Michelle Zangara live in NY, tomorrow nite!

Michelle H. Zangara will be singing tomorrow night, Jan 12 @ Le Pescadeux (90 Thompson Street), 7-10pm, no cover!
Featuring Jon Roche (bass), Matt Baker (keyboards) & Ai Murakami (drums) plus special guests.

Either/Orchestra to Celebrate 25th Anniversary with Alumni Concert in NY, Feb. 11

On the heels of the Orchestra's triumphant Boston concert in December, the New York show will feature 25 musicians, including John Medeski, Matt Wilson, Josh Roseman, and Ethiopian legend Teshome Mitiku. Music from E/O's 11 albums will be revisited and updated with the expanded band.

Before there was Medeski Martin & Wood, pianist John Medeski was on the road with the Either/Orchestra. Before he joined the bands of Dewey Redman, Lee Konitz, and Charlie Haden and led his own groups, drummer Matt Wilson spent five years with the Either/Orchestra. Before his stellar career with Lester Bowie, Don Byron, Dave Holland, and at the helm of myriad projects, trombonist Josh Roseman was a charter member of…the Either/Orchestra.

Likewise, before Jerome Deupree co-founded the rock band Morphine, Mike Rivard conceived the legendary Club D’Elf, Harvey Wirth, John Carlson, and Dan Kaufman signed on with Angelique Kidjo, the Machito Orchestra, and Nnenna Freelon—yes, they all spent years touring and recording with the Either/Orchestra.

Now these alumni and many more will join leader Russ Gershon and the ten current members of the Massachusetts-based E/O to celebrate its 25th anniversary with a show at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge on February 11, from 7 to 10 pm. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door.

An added bonus will be legendary Ethiopian singer Teshome Mitiku, who began collaborating with the E/O in a headlining performance at last September’s Chicago Jazz Festival. Teshome was a member of the Soul Ekos, one of the most popular band in East Africa in the 1960s, and a pioneer in bringing American styles into Ethiopian music.

For a quarter century the ten-piece E/O has been charting an idiosyncratic course through the world of jazz, Afro-Caribbean, and Ethiopian music. Founded by saxophonist/composer Gershon in 1985, and operating outside of the New York limelight ever since, the E/O has released 11 albums and a DVD, and played over 1000 concerts in North America, Europe, and Africa. Early years barnstorming the U.S. by van made them underground favorites, and ongoing collaborations with Ethiopian legends like Mulatu Astatke and Mahmoud Ahmed have earned them a place on the Ethiopian and world music scenes.

Encountering a wildly diverse array of players—some of whom will not meet until rehearsals—and musical approaches, what can the audience expect? In December, a different group of E/O alumni joined the band for a concert in Boston, and here's a detailed review. The New York show promises to be even more high-powered, given the group of alumni who are gathering and the condensed program time of three hours.

At Le Poisson Rouge, as well as revisiting older material in its original arrangements, the Orchestra will take advantage of expanded instrumentation: big-band sized horn section, multiple keyboards and basses—and DRUMMERS! This show will feature the four stellar drum-set players who have defined the phases of the E/O's music: Jerome Deupree (1985-89) brings world-class rock, funk, and jazz skills to the job; Matt Wilson (1990-1995) is one of the hardest swinging yet free and creative drummers in jazz; Harvey Wirht (1997-2004) came to the US from Suriname with a unique blend of South American and African rhythms; and Pablo Bencid (2005-present) has lived in Venezuela, Louisiana, and Boston and displays it all in his personal blend of Latin and American styles.

John Medeski—recently featured on the cover of Down Beat like Matt Wilson and another ex-E/O musician, Miguel Zenon—is one of the most powerful musicians and finest keyboard orchestrators of his generation. Medeski’s huge ears, go-for-broke energy, and ability to comp differently for every soloist made him a defining member of the band from 1988 to 1990. Over the past decade he has continued to collaborate with bassist Mike Rivard (1986-89) in Rivard’s Club D’Elf, a funk & Moroccan groove unit with a floating cast of characters.

The E/O’s current lineup is riding the success of the band’s recent release, "Mood Music for Time Travellers" (Accurate 3285), which was high on the CMJ and Jazzweek charts all fall. (“[They] take totally serious music and make it fun...The sense of groove and joy is overpowering,” observed Mark Saleski, Somethingelsereviews.com. “A take-no-prisoners kind of group...another in a string of triumphant recordings, one that comes highly,” recommended Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide. “One of the most sophisticated, accomplished and dynamic large ensembles working today,” wrote Gapplegatemusicreview. “Fabulous musicians, performing terrific music with great creative skill,” said Bruce Lindsay, AllAboutJazz.com. “A great collection of new tunes,” wrote Downbeat.com.) Some of these tunes will be featured on February 11.

The show at Le Poisson Rouge will be a special occasion, the spirited union of several generations of musicians, ranging from 20 to 56 in age, from all over the U.S. and Latin America, who collectively make up the ongoing endeavor known as the Either/Orchestra.

The Either/Orchestra: Tom Halter, Dan Rosenthal—trumpets; Joel Yennior—trombone; Hailey Niswanger, Russ Gershon, Charlie Kohlhase—reeds; Rafael Alcala—piano and keys; Rick McLaughlin—bass; Pablo Bencid—drums.

Alumni guests (confirmed as of Jan. 10): John Carlson—trumpet; Josh Roseman, Curtis Hasselbring, Dan Fox—trombones; Jeremy Udden, Henry Cook, Godwin Louis—reeds, flute; John Dirac—guitar; John Medeski, Dan Kaufman—piano, organ; Mike Rivard—bass; Jerome Deupree, Matt Wilson, Harvey Wirht—drums.

João Gilberto's "O Amor, O Sorriso e a Flor" comes out today on CD in Europe

After the commercial success of the European CD release of João Gilberto's landmark debut album "Chega de Saudade," in January 2010 by the UK label Él, that same English company has prepared the first CD reissue of Gilberto's second album for Odeon: "O Amor, O Sorriso e A Flor," recorded in 1960. As shown above, the Él logo and an English sub-title, "Love, A Smile and A Flower," were added to the original cover art.

The CD is being issued in Europe today, January 10 --with 23 bonus tracks (!) performed by other artists -- under the catalog number ACMEM201. Él is a division of the London-based Cherry Red Records Ltd., distributed in Europe by Pinnacle. This eagerly awaited "unofficial" CD version of "O Amor, O Sorriso e A Flor" will soon be available also in Japan, released by the Solid Viper label next February 2nd.

Here's the complete tracklist:
1. Samba de uma nota só (One Note Samba)
2. Doralice
3. Só em teus braços (Only In Your Arms)
4. Trevo de quatro folhas (I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover)
5. Se é tarde me perdoa (Forgive Me if It's Too Late)
6. Um abraço no Bonfá (A Hug for Bonfá)
7. Meditação (Meditation)
8. O pato (The Duck)
9. Corcovado
10. Discussão (Discussion)
11. Amor certinho (Certain Love)
12. Outra vez (One More Time)
Bonus tracks:
13. Outra vez (One More Time) - SERGIO MENDES
14. Ho-ba-la-la - SERGIO MENDES
15. Corcovado - SYLVIA TELLES
16. Ho-ba-la-la - SYLVIA TELLES
17. Samba de uma nota só (One Note Samba) - SYLVIA TELLES
18. O pato (The Duck) WALTER WANDERLEY
19. Corcovado - ISAURA GARCIA & WALTER WANDERLEY
20. Aos pes da cruz (At the foot of the Cross) - MIKE FALCÃO
21. Samba de uma nota só (One Note Samba) - AGOSTINHO DOS SANTOS
22. Desafinado (Off-Key) - AGOSTINHO DOS SANTOS
23. Chega de saudade (No More Blues) - AGOSTINHO DOS SANTOS
24. Manhã de carnaval (Morning of the Carnival) - AGOSTINHO DOS SANTOS
25. A Felicidade (Happiness) - AGOSTINHO DOS SANTOS
26. A Felicidade (Happiness) - ORQUESTRA RIO DE JANEIRO
27. Discussão (Discussion) - ALAIDE COSTA
28. A Felicidade (Happiness) - MACIEL
29. Bim Bom - SILVIO SILVEIRA
30. É luxo só (It's Just a Luxury) - SILVIO SILVEIRA
31. Maria Ninguém (Maria Nobody) - CARLOS LYRA
32. Maria Ninguém (Maria Nobody) - HERALDO DO MONTE
33. Brigas nunca mais (Fights, Never More) - ORQUESTRA PAN AMERICAN with OS CARIOCAS
34. Chega de saudade (No More Blues) - ORQUESTRA PAN AMERICAN with OS CARIOCAS
35. Meditação (Meditation) - LUIZ EÇA & ASTOR SILVA

Prior to Gilberto's albums, Él had released some interesting compilations featuring Luiz Bonfá, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Laurindo Almeida, Carmen Miranda and, in the jazz field, Gary McFarland, Mel Tormé, Yusef Lateef, Cal Tjader, Ahmad Jamal, Gabor Szabo and Grady Tate, amongst others. They had also reissued albums by Jobim ("Sinfonia do Rio de Janeiro"), Nara Leão ("Nara '67"), Rogério Duprat ("A Banda Tropicalista do Duprat") and Rita Lee ("Build Up"), among other rarities such as the soundtrack to Brigitte Bardot's debut film, "And God Created Woman," featuring Brazilian percussionist extraordinaire Jadir de Castro.

