April 1998
Contents
Features
- Marcus Miller's Bottom Line — available
- Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen: The Great Dane's Low Tones and Highlights — available
- Marc Johnson’s Dream Teams — available
- Where Jazz Meets Hip-Hop — available
Reviews
Spheres
- Angels in the Mirror, Vodou Music of Haiti
Various Artists — available - RonRoco
Gustavo Santaolalla — available - Lukas Ligeti & Beta Foly
Various Artists — available - Music of Indonesia 15: South Sulawesi Strings
Various Artists — available - Danzonemos
Orquesta La Moderna Tradicion — available - Pukar (Calling You)
Najma — available - Tieta do agreste
Caetano Veloso — available - The Music of Islam
David Parsons — available
Currents
- Harvest Song
Mitchel Forman — available - Live to Love
Gerald Albright — available - Last Kiss Goodbye
Brian Tarquin — available - Upright Citizen
Charles Fambrough — available - Jay Walking
Jay Rowe — available - Smooth Elements: Smooth Jazz Plays the Songs of Earth, Wind, and Fire
Various Artists — available - Jumpin' Off
Richard Elliot — available - Black Diamond
The Rippingtons — available - Intimacy
Dean James — available - Cover To Cover
Paul Hardcastle — available
Grooves
- I'm a Gittar Player
Melvin Sparks — available - Long Time No See
Chico Debarge — available - Tribute to Jimi
Jean-Paul Bourelly — available - Soul To Jazz II
Bernard Purdie — available - Balanced Output
Various Artists — available - Electric Funk
Jimmy McGriff — available - Kickin' the 3: The Best of Organ Trio Jazz
Various Artists — available
Briefs
- Don Byas 1945 Volume 2
Don Byas — available - Close Your Eyes
Stacey Kent — available - Heretic Jeux des Dames Cruelles
Naked City — available - The Bird Inside
Shiela Landis and Rick Matle — available - From Another Life
David Schumacher — available - A Little Touch of Harry
Harry Allen Quartet — available - John Colianni and Company
John Colianni — available - Comin' Back Home
Lou Montelione — available - Jazz Sketches
Linda Sandoval — available - East River View
Rob Levit Group — available - Dust Devil
Bill Horvitz Band — available
Gigbag
- Gigbag: April 1998 — available
Albums
- The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings
Miles Davis Quintet — available - Que Viva Mingus!: Largely Latin
Mingus Big Band — available - The Complete RCA Victor Small Group Recordings
Benny Goodman — available - Dog Years in the Fourth Ring
Rahsaan Roland Kirk — available - Dust
Ben Monder — available - Invisible Weave
Joe Morris and William Parker — available - Tapestry
Bob Belden — available - That Day
Dianne Reeves — available - Paired Down, Volume 2
D.D. Jackson — available - The Complete Paul Desmond RCA Victor Recordings Featuring Jim Hall
Paul Desmond — available - Things Unseen
Kenny Barron — available - New York Voices Sing The Songs of Paul Simon
New York Voices — available - Latino America
Gato Barbieri — available - Good People
Javon Jackson — available - Tunes and Topics
Stan Kenton — available - Soul Fountain
Jodie Christian — available - Along the way
Jon Gordon Quartet/Quintet — available - A Tribute to Art Tatum
Adam Makowicz — available - The Impulse Years: 1973-4
Keith Jarrett — available - Top 'N' Bottom
Tab Smith — available - The Manchurian Candidate: The Complete Film Soundtrack
David Amram — available - Portraiture, The Blues Period
Michael Wolff — available - Make This City Ours
Claire Martin — available - Serenade
Toninho Horta — available - Oceans of Time
Billy Hart — available - Passing the Torch
Swing Summit — available - Don't Blame Me
Bruce Barth — available - The In Between
Booker Ervin — available - Bang On!
Billy Bang — available - Joy (Within)!
William Hooker with Billy Bang Duo — available - Y'All 02
J.D. Parran and Spirit Sage — available - Late Hour Special
Gene Ammons — available - The Tenor Scene
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Johnny Griffin — available - I Don't Know This World Without Don Cherry
New York Jazz Collective — available - Sight Unheard
Jamie Baum — available - Euclid's Nightmare
John Zorn and Bobby Previte — available - Hubsongs
Tim Hagans and Marcus Printup — available - Music of Jim McNeely
The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra — available - Not We But One
Mike Nock Trio — available - John Bunch Solo: Arbors Piano Series At Mike's Place, Volume 1
John Bunch — available - Ruby Braff Remembers Louis Armstrong: Being With You
Ruby Braff — available - Another INTERface Live at Bim
John Fischer — available - fo deuk Revue
David Murray — available - Visitation Rights
Paraphrase — available - Discretion
Bloodcount — available - Gimcracks and Gewgaws
Mose Allison — available - Saxcrobatic Fanatic
Luther Thomas Trio — available - Midnight In the Garden of Good And Evil
Various Artists — available - Songbook, Volume 2
Benny Carter — available - Inner Voices
Abbey Radar and David Liebman — available - Mystic Journey
Abbey Rader/Philip Gelb — available - What Swing is All About
Bob Wilber and Friends — available - The Hamburg Concert
Bob Wilber's Bechet Legacy — available - Celebrating Grappelli
Stephane Grappelli — available - Plays the Harry Warren Songbook
Ralph Sharon — available - Afro Blue: The Picante Collection
Mongo Santamaria — available - Orlando "Maraca" & Celine Valle, Richard Egues, Jane Bunnett
Havana Flute Summit — available - Flugel Gourmet
Bobby Lewis — available - Crime Jazz: Music in the First Degree
Various Artists — available - Drop Some Grease
Three of a Kind — available - Poor Boy Blue
Larry Baskett — available - Ali Girl
Larry Schneider — available - Birdland Birthday/Live at 95
Benny Waters — available - Quality of Silence
Steve Davis — available - Sings to Legends
Murray Ross — available - The Music of Trumpet Kings
Harry Allen and Randy Sandke — available - Two of a Kind
Eric Alexander — available - Spirit Talk
K-Jazz All-Stars y Sus Amigos — available - Slim Gaillard 1946
Slim Gaillard — available - Unbroken Line
Roberta Piket — available
BlueTones
- The Final Tour
Ted Hawkins — available - Live in Australia
Johnny Copeland — available - Cold Blood
Big Bad Smitty — available - Just Your Fool
Chicago Bob and the Shadows — available - Mississippi Moan
Bruce Katz — available - Candy Lickin' Man
Chico Banks — available - Pressure Cooker
Kid Bangham/Amyl Justin — available - Tailspin Headwhack
Chris Duarte — available - Lost In The Shuffle
Jimmy Reed — available
Books
- Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years
William Minor — available - Seeing Jazz: Artists and Writers on Jazz
Elizabeth Goldson — available - The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History
Scott DeVeaux — available - What Jazz Is: An Insider’s Guide To Understanding and Listening To Jazz
Jonny King — available - Striders to Beboppers and Beyond: The Art of Jazz Piano
Leslie Gourse — available - As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir
Chet Baker — available - The B. B. King Companion: Five Decades of Commentary
Richard Kostelanetz — available
Departments
Hearsay
- Will Bernard — available
- Terry Callier — available
- Richard Smith — available
- Mark Shim — available
- David Eyges — available
- Brian Torff — available
- Chuck Israels — available
Label Watch
- Alchemy Records: Into the Void — available
- Screwgun: Berne’s Turn — available




























































































































































