January/February 2006
Contents
Features
- Nellie McKay: The Real McKay — available
- Bobo Stenson: Thoughts too Deep for Tears — available
- Roswell Rudd: Song Styles of a Planet — available
- Year in Review: Highs & Lows — available
Reviews
Guitartistry
- On My Way Back Home
Daisuke Abe — available
- Venusian Commute
Alex Domschot, Marc Johnson, Vic Stevens — available
- Greasy Street
Richie Hart — available
- Earth Tones
Charlie Hunter, Chinna Smith, Ernest Ranglin — available
- This Is It!
Melvin Sparks — available
- Ximo Tebar Goes Blue
Ximo Tebar — available
- Tales of Robert Dickinson
Teemu Viinikainen — available
- Hidden
David Ullmann — available
- Trio Paradise
Mark Whitfield — available
- Impressions
Chris Winters — available
Vox
- Learn to Smile Again
Susie Arioli Band — available
- Observatory
Julia Dollison — available
- Made in Europe
Caroline Henderson — available
- Just You, Just Me
Ranee Lee and Oliver Jones — available
- Live at the Dakota
Barbara Morrison — available
- You're Nearer: Love Songs of the 30s and 40s
Lindsey Muir — available
- Sophisticated Lady
Sandi Shoemake — available
- Duets
Nicola Stilo and Toninho Horta — available
- Segundo
Maria Rita — available
DVDs
- In Concert
The Benedetto Players and the Guild Masters — available
- Peter Bernstein Trio: Live at Smoke
Peter Bernstein Trio — available
- Rendezvous in New York
Chick Corea — available
- Al Di Meola, Jean-Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarke: Live at Montreux 1994
Al Di Meola, Jean-Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarke — available
- Last Date
Eric Dolphy — available
- Candy Dulfer: Live at Montreux
Candy Dulfer — available
- Live at the River East Art Center
Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio — available
- Ella Fitzgerald: Live at Montreux 1969
Ella Fitzgerald — available
- New Guitar Summit: Live at the Stoneham Theatre
Jay Geils, Duke Robillard and Gerry Beaudoin — available
- 20th Anniversary Concert
The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble — available
- King of the Vibes
Lionel Hampton — available
- Kinetic Hues: Live at Fat Cat
Ari Hoenig Group — available
- Solo Inventions
Charlie Hunter — available
- Live in Baalbeck
Ahmad Jamal — available
- Bob James: Live at Montreux 1985
Bob James — available
- The Art of Improvisation
Keith Jarrett — available
- J.J. Johnson's Last Concert
J.J. Johnson — available
- Stan Levey: The Original Original
Stan Levey — available
- David Liebman Teaches and Plays: A Day at the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops
David Liebman — available
- The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project — available
- Spontaneous Inventions
Bobby McFerrin — available
- Youssou N'Dour: Live at Montreux
Youssou N'Dour — available
- Power of Three
Michel Petrucciani — available
- Favorite Solos
Bucky Pizzarelli — available
- The Lost Tapes
Buddy Rich — available
- Overtime
Lee Ritenour — available
- A Special Evening With Duke Robillard and Friends
Duke Robillard — available
- Willie the Lion
Willie Smith — available
- The Magic Sun
Sun Ra and Phill Niblock — available
- Brazilian Beats
Various Artists — available
- Chicago Blues Reunion: Buried Alive in the Blues
Various Artists — available
- A Great Day in Harlem
Various Artists — available
- Smithsonian Jazz Masters DVD Series — available
- Make it Funky: The Music That Took Over the World
Various Artists — available
- Norman Granz Jazz in Montreux: Jazz at the Philharmonic '75
Various Artists — available
- Roots: Salute to the Saxophone/The Gadd Gang (Double Time Jazz Collection, Vol. 5)
Various Artists — available
- A Life in E Flat
Phil Woods — available
- Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise
John Zorn and Ken Jacobs — available
Eighty-Eights
- Lyric
Billy Childs Ensemble — available
- Viaticum
E.S.T. — available
- Friends Treasures Heroes
Bob Florence — available
- 'S Wonderful
The Great Jazz Trio — available
- Bembe en Mi Casa
Nachito Herrera — available
- Night Song
Mike LeDonne — available
- Maverick
Carli Munoz — available
- Play Morricone
Enrico Pieranunzi, Marc Johnson, Joey Baron — available
- Labyrinth
Kerry Politzer Quartet — available
- Blues Alley-Second Set
Hod O'Brien — available
Saxophonics
- Back on Top
Richie Cole & the Alto Madness Orchestra — available
- Faith
Sherman Irby — available
- If the Sea Replied
Tim Garland with the Northern Sinfonia Strings — available
- Mood Ellington
Jed Levy Quintet — available
- The Round
Alexander McCabe — available
- A Strange Day
Carla Marciano 4tet — available
- Passing Place
Dan Moretti & Once Through — available
- Time Flies
P.J. Perry — available
- Just the Beginning
Julius Tolentino — available
- Square Peg, Round Hole
Woody Witt Quintet — available
Albums
- Choros & Alegria
Moacir Santos — available
- Backstabber's Ball
Neal Caine — available
- Unfinished Symphony
Dakah Hip Hop Orchestra — available
- September Suite
Amina Figarova — available
- The Sameness of Difference
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey — available
- Whendo
Gangbe Brass Band — available
