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JAZZ

Salo Sundial Lotus

Ben Gallina, Paul Hindemith,

Salo,

Serene and chaotic, elegant and awkward, simple and intricate...

Jamie Begian Big Band Big Fat Grin

Jamie Begian,

Jamie Begian Big Band,

Open wide, smile.

Prester John Desire for a Straight Line

Shawn Persinger,

Prester John,

Truth revealed: Prester John is Shawn Persinger and David Miller

David Crowell Ensemble Spectrum

David Crowell, David Crowell Ensemble,

David Crowell, Grey Mcmurray, Jason Nazary, Mike Chiavaro, Red Wierenga,

Diverse, coherent, and captivating too.

Fernando Benadon intuitivo

Fernando Benadon,

Fernando Benadon Ensemble,

tight virtual ensemble

Gene Segal Hypnotic

Gene Segal,

Bryan Beninghove, Gene Segal, Jonathan Powell, Matt Kane, Mike Sim, Sam Barsh,

Entrancing, mesmerizing stuff

Michael Farley Grain

David Meltzer, Michael Farley,

Barbara Phillips-Farley, Michael Farley, Richard Stephan, Timothy Hill,

both fibrous and digestible

Rudresh Mahanthappa Apti

Ravi Shankar, Rudresh Mahanthappa,

Indo-Pak Coalition,

...and his Indo-Pak Coalition

Adam Niewood & His Rabble Rousers Epic Journey, Volumes I & II

Adam Niewood,

Adam Niewood & His Rabble Rousers,

Rousing stuff

Bill Banfield Band Spring Forward

Bill Banfield, John Coltrane, W. Montgomery,

Bill Banfield, Keith McCutchen, Serge Aquo, Stokley Williams, Terry Burns, Wallace Hill, Zeitgeist,

No falling back

royal hartigan ancestors

chinese traditional, edith piaf, Eve People of Ghana, Hafez Modirzadeh, ray hart, royal hartigan,

baomi, Hafez Modirzadeh, royal hartigan, sandra poindexter, weihua zhang,

personal tales from a (very-) musical family

Pharaoh's Daughter Daddy's Pockets

Basya Schechter,

Pharaoh's Daughter,

Goes well with Mint Tea

Jon Irabagon's Outright!

Jon Irabagon,

Chris Cash, Jesse Lewis, Jon Irabagon's Outright!, The Original Outright! Jass Band, The Outright! Mixed Choir,

Outright! is the %^@*

royal hartigan ensemble blood drum spirit live in china

Art Hirahara, Asante people of West Africa, Charles Mingus, chinese traditional, David Bindman, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Eve People, royal hartigan, Sonny Rollins,

royal hartigan ensemble,

Jazz for a new planet

Jason Kao Hwang / EDGE Stories Before Within

Jason Kao Hwang,

Andrew Drury, EDGE, Jason Kao Hwang, Ken Filiano, Taylor Ho Bynum,

Tales from the edge

Sean Noonan Being Brewed by Noon

Sean Noonan,

Brewed by Noon,

Live from New York and Beyond

Cafe Antarsia Ensemble Songs of the Table

Nikos Brisco, Rami El-Aasser, Ron Riley, Ruth Margraff,

Café Antarsia Ensemble,

Get Balkanized!

Susie Ibarra Drum Sketches

Susie Ibarra,

Cool Kulintang

Cristian Amigo Kingdom of Jones

Cristian Amigo,

A defiant sound world of freedom

Fantastic Merlins Look Around

Brian Roessler, Federico Ughi, Jacqueline Ferrier-Ultan, Nathan Hanson,

Fantastic Merlins,

Dangerous profundities

Kiku Collins Here With Me

Dido Armstrong, Julian Harris, Kiku Collins, Pascal Gabriel, Paul Stratham, Traditional Japanese,

Alex Alexander, Andy Ezrin, Greg Hirte, Jay Rodriguez, Jorge Bringas, Julian Harris, Kiku Collins, Manuel Carro, Nick Cudahy, Steve Shapiro, Tani Trentlyon, Tony Graci, Trevor Exter,

As seen on TV (just behind Beyonce, the one playing the horn)

Amanda Monaco 4 Intention

Amanda Monaco, Jason Gillenwater,

Amanda Monaco, Amanda Monaco 4, Fraser Hollins, Jason Gillenwater, Jeff Davis,

The mother of intention...

