August 2008
Contents
Features
- Return to Forever: Where Have I Known You Before — available
- Return to Forever: Fusion Evolution — available
- Vernon Reid: Mistaken Identity — available
- John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey: Smooth Talkers — available
- Dave Matthews Band: What Would You Play — available
- Mose Allison: Cover to Cover
- IAJE: Miseducation — available
Reviews
Vox
- Songs From the Heart
Sylvia Bennett — available - Mad Hope
Karen Blixt — available - Little Did I Dream: Songs by Dave Frishberg
Connie Evingson — available - Vox — August 2008 — available
- Back to My Groove
Elisabeth Kontomanou — available - The Hours
Alma Micic — available - The Song Is You
Ed Reed — available - Every Time We Say Goodbye
Marilyn Scott — available - Lifejacket
Ian Shaw — available - This Kind of Love
Carly Simon — available
Eighty-Eights
- Her First Dance
Misha Alperin — available - Vignettes
Marilyn Crispell — available - Oasis
Armen Donelian Trio — available - Dig Deep
Laszlo Gardony — available - Song for Pickles
Larry Gelb — available - An Open Letter to Thelonious
Ellis Marsalis Quartet — available - The Third Time Around
Sacha Perry — available - As Never Before
Enrico Pieranunzi/Marc Johnson/Joey Baron — available - Long Ago Today
Sumi Tonooka Trio — available - Songs for a New Century
Jessica Williams — available - Travel Notes
Alon Yavnai — available
Albums
- Two Men With the Blues
Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis — available - The Art of Dying
Jason Ajemian — available - Solace
Jamie Baum Septet — available - The World Awakes: A Tribute to Eli “Lucky” Thompson
Michael Blake — available - Bottesini
The Bottesini Project — available - Quartet (GTM) 2006
Anthony Braxton — available - The Way I Play
Bobby Broom — available - Jazz Pictures at an Exhibition of Himalayan Art
Chris Byars — available - Present Tense
James Carter — available - Guitars Two
Philip Catherine — available - Mutopia
Jeff Coffin Mu’tet — available - Gently Disturbed
Avishai Cohen Trio — available - 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur
Bill Dixon — available - Re-Invention
The Dixon-Rhyne Project — available - The Door
Mathias Eick — available - Let It Come to You
Taylor Eigsti — available - Dream Flight
E_L_B/Erskine_Lê_Benita — available - Hopes and Dreams
Wayne Escoffery and Veneration — available - LIVE at the Kerava Jazz Festival: Finland
Kali. Z. Fasteau/Kidd Jordan — available - The Lady of Khartoum
Garrison Fewell & Eric Hofbauer — available - Door
Fieldwork — available - History, Mystery
Bill Frisell — available - Beyond Standard
Hiromi’s Sonicbloom — available - Tales From the Beach
Incognito — available - It’s Magic
Ahmad Jamal — available - Another Morning
Matt Jorgensen + 451 — available - Optics
Søren Kjærgaard — available - Flag Day
Adam Kolker — available - Always Outnumbered
Steuart Liebig/Tee-Tot Quartet — available - Landscapes
Frank Macchia — available - Invisible Cities
Pete Malinverni — available - Floating Point
John McLaughlin — available - The European Quartet Live
Andy Middleton — available - Xenogenesis Suite
Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble — available - Sharp Turns
Moutin Reunion Quartet — available - Moravian Gems
George Mraz & Iva Bittova — available - Big Boss Bossa Nova 2.0
Doug Munro — available - The Romanian-American Jazz Suite
Sam Newsome & Lucian Ban — available - Standards
The Nuttree Quartet — available - My Favorite Guitars
Andreas Öberg — available - Song for Chico
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra — available - Romance
Rosa Passos — available - Trio Arc
Mario Pavone — available - Set the Alarm for Monday
Bobby Previte & the New Bump — available - Party Intellectuals
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog — available - Green
Hank Roberts with Marc Ducret and Jim Black — available - A Swingin’ Session With Duke Robillard
Duke Robillard — available - Cultural Survival
David Sanchez — available - Crossing the Field
Jenny Scheinman — available - Longitude
Martial Solal Trio — available - If People Could Talk
Vic Stevens’ Mistaken Identities — available - Young and Fine
Trio Sud — available - Coltrane in Spring
Tchicai/Müller/Munch-Hansen/Osgood — available - New Blues
Third World Love — available - Rainbow People
Steve Turre — available - Blue Too
Aaron Weinstein & John Pizzarelli — available - Loverly
Cassandra Wilson — available - Sideways
Jacob Young — available
Gigbag
- Gigbag: August 2008 — available
Audio Files
- How Great Speakers Work: Why We Hear What We Hear — available
Undertones
- Monuments
Walt Blanton/Tony Branco/John Nasshan — available - Bom Dia
Roger Davidson — available - Denis DiBlasio/Brian Betz Project
Denis Diblasio/Brian Betz Broject — available - G-Rays
David Gibson — available - Live
Grupa Janke Randalu — available - Beyond Good and Evil
Matt Haviland — available - Evolution
Amos Hoffman — available - Best of the West/Many Places
Anne Mette Iversen — available - With You in Mind
Russ Nolan — available - The Prince’s Groove
Vince Seneri — available - That That
Jesse Stacken — available - Medicine Man
Tom Tallitsch — available - Synesthesia
Nick Vayenas — available - Play That Thing
Rick Wald 16/NYC — available
The Archivist
- First Giant Steps
John Coltrane — available - Classic Columbia, OKeh and Vocalion Lester Young with Count Basie (1936-1940)
Lester Young with Count Basie — available - All Aglow Again
Peggy Lee — available - Ornette Coleman Town Hall 1962
Ornette Coleman Trio — available - Live at the Club Baby Grand Vols. 1-2
Jimmy Smith — available - Live In Zurich
Duke Ellington — available - Classic Hawaiian Steel Guitar Performances 1933-34
Sol Hoopii — available
Gearhead
- Taylor SolidBody Custom Guitar — available
- Tech 21 SansAmp Character Series Pedals — available
Columns
Final Chorus
- Jazz Revelations for Baby Boomers — available
The Gig
- Pump Up the Jamz — available
Solo
- Playing Changes for Change — available
JT Notes
- For Those About to Jazz-Rock… — available
Cadenza
- Player Piano Man — available
Departments
Artist Profiles
- Nicholas Payton: Musical Middle Ground — available
- Steve Tyrell: What the World Needs Now — available
- George Schuller’s Circle Wide: Round Repertory — available
- Grant Stewart: Young Old Soul — available
- Dafnis Prieto: Multilingual Rhythms — available
- Sheryl Bailey: Gone, Not Forgotten — available
At Home
- Pat Martino — available
Overdue Ovation
- Joe Diorio: Rehabilitation & Reinvention — available



























































































































































