Aliens (Leo)
Zusaan Kali Fasteau: Sensual Hearing (Flying Note)
Phillip Johnston: Normalology (Eighth Day)
Carlos Garnett: Fuego En Mi Alma (HighNote)
Anthony Davis/James Newton Quartet*: Hidden Voices (India Navigation)
Ned Rothenberg@: Power Lines (New World)
Collective 4tet: Orca (Leo)

May 1997

Fred Anderson: Fred Anderson/DKV Trio (OkkaDisk)
Ned Rothenberg@: Power Lines (New World)
Hersch/Moore/Hemingway: Thirteen Ways (GM)
John Coltrane*: Blue Train (Blue Note)
Irene Schweizer: Many and One Direction (Intakt)
Anthony Braxton & Georg Graewe: Duo (Amsterdam) 1991 (OkkaDisk)
Matthew Shipp "String" Trio: By the Law of Music (hat ART)
John Patton*: Accent on the Blues (Blue Note)
Chicago Underground Orchestra: Playground (no label)
Sun Ra & his Intergalaxtic Arkestra: Stardust From Tomorrow (2 CD's) (Leo)
Dave Douglas Tiny Bell Trio: Live in Europe (Arabesque)
Julian Priester & Sam Rivers: Hints on Light and Shadow (Postcards)
Charlie Parker*: Yardbird Suite (2 CD's) (Rhino)
Fred Van Hove & Ivo Vander Borght@: Lust (WIMprotwee)
Philip Gelb: Purple Wind (Ryokan)
Muhal Richard Abrams@: One Line, Two Views (New World)
Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton: Doc Cheatham & Nicolas Payton (Verve)
Hamiet Bluiett*: Im/possible to Keep (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
Earl Hines*: At Home (Delmark)
Eddie Harris Quartet: Freedom Jazz Dance (MusicMasters)
Carlos Garnett: Fuego En Mi Alma (HighNote)
various*: Critics' Pick Sampler Vol. 1 (Black Saint/Soul Note)
Oliver Lake: Matador of 1st and 1st (Passin' Thru)
Assif Tsahar: Shekhina (Eremite)
Pharoah Sanders*: Pharoah (India Navigation)
Werner Dafeldecker & Uli Fussenegger@: Bogengaenge (Durian)
DKV Trio: DKV Live (OkkaDisk)
Hamid Drake & Mats Gustafsson: For Don Cherry (OkkaDisk)
Parker/Guy/Lytton & Marilyn Crispell: Natives and Aliens (Leo)
Elias Haslanger: For the Moment (Heart)
Lou Grassi Saxtet: Quick Wits (CJR)
Gregg Bendian: Gregg Bendian's Interzone (Eremite)
Niels-Henning Orsted-Peterson Trio: Friends Forever (Milestone)
Georg Graewe: Gedaechtnisspueren: 7 Klavierstuecke (Music & Arts)
Steve Lacy: Bye-Ya (Free Lance)
Cecil McBee: Unspoken (Palmetto)
ROVA: John Coltrane's Ascension (Black Saint)
Enrico Pieranunzi Trio: Seaward (Soul Note)
Tatsu Aoki: Live at Blue Rider Theatre (IEL)
Benny Carter: New York Nights (MusicMasters)
Lewis/Brown/etc.: Clear Blue (Darwin Gross)
Charlie Hunter Quartet: Natty Dread (Blue Note)
David Schumacher: Every Corner (Amosaya)
Italian Instabile Orchestra@: Skies of Europe (ECM)
Muhal Richard Abrams & Marty Ehrlich: The Open Air Meeting (New World)
Barrage Double Trio@: Utility Hitter (Quinnah)
Tatsu Aoki: Eigen (IEL)
Lauren Newton & Joelle Leandre: 18 Colors (Leo)
John Schott: In These Great Times (Tzadik)
San: Song (Nor-CD)

April 1997

Ed Blackwell Trio: Walls-Bridges (Black Saint)
Vandermark Five: Single Piece Flow (Atavistic)
Charlie Parker*: Yardbird Suite (2 CD's) (Rhino)
Anthony Braxton & Brett Larner: 11 Compositions (Duo) 1995 (Leo)
John Zorn Masada Chamber Ensembles@: Bar Kokhba (2 CD's) (Tzadik)
Ellery Eskelin & Andrea Parkins: Green Bermudas (Eremite)
Barrage Double Trio@: Utility Hitter (Quinnah)
Hamiet Bluiett*: Im/possible to Keep (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang: Ask the Sun (OkkaDisk)
Wayne Horvitz & Zony Mash: Cold Spell (Knitting Factory Works)
Mingus Big Band: Live in Time (2 CD's) (Dreyfus)
various*: Critics' Pick Sampler Vol. 1 (Black Saint/Soul Note)
John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem 2 (Emanem)
Gregg Bendian: Gregg Bendian's Interzone (Eremite)
Benny Carter: New York Nights (MusicMasters)
Duke Ellington: Cornell University: Second Set (MusicMasters)
Assif Tsahar: Shekhina (Eremite)
Fred Anderson*: The Missing Link (Nessa)
John Patton*: Accent on the Blues (Blue Note)
Cecil McBee: Unspoken (Palmetto)
Conrad Herwig@: The Latin Side of John Coltrane (Astor Place)
Scott Fields: Disaster at Sea (Music & Arts)
Jimmy McGriff*: Electric Funk (Blue Note)
David Murray@: David Murray/James Newton Quintet (DIW)
Sam Rivers: Concept (Rivbea)
Lou Grassi Saxtet: Quick Wits (CJR)
Northwoods Improvisers: Spinning (Arc)
Frank Morgan: Bop! (Telarc)
Roland Vazquez: Further Dance (RVCD)
Albert Nicholas/Art Hodes Quartet*: The New Orleans-Chicago Connection (Delmark)
Roger Smith: Unexpected Turns (Emanem)
Derek Bailey: Lace (Emanem)
Jimmy McGriff: The Dream Team (Milestone)
Herbie Nichols Project: Love is Proximity (Soul Note)
Prima Materia: Bells (Knitting Factory Works)
Bevan/Frangenheim/Noble: Twisters (Scatter)
Vinny Golia Quintet@: Razor (9 Winds)
Roy Haynes: True or False (Evidence)
Mario Schiano: Social Security (Victo)
Jemeel Moondoc: Tri-P-Let (Eremite)
David Murray Quintet@: With Ray Anderson & Anthony Davis (DIW)
Earl Hines*: At Home (Delmark)
Pucho Brown*: The Best of Pucho and his Latin Soul Brothers (Prestige)
Donald Byrd*: Street Lady (Blue Note)
Tatsu Aoki: Eigen (IEL)
Blonk/Gustafsson/Zerang: Blonk, Gustafsson & Zerang (Kontrans)
Bob Nieske's Wolf Soup: My Desire (GM)
Dexter Gordon*: Plays the Blues (Prestige)
Ivo Perelman: Cama de Terra (Homestead)
Fareed Haque: Deja Vu (Blue Note)

