December 2003
Contents
Features
- Singing for Our Supper — available
- James Carter: Big Hat’s Odyssey — available
- Brad Mehldau: Ideology, Burgers and Beer — available
- Will Downing: The Look of Love — available
News
- Pop Goes Blue Note: Legendary soul singers Join Jazz Label — available
- John McLaughlin: Guitars and Poets — available
- Miroslav Vitous: Still Searching — available
- Charlie Parker's Bird Up: Thriving on a Remix — available
- Dave Koz: Acting Out — available
Reviews
Vox
- It's Me
Abbey Lincoln — available
- Memories of You
Mark Murphy — available
- Everything I Love
Chris Connor — available
- Whisper Sweet
Carol Sloane — available
- Here I Am
Ronald Isley — available
- Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook
Bette Midler — available
- This Heart of Mine
Jackie Ryan — available
- New York City
Peter Malick Group featuring Norah Jones — available
- Agents of Change
Janice Borla — available
Spheres
- Birds of a Feather
Caribbean Jazz Project — available
- Carnival in San Juan
Papo Vazquez Pirates Troubadours — available
- Bembeya
Bembeya Jazz — available
- Taoué
Abdoulaye N'Diaye — available
- View from Afar
Larry Steen World Jazz Ensemble — available
- Paradise in Trouble
Chris Washburne and the Syotos Band — available
- Live at Birdland
Gary Morgan & Panamericana! — available
- Luminescence
Tino Derado — available
- Bajo Cero
Pablo Ziegler/Quique Sinesi — available
- A New Life
Omar Sosa — available
Grooves
- Feed the Cat
Agent K — available
- Open Rhythm System
Beat Kids — available
- Blue Series Continuum: GoodandEvil Sessions
GoodandEvil — available
- Turn It Out Remixed
Soulive — available
- Many in High Places Are Not Well
HiM — available
- Electrojazz at Club Blue Note
Various Artists — available
- Center:Level:Roar
Youngblood Brass Band — available
- Is This a Machine?
Gnappy — available
- Apothecary Rx
Carl Hancock Rux — available
Big Bands
- Renee Rosnes and the Danish Radio Big Band
Renee Rosnes — available
- Naked in the Cosmos
Kenny Werner with the Brussels Jazz Orchestra — available
- Big Band Time
Paquito D'Rivera — available
- Thieves and Poets
John McLaughlin — available
- Word of Mouth Revisited
Jaco Pastorius Big Band — available
- Cloth
Oliver Lake Big Band — available
- The Three C's
Benny Carter/Bill Coleman/Henri Chaix — available
- The Duke in Munich
Duke Ellington — available
Countercurrents
- Furniture Music
Ken Vandermark — available
- Rapid Croche
Jason Roebke — available
- Verbs of Will
Open Loose — available
- The All-Star Game
Marshall Allen/Hamid Drake/Kidd Jordan/William Parker/Alan Silva — available
- Globe Unity Orchestra 2002
Globe Unity Orchestra — available
- We Don't
Jemeel Moondoc/Denis Charles — available
- The Other Shore
Exuberance — available
- Songs for a Suffering World
David Budbill/William Parker/Hamid Drake — available
- Nu-Turn
Benoit Delbecq — available
- Tessellations for Lutheal Piano
Veryan Weston — available
Albums
- What's Wrong With This Picture?
Van Morrison — available
- Right Here, Right Now
David Benoit — available
- Exhale
Arthur Blythe — available
- Wide Angles
Michael Brecker Quindectet — available
- Island
Bob Brookmeyer/Kenny Wheeler Quintet — available
- Lyla
Avishai Cohen — available
- Arcanum Moderne
Ellery Eskelin/Andrea Parkins/Jim Black — available
- The Joyride
Wycliffe Gordon — available
- Romare Bearden Revealed
Branford Marsalis Quartet — available
- A New Generation: Paesanos on the New B3
Tony Monaco Trio with the Joey DeFrancesco Trio — available
- Y2K
Byron Morris and Unity — available
- New Beginnings
Terell Stafford — available
- New Conceptions
Chucho Valdes — available
- A Twist of Motown
Various Artists — available
- Vision Fest: Visionlive
Various Artists — available
- Universal Syncopations
Miroslav Vitous — available
- Mosaic Select
Randy Weston — available
- A Touch of Evil
Windmill Saxophone Quartet — available
- New York, New Sound
Gerald Wilson Orchestra — available
Audio Files
- Bass in Your Space: Woofin' on Subwoofers — available
Gigbag
- Gigbag: December 2003 — available
Books
- Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton
Howard Reich & William Gaines — available
- A Life in the Golden Age of Jazz: A Biography of Buddy DeFranco
Fabrice Zammarchi & Sylvie Mas — available
- Friends Along the Way: A Journey Through Jazz
Gene Lees — available
- Norman Granz: The White Moses of Black Jazz
Dempsey J. Travis — available
- Bebop to Cool: Context, Ideology and Musical Identity
Eddie S. Meadows — available
- Blue Note Records: The Biography
Richard Cook — available
- Sudden Music
David Rothenberg — available
- I Put a Spell on You
Nina Simone with Stephen Cleary — available
- Trompeta: Chappott'n, Chocolate and the Afro-Cuban Trumpet Style
Rick Davies — available
- Louis Armstrong: The Offstage Story of Satchmo
Michael Cogswell — available
- Contemporary Cat: Terence Blanchard
Anthony Magro — available
- Myself Among Others
George Wein and Nate Chinen — available
- Low Down: Junk, Jazz And Other Fairy Tales From Childhood
A.J. Albany — available
- Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris
Jeffrey H. Jackson — available
- Beyond the Sound Barrier: The Jazz Controversy in 20th-Century American Fiction
Kristin K. Henson — available
- The Tombstone Tourist
Scott Stanton — available
- Race Music: Black Cultures From Bebop to Hip-Hop
Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. — available
Gearhead
- Blue Ball Microphone — available
- Paraschos Wooden Saxophone Necks — available
- Peavey KB 5 Keyboard Amp — available
Columns
Final Chorus
- Armstrong House, Alive and Well — available
Cadenza
- All Strung Out — available
Departments
Hearsay
- Carmen Lundy — available
- Angelica Sanchez — available
- Diego Urcola — available
- Deidre Rodman — available
Overdue Ovation
- Vinny Golia: Nine Woodwinds Blowing — available
Cuba
- Chucho Valdés: Everything’s New Again — available
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