December 2005
Contents
Features
- New Orleans, 1960 — available
- Jim Hall: Undercurrents — available
- Dee Dee Bridgewater: Le Lush Life — available
- Billy Bang: Separate Peace — available
- Ben Monder: Excavating Ben — available
Reviews
Vox
- Warm Spring Night
Philip Chaffin — available
- The Nearness of You
Sarah DeLeo — available
- Dancing in the Dark
Jeff Harnar — available
- Saloon: The Ron Kaplan/Weber Iago Album
Ron Kaplan and Weber Iago — available
- Touch of Your Voice
Elissa Lala — available
- Live
Leon Redbone — available
- Let Me Sing
Annie Ross — available
- Blue Skies
Shawn Ryan — available
- All My Men
Sandy Sasso — available
- Now!
Marlene VerPlanck — available
- Box of Photographs
Johnny Rodgers — available
Big Bands
- Meeting Colours
Philip Catherine, Bert Joris, Brussels Jazz Orchestra — available
- We're Here
Buddy Charles — available
- Vibrant Tones
City Rhythm Orchestra with Special Guest Joey De Francesco — available
- Don't Be Afraid…
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis — available
- Fantazm
John La Barbera Big Band featuring Pat La Barbera — available
- Extreme Heat
Pat Longo and His Hollywood Jazz Band — available
- Menza Lines
The Don Menza Big Band — available
- Pag's Groove
Michael Pagan Big Band — available
- Vignettes in the Spirit of Ellington
Jabbo Ware — available
Countercurrents
- Nothing, Knowing
Greg Burk Trio — available
- Other Stories [Three Suites]
Taylor Ho Bynum & Spidermonkey String — available
- The Soul and Gone
Harris Eisenstadt — available
- Live at Sangha
The Gift — available
- Double Blues Crossing
Gerry Hemingway Quintet — available
- Blue Yonder
Steve Lantner Trio — available
- MZN3
Kjell Nordeson, Per Zanussi, Kjetil Moster — available
- Arrive
Aram Shelton — available
- Frozen Ropes
String Trio of New York and Oliver Lake — available
Holiday CD Roundup
- Christmas Album
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Bass — available
- Christmas Fantasy
Anita Baker — available
- A Jazz Guitar Christmas
Royce Campbell — available
- Holiday
Craig Chaquico — available
- Hanukkah Swings!
Kenny Ellis — available
- The Greatest Holiday Classics
Kenny G — available
- Christmas Songs
Diana Krall featuring the Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra — available
- I'll Be Home for Christmas
The David Leonhardt Group — available
- Family Holidays
Gap Mangione — available
- The Season
Jane Monheit — available
- Dig That Crazy Christmas
The Brian Setzer Orchestra — available
- A Holiday Wish
Jimmy Sommers — available
- 40 Years: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Various Artists — available
- Christmas Remixed 2
Various Artists — available
- Happy Holidays Las Vegas
Various Artists — available
- Martha Stewart Living Music: Jazz for the Holidays
Various Artists — available
Albums
- Day Is Done
Brad Mehldau Trio — available
- Renku
Michael Attias — available
- Shelf-Life
Bedrock — available
- Best of George Benson Live
George Benson — available
- Right Before Your Very Eyes
Michael Blake Trio — available
- To Love Again: The Duets
Chris Botti — available
- Free
Alex Bugnon — available
- Gold Sounds
James Carter, Cyrus Chestnut, Ali Jackson, Reginald Veal — available
- Semi-Formal
The Claudia Quintet — available
- Immolation/Immersion
Nels Cline, Wally Shoup, Chris Corsano — available
- Nullius In Verba
Nicholas D'Amato's Royal Society — available
- Negra Tigra
Pierre Dorge and New Jungle Orchestra — available
- News on the Rail
Marty Ehrlich — available
- Ethiopiques 20: Live In Addis
Either/Orchestra — available
- Cuts
FME — available
- Feign
Hard Cell — available
- New York Cool: Live at the Blue Note
Donald Harrison, Ron Carter, Billy Cobham — available
- Four Hundred Saturdays: Live at Smalls
The Frank Hewitt Quartet — available
- 8 Armed Monkey
KTU — available
- The Mystery of Prince Lasha
Prince Lasha & the Odean Pope Trio — available
- With One Voice
Ramsey Lewis — available
- TNT: A Tommy Newsom Tribute
Sherrie Maricle and the Diva Jazz Orchestra — available
- When Lights Are Low
Claire Martin and Richard Rodney Bennett — available
- Song X: Twentieth Anniversary
Pat Metheny and Ornette Coleman — available
- Oceana
Ben Monder — available
- Once to Every Heart
Mark Murphy — available
- From the Soul
Jeffrey Osborne — available
- What's New
Jimmy Ponder — available
- At the Rio Jazz Club
Baden Powell — available
- TATI
Enrico Rava, Stefano Bollani, Paul Motian — available
- The 80th Birthday Concert
George Russell and the Living Time Orchestra — available
- Rise
Anoushka Shankar — available
- Konfusion
Skalpel — available
- The Beautiful
Triptych Myth — available
- Bebo de Cuba
Bebo Valdes — available
- Vision Vol. 3
Various Artists — available
- It's Mostly Residual
Cuong Vu — available
- Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe: Live in San Francisco 2002
Patty Waters — available
- Grace
Deborah Weisz Quintet — available
- Every Part of Me
William Woods — available
- The Move
Nils Wogram and Simon Nabatov — available
- A Faceless Place
Bill Warfield Big Band — available
- The Funky Side of Life
Yesterday's New Quintet Presents Sound Directions — available
Gigbag
- Gigbag: December 2005 — available
Audio Files
- Wrapped in Sound: Surround Speaker Systems Make Great Leaps Forward — available
- Arcam AVR-300 A/V Receiver — available
Fused
- Undefined Psych-Chromatic G.R.I.D.
John Carey — available
- The King Crimson Songbook, Vol. One
The Crimson Jazz Trio — available
- Soleil 12
The Forgas Band Phenomena — available
- Blueberry Cave
Garaj Mahal — available
- Thanks for Flying With Us
The Mats/Morgan Band — available
- Airback
NDIO — available
- Organik
Niacin — available
- Love Press Ex-Curio
Charlie Peacock — available
- Gospel for J.F.P. III:Tribute to Jaco Pastorius
Various Artists — available
Gearhead
- Yamaha 62II Alto and Tenor Saxophones — available
- Zildjian K Constantinople Hi Bell Cymbals — available
News
- A Charlie Brown Christmas: Xmas Peanuts — available
- Kansas City Jazz: K.C. Royal — available
Columns
Final Chorus
- The Perfect Jazz Club — available
The Gig
- The AACM at 40 — available
Cadenza
- Brand New Old Music — available
Departments
Artist Profiles
- Jenny Scheinman: String Thing — available
- Gilles Peterson: Tastemaker — available
- Joe Locke: Bags' Groove — available
- Mamadou Diabate: Malian, Way Cool — available
- Craig Harris: Outside the Veil — available
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