January/February 2000
Contents
Features
- Dave Douglas: Jazz Artist of the Year — available
- McCoy Tyner: Constant Motion — available
- Renee Rosnes: Cultural Blessings — available
Reviews
Spheres
- Moussoulou
Oumou Sangare — available - The Raga Guide, A Survey of 74 Hindustani Ragas
Various Artists — available - Meli Meli
Cheb Mami — available - Red Hot and Lisbon, OndaSonora
Various Artists — available - Kathak
Trilok Gurtu — available - Musafir's Dhola Maru
Musafir — available - Imaginary Cuba: Deconstructing Havana
Bill Laswell — available - Transylvanian Village Music from Gypsy, Hungarian and Romanian Tradition
Okros Ensemble — available - Frifot
Frifot — available
Currents
- Hear In the Now
Ed Hamilton — available - Appassionata
Ramsey Lewis — available - Meetings With Remarkable Friends
Artie Traum — available - The Big Blast
Kombo — available - Story of Life
Jonathan Butler — available - Rhythm Logic
Rhythm Logic — available - Keeping Cool
Joyce Cooling — available - Magic Gipsy
Eric Fernandez — available - Come Rain or Come Shine
Bobby Caldwell — available - Dazzle
Chris Bangs Project — available
Grooves
- Catalyst: The Funkiest Band You Never Heard
Catalyst — available - Programmed
Carl Craig/Innerzone Orchestra — available - Monsters and Robots
Buckethead — available - Jungle
Ballin' the Jack — available - Voyage of Dreams
Jepthe Guillaume and the Tet Kale Orkestra — available - Dear John Coltrane
Vanessa Daou — available - The Now Sound of Ursula 1000
Various Artists — available
Briefs
- Exotic Places
Ron Kobayashi Trio — available - The Old Country
Howard Levy/Miroslav Tadic/Mark Nauseef — available - Psalm 122
Willem Breuker — available - A Little More Than the Blues
Jeff Zelnick — available - Spirits
Lee Konitz — available - Plugged In
Clairdee/John Moriarty Trio — available - Osie's Oasis
Osie Johnson — available - So Far
D.D. Jackson — available - September
Nettai Tropical Jazz Big Band II — available - Blues for Stuff and Steph
Mike Piggott — available
Audio Files
- HDTV—Hottest Thing Since the Wheel? — available
Albums
- Mozart Piano Concertos K.271, 453, 466, Adagio and Fugue in C minor K.546
Keith Jarrett — available - The Melody at Night, With You
Keith Jarrett — available - Time Is of the Essence
Michael Brecker — available - Open Land
John Abercrombie — available - Dizzy's World
The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars — available - El Angel
Oscar Feldman — available - Salsa Dura
Jimmy Bosch — available - I'm Beginning to See the Light
Martin Taylor/David Grisman — available - All Business
Nick Brignola — available - Heart of a Legend
Chico O'Farrill — available - Mnemosyne
Jan Garbarek/Hilliard Ensemble — available - Not Just Another Pretty Bass
Jim Ferguson — available - Nick @ Night
Nicholas Payton — available - Live at the Blue Note
Irvin Mayfield Sextet — available - Rhyme and Reason
Ted Nash Double Quartet — available - Saturn's Child
Frank Kimbrough/Joe Locke — available - A Packet of Love Letters
Dakota Staton — available - I'll Be Easy to Find
Teri Thornton — available - Two for the Show
David Frieson — available - Maybeck Duets
Hal Galper/Jeff Johnson — available - Birds of a Feather
David Friedman/Jasper Van't Hof — available - Trance Dance
Bill Kirchner Nonet — available - All in Good Time
Asa Harris — available - We Remember Tal: A Tribute to Tal Farlow
Various Artists — available - The "Le Ruban Bleu" Years: The Complete Recordings 1944-1949
Maxine Sullivan — available - Love Always
Maxine Sullivan — available - Duke in Blue
Ellis Marsalis — available - Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles 1921-1956
Various Artists — available - George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
Various Artists — available - Bonetown
Michael Davis — available - Gesture of Faith
Michael Cochrane — available - Milestones
Michael Weiss — available - Live at the Blue Note
David Morgan — available - Dreaming of the Masters Suite
Art Ensemble of Chicago — available - Far East Suite
Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra — available - Warm Cool
Chris Connor — available - The Feeling of Jazz
Tommy Newsom/Ken Peplowski — available - Trio
Sam Yahel — available - Reprise
Marian McPartland's Hickory House Trio — available - Higher Grounds
Ingrid Jensen — available - My Shining Hour
Patrice Williamson — available - Little Red's Fantasy
Woody Shaw — available - Listen
Will Smith Quartet and Company — available - The Complete Lamplighter Recordings 1945-46
Kay Starr — available - Live at Freddy's 1986
Kay Starr — available - Take My Heart
Claire Martin — available - Latin Jazz Suite
Lalo Schifrin — available - Double Duke
Joe Temperley — available - Separate but Equal
Rahsaan Roland Kirk/Yusef Lateef — available - Impulsively Ellington!
