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Emily Bear: Diversity *

CD / Concord / 2013-05-07

Tracks: Northern Lights; Blue Note; Diversity; Hot Peppers; Alika; Peralada; Jessie's Song; Jazz Angles; Italia; Salsa Americana; Tutti Cuore; Reflections; Q
Artists: Emily Bear

Personnel: Emily Bear (piano); Francisco Mela (drums).

Audio Mixer: Seth Presant.

Recording information: El Adobe Recording Studios, El Paso, TX; WEstlake Studios, Los Angeles, CA.
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Jacky Terrasson: Gouache [Digipak] *

1 CD / Sunnyside Communications / 2013-04-09

Tracks: Try to Catch Me; Baby; Je Te Veux; Rehab; Gouache; Oh My Love; Mother; Happiness; Valse Hot; C'est Si Bon
Artists: Jacky Terrasson

Personnel: Jacky Terrasson (piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Cécile McLorin Salvant (vocals); Michel Portal (bass clarinet); Stephane Belmondo (trumpet, flugelhorn); Burniss Earl Travis II (double ba...continue...

Andy Bey: Chillin' with Andy Bey

1 CD / ECM Records (USA) / 2013-04-09

Tracks: Mountain Greenery; With a Song in My Heart; When Your Lover Has Gone; My Heart Stood Still; There Will Never Be Another You; Other Half of Me, The; You Stepped out of a Dream; Sophisticated Lady; Mor...
Artists: Andy Bey

Audio Mixer: Wolfgang Lackerschmid.

Liner Note Author: Karl Bruckmaier.

Recording information: Traumstudio, Augsburg, Germany (11/2002).

Photographer: Helmut Hien....continue...

Steve Kuhn (Piano): The Vanguard Date [Digipak]

1 CD / Sunnyside Communications / 2013-04-09

Tracks: Clotilde; Superjet; Little Waltz; Zoo, The; I Thought About You; Music Prayer for Peace; Dance Only with Me; Lullaby; [CD-ROM Track]
Artists: Steve Kuhn (Piano)

Liner Note Author: Michel Contat.

Recording information: The Village Vanguard (03/??/1986-03/30/1986).

Photographer: Bernard Amiard.

The Vanguard Date features jazz pianist Steve ...continue...

Teddy Wilson: Alone

CD / Quicksilver / 2013-03-19

Tracks: Just One of Those Things; You Turned the Tables on Me; Improvisater; Wished On the Moon #1; Wished On the Moon #2; Origional Blues #1; Someone to Watch Over Me; From This Moment On #1; From This Mome...
Artists: Teddy Wilson

Liner Note Author: Dave Dexter, Jr.

Teddy Wilson is heard during a 1983 live solo set in a Danish nightclub, for the most part sticking to songs that had been part of his repertoire for decades...continue...

Dave Brubeck: In Europe

CD / Phoenix Jazz / 2013-03-12

Artists: Dave Brubeck

Oscar Peterson: Soft Sands/My Fair Lady

CD / Phoenix Jazz / 2013-03-12

Artists: Oscar Peterson

The McCoy Tyner Trio: Bon Voyage

1 CD / Timeless Jazz Legacy / 2013-03-12

Tracks: Bon Voyage; Summertime; Don't Blame Me; You Stepped Out of a Dream; Jazz Walk; How Deep is the Ocean; Yesterdays; Blues for Max
Artists: The McCoy Tyner Trio

Personnel: McCoy Tyner (piano); Louis Hayes (drums).

Audio Remasterer: Peter Brussee.

Recording information: Studio 44, Monster, Holland (06/09/1987).

Photographer: Jan Persson....continue...

Thelonious Monk/Thelonious Monk Quartet: Monk's Dream [Bonus Tracks] [Remastered]

CD / Poll Winners Records / 2013-02-26

Tracks: Monk's Dream; Body and Soul; Bright Mississippi; Five Spot Blues; Blue Bolivar Blues (Ba-Lue-Bolivar-Ba-Lues-Are); Just a Gigolo; Bye-Ya; Sweet and Lovely; Monk's Dream [Original Trio Vresion]; Blue ...
Artists: Thelonious Monk/Thelonious Monk Quartet

Personnel: Thelonious Monk (piano); Charlie Rouse (tenor saxophone); John Ore (bass); Frankie Dunlop (drums).

Recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, New York in 1963. Includes liner notes by P...continue...

Charles Mingus: 1962 Town Hall Concert [Bonus Track]

CD / Phoenix Jazz / 2013-02-26

Artists: Charles Mingus

The concert, which was billed as an open recording session with audience, was a shambles, with copyists seated on stage working feverishly even as the performance was going on. The record is pretty mu...continue...