Other Brazilian music CDs currently available on Él Records catalog: UK EL RECORDS から、2010年の1stアルバムに続き、ジョアン・ジルベルト・オリジナル音源CD復刻、待望の続編が登場。1960年の2ndアルバム(1~12曲目)に、アルバム収録と同曲の他アーティストによるレア・トラックスを含む全35曲を収録した、豪華仕様のオリジナル・ボサ・ノヴァ・レジェンダリー。ボサ・ノヴァ原点を知るマスター・ピース。

CD Reissue of the Week - "Stan Getz: Big Band Bossa Nova"

CD Reissue of the Week
Stan Getz: "Big Band Bossa Nova" (CTI)

Arranged & Conducted by Gary McFarland
Produced by Creed Taylor
Engineers: Frank Laico & George Kneurr
Recorded on August 27 & 28, 1962, in New York City, NY
Featuring: Hank Jones, Jim Hall, Carmen Costa (yes, the Brazilian singer, performing here as a percussionist), José Paulo (then Carmen's husband), Tommy Williams, Bob Brookmeyer, Romeo Penque, Doc Severinsen, Bernie Glow, Clark Terry, Ray Beckenstein, Joe Ferrante, Nick Travis, Tony Studd, Ray Alonge, Willie Dennis, Eddie Caine, Johnny Rae, Walt Levinsky, Babe Clark, Gerald Sanfino
Highlights: "Bim Bom" (in an arrangement that João Gilberto himself considers as one of the best instrumental versions ever recorded of his tune!), "Manhã de Carnaval" (Luiz Bonfá/Antonio Maria), "One Note Samba" (Antonio Carlos Jobim/Newton Mendonça) and several originals by McFarland.

NYT: Tribute to Bucky Pizzarelli

Real Guitar Hero, Through the Years
by Stephen Holden
New York Times, January 10, 2011

Although Bucky Pizzarelli, the guest of honor at the 92Y Lyrics and Lyricists season-opening program on Saturday, didn't amble onto the stage until the second half of the evening, his voice was heard in recorded sound bites jovially reminiscing about his life and times as a session guitarist.

The show's title, "Frank and Tony and Peggy and Me: Making Music With the Great Singers," referred to Mr. Pizzarelli's multidecade status as a preferred sideman to the stars, including Sinatra, Mr. Bennett and Ms. Lee. Its M.C., his son John, who has a way with a pun, wittily described his father, who recently had his gall bladder removed, as Less Gall (after Les Paul). John's easygoing humor lent the show the same lift that infuses all his performances, reminding you that ensemble jazz can be a kind of familial high, even if the other musicians aren't all blood relatives.

The show jelled the moment Bucky, who turned 85 on Sunday, and John began playing guitar duets. A humorous "Honeysuckle Rose" gave way to "Sing, Sing, Sing," with the house band -- in which Ken Peplowski saluted Benny Goodman's spiraling clarinet, and the drummer Tony Tedesco recalled Gene Krupa -- bringing the staid audience to its feet. Filling out the quintet were the young jazz violin whiz Aaron Weinstein, Larry Fuller (the pianist in John's group for the last five years) and Martin Pizzarelli (Bucky's younger son) on bass.

John Pizzarelli's group, one the finest traditional ensembles in all of jazz, has refined a light, lilting swing style whose steady, subtle bounce evokes a musical-cosmic trampoline on which you float rather than jump. The father-and-son showpieces were connected by Bucky's gently lyrical solo, "This Nearly Was Mine," fleshed out with jazz chords and blues-inflected embellishments.

The first act was a career retrospective, narrated by John and illustrated by slides, that carried Bucky from the swing era through his days as a sought-after rock-'n'-roll session guitarist. The guest singers Jessica Molaskey (John's wife and his co-artistic director for the show), Judy Kuhn and Darius de Hass sang tongue-in-cheek renditions of hits of Dion and the Belmonts, the Four Seasons, Leiber and Stoller and Neil Sedaka on which Bucky had played guitar.

In Act II they returned for more serious renditions of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (Ms. Kuhn), "Georgia on My Mind" (Mr. de Haas) and "Cry Me a River" (Ms. Molaskey).

A loving birthday message from Dion DiMucci was read. Later John played a specially revised version of Dave Frishberg's "I Want to Be a Sideman," for which Mr. Frishberg had written a lighthearted new verse in praise of Bucky. Without high drama, flashy star turns and conspicuous one-upmanship, the show led you inside a cozy family circle where the joy of music making was an end in itself.

NYT: "Library of Congress Gets a Mile of Music"

Universal Music has donated a huge archive of recordings made from 1926 to 1948, including the chitchat between takes, to the Library of Congress.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/arts/music/10masters.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28

Caligula's Temple will be open tonight

We are letting you know that Caligula's Temple will be open this Saturday evening 1/8/2011. Even though it has snowed the roads and sidewalks are clear and the club is open...all warm and cozy as well as the hotubs. So come out and enjoy yourselves.

Diana Krall's CD comes out today

Recorded live at the Jazzaldia Festival (San Sebastián, Spain), on July 24, 2008, a "new" Diana Krall CD titled "Doing All Right - In Concert" is coming out in Europe today, January 7.
Featuring Anthony Wilson (guitar), Robert Hurst (bass) & Jeff Hamilton (drums), it's being released by the German based label Immortal (!), distributed by the suspicious Cargo Records. Both the companion DVD and vinyl LP release of this item were postponed to January 21.

The tracklist is the same in all formats:
01 Let's Fall In Love
02 The Look Of Love
03 'Deed I Do
04 I'll String Along With You
05 Exactly Like You
06 A Case Of You
07 Devil May Care
08 I Was Doing All Right
09 I Don't Know Enough About You

Mika, Gadd & Gomez live in NY, tonite!

Marimba virtuoso Mika Yoshida will be doing a rare NY live performance (with a stellar cast that includes Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez, Peter John Stoltzman -- replacing Warren Bernhardt -- and Richard Stoltzman) tonight, January 7th @ Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall. If you are in the NY area, don't miss the chance to attend this concert by an extraordinary performer, who released one of the best DVDs of the year, "Marimba Madness." Tickets still available! Definitively an once-in-a-lifetime event!

Mika met Steve Gadd in 2005 at PASIC 2005. Since then, they have become great friends and worked on various projects together. After playing live shows in Japan and in the USA, Mika released a live DVD ("Marimba Madness") and a studio album ("Mikarimba"), both produced by Gadd.
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Presented by M's Company & Innsbruck Records
"Mikarimba Madness" concert with Gadd & Gomez
January 7th 2011, 7:30pm @ Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall

http://www.carnegiehall.org/SiteCode/Events/MonthCalendar.aspx
“In Japan, there is a high-wire jazz marimbist, Mika Yoshida. A recently released DVD, “Mika Marimba Madness” (what else?), of her in concert last year reveals an amazing, energetic performer ready for major exposure." (LA Times, Mark Swed)

Robert Hurst to release two new CDs

For the last ten years, bassist/composer Robert Hurst's commitments and accomplishments as in-demand sideman, film composer, and university educator have left the music world anticipating new recordings from him as a leader. He delivers this month with the simultaneous release, on January 25, of two new and very different CDs on his Bebob imprint -- "Bob Ya Head," an intriguing foray into world music and electronica (with Darryl "Munyungo" Jackson, Marcus Belgrave, and Karriem Riggins), and "Unrehurst Vol. 2," a 2007 all-acoustic trio date recorded at Smoke in New York City (with Robert Glasper and Chris "Daddy" Dave).

"It is so rewarding to finally be releasing this new music," says the bassist. "It's been quite a magical journey becoming the man and musician my audience has come to know. The majority of my fans identify me as a 'straight-ahead' jazz bass sideman, and while I love playing jazz and will always do so, I found it necessary as an artist to express my many other musical influences. I believe the one constant in jazz is 'change.' Each generation has broken the mold of the previous. With so much more of my music already written and even recorded, I look forward to all of my upcoming projects further addressing the notion of change and the evolution of our music."

Hurst, who in 2008 became an Associate Professor of Music with tenure at the University of Michigan, worked on Bob Ya Head over a two-year period while commuting between Los Angeles and relocating to his native Michigan. He describes the music on his latest release as "the culmination of my experiences while working and living in L.A," where he was based throughout the 1990s, as a founding member of the Tonight Show with Jay Leno's Tonight Show Band. Also, while becoming an active studio musician on the Los Angeles music scene, he "got into world music and heard African musicians and musicians of all ethnicities." Hurst's electric and acoustic bass playing is featured on the Ocean's Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen soundtracks, "and a lot of that music had an electronica-type vibe. Some of it sounds really acoustic, but it's quite sampled and very high-tech."

Due to record-breaking winter storms, "Unrehurst Vol. 2" was recorded in New York without any rehearsal, but Hurst, pianist Robert Glasper, and drummer Chris Dave clicked from the moment they hit the bandstand and their empathy is evident from the adventurous performances on the new disc. Hurst describes Dave as "an underground, super funky cat." Glasper, the bassist says, "is open to all kinds of music, and he's extremely fearless. It's the gamut of total restraint to total abandon." Glasper was also featured on Unrehurst Vol. 1 (Bebob, 2001), with drummer Damion Reid.

Robert Hurst was born in Detroit and took up bass as a young boy after seeing the Modern Jazz Quartet perform and meeting Percy Heath. Trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, a Detroit icon, was an early mentor for Hurst, who began working professionally with Belgrave at 15. After meeting drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts on a gig, Hurst was recommended by Tain to his boss, Wynton Marsalis, whose group the bassist joined after college and with whom he recorded seven albums for Columbia.