- Towards the Shining Path
Lafayette Gilchrist — available
- Gilfema
Lionel Loueke, Ferenc Nemeth, Massimo Biolcati — available
- Sixty Six Steps
Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon — available
- Harrison on Harrison
Joel Harrison — available
- Stridemonster
Dick Hyman and Dick Wellstood — available
- Unearth
Jonathan Kreisberg — available
- Quiereme Mucho
Steve Kuhn Trio — available
- Demian as Posthuman
Steve Lehman — available
- Mozart Piano Concertos 20/23
Jacques Loussier Trio — available
- Teddy Wilson: Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
Marian McPartland — available
- Amazon River
Hendrik Meurkens — available
- The Complete Library of Congress Recordings
Jelly Roll Morton — available
- Waltz Again
David Murray 4Tet & Strings — available
- Citizen Zen
New York Electric Piano — available
- Prime
Oregon — available
- Mosaic Select 19: The Pacific Jazz Piano Trios
Russ Freeman, Richard Twardzik, Jimmy Rowles, Clare Fischer — available
- Hybrids
The Ripple Effect — available
- Mystikal
Wallace Roney — available
- Blue Mongol
Roswell Rudd — available
- Artistry 3
John Sheridan Trio — available
- Dragon
Jake Shimabukuro — available
- A Very Rare Evening
Nina Simone — available
- Mosaic Select 20: Charles Tolliver
Charles Tolliver — available
- Living Water
Dwight Trible — available
- The Sugar Hill Suite
Trio X — available
- Length of Days
Deanna Witkowski — available
Gigbag
- Gigbag: January/February 2006 — available
Audio Files
- Hodgepodge: Running Down the Voodoo on Three Cool Projects — available
Books
- The American Songbook
Ken Bloom — available
- The Autobiography of Pops Foster: New Orleans Jazzman
Pops Foster/Tom Stoddard — available
- B.B. King: There Is Always One More Time
David McGee — available
- Bix: The Definitive Biography of a Jazz Legend
Jean Pierre Lion — available
- Black Notes: Essays of a Musician Writing in a Post-Album Age
William C. Banfield — available
- Bunny Berigan: Elusive Legend of Jazz
Robert Dupuis — available
- Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain
George McKay — available
- The Devil's Horn: The Story of the Saxophone, from Noisy Novelty to King of Cool
Michael Segell — available
- Elegant Soul: The Life and Music of Gene Harris
Janie Harris and Bob Evancho — available
- The Fifty Greatest Jazz Piano Players of All Time
Gene Rizzo — available
- Growing Up With Jazz: Twenty-Four Musicians Talk About Their Lives And Careers
W. Royal Stokes — available
- How to Grow as a Musician
Sheila E. Anderson — available
- In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz
Donald Marquis — available
- Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits
Wynton Marsalis with illustrations by Paul Rogers — available
- Jazz on Film
Scott Yanow — available
- Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop
Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix — available
- The Language of the Blues
Debra DeSalvo — available
- Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz
Joshua Berrett — available
- Miss Peggy Lee: A Career Chronicle
Robert Strom — available
- My Sax Life
Paquito D'Rivera — available
- Paris Jazz: A Guide from the Jazz Age to the Present
Luke Miner — available
- The Parisian Jazz Chronicles
Mike Zwerin — available
- Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band
Lawrence Gushee — available
- Satchmo Blows Up the World
Penny Von Eschen — available
- Sinatra: The Life
Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan — available
- Stochelo Rosenberg
Stochelo Rosenberg, Leo Eimers and Harry Klunder — available
- Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way
Peter Levinson — available
- Understanding Jazz: Ways to Listen
Tom Piazza — available
- Valaida: A Novel
Candace Allen — available
- Vision Festival: Peace
Edited by Patricia Nicholson Parker — available
- With Billie
Julia Blackburn — available
- Is Jazz Dead? (Or Has it Moved to a New Address): Three Views On… — available
Top 50 CDs of 2005
- Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane — available
- Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945
Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker — available
- One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note
John Coltrane — available
- Without a Song (The 9/11 Concert)
Sonny Rollins — available
- Beyond the Sound Barrier
Wayne Shorter Quartet — available
- Flow
Terence Blanchard — available
- Reimagining
Vijay Iyer — available
- I Have the Room Above Her
Paul Motian/Bill Frisell/Joe Lovano — available
- The Ground
Tord Gustavsen Trio — available
- Day Is Done
Brad Mehldau Trio — available
Gearhead
- Tascam CD-GT1mkII Portable CD Guitar Trainer — available
- Sibelius 4 — available
News
- The Immeasurable Sun Ra — available
Columns
Final Chorus
- Jazz is Good for Business — available
The Gig
- The Year in Gigs — available
Departments
Artist Profiles
- Jean-Michel Pilc: Rocket Man — available
- Mark Murphy: Always the Beat Generation — available
- The Esbjorn Svensson Trio: Taking Five with E.S.T. — available
- Mike Marshall: Braziliance — available