Links
to various articles by Troy
Collins CD Reviews, Artist Interviews,
etc.
ALL ABOUT JAZZ
Muhal Richard Abrams / George Lewis / Roscoe Mitchell
- Streaming (Pi)
Steve Adams Trio - Surface Tension (Clean Feed)
Jason Adasiewicz - Rolldown (482 Music)
Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown - Varmint (Cuneiform)
Ahleuchatistas - Of The Body Prone (Tzadik)
Jason Ajemian's Smokeless Heat - The Art of Dying (Delmark)
Ben Allison
- Medicine
Wheel (Palmetto)
Ben Allison
- Cowboy
Justice (Palmetto)
Ben Allison and Man Size Safe - Little Things Run The World (Palmetto)
Ben Allison - Think Free (Palmetto)
Fred Anderson
- Timeless:
Live at the Velvet Lounge (Delmark) Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake
- From The River To The Ocean (Thrill Jockey)
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society - Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
Art Ensemble
of Chicago - Non-Cognitive
Aspects of the City: Live at Iridium (Pi)
The Bad Plus - Prog (Heads Up)
Thomas Barber's Janus Bloc - Snow Road (D Clef Records)
Carlos Barretto - Radio Song (Clean Feed)
BassDrumBone - The Line Up (Clean Feed)
Michael
Bates - A Fine Balance (Between The Lines)
Michael Bates Outside Sources - Clockwise (Greenleaf Music)
Josh Berman - Old Idea (Delmark)
Will Bernard - Blue Plate Special (Palmetto)
Steven Bernstein - Diaspora Suite (Tzadik)
Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra - We Are MTO (Mowo! Inc.)
David Binney - Third Occasion (Mythology)
Andy Biskin Quartet - Early American: The Music of Stephen Foster (Strudelmedia)
Andy Biskin - Trio Tragico (Strudelmedia)
Jim Black
- Dogs
of Great Indifference (Winter & Winter)
Cindy Blackman - Music For The New Millennium (Sacred Sound)
Michael Blake Sextet - Amor De Cosmos (Songlines)
Michael Blake / Kresten Osgood - Control This (Clean Feed)
Samuel Blaser Quartet - 7th Heaven (Between The Lines)
Paul Bley / Kresten Osgood - Florida (ILK)
Boxhead
Ensemble - Nocturnes
(Atavistic)
Anthony Braxton - Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989 (Hatology)
Anthony Braxton / Joe Fonda - Duets 1995 (Clean Feed)
Anthony Braxton / Milford Graves / William Parker - Beyond Quantum (Tzadik)
Michael Brecker - Pilgrimage (Heads Up)
Bridge
61 - Journal
(Atavistic)
Peter Brotzmann - The Complete Machine Gun Sessions
(Atavistic)
Peter Brotzmann / Peeter Uuskyla - Born Broke (Atavistic)
Kevin Brow - Koptor (Fresh Sound)
Rob Brown Trio - Sounds (Clean Feed)
Rob Brown Ensemble - Crown Trunk Root Funk (AUM Fidelity)
Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack - Intents & Purposes
(482 Music)
Dave Burrell - Momentum
(High Two) Taylor Ho Bynum and Tomas Fujiwara - True Events
(482 Music) Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet - The Middle Picture (Firehouse 12)
Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet - Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths (Hatology)
Uri Caine - Plays Mozart
(Winter & Winter)
James Carney Group - Ways & Means (Songlines)
Daniel
Carter / William Parker / Federico Ughi - The
Dream (577 Records)
James Carter - Present Tense (Emarcy)
Regina
Carter - I'll
Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey (Verve)
Thomas
Chapin - Ride
(Playscape)
Chicago
Underground Duo - In
Praise of Shadows (Thrill Jockey)
Chicago
Underground Trio - Chronicle (Delmark)
Claudia Quintet - For (Cuneiform)
Alex Cline - Continuation (Cryptogramophone)
Nels Cline - New Monastery: A View Into The Music Of Andrew Hill (Cryptogramophone)
Nels Cline - Draw Breath (Cryptogramophone)
Nels Cline - Coward (Cryptogramophone)
Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble - Proverbs for Sam (Boxholder)
Conference Call - Poetry in Motion (Clean Feed)
Jim Connolly - Jim Connolly and the Gove County String Quartet (pfMentum)
Cooper-Moore
- Outtakes
1978 (Hopscotch)
Marc Copland - Another Place (Pirouet)
Cosmologic - Eyes in the Back of My Head (Cuneiform)
Kris Davis
- The
Slightest Shift (Fresh Sound New Talent)
Kris Davis - Rye Eclipse (Fresh Sound)
Ernest
Dawkins - The
Messenger: Live At The Original Velvet Lounge (Delmark)
Michael Dessen Trio - Between Shadow and Space (Clean Feed)
Bill Dixon - Bill Dixon With Exploding Star Orchestra (Thrill Jockey)
DJ Logic
- Zen
of Logic (Ropeadope)
Dave Douglas
- Meaning
And Mystery (Greenleaf)
Dave Douglas - A Single Sky (Greenleaf Music)
Dr. Mint - Visions and Nightmares (pfMENTUM)
Scott DuBois - Banshees (Sunnyside)
Marty Ehrlich Rites Quartet - Things Have Got To Change (Clean Feed)
Nathan Eklund Group - The Crooked Line (Jazz Excursion)
Lisle Ellis - Sucker Punch Requiem: An Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat (Henceforth)
Liberty
Ellman - Ophiuchus
Butterfly (Pi)
Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio featuring Billy Bang - Big M: A Tribute to Malachi Favors (Delmark)
Booker Ervin - The Freedom Book (Prestige)
Harris Eisenstadt - The All Seeing Eye + Octets (Poo-Bah)
Harris Eisenstadt - Guewel (Clean Feed)
Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day (Clean Feed)
Amir ElSaffar - Two Rivers (Pi Recordings)
Empty Cage Quartet - Stratostrophic (Clean Feed)
Peter Evans Quartet - The Peter Evans Quartet (Firehouse 12)
Exploding Star Orchestra - We Are All From Somewhere Else (Thrill Jockey)
Geoff
Farina / Luther Gray / Nate McBride - Out
Trios Volume Four: Almanac (Atavistic)
Fast 'N' Bulbous - Waxed Oop (Cuneiform)
Avram Fefer Trio - Ritual (Clean Feed)
Joe Fiedler Trio - Plays
The Music Of Albert Mangelsdorff (Clean Feed) Alvin Fielder Trio - A Measure of Vision (Clean Feed)
Scott Fields Ensemble - Beckett (Clean Feed)
Scott Fields Ensemble - Denouemont (Clean Feed)
Scott Fields Freetet - Bitter Love Songs (Clean Feed)
Scott Fields Ensemble - Samuel (New World)
Fieldwork - Door (Pi)
Fight the Big Bull - Dying Will Be Easy (Clean Feed)
Fire Room - Broken Music (Atavistic)
Flat Earth Society
- Psychoscout (Crammed)
The Flatlands Collective - Maatjes (Clean Feed)
The Fonda/Stevens Group - Memphis (Playscape)
Sonny Fortune - You and the Night and the Music (18th & Vine)
The Frame Quartet - 35mm (Okka Disk)
Colter Frazier Quartet - Colter Frazier Quartet (pfMentum)
Free Form Funky Freqs - Urban Mythology: Volume One (Thirsty Ear)
Free Range
Rat - Nut
Club (Clean Feed)
Frequency
- Frequency
(Thrill Jockey)
Erik Friedlander
- Prowl
(Cryptogramophone)
Erik Friedlander - Broken Arm Trio (Skipstone)
Bill Frisell
/ Ron Carter / Paul Motian - Bill
Frisell / Ron Carter / Paul Motian (Nonesuch)
Satoko Fujii Four - When We Were There (Polystar)
Satoko Fujii Min-Yoh Ensemble - Fujin Raijin (Victo)
Satoko Fujii Quartet - Bacchus (Muzak)
Satoko Fujii Trio - Trace a River (Libra)
Satoko Fujii Ma-Do - Heat Wave (Not Two)
Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York - Summer Suite (Libra)
Satoko Fujii / Natsuki Tamura - Chun (Libra)
The Fully Celebrated - Drunk On The Blood Of The Holy Ones (AUM Fidelity)
Kenny
Garrett - Beyond
The Wall (Nonesuch)
Jeff Gauthier's
Goatette - One
And The Same (Cryptogramophone)
Jeff Gauthier Goatette - House of Return (Cryptogramophone)
Chris
Gestrin/Ben Monder/Dylan van der Schyff - The
Distance (Songlines)
Paul Giallorenzo - Get In To Go Out (482 Music)
Lafayette Gilchrist - Three (Hyena)
Lafayette Gilchrist - Soul Progressin' (Hyena)
Hans Glawischnig - Panorama (Sunnyside)
Andrew Green - Narrow Margin (Microphonic)
Groundtruther - Altitude (Thirsty Ear)
Tim Hagans - Alone Together (Pirouet)
Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone - On and Off (Skirl)
Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone - Thin Air (Thirsty Ear)
Mary Halvorson Trio - Dragon's Head (Firehouse 12)
Mary Halvorson, Reuben Radding & Nate Wooley - Crackleknob (Hatology)
Ross Hammond - Teakayo Mission (Prescott Recordings)
Stefon Harris
- African Tarantella: Dances With
Duke (Blue Note)
Joel Harrison - The Wheel (Innova)
Emily Hay / Brad Dutz / Wayne Peet - Emil Hay / Brad Dutz / Wayne Peet (pfMENTUM)
Gerry Hemingway Quintet - Demon Chaser (Hatology)
Herculaneum
- Orange
Blossom (482 Music)
Fred Hess
- How
'Bout Now (Tapestry)
Fred Hess - In The Grotto (Alison)
Fred Hess Band - Single Moment (Alison)
Fred Hess Big Band - Hold On (Dazzle Records)
Andrew Hill - Change (Blue Note)
His Name Is Alive - Sweet Earth Flower: a tribute to Marion Brown (High Two)
Eric Hofbauer and The Infrared Band - Myth Understanding (CNM)
John Hollenbeck - Rainbow Jimmies (GPE Records)
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble - Eternal Interlude (Sunnyside)
Bruce Hornsby - Camp Meeting (Legacy)
Ron Horton
- Everything
In A Dream (Fresh Sound New Talent)
Wayne
Horvitz - Way
Out East (Songlines)
Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet - One Dance Alone (Songlines)
Wayne Horvitz Sweeter Than The Day - A Walk In The Dark (Independent)
Human Feel - Galore (Skirl)
Jason
Kao Hwang - Edge
(Asian Improv)
Jason Kao Hwang / Edge - Stories Before Within (Innova)
Jon Irabagon's Outright! - Outright! (Innova)
Jon Irabagon with Mike Pride - I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues (Loyal Label)
Jon Irabagon - The Observer (Concord)
Vijay
Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa - Raw
Materials (Savoy)
Vijay Iyer - Tragicomic (Sunnyside)
Vijay Iyer Trio - Historicity (ACT Music)
Keefe Jackson's Project Project - Just Like This (Delmark)
Joseph Jarman - As If It Were The Seasons (Delmark)
Darren Johnston - The Edge of the Forest (Clean Feed)
Darius Jones Trio - Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) (AUM Fidelity)