In 1989, Hurst began working with Branford Marsalis and remained for five years, again recording for Columbia. Hurst continued on with Branford to California to begin work on The Tonight Show. When Marsalis left leadership of the show's band in 1994, Hurst stayed on for another six years.

The bassist debuted on record as a leader in 1993 with "Robert Hurst Presents: Robert Hurst" (DIW/Columbia), featuring Kenny Kirkland, Branford Marsalis, Marcus Belgrave, Ralph Jones, and Jeff "Tain" Watts. Most of the music on the disc was specifically written with this exact personnel in mind. The following year, Hurst released a trio session, "One for Namesake" (DIW/Columbia), with Kirkland and Elvin Jones.

In recent years, the bassist has recorded and toured extensively with Diana Krall and Chris Botti, and continues to do so. He's maintained his long association with Jeff "Tain" Watts and will perform with the drummer's band at the Jazz Standard in New York 1/18-23 and at the Detroit Institute of the Arts 2/11 (also featuring Geri Allen).

Hurst is planning his CD release show -- at Detroit's Virgil Carr Center 3/11 -- and is scheduling a series of spring and summer appearances across the nation. He's also preparing a fall 2011 release of Bob: A Palindrome (on Bebob), a sextet session with Glasper, Belgrave, Branford Marsalis, Tain Watts, and Bennie Maupin. "Branford recently told me, 'You've got to be brave to do what we do,'" says Hurst. "I boldly agree and look forward to compiling a wealth of work which exemplifies such bravery!"

Web Site:
www.roberthurst.com

Obama's Affordable Care Act

"Dear Arnaldo:

According to our files, you are currently living in California's 3oth Congressional District. And we need your help!

House Republicans are moving forward to repeal all provisions of health reform, with a final vote scheduled for next week.

If they get their way, insurance companies will once again have the right to deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, drop or limit coverage if you become sick, and charge women higher premiums than men. Seniors will lose critical prescription drug savings and free preventive care under Medicare.

It's sad but not surprising.

The motivations here have little to do with good policy. Repeal is just the first agenda item of a new Republican majority that is much more interested in appeasing their right-wing base and looking out for special interests than working together to create jobs and grow the economy.

Behind the scenes, insurance-industry lobbyists are working overtime with Republicans to take us back to the days when their clients were able to do whatever they wanted.

But this movement is different. We don't take our cues from special interests or lobbyists, and we never will. We don't take their money either, relying solely on support from folks like you -- and it only makes us stronger.

Right now, Organizing for America is putting together a team of dedicated organizers and volunteers to defend our progress, stop repeal, and expose the Republican plan for what it really is.

Please donate $3 or more to help protect our progress -- and stop the repeal of health insurance reform.

We fought to pass the Affordable Care Act because it was the right thing to do.

Its provisions are fair, reduce the deficit by more than $230 billion over the next 10 years, cut costs, and protect all Americans from the worst insurance industry abuses. The law is already making a difference in people's lives.

Among other provisions, the Affordable Care Act:

-- Prevents insurers from raising premiums by double digits with no recourse or accountability;
-- Requires insurers to spend 80 to 85 percent of premium dollars on health care, not CEO bonuses -- and if they don't, they have to provide you a rebate;
-- Frees families from the fear of losing their insurance, or having it capped unexpectedly, after an injury or illness; and
-- Prohibits insurance companies from discriminating against pregnant women or denying coverage to children born with disabilities.

The Republican alternative at this point consists of a two-page addendum to the two-page repeal bill. It's a plan to make a plan to have a plan.

Even without a coherent proposal, they won't have trouble raising money to drum up support for repeal. Republicans' close relationship with entrenched interests has benefited them in campaigns that did not begin -- and will not end -- with health reform.

But we're fighting back with everything we've got -- building a large-scale, grassroots effort to stop this repeal and protect our progress. Your support will fund the organizing that generates calls to Congress, neighborhood canvasses, and letters in our local papers.

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Donate $3 or more to fight repeal and protect our progress:
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"Ron Carter's Great Big Band" out soon! In Japan...

"Ron Carter Great Big Band," recorded last Summer in NY with the collaboration of arranger & conductor Robert M. "Bob" Freedman, is scheduled for release next February 23rd.

As usually happens with Ron's albums, initially it will be out in Japan only by Toshiba-EMI's Somethin' Else label, but it will probably receive a domestic issued in the USA on Blue Note, several months later.

The repertoire includes Ellington/Tizol's "Caravan," Gillespie's "Con Alma," Sonny Stitt's "The Eternal Triangle," Nat Adderley's "Sweet Emma," Freedman's "Pork Chop," Ron's own "Loose Change" and "Opus One Point Five (Theme for C.B.)," Tom Harrel's lovely "Sail Away," Sy Oliver's masterpiece "Opus Number One," W.C. Handy's historical "St. Louis Blues," Gerry Mulligan's "Line for Lyons," Wayne Shorter's "Footprints" and John Lewis' MJQ-classic "The Golden Striker."

Ron, Mulgrew Miller (piano) & Lewis Nash (drums) form the rhythm section, with the horn section including Jerry Dodgion, Steve Davis, Jason Jackson, Douglas Purviance, Tony Kadleck and Alex Norris, amongst others.

『It's The Time』、『Jazz & Bossa』、『The World of Ron Carter』と、近年の充実した活動ぶりを示す意欲的なアルバム・リリースが続くロン・カーター。50年以上の音楽生活で初の自己名義によるビッグ・バンド・アルバムが完成。ウェイン・ショーター「フットプリンツ」、ディジー・ガレスピー「コン・アルマ」、ジョン・ルイス「ザ・ゴールデン・ストライカー」、デューク・エリントン「キャラヴァン」などを収録。

Charles Fambrough according to Doug Payne

http://dougpayne.blogspot.com/2011/01/charles-fambrough-rip.html

R.I.P.: Charles Fambrough

Just got the news that the great bassist & composer Charles Fambrough, famous for his stints with Art Blakey and McCoy Tyner as well as for his brilliant work as a leader, passed away yesterday.
http://jazztruth.blogspot.com/2011/01/upright-citizen-rip-charles-fambrough.html

I'm forwarding a message to my dear friend (and CTI's top expert in the world) Doug Payne, who is a big fan of Fambrough's albums for Creed. So, I'm sure that in a few days you'll be reading a perfect post on Doug's Sound Insights blog. I only want to write a few words in a "personal mood."

The first time I listened to Charles Fambrough was in 1974, when he took part in the band that backed singer Yana Purim in a demo-tape recorded in California. The session included Moacir Santos/Mario Telles' "Nanã" and Antonio Carlos Jobim/Vinicius de Moraes' "Esquecendo Você," among other tunes, and Charles (bass), Wagner Tiso (piano & organ) and Yana's brother-in-law Airto Moreira (drums) were in the rhythm section.

Around that time (mid-70s), Charles was on the road with such groups as the ones led by Airto and Grover Washington, Jr. However, he never appeared as sideman in any of their albums, since legendary producer Creed Taylor, the head of CTI/Kudu Records to which both Airto and Grover were signed to, always avoided to use "touring bands" and often opted for more experienced "session cats" such as Ron Carter, Stanley Clarke and Anthony Jackson.

Ironically, three decades later, Creed signed Charles Fambrough as a solo artist (!) for CTI in 1991. And I did a small contribution to the repertoire chosen for Fambrough's debut CD, "The Proper Angle," by suggesting the inclusion of the opening tune, Milton Nascimento/Cesar Camargo Mariano's "Don Quixote," which I showed to Creed on its original recording from Nascimento's "Miltons" album.

"The Proper Angle," an impressive debut engineered by Rudy Van Gelder, allowed Charles to emerge as a leader in his own right, a rare case of a great bassist who happened to be also a great composer. Wynton Marsalis (in his second session for Creed, after Fuse One's "Silk" album exactly ten years earlier), Kenny Kirkland, Branford Marsalis and Roy Hargrove guested.

Two other notable albums for CTI followed: "The Charmer" (also recorded at Van Gelder Studio under the supervision of Todd Barkan, who was working for Creed at that time, and featuring saxophonists Kenny Garrett & Grover Washington, Jr.) and "Blues at Bradley's," released on CD, VHS and LaserDisc formats, since it was filmed live at the famous (and now-defunct) Manhattan jazz spot on Fabruary 25 & 26, 1993, directed by John W. Taylor, one of Creed's sons.

"My 300-year-old-rebuilt Tyrolian bass sounds better in Bradley's than it does almost anywhere else," Charles said at the time. "The room is so intimate that I need only minimal amplification, and I can hear what my bass really sounds like." He was backed by Joe Ford (soprano sax), Steve Turre (trombone & shells on the bossa-tinged "Andrea"), Donald Harrison (alto sax), Bill O'Connell (unfortunately playing keyboard instead of an acoustic piano, the only mistake of the album), Bobby Broom (guitar), Ricky Sebastian (drums) & Steve Berrios (percussion). I would love to see it reissued on DVD.

After he left CTI, Fambrough cut several other solo albums for independent labels, and all his CTI CDs were reissued in Europe with different covers. A 2-CD set, repackaging "The Charmer" and "The Proper Angle" came out in Germany in 2004, released by the Membran label in the Modern Jazz Archives series.

Rest in Peace, Charles.

LD of the Month - "Charles Fambrough: Blues at Bradley's"

LaserDisc of the Month
Charles Fambrough: "Blues at Bradley's" (CTI) 1993

NPR Broadcast: Dianne Reeves live in San Francisco

(Arnaldo DeSouteiro driving singer Dianne Reeves home, ages ago...)