March 1997

Fred Anderson*: The Missing Link (Nessa)
Tim Berne's Bloodcount: Unwound (3 CD's) (Screwgun)
Blonk/Gustafsson/Zerang: Blonk, Gustafsson & Zerang (Kontrans)
Assif Tsahar: Shekhina ( Eremite)
Vandermark Five: Single Piece Flow (Atavistic)
Lou Grassi Saxtet: Quick Wits (CJR)
Jemeel Moondoc: Tri-P-Let (Eremite)
John Zorn Masada Chamber Ensembles@: Bar Kokhba (2 CD's) (Tzadik)
Ellery Eskelin & Andrea Parkins: Green Bermudas (Eremite)
Mingus Big Band: Live in Time (2 CD's) (Dreyfus)
Briggan Krauss: Good Kitty (Knitting Factory Works)
John Patton*: Accent on the Blues (Blue Note)
Jimmy McGriff*: Electric Funk (Blue Note)
Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny: Beyond the Missouri Sky (Verve)
Cecil McBee: Unspoken (Palmetto)
various: The Thunderclaps CD (X-OR)
Junko Onishi: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang: Ask the Sun (OkkaDisk)
Gregg Bendian: Gregg Bendian's Interzone (Eremite)
Roy Haynes: True or False (Evidence)
David S. Ware Quartet: Godspelized (DIW)
Masada: Zayin (Seven) (DIW)
Earl Hines*: At Home (Delmark)
Kenny Barron & Mino Cinelu: Swamp Sally (Verve)
Conrad Herwig@: The Latin Side of John Coltrane (Astor Place)
Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls: Rebel Roots (Naim)
Stanley Turrentine*: Easy Walker (Blue Note)
John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem 2 (Emanem)
Prima Materia: Bells (Knitting Factory Works)
Frank Morgan: Bop! ( Telarc)
Manhattan Projects: We Remember Cannonball (Evidence)
Lennie Tristano*: Manhattan Studio (Jazz Records)
Jimmy McGriff: The Dream Team (Milestone)
Albert Nicholas/Art Hodes Quartet*: The New Orleans-Chicago Connection (Delmark)
Northwoods Improvisers: Spinning (Arc)
Vinny Golia Quintet@: Razor (9 Winds)
Branford Marsalis Trio: The Dark Keys (Columbia)
George Lewis & Don Ewell*: Reunion (Delmark)
Glenn Horiuchi@: Hilltop View (Music & Arts)
Wayne Horvitz & Zony Mash: Cold Spell (Knitting Factory Works)
Marc Cary: Listen (Arabesque)
Scott Fields: Disaster at Sea (Music & Arts)
Donald Byrd*: Street Lady (Blue Note)
Brian Gephart & Bob Long Quartet: Water Logic (no label)
David Murray@: David Murray/James Newton Quintet (DIW)
Lewis/Brown/etc.: Clear Blue (Darwin Gross)
Frank Foster: Leo Rising (Arabesque)
Bert Wilson & Rebirth: Endless Fingers (Arabesque)
Ella Fitzgerald*: Sings the Blues (Prestige)
Bob Nieske's Wolf Soup: My Desire (GM)

February 1997

Vandermark Five: Single Piece Flow (Atavistic)
Sam Rivers: Concept (Rivbea)
Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang: Ask the Sun (OkkaDisk)
Erik Friedlander@: The Watchman (Tzadik)
Dexter Gordon*: Plays the Blues (Prestige)
Frank Morgan: Bop! (Telarc)
James Blood Ulmer*: Tales of Captain Black (DIW)
Agasul Orchester: No Turning Back (Unit)
Gerry Hemingway Quintet: Perfect World (Random Acoustics)
Mingus Big Band: Live in Time (2 CD's) (Dreyfus)
John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem 2 (Emanem)
Roger Smith: Unexpected Turns (Emanem)
David S. Ware Quartet: Godspelized (DIW)
Bevan/Frangenheim/Noble: Twisters (Scatter)
Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls: Rebel Roots (Naim)
Dana Reason: Primal Identity (Deep Listening)
Anthony Braxton & the Fred Simmons Trio: 9 Standards (Quartet) 1993 (2 CD's) (Leo)
Kirk Lightsey Trio: Goodbye Mr. Evans (Evidence)
Brian Gephart & Bob Long Quartet: Water Logic (no label)
Mario Schiano: Social Security (Victo)
Derek Bailey: Lace (Emanem)
Vinny Golia Large Ensemble@: Tutto Contare (9 Winds)
Ivo Perelman: Cama de Terra (Homestead)
Don Byron: Bug Music (Nonesuch)
Masada: Zayin (Seven) (DIW)
Spanish Fly: Fly by Night (Accurate)
Eugene Chadbourne: Boogie With the Hook (Leo)
Benny Green: Kaleidoscope (Blue Note)
John Patton Quintet: This One's for Ja (DIW)
various: CIMPosium (CIMP)
various: The Thunderclaps CD (X-OR)
Miles Davis*: Plays the Blues (Prestige)
Betty Carter: I'm Yours, You're Mine (Verve)
Steve Beresford: Cue Sheets (Tzadik)
Dave Scott/Tony Malaby Quartet: (untitled) (9 Winds)
Rich Corpolongo: Just Found Joy (Delmark)
Northwoods Improvisers: Spinning (Arc)
Bill DeArango: Anything Went (GM)
Lennie Tristano*: Manhattan Studio (Jazz Records)
Joe Henderson: Big Band (Verve)
Jimmy Smith: Angel Eyes (Verve)
Fred Anderson*: The Missing Link (Nessa)
Jodie Christian: Front Line (Delmark)
Jeff Song and Lowbrow: Rules of Engagement (Asian Improv)
Hamiet Bluiett: Bluiett's Barbecue Band (Mapleshade)
Ella Fitzgerald*: Sings the Blues (Prestige)
John Coltrane*: Plays the Blues (Prestige)
Stephen Scott: The Beautiful Thing (Verve)
Roots of Communication: Roots of Communication (Unit)
Chet Baker: In Bologna (Dreyfus)

