 | Chronicle by Chicago Underground Trio
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $4.28 CHICAGO UNDERGROUND TRIO) "Slon" from 2004 was one of the year's best -- here's the latest from Rob Mazurek & Co. on the Chicago-based Delmark label
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 | From the River to the Ocean by Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.64 FRED ANDERSON/HAMID DRAKE -- AACM) tenor sax & percussion duets from the great Chicago musicians, in the format of Coltrane's Interstellar Space with Rashied Ali
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 | Vision Towards Essence by Muhal Richard Abrams
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $11.43 MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS -- AACM) a 60-minute live piano improvisation from the AACM founder, from the 1998 Guelph Jazz Festival in Canada
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 | Composition / Improvisation Nos. 1, 2, & 3 by Roscoe Mitchell
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $9.79 ROSCOE MITCHELL -- AACM (3 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) Recorded in 2004, this is the long-awaited Transatlantic Art Ensemble, combining members of the AEC and Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble. Congratulations to Roscoe on his new position as composition professor at Mills College!
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 | The Complete Machine Gun Sessions (1968) by Peter, Quartet Brotzmann
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $9.56 PETER BROTZMANN OCTET -- 1968 (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) new expanded version of the infamous atonal octet's assault on the Establishment, music that took to the barricades, a sonic New Left brigade
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 | The Third Quartet by John Abercrombie
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $6.89 JOHN ABERCROMBIE) third release from Abercrombie's quartet with Mark Feldman on violin, Marc Johnson on bass, and Joey Barron on drums, on ECM
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 | Look by Ralph Alessi
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $8.99 RALPH ALESSI) trumpeter & composer Alessi leads an ensemble he calls This Against That, a quartet with Drew Gress on bass, adding saxophonist Ravi Coltrane on 3 cuts
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 | Above and Beyond: An Evening in Grand Rapids
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $10.75 BILLY BANG) live quartet session from 2003 with the late Frank Lowe on tenor
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 | Return to the Emerald Beyond by Mahavishnu Project
Buy new: $24.98 / Used from: $12.00 GREGG BENDIAN/MAHAVISHNU PROJECT) the latest (2-disc) installment in Gregg Bendian's ongoing attempt to keep the Mahavishnu sound alive in the new millennium
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 | Pilgrimage by Michael Brecker
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $2.72 MICHAEL BRECKER) Michael Brecker died in January -- here is a posthumous release featuring the saxophonist along with Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny & Jack DeJohnette
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 | Fat Is Gone by Brotzmann
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $9.99 PETER BROTZMANN (NOVEMBER 13) a trio date with Brotz & Mats Gustafsson on sax and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums -- probably a recent live recording?
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 | Draw Breath by Nels Cline Singers
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.93 NELS CLINE) Nels cuts loose with his own band, no doubt happy to be able to play sideman for Wilco too
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 | Live at the Jazz Standard by Dave Douglas Quintet
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $11.49 DAVE DOUGLAS) 2-disc set of the Miles Davis-ish D.D. Quintet live
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 | Veneration by Wayne Escoffery
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.84 WAYNE ESCOFFERY) live quartet session from the young tenor sax player on Savant, with Lewis Nash on drums and Joe Locke on vibes
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 | We Are All from Somewhere Else by Exploding Star Orchestra
Buy used from: $5.57 EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA) a 2-disc concept project with an avant-big band led by Rob Mazurek, the Chicago cornet player now living in Brazil
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 | Lake Tchicai Osgood Westergaard by Oliver Lake
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $15.82 OLIVER LAKE) live quartet recording from a European tour on Oliver Lake's own label, with Lake on alto, John Tchicai on tenor, and a Scandinavian rhythm section
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 | Spirits Alike by The Leaders
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.98 THE LEADERS) Great stuff! Chico Freeman on tenor and Cecil McBee on bass with a new version of their Leaders sextet, this time with Bobby Watson replacing Arthur Blythe on alto, Eddie Henderson in for the late Lester Bowie in trumpet, and Billy Hart replacing Don Moye on drums
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 | Sacred Ground by David Murray & Black Saint Quartet
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $8.47 DAVID MURRAY) the once prolific David Murray hasn't recorded much since relocating to France several years ago -- this new quartet session with Cassandra Wilson on two tracks reciting poems by Ishmael Reed is a soundtrack project for the movie BANISHED
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 | Nublu Orchestra Conducted by Butch Morris by Butch Morris
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $1.01 NUBLU ORCHESTRA) Butch Morris applies his "conduction" technique (a system of cues for guided improvisation) to a jazz/dance music hybrid
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 | 1000 Kilometers by Oregon
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $11.19 OREGON) more great music from one of my all-time favorite groups, Oregon -- Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless and Glenn Moore, joined by a new percussionist Mark Walker
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 | Corn Meal Dance by William Parker
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.42 WILLIAM PARKER) latest set from NYC bassist Parker, with his quartet members Hamid Drake on drums, Rob Brown on alto and Lewis Barnes on trumpet, joined by Leena Conquest on vocals, singing Parker's poetry, and a new pianist
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 | Follow the Red Line - Live at the Village Vanguard by Chris Potter Underground
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $11.97 CHRIS POTTER) I'm behind the curve here, apparently Potter has really come into his own since I heard him playing bland-sounding solos with Dave Douglas's band several years ago.