88-minute program:
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/01/132536047/dianne-reeves-live-in-san-francisco

Dianne Reeves: Live in San Francisco
NPR's "Toast of the Nation," January 1, 2011

The jazz singer Dianne Reeves is a powerhouse -- a caretaker of a rich, hearty delivery which goes anywhere she sets her imagination to visit. That can be anywhere between tender balladry and authoritative declamations, though we'd expect her New Year's Eve gig to lean toward the latter. In front of a crack staff of modern jazz musicians, including musical director Peter Martin on piano and Romero Lubambo on guitar, she counted down to midnight in Mountain Time and on the West Coast from Yoshi's in San Francisco.

Featuring: Peter Martin (piano), Reginald Veal (bass), Terreon Gully (drums) & Romero Lubambo (guitar)

Billy Taylor - Obituaries & NPR segments

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-billy-taylor-20101230,0,1938603.story

Billy Taylor - NPR segments
NPR's "Morning Edition," December 30, 2010
Five-minute segment:
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/30/132450440/

Remembering Billy Taylor, Jazz Artist and Educator
NPR's "Tell Me More," December 30, 2010
Eleven-minute segment:
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/30/132478156/

Billy Taylor -Pianist and broadcaster who became a tenacious ambassador for jazz
by Steve Voce for London Independent

The recordings of Erroll Garner, a man inarticulate in speech and unable to read music, sold in millions across the world during the Forties and Fifties.

Billy Taylor was his contemporary (both men were born in 1921). Taylor ran a polished jazz trio that made many recordings which sold modestly and were probably underrated. Garner sold out concert halls across the world. Taylor was known little outside New York and good musicians in his trio seemed eventually to leave to move on to other things.

Garner's playing was piano anarchy. Taylor, on the other hand, provided an eloquent blending of the styles of various bebop pianists with that of Art Tatum, not so much the wellspring but the tsunami of modern jazz piano.

Taylor's intelligence and skills led him quickly into other fields and, although he remained an elegant jazz pianist, it was as a teacher and a communicator with the public that he achieved renown. He went on to become one of the great propagandists of jazz in his country.

None of his 350 or so compositions achieved the fame of his "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free". This was a basic 16-bar gospel-styled tune that became one of the flag-waving songs of the Civil Rights Movement during the Sixties, and achieved popularity on these shores as the theme tune to the BBC's Barry Norman-fronted film-review show.

His was a middle-class black family in Washington; his father was a dentist and his mother a teacher. Taylor's piano playing as a child was outstanding and he studied music at what was to become Virginia State University in Petersburg. He took up tenor saxophone, but the prowess of a fellow student, Frank Wess (a long-time star of the Count Basie band), overwhelmed him. Taylor abandoned the horn and concentrated on developing his talents as a piano player. In 1943 he moved to New York and became pianist with tenor saxophonist Ben Webster's group at the Three Deuces on 52nd Street, where he stayed for a considerable time. Dizzy Gillespie's Quintet across the street had the unreliable Bud Powell on piano, and when Powell failed to show up Gillespie took to using Taylor, eventually employing him for a time as pianist in his big band.

Taylor played at the National Exposition in Haiti in 1946, where he picked up an interest in the music of the area. This led to him playing with Machito and bringing Latin music into his own bands back in New York. In an extraordinary jazz quirk, the clarinettist Artie Shaw took over Taylor's quartet in the winter of 1950-51 and led it as Artie Shaw and His Gramercy Five -- the first of Shaw's Gramercy Fives had worked a decade earlier. It was symptomatic of Taylor's roles at the time that Shaw wanted to use him simply to provide a musical platform. Taylor's next job, in 1951, was to become house pianist at New York's Birdland club, where he worked as accompanist to bill-toppers like Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan and Dizzy Gillespie.

His parallel jazz career as educator and propagandist burgeoned in the Fifties. He began lecturing at music schools and in 1958 started as a disc jockey on a Harlem radio station with his own daily show. The same year he became musical director of a weekly NBC television programme, The Subject Is Jazz, and he contributed regularly for 20 years to CBS Sunday Morning.

During the Sixties Taylor moved to National Public Radio, where he worked for 20 years presenting Jazz Alive and later Billy Taylor's Jazz at the Kennedy Centre. He remained a broadcasting icon until his later years.

Taylor was instrumental in founding the Jazz Mobile in 1965. This presented free outdoor jazz concerts by eminent jazz musicians in the deprived black neighbourhoods of New York City.

Taylor was also the musical director of David Frost's talk show from 1969 to 1972. He taught jazz courses at Long Island University and at the Manhattan School of Music. In 1975 he gained a doctorate in music education at the University of Massachusetts and from then on preferred to be addressed as "Dr Taylor". Eventually he amassed 23 doctorate awards.

He gave up playing regularly in 2004, aged 83, when a minor stroke affected his right hand, but brought together his trio in performance as late as 2008. Taylor kept abreast of technology and had his own website. The film Billy Taylor: American Hero was made in 2006.
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William Edward "Billy" Taylor Jr., pianist, educator, broadcaster: born Greenville, North Carolina 24 July 1921; married (one son, deceased, one daughter); died New York 28 December 2010.

Box Set of the Month - "Miles Davis: All Miles - The Prestige Albums"

Box Set of the Month (14 CDs)
Miles Davis: "All Miles - The Prestige Albums" (Prestige/Universal) 2011

Vinyl Reissue of the Month - "Freddie Hubbard: Red Clay"

Vinyl Reissue of the Month
Freddie Hubbard: "Red Clay" (CTI/Sony Masterworks) 2010

Produced by Creed Taylor
Engineered (recorded & mixed) by Rudy Van Gelder
Recorded on January 27, 28 & 29, 1970 at Van Gelder Studios
Cover Photo by Price Givens
Album Design by Tony Lane

Includes four great tunes composed by Hubbard: "Red Clay" (which gained tremendous popularity and became his signature song), "Delphia" (a gorgeous ballad dedicated to his mother, with Hancock using organ and Henderson playing flute), "Suite Sioux" and the hard-bop theme "The Intrepid Fox."
Featuring: Herbie Hancock (Fender Rhodes electric piano & Hammond organ), Ron Carter (electric bass & acoustic bass), Lenny White (drums) & Joe Henderson (tenor sax & flute).
Reissue produced by Richard Seidel
Vinyl cutting by Ray Janos @ Sterling Sound, NYC

Besides Hubbard's landmark "Red Clay," which became an instant contemporary jazz classic, Sony Masterworks is also releasing 180-gram vinyl LP reissues of 3 other classic CTI items using the original gatefold sleeve designs accompanied with digital download cards: Stanley Turrentine’s "Sugar," Eumir Deodato's "Prelude" and George Benson's "White Rabbit."

Vocal CD Reissue of the Month - "Joao Gilberto: O Amor, O Sorriso e a Flor"

Vocal CD Reissue of the Month
João Gilberto: "O Amor, O Sorriso e a Flor" (Odeon/Él-Cherry Red) 1960/2011

Rating:
***** (musical performance)
**** (digital remastering)

Album produced by Aloysio de Oliveira, originally credited as "musical director," and credited on this CD as "executive producer"
Arranged & conducted by Antonio Carlos Jobim (credited on the CD as "producer"), who also wrote the original liner notes, oddly deleted in this CD reissue
Cover photo: Francisco Pereira (uncredited on the CD)
Original album design: Cesar Gomes Villela (uncredited on the CD)
The 12-page booklet includes reproductions of covers of rare picture-sleeve singles released in France and Brazil, pics of Gilberto, Carlos Lyra, Alaide Costa, Silvia Telles and others, and extensive texts by Ruy Castro (taken from the book "Bossa Nova - The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World") and Caetano Veloso (taken from "Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil")

Includes "O Pato," "Doralice," "Um Abraço no Bonfá," "Corcovado" (Quiet Nights), "Samba de Uma Nota Só" (One Note Samba), "Meditação" (Meditation) etc.
Besides the 12 tracks from the original vinyl LP, there are 23 bonus tracks performed by other artists.
For more details, please check:
http://jazzstation-oblogdearnaldodesouteiros.blogspot.com/2010/12/joao-gilbertos-second-solo-album-o-amor.html
*******
Press release provided by Él Records-UK:

In the summer of 1958, a singer-guitarist from Bahia in the north of Brazil called João Gilberto created a musical revolution when he joined with bossa novas seminal songwriting team, the gifted composer Antônio Carlos Jobim, and the poet and former diplomat, Vinicius de Moraes, to record the songs that would launch this cool, futuristic new music for a confident new era.
Bossa nova, "The New Way", was influenced by modern classical music (Villa-Lobos, Debussy), jazz and samba-canção. Gilberto brought an unprecedented guitar style and a hushed, understated form of vocal expression that defined the movement and changed the course of music history.

"O Amor, o sorriso e a flor" (Love, a Smile, and a Flower) is the second in the trilogy of formative bossa nova albums released by João Gilberto between 1959 and 1961 ("Chega de saudade" -- ACMEM 179CD -- being the first).

These albums are quite literally the aesthetic and musical blueprints for a genre that would exert an irresistible worldwide influence on popular music.