January 1997

Sam Rivers: Concept (Rivbea)
Gerry Hemingway Quintet: Perfect World (Random Acoustics)
Dexter Gordon*: Plays the Blues (Prestige)
John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem 2 (Emanem)
Agasul Orchester: No Turning Back (Unit)
Northwoods Improvisers: Spinning (Arc)
Erik Friedlander@: The Watchman (Tzadik)
Coleman Hawkins*: Plays the Blues (Prestige)
David S. Ware Quartet: Godspelized (DIW)
Masada: Zayin (Seven) (DIW)
Ornette Coleman*: Body Meta (Harmolodic)
Mario Schiano: Social Security (Victo)
Kirk Lightsey Trio: Goodbye Mr. Evans (Evidence)
Ornette Coleman@: The Belgrade Concert (Jazz Door)
Myra Melford: The Same River, Twice (Gramavision)
Matthew Shipp Duo: With Roscoe Mitchell (2.13.61)
Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls: Rebel Roots (Naim)
Lennie Tristano & Warne Marsh*: Intuition (Capitol)
Roger Smith: Unexpected Turns (Emanem)
Sonny Rollins*: Silver City (2 CD's) (Milestone)
James P. Johnson*: The Original James P. Johnson, 1942-1945 (Smithsonian Folkways)
Bobby Previte: Too Close to the Pole (Enja)
Don Byron: Bug Music (Nonesuch)
Ivo Perelman: Cama de Terra (Homestead)
Lennie Tristano*: Manhattan Studio (Jazz Records)
Evan Parker & Sainkho Namtchylak: Mars Song (Victo)
Wes Montgomery: Encores Vol. 2: Blue'n'Boogie (Milestone)
Vinny Golia Large Ensemble@: Tutto Contare (9 Winds)
Brian Gephart & Bob Long Quartet: Water Logic (no label)
Betsuni Nanmo Klezmer: Waltz (Nani)
Joe Henderson: Big Band (Verve)
Joe Locke Quartet: Inner Space (SteepleChase)
Paul Bley Trio: Modern Chant (MusicMasters)
Robert Dick & Mari Kimura: Irrefragable Dreams (Random Acoustics)
Mingus Big Band: Live in Time (2 CD's) (Dreyfus)
John Patton Quintet: This One's for Ja (DIW)
Dodo Marmarosa*: Up in Dodo's Room (Jazz Classics)
Gustafsson/Guy/Lovens: Mouth Eating Trees and Related Activities (OkkaDisk)
Fredrick Lonberg-Holm: Personal Scratch (Eighth Day)
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Lausanne 1960, 2nd Set (TCB)
Up There Trio: Push It (BVHaast)
Rich Corpolongo: Just Found Joy (Delmark)
Leandre/Houle/Graewe: Live at Banlieues Bleues (Red Toucan)
Bob Moses: Devotion (Soul Note)
Vandermark Five: Single Piece Flow (Atavistic)
Quincy Jones: Q Live in Paris Circa 1960 (Qwest)
Ken Schaphorst: Over the Rainbow (Accurate)
Stevens/Duval Quintet: Elements (Leo)
Ella Fitzgerald*: Sings the Blues (Prestige)
Joe Lovano: Celebrating Sinatra (Blue Note)

December 1996

David S. Ware Quartet: Godspelized (DIW)
Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls: Rebel Roots (Naim)
Masada: Zayin (Seven) (DIW)
Ivo Perelman: Sad Life (Leo)
Northwoods Improvisers: Fog and Fire (Arc)
James P. Johnson*: The Original James P. Johnson, 1942-1945 (Smithsonian Folkways)
Myra Melford: The Same River, Twice (Gramavision)
Rich Corpolongo: Just Found Joy (Delmark)
Ornette Coleman@: The Belgrade Concert (Jazz Door)
Cinghiale: Hoofbeats of the Snorting Swine (Eighth Day)
Tony Oxley Celebration Orchestra: The Enchanted Messenger (Soul Note)
Anthony Braxton & the Fred Simmons Trio: 9 Standards (Quartet) 1993 (2 CD's) (Leo)
Michael Brecker: Tales From the Hudson (Impulse!)
Sun Ra*: The Singles (2 CD's) (Evidence)
John Patton Quintet: This One's for Ja (DIW)
Scott Rosenberg: Arc (Super J)
Konec Leta@: Summer's End (Black Point)
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Lausanne 1960, 2nd Set (TCB)
Betsuni Nanmo Klezmer: Waltz (Nani)
Evan Parker & Sainkho Namtchylak: Mars Song (Victo)
Ornette Coleman*: Body Meta (Harmolodic)
various*: The Birth of the Third Stream (Columbia)
Jodie Christian: Front Line (Delmark)
Louis Hayes Quintet: Louis at Large (Sharp Nine)
ICP Orchestra@: Bospaadje Konijnehol II (ICP)
James Blood Ulmer: Music Speaks Louder Than Words (DIW)
Count Basie*: Count Basie & the Kansas City 7 (Impulse!)
Leandre/Houle/Graewe: Live at Banlieues Bleues (Red Toucan)
Vinny Golia Large Ensemble@: Tutto Contare (9 Winds)
various: October Meeting 87 (Bimhuis)
Ellery Eskelin: The Sun Died (Soul Note)
Joe Henderson: Big Band (Verve)
various: CIMPosium (CIMP)
Dougie Bowne: One Way Elevator (DIW)
Greg Cohen: Way Low (DIW)
Branford Marsalis Trio: The Dark Keys (Columbia)
Hamiet Bluiett: Bluiett's Barbecue Band (Mapleshade)
Jon Jang Sextet: Two Flowers on a Stem (Soul Note)
Dodo Marmarosa*: Up in Dodo's Room (Jazz Classics)
Chet Baker: In Bologna (Dreyfus)
John Lindberg: Resurrection of a Dormant Soul (Black Saint)
Don Byron: Bug Music (Nonesuch)
Liquid Soul: Liquid Soul (Ark 21)
Matthew Shipp Duo: With Roscoe Mitchell (2.13.61)
Gustafsson/Guy/Lovens: Mouth Eating Trees and Related Activities (OkkaDisk)
Mark Weber: Words and Stories (9 Winds)
Fredrick Lonberg-Holm: Personal Scratch (Eighth Day)
Avi Lebo Double Trombone Quintet: Shades of Brass (Mapleshade)
Available Jelly: Monuments (Ramboy)
Steve Beresford: Cue Sheets (Tzadik)