Virgil Moorefield Things You Must Do to Get to Heaven

Virgil Moorefield,

David Eggar, Michael Lowenstern, Stephen Gosling, Thad de Brock, Tom Chiu, Tom Kolor, Virgil Moorefield,

walking the line between composition and improvisation

Matt Steckler Persiflage

Matt Steckler,

Curtis Fowlkes, Lonnie Plaxico, Matt Steckler, Michael Cain, Persiflage, Pheeroan Aklaff,

Beyond Dead Cat Bounce

John Belcher The Sound According to John

John Belcher,

Abdul Mateen, Alioune Cissoko, Bolu Fatunmise, Dorothy Jungels, John Belcher, Phil Stalworth,

No saint, no blinding lights, just one man's complex universe

Carei Thomas Sound Window(s) V: Pinnacles

Carei Thomas, Jacqueline Ferrier-Ultan, Patrick O'Keefe,

Carei Thomas, Ensemble, Gary Schulte, Jacqueline Ferrier-Ultan, Patrick O'Keefe, Stephen Goldstein, Steve Goldstein, Steven Linsner,

A spatial-kinetic-word-sound-concept

Phillip Johnston Rub Me the Wrong Way

Phillip Johnston,

Barbara Merjan, David Hofstra, Joe Ruddick, Jonathan Dryden, Lindsey Horner, Mark Josefsberg, Nurit Tilles, Phillip Johnston, Will Holshouser,

Some cat's like to be rubbed the wrong way. IF YOU LIKE THIS...Try on your top hat and listen to Beat Circus, Ringleader's Revolt!

Rene Ford Unsentimental

Rene Ford,

Alicia Wiley, Eliezer Freitas Santos, J. Otis Powell!, Jeffrey Bailey, Kevin Washington, Mankwe Ndosi, Rene Ford,

There's always more to be said.

The Beat Circus Ringleader's Revolt

Brian Carpenter, DJ Hazard, Kurt Weill, Merle Evans, The Beat Circus,

Alec K. Redfearn, Brandon Seabrook, Brian Carpenter, Charle Kohlhase, DJ Hazard, Jerome Deupree, Jim Hobbs, Karen Langlie, Leigh Calabrese, Ron Caswell, Sagittarius Brown, The Beat Circus,

More fun than you can comfortably imagine under a big top.

Bill Banfield Striking Balance

Bill Banfield, Miles Davis, Morris Hayes, Patrice Rushen,

Bill Banfield, Billy Childs, Don Byron, Mark Ledford, Michael Burton, Nelson Rangell, Patrice Rushen,

There has never been a smoother smoke.

Industrial Jazz Group The Star Chamber

Andrew Durkin,

Industrial Jazz Group,

Not that kind of "industrial." This one is way more fun.

Shawn Persinger is Prester John The Art of Modern/Primitive Guitar

Shawn Persinger,

The Art of Modern/Primitive Guitar

Paul Austerlitz & Michael S. Harper Double Take: Jazz-Poetry Conversations

Michael S. Harper, Paul Austerlitz,

Jazz-Poetry Conversations for mouth and bass clarinet

R. Stevie Moore Nevertheless Optimistic

R. stevie Moore,

Dave Gregory, Kramer, R. Stevie Moore, Shooby Taylor,

The grand-daddy of DIY home recording

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Year of the Snake

Angel G. Villoldo, James Brown, James Crawford, John Scofield, Ken Field, Manu Dibago, Sun Ra,

Bob Pilkington, Derek VanBeever, Eric Paull, Ethan Meyer, Jon Fraser, Ken Field, Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, Scott Getchell,

It's all here - music for the head, the heart, and the feet.