Kidd Jordan / William Parker / Hamid Drake - Palm
of Soul (AUM Fidelity)
Junk Box
(Fujii / Tamura / Hollenbeck) - Fragment
(Libra)
Junk Box - Cloudy Then Sunny (Libra)
Pandelis Karayorgis / Nate McBride / Curt Newton - Betwixt (Hatology)
Fred Katz - Folk Songs For Far Out Folk (Reboot Stereophonic)
Achim
Kaufmann / Michael Moore / Dylan van der Schyff - Kamosc
(Red Toucan) Roland Kirk / Jack McDuff - Kirk's Work (Prestige)
Klang - Tea Music (Allos Documents)
Kneebody - Low Electrical Worker (Colortone Media)
Kirk Knuffke Quartet - Big Wig (Clean Feed)
Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club - Adventures (Boxholder)
Alex Kontorovich - Deep Minor (Chamsa)
Tim Kuhl - King (WJF Records)
Steve Kuhn Trio w/ Joe Lovano - Mostly Coltrane (ECM)
Steve
Lacy - Esteem
(Atavistic)
Steve Lacy / Roswell Rudd Quartet - Early and Late (Cuneiform)
Michel
Lambert - Le
Passant (The Wanderer) (Rant)
Adam Lane / Lou Grassi / Mark Whitecage - Drunk Butterfly (Clean Feed)
Steve
Lantner - Paradise
Road (Skycap)
Steve Lantner Trio - What You Can Throw (Hatology)
The Leaders - Spirits Alike (Double Moon)
Steve Lehman Quintet - On Meaning (Pi)
Steve Lehman Octet - Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi)
Daniel Levin Trio - Fuhuffah (Clean Feed)
Steuart Liebig Tee-Tot Quartet - Always Outnumbered (pfMentum)
David Liebman and Ellery Eskelin - Renewal (Hatology)
John Lindberg / Karl Berger - Duets 1 (Between The Lines)
Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio - Terminal Valentine (Atavistic)
Russ Lossing / Mat Maneri / Mark Dresser - Metal Rat (Clean Feed)
Joe Lovano
- Streams
of Expression (Blue Note)
Joe Lovano Us Five - Folk Art (Blue Note)
Lucky 7's - Pluto Junkyard (Clean Feed)
Rudresh Mahanthappa
- Codebook (Pi)
Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition - Apti (Innova)
Tony Malaby
/ Angelica Sanchez / Tom Rainey - Alive
In Brooklyn, Vol. 2 (Sarama)
Tony Malaby - Tamarindo (Clean Feed)
Tony Malaby Cello Trio - Warblepeck (Songlines)
Tony Malaby - Paloma Recio (New World)
Michael Marcus and Ted Daniel - Duology (Boxholder)
Michael Marcus - Lotus Symphony (Not Two)
Denman Maroney - Udentity (Clean Feed)
Billy Martin / John Medeski
- Mago (Amulet)
Sabir Mateen
- Prophecies
Come To Pass (577 Records)
Mauger - The Beautiful Enabler (Clean Feed)
Rob Mazurek Quintet - Sound Is (Delmark)
Pete McCann
- Most
Folks (Omnitone)
Donny McCaslin - In Pursuit (Sunnyside)
Donny McCaslin Trio - Recommended Tools (Greenleaf Music)
Donny McCaslin - Declaration (Sunnyside)
John McNeil
- East
Coast Cool (Omnitone)
Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood - Out Louder (Indirecto)
Medeski, Martin & Wood - Zaebos: The Book of Angels, Vol. 11 (Tzadik)
John Medeski / Matthew Shipp - Scotty Hard's Radical Reconstructive Surgery (Thirsty Ear)
Brad Mehldau
- House
On Hill (Nonesuch)
Myra Melford's Be Bread
- The Image of Your Body (Cryptogramophone)
Myra Melford / Tanya Kalmanovitch
- Heart Mountain (Perspicacity)
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble - Black Unstoppable (Delmark)
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble - Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia Butler (Firehouse 12)
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings - Renegades (Delmark)
Mi3 - Free Advice (Clean Feed)
The Microscopic Septet - Lobster Leaps In (Cuneiform)
Modo Trio with Jamie Saft - The Uninvited (482 Music)
Joe Morris
Quartet - Beautiful
Existence (Clean Feed)
Joe Morris Bass Quartet - High Definition (Hatology)
Joe Morris / Petr Cancura / Luther Gray - Wildlife (AUM Fidelity)
Joe Morris Quartet - Today On Earth (AUM Fidelity)
Rob Mosher's Storytime - The Tortoise (Independent)
Mostly Other People Do The Killing - Shamokin!!! (Hot Cup)
Mostly Other People Do The Killing - This Is Our Moosic (Hot Cup)
Paul Motian
Band - Garden
of Eden (ECM) Mungenast/Field/Bloom/Proudman
- No
Such Animal (Innova) David Murray Black Saint Quartet - Sacred Ground (Justin Time)
Mushroom with Eddie Gale - Joint Happening (Hyena)
Michael Musillami
- Fragile Forms (Playscape)
Michael Musillami Trio with Mark Feldman - The Treatment (Playscape)
Michael Musillami Trio + 3 - From Seeds (Playscape)
Quinsin
Nachoff - Magic
Numbers (Songlines)
Quinsin Nachoff - Horizons Ensemble (Independent)
Ted Nash
- In
The Loop (Palmetto)
Roy Nathanson
- Sotto
Voce (AUM Fidelity)
The New Mellow Edwards - Big Choantza (Skirl)
Sean Noonan
- Brewed By
Noons (Songlines)
Opsvik and Jennings
- Commuter Anthems (Rune Grammofon)
Opsvik and Jennings - A Dream I Used To Remember (Loyal Label)
Eivind Opsvik - Overseas III (Loyal Label)
Rick Parker Collective - Finding Space (WJF)
William Parker - Long Hidden: The Olmec Series (AUM Fidelity)
William Parker and Hamid Drake - Summer Snow (AUM Fidelity)