Various Artists — available - Group 15 Plays Monk
Jay Leonhart — available - Sensitive to the Touch: The Music of Harold Arlen
Jay Leonhart — available - Great Duets
Jay Leonhart — available - Dr. Cyclops, Dream
Herbie Nichols Project — available - Bopcentric
Mike Melillo — available - Lowblow
Victor Bailey — available - The Legendary Lee Wiley: Collectors' Items 1931-1955
Lee Wiley — available - Mr. Jelly Lord: Standard Time Vol. 6
Wynton Marsalis — available - New Age of Aquarius
Andy Milne — available - Hammer Time
Tardo Hammer — available - Live at Birdland 1962
Dinah Washington — available - It's Been So Long
Mel Powell — available - Twelve Sacred Dances
Patrick Zimmerli — available - April Kisses
Bucky Pizzarelli — available - Only a Rose
Zoot Sims — available - If You Could See Us Now!
Nancy Marano — available - Play Monk and Powell
Paul Motian and the EBBB — available - Hold the Elevator - Live in Europe and Other Haunts
Orange Then Blue — available - You May Never Know
Diane Witherspoon — available - Dance of Life
Xavier Davis — available - Terry Gibbs and Buddy DeFranco Play Steve Allen
Terry Gibbs/Buddy DeFranco — available - First Meeting
Tethered Moon — available - Another Shade of Blue
Lee Konitz — available - Apparition
John McKenna — available
BlueTones
- Blues on My Back
Troy Turner — available - Lucky Peterson
Lucky Peterson — available - 2120
Murali Coryell — available - Live at the Rynborn
Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson — available - Talkin' Bout Chicago!
Syl Johnson — available - Blues Everywhere I Go
Odetta — available - Too Many Years
Jorma Kaukonen — available - Still Jumpin' the Blues
Jay McShann — available - Chicago: The Blues
Various Artists — available - Living Country Blues: An Anthology
Various Artists — available
Books
- Future Jazz
Howard Mandel — available - Ornette Coleman: His Life And Music
Peter Niklas Wilson — available - Louis Armstrong: In His Own Words
Thomas Brothers, editors — available - How to Make & Sell Your Own Recording
Diane Sward Rapaport — available - Backbeat: Earl Palmer’s Story
Tony Scherman — available
Columns
Final Chorus
- Diggin’ for Roots — available
Departments
Hearsay
- Frank Kimbrough — available
- Guillermo Klein — available
- Bill Charlap — available
- Lyman Woodard — available
- Roberta Piket — available
- Enrico Pieranunzi — available
Label Watch
- Label Watch: Half Note — available
- Label Watch: Nagel-Heyer Records — available
Cuba
- Tropicana Nights
Paquito D'Rivera — available



























































































































































