December 2008
Contents
Features
- Tony Bennett: That Holiday Feeling — available
- Roy Hargrove: Can’t Stop Won’t Stop — available
- Jazz and Country Fusion: The Searchers — available
- Wadada Leo Smith: Onward & Upward — available
- Bill Bruford: The Pilgrim’s Progress — available
Reviews
Vox
- Big Bang Theory
Shaun Barrowes — available
- Friends and Family
Ray Brown Jr. — available
- Embracing Voices
Jane Bunnett — available
- Live Smoke Sessions
Lea Delaria — available
- What Lies Within
Denise Donatelli — available
- Afro Blue: The Music of Oscar Brown Jr.
Cynthia Felton — available
- Afro Blue: The Music of Oscar Brown Jr.
Cynthia Felton — available
- The Very Thought of You
Nicole Henry — available
- Stage Door Johnny
John Miller — available
- A Kiss to Build A Dream On
Jessica Molaskey — available
- Speak Low
Boz Scaggs — available
- New O’leans
Daryl Sherman — available
- Dreaming of a Song: The Music of Hoagy Carmichael
Billy Stritch & Klea Blackhurst — available
Currents
- Butterfly
Azymuth — available
- Life Is Good
Tom Grant — available
- Apasionado
Tony Guerrero — available
- Greatest Hits
Dave Koz — available
- The L.A. Chillharmonic
The L.A. Chillharmonic featuring Richard Smith — available
- Heat
Michael Lington — available
- Heard That
Jeff Lorber — available
- On the Rocks
Matt Marshak — available
- Infinita
Lawson Rollins — available
- The Limit’s the Sky
Oli Silk — available
Albums
- Road Shows, Vol. 1
Sonny Rollins — available
- The Traveler
Kenny Barron — available
- Clockwise
Michael Bates — available
- Appearing Nightly
Carla Bley Big Band — available
- Ten
Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra with special guests Steve Lacy & David Murray — available
- The Othello Syndrome
Uri Caine Ensemble — available
- Yizkor: Music of Memory
David Chevan with Hazzan Alberto Mizrahi & the Afro-Semitic Experience — available
- Blueprints of Jazz, Vol. 1
Mike Clark — available
- Flood
Avishai Cohen — available
- Joey D!
Joey DeFrancesco — available
- Banshees
Scott Dubois — available
- Leucocyte
E.S.T. — available
- What the World Needs Now
Five Play — available
- Summer Me! Live At Battle Ground
Johnny Frigo — available
- Woot
Garaj Mahal — available
- Soul Progressin’
Lafayette Gilchrist & the New Volcanoes — available
- Rambling Boy
Charlie Haden Family & Friends — available
- Mind Wine: The Music of John Hicks
The John Hicks Legacy Band — available
- Bert’s Playground
Ari Hoenig — available
- Heartfelt
Christian Howes — available
- Once Upon a Melody
Javon Jackson — available
- The Suitcase, Live in Köln ’94
Steve Khan — available
- Force of Four
Joe Locke — available
- Nonaah
Roscoe Mitchell — available
- Our Delight
The James Moody and Hank Jones Quartet — available
- This We Know
Michael Moore & Fred Hersch — available
- Novas Bossas
Milton Nascimento & the Jobim Trio — available
- The Mancini Project
Ted Nash — available
- The Turning Gate
New Jazz Composers Octet — available
- Petit Oiseau
William Parker Quartet — available
- Ancestors
Mario Pavone Double Tenor Quintet — available
- Swinging the Changes
Nik Payton and Bob Wilber — available
- Stones World
Tim Ries — available
- Tabligh
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet — available
- Thunder
S.M.V. — available
- The Scene
The Stryker/Slagle Band — available
- Double Standards
Martin Taylor — available
- Guitars
McCoy Tyner — available
- The Nature of the Beat
Wayne Wallace — available
Gigbag
- Gigbag: December 2008 — available
Audio Files
- Alms for the Audiophile — available
The Archivist
- Tatum Art
Art Tatum — available
- Jonah Jones at the Embers
Jonah Jones — available
- Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition
Miles Davis — available
- To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story
Nina Simone — available
- Live at the 1994 Monterey Jazz Festival
Shirley Horn — available
- Giants of the Big Band Era
Benny Goodman — available
Undertones
- Eyes in the Back of My Head
Cosmologic — available
- Tribal Musette
Dominique Cravic Et Primitifs Du Futur — available
- Over Here Over Heard
Dan Cray Trio — available
- Tuscan Prelude: Jazz Under Glass
Jay D’Amico Trio — available
- Live at Louis 649
Eli Degibri Trio — available
- Dragon’s Head
Mary Halvorson Trio — available
- Blood and Thunder
Aaron Irwin Group — available
- The Same Thing
Darrel Katz & Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra — available
- Waning Moon—Luna Menguante
Lucia Pulido — available
- Do the Hate Laugh Shimmy
Pete Robbins — available
- Existential Detective
Barry Romberg’s Random Access Large Ensemble — available
- Imbued With Memories
Chip Shelton & Peacetime — available
- An Die Musik
Nobu Stowe — available
- Double Dedication
Chip White — available
- Salt ‘N Pepper!
Martin Wind Quartet — available
Books
- Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture
Krin Gabbard — available
- Jazz Idiom
Charles L. Robinson and Al Young — available
- Luck’s In My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page
Todd Bryant Weeks — available
- Miles On Miles—Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis
Paul Maher Jr. and Michael K. Dorr — available
- Workout—The Music of Hank Mobley
Derek Ansell — available
Gearhead
- Stellartone ToneStyler BASS — available
- BOSS GT-10 Guitar Effects Processor — available
News
- Jazz for Obama: Democratic Jazz Party — available
- The 2009 Jazz Masters: Jazz Oscars — available
Columns
Final Chorus
- What About Mingus? — available
The Gig
- Jazz in Hard Times — available
JT Notes
- Checking His List Twice — available
Cadenza
- Jump for Gioia — available
Departments
Artist Profiles
- Mary Halvorson: Fractured Guitar — available
- Charmaine Clamor: Filipino Fusion — available
- Francisco Mela: Free Jazz Latin — available
At Home
- David “Fathead” Newman — available
Overdue Ovation
- Mundell Lowe: Man of Few Notes, Many Stories — available
- Articles
- Community
- Guides
- Promotions
- Reviews
- Shopping