William Parker's Raining On The Moon - Corn Meal Dance (AUM Fidelity)
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune (AUM Fidelity)
William Parker Quartet - Petit Oiseau (AUM Fidelity)
Alan Pasqua - The Antisocial Club (Cryptogramophone)
John Patitucci Trio - Remembrance (Concord)
Jessica Pavone - Songs of Synastry and Solitude (Tzadik)
Mario
Pavone Sextet - Deez
to Blues (Playscape)
Mario Pavone - Trio Arc (Playscape)
Mario Pavone Double Tenor Quintet - Ancestors (Playscape)
Ben Perowsky Quartet - Esopus Opus (Skirl)
Phoenix Ensemble / Mark Lieb - Clarinet Quintets: Morton Feldman, Milton Babbitt (Innova)
Noah Preminger - Dry Bridge Road (Nowt)
Bobby Previte and the New Bump - Set The Alarm For Monday (Palmetto)
Chris
Potter - Underground
(Sunnyside) Powerhouse Sound - Oslo / Chicago: Breaks
(Atavistic)
Bobby
Previte - The
Coalition of the Willing (Ropeadope)
Dafnis Prieto Sextet - Taking the Soul for a Walk (Dafnison Music)
Sun Ra - Strange Strings (Atavistic)
Sun Ra - The Night Of The Purple Moon (Atavistic)
Sun Ra - Some Blues But Not The Kind Thats Blue (Atavistic)
Sun Ra - Secrets of the Sun (Atavistic)
Rashanim - Shalosh (Tzadik)
Rob Reddy's Gift Horse - A Hundred Jumping Devils (Reddy Music)
Rob Reddy's Small Town - The Book of the Storm (Reddy Music)
Mike Reed's Loose Assembly - Last Year's Ghost (482 Music)
Mike Reed - The Speed of Change & Proliferation (482 Music)
Mike Reed's People, Places & Things - About Us (482 Music)
Reut Regev - This is R Time (Ropeadope)
Dave Rempis
Percussion Quartet - Rip
Tear Crunch (482 Music)
Marc Ribot - Asmodeus: Book of Angels, Vol. 7 (Tzadik)
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog - Party Intellectuals (Pi)
RIDD Quartet - Fiction Avalanche (Clean Feed)
Jason Rigby - The Sage (Fresh Sound New Talent)
Max Roach & Archie Shepp - The Long March (Hatology)
Matana Roberts - The Chicago Project (Central Control)
Josh Roseman - New Constellations: Live In Vienna (Accurate Records)
Roswell Rudd / Mark Dresser - Airwalkers (Clean Feed)
George Russell Sextet - Ezz-Thetics (Riverside)
Carl Hancock
Rux - Good
Bread Alley (Thirsty Ear)
Robert Sabin - Romero (Ranula Music)
Sacks / Opsvik / Maneri / Motian - Two Miles A Day (Loyal Label)
Angelica Sanchez - Life Between (Clean Feed)
Matthias Schubert Quartet
- Trappola
(Red Toucan)
George Schuller's Circle Wide - Like Before, Somewhat After (Playscape)
Seabrook Power Plant - Seabrook Powerplant (Loyal Label)
Sex Mob
- Sexotica
(Thirsty Ear)
Avery Sharpe - Legends and Mentors (JKNM)
Brad Shepik Trio
- Places You Go
(Songlines)
Brad Shepik - Human Activity Suite (Songlines)
Matthew Shipp - Piano Vortex (Thirsty Ear)
Matthew Shipp Trio - Harmonic Disorder (Thirsty Ear)
Shot x Shot - Let Nature Square (High Two)
Shoup / Burns / Radding / Campbell - The Levitation Shuffle (Clean Feed)
Asaf Sirkis and the Inner Noise - The Song Within (SAM Productions)
Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls - Seize The Time (NAIM)
Slow Poke - At Home (Palmetto)
Dr. Lonnie
Smith - Jungle
Soul (Palmetto)
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet - Tabligh (Cuneiform)
Wadada Leo Smith / Jack DeJohnette - America (Tzadik)
Sound
In Action Trio - Gate
(Atavistic) Russ Spiegel - Chimera (Steeplechase)
Spring Heel Jack - Song and Themes (Thirsty Ear)
Ben Stapp Trio - Ecstasis (Uqbar)
Jamie
Stewardson - Jhaptal
(Fresh Sound New Talent)
Bill Stewart - Incandescence (Pirouet)
Billy
Stein - Hybrids
(Barking Hoop)
String
Trio of New York with Oliver Lake - Frozen
Ropes (Barking Hoop)
Tain and the Ebonix - Folk's Songs (Dark Key Music)
Horace Tapscott - The Dark Tree (Hatology)
Chad Taylor - Circle Down (482 Music)
John Tchicai
/ Charlie Kohlhase / Garrison Fewell - Good
Night Songs (Boxholder)
The Thirteenth Assembly - (un)sentimental (Important)
Henry Threadgill Zooid - This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi Recordings)
Tin/Bag - And Begin Again (Evander)
Charles Tolliver Big Band - With Love (Blue Note)
Charles Tolliver Big Band - Emperor March: Live at the Blue Note (Half Note)
Tortoise - Beacons Of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)
Transit - Transit
(Clean Feed)
Tyft - Smell The Difference (Skirl)
McCoy Tyner - Guitars (Half Note)
Jeremy Udden - Plainville (Fresh Sound New Talent)
Gebhard Ullmann - New Basement Research (Soul Note)
James "Blood" Ulmer - Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions (Hyena)
The Vandermark
5 - Free
Jazz Classics, Vol. 3 & 4 (Atavistic)
The Vandermark 5 - A Discontonuous Line (Atavistic)
The Vandermark 5 - Beat Reader (Atavistic)
The Vandermark 5 - Annular Gift (Not Two)
Various Artists - Healing Force: The Songs of Albert Ayler (Cuneiform)
Various Artists - Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked (Impulse!)