November 1996

Myra Melford: The Same River, Twice (Gramavision)
Willem Breuker Kollektief*: The Parrot (BVHaast)
Eugene Chadbourne: Boogie With the Hook (Leo)
Anthony Braxton & the Fred Simmons Trio: 9 Standards (Quartet) 1993 (2 CD's) (Leo)
Jodie Christian: Front Line (Delmark)
Don Byron: Bug Music (Nonesuch)
Cinghiale: Hoofbeats of the Snorting Swine (Eighth Day)
Tony Oxley Celebration Orchestra: The Enchanted Messenger (Soul Note)
Ivo Perelman: Sad Life (Leo)
various: CIMPosium (CIMP)
Sonny Rollins*: Silver City (2 CD's) (Milestone)
various: October Meeting 87 (Bimhuis)
Steve Beresford: Cue Sheets (Tzadik)
Jimmy Smith: Angel Eyes (Verve)
McPhee/Parker/Lazro: (untitled) (Vandoeuvre)
Jon Jang Sextet: Two Flowers on a Stem (Soul Note)
Sun Ra*: The Singles (2 CD's) (Evidence)
Ornette Coleman*: Body Meta (Harmolodic)
John Lindberg: Resurrection of a Dormant Soul (Black Saint)
Lennie Tristano & Warne Marsh*: Intuition (Capitol)
AMM*: Combine + Laminates (Matchless)
Evan Parker: Synergetics-Phonomanie III (2 CD's) (Leo)
Matthew Shipp Trio: Prism (Brinkman)
Rich Corpolongo: Just Found Joy (Delmark)
Gustafsson/Jormin/Jormin: Opus Apus (LJ)
Billy Strayhorn*: The Peaceful Side (Capitol)
ICP Orchestra: Bospaadje Konijnehol II (ICP)
Gerry Gibbs Sextet: The Thrasher (Qwest)
various*: The Birth of the Third Stream (Columbia)
Gustafsson/Guy/Lovens: Mouth Eating Trees and Related Activities (OkkaDisk)
Debris: Rapture in the Church of Disreputable Daydreams (Music & Arts)
Chet Baker: In Bologna (Dreyfus)
Bobby Previte: Too Close to the Pole (Enja)
Count Basie*: Count Basie & the Kansas City 7 (Impulse!)
Charlie Parker: Legendary Rockland Palace Concert 1952 (Jazz Classics)
Derek Bailey@: Drop Me Off at 96th (Scatter)
Benny Carter & Phil Woods: Another Time, Another Place (2 CD's) (Evening Star)
Kenny Burrell: Then Along Came Kenny (Evidence)
Alice Coltrane*: Ptah the El Daoud (Impulse!)
Chris Cutler & Zeena Parkins: Shark! (ReR)
Ernie Watts: The Long Road Home (JVC)
Marty Ehrlich: New York Child (Enja)
Bill Evans: Turn Out the Stars (highlights disc) (Warner Bros.)
Wes Montgomery: Encores Vol. 2: Blue'n'Boogie (Milestone)
Joe Henderson: Big Band (Verve)
Fredrick Lonberg-Holm: Personal Scratch (Eighth Day)
Loschel/Skrepek/Zrost: While You Wait (Extraplatte)
Mark Helias@: Loopin' the Cool (Enja)
Guy/Gustafsson/Strid: You Forget to Answer (Maya)
Bosse Broberg: Regni (Phono Suecia)

October 1996

Sun Ra*: The Singles (2 CD's) (Evidence)
Cinghiale: Hoofbeats of the Snorting Swine (Eighth Day)
Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron: Round Midnight (2 CD's) (hat ART)
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Lausanne 1960, 2nd Set (TCB)
Jon Jang Sextet: Two Flowers on a Stem (Soul Note)
What We Live: Fo(u)r (Black Saint)
Bobby Previte: Too Close to the Pole (Enja)
Marty Ehrlich: New York Child (Enja)
Fredrick Lonberg-Holm: Personal Scratch (Eighth Day)
Ellery Eskelin: The Sun Died (Soul Note)
Mark Helias@: Loopin' the Cool (Enja)
Coleman Hawkins Quartet*: Today and Now (Impulse!)
various: Sounds Like 1996: Music by Asian American Artists (2 CD's) (IEL)
Chet Baker: In Tokyo (2 CD's) (Evidence)
Debris: Rapture in the Church of Disreputable Daydreams (Music & Arts)
Ornette Coleman: Sound Museum (2 CD's) (Harmolodic)
Philip Johnson's Big Trouble: Flood at the Ant Farm (Black Saint)
Jimmy Giuffre*: Free Fall (Columbia (France))
Sweet Basil Trio (Walton/Carter/Higgins): St. Thomas (Evidence)
Alice Coltrane*: Ptah the El Daoud (Impulse!)
Rammel/Corbett/Kapsalis: Van's Peppy Syncopators (Penumbra)
John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem 1 (Emanem)
Jack Walrath & Hard Corps: Journey,, Man! (Evidence)
Cyrus Chestnut Trio: Nut (Evidence)
Roscoe Mitchell*: Sound (Delmark)
Lee Konitz: Rhapsody II (Evidence)
Benny Carter & Phil Woods: Another Time, Another Place (2 CD's) (Evening Star)
Matthew Shipp Duo: With Roscoe Mitchell (2.13.61)
Gustafsson/Guy/Lovens: Mouth Eating Trees and Related Activities (OkkaDisk)
various: CIMPosium (CIMP)
William Parker/In Order to Survive: Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy (Homestead)
Joseph Jarman*: As If It Were the Seasons (Delmark)
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre*: Forces and Feelings (Delmark)
Kenny Burrell: Then Along Came Kenny (Evidence)
Oscar Peterson: Meets Roy Hargrove and Ralph Moore (Telarc)
Available Jelly: Monuments (Ramboy)
Myra Melford: The Same River, Twice (Gramavision)
Sonny Stitt: In Style (Muse)
Muhal Richard Abrams*: Young at Heart/Wise in Time (Delmark)
Ernie Watts: The Long Road Home (JVC)
Gerry Gibbs Sextet: The Thrasher (Qwest)
Derek Bailey@: Drop Me Off at 96th (Scatter)
Phil Minton Quartet: Mouthfull of Ecstasy (Victo)
McPhee/Parker/Lazro: (untitled) (Vandoeuvre)
Lennie Tristano & Warne Marsh*: Intuition (Capitol)
Famoudou Don Moye & Enoch Williams: Afrikan Song (AECO)
Eddie Jefferson: Things are Getting Better (Muse)
Loschel/Skrepek/Zrost: While You Wait (Extrapolate)
Anthony Wonsey Trio: Anthonyology (Evidence)
Bosse Broberg: Regni (Phono Suecia)

