April Issue 2010 CD Reviews 

New Releases

Django Bates
Beloved Bird
Lost Marbles

Dee Dee Bridgewater
Eleonora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee Bridgewater
EmArcy

Amit Chaudhuri
This Is Not Fusion
Babel/Vortex

Josefine Cronholm
Song of the Falling Feather
ACT

John Donaldson’s Unity
Nearer Awakening (Play the Music of Bheki Mseleku)
Laughing Lettuce Records

Paul Dunmall Quartet
Four Moons
FMR

Agusti Fernández-Barry Guy
Some Other Place
Maya

Barry Finnerty and N.Y. All Stars
Manhattan Sessions Part 1
ESC

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Barry Finnerty
Blues For Trane
Cheetah

Meddy Gerville
Fo Kronm La Vi
MG006.08

Bebel Gilberto
All in One
Verve

Rigmor Gustafsson & Radio String Quartet Vienna
Calling You
ACT

Ramsey Lewis
Songs From The Heart: Ramsey Plays Ramsey
Concord Records
[album interview]

Vincent Herring and Earth Jazz
Morning Star
Challenge

Abdullah Ibrahim And The WDR Big Band
Bombella
Intuition

Barb Jungr
The Men I Love
Naim

Henry Kaiser and Bob Bralove
Ultraviolet Licorice
BLove

Salif Keita
La Différence
Universal Music France

Mark Lockheart and the NDR Big Band
Days Like These
Fuzzy Moon Records

Brad Mehldau
Highway Rider
Nonesuch

Oddjob
Clint
ACT

Bobby Previte
Pan Atlantic
Auand

Nigel Price
Organ Trio Live!
Jazzizit

Howard Riley
Solo in Vilnius
NoBusiness

Jim Richardson’s Octopus
Chapter One
Actone

Osian Roberts/Steve Fishwick Quartet
With Cedar Walton!
HardBop

Walter Smith III and Mark Small
Bronze
Fresh Sound New Talent

Somi
If the Rains Come First
Obliqsound

Terell Stafford – Dick Oatts Quintet
Bridging the Gap
Planet Arts

Dave Stapleton Quintet
Between the Lines
Edition

Daniel Szabo Trio meets Chris Potter
Contribution
BMC

Sébastien Texier Trio
Don’t Forget You Are An Animal
Cristal

Stan Tracey Octet
Later Works
ReSteamed

Travis And Fripp
Live At Coventry Cathedral
Panegyric

Ken Vandermark / Barry Guy / Mark Sanders
Fox Fire
Maya

David S. Ware
Saturnian [Solo Saxophones Volume 1]
AUM Fideliy

Bill Wells/Annie Whitehead/Stefan Schneider/Barbara Morgenstern
Paper of Pins
Karaoke Kalk Kalk

Kenny Werner/Benjamin Koppel
Walden
Cowbell Music

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Kenny Werner/Benjamin Koppel
A Way With Words
Cowbell Music

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Benjamin Koppel/Bobby Watson
At Ease
Cowbell Music

Paul Wertico
Impressions Of A City
Chicago Sessions

Mark Wingfield
Sleeper Street
Dark Energy music

Xtet Project
Phase First
Bushbaby

Yurodny
Evenset
Diatribe

Zevious
After the Air Raid
Cuneiform Rune

Omri Ziegele Where’s Africa Trio
Can Walk on Sand
Intakt

 
Reissues (24)

Ray Anderson
Old Bottles – New Wine
Enja

Chet Baker / Bill Evans
The Complete Legendary Sessions
American Jazz Classics

Anthony Braxton and Ran Blake
Memory Of Vienna
Hatology

Dave Brubeck
50 Years of Dave Brubeck
MJF

Don Cherry
Hear And Now
Atlantic

Dave Douglas Tiny Bell Trio
Constellations
Hatology

Booker Ervin Quartet
The Complete Songbook Sessions
Jazz Lips

Sir Roland Hanna
Everything I Love
IPO

Dick Hyman
Century of Jazz Piano
Arbors

Lambert, Hendricks And Bavan
At Newport ’63/Havin’ A Ball At The Village Gate
Take Two

Jimi Hendrix
Valleys of Neptune
Experience Hendrix/Sony Legacy

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Are You Experienced?
Experience Hendrix/Sony Legacy

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Axis Bold As Love
Experience Hendrix/Sony Legacy

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Electric Ladyland
Experience Hendrix/Sony Legacy

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The First Rays of The New Rising Sun
Experience Hendrix/Sony Legacy

Michael White
Spirit Dance
Impulse

Pete Lockett’s Network Of Sparks Featuring Bill Bruford
One
Summerfold

Modern Jazz Quartet
The MJQ in the Movies
Giant Steps

Howard Riley
The Monk-Ellington Sessions
33Records

Shorty Rogers and the Giants
You Shorty, Me Tarzan!
Giant Steps

Zoot Sims / Bob Brookmeyer Quintet
Tonite’s Music Today
Fresh Sound

Various Artists
Douglas On Blue Note
Douglas

Joe Zawinul
Money In The Pocket
Atlantic