Cuong Vu - Vu-Tet (Artist Share)
Rob Wagner / Hamid Drake / Nobu Ozaki - Trio (Valid Records)
Torben Waldorff - Afterburn (ArtistShare)
David S. Ware Quartet - BalladWare (Thirsty Ear)
David S. Ware - Shakti (AUM Fidelity)
Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse - Cries From Tha Ghetto (Pi)
Howard Wiley - The Angola Project (H.N.I.C. Music)
Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts - The Scenic Route (Palmetto)
Ethan Winogrand - Tangled Tango (Clean Feed)
Ben Wolfe - No Strangers Here (MaxJazz)
John Zorn - From Silence To Sorcery (Tzadik)
John Zorn / Bar Kokhba Sextet - Lucifer: The Book of Angels Vol. 10 (Tzadik)
John Zorn / Masada Quintet Featuring Joe Lovano - Stolas: Book of Angels, Volume 12 (Tzadik)
John Zorn - O'o (Tzadik)
John Zorn - Femina (Tzadik)
Zu with Mats Gustafsson - How
To Raise An Ox (Atavistic)
Zu with Nobuzaku Takemura - Identification With The Enemy (Atavistic)
Zu - Carboniferous (Ipecac)
Live Review -
Joe Morris Trio at Tonic [August, 10, 2006]
Live Review -
Angelica Sanchez Quintet at The Stone [August 10, 2006] Live Review -
John Abercrombie Quartet at the Hilton Ballroom [April 15, 2007]
Multiple
Review - New Exit From Brooklyn: Chris Speed's Skirl Records
Multiple
Review - Summer
'06 Releases From Clean Feed Records
Year End List - Lucky 13: Best New Releases of 2006
Year End List - Troy Collins' Best of 2007
Year End List - Troy Collins' Best of 2008
BAGATELLEN
Brian Allen with Tony Malaby and Tom Rainey - Synapse (Braintone)
The Microscopic Septet - History of the Micros, Vols. 1 & 2 (Cuneiform)
Jason Moran - Artist In Residence (Blue Note)
ONE FINAL NOTE
Peter Apfelbaum and the Hieroglyphics Ensemble - It
Is Written (ACT)
Michaël
Attias Trio - Renku (Playscape)
Michaël
Attias - Credo (Clean Feed)
Sam Bardfeld
- Periodic
Trespasses (Fresh Sound New Talent)
Beans
- Only (Thirsty Ear)
Michael
Blake Trio - Right
Before Your Very Ears (Clean Feed)
Rob Brown
Quartet - Radiant
Pools (Rogue Art)
Taylor
Ho Bynum and SpiderMonkey Strings - Other
Stories [Three Suites] (482 Music)
James
Carter - Out
of Nowhere (Half Note)
James
Carter/Cyrus Chestnut/Reginald Veal/Ali Jackson - Gold
Sounds (Brown Brothers)
Claudia
Quintet - Semi-Formal (Cuneiform)
Dave Douglas
- Keystone (Greenleaf)
Decision
Dream - Steamroom
Variations (Red Toucan)
Zé
Eduardo/Jack Walrath Quartet - Bad
Guys (Clean Feed)
Marty
Ehrlich - News
on the Rail (Palmetto)
James
Finn - Plaza
De Toros (Clean Feed)
Erik Friedlander
- Interview,
December 2005
Ben Goldberg
- The
Door, the Hat, the Chair, the Fact (Cryptogramophone)
Vinny
Golia - Sfumato (Clean Feed)
Groundtruther
- Longitude (Thirsty Ear)
Gerry
Hemingway Quintet - Double
Blues Crossing (Between The Lines)
Andrew
Hill - Time
Lines (Blue Note)
Lindsey
Horner - Don't
Count On Glory (Cadence)
Last Exit
- Köln (Atavistic)
Steve
Lehman - Demian
As Posthuman (Pi)
Rob Mazurek
- Interview,
March 2006
John McNeil
- East
Coast Cool (Omnitone)
Joe McPhee
and John Snyder - Pieces
of Light (Atavistic)
Roscoe
Mitchell Quintet - Turn (Rogue Art)
Michael
Musillami Trio - Dachau (Playscape)
MTKJ Quartet
- Day
Of The Race (Nine Winds)
Odyssey
The Band - Back
In Time (Pi)
Eivind
Opsvik - Overseas
II (Fresh Sound New Talent)
William
Parker Quartet - Sound
Unity (AUM Fidelity)
Mike Reed
- In
The Context Of (482 Music)
Tone Collector
[Malaby/Opsvik/Davis] - Tone
Collector (Jazzaway)
Dylan
van der Schyff - The
Definition of a Toy (Songlines)
The Vandermark
5 - The
Color of Memory (Atavistic)
Zu - How
to Raise an Ox + The Way of the Animal Powers (Atavistic + Xeng)
Top
Ten of 2005 (OFN Staff Writer Lists)
JUNKMEDIA
Ben Allison
and Medicine Wheel - Buzz
(Palmetto) Scott
Amendola Band - Believe
(Cryptogramophone) Fred Anderson
and Hamid Drake - Back
Together Again (Thrill Jockey) Art Ensemble
of Chicago - Sirius
Calling (Pi Recordings) Tim Berne's
Big Satan - Souls
Saved Hear (Thirsty Ear) Steven
Bernstein - Diaspora
Hollywood (Tzadik) Blue Series
Continuum - GoodandEvil
Sessions (Thirsty Ear) Blues
Explosion - Damage
(Sanctuary) Björk
- Medulla
(Elektra) Anthony
Braxton Quartet - Four
Compositions (GTM) 2000 (Delmark) Dave Burrell's
Full-Blown Trio - Expansion
(High Two) Don Byron
- Ivey-Divey
(Blue Note) Can -
The
First Four Albums (Mute, remastered reissues) James
Carter/Cyrus Chestnut/Reginald Veal/Ali Jackson - Gold
Sounds (Brown Brothers) Nick Cave
and The Bad Seeds - B-Sides
and Rarities (Mute) Chicago
Underground Trio - Slon
(Thrill Jockey) Tom Christensen
- New
York School (Playscape) Nels Cline
and Vinny Golia - The
Entire Time (Nine Winds) Nels Cline
Singers - The