CHiPs CHiPs

Aram Bajakian, Sean Noonan, Thierno Camara,

Aram Bajakian, CHiPs, Dan Magay, Jim Pugliese, Sean Noonan, Thierno Camara,

Anything but an Eighties nostalgia act

Dead Cat Bounce Home Speaks to the Wandering

Matt Steckler,

Arie Werbrouck, Bill Carbone, Charlie Kohlhase, Dead Cat Bounce, Drew Sayers, Jared Sims, Matt Steckler,

A cleverly anti-catatonic cantilever across the mainstream!

George Cartwright's GloryLand Ponycat Black Ants Crawling

Adam Linz, Don Pullen, Frank Wright, George Cartwright, Henry Grimes,

Adam Linz, Alden Ikeda, George Cartwright,

Downtown sax hero, takes a break from Curlew to unleash GloryLand PonyCat.

Fred Ho ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! The Black Panther Suite

Andrea Lockett, Fred Ho, Jayne Cortez, Paul Chan,

Afro Asian Music Ensemble,

Blasts the lock off America's citadel of lies, rescues the Panthers' legacy from the clutches of goody-two-shoes revisionists, and delivers it—alive and kicking—to the place where it is most needed—literally, in our souls.

Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng Afrijazz

Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng, Thelonius Monk,

Dominic Kanza, Gloria Koomson, Ismail Lawal, Jay Hoggard, Jeff Penn, Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng, Michael Veal, Paul Austerlitz, Rani Arbo, Scott Kessel, Taylor Ho Bynum, Wes Brown, William Lowe,

The sturdy percussive foundation of an enduring piece of work

Darrell Katz The Death of Simone Weil

Darrell Katz, Paula Tatarunis, Sherwood Anderson,

Abby and Norm Group, Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra, Rebecca Shrimpton,

Mystic visionary comes to life with a big band behind her.

Andrew Drury A Momentary Lapse

Andrew Drury,

Andrew Drury, Briggan Krauss, Chris Speed, Eyvind Kang, Mark Dresser, Myra Melford,

Jazz dream-team ventures into new territory

royal hartigan Blood Drum Spirit

Danongan Kalanduyan, David Bindman, Duke Ellington, Edward Lee Nate, Juan Tizol, royal hartigan, Tanjore Ranganathan, The Asante people of Ghana, The Dagbamba and Frafra peoples of Ghana, The Eve people of Ghana, The Fon and Eve peoples of West Africa, The Inuit people of North America, The Maranao people of the Philippines, The Papago and Saguaro peoples of North America,

David Bindman, Kevin McNeal, royal hartigan, Wes Brown,

"Drumming is spirit." I work to give my blood through the drum to share that spirit.

The Hub Trucker

Sean Noonan, Tim Dahl,

Dan Magay, Sean Noonan, The Hub, Tim Dahl,

Imagine if Charles Ives sat in on a set with Slayer. Envision Busta Rhymes trapped in a high-rise elevator with Muzac blaring from the overhead speakers.

Skip Heller HOMEGOING

Gustav Mahler, Jule Styne, Little Walter Jacobs, Sammy Cahn, Skip Heller, Terry Adams,

Dave Alvin, Lee Toft, The Skip Heller Quartet,

Composer/guitarist Skip Heller is regularly compared favorably with Sun Ra, Frank Zappa, and John Zorn. His new release, "Homegoing" sends him back to his soul-jazz roots.

Anthony Braxton/Taylor Ho Bynum DUETS (WESLEYAN) 2002

Anthony Braxton, Taylor Ho Bynum,

The magically synchronous Duettists are back in print again

Naftule's Dream Live in Florence

David Harris, Michael McLaughlin, Naftule's Dream,

Naftule's Dream,

Klezmer, free-jazz, and old-world flavors at their finest.

Industrial Jazz Group City Of Angles

Andrew Durkin, Cory Wright, Evan Francis,

Industrial Jazz Group,

"Thelonius Monk goes to the circus drunk" is how one listener describes it.

The Fully Celebrated Orchestra The Marriage of Heaven and Earth

Jim Hobbs,

The Fully Celebrated Orchestra ,

These grooves and post-Bop squall would do Ornette Coleman proud. This is fiercely-played jazz, not for the weak of heart.