Fats Waller: Legacy [Olympic]

CD / Essential Media Group / 2013-02-12

Artists: Fats Waller

A number of Fats Waller compilations appeared during the long era of the LP, many of them on RCA Victor or its subsidiary Bluebird, and others on budget labels such as Olympic. As expected, the discog...continue...

Richard Zimmerman (Piano): The Roots of Ragtime

CD / / 2013-02-12

Artists: Richard Zimmerman (Piano)

Erroll Garner: I Get a Kick out of You/From the Archives

CD / / 2013-02-12

Artists: Erroll Garner

Ahmad Jamal: Blue Moon: The New York Session/The Paris Concert [Collector's Edition] [Digipak] *

2 CD / Jazz Village / 2013-02-12

Tracks: Autumn Rain; Blue Moon; Gypsy; Invitation; I Remember Italy; Laura; Morning Mist; This Is The Life; Woody'n You; Autumn Rain - (live); Blue Moon - (live); Gypsy, The - (live); Invitation - (live); I ...
Artists: Ahmad Jamal

Blue Moon is not just Ahmad Jamal's latest album; it's his latest masterpiece - suffused with a feeling reminiscent of his greatest periods with Chess...continue...
Personnel: Ahmad Jamal (piano); Reginald Veal (double bass); Herlin Riley (drums); Manolo Badrena (percussion).

Audio Mixer: Todd Winmill.

Liner Note Author: Catherine Vallon-Barry.
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Chester Thompson (Keyboards): Powerhouse *

CD / Black Jazz / 2013-02-05

Tracks: Mr. T; Trip One; Weird Harold; Power House
Artists: Chester Thompson (Keyboards)

Personnel: Chester Thompson (organ); Rudolph Johnson (saxophone); Al Hall (trombone); Raymond Pounds (drums).

Liner Note Author: Frank John Hadley.

Photographer: Dorothy Tanous....continue...

James P. Johnson: 1928-1938

CD / Classics / 2013-01-29

Tracks: Daylight Savin' Blues; Georgia's Always on My Mind; Riffs; Feelin' Blue; Put Your Mind Right on It; Fare Thee Honey Blues; You Don't Understand; You've Got to Be Modernistic; Crying for the Carolines...
Artists: James P. Johnson

Personnel: James P. Johnson (guitar, baritone saxophone, piano, drums); Ward Pinkett (vocals, clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, trumpet, trombone); Zutty Singleton (vocals, drums); Andy Razaf...continue...

Ben Sidran: Don't Cry For No Hipster [Digipak]

CD / / 2013-01-08

Tracks: Back Nine; Brand New Music; Don't Cry For No Hipster; At Least We Got To The Race; Can We Talk; In The Beginning; It Don't Get No Better; Dying Anyway; Private Guy; Reflections; Take A Little Hit; Si...
Artists: Ben Sidran

Audiophile Audition
This is his 35th solo recording and of the 14 tracks a dozen are his originals. The title tune about not crying for the...continue...

Jim Hall/Bill Evans & Jim Hall/Bill Evans (Piano): Undercurrent [Bonus Tracks]

CD / Poll Winners Records / 2013-01-08

Artists: Jim Hall/Bill Evans & Jim Hall/Bill Evans (Piano)

Personnel: Bill Evans (piano); Jim Hall (guitar).

Recorded at Soundmakers, New York, New York on April 24 and May 14, 1962. Originally released on United Artists (1500). Includes liner notes by...continue...

Bill Evans (Piano): Empathy/A Simple Matter of Conviction

CD / Verve / 2012-12-11

Artists: Bill Evans (Piano)

Contains 2 Lps on 1 CD.

Includes liner notes by Don Gold, Morgan Ames, Chuck Briefer and James Isaacs.

Digitally remastered by Tom Ruff (Polygram Studios).

EMPATHY:

Personn...continue...

Dave Brubeck/The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Bossa Nova USA

CD / Essential Jazz Classics / 2012-12-04

Artists: Dave Brubeck/The Dave Brubeck Quartet

With the popularization of bossa nova in the early '60s, practically every recording artist had to have at least one bossa nova album. This effort by the Dave Brubeck Quartet is better than most due t...continue...

McCoy Tyner/The McCoy Tyner Trio: Inception/Reaching Fourth [Remastered] *

CD / American Jazz Classics / 2012-12-04

Artists: McCoy Tyner/The McCoy Tyner Trio

This set combines two of pianist McCoy Tyner's early-'60s LPs for Impulse! Records, 1962's Inception, which finds Tyner as part of a trio with bassist Art Davis and drummer Elvin Jones, and 1963's Rea...continue...