Giant Pin (Cryptogramophone) Nels Cline
- Interview,
January 2005 Alice
Coltrane - Translinear
Light (Impulse!) Contemporary
Jazz Quintet - Actions
1966-67 (Atavistic) Danger
Doom - The
Mouse and the Mask (Epitaph) Ernest
Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble - Mean
Ameen (Delmark) Dirty
Three - She
Has No Strings Apollo (Touch and Go) Dirty
Three - Cinder
(Touch and Go) DJ Spooky
and Dave Lombardo - Drums
of Death (Thirsty Ear) Dave Douglas
- Freak
In (Bluebird/RCA) Dave Douglas
- Bow
River Falls (Premonition) Mark Dresser/Denman
Maroney - Time
Changes (Cryptogramophone) Electric
Masada - 50th
Birthday Celebration (Tzadik) Ellery
Eskelin - Arcanum
Moderne (hATOLOGY) Ellery
Eskelin - Ten
(hATOLOGY) Kahil
El'Zabar and David Murray - We
Is (Delmark) Fast N'
Bulbous - Pork
Chop Blue Around The Rind (Cuneiform) Fieldwork
- Simulated
Progress (Pi Recordings) FME -
Cuts
(Okka Disk) Erik Friedlander
- Quake
(Cryptogramophone) Vinny
Golia - A
Gift For The Unusual (Nine Winds) Drew Gress
- 7
Black Butterflies (Premonition) Groundtruther
- Latitude
(Thirsty Ear) Gerry
Hemingway Quartet - Devil's
Paradise (Clean Feed) Gerry
Hemingway Quintet - Double
Blues Crossing (Between The Lines) Gerry
Hemingway Quartet - The
Whimbler (Clean Feed) Fred Hersch
- Trio
+ 2 (Palmetto) Fred Hess
Quartet - Crossed
Paths (Tapestry) Charlie
Hunter - Come
In Red Dog, This Is Tango Leader (Ropeadope) Vijay
Iyer - Reimagining
(Savoy) Russ Johnson
- Save
Big (Omnitone) Mike Ladd
& Vijay Iyer - In
What Language? (Pi Recordings) Mike Ladd
- Negrophilia
(Thirsty Ear) Mike Ladd
- Father
Divine (ROIR) John Lindberg
Quartet - Winter
Birds (Between The Lines) Fred Lonberg-Holm
Trio - Other
Valentines (Atavistic) Rudresh
Mahanthappa - Mother
Tongue (Pi Recordings) Mat Maneri
- Pentagon
(Thirsty Ear) Kalaparush
Maurice McIntyre and the Light - Morning
Song (Delmark) Medeski,
Martin and Wood - End
of the World Party [just in case] (Blue Note) Ron Miles
Quartet - Laughing
Barrel (Sterling Silver) Jason
Moran - Same
Mother (Blue Note) MTKJ Quartet
- Making
Room For Spaces (Nine Winds) Ted Nash
and Odeon - La
Espada de la Noche (Palmetto) New Salt
- New
Salt (Xeng) Opsvik
and Jennings - Floyel
Files (NCM) Greg Osby
- St.
Louis Shoes (Blue Note) Greg Osby
- Channel
III (Blue Note) Jeff Parker
- Like-Coping
(Delmark) Jeff Parker
and Scott Fields - Song
Songs Song (Delmark) Jeff Parker
- The
Relatives (Thrill Jockey) Jeff Parker
- Interview,
February 2005 William
Parker - Scrapbook
(Thirsty Ear) William
Parker - Luc's
Lantern (Thirsty Ear) William
Parker - Sound
Unity (AUM Fidelity) Bobby
Previte and Bump - Counterclockwise
(Palmetto) Quasi
- Interview,
September 2003 Rashanim
- Masada
Rock (Tzadik) Revolutionary
Ensemble - And
Now ... (Pi Recordings) Marc Ribot
- Spiritual
Unity (Pi Recordings) Rosenberg/Baker/Hatwich/Daisy
- New
Folk, New Blues (482 Music) Rova ::
Orkestrova - Electric
Ascension (Atavistic) Jenny
Scheinman - 12
Songs (Cryptogramophone) Wadada
Leo Smith - Lake
Biwa (Tzadik) Sonic
Liberation Front - Ashe
A Go-Go (High Two) Sun Ra
- Space Is The Place, DVD reissue, interview
with director & producer Sex Mob
- Dime
Grind Palace (Ropeadope) Matthew
Shipp - Equilibrium
(Thirsty Ear) Matthew
Shipp - Harmony
And Abyss (Thirsty Ear) Matthew
Shipp - Interview,
October 2004 Nancy
Sinatra - Nancy
Sinatra (Sanctuary) Sleater-Kinney
- The
Woods (Sub Pop) Chris
Speed's Yeah NO - Swell
Henry (Squealer) Spring
Heel Jack - The
Sweetness Of The Water (Thirsty Ear) John Surman
- Way
Back When (Cuneiform) Chad Taylor
Interview,
January 2004 John Tchicai,
Garrison Fewell Quintet - Big
Chief Dreaming (Soul Note) Thirsty
Ear Label
Profile, August 2003 Triptych
Myth - The
Beautiful (AUM Fidelity) Vandermark
5 - Airports
For Light (Atavistic) David
S. Ware Quartet - The
Freedom Suite (AUM Fidelity) Mike Watt
- The
Secondman's Middle Stand (Columbia) Matt Wilson
Quartet - Humidity
(Palmetto)
Matt
Wilson's Arts and Crafts - Wake
Up (To What's Happening) (Palmetto)
Yohimbe
Brothers - The
Tao of Yo (Thirsty Ear) John Zorn
- Voices
in the Wilderness (Tzadik) John Zorn
- The
Unknown Masada (Tzadik) John Zorn
- Magick
(Tzadik) John Zorn's
Masada - Sanhedrin
(Tzadik) John Zorn
- Mysterium
(Tzadik) John Zorn
/ Masada String Trio - Azazel:
Book of Angels, Vol. 2 (Tzadik)
JAZZMATAZZWayne
Shorter - Alegria
(Verve) Albert
Ayler - Music
is the Healing Force of the Universe (Impulse!) Earl Hines
- Once
Upon a Time (Impulse!) Steve
Kuhn, Gary McFarland - The
October Suite (Impulse!) Sam Rivers
- Crystals
(Impulse!) Pee Wee Russell - Ask Me Now! (Impulse!) Archie Shepp - Attica Blues (Impulse!)
