December 2000
Contents
Features
- Bob Belden: Riddle Me This — available
- Ken Burns’ Jazz — available
- John Clayton: Band On & Off the Hill — available
- The Sound of Sameness — available
News
- Duke It Out: The Woman Behind the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation — available
- Sackville Records: Return to Sackville — available
- Swingin’ Around the Mistletoe: The Guide to Surviving the Holidays—With Music — available
Reviews
Currents
- Two Worlds
Lee Ritenour/Dave Grusin — available - Europa
John Gentry Tennyson — available - Between Us
Steve Cole — available - Yes, Please!
Fourplay — available - Listen
Will Smith Quartet and Company — available - Digability
Sam Cardon — available - Solo: Improvisations for Expanded Piano
Lyle Mays — available - Tales of the Phatman
Gene Dunlap — available - Vivid
Michael Lington — available - Consider This
Roger Smith — available
Audio Files
- High-Tech Holidays: Space-Age Gadgets for the First Holiday of the New Millenium — available
Albums
- When Angels Speak of Love
Sun Ra — available - Pathways to Unknown Worlds and Friendly Love
Sun Ra — available - The Great Lost Sun Ra Albums: Cymbals and Crystal Spears
Sun Ra — available - Lanquidity
Sun Ra — available - Greatest Hits: Easy Listening for Intergalactic Travel
Sun Ra — available - The Heart of Things
John McLaughlin — available - The Believer
John McLaughlin Shakti — available - Places
Brad Mehldau with Larry Grenadier, Jorge Rossy — available - Thirteen Cosmic Standards by Sun Ra and Funkadelic
Spaceways Incorporated — available - Motherland
Danilo Perez — available - Flamethrower
The Chicago Underground Trio — available - Synesthesia
Chicago Underground Duo — available - Who Stole the I Walkman?
Isotope 217 — available - Metrocafe
Metro — available - The Dropper
Medeski, Martin and Wood — available - The Milwaukee Tapes Vol. 1
Fred Anderson — available - Basie and Beyond
Quincy Jones/Sammy Nestico Orchestra — available - The World of Hank Crawford
Hank Crawford — available - Allegresse
Maria Schneider Orchestra — available - Timeline
Malachi Thompson — available - Things to Come From Those Now Gone
Muhal Richard Abrams — available - Humility In the Light of the Creator
Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre — available - Waves from Albert Ayler
Mount Everest Trio — available - The Great Composers of Jazz
David Benoit/Greg Bissonette/Brian Bromberg — available - Whisper Not (Live in Paris 1999)
Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette — available - Shades of Miles
Dave Stryker — available - A Night at the Open Door
Tony Fruscella — available - Incredible!
Joey DeFrancesco/Jimmy Smith — available - One More Time
UMO Jazz Orchestra/Kenny Wheeler/Norma Winstone — available - Plays the Music of Muhal Richard Abrams
UMO Jazz Orchestra — available - SUD
SUD — available - Love Happened to Me
Phillip Manuel — available - Danger High Voltage
George Coleman featuring Ned Otter — available - A Song for George Lewis
Dr. Michael White — available - E Music
Pete Escovedo — available - Poet in New York
Georgie Fame — available - The Re-Discovered Louis and Bix
Randy Sandke and the New York All-Stars — available - If I Could Be With You
Byron Stripling and Friends — available - Brazil
Rosemary Clooney — available - Dark Divas: Highlights
Ranee Lee — available - Soul of an Angel
Billy Harper — available - Dogmental
Andy Biskin Quintet — available - Sings Edith Piaf: The Golden Album
Raquel Bitton — available - Bridge Over the X-Stream
Steve Cohn — available - Live at the Blue Note
Paquito D'Rivera — available - Later
Mark Dresser/Fred Frith/Ikue Mori — available - Contrastes
Martial Solal — available - Spain
Michel Camilo/Tomatito — available - Never Never Land
Jane Monheit — available - Broad Strokes
Roswell Rudd — available - Tribute to the Masters
John Santos and Machete — available - Encontros (Meetings)
Nilson Matta/Hendrik Meurkins — available - Mardi Gras Mambo
Cubanismo — available - Out of Nowhere
Bobbe Norris — available - Dance Beyond the Color
Myra Melford and Crush — available - Merry Go Round
Freddy Cole — available - Last Call
Frank Portolese — available - Clarinet Blue
Bobby Gordon/Dave McKenna — available - Jubilee
Daryl Sherman/Dave McKenna — available - Dave "Fingers" McKenna
Dave McKenna — available - For Louis
Charlie Byrd — available - H2O
Francisco Aguabella — available - Uh! Oh!
