NOTABLE RELEASES OF 2018
Casey Abrams, Put a Spell on You (Chesky Records)
Cannonball Adderley, Swingin’ In Seattle, Live At The Penthouse 1966-1967 (Reel To Real Recordings)
Alchemy Sound Project, Adventures In Time And Space (Artists Recording Collective)
JD Allen, Love Stone (Savant)
Rebecca Angel, What We Had (Timeless Grooves Records)
Ethan Ardelli, The Island of Form (Ethan Ardelli)
Allison Au, Wander Wonder (AllisonAu.com)
Tiffany Austin, Unbroken (Con Alma Music)
The Bad Plus, Never Stop II (Leg Breaker Records)
Louise Baranger, Plays The Great American Groove Book (Summit Records)
Jamie Baum, Bridges (Sunnyside)
The Black Butterflies, Luisa (Mercedes Figueras)
Ran Blake & Christine Correa, Streaming (Red Piano Records)
Samuel Blaser, Early in the Mornin’ (Outnote Records)
Joe Bonamassa, Black Coffee (J&R Adventures)
Joe Bonamassa, British Blues Explosion Live (J&R Adventures)
Joe Bonamassa, British Blues Explosion Live (J&R Adventures) DVD
Andrea Brachfeld, If Not Now, When? (Jazzheads)
Bobby Bradford, Live at the Blue Whale (No Business Records)
Bobby Broom, Soul Fingers (MRI)
Marion Brown, Live at the Black Musicians Conference 1981 (No Business Records)
Brubeck Brothers Quartet, Timeline (Blue Forest Records)
Sandy Carroll, Blues & Angels (Catfood Records)
Rachel Caswell, We're All in the Dance (Turtle Ridge Records)
Amy Cervini , No One Ever Tells You (Anzic Records LLC)
Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop, Abundance (Anzic Records LLC)
Jungsu Choi Tiny Orkester, Tschüss Jazz EraJan (Challenge Records)
Dawn Clement, Tandem (Origin Records)
The Claudettes, Dance Scandal At The Gymnasium! (Yellow Dog Records)
Anat Cohen and Fred Hersch, Live in Healdsburg (Anzic Records LLC)
Richie Cole, Cannonball (Featuring Reggie Watkins) (Richie Cole Presents)
John Coltrane, Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album (Verve)
Glenn Crytzer Orchestra, Ain't It Grand? (Blue Rhythm Records)
Eddie Daniels, Heart of Brazil (Resonance Records)
Jon De Lucia Octet + Ted Brown, Live at the Drawing Room (Gut String Records)
Benjamin Deschamps, No Codes (Multiple Chord Music)
Laura Dickinson 17, Auld Lang Syne (Music and Mirror Records)
Mike DiRubbo Quartet, Live at Smalls (SmallsLIVE)
Eric Dolphy, Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions (Resonance Records)
Matthieu Donarier, Sylvain Lemêtre, Poline Renou Adieu mes très belle (Yolk Music)
Roberta Donnay & the Prohibition Mob Band, My Heart Belongs to Satchmo (blujazz)
Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty, The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 (Craft Recordings/ Concord Music) LP
Yelena Eckemoff and Paul McCandless, Desert (L & H Production)
Gene Ess, Apotheosis (SIMP Records)
The Gil Evans Orchestra, Hidden Treasures (GEO)
Michael Feinberg, Whatever Possessed Me (MFMusic)
Sue Foley, The Ice Queen (Stony Plain Records)
The Frost Concert Jazz Band Under the Direction of John Daversa, Concerto for Guitar and Jazz Orchestra (ArtistShare)
Satoko Fujii, Gebhard Ullmann and Orchestra Berlin, Ninety Nine Years (Libra)
Hal Galper Quartet, Cubist (Origin Records)
Kelly Green Trio (featuring Alex Tremblay & Evan Hyde), Volume One (kgmusic LLC)
Mary Halvorson, Code Girl (Firehouse 12 Records)
Jeff Hamilton, Live From San Pedro (Capri Records Ltd.)