Our edition features the original (long out of print) classic album in its entirety and original packaging. It includes Joao's historic, first performances of such masterpieces as Samba de uma nota só (One Note Samba), Meditação (Meditation), O pato, Corcovado, Discussão and Outra vez (One More Time)

The album is augmented by rare recordings of some of the famous songs of both "O Amor, o sorriso e a flor" and "Chega de saudade" by such important contemporaries as Sergio Mendes, Walter Wanderley, Sylvia Telles, Carlos Lyra, Alaide Costa, Agostinho Dos Santos, Isaura Garcia, Os Cariocas and Luiz Eca.

In 1962 Gilberto moved to the United States where he and Stan Getz recorded the million-selling Getz / Gilberto for Creed Taylor¹s Verve; an LP which featured a song (sung by João's then wife Astrud) that was to become one of the most popular of the twentieth century, the Jobim-Vinícius composition, La Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema).

The reclusive João Gilberto is the "Great Master" of bossa nova; His art both enigmatic and timeless. He has worked with the Tropicalistas, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso and influenced generations of arrangers, musicians and singers.

Instrumental CD Reissue of the Month - "Joe Farrell: Penny Arcade"

Instrumental CD Reissue of the Month
Joe Farrell: "Penny Arcade" (CTI/Wounded Bird) 1973/2011

Rating:
***** (musical performance)
***** (recording & mixing)
**** (remastering)

First CD reissue ever anywhere in the world (thanks to the wise guys of the Wounded Bird label) of this cult CTI album produced by Creed Taylor & engineered by Rudy Van Gelder in October 1973, with a cover pic by photographer genius Pete Turner.
Featuring Herbie Hancock (a killer Fender Rhodes solo on the landmark version of Stevie Wonder's "Too High" and dreamy acoustic piano on "Cloud Cream" and "Geo Blue"), Herb Bushler (probably the most underrated bassist of the entire fusion era), the impeccable grooves and massive breaks of drum god Steve Gadd, and the late Don Alias (congas on the latin-tinged "Cloud Cream" only, on which Farrell plays flute and piccolo) & Joe Beck, who wrote the frenetic title track and provided electrifying guitar solos throughout the session. Not to mention Farrell's dexterity also on soprano sax ("Too High") and tenor sax ("Penny Arcade," "Hurricane Jane" and "Geo Blue"). What else could you ask for?
One problem, though. This CD reissue preserves most of the original cover artwork conceived by CTI album designer Bob Ciano (including the liner graphics and Joe's portrait by Sheila Green Metzner), but doesn't reproduces the original "CTI label," which means that the composers are not credited anywhere! The CTI logo was also deleted.
Another mistake: the info "released as CTI 6034 in 1973" is wrong. The album only came out in January 1974.
ps: certainly, CTI's top connoisseur Doug Payne will post soon about this reissue on his Sound Insights blog.

It's already available on DustyGroove:
http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=wxms8qw85k&ref=browse.php&refQ=kwfilter%3Djoe%2Bfarrell%26amp%3Bincl_oos%3D1%26amp%3Bincl_cs%3D1

That's what they say:
"Killer CTI work from Joe Farrell – with grooves so sharp you could cut your trousers on them! Farrell's angular reed style is in perfect form here – grooving with a small group that includes Herbie Hancock on piano, Joe Beck on guitar, Steve Gadd on drums, and Don Alias on percussion – a combo that's got a harder, tighter feel than most CTI groups – a key reason why Joe's records of this time are so legendary! The album features a fantastic version of Stevie Wonder's "Too High" – one that breaks all over the beginning with these riffs by Farrell, then grooves into a CTI electric funk mode for about 13 minutes. All tracks are long – and other tracks include "Hurricane Jane", "Geo Blue", "Penny Arcade", and "Cloud Cream"."

For more details, please check:
http://jazzstation-oblogdearnaldodesouteiros.blogspot.com/2010/11/three-of-joe-farrells-cti-gems-will-be.html

DVD of the Month - "Weather Report: Live in Germany 1971"

DVD of the Month
Weather Report: "Live in Germany 1971" (Voiceprint)

Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Miroslav Vitous, Alphonse Mouzon & Dom Um Romão perform a terrific set for German TV show "Beat Club" that is made officially available for the first time on this DVD, licensed to Voiceprint Records and distributed by Gonzo Media Group. A must-have item for Weather Report collectors and all fusion fans, includes such themes as "Umbrellas," "Orange Lady," "Waterfall," "Seventh Arrow" and "Dr. Honoris Causa." Great sonic & audio quality too.

Vocal CD of the Month - "Tania Maria: Alive & Cooking"

Vocal CD of the Month
Tania Maria: "Alive & Cooking" (West Wind)

OK, we know it's a bootleg. But what a great concert! Backed by Eddie Gomez (acoustic bass) and the late Don Alias (drums & percussion), the fantastic Brazilian composer, singer & pianist brings the house down in this 1993 New York concert, now available through the German company ITM Media, which runs the labels JazzDoor and West Wind. Includes four long tracks: "Dear D.V.," "É Carnaval" (originally recorded on his 1985 studio album "Made in New York"), "I Can Do It" and "Bom, Bom, Bom." Energy + groove = Tania Maria!

Instrumental CD of the Month - "Hubert Nuss: The Book of Colours"

Instrumental CD of the Month
Hubert Nuss: "The Book of Colours" (Pirouet)

Jazz trio music with a unique profile: Hubert Nuss's trio CD "The Book of Colours" (co-produced by Nuss & Jason Seizer, with John Goldsby on bass & John Riley on drums) makes sublime play with tonal shades, tints and hues, enticing the music to dance, dazzle, and swing, offering up a music of tremendous subtlety and sensuous strength. Not the mention the delightful bossa nova groove of "The Colours of Tyrus Wong."

Currently living in Cologne, the German pianist Herbert Nuss has consistently been critically acclaimed for the "beauty" of his recordings - and it is exactly with this word, which is so difficult to define but so strongly delivered. The "Jazz Zeitung" praised the "intensely beautiful sound and structural mastery" of his 2005 Pirouet CD "Feed the Birds". And the CD "Piano News" has already shown that Nuss understands how to "...unlock the most subtle nuances." These are qualities that Nuss has in abundance. And that holds true for this new trio CD "The Book of Colours," our first best CD of the year.

"Cadence" - January/February/March 2011

This 288-page issue includes dozens of CD, DVD and book reviews, including the latest releases by Mika Yoshida, Ian Carey, Mina Cho, Dave Liebman and Steve Tuure, plus a story on the recent batch of CTI reissues released by Sony Masterworks and the results of Cadence's 2010 Record Poll ("Editor's Choice" and "Reviewer's Choices")

"DownBeat" - January 2011

COVER
Herbie Hancock -- Few musicians have had more influence on acoustic and electric jazz than Herbie Hancock, a true icon of modern music. With a career spanning five decades and 12 Grammys, Hancock continues to transcend genres while maintaining his unmistakable voice as a pianist, keyboardist and composer.

FEATURES
Dave Liebman -- Veteran soprano saxophonist and educator Liebman, a 2011 NEA Jazz Master, continues one of the most eventful years in his rich and varied career with the release of 10 new CDs and ongoing tours.

The Soul Sidewomen -- The ambitious jazz pursuits and improv chops of saxophonist Tia Fuller, bassist Divinity Roxx and drummer Kim Thompson - all key players in r&b superstar Beyoncé's band.

Best CDs of 2010 -- A New Year's celebration of DownBeat's 5-star, 4.5-star and 4-star CD reviews from the past 12 months.

Special Section: Jazz School -- DownBeat examines the latest trends in jazz education and provides a Woodshed-heavy study guide designed to challenge students and professional players alike.

Jazz School: WOODSHED
· Master Class: Starting a Latin jazz ensemble, by Dr. Kenyon Williams, Associate Professor of Percussion, Minnesota State University Moorhead
· Transcription: Rick Margitza's saxophone solo on "Just In Time."
· Transcription: Bela Fleck banjo solo

PLAYERS
Junko Onishi (piano)
Geof Bradfield (saxophone)
Harold O'Neal (piano)
Orlando Le Fleming (bass)

BLINDFOLD TEST -- Dee Dee Bridgewater, Live at North Sea Jazz Festival

THE BEAT
· Thelonious Monk Institute Holds Vocal Competition
· Jazz Museum in Harlem - Savory Collection
· Buddy Collette obituary/appreciation
· Vinyl Freak
· Caught: Geri Allen & Patrice Rushen at the Kennedy Center; Nels Cline premieres "Dirty Baby" at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

REVIEWS - Hot Box
· Bobby Watson, The Gates BBQ Suite (self-release)
· Eddie Henderson, For All We Know (Furthermore)
· Anat Fort Trio, And If (ECM)
· Chucho Valdes, Chucho's Steps (4Q)

CD Reviews
· Jason Adasiewicz, Sun Rooms (Delmark)
· Exploding Star Orchestra, Stars Have Shapes (Delmark)
· Joshua Abrams, Natural Information (Eremite)
· Brad Goode, Tight Like This (Delmark)
· Rebecca Coupe Franks, Check The Box (RCF)
· Aram Shelton Quartet, These Times (Singlespeed Music)
· Alexander McCabe, Quiz (Consolidated Artists)
· Lizz Wright, Fellowship (Verve/Forecast)
· Houston Person, Moment To Moment (HighNote)
· Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Ailanthus/Althissima (Triple Point)
· Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra, Ashcan Rantings (Clean Feed)
· Dave Holland/Pepe Habicheula, Hands (Dare2)
· Evan Parker/Peter Evans/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton, Scenes In The House Of Music (Clean Feed)
· Antonio Sanchez, Live In New York At Jazz Standard (CAMJazz)
· Claudette King, We're Onto Something (Blues Express)
· Clayton Brothers, The New Song And Dance (ArtistShare)
· Henry Threadgill, This Brings Us To, Volume 2 (Pi)
· William Parker Organ Quartet, Uncle Joe's Spirit House (Centering)
· William Parker, The Inside Songs Of Curtis Mayfield (Aum Fidelity)
· David S. Ware, Onecept (Aum Fidelity)
· Jane Monheit, Home (Decca/Universal)
· Jason Robinson, The Two Faces Of Janus (Cuneiform)
· Rosenberg Trio, Djangologists (enja)
· Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Viva La Tradicion (Concord)
· Chicago Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble (Chicago Sessions)
· Mary Stallings, Dream (HighNote)
· Scott Colley, Empire (CamJAZZ)
· Issac Delgado, Love (Calle 54/Sony)
· Anders Savone/Jon Irabagon, Duets (self)

