December 2001
Contents
Features
- Lavay Smith: Miss Thing Talks Back — available
- The Women Jacketed By Records — available
- Homophobia in Jazz — available
- Family Jazz — available
News
- Have Yourself a Merry Bleepin’ Xmas — available
Reviews
Vox
- New York City Drag
Lorraine Feather — available - Deja Blue
Jeanie Bryson — available - Real Emotional Girl
Patricia O'Callaghan — available - Play It Cool
Lea DeLaria — available - Sure Thing
Nancy Marano — available - My Foolish Heart
Rebecca Parris — available - With All That I Am
Carol Duboc — available - Love Came: The Songs of Strayhorn
Allan Harris — available - Lost in Your Arms
Gary Lemel — available - Sing! Sing! Sing!
New York Voices — available
Spheres
- Band of Gypsies
Taraf de Haidouks — available - The Last Balkan Tango
Boris Kovac and Ladaaba Orchest — available - Soul Makassar
Tarika — available - Omaggio a Federico e Giulietta
Caetano Veloso — available - Ewa!
Seba — available - Baro
Habib Koite and Bamada — available - Velho Fado
Jorge Fernando — available - Cine Baronesa
Guinga — available - Sabor Profundo
Orquestra America — available
Currents
- Unite
Indigenous People — available - Esperanza II
Esperanza — available - Butterfly
Special EFX — available - Here
Dean Brown — available - Soul Searching
Dave McMurray — available - Reach For the Sky
Alexander Zonjic — available - Hypnotic
Paul Taylor — available - Night Sessions
Chris Botti — available - Off the Record
Ronny Jordan — available - Glow
Peter White — available
Grooves
- Samba Soul 70!
Various Artists — available - Blowback
Tricky — available - Revisite
Erik Truffaz — available - Volume 3: Further in Time
Afrocelt Sound System — available - Bossa Per Due
Nicola Conte — available - New Features
H.I.M. — available - Passage to Hades
Jan Wobble/Evan Parker — available - Unpolished
Midnite — available - Stay Human
Micahel Franti and Spearhead — available
Gigbag
- Gigbag: December 2001 — available
Audio Files
- Santa’s Bag — available
Albums
- Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933-1944
Billie Holiday — available - Brooklyn
Craig Bailey — available - The Montreal Concert
Gary Bartz/Peter Leitch — available - In Harmony's Way
Jeff Berlin — available - The Calling
Hamiet Bluiett/D.D. Jackson/Kahil El'Zabar — available - Vortices and Angels
John Butcher/Derek Bailey/Rhodri Davies — available - Company in Marseille
Company — available - Conjunction
Mike Clark/Paul Jackson/Marc Wagnon — available - Flirting With Twilight
Kurt Elling — available - Unity
Avishai Cohen with the International Vamp Band — available - Don't Shave the Feeling
Ez Pour Spout — available - Unfolding
Aaron Goldberg — available - New River
David Grisman/Denny Zeitlin — available - Jim Hall and Basses
Jim Hall — available - Songs From the Analog Playground
Charlie Hunter — available - In Montreal
Charlie Haden/Egberto Gismonti — available - Jazz Elegance
Jack Jezzro — available - More Jazz Takes on Joni Mitchell
David Lahm — available - Heartstrings
Russell Malone — available - The Electric Distant Surfacing
Tom McCarthy — available - Feelin' It
Jimmy McGriff — available - Progression: Art of the Trio, Volume 5
Brad Mehldau Trio — available - European Concert
The Modern Jazz Quartet — available - Global Unity
Sam Newsome — available - Like a Kiss That Never Ends
David Murray Power Quartet — available - 25th Anniversary: The New Chapter
World Saxophone Quartet — available - Word Jazz: A Transparent Mask
Ken Nordine — available - 2 x 3 = 5
Evan Parker/Alex von Schlippenbach/Barry Guy/Paul Lovens/Paul Lytton — available - All This . . .Live in The U.K. Vol 1
Ken Peplowski — available - Thumbs Up
Jimmy Ponder — available - The Tonester
Tony Purrone — available - Saints
Marc Ribot — available - Alternate Side
Tim Ries — available - Supernova
Gonzalo Rubalcaba — available - Edgewise
Rob Schneiderman — available - Reunion
Jack Wilkins — available - As Long As There's Music
Richard Wyands — available - Amen: Improvisations on Messiaen
Keith Yaun Quartet — available - Alan Silva and the Sound Visions Orchestra
Alan Silva and the Sound Visions Orchestra — available - Sex Mob Does Bond
Sex Mob — available - Soho Stories
Ian Shaw — available - Voices
Mike Stern — available - Blue Moods
Antoine Silverman — available - Nuclear War
Sun Ra — available - Talking Horns
Malachi Thompson — available - Everybodys Mouth's a Book
Henry Threadgill and Make a Move — available - It's Tru
Bill Trujillo/Carl Fontana — available - Corridors and Parallels
David S. Ware Quartet — available
BlueTones
- Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions
James "Blood" Ulmer — available - A Good Day to Sing and Play the Blues
Sonny Rhodes — available - How'd a White Boy Get the Blues
Popa Chubby — available - Beyond the Source
Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers — available - Smokin' Joint
Kim Wilson — available - Wake Up Call
Michelle Wilson — available - Watch You When You Go
Roomful of Blues — available - Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
Various Artists — available - Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues
Charley Patton — available - Alligator Records 30th Anniversary Collection
Various Artists — available
Gearhead
- Conn Vintage One Trumpet — available
- NS Designs CR4M Bass — available
- Istanbul Agop Mel Lewis Cymbals — available
- Hammond XK-2 Keyboard — available
- Carr Rambler Guitar Amp — available
Books
- Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West
Phil Pastras — available - Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit
Lars Bjorn with Jim Gallert — available - New York Is Now!: The New Wave of Free Jazz
Phil Freeman — available - If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery
Farah Jasmine Griffin — available - Playing It by Ear
John LaPorta — available - That Devilin’ Tune: A Jazz History 1900-1950
Allen Lowe — available - Jazz in New Orleans: The Postwar Years Through 1970
Charles Suhor — available
Columns
Final Chorus
- Are Krall and Monheit Jazz Singers? — available
Solo
- Mid-East Scales Provoke Western Fears — available
JT Notes
- Sex Sells — available
Departments
Hearsay
- Matt Glaser & the Wayfaring Strangers — available
- Craig Taborn — available
- Steuart Liebig — available
- Claude Chalhoub — available
- Matt Turner — available
- Adam Levy — available
Overdue Ovation
- Fred Anderson — available



























































































































