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 | Back East by Joshua Redman Trio
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $5.21 JOSHUA REDMAN) double meaning to the title -- recorded "back East" in NYC, with sounds of the East (ie, India & Asia) in the music
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 | Asmodeus: The Book of Angels, Vol. 7
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $48.43 MARC RIBOT) guitarist Ribot leads a power trio in interpretations of John Zorn compositions from the Masada songbook -- on Zorn's Tzadik label, of course
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 | Torque by Brian Groder
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $3.44 SAM RIVERS/BRIAN GRODER) Sam Rivers is now in his 84th year, and he carries on with a quartet date, adding trumpeter Brian Groder to his regular sax/bass/drums trio
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 | Inner Diaspora by Ned Rothenberg's Sync
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $38.03 NED ROTHENBERG) latest from the saxophonist & composer, a quintet with his sax/bass/table trio Sync, plus violin and cello (Mark Feldman & Erik Friedlander) from Zorn's Tzadik label
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 | This Meets That by John Scofield
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $4.25 JOHN SCOFIELD) latest from Sco, with trio plus horn section
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 | With Love - Charles Tolliver Big Band by Charles Tolliver
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $2.94 CHARLES TOLLIVER) new from the trumpeter and composer on Blue Note
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 | Prezens by David Torn
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $8.69 DAVID TORN) guitarist/producer Torn with Tim Berne (sax), Craig Taborn (keyboards) and Tom Rainey (drums) on ECM after a 21-year absence
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 | Renunciation by David S. Ware
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $8.97 DAVID S. WARE) the last performance by the David S. Ware Quartet, from the 2006 Vision Festival
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 | Out of the Woods/Roots in the Sky by Oregon
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $13.00 OREGON (1977/1978) reissue of two albums Oregon released on Electra in the late 1970s, between their early Vanguard years and their later ECM years
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 | The Advocate
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $38.03 TONY OXLEY/DEREK BAILEY (1975) duets, never before released, with percussionist Tony Oxley and the late Derek Bailey on guitar, from Zorn's Tzadik label
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 | Unity by Frank Wright
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $38.01 FRANK WRIGHT (1974) reissue of the ESP recording by trombonist Frank Wright
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 | The Jewel in the Lotus by Bennie Maupin
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $12.34 BENNIE MAUPIN -- 1974) ECM reissue of the rare Maupin session as a leader, with Herbie Hancock and members of his band of the time, following the smash hit Headhunters
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 | The Complete On the Corner Sessions by Miles Davis
Buy used from: $94.13 MILES DAVIS (EARLY 1970s) for the electric Miles fanatic
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 | Whom Do You Work For? by Ornette Coleman
Buy new: $23.49 / Used from: $24.63 ORNETTE COLEMAN (1971) This is a live recording from Berlin -- a quartet with Ed Blackwell, Charlie Haden and Dewey Redman. It popped up last year with the title "Rock the Clock." This was a great period for Ornette, but I don't know about the sound quality. Why won't Impulse reissue CRISIS!, the live recording from NYU from 1969???
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 | Change by Andrew Hill
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $7.53 ANDREW HILL/SAM RIVERS (1966) This quartet set with pianist Hill and the great tenor saxophonist Rivers was lost for decades -- it was out briefly on vinyl under Sam Rivers' name in 1975 (1/2 of a 2-record set called INVOLUTION), and has until now only been available on CD as part of the Mosaic box of Andrew Hill's Blue Note recordings.
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 | Compulsion by Andrew Hill
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $5.23 ANDREW HILL (1965) Hill just died after a strong resurgence in recent years. This remastered Blue Note classic has John Gilmore on sax, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Cecil McBee on bass (Richard Davis on one number only), Joe Chambers on drums, and what makes the session unique, two percussionists.
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 | Cornell 1964
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $15.52 CHARLES MINGUS (1964) another in the Sue Mingus archival release series, a live recording of the classic 1964 sextet with Eric Dolphy
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