Jazz
· Jason Kao Hwang, Commitment: The Complete Recordings (NoBusiness Records)
· Joan Jeanrenaud, Pop-Pop (Deconet Music)
· Christian Howes, Out of the Blue (Resonance Records)
· Jeremey Cohen, Violinjazz: The Music of Eddie South (Dorian Recordings)
· The Jazz Passengers, Reunited (Justin Time)
· David Bixler & Arturo O'Farrill, The Auction Project (Zoho Records)
· Lucian Ban and John Hebert, Enesco Re-Imagined (Sunnyside)

Blues
· Junior Wells, Live in Boston (Delmark)
· Mia Vermillion, Alone Together with the Blues (VMS)
· Les Sampou, Lonesomeville (Trespass)
· Peaches Staten, Live at Legends (Swississippi)
· Mark Robinson, Quit Your Job (Blind Chihuala)
· Tad Robinson, Back In Style (Severn)

Beyond
· Dengue Fever, Sleepwalking Through The Mekong (M80)
· Various Artists, Dengue Fever Presents Electric Cambodia (Minky)
· Various Artists, Shadow Music Of Thailand (Sublime Frequencies)
· Various Artists, Siamese Soul (Sublime Frequencies)

Historical
· The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions (Mosaic)

Book Review
· Richard Turner, Jazz, Religion, the Second Line and Black New Orleans (Indiana)

The Best Jazz of 2010

(Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden)

Os melhores do jazz em 2010 - The Best Jazz of 2010!
The results of the 32nd Annual Jazz Station Poll conducted by jazz journalist, jazz historian & jazz educator Arnaldo DeSouteiro

A seleção dos “melhores do jazz”, feita pelo historiador Arnaldo DeSouteiro, publicada pela primeira vez em 1979, chega ao 32º ano.
Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden, Havana Carbo, Marcus Miller, Mina Cho, Lew Soloff, Hubert Laws e Barry Finnerty estão entre os artistas que brilharam em 2010. E nomes como James Moody, Benny Powell e Charlie Mariano se despediram com belos trabalhos.

Esta é a lista dos que mais se destacaram, em 2010, no panorama jazzístico internacional. Atendendo aos pedidos dos leitores, que desde 1979 acompanham essa votação, incluímos – após os nomes de todos os colocados em cada categoria – os títulos dos trabalhos (CDs ou DVDs) pelo quais os artistas foram avaliados, com base apenas em lançamentos realizados no decorrer deste ano.

Para variar, foram necessárias várias semanas para a preparação de todas estas listas, reouvindo CDs, revendo DVDs, checando fichas técnicas e, às vezes, reavaliando opiniões. Tudo isso com o objetivo de fornecer o mais fiel possível retrato do cenário jazzístico em 2010, a partir de bases reais de análise. O que significa, por exemplo, que artistas que não lançaram novos trabalhos este ano, seja como líderes ou sidemen, tornaram-se, por mais geniais que sejam, automaticamente inelegíveis. Tal critério explica a ausência de feras como Diana Krall, Mark Murphy, Kurt Elling, Jon Hendricks, Ron Carter, Gene Bertoncini e Raul de Souza que, apesar de terem realizado muitos shows, não lançaram novos trabalhos em 2010.

Vários discos premiados em 2010, com atraso, pelas revistas especializadas, não aparecem na nossa lista por uma simples razão: constaram da relação de 2009.