September 1996

Ornette Coleman: Sound Museum (2 CD's) (Harmolodic)
What We Live: Fo(u)r (Black Saint)
Philip Johnson's Big Trouble: Flood at the Ant Farm (Black Saint)
William Parker/In Order to Survive: Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy (Homestead)
Guy/Gustafsson/Strid: You Forget to Answer (Maya)
Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron: Round Midnight (2 CD's) (hat ART)
Samana: Samana (Storywiz)
Rammel/Corbett/Kapsalis: Van's Peppy Syncopators (Penumbra)
John Russell & Roger Turner: Birthdays (Emanem)
John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem 1 (Emanem)
Jack Walrath & Hard Corps: Journey,, Man! (Evidence)
Cyrus Chestnut Trio: Nut (Evidence)
Famoudou Don Moye & Enoch Williams: Afrikan Song (AECO)
Ken Field: Subterranea (OO Discs)
Joe Morris Ensemble: Elsewhere (Homestead)
Matt Wilson: As Wave Follows Wave (Palmetto)
Jean Derome et les dangereux Zhoms: Navre (DAME)
Ray Drummond: Vignettes (Arabesque)
Roscoe Mitchell*: Sound (Delmark)
Fredrick Lonberg-Holm: Personal Scratch (Eighth Day)
Andrea Parkins: Cast Iron Fact (Knitting Factory)
Sonny Stitt: In Style (Muse)
Crispell/Jormin/Strid@: Spring Tour (Alice)
Philippe Micol: New York Interviews (Unit)
Rova: Ptow!! (Victo)
Gerry Wiggins Trio: Soulidarity (Concord)
Evan Parker & Paul Lytton: Two Octobers (1972-1975) (Emanem)
Howard Riley@: Flight (FMR)
George Van Eps & Howard Alden: Keepin' Time (Concord)
Eddie Jefferson: Things are Getting Better (Muse)
Hotel X: Uncommon Grounds (SST)
Jimmy Giuffre*: Free Fall (Columbia (France))
Ellery Eskelin: The Sun Died (Soul Note)
Sweet Basil Trio (Walton/Carter/Higgins): St. Thomas (Evidence)
Lee Konitz: Rhapsody II (Evidence)
Don Byron Quintet: No-Vibe Zone (Knitting Factory)
Wolfgang Fuchs: Bits & Pieces (FMP)
John Hicks: Piece For My Peace (Landmark)
Marcus Printup: UnVeiled (Blue Note)
Steve Beresford: Fish of the Week (Scatter)
Chris Potter : Moving In (Concord)
Loschel/Skrepek/Zrost: While You Wait (Extrapolate)
Charles Sullivan: Kamau (Arabesque)
Anthony Wonsey Trio: Anthonyology (Evidence)
Horace Silver: The Hardbop Grandpop (Impulse!)
Michael Carvin: Drum Concerto at Dawn (Mapleshade)
Muhal Richard Abrams*: Young at Heart/Wise in Time (Delmark)
Mark Helias@: Loopin' the Cool (Enja)
Cinghiale: Hoofbeats of the Snorting Swine (Eighth Day)
Joshua Redman: Freedom in the Groove (Warner Bros.)

August 1996

Famoudou Don Moye & Enoch Williams: Afrikan Song (AECO)
Vandy Harris: Pure Fire (Katumbi)
Andrea Parkins: Cast Iron Fact (Knitting Factory)
Either/Orchestra: Across the Omniverse (Accurate)
Ken Field: Subterranea (OO Discs)
John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem 1 (Emanem)
William Parker/In Order to Survive: Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy (Homestead)
Sonny Stitt: In Style (Muse)
Rodney Kendrick: Last Chance for Common Sense (Verve)
Don Byron Quintet: No-Vibe Zone (Knitting Factory)
Honk, Wail and Moan: Mailbox Above (Uff Da)
Joe Morris Ensemble: Elsewhere (Homestead)
Teddy Edwards & Houston Person: Horn to Horn (Muse)
Black Note: Nothin' But the Swing (Impulse!)
Ella Fitzgerald: Ella & Friends (Decca)
Wolfgang Fuchs: Bits & Pieces (FMP)
Matt Wilson: As Wave Follows Wave (Palmetto)
various: Masters of Jazz v. 2: Bebop's Greatest Hits (Rhino)
John Hicks: Piece For My Peace (Landmark)
Ellis/Ochs/Robinson: What We Live (DIW)
John Butcher: London and Cologne (Rastascan)
Crispell/Jormin/Strid@: Spring Tour (Alice)
Paquito D'Rivera: Portraits of Cuba (Chesky)
Leo Smith: Procession of the Great Ancestry (Nessa)
Philippe Micol: New York Interviews (Unit)
Philippe Micol: Improvisationsstudien (Unit)
various: Masters of Jazz v. 4: Big Bands... (Rhino)
D.D. Jackson: Rhythm-Dance (Justin Time)
Ornette Coleman: Sound Museum (2 CD's) (Harmolodic)
Rob Brown Trio: High Wire (Soul Note)
Rova: Ptow!! (Victo)
Christian Wolfarth: 3-3-2 (Percaso)
Shirley Scott: Great Scott! (Muse)
Gerry Wiggins Trio: Soulidarity (Concord)
Nat King Cole Trio: Hit That Jive, Jack (Decca)
Errol Garner: Now Playing: A Night at the Movies... (Telarc)
Evan Parker & Paul Lytton: Two Octobers (1972-1975) (Emanem)
Jean Derome et les dangereux Zhoms: Navre (DAME)
Dave McKenna & Joe Temperley: Sunbeam and Thundercloud (Concord)
Samana: Samana (Storywiz)
Giuffre/Bley/Swallow: Conversations With a Goose (Soul Note)
Howard Riley@: Flight (FMR)
Moscow Composers Orchestra: An Italian Love Affair (Leo)
Freddie Hubbard: Here to Stay (Blue Note)
George Van Eps & Howard Alden: Keepin' Time (Concord)
Horace Tapscott@: The Dark Tree 1 (hat ART)
various: Dynamic Duos - Memorable Jazz (Drive Archive)
Sten Sandell: Music From a Water Hole (Alice Musik)
Michael Cochrane: Impressions (Landmark)
Clark Terry: Express (Reference)

