May 2007
Contents
Features
- Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau: Counterpoint — available
- The Hang: 50 Years Backstage at the Monterey Jazz Festival — available
- Patti Austin: Lady Be Good — available
- Jazz Collectives: All For One — available
- Anthony Braxton: True Mathematics — available
News
- Living History: Jazz Legends Celebrate at D.C.’s Kennedy Center — available
Reviews
Guitartistry
- The Calling: Volumes One and Two
Terrence Brewer — available - 3 Spirits
Joe Giglio Trio — available - Action: Reaction
Steve Herberman Trio — available - It’s About the Music
Jill Jensen/Jack Grassel — available - Gentle Rain
Doug Macdonald — available - The Messenger
Nick Moran Trio — available - Lost World
Eddie Reyes — available - Brilliance: Live at the 55 Bar NYC
Torben Waldorff Quartet — available
Vox
- A Jazzy Way
Maria Anadon — available - Songbird
Kathleen Grace Band — available - When You Came
Clark Ingram — available - You Don’t Know Me
Rebecca Parris — available - A Spirit Free: Abbey Lincoln Songbook
Kendra Shank — available - Sliding Down
Melissa Stylianou — available - On The Other Side
Tierney Sutton Band — available - From the Heart
Grady Tate — available - I Thought About You
Joan Watson-Jones — available - Time Changes Everything
Anna Wilson — available
DVDs
- Master Class
Lenny Breau — available - Night School
Stanley Clarke — available - The Ultimate Adventure: Live in Barcelona
Chick Corea — available - Jazz on the West Coast: The Lighthouse
— available - Live and Outrageous
Jaco Pastorius — available
Eighty-Eights
- Manhattan Reverie
Richie Beirach Trio — available - A long story
Anat Fort — available - Sack Full of Dreams
Onaje Allan Gumbs — available - Contradictions
Christian Jacob Trio — available - Time to Dream
Andy Laverne — available - Boneyard
Jim Mcneely/Kelly Sill/Joel Spencer — available - Kelly Blue
Dan Nimmer Trio — available - Blues Alley—Third Set
Hod O’Brien — available - Not Brand X
Sacha Perry — available - Love and Beauty
Roberta Piket — available
Currents
- White Sand
Paul Brown & Friends — available - Feeling Good
Randy Crawford & Joe Sample — available - It’s About Time!
Mel Davis — available - Liquid Soul
Gemini Soul featuring Ajamu Akinyele — available - Grand Central
Jeff Golub — available - Places
Mark Knox — available - Ready to Play
Nils — available - Grancia
Peter Primamore — available - Love Prevails
Ronald Turner and the Fashion Statement — available
Albums
- Nightmoves
Kurt Elling — available - Prog
The Bad Plus — available - Marsalis Music Honors Alvin Batiste
Alvin Batiste — available - All You Need
BeatleJazz — available - Party Hats
Will Bernard — available - Livein Cognito
Big Satan — available - Song and Dance
Bobby Broom — available - Spirit of the Moment
Michel Camilo — available - Architect of the Silent Moment
Scott Colley — available - Django Latino
Joe Craven — available - Live: The Authorized Bootleg
Joey DeFrancesco — available - DeMania
DeMania Trio — available - Dept. of Good and Evil feat. Rachel Z
Rachel Z — available - Acoplados
Martirio & Chano Dominguez — available - When Manatees Attack
Brad Dutz — available - When We Were There
Satoko Fujii Four — available - Live at the Blue Monk
Joel Futterman/Alvin Fielder/Ike Levin — available - In My Element
Robert Glasper — available - Homing (In Nine Parts)
J.A. Granelli and Mr. Lucky — available - Strange Feeling
John Gross/Dave Frishberg/Charlie Doggett — available - Why Can’t You Behave
Kristin Korb — available - Plays Herbie Nichols
Marty Krystall — available - Deacon Blues
Pete Levin — available - Gateway
Jed Levy — available - Ab Aeterno
Jason Lindner — available - Beyond the New York City Limits
Rudy Linka — available - Virgin Forest