Applebaum Jazz Piano Duo The Apple Doesnt Fall Far from the Tree

Bill Evans, Juan Tizol, Mark Applebaum, Sigmund Romberg, Victor Young, Wayne Shorter,

Bob and Mark Applebaum,

Pianistic telepathy in action

Ron McCurdy Quintet Once Again for the First Time

Barry Harris, Bob Hilliard, Danny Grissett, David Mann, George and Ira Gershwin, George Cables, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ron McCurdy, Shelly Berg, Vince Trombetta,

Jeff Clayton, Kenny Davis, Patrice Rushen, Ron McCurdy, Ron McCurdy Quintet, Shelly Berg,

Once Again for the First Time featuring Patrice Rushen is the first CD by noted educator/artist Ron McCurdy as a leader.

Fred Ho Voice of the Dragon

Fred Ho, Ruth Margraff,

Afro Asian Music Ensemble, Shyaporn Theerakulstit,

Fred Ho's action-adventure music/theater/martial arts epic. AKA Once Upon a Time in Chinese America

Brooklyn Sax Quartet The Way of the saxophone

David Bindman, Duke Ellington, Eve People, Fred Ho,

Brooklyn Sax Quartet, Chris Jonas, David Bindman, Fred Ho, Sam Furnace,

Riffs are kicky and solid, the solos frantic and thoughtful, the ensemble energetic and tight

Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble I Dig

Elmer Bernstein, Henry Mancini, Ira Newborn, Jay Hawkins, Joey Altruda, Leonard Bernstein, Les Baxter, Moises Vivanco, Quincy Jones, Robert Drasnin, Rudolph Toombs,

Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble,

The hippest bar gig of the year.

Rodney Oakes Music for MIDI trombone

Rod Oakes,

"What is the MIDI Trombone?"

David Sherr's ArtMusic Ensemble Look Both Ways

David Sherr, Luciano Berio,

Amy Wilkins, ArtMusic Ensemble, Brian Swartz, Cynthia Fogg, David Sherr, Harvey Newmark, Joe LaBarbera, Scott Higgins, Shelly Berg,

"Show us a recording that takes its inspiration from Luciano Berio's Sequenzas and the first 13 notes of Charlie Parker's riff on "The Song is You" and we'll show you an album that we flat-out love. These guys seriously cook!"

Hans Sturm Fireflight- Sunsuite

Hans Sturm,

Dane Richeson, Elizabeth Falconer, Hans Sturm, Les Thimmig, Michael Kocour, Mimmi Fulmer,

A symphony of fire...

Bill Banfield's BMagic Orchestra JazzChamberWorks

Antonio Carlos Jobim, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Rogers and Hart, Wayne Shorter, William Banfield,

BMagic Orchestra,

William Cedric Banfield belongs to a vanguard of eclectic, young composers whose backgrounds, training, and creative output traverse traditional categories.

Djola Branner Mighty Real: A Tribute to Sylvester

Dave Blackburn, Djola Branner, Sylvester,

Djola Branner,

Mighty Real is part of a stage tribute by Minneapolis performance artist Djola Branner to the great, black, gay disco diva Sylvester.

Bill Wolford HEAD

Bill Wolford,

Wolford's debut CD is a smorgasbord of sounds that may remind you of anything from John Prine to the Mahavishnu Orchestra, or Stockhausen to Jimi Hendrix.

Amherst Sax Quartet Lament on the Death of Music

Andrew Stiller, Anita D. Perry, Chan Ka Nin, Leila Lustig,

Amherst Sax Quartet,

Yell it from the hilltops, NEW MUSIC IS DEAD!

PRISM Saxophone Quartet Real Standard Time

Matt Levy, Tim Ries,

PRISM Quartet,

A refreshing mix of improvisation, driving rhythms, counterpoint, changing meters, and rich harmonic voicing, all within a thoughtful architectural scheme that charts fresh musical territory by blurring stylistic boundaries.