July 1996

Ellis/Ochs/Robinson: What We Live (DIW)
Either/Orchestra: Across the Omniverse (Accurate)
Rob Brown Trio: High Wire (Soul Note)
Barondown@: Crackshot (Avant)
Don Byron Quintet: No-Vibe Zone (Knitting Factory)
Giuffre/Bley/Swallow: Conversations With a Goose (Soul Note)
John Butcher: London and Cologne (Rastascan)
Howard Riley@: Flight (FMR)
Aoki/Wong/Pavkovic Trio: Urban Reception (Southport)
Rova: Ptow!! (Victo)
Glenn Spearman Double Trio: The Fields (Black Saint)
Mark Dresser: Invocation (Knitting Factory)
Crispell/Jormin/Strid@: Spring Tour (Alice)
Christian Wolfarth: 3-3-2 (Percaso)
Stephane Furic: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (Soul Note)
Geisser/Hennen/Hoyer/Parker: The Ropedancer (Leo Lab)
Arcado String Trio: Live in Europe (Avant)
Feet Music: Assertions & Sketches (Chroma)
David Murray Big Band: South of the Border (DIW)
Charles Sullivan: Kamau (Arabesque)
Marian McPartland Trio: Live at Yoshi's Nitespot (Concord)
John Coltrane*: Complete Atlantic Recordings (Rhino)
Ivano Torre Quintetto: Urt' O Logique (Unit)
Dave Douglas: Five (Soul Note)
Max Roach*: It's Time (Impulse!)
Anthony Braxton: Solo Piano (Standards) 1995 (No More)
Ron Miles: My Cruel Heart (Gramavision)
Ray Brown Trio: The Sax Players (Telarc)
various: Kansas City (soundtrack) (Verve)
David Pavkovic & Tatsu Aoki: Actual Music (Toe)
Keystone Trio: Heart Beats (Milestone)
Art Farmer*: Out of the Past (Chess)
Art Pepper & Zoot Sims@: Art'n'Zoot (Pablo)
Alden/Vignola/Bruno: Concord Jazz Guitar Collective (Concord)
Franklin Kiermeyer: Kairos (Evidence)
Joshua Breakstone: Remembering Grant Green (Evidence)
Ted Rosenthal Trio: Rosenthology (Concord)
Dennis Mitcheltree: Brooklyn (Dengor)
New York Classics Big Band: New York Dances (Mapleshade)
Moscow Composers Orchestra: An Italian Love Affair (Leo)
Horace Silver: The Hardbop Grandpop (Impulse!)
Carlos Garnett: Resurgence (Muse)
John Zorn*: The Classic Guide to Strategy (Tzadik)
Kelly Brand Sextet: A Dream in Stone (Koch)
Matthew Shipp: Symbol Systems (No More)
Wadada Leo Smith: Tao-Njia (Tzadik)
Richie Beirach Trio: Trust (Evidence)
Von Freeman: Fire (Southport)
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars*: Mexican Passport (Contemporary)
Mario Schiano@: Blue Memories (Splasc(h))

June 1996

Dave Douglas: Five (Soul Note)
World Saxophone Quartet: Four Now (Justin Time)
Von Freeman: Fire (Southport)
Ivano Torre Quintetto: Urt' O Logique (Unit)
Mocktet: Periphery (Mocktet)
Wadada Leo Smith: Tao-Njia (Tzadik)
Oliver Lake Quintet: Dedicated to Dolphy (Black Saint)
various: Kansas City (soundtrack) (Verve)
Michael Zerang: Frankenstein (Garlic)
Matthew Shipp: Symbol Systems (No More)
Brotzmann/Crispell/Drake@: Hyperion (Music & Arts)
Barondown@: Crackshot (Avant)
Pino Minafra: Sudori (Victo)
John Zorn*: The Classic Guide to Strategy (Tzadik)
John Coltrane*: Complete Atlantic Recordings (Rhino)
Ghost in the Machine: Featuring Evan Parker (Leo)
David Murray Big Band: South of the Border (DIW)
Fred Anderson: Birdhouse (OkkaDisc)
Pandelis Karayorgis & Eric Pakula@: Lines (Accurate)
Ornette Coleman*: Chappaqua Suite (Columbia (France))
Geisser/Hennen/Hoyer/Parker: The Ropedancer (Leo Lab)
Anthony Braxton & Derek Bailey*: First Duo Concert (London 1974) (Emanem)
Grant Green*: Solid (Blue Note)
Plimley/Ellis/Robinson@: Density of the Lovestruck Demons (Music & Arts)
Tony Williams*: Life Time (Blue Note)
Crispell/Guy/Hemingway@: Cascades (Music & Arts)
Art Pepper & Zoot Sims@: Art'n'Zoot (Pablo)
Aoki/Wong/Pavkovic Trio: Urban Reception (Southport)
Muhal Richard Abrams: Think All, Focus One (Black Saint)
Anthony Braxton: Solo Piano (Standards) 1995 (No More)
Cassandra Wilson: New Moon Daughter (Blue Note)
Art Farmer*: Out of the Past (Chess)
Jay Hoggard: A Night in Greenwich Village (Muse)
Talib Kibwe: Introducing Talib Kibwe (Evidence)
Carlos Garnett: Resurgence (Muse)
Anthony Braxton: Composition No. 173 (Black Saint)
Saxemble: Saxemble (Qwest)
Feet Music: Assertions & Sketches (Chroma)
Mario Schiano@: Blue Memories (Splasc(h))
Richie Beirach Trio: Trust (Evidence)
Keystone Trio: Heart Beats (Milestone)
Charles Papasoff: International Baritone Conspiracy (Victo)
Arcado String Trio: Live in Europe (Avant)
Double Jeu Trio: Actual Stories (Unit)
Lionel Hampton*: Legendary Decca Recordings (MCA)
Dave Young: Two by Two Vol. 2 (Justin Time)
Chris Potter & Kenny Werner: Chris Potter & Kenny Werner (Concord)
Jeff Palmer: Island Universe (Soul Note)
John Zorn: Filmworks II (Tzadik)
Alden/Vignola/Bruno: Concord Jazz Guitar Collective (Concord)