Aí estão os resultados completos:
Acoustic Piano: 1º Keith Jarrett ("Jasmine" w/ Charlie Haden – ECM); 2º Chick Corea (“Forever” w/ Corea, Clarke & White – Universal); 3º Bill Carrothers (“Joy Spring” – Pirouet); 4º Marc Copland (“Five on One” w/ Contact – Pirouet); 5º Pablo Held (“Music” – Pirouet); 6º Mike Longo (“Sting Like A Bee” – CAP); 7º Fred Hersch (“Whirl” – Palmetto); 8º Jacky Terrasson (“Push” – Concord);
Electric Piano: 1º Eumir Deodato (“The Crossing” – Expansion); 2º Alex Maguire (“Never Pet a Burning Dog” w/ Doubt – MoonJune); 3º Adam Shulman (“Contextualizin’” w/ The Ian Carey Quintet – Kabocha); 4º David Kikoski (“Blues for Trane” w/ Barry Finnerty – Cheetah/Pony Canyon); 5º Ron Perrillo (“Transient Journey” w/ Pharez Whitted – Owl Studios); 6º Don Friedman ("Where The Warm Winds Blow" w/ Mel Martin - JazzedMedia)
Organ: 1º Joey DeFrancesco (“Never Can Say Goodbye” – High Note); 2º Pete Levin ("Jump!" - PLM); 3º Dr. Lonnie Smith (“Spiral” – Palmetto); 4º Rhoda Scott (“Beyond the Sea” – Doodlin’); 5º Greg Lewis (“Organ Monk” – GL); 6º Jim Alfredson (“Alive & Kickin’!” w/ Organissimo – Big O); 7º Reuben Wilson (“Azure Te” – 18th & Vine); 8º John Medeski ("Radiolarians/ The Evolutionary Set" w/ Medeski, Martin & Wood - Indirecto)
Keyboards: 1° Alan Pasqua (“Blues for Tony” w/ Allan Holdsworth - MoonJune); 2º Gary Husband (“To The One” w/ John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension – Abstract Logix); 3º Mitch Forman (“Truth Be Told” w/ Mark Egan – Wavetone); 4º Bruce Flowers (“Power of Soul” w/ Marcus Miller – JazzDoor DVD); 5º Robbie Kondor (“Sanssouci” w/ Sony Holland – Van Ness); 6º Pino Nicolosi (“The Crossing” w/ Eumir Deodato – Expansion); 7º Bob James ("Let's Touch the Sky" w/ Fourplay - Heads Up); 8º George Duke (“Déjà Vu” – Heads Up)
Acoustic Bass: 1º Eddie Gomez (“Marimba Madness” DVD w/ Mika Yoshida - Big Round); 2º Charlie Haden (“Jasmine” w/ Keith Jarrett – ECM); 3º Dave Holland (“Hands” w/ Pepe Habichuela – Dare2); 4º Ron McClure (“Blues for Trane” w/ Barry Finnerty – Cheetah/Pony Canyon); 5º Michael Formanek (“The Rub and Spare Change” – ECM); 6º Christian McBride ("Eleanora Fagan" w/ Dee Dee Bridgewater - EmArcy)
Electric Bass: 1º Marcus Miller (“A Night in Monte-Carlo" (Soulfood/Dreyfus); 2º Stanley Clarke (“The Stanley Clarke Band” – Heads Up); 3º Steve Swallow (“I.S.” w/ Tore Johansen – Inner Ear); 4º Anthony Jackson (“Interspirit” w/ Yiorgos Fakanas – Abstract Logix); 5º Mark Egan (“Truth Be Told” – Wavetone); 6º Dominique di Piazza (“Live @ Belgrade” DVD w/ John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension – Abstract Logix); 7º Jimmy Haslip (“Blues for Tony” w/ Allan Holdsworth – Moon June)
Drums: 1º Steve Gadd (“Live at Voce” – Varese); 2º Bill Stewart (“Joy Spring” w/ Bill Carrothers – Pirouet); 3º Terry Silverlight (“Sing Sing Sing 2010/Tribute to Benny Goodman" – Birds); 4º Vinnie Colaiuta (“Truth Be Told” w/ Mark Egan – Wavetone); 5º Tony Bianco (“Never Pet A Burning Dog” w/ Doubt – MoonJune); 6º Lenny White (“Anomaly” – Abstract Logix); 7º Harvey Mason ("Let's Touch the Sky" w/ Fourplay - Heads Up); 8º Jeff "Tain" Watts ("Montreux Jazz Festival 2009" DVD w/ CTI Jazz All-Star Band - CTI); 9º Antonio Sanchez (“Live in New York at Jazz Standard” – CAM Jazz)
Percussion: 1º Airto Moreira ("Montreux Jazz Festival 2009" DVD w/ CTI Jazz All-Star Band – CTI); 2º Trilok Gurtu ("Massical" - BHM); 3º Manolo Badrena ("Jump!" w/ Pete Levin - PLM); 4º Little Johnny Rivero (“Dancing with Johnny” w/ Linda Ciofalo – Lucky Jazz); 5º Marco Fadda (“The Crossing” w/ Eumir Deodato – Expansion); 6º Cyro Baptista ("Push" w/ Jacky Terrasson - Concord); 7º Paulinho da Costa ("6 String Theory" w/ Lee Ritenour - Concord); 8º Kendall Kay ("Sanssouci" w/ Sony Holland - Van Ness)
Vibes/Marimba: 1º Mika Yoshida (“Marimba Madness” DVD – Big Round) ; 2º Jason Adasiewicz (“Sun Rooms” – Delmark); 3º Mike Mainieri (“Trinary Motion” w/ Marnix Busstra Quartet – NYC); 4º Brad Dutz ("Whimsical Excursion Boats" - BD); 5º Arthur Lipner (“Vibination” w/ Scot Albertson – SA); 6º Dave Samuels (“Panamericana Suite” w/ Paquito D’Rivera – MCG); 7º Mulatu Astatke (“Timeless” – Mochilla); 8º Steve Nelson ("Pathways" w/ Dave Holland Octet - Dare2); 9º Stefon Harris ("Live 2010/7th Annual Concert Tour" w/ SF Jazz Collective - SFJazz)
Miscellaneous Instruments: 1° Toots Thielemans – harmonica (“European Quartet Live” – Challenge); 2º Dino Saluzzi - bandoneon (“El Encuentro” – ECM); 3º Paul McCandless - oboe, English Horn ("In Stride" w/ Oregon - CAM Jazz); 4º Edmar Castaneda - harp (“Panamericana Suite” w/ Paquito D’Rivera – MCG); 5º Erik Friedlander - cello ("Alchemy" - Hromir); 6º Vinny Golia - Chinese sheng, saxello, Mediterranean bagpipes, Turkish ney, kaval ("Duets" w/ Brad Dutz - 8 Winds); 7º Masaru Koga – shakuhachi (“India & Africa” w/ Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra – Water Baby)
Acoustic Guitar: 1º Ralph Towner ("In Stride" w/ Oregon - CAM Jazz); 2º Al DiMeola (“He & Carmen” w/ Eszter Horgas – In Akustik); 3º Shu Odamura ("Originality" w/ Mina Cho - Blink Music); 4º Carlos Barbosa-Lima ("Merengue" - Zoho); 5º Paul Meyers (“Dancing with Johnny” w/ Linda Ciofalo – Lucky Jazz); 6º Jerry Holland (“Sanssouci” w/ Sony Holland – Van Ness); 7º Dave McNab (“American Dreams” w/ Laurie Antonioli” – Intrinsic)
Electric Guitar: 1º Barry Finnerty (“Blues for Trane” – Cheetah/Pony Canyon); 2º John McLaughlin (“To The One” – Abstract Logix); 3º Allan Holdsworth (“Blues for Tony” – MoonJune); 4º John Scofield (“54” – EmArcy); 5º John Abercrombie (“Contact” w/ Five on One – Pirouet); 6º Pat Metheny (“Orchestrion” – Nonesuch); 7º Russell Malone (“Montreux Jazz Festival 2009” DVD w/ CTI Jazz All-Star Band – CTI); 8º Michael Delville (“Never Pet a Burning Dog” w/ Doubt – MoonJune); 9º John Tropea ("The Crossing" w/ Eumir Deodato - Expansion)
Violin: 1º Christian Howes (“Out of the Blue” – Resonance); 2º Regina Carter (“Reverse Thread” – Koch); 3º Billy Bang (“Prayer for Peace” – Tumi); 4º Jean-Luc Ponty (“Forever” w/ Corea, Clarke & White – Universal); 5º Carlo Cantini ("Massical" w/ Trilok Gurtu - BHM)
Flute: 1° Hubert Laws ("Montreux Jazz Festival 2009" DVD w/ CTI Jazz All-Star Band – CTI); 2º Mel Martin ("Where The Warm Winds Blow" - JazzedMedia); 3º Henry Threadgill (“This Brings Us To, Vol. II” – Pi); 4º Nicole Mitchell (“Stars Have Shapes” w/ Exploding Star Orchestra – Delmark); 5º Roscoe Mitchell (“Far Side” – ECM)
Clarinet/Bass Clarinet: 1º Paquito D’Rivera (“Panamericana Suite” – MCG Jazz); 2º Anat Cohen (“Clarinetwork/Live at the Village Vanguard” – Anzic); 3º Evan Christopher (“The Remembering Song” – Arbors); 4º Domenic Landolf (“New Brighton” – Pirouet); 5º Dave Bennett (“Clarinet is King” – Arbors); 6º Sheldon Brown (“American Dreams” w/ Laurie Antonioli” – Intrinsic); 7º Don Byron (“Kenny Davis” w/ Kenny Davis – Daken); 8º Chris Speed ("Agnosticrevelations" w/ Jacob Anderskov - Ilk); 9º Mort Weiss (“Raising the Bar” – SMS)
Trumpet: 1º Lew Soloff (“Sketches of Spain” – Birds); 2º Arturo Sandoval (“A Time for Love” – Concord); 3º Ian Carey (“Contextualizin’” – Kabocha); 4º Randy Brecker (“The Latin Side of Herbie Hancock" w/ Conrad Herwig - Half Note); 5º Brian Lynch (“Dancing with Johnny” w/ Linda Ciofalo – Lucky Jazz); 6º Pharez Whitted (“Transient Journey” – Owl Studios); 7º Brad Goode (“Tight Like This” – Delmark); 8º Dave Douglas ("Spark of Being" - Greenleaf)
Flugelhorn: 1º Tom Harrell ("Roman Nights" - High Note); 2º Pharez Whitted (“Transient Journey” – Owl Studios); 3º Victor Garcia ("African Flowers" w/ Geof Bradfield - Origin); 4º Brad Mason ("Two Sides, One Story" w/ Mason Brothers - Archival); 5º Ian Carey (“Contextualizin’” – Kabocha)
Trombone: 1º Benny Powell (“The Storyteller” w/ Randy Weston – Motéma); 2º Conrad Herwig ("The Latin Side of Herbie Hancock" - Half Note); 3º Steve Turre ("Delicious and Delightful" - High Note); 4º John Fedchock (“Live at the Red Sea Jazz Festival” – Capri); 5º Alan Ferber (“Music for Nonet and Strings” – Sunnyside); 6º Fred Wesley (“With A Little Help From My Friends” – BHM); 7º Elliot Mason (“Two Sides, One Story” w/ Mason Brothers – Archival); 8º Vincent Gardner (“Things to Come” w/ Milton Suggs – Skiptone); 9º Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews (“Backatown” – Verve Forecast); 10º Bart van Lier ("54" w/ John Scofield
Soprano Sax: 1º Dave Liebman (“Contact” w/ Five on One – Pirouet); 2º Jan Garbarek (“Officium Novum” – ECM); 3º Geof Bradfield (“African Flowers” – Origin); 4º Azar Lawrence (“Mystic Journey” - Furthermore); 5º Mel Martin ("Where The Warm Winds Blow" - JazzedMedia); 6º Eddie Bayard (“Transient Journey” w/ Pharez Whitted – Owl Studios)