Coleman Hawkins: The Hawk Flies High

CD / Not Now Music / 2012-12-04

Artists: Coleman Hawkins

Personnel: Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxophone); Idrees Sulieman (trumpet); J.J. Johnson (trombone); Hank Jones (piano); Barry Galbraith (guitar); Oscar Pettiford (bass); Jo Jones (drums).

Recorde...continue...

Ahmad Jamal Trio/Ahmad Jamal: Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing: But Not for Me

CD / Hallmark / 2012-11-06

Tracks: But Not for Me; Surrey With the Fringe On Top; Moonlight In Vermont; (Put Another Nickel In) Music, Music, Music; No Greater Love; Poinciana; Wood N You; What's New?
Artists: Ahmad Jamal Trio/Ahmad Jamal

Recorded at the Pershing Club in Chicago, IL, Jamal's third album (including the hit "Poinciana") was the turning point in his career. His liberal use of silence influenced many jazz musicians, includ...continue...

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Further Out

CD / Hallmark / 2012-11-06

Tracks: It's a Raggy Waltz; Bluette; Charles Matthew Hallelujah; Far More Blue; Far More Drums; Maori Blues; Unsquare Dance; Brus Boogie Woogie; Blue Shadows in the Street
Artists: The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Bill Evans (Piano): New Jazz Conceptions [Bonus Tracks]

CD / Ais / 2012-10-16

Artists: Bill Evans (Piano)

This groundbreaking recording was the first to feature then-unknown Bill Evans as a leader, and it also introduced a trio format of piano, bass, and drums, which would become Evans's standard format f...continue...

Steve Kuhn (Piano): Life's Magic [Digipak]

1 CD / Sunnyside Communications / 2012-10-16

Tracks: Little Old Lady; Two by Two; Jitterbug Waltz; Ulla/Trance; Yesterday's Gardenias; Mr. Calypso Kuhn; Never Let Me Go; Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise
Artists: Steve Kuhn (Piano)

Personnel: Steve Kuhn (piano); Al Foster (drums).

Liner Note Author: Steve Kuhn .

Recording information: The Vilalge Vanguard, New York City (03/28/1986-03/30/1986).

Steve Kuhn le...continue...

Horace Parlan: Seven Classic Albums *

CD / Real Gone Jazz / 2012-09-25

Tracks: C Jam Blues; On Green Dolphin Street; Up in Cynthia's Room; Lady Bird; Bag's Groove; Stella by Starlight; There Is No Greater Love; It Could Happen to You; Us Three; I Want to Be Loved; Come Rain or ...
Artists: Horace Parlan

Real Gone Jazz reissued seven classic albums from the early '60s by hard bop pianist Horace Parlan, Movin' and Groovin', Us Three, Speakin' My Piece, Headin' South, On the Spur of the Moment, Up and D...continue...

Meschiya Lake: Live at Chickie Wah Wah

CD / CD Baby (distributor) / 2012-09-18

Artists: Meschiya Lake

Brad Mehldau Trio/Brad Mehldau: Where Do You Start

CD / Nonesuch (USA) / 2012-09-18

Tracks: Got Me Wrong; Holland; Brownie Speaks; Baby Plays Around; Airegin; Hey Joe; Samba e Amor; Jam; Time Has Told Me; Aquelas Coisas Todas; Where Do You Start?
Artists: Brad Mehldau Trio/Brad Mehldau

The companion piece to Brad Mehldau's other 2012 album, the all-original Ode, Where Do You Start features the pianist's trio covering material by other artists. Included are cuts by such eclectic non-...continue...

Lao Tizer: Golden Soul

CD / Frat House Records / 2012-09-18

Tracks: Golden Soul; Fire and Ice; Heading Home; West Side Highway; Day Break; Conversations; Enchantments; Pearl Street; St. Stephen's Green; Her Poertry
Artists: Lao Tizer

Personnel includes: Lao Tizer (piano); Karolyn Kafer (saxophone, flute); David Mann (saxophone); Jeff Kollman (guitar); Christopher Maloney (bass); Shane Gaalaas (drums); Mino Cinelu (percussion).
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Lao Tizer: Diversify *

CD / YSE Recordings / 2012-09-18

Tracks: Night in the City, A; Uptown; Diversify; Flow; Till We Meet Again; Olivas Adobe; Summer Dayz; Autumn Sky; Improvisation; Up a Notch; Namaste; November; Rapture; Ella's First Light
Artists: Lao Tizer

Personnel: Lao Tizer (Fender Rhodes piano); Karen Briggs (vocals); Chieli Minucci (guitars); Jeff Kollman (acoustic guitar); Andy Suzuki, Steve Nieves (alto saxophone); Mike McGuffey (cornet); Ed Roth...continue...