Dave Glasser/Clark Terry/Barry Harris — available - Creepin' with Clark
Mike Vax/Clark Terry — available - Bluesology
George Cables — available - Belgian Suites
Ivan Paduart — available - Afrocubano Chant Two
Hip Bop Essence Allstars — available - The Next Step
Jazz Tribe — available - Let Yourself Go: Celebrating Fred Astaire
Stacey Kent — available - The Power
Kahi El'Zabarl Trio Factor — available - Big Bang Theory
Billy Bang — available - Live at the Village Vanguard
Chucho Valdes — available - Alexander the Great
Eric Alexander — available - You Don't Have to See It to Believe It
Roland Guerin — available - You and I
Mary Pearson — available - The Joelle Leandre Project
Joelle Leandre Project — available - Lullaby in Rhythm
Sandi Shoemake — available - Francois Theberge and the Medium Band
Francois Theberge and the Medium Band — available - Serenade in Blue
Ithamara Koorax — available - Rhythm is Our Business
Duke Heitger and his Swing Band — available - Imagination
Ron Braggs Bassology — available - The Madness of Our Love
Denise Jannah — available - Trio and Sextets
Al Haig — available - Style Is Back in Style
Jim Karolides/Lou Silvestri — available - Here and Now
Steve Korn — available - Consideration
Steve Grover — available - Actual Proof
Mike Clark — available - The Cape Codfather
Ruby Braff — available - Anniversary of a Jazz Legend: D.J. "Nick" La Rocca 1889-1999
Original Dixieland Jazz Band — available - A Night in Tunisia
Arturo O'Farrill Trio — available - Hootie!
Jay McShann Trio — available - 11 West 84
Jeremy Hepner Quintet — available - Look No Further
Diane Hubka — available - Poets, Misfits, Beggars and Shamans
Erich Avinger — available - Have Piano. . .Will Swing!
Hod O'Brien — available - Lovecentric
Gerry Eastman — available - Crossroads
David Eyges Trio — available - March of the Jazz Guerrillas
Babatunde Lea — available - Hourglass
Dan McIntyre — available - Best Kept Secret
Ralph Irizarry and Timbalaye — available - Achirana
Tsabropoulos/Anderson/Marshall — available - Days Gone By
Sonny Greenwich/Ed Bickert — available - Sneak Preview
Simon Nabatov Trio — available - Meditations on Unity
Saturnalia String Trio/Daniel Carter — available - Monkadelphia
Monkadelphia — available - In Search of Emmett Hardy
Chris Kelsey Un-Ironic Quartet — available - Pit of Fashion
Peter Barshay — available - Grit-Gittin' Feelin'
Harold Ousley — available - Make Me a Memory
Manhattan Trinity — available - Nipples
Peter Brotzmann Sextet and Quartet — available - Nation Time
Joe McPhee — available - Scatter Some Stones
Andrew Rathbun — available
BlueTones
- Reservation Blues
Eddie "The Chief" Clearwater — available - That's My Partner
Elvin Bishop and Little Smokey Smothers — available - The Chill
Rusty Zinn — available - West Coast House Party
Kid Ramos — available - New Frontier Lover
Roy Gaines — available - Perfect Day
Chris Whitley — available - Got it Goin' On
James Armstrong — available - Across the Water
Bernard Allison — available - Bang That Bell
Melvin Taylor and the Slack Band — available - Can't Take It
James Wheeler — available - Night Time is The Right Time
Nappy Brown — available - Detroit 1948-1949
John Lee Hooker — available
Books
- Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
Ashley Kahn — available - Giant Steps: Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz 1945-65
Kenny Mathieson — available - Stride!
John L. Fell and Terkild Vinding — available - The Ladies Who Sing With the Band
Betty Bennett — available - Duke Ellington
Scott Yanow — available
Columns
Final Chorus
- Cutting Down Solos to Get to the Cutting Edge — available
JT Notes
- Biff Bang Pow! — available
Departments
Hearsay
- Alex Blake — available
- Oscar Noriega — available
- Steve Davis — available
- Theodosii Spassov — available
- Donny McCaslin — available
- Steve Cole — available
- Joel Frahm — available
At Home
- Regina Carter — available
Label Watch
- Label Watch: Delmark Records — available



























































































































