May 1996

Dave Douglas: Five (Soul Note)
World Saxophone Quartet: Four Now (Justin Time)
Ivano Torre Quintetto: Urt' O Logique (Unit)
Mocktet: Periphery (Mocktet)
Oliver Lake Quintet: Dedicated to Dolphy (Black Saint)
Wadada Leo Smith: Tao-Njia (Tzadik)
Von Freeman: Fire (Southport)
Pino Minafra: Sudori (Victo)
Fred Anderson: Birdhouse (OkkaDisc)
John Zorn*: The Classic Guide to Strategy (Tzadik)
various: Kansas City (soundtrack) (Verve)
Pandelis Karayorgis & Eric Pakula@: Lines (Accurate)
Ornette Coleman*: Chappaqua Suite (Columbia (France))
Brotzmann/Crispell/Drake@: Hyperion (Music & Arts)
Matthew Shipp: Symbol Systems (No More)
Muhal Richard Abrams: Think All, Focus One (Black Saint)
John Coltrane*: Complete Atlantic Recordings (Rhino)
Grant Green@: Solid (Blue Note)
Anthony Braxton & Derek Bailey*: First Duo Concert (London 1974) (Emanem)
Mario Schiano@: Blue Memories (Splasc(h))
Anthony Braxton: Solo Piano (Standards) 1995 (No More)
Cassandra Wilson: New Moon Daughter (Blue Note)
Plimley/Ellis/Robinson@: Density of the Lovestruck Demons (Music & Arts)
Art Farmer*: Out of the Past (Chess)
Tony Williams*: Life Time (Blue Note)
Michael Zerang: Frankenstein (Garlic)
Geisser/Hennen/Hoyer/Parker: The Ropedancer (Leo Lab)
Richie Beirach Trio: Trust (Evidence)
Crispell/Guy/Hemingway@: Cascades (Music & Arts)
Double Jeu Trio: Actual Stories (Unit)
Lionel Hampton*: Legendary Decca Recordings (MCA)
Art Pepper & Zoot Sims@: Art'n'Zoot (Pablo)
Dave Young: Two by Two Vol. 2 (Justin Time)
Jeff Palmer: Island Universe (Soul Note)
Chris Potter & Kenny Werner: Chris Potter & Kenny Werner (Concord)
Talib Kibwe: Introducing Talib Kibwe (Evidence)
Jay Hoggard: A Night in Greenwich Village (Muse)
John Patton: Memphis to New York Spirit (Blue Note)
Keystone Trio: Heart Beats (Milestone)
Anthony Braxton: Composition No. 173 (Black Saint)
John Zorn: Filmworks II (Tzadik)
Charles Papasoff: International Baritone Conspiracy (Victo)
Alden/Vignola/Bruno: Concord Jazz Guitar Collective (Concord)
Franklin Kiermeyer: Kairos (Evidence)
Carlos Garnett: Resurgence (Muse)
Larry Ochs: The Secret Magritte (Black Saint)
various: A rec.music.bluenote Sampler ((no label))
Werner Ludi: Lucendro (Unit)
Nil (Scholl/Erismann/Niggli/etc.): Nil (Unit)
Koch/Schutz/Studer: Hardcore Chambermusic (Intakt)

April 1996

Fred Anderson: Birdhouse (OkkaDisc)
Guillermo Gregorio: Approximately (hat ART)
Muhal Richard Abrams: Think All, Focus One (Black Saint)
Pino Minafra: Sudori (Victo)
Paul Rutherford & Paul Rogers: Rogues (Emanem)
Gerry Hemingway: Acoustic Solo Works 1983-94 (Random Acoustics)
Project W: Project W (Apraxia)
NRG Ensemble: This Is My House (Delmark)
Namchylak/Rothenberg: Amulet (Leo)
Mocktet: Periphery (Mocktet)
Charles Papasoff: International Baritone Conspiracy (Victo)
Charlie Haden Quartet West: Now is the Hour (Gitanes)
Anthony Braxton & Derek Bailey*: First Duo Concert (London 1974) (Emanem)
Anthony Braxton: 2 Compositions (Jarvenpaa) 1988 (Leo)
Billy Tipton Memorial Sax Quartet: Box (New World)
Larry Ochs: The Secret Magritte (Black Saint)
John Coltrane*: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (Rhino)
World Saxophone Quartet: Four Now (Justin Time)
Scholl/Erismann/Niggli et al: Nil (Unit)
Koch/Schutz/Studer: Hardcore Chambermusic (Intakt)
Plunge: Falling With Grace (Accurate)
Clare Fischer: Just Me (Concord)
Myth-Science: Love in Outer Space (Knitting Factory)
Sonny Rollins: Plus 3 (Milestone)
John Patton: Memphis to New York Spirit (Blue Note)
Plimley/Ellis/Robinson@: Density of the Lovestruck Demons (Music & Arts)
Jimmy Smith & Eddie Harris: All the Way Live (Milestone)
Charlie Haden*: Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse!)
Roots@: Saying Something (In + Out)
Jane Ira Bloom: The Nearness (Arabesque)
Louis Armstrong*: Satchmo at Symphony Hall (MCA)
Ari Brown: Ultimate Frontier (Delmark)
Joe Maneri Quartet: Let the Horse Go (Leo)
Double Jeu Trio: Actual Stories (Unit)
Frank Morgan@: Love, Lost & Found (Telarc)
Pandelis Karayorgis & Eric Pakula@: Lines (Accurate)
Bill Evans w/ Stan Getz@: But Beautiful (Milestone)
Cassandra Wilson: New Moon Daughter (Blue Note)
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Hot and Cold Heroes (Emanem)
Marilyn Crispell & Tim Berne@: Inference (Music & Arts)
Ruby Braff & Roger Kellaway: Inside & Out (Concord)
Horace Tapscott: Aiee! The Phantom (Arabesque)
Roy Campbell: Communion (Silkheart)
James Moody*: Return From Overbrook (Chess)
Lester Young*: The Complete Aladdin Recordings (Blue Note)
Eric Alexander & Lin Halliday: Stablemates (Delmark)
Chico Freeman: Still Sensitive (India Navigation)
Steve Lacy: Actuality (Cavity Search)
Zoot Sims Quartet*: That Old Feeling (Chess)
Dave Douglas: Five (Soul Note)