CADENCE MAGAZINE
Ahmed
Abdullah - Travelling The Spaceways (Planet Arts) - April 2005, p.127
Rodrigo Amado - Teatro (European Echoes) - March 2007, p.46 Andrea
Rossi Andrea - Textmelog.blue (Splasch) - July 2006, p.127
Shan Arsenault
- The Jazz Beat Sessions (Jazzbeat) - April 2006, p.128
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City (Pi) - November 2006, p.41
Assumptions
Trio - Departures (Newmarket) - April 2005, p.109
Michael
Attias - Credo (Clean Feed) - August 2006, p.41
Derek
Bailey & Evan Parker - The London Concert (PSI) - October 2005,
p.30
Dave Ballou
- Regards (Steeplechase) - January 2006, p.116
Bandapart
- Bandapart (ILK) - September 2006, p.112
Sam Bardfeld
- Periodic Trespasses (Fresh Sound New Talent) - August 2006, p.108
Carlos
Bechegas - Open Density (Forward.Rec) - April 2005, p.116
Carlos
Bechegas/Peter Kowald- Open View (Forward.Rec) - April 2005, p.116
Gregg
Bendian - Change (Aggregate) - June 2006, p.104
Jean-Christophe
Beney - Polychromy (Effendi) - April 2005, p.46
Jerry Bergonzi - Tenor of the Times (Savant) - November 2006, p.125
Faruq
Z. Bey - Auzar (Entropy) - April 2005, p.109
Andrew
Bishop - Time and Imaginary Time (Envoi) - December 2005, p.41
Dan Blake
- The Party Suite (Daniel Blake) - September 2006, p.105
Luca Bonvini
- The Mystic Trumpet (Splasch) - July 2005, p.106
Dan Brantigan
- Becoming (Silent Medicine) - April 2006, p.111
John Wolf
Brennan - Momentum Four: Rising Fall (Leo) - May 2006, p.117
Helene
Breshand/Jean-Francois Pauvros - Sombre (Victo) - December 2005, p.43
Gai Bryant
- 2 Degrees East (GB) - June 2006, p.122
Taylor
Ho Bynum & SpiderMonkey Strings - Other Stories ... (482 Music)
- May 2006, p.127 James Carney - Green-Wood (Songlines) September 2007, p.32
Corey
Christiansen - Awakening (Mel Bay) - June 2006, p.122
Benn Clatworthy/Otmaro
Ruiz/Chris Colangelo/Jim Paxson - Live (BCM) - April 2005, p.109
Cooper-Moore
- Outtakes 1978 (Hopscotch) - May 2006, p.43
Miles
Davis - 'Round About Midnight (Columbia) - October 2005, p.29
Roberto
Demo - Sono Un Bluff (Abeat) - May 2005, p.26
Bob Dogan
- Rings (Big Foot) - June 2006, p.128
Michel
Donato - And His European Friends (Effendi) - April 2005, p.46
Michel
Doneda/Tetsu Saitoh - Spring Road (Scissors) - December 2005, p.43
Lars Duppler
- Palindrome Sextet (Jazzhaus) - December 2005, p.106
Ze Eduardo/Jack
Walrath - Bad Guys (Clean Feed) - August 2006, p.41
Harris Eisenstadt - The All Seeing Eye + Octets (Poo-bah) September 2007, p.41
Empty Cage Quartet - Hello The Damage (Pfmentum) - January 2007, p.105 Peter
Epstein/Brad Shepik/Matt Kilmer - Lingua Franca (Songlines) - April
2006, p.105
James Falzone - The Sign and the Thing Signified (Allos) - July 2007, p.132
Riccardo
Fassi - Plays the Music of Eric Dolphy (Splasch) - July 2006, p.127
Fast N'
Bulbous - Pork Chop Blue Around The Rind (Cuneiform) - May 2005, p.25
Kali Z.