Dave Brubeck/The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out

1 CD / Analogue Productions / 2012-09-12

Artists: Dave Brubeck/The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Dave Brubeck (piano); Paul Desmond (alto saxophone); Eugene Wright (bass); Joe Morello (drums).

Recorded at Columbia 30th Street Studios, New York, New York on June 25, Ju...continue...

Fred Hersch Trio/Fred Hersch: Alive at the Vanguard [Digipak] *

CD / Palmetto Records / 2012-09-11

Tracks: Havana; Tristesse; Segment; Lonely Woman/Nardis; Dream of Monk; Rising, Falling; Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise; Doxy; Opener; I Fall in Love Too Easily; Jackalope; Wind/Moon and Sand, The; Sartoria...
Artists: Fred Hersch Trio/Fred Hersch

Personnel: Fred Hersch (piano); Eric McPherson (drums).

Audio Mixer: A.T. Michael MacDonald.

Liner Note Author: Fred Hersch.

Recording information: The Village Vanguard, New York,...continue...

Harold Mabern: Mr. Lucky: A Tribute to Sammy Davis Jr. *

CD / Highnote Records, Inc. / 2012-09-11

Tracks: People Tree, The; As Long as She Needs Me; Soft Shoe Trainin' with Sammy; Hey There; I've Gotta Be Me; Mr. Lucky; What Kind of Fool Am I?; Night Song; Something's Gotta Give
Artists: Harold Mabern

Tributee: Sammy Davis, Jr.

Personnel: Harold Mabern (piano); Eric Alexander (tenor saxophone); Joe Farnsworth (drums).

Audio Mixer: Rudy Van Gelder.

Liner Note Authors: Donald Elf...continue...

Jacky Terrasson: Gouache *

CD / Universal / 2012-09-04

Tracks: Try to Catch Me; Baby; Je Te Veux; Rehab; Gouache; Oh My Love; Mother; Happiness; Valse Hot; C'est Si Bon
Artists: Jacky Terrasson

Personnel: Jacky Terrasson (piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Cécile McLorin Salvant (vocals); Michel Portal (bass clarinet); Stephane Belmondo (trumpet, flugelhorn); Burniss Earl Travis II (double ba...continue...

Alex Guilbert: On the Ground

CD / CD Baby (distributor) / 2012-08-21

Tracks: De Plus En Plus; L'homme Arme; New Slang; Big Foot; Everywhere Stranger; Spread; Buciumeana; Invisible, The; Big House Blues
Artists: Alex Guilbert

Geoffrey Eales: Red Letter Days

1 CD / Nimbus Alliance / 2012-08-14

Tracks: A Face Like Yours; I Should Care; Killer Jane; They Didn't Believe Me; Hannah's Riff; But Beautiful; Sometime Ago; Hotting It Up; Song For My Mother; So Long Sadness; That Final Look
Artists: Geoffrey Eales

Personnel: Geoff Eales (piano); Jim Mullen (guitar); Roy Babbington (double bass); Mark Fletcher (drums).

Recorded on September 6, 7 & 14, 2000.

Personnel: Geoffrey Eales (piano); Jim Mu...continue...

Leo Volskiy: Good News Blues

CD / Jazzing / 2012-08-14

Tracks: My Heart Stood Still; In the Mood For a Classic; Good News Blues; Heart and Soul; Alone Together; Conception; Park Campus; Webb City; Moonlight In Vermont
Artists: Leo Volskiy

Bill Evans (Piano): Conversations with Myself

CD / Universal Music / 2012-08-07

Artists: Bill Evans (Piano)

Solo performer: Bill Evans (piano).

Recorded at Webster Hall, New York, New York in December 1963. Includes original release liner notes by Gene Lees & Bill Evans and new liner notes by Phil Ba...continue...

Bill Evans (Piano): Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra

CD / Universal Music / 2012-08-07

Artists: Bill Evans (Piano)

Personnel includes: Bill Evans (piano); Claus Ogerman (arranger, conductor); Chuck Israels (bass); Larry Bunker, Grady Tate (drums).

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jer...continue...

Bill Evans (Piano): Trio '64

CD / Universal Music / 2012-08-07

Artists: Bill Evans (Piano)

TRIO 64 contains 8 bonus cuts, comprising all the alternate takes found on the COMPLETE BILL EVANS ON VERVE box set.