Fareed Haque & Kaia String Quartet, New Latin American Music For Guitar And String Quartet (Delmark)
Allan Harris, The Genius of Eddie Jefferson (Resilience Music)
Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa, Black Coffee (J&R Adventures)
Phil Haynes & Free Country, My Favorite Things (1960-1969) (Corner Store Jazz)
The Heavyweights Brass Band, This City (Lulaworld Records)
Lauren Henderson, Ármame (Brontosaurus Records)
Carlos Henriquez, Dizzy Con Clave: Live From Dizzy's Club Coca Cola (RodBros Music)
Fred Hersch Trio, Live in Europe (Palmetto)
Alexandra Jackson, Legacy & Alchemy (Legacy and Alchemy)
Lucia Jackson, You and the Night and the Music (Roni Musik)
Keith Jarrett, After The Fall (ECM)
Keith Jarrett, La Fenice (ECM)
Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis, Featuring Rubén Blades, Una Noche con Rubén Blades (Blue Engine Records)
Phillip Johnston, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Asynchronous Records)
Phillip Johnston & the Coolerators, Diggin' Bone (Asynchronous Records)
Etta Jones, A Soulful Sunday: Live At The Left Bank (Reel To Real Recordings)
Gayle Kolb, Getting Sentimental (Gayle Kolb)
Julian Lage, Modern Lore (Mack Avenue Records)
Bongwool Lee, My Singing Fingers (Origin Records)
Jennifer Lee and the Ever-Expanding Universe, My Shining Hour (S.B.E. Records)
Vivian Lee, Let's Talk About Love (Tara Records)
Allegra Levy, Looking At The Moon (SteepleChase)
Matteo Liberatore, Solos (Innova)
Judith Lorick, The Second Time Around (JLJ International)
Hans Lüdemann, Trans Europe Express, Polyjazz (BMC Records)
Roberto Magris, World Gardens (Jmood Records)
Diane Marino, Soul Serenade: The Gloria Lynne Project (M&M Records)
Marcin Masecki, Ragtime (BMC Records)
Bill McBirnie with Bernie Senensky, The Silent Wish (ExtremeFlute.com)
Dave McKenna, Dave McKenna In Madison (Arbors)
Hendrik Meurkens and Bill Cunliffe, Cabin In The Sky (Height Advantage)
Bob Mintzer Big Band and New York Voices, Meeting of Minds (MCG Jazz)
Roscoe Mitchell, Sound (Delmark)
Modern Art Orchestra, Plays Béla Bartok: 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs (BMC Records)
François Moutin & Kavita Shah Duo, Interplay (Dot Time Records)
New Black Eagle Jazz Band, Missing Pieces (Black Eagle/blackeagles.com)
Larry Ochs, Mark Dresser, Vladimir Tarasov, A Jones In Time Saves Nine (No Business Records)
Keith Oxman, Glimpses (Capri Records Ltd.)
Jason Palmer, Leo Genovese, Joe Martin, and Kendrick Scott, Fair Weather (Newvelle Records) LP
Emile Parisien Quintet and Joachim Kuhn Sfumato Live In Marciac (CD+DVD) (ACT Jazz)
Párniczky Quartet, Bartok Electrified (BMC Records)
Art Pepper, Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. 10: Toronto (Widow’s Taste)
Ted Piltzecker, Brindica (ZoHo Music)
Noah Preminger, Genuinity (Criss Cross)
Noah Preminger and Frank Carlberg, Whispers And Cries (Red Piano Records)
Bobby Previte, Rhapsody (Rarenoise Records)
Margo Rey, The Roots of Rey/Despacito Margo (Origin Records)
The Rova Saxophone Quartet, In Transverse Time (Les Disques VICTO)
Jamie Saft Quartet, Blue Dream (Rarenoise Records)
Anne Sajdera, New Year (Bijuri Records)
Bobby Sanabria, Multiverse Big Band, West Side Story Reimagined (Jazzheads)
Dolores Scozzesi, Here Comes The Sun (Cafe Pacific Records)
Matthew Shipp, Zero (Esp Disk Ltd.)
Jeff 'Siege' Siegel, London Live (Artists Recording Collective)
Flavio Silva, Break Free (Flavio Silva)
Soft Machine, Hidden Details (MoonJune Records)
Kristen Strom, Moving Day: The Music Of John Shifflett (Oa2 Records)
Mátyás Szandai, Bartok Impressions (BMC Records)
Jay Thomas with the Oliver Groenewald Newnet, I Always Knew (Origin Records)
Henry Threadgill, Dirt...And More Dirt (PI Recordings)
Henry Threadgill, Double Up Plays Double Up Plus (PI Recordings)
trio WoRK (Ken Wild, Tom Rizzo, Susan Krebs) (Green Gig Music)
Allan Vache, It Might As Well Be Swing (Arbors)
Andreas Varady, The Quest (Resonance Records)
Dominique Vantomme, Vegir (MoonJune Records)
Andrés Vial, Plays Thelonious Monk: Sphereology, Vol. 1 (featuring Peter Bernstein, Dezron Douglas, Rodney Green, Martin Heslop & André White) (Chromatic Audio)
Volcano Radar Featuring Paquito D’Rivera, Paquito Libre (Delmark)
Bill Warfield Big Band, For Lew (Planet Arts Recordings)
Bob Watt and Todd Cochran, I Play French Horn—Music by J. S. Bach, Dave Brubeck, Todd Cochran, Maurice Ravel and Traditional (MSR Classics)
Kenny Werner, The Space (Pirouet)
Mars Williams, An Ayler Xmas Volume 2 (Esp Disk Ltd.)
Teddy Wilson Classic Brunswick & Columbia Sessions 1934- 42 (Mosaic)
Miguel Zenón, Yo Soy La Tradición (Miel Music)
Pablo Ziegler, Jazz Tango (Zoho)