Fasteau - Making Waves (Flying Note) - April 2005, p.127
Morton
Feldman Jazz Tributes (Villars Edition) - May 2005, p.25
Simon
H. Fell - Four Compositions (Red Toucan) - April 2005, p.121
Joe Fiedler
- Plays The Music of Albert Mangelsdorff (Clean Feed) - August 2006,
p.41
Fieldwork
- Simulated Progress (Pi) - November 2005, p.34
Milo Fine/Davu
Seru/Elliot Fine - Second Meeting (Elfin) - May 2006, p.117
Riccardo
Fioravanti - Bill Evans Project (Abeat) - February 2006, p.43
Dave Fox
- Dedication Suite (Umbrella) - May 2006, p.107
Satoko
Fujii - Live In Japan (MTCJ) - June 2006, p.41
Satoko
Fujii/Natsuki Tamura - In Krakow In November (Not Two) - May 2007, p.108
Jerry Granelli - The Sonic Temple (Songlines) - August 2007, p.44
Lou Grassi
- Avanti Galoppi (CIMP) - June 2005, p.127
Stephen
Gauci - Long Night Waiting (Cadence) - January 2006, p.132
Burton Greene - Signs of the Times (CIMP) - November 2006, p.123
Phillip Greenlief - Seared Circuit Incident (Evander) - November 2006, p.117
Danny Grissett - Promise (Criss Cross) - November 2006, p.133
Alfred
Gulden/Christof Thewes - Greyhound (Jazzhaus) - December 2005, p.106
Iro Haarla/Ulf
Krokfors - Penguine Beguine (TUM) - December 2005, p.114
Chico
Hamilton - Truth (Fresh Sound) - October 2005, p.29
Masashi
Harada/Mat Maneri - The Soul With Longing For Dim Hills ... (Leo) -
May 2006, p.117
Mark Helias
- Atomic Clock (Radio Legs) - September 2006, p.41
Gerry
Hemingway - The Whimbler (Clean Feed) - February 2006, p.104
Vijay
Iyer - Reimagining (Savoy) - November 2005, p.44
Guus Janssen
- Futeristche Historie (Data) - September 2006, p.120
Phillip
Johnston - Rub Me The Wrong Way (Innova) - April 2005, p.129
Juez -
Shemspeed Alt Schule (Modular Mood) - June 2005, p.42
Soren
Kjaergaard - Keys (ILK) - September 2006, p.112
Soren
Kjaergaard - Amfebia (ILK) - September 2006, p.112
Soren
Kjaergaard - Akustika (ILK) - September 2006, p.112 Hakon
Kornstad/Harvard Wiik - Eight Tunes We Like (Moserobie) - December 2005,
p.43 Hakon
Kornstad - Single Engine (Jazzland) - September 2007,
p.117
Pete La
Roca - Turkish Women At The Bath (Fresh Sound) - October 2005, p.29
Oliver Lake/Reggie Workman/Andrew Cyrille
[Trio 3] - Time Being (Intakt) - November 2006, p.123
Oliver
Maas - Invisible Change (Jazz Haus) - September 2006, p.120
George
Marsh and W.A. Mathieu - Game/No Game (Mutable) - January 2006, p.105
Adam Lane
- Music Degree Zero (CIMP) - July 2006, p.134
Nguyen
Le - Walking On The Tiger's Tail (ACT) - November 2005, p.116
London
Improv. Orch. - Responses, Reproductions & Reality (Emanem) - December
2005, p.120
Andy Lumpp
- Musica Ex Spiritu Sancto (Nabel) - April 2006, p.122
Lungau
Big Band - The Monk's Progress (LBB) - December 2005, p.114
Rudresh
Mahanthappa - Mother Tongue (Pi) - May 2005, p.126
Irvin
Mayfield - Strange Fruit (Basin Street) - December 2005, p.125
Roscoe
Mitchell & Tatsu Aoki - First Look (Southport) - June 2006, p.123
Ravish
Momin - Climbing The Banyan Tree (Clean Feed) - July 2005, p.108
Ferris
Mosby - East West (MMG) - April 2006, p.111
Francois
Moutin - Something Like Now (Nocturne) - April 2006, p.128
MRC Trio
- That Magic Thread (Romhog) - June 2005, p.113
Michael
Musillami - Dachau (Playscape) - April 2006, p.40
Ted Nash
and Odeon - La Espada de la Noche (Palmetto) - September 2005, p.104
Niacin
- Organik (Magna Carta) - June 2006, p.104
Zimbabwe
Nkenya - And The New Jazz (High Mayhem) - June 2006, p.41
Alfonso
Pais - Terranova (Clean Feed) - July 2005, p.106
Paper Hat - Nine Conversations (Rufus) - November 2006, p.133
William
Parker - Long Hidden: The Olmec Series (AUM Fidelity) - August 2006,
p.114
Mario
Pavone - Deez to Blues (Playscape) - June 2006, p.111
Claudio
Puntin - Mondo (Jazzhaus) - November 2005, p.116
Reuben
Radding - Fugitive Pieces (Pine Ear) - September 2006, p.41
Revolutionary
Ensemble - And Now ... (Pi) - April 2005, p.131
Howard Riley - Two Is One (Emanem) - November 2006, p.117
Barry
Romberg - Random Access Part 3 (Romhog) - May 2005, p.25
Kareem
Roustom - Almitra's Question (Fuller Street) - December 2005, p.114
George
Russell - The Complete Bluebird Recordings (Lonehill) - October 2005,
p.30
Paul Rutherford
- Neuph (Emanem) - October 2005, p.30
Walter
Smith III - Casually Introducing (FSNT) - September 2006, p.105
Sound
On Survival - Live (Henceforth) - January 2006, p.132
Ed Spargo
- Ed Spargo (ESJ) - April 2006, p.111
Spontaneous
Music Ensemble - A New Distance (Emanem) - December 2005, p.114
Norbert
Stein - Pata Java (Pata) - November 2005, p.116
John Stevens
- New Cool (Emanem) - October 2005, p.30
Tim Stevens
- Three Friends In Winter (Rufus) - June 2006, p.128
Hans Sturm
- Altered States of Bass (Water Street) - May 2006, p.107
Tangoseis
- Pasion / A.S. (Abeat) - May 2005, p.25
3 Sisters
- Village (Romhog) - December 2005, p.114
Caroline
Thon - Patchwork (Jazz Haus) - September 2006, p.105
Dick Titterington
- Yellow Dance (Heavywood) - January 2006, p.116
Tone Collector
- Tone Collector (Jazzaway) - April 2006, p.131
Trio Da
Paz - Somewhere (Blue Toucan) - April 2006, p.105
Birgit
Ulher/Damon Smith/Martin Blume - Sperrgut (Balance Point) - July 2006,
p.130
Gebhard Ullmann/Chris Dahlgren/Art Lande - Die Blaue Nixe (Between The Lines) - May 2007, p.47
Various
Artists -Freedom of the City 2004 (Emanem) - December 2005, p.120
Vinkeloe/Cremashi/Masaoka/Robair
- Klang.Farbe.Melodie (482 Music) - July 2005, p.132
Trevor
Watts - World Sonic (Hi 4 Head) - May 2006, p.107
WBZ Trio
- Prima Ballerina (ILK) - July 2006, p.130
Western jazz Quartet - Mayan Myths (Sea Breeze) - November 2006, p.125
Mario
Zara - Songs (Abeat) - February 2006, p.43
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