Personnel: Bill Evans (piano); Gary Peacock (bass); Paul Motian (drums).
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Keith Jarrett Quartet/Jan Garbarek/Jon Christensen/Keith Jarrett/Palle Danielsson (Double Bass): Sleeper: Tokyo, April 16th, 1979

2 CD / ECM Records (USA) / 2012-08-07

Tracks: Personal Mountains; Innocence; So Tender; Oasis; Chant of the Soil; Prism; New Dance
Artists: Keith Jarrett Quartet/Jan Garbarek/Jon Christensen/Keith Jarrett/Palle Danielsson (Double Bass)

Personnel: Jan Garbarek (flute, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, percussion); Jon Christensen (drums, percussion); Keith Jarrett (piano, percussion); Palle Danielsson (double bass).

Audio Mi...continue...

Thelonious Monk: The Very Best of Thelonious Monk

1 CD / Concord / 2012-08-07

Tracks: Blue Monk; Hackensack; Sophisticated Lady; Bemsha Swing; Honeysuckle Rose; Ruby, My Dear; Well, You Needn't; Trinkle, Tinkle; Nutty; 'Round Midnight
Artists: Thelonious Monk

Personnel: Thelonious Monk (piano).

Liner Note Author: Neil Tesser.

Recording information: Five Spot Café, New York, NY (05/11/1954-04/03/1956); Reeves Sound Studios, New York, NY (...continue...

Alfio Origlio: Ricordo

CD / Cristal / 2012-08-07

Tracks: Jacomo; Zebulon; Lola; Per Alfio; How Deep Is Your Love; Mauresque; Didonade; 12 Mesures Pour un Cagnard
Artists: Alfio Origlio

Personnel: Alfio Origlio (piano); Remi Vignolo (bass); Andre Ceccarelli (drums).

Personnel: Alfio Origlio (piano).

Recording information: Studio 26, Antibes, France (07/2000)....continue...

Bill Evans (Piano)/Bill Evans Trio (Piano): The Very Best of the Bill Evans Trio

1 CD / Concord / 2012-08-07

Tracks: Autumn Leaves; How Deep Is the Ocean?; What Is This Thing Called Love?; Blue in Green - (take); Beautiful Love; Nardis; My Foolish Heart; Gloria's Step - (take); Waltz for Debby - (take); My Man's Go...
Artists: Bill Evans (Piano)/Bill Evans Trio (Piano)

Personnel: Bill Evans (piano); Paul Motian (drums).

Liner Note Author: Neil Tesser.

This compilation from Concord compiles 11 tracks from four Bill Evans Trio albums recorded between 195...continue...

Dave Brubeck: The Very Best of Dave Brubeck: The Fantasy Era 1949-1953

1 CD / Fantasy / 2012-08-07

Tracks: Blue Moon; Let's Fall in Love; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; Body and Soul; I May Be Wrong; My Heart Stood Still; This Can't Be Love [Live at the Surf Club]; Frenesi; Me and My Shadow; Foggy Day, A...
Artists: Dave Brubeck

Liner Note Author: Neil Tesser.

The 2012 single-disc collection The Very Best of Dave Brubeck collects tracks the legendary pianist recorded for the Fantasy label from 1949 to 1953. These cuts ...continue...

Angie Spinelli: Journey

CD / Angie Spinelli / 2012-07-24

Tracks: First Born; Afternoon In Paris; Basin Street Blues; Tree of Life; Darn That Dream; On Green Dolphin Street; A Night In Tunisia
Artists: Angie Spinelli

Alex von Schlippenbach Quartet: Hunting the Snake

CD / Unheard Music Series/Atavistic / 2012-07-10

Tracks: Glen Feshie; Moonbeef; Hunting the Snake; Wenn Wir Kehlkopfspieler Uns Unterhalten
Artists: Alex von Schlippenbach Quartet

Schlippenbach Quartet: Alexander Von Schlippenbach (piano); Evan Parker (saxophone); Peter Kowald (bass); Paul Lovens (drums, cymbals).

Producer: Peter Schulze.

Reissue producer: John Co...continue...

Oscar Peterson: Songbooks

CD / Not Now Music / 2012-07-10

Artists: Oscar Peterson

Jelly Roll Morton: Oh, Mister Jelly!

CD / Upbeat / 2012-07-03

Artists: Jelly Roll Morton

This massive 25-track single-disc compilation of work by Jelly Roll Morton was assembled with an ear toward presenting the innovator in all of his periods as well as in many of his settings from soloi...continue...