March 1996

NRG Ensemble: This Is My House (Delmark)
Horace Tapscott: Aiee! The Phantom (Arabesque)
Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone 4tet: Box (New World)
Joe Lovano: Quartets (Blue Note)
David S. Ware: Dao (Homestead)
Ari Brown: Ultimate Frontier (Delmark)
Roy Campbell: Communion (Silkheart)
Steve Lacy: Actuality (Cavity Search)
various: Rare Grooves (Blue Note)
Byard Lancaster: My Pure Joy (Black Fire)
Splatter Trio: Hi-Fi Junk Note (Rastascan)
Miriodor: Jongleries Elastiques (Cuneiform)
Gerry Hemingway: Acoustic Solo Works 1983-94 (Random Acoustics)
Jane Ira Bloom: The Nearness (Arabesque)
Konitz/Friedman/Zoller: Thingin (hat ART)
Curlew: Paradise (Cuneiform)
Butch Morris: Testament: A Conduction Collection (New World)
Fred Anderson: Birdhouse (OkkaDisc)
Double Jeu Trio: Actual Stories (Unit)
Lester Young*: The Complete Aladdin Recordings (Blue Note)
Benny Carter: Songbook (Musicmasters)
Cindy Blackman: The Oracle (Muse)
Roy Haynes*: Out of the Afternoon (Impulse)
Randy Weston: Saga (Verve/Gitanes)
Vijay Iyer: Memorophilia (Asian Improv)
Joe Maneri Quartet: Let the Horse Go (Leo)
Fred Hersch: Passion Flower (Nonesuch)
Antoine Roney: Whirling (Muse)
Dale Fielder Quartet: Dear Sir (Tribute to Wayne Shorter) (Clarion Jazz)
The Far East Side Band: Urban Archaeology (VICTO)
Butcher/Durant/Russell: Concert Moves (Random Acoustics)
Saluzzi/Cox/Friedman: Rios (Intuition)
Fats Waller & His Rhythms*: The Early Years (Part 2) (Bluebird)
Masada: Vav (DIW)
Muhal Richard Abrams: Think All, Focus One (Black Saint)
Guillermo Gregorio: Approximately (hat ART)
Sonny Rollins: Plus 3 (Milestone)
Plunge: Falling With Grace (Accurate)
Jeff Silvertrust Quintet: Plasma Transfusion (Bulldozers fr Jupiter)
Earl Hines: Plays Cole Porter (New World)
Duke Ellington*: Meets Coleman Hawkins (Impulse!)
Shirley Horn: The Main Ingredient (Verve)
Jorge Sylvester: MusiCollage (Postcards)
Charlie Kohlhase Quintet: Good Deeds (Accurate)
Lee Morgan*: Delightfulee (Blue Note)
Dave Young: Two by Two (Justin Time)
Crothers/Mancuso: Deep Into the Center (New Artists)
Jean-Francois Bovard: Flibuste (Unit)
Joanne Brackeen Quartet: Turnaround (Evidence)
Jasper van't Hof: Face to Face (Intuition)

February 1996

Butch Morris: Testament: A Conduction Collection (New World)
various: The Colossal Saxophone Sessions (Evidence)
Jim Hobbs Fully Celebrated Orchestra: Peace and Pig Grease (Silkheart)
Marc Ribot: Don't Blame Me (DIW)
Masada: Vav (DIW)
Fats Waller & His Rhythms: The Early Years (Part 2) (Bluebird)
Donat Fisch Quartet: Intervals and Melodies (Unit)
Richard Tabnik Quartet: Life at the Core (New Artists)
Vijay Iyer: Memorophilia (Asian Improv)
Anthony Braxton: Oakland July 1993 (Music & Arts)
David S. Ware: Dao (Homestead)
Joe Lovano Wind Ensemble: Worlds (Evidence)
Donal Fox/David Murray: Ugly Beauty (Evidence)
Randy Weston: Saga (Verve/Gitanes)
Don Pullen: Sacred Common Ground (Blue Note)
Roy Haynes: Out of the Afternoon (Impulse)
Ken Nordine: Colors (Asphodel)
Hal McKusick: Now's the Time (Decca)
Billy Harper: Somalia (Evidence)
Glenn Horiuchi: Calling Is It and Now (Soul Note)
Henry Butler: For All Seasons (Atlantic)
Saluzzi/Cox/Friedman: Rios (Intuition)
Lou Donaldson: Everything I Play is Funky (Blue Note)
Curlew: Paradise (Cuneiform)
Dave Bargeron Quartet: Barge Burns...Slide Flies (Mapleshade)
Wayne Shorter: The Soothsayer (Blue Note)
Steuart Liebig: Quartetto Stig: Lingua Oscura (9 Winds)
Mathew Shipp Trio: Circular Temple (Infinite Zero)
Masada: Hei (Five) (DIW)
Ron Carter: Mr. Bow Tie (Blue Note)
Bob Brookmeyer New Quartet: Paris Suite (Challenge)
Polwechsel (Dafeldecker/Moser): Polwechsel (Random Acoustics)
Melvyn Poore: Groundwork (Random Acoustics)
Ellington & Coltrane: Ellington & Coltrane (Impulse!)
Tina Brooks: True Blue (Blue Note)
Matthew Shipp Quartet: Critical Mass (213CD)
Freddie Hubbard: The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (Impulse!)
Snake Eyes: Pair A' Dice (Random Acoustics)
Joanne Brackeen Quartet: Turnaround (Evidence)
McGriff/Crawford: Blues Groove (Telarc)
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers (Impulse!)
Pucho Brown: Rip a Dip (Milestone)
Norris Turney: Big, Sweet n' Blue (Mapleshade)
Jean-Francois Bovard: Flibuste (Unit)
Jasper van't Hof: Face to Face (Intuition)
Houle/Crispell: any Terrain Tumultuous (Red Toucan)
Lee Morgan: The Procrastinator (Blue Note)
Graewe/Reijseger/Hemingway: Flex 27 (Random Acoustics)
Butcher/Durant/Russell: Concert Moves (Random Acoustics)
Borah Bergman w/Hamid Drake: Reflections on Ornette Coleman and THE STONE HOUSE (Soul Note)

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