Alto Sax: 1º Charlie Mariano (“Crescent” w/ Mike Mainieri & Dieter Ilg – NYC); 2º Phil Woods (“Solitude” w/ DePaul University Jazz Ensemble – Jazzed Media); 3º Christian Weidner (“The Inward Song” – Pirouet); 4º David Sanborn (“Only Everything” – Decca); 5º Tim Berne (“The Rub and Spare Change” w/ Michael Formanek – ECM); 6º Dick Oatts (“Two Hearts” – Steeplechase); 7º Paquito D’Rivera (“Panamericana Suite” – MCG) 8º Miguel Zenón ("Live 2010/7th Annual Concert Tour" w/ SF Jazz Collective - SFJazz)
Tenor Sax: 1º James Moody (“Moody 4B” – IPO); 2º Domenic Landolf (“New Brighton” – Pirouet); 3º Dave Liebman (“Contact” w/ Five on One – Pirouet); 4º Bill Evans (“Montreux Jazz Festival 2009” DVD w/ CTI Jazz All-Star Band – CTI); 5º Houston Person (“Moment to Moment” – High Note); 6º Eric Alexander ("Chim Chim Cheree" - Venus); 7º Mel Martin (“Where The Warm Winds Blow” – JazzedMedia); 8º Theo Travis (“Live Adventures” w/ Soft Machine Legacy – MoonJune); 9º Igor Butman (“Moscow @ 3AM” – Butman Music); 10º Charles Lloyd (“Mirror” – ECM); Baritone Sax: 1º Ronnie Cuber (“Live at Voce” w/ Steve Gadd - Varese); 2º Cecile Bonacina (“Way of Life” – ACT); 3º James Carter (“Odean’s List” w/ Odean Pope – In+Out); 4º Roger Rosenberg (“Everything Is Everything/The Music of Donny Hatthaway” w/ Kirk Whalum – Rendezvous)
Male Singer: 1º Milton Suggs (“Things to Come” – Skiptone); 2º José James (“For All We Know” w/ Jefe Neve – Impulse!); 3º Bobby McFerrin (“Vocabularies” – EmArcy); 4º John Pizzarelli (“Rockin’ in Rhythm” – Telarc); 5º Gregory Porter (“Water” – Motéma); 6º Freddy Cole (“Sings Mr. B” – High Note); 7º Al Jarreau (“The Crossing” w/ Eumir Deodato – Expansion); 8º Scot Albertson (“Vibination” – SA)
Female Singer: 1º Havana Carbo (“Phantoms of Love” – MODL); 2º Tania Maria (“It’s Only Love” - BHM); 3º Denise Donatelli (“When Lights are Low” – Savant); 4º Laurie Antonioli (“American Dreams” – Intrinsic); 5º Cassandra Wilson (“Silver Pony” - Blue Note); 6º Anna Mjöll (“Christmas Jazzmaz” – Tónaljón); 7º Sony Holland (“Sanssouci” – Van Ness); 8º Linda Ciofalo (“Dancing with Johnny” – Lucky Jazz); 9º Dee Dee Bridgewater (“Eleanora Fagan” – EmArcy); 10º Hilary Kole (“You Are There” – Justin Time)
Instrumental Group:
1º Holdswoth /Pasqua /Haslip /Wackerman (“Blues for Tony” – MoonJune); 2º Manhattan Jazz Quintet (“Latino-Bop” – Birds); 3º Doubt (“Never Pet A Burning Dog” – MoonJune); 4º Oregon ("In Stride" - CAM Jazz); 5º Soft Machine Legacy (“Live Adventures” – MoonJune); 6º SF Jazz Collective ("Live 2010/7th Annual Concert Tour" - SFJazz); 7º Bill Carrothers Trio ("Joy Spring" - Pirouet); 8º OM (“Willisau” – Intakt); 9º Pablo Held Trio ("Music" - Pirouet)
Vocal Group: 1º Take 6 (“The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” – Heads Up); 2º Naturally 7 ("Q: Soul Bossa Nostra" w/ Quincy Jones - Interscope); 3º Londonbeat ("The Crossing" w/ Eumir Deodato - Expansion)
Big Band/Jazz Orchestra: 1º Metropole Orchestra (“54” w/ John Scofield – EmArcy); 2º Frankfurt Radio Big Band (“It’s Only Love” w/ Tania Maria – BHM); 3º Manhattan Jazz Orchestra (“Sing Sing Sing 2010/Tribute to Benny Goodman” – Birds); 4º Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra (“India & Africa” – Water Baby); 5º Three Rivers Jazz Orchestra (“A New Promise” w/ Sheryl Bailey – MCG); 6º Exploding Star Orchestra (“Stars Have Shapes” – Delmark); 7º Igor Butman Big Band (“Moscow @ 3AM” – Butman Music); 8º WDR Big Band (“Bombella” w/ Abdullah Ibrahim – Sunnyside); 9º Dave Lisk Orchestra (“Coming Through Slaughter” – Galloping Cow); 1oº NDR Big Band (“Ceremony” w/ Omar Sosa – Ota)Composer: 1º Hermeto Pascoal (“Bodas de Latão” w/ Aline Morena – HPAM); 2º John Scofield (“54” – EmArcy); 3º Roland Vazquez (“The Visitor” – RVD); 4º Pharez Whitted (“Transient Journey” – Owl Studios); 5º Mina Cho (“Originality” – Blink Music); 6º Geof Bradfield (“African Flowers” – Origin); 7º Ian Carey (“Contextualizin’” – Kabocha); 8º Randy Weston (“The Storyteller” – Motéma)
Arranger: 1º Vince Mendoza (“54” w/ John Scofield – EmArcy); 2º Don Sebesky (“Rockin’ in Rhythm” w/ John Pizarelli - Telarc); 3º Jörg Achim Keller (“It’s Only Love” w/ Tania Maria – BHM); 4º David Matthews (“Sing Sing Sing 2010/Tribute to Benny Goodman” w/ Manhattan Jazz Orchestra); 5º Arthur Verocai (“Timeless” DVD – Mochilla); 6º Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (“A Suite for Ma Dukes” DVD – Mochilla); 7º Jorge Calandrelli ("A Time for Love" w/ Arturo Sandoval - Concord); 8º Arif Mardin ("All My Friends Are Here" - Nunoise)
Engineer: 1º Rudy Van Gelder (“Montreux Jazz Festival 2009” DVD w/ CTI Jazz All-Star Band – CTI); 2º Joe Berger (“Blues for Trane” w/ Barry Finnerty – Cheetah/Pony Canyon); 3º Jason Seizer (“Music” w/ Pablo Held – Pirouet); 4º Jonathan Allen (“54” w/ John Scofield, Vince Mendoza & Metropole Orkest – EmArcy); 5º Joe Ferla (“Orchestrion” w/ Pat Metheny – Nonesuch); 6º Denis Tousanna (“Things to Come” w/ Milton Suggs – Skiptone); 7ºDan Feiszli ("Contextualizin'" w/ The Ian Carey Quintet)New Talent: 1º Mina Cho – acoustic piano/composer (“Originality” – Blink Music); 2º Florian Ross – acoustic piano (“Mechanism” – Pirouet); 3º Ivan Farmakovsky (“The Way Home” – Butman Music); 4º Greg Lewis (“Organ Monk” – GL)
Producer: 1º Creed Taylor (“Montreux Jazz Festival 2009” DVD w/ CTI Jazz All-Star Band - CTI); 2º Jason Seizer (“Joy Spring” w/ Bill Carrothers – Pirouet); 3º Marty Ashby (“A New Promise” w/ Sheryl Bailey – MCG); 4º Arif Mardin ("All My Friends Are Here" - Nunoise); 5º Geoffrey Keezer ("When Lights are Low" w/ Denise Donatelli - Savant)
The Best 15 Jazz Instrumental CDs
Pablo Held: “Music” (Pirouet)
Allan Holdsworth/Alan Pasqua/Jimmy Haslip/Chad Wackerman: “Blues for Tony” (MoonJune)
Mina Cho: “Originality” (Blink Music)
Barry Finnerty: “Blues for Trane” (Cheetah/Pony Canyon)
Mel Martin: "Where The Warm Winds Blow" (JazzedMedia)
Soft Machine Legacy: “Live Adventures” (MoonJune)
Doubt: “Never Pet A Burning Dog” (MoonJune)
Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra: “India & Africa – A Tribute to John Coltrane” (Water Baby)
John Scofield, Vince Mendoza & Metropole Orkest: “54” (EmArcy)
Mike Longo Trio: “Sting Like A Bee” (CAP)
Hermeto Pascoal & Aline Morena: “Bodas de Latão” (HPAM)
Bill Carrothers: “Joy Spring” (Pirouet)
Pat Metheny: “Orchestrion” (Nonesuch)
Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: "Jasmine" (ECM)
The Ian Carey Quintet: "Contextualizin'" (Kabocha)
The Best 10 Vocal Jazz CDs
Havana Carbo: “Phantoms of Love” (MODL)
Milton Suggs: “Things to Come” (Skiptone)
Tania Maria: “It’s Only Love” (BHM)
Denise Donatelli: “When Lights are Low” (Savant)
Laurie Antonioli: “American Dreams” (Intrinsic)
Anna Mjöll: “Christmas Jazzmaz” (Tónaljón)
Sony Holland: “Sanssouci” (Van Ness)
Linda Ciofalo: “Dancing with Johnny” (Lucky Jazz)
Scot Albertson: “Vibination” (SA)
Bobby McFerrin: "Vocabularies" (EmArcy)
The Best 10 Jazz DVDs
CTI Jazz All-Star Band: “Montreux Jazz Festival 2009” (CTI)*
Arthur Verocai, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson & Mulatu Astatke: “Timeless” (Mochilla)
Weather Report: “Live in Germany 1971” (Voiceprint)
Jaco Pastorius, Albert Mangelsdorff & Alphonse Mouzon: “Trilogue” (JazzShots)
Gerry Mulligan, Paul Desmond & The Dave Brubeck Trio: “Live in Berlin 1972” (Standing Oh!vation)
John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension: “Live @ Belgrade” (Abstract Logix)
Mika Yoshida: “Marimba Madness” (Naxos)
Brecker Brothers: “Live in Tokyo” (JazzDoor)
Lionel Hampton: "Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival 1997" (Kultur)
Bill Evans: “The Last Trio Live ‘80” (VAP)
* also available on Blu-ray
Special Projects/Box Sets/Reissues
Art Pepper: “Unreleased Art, Vol. V – Stuttgart May 25, 1981” (Widow’s Taste)
Miles Davis: “Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition” (Legacy)
CTI All Stars: “California Concert” (CTI/Sony Masterworks)
Hubert Laws: “Morning Star” (CTI/Sony Masterworks)
The Creed Taylor Orchestra: “Shock/Panic” (Righteous)
Kenyon Hopkins: “Rooms/The Sound of New York” (Righteous)
Grupo Um: “A Flor de Plástico Incinerada” (Editio Princeps)
Bill Evans & Luiz Eça: “Piano Four Hands” (JazzLips)
Esther Phillips: “Capricorn Princess” (Kudu/Reel Music)
Teruo Nakamura Rising Sun Band: “At Carnegie Hall” (Cheetah/Pony Canyon)
Victor Assis Brasil: “Desenhos” (Forma/Céleste)
The Rolf and Joachim Kuhn Quartet: "Impressions of New York" (Impulse!)
Dave Frishberg: "Oklahoma Toad" (CTI/Muzak)
Frank Sinatra: “LA Is My Lady” (Qwest/Universal)
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Vinyl Reissues
Freddie Hubbard: "Red Clay" (CTI/Sony Masterworks)
Eumir Deodato: "Prelude" (CTI/Sony Masterworks)
Stanley Turrentine: "Sugar" (CTI/Sony Masterworks)
George Benson: "White Rabbit" (CTI/Sony Masterworks)
To check the results of some of the previous Jazz Station Polls, please visit:
The Best Jazz of 2009
http://jazzstation-oblogdearnaldodesouteiros.blogspot.com/2009/12/best-jazz-of-2009.html
The Best Jazz of 2008
http://jazzstation-oblogdearnaldodesouteiros.blogspot.com/2008/12/29th-annual-jazz-station-poll-best-jazz.html