January/February 2005
Contents
Features
- The Year '04 in Review: Highs and Lows — available
- The Year '04 in Review: Top 50 CDs — available
- The Year '04 in Review: Readers Poll — available
- Brad Mehldau: Anything Goes — available
- Dr. Lonnie Smith: The Doctor Is In! — available
Reviews
Mighty Clarinets
- Concerts
Michel Portal/Richard Galliano — available - Easy to Remember
Ken Peplowski — available - The Three of Us
Mort Weiss Trio — available - Cookin' the Books
Buddy DeFranco — available - Modern Madness or Tribal Truth?
M.O.T. — available - Urban Expressions
Wendell Harrison — available - Crossing the Line
Larry Combs/Eddie Daniels — available
Brass Tracks
- Diaspora Hollywood
Steven Bernstein — available - The Last Great Concert
Chet Baker — available - Ethnomusicology Vol. 4: Live in Atlanta
Russell Gunn — available - Hip to Bop
Maurice Brown — available - The Mirror
David Weiss — available - Where Do We Go From Here?
Kenny Wheeler/John Taylor — available - Revelation
Hugh Ragin — available - Last Set: Live at the 1369 Jazz Club
Raphe Malik Quartet — available - Baila! Gitano Baila!
Septeto Rodriguez — available - Dancing Foot
Dave Ballou — available - Beyond Babylon
Paul Brody — available - The Winter in Lisbon
Dizzy Gillespie — available - Salt Peanuts
Dizzy Gillespie — available - Dream Dancing
Warren Vache — available - Eclipse
Thad Jones — available - Exhibition: Tribute to Joe Henderson
Rebecca Coupe Franks — available - Out of the Blue
Sala Brothers — available - The Summer Knows
Jeff Hedberg — available
Eighty-Eights
- Dangerous Vision
Michael Wolff and Impure Thoughts — available - Live at Yoshi's Volume One
Jessica Williams — available - Soul Shadows
Joe Sample — available - Counterpoints
McCoy Tyner — available - Carpe Momentum
Greg Burk Quartet — available - Come Together
Lynne Arriale Trio — available - Solo
Michel Camilo — available - Walking With Giants
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey — available - Not the Same
Benny Lackner Trio — available - Solo Piano: Impressions on Chopin's Nocturnes
Jacques Loussier — available - My Favorite Things
Don Friedman Trio — available - Sweet and Lovely
Mark Eisenman — available - Close to You
David Hazeltine — available - Aria
Tim Harrison Quintet — available - E-Motion
Sai Ghose Trio — available - In Private
Norman Simmons — available - So Glad to Be Here
Leslie Pintchik — available - Details
David Kikoski — available - Blues for Hiroshi
Anthony Wonsey Trio — available - (H)ombre
Jean-Pierre Mas — available
Currents
- Hang Time
Wayman Tisdale — available - Miles to Miles
Jason Miles — available - Cozmopolitan
Jason Miles — available - Seldom Blues
Alexander Zonjic — available - Brazilian Soul
Azymuth — available - Fantasia
Pavlo — available - Three Kings
Wayne Henderson/Ronnie Laws/Wilton Felder — available - Dream Beat Dream
Soul Ballet — available - Marvin, Teddy, and Luther: A Smooth Urban Jazz Love Letter
Various Artists — available - In the Fullness of Time
Grady Nichols — available
Briefs
- Louisville
Louis Smith Quintet — available - Venus Perplexed
Steve Lampert — available
Albums
- The Piano
Herbie Hancock — available - Back Together Again
Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake — available - Sirius Calling
Art Ensemble of Chicago — available - To the Stars
Chick Corea Elektric Band — available - Bow River Falls
Dave Douglas/Louis Sclavis/Peggy Lee/Dylan van der Schyff — available - Unspeakable
Bill Frisell — available - Y Los Piratas Del Flamenco
Jerry Gonzalez — available - Massive
Jazz Jamaica All Stars — available - The Truth: Heard Live at the Blue Note
Elvin Jones Jazz Machine — available - The Talented Touch/Porgy and Bess
Hank Jones — available - Conversations With the Unseen
Soweto Kinch — available - Promises Kept
Steve Kuhn — available - Mother Tongue
Rudresh Mahanthappa — available - Adobe
Tony Malaby — available - Serene Renegade
Rene Marie — available - Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Wynton Marsalis — available - Live in Tokyo
Brad Mehldau — available - Live at the Blue Note: The Complete Recordings, March 16-18, 1990
Oscar Peterson Trio — available - Play Morricone 2
Enrico Pieranunzi/Marc Johnson/Joey Baron — available - Eternity
Bud Powell — available - The Psyche
Revolutionary Ensemble — available - Too Damn Hot
Dr. Lonnie Smith — available - Rides Again
Trio Mundo — available - No Escape
Ramon Valle Trio — available - Later Prophets
Greg Wall — available - You Thrill Me
Patty Waters — available
Audio Files
- Sound Pundits — available
Dutch Treats
- Aan & Uit
ICP Orchestra — available - Home Safely
Han Bennink/Curtis Clark/Ernst Glerum — available - Omnibus One
Ernst Glerum — available - Dance, My Dear?
Michiel Scheen Quartet — available - Astronotes
Joost Buis — available - Majaap
Jaap Blonk and Maja Ratkje — available - Growing Pains
Bik Bent Braam (Michiel Braam) — available - Michiel vs. Braam
Michiel Braam — available - Fellini
I Compani — available - Hollywood O.K. Pieces
Guus Janssen — available
Books
- Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter
Michelle Mercer — available - Dvorák to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Explores America’s Music and Its African-American Roots
Maurice Peress — available - Jazz in Search of Itself
Larry Kart — available - Jazzwomen
Wayne Enstice and Janis Stockhouse — available
Organized
- Retrospective
Jimmy Smith — available - The Mighty Burner
Charles Earland — available - Deep Blue Bruise
Deep Blue Organ Trio — available - The Fiery Blues
Tony Monaco — available - Midnight Theme
Manzel — available - Live in NYC July 30 2004
Soulive — available - Tomorrow Yesterday Today
Melvin Rhyne Trio — available - Walking Uptown
John "Papa" DeFrancesco — available - A Deeper Blue
Bruce Katz Band — available - Bull's Eye!
Sheryl Bailey 3 — available - Organic Sound
Alexandre Huber Trio — available
Bassics
- Winter Moon
Rodney Whitaker — available - Griot Liberte
Buster Williams — available - L'Histoie du Clochard (The Bum's Tale)
Steve Swallow-Ohad Talmor Sextet — available - Shapeshifter
Matthew Garrison — available - Trilogy
Rob Wasserman — available - Tales of the Stuttering Mime
Eric Revis — available - Visual
Alexis Cuadrado Sextet — available - Dig It!
Frode Berg — available - Lumpy Jazz
Jeff Berlin — available - Boom
Mario Pavone — available
Gearhead
- Sadowsky Jim Hall Signature Model Archtop — available
- Paiste Signature Silver Mellow Ride and Full Crash — available
News
- Nick Drake: Bryter Layter — available
Columns
Final Chorus
- The Primal Force of Music — available
The Gig
- The Year in Gigs — available
JT Notes
- Say It (Over and Over Again) — available
Cadenza
- Post-Jazz TV — available
Departments
Hearsay
- David Weiss — available
- Jamie Baum — available
- Maria Marquez — available
- Richard Leo Johnson — available
- Abram Wilson — available
At Home
- Randy Weston — available
Overdue Ovation
- Ray Bryant: Through the Years — available
Cuba
- Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo
Ned Sublette — available



























































































































