Lionel Loueke — available - Return to the Emerald Beyond
The Mahavishnu Project — available - Hugmars
Hugh Marsh — available - Just the Thing
Kit McClure Band — available - Quartet
Pat Metheny/Brad Melhdau — available - New York Samba Jazz Quintet
Hendrik Meurkens — available - In the Moment
Bob Mintzer — available - Ticonderoga
Morning 40 Federation — available - Time and Time Again
Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano — available - Friendly Travelers
Wolfgang Muthspiel & Brian Blade — available - Live Upstairs at Nick’s
New Ghost — available - Life
David “Fathead” Newman — available - Rhapsody
Rich Perry & Harold Danko — available - John Pisano’s Guitar Night
John Pisano — available - 5 for Freddie: Bucky’s Tribute to Freddie Green
Bucky Pizzarelli — available - Findings
Benny Reid — available - Man Out of Time
Reginald R. Robinson — available - The Last Recording
Frank Rosolino — available - Ojos Negros
Dino Saluzzi/Anja Lechner — available - Live at the 1988 Montreux Jazz Festival
Carlos Santana & Wayne Shorter — available - Journal on a Shelf
Bill Sheffield — available - Places You Go
Brad Shepik Trio — available - Taking Chances: Live at the Dakota
Terell Stafford — available - Live at Blues Alley
The Taylor/Fidyk Big Band — available - Eclipse
Ximo Tebar — available - A Portrait
Joe Temperley — available - Relations
Times 4 — available - Tin Pan Aliens
Tin Pan Aliens — available - I'll Always Know
Tomo — available - A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane
Turtle Island Quartet — available - Disorder at the Border
Bennie Wallace — available - Land of Nod
Chris Washburne and the Syotos Band — available - Lawn Chair Society
Kenny Werner — available - Speaking of Love
Scott Whitfield — available - Velvet Gentlemen
Dan Willis — available - Kenton Portraits: A Loving Salute
Various Artists — available
Gigbag
- Gigbag: May 2007 — available
Audio Files
- Casting a Net on the Net — available
The Archivist
- How Low Can You Go: Anthology of the String Bass (1925-1941)
Jimmy Blanton — available - In Person 1925-1955
Hoagy Carmichael — available - Off The Record: The Complete 1923 Jazz Band Recordings
King Oliver — available - Nick LaRocca – 1960
Nick LaRocca — available - Andrew Hill – Solo
Andrew Hill — available - The Complete Abashiri Concert
Art Pepper — available
Undertones
- Jazz Folk
Don Aliquo — available - In the Morning
Michael Blanco — available - Secrets
Kim Bock Quartet — available - Capistrano Sessions
Craig Buhler — available - Blues From Mars
Elliott Caine Quintet — available - Emily’s Song
Alex Clements — available - Drum Lore
Owen Howard — available - Every Road I Walked
Grace Kelly — available - Chapter One
David Lackner — available - Squat
Squat — available - Processional
Fred Taylor & Inquest — available - It Is What It Is
Michael Thomas Quintet — available - New Incentive
Steve Williams — available
Gearhead
- BOSS Micro BR Digital Recorder — available
- Buffet Crampon 400 Series Alto Sax — available
- Meinl Byzance Jazz Cymbals — available
Columns
Final Chorus
- He Made Festivals Happen — available
The Gig
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered — available
JT Notes
- Jazz Police Brutality — available
Cadenza
- Shuffle Along — available
Departments
Artist Profiles
- Melody Gardot: Philadelphia Story — available
- Kendra Shank: Kendra Sings Abbey — available
- Conrad Herwig: Sketches of Salsa — available
- Bob French: Big Easy in the Big Apple — available
At Home
- Tierney Sutton — available
Overdue Ovation
- Clora Bryant: Trumpetiste Extraordinaire — available



























































































































































