MASTERPIECES -
*****-Wertungen für
Case Neko: The Fox Confessor Brings The Food
Diabaté Toumani/Symmetric Orchestra: Boulevard De L'Independance
Coleman Ornette: Sound Grammar
Green Bunky: Another Place
Davis Guy: Skunkmello
Jones Hank & Wess Frank: Hank And Frank

HISTORICAL
Davis Miles: The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions
Ellington Duke/Spacemen: The Cosmic Scene
Morton Jelly Roll: The Complete Library Of Congress Recordings
Parker Evan: the Topography Of The Lungs


****°-Wertungen für
Anderson Fred: Timeless
Douglas Dave: Meaning And Mystery
Gruntz George CJB: Tiger By The Tail
Jarrett Keith: Tokyo Solo (DVD)
Johnson Richard Leo: The Legend Of Vernon McAlister
Lynch Brian/Eddie Palmieri Project: Simpatico
Pavone Mario: Deez To Blues
Phish: Live At Madison Square Garden New Year's Eve 1995
Pieranunzi Enrico: Live In Paris
Smulyan Gary: Hidden Treasures
Staton Candi: His Hands
Trio Beyond: Saudades

HISTORICAL
Blakey Art: And The Jazz Messengers Live in '58 (DVD)
Farmer Art/Walton Cedar: To Duke With Love
Marsh Warne: Ne Plus Ultra
Mingus Charles: At UCLA 1965
Monk Thelonious: Thelonious Monk Live in '66 (DVD)


****-Wertungen für
Allen Geri: Timless Portraits And Dreams
Allen Harry/Cohn Joe: Hey, Look Me Over
Andrson Big Al: After Hours
Avital Omer: Asking No Permission
Baars Ab: Kinda Dukish
Blake Michael: Blake Tartare
Blake Ran: All That Is Tied
Blake Ran/Fabrik David: Indian Winter
Braff Ruby: Controlled Nonchalance At The Regattabar Vol. 2
Braxton Anthony: 20 Standards (Quartet) 2003
Brown Anthony/Orchestra: Rhapsodies
Campilongo Jim/Electric Trio: Heaven Is Creepy
Carter James/Chestnut Cyrus/Jackson Ali/Veal Reginald: Gold Sounds
Catherine Philip: Meeting Colours
Charles Ray/Basie Count: Ray Sings, Basie Swings
Cline Nels: New Monastery
Cohen, Avishai: Continuo
Cyrille Andrew/Osby Greg: Low Blue Flame
Da Fonseca Duduka: Samba Jazz in Black & White
DeJohnette Jack/Frisell Bill: The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers

*****-Wertungen für
Arnaldo Antunes/Carinhos Brown/Marisa Monte - Tribalistas
Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra - Monk's Mood
Sir Roland Hanna - Everything I Love
Dino Saluzzi - Responsorium

REISSUES
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Neil Young - On The Beach
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will The Circle Be Unbroken

****°-Wertungen für
Pablo Ablanedo Octet - Alegria
John Allred/Wycliffe Gordon - Head to Head
Kenny Barron Trio - Live At Bradley's
Bill Bruford's Earthworks - Footloose In NYC (DVD)
Jane Bunnett - Cuban Odyssey
Conference Call - Final Answer
Guy Davis - Chocolate To The Bone
Ann Dyer - When I Close My Eyes
John Ellis - Roots, Branches & Leaves
James Emery - Transformations
Sir Roland Hanna - Milano, Paris, New York: Finding John Lewis
Vijay Iyer/Mike Ladd - In What Language?
Steve Lacy/Rosewell Rudd - School Days
Joe Locke - 4 Walls Of Freedom
Joe Lovano Nonet - This Is The Day
Ted Nash - Still Evolved
Yousou N'Dour - The Rough Guide To Yousou N'Dour & Etoile De Dakar
Orchestra Baobab - Specialists In All Styles
Greg Osby - St. Louis Shoes
Alex Skolnick - Goodbye To Romance
Cecil Taylor - The Willisau Concert
Vandermark 5 - Free Jazz Classics
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra - Can I Persuade You?
Various - East Africa: Witchcraft And Ritual Music
Various - Gamelan Semar Peguingan
Various - Nubia: Escalay
Various - Zimbabwe: The Soul Of Mbira
Joe Zawinul - Faces And Places

>Bartz Gary new 01.01.08
>Bey Andy new 17.07.08
>Bona Richard
>Botti Chris
>Coltrane Ravi
>DeFrancesco Joey new 07.05.08
>Donaldson Lou
>Glasper Robert new 20.08.08
>Gonzalez Jerry
>Green Benny
>Hamilton Chico
>Hersch Fred
>Lynch Brian new 17.07.08
>Mabern Harold
>Malone Russell
>McBride Christian new 20.10.08
>Pelt Jeremy
>Patitucci John
>Rogers Adam new 12.02.08
>Rosenwinkel Kurt
>Sandke Randy
>Willis Larry

BENNY GREEN Pianist, db Dezember 2003 über
George Cables p "Bess You Is My Women now" ***** (CD Cables Plays The Music Of George Gershwin)
Cedar Walton p "Latin America" ***** (CD I)
George Shearing p/Jim Hall g "Steet Of Dreams" ***** (CD First Edition)
Roland Hanna p "Afternoon in Paris" ***** (CD Milano, Paris, New York: Finding John Lewis)
McCoy Tyner p "Blues For Fatha" ***** (CD Jazz Roots)
Teddy Wilson p "My Heart Stood Still" ***** (CD Three Little Words)
Paul Bley p "Ida Lupino" ***** (CD Play Carla Bley)                      back

JOHN PATITUCCI Bassist, db März 2004 über
Joe Farrell fl "Bass Folk Song" ***** (CD Moon Germs)
Miroslav Vitous b "Miro's Bop" ***** (CD Universal Syncopations)
Joe Zawinul keyb "East 12th Street Band" ***** (CD Faces And Places)
Steve Swallow b "Ladies Waders" ***** (CD Three Guys)
George Mraz b "Up In A Fir Tree" ***** (CD Morava)
Trio Da Paz [Matta, Lubambo, Da Fonseca] "Baden" ***** (CD Cafe)
Michael Formanek b "Emerger" ***** (CD Nature Of The Beast)             back

HAROLD MABERN Pianist, db September 2005 über
Alice Coltrane, p "Walk With Me" **** (CD Translinear Light)
Eric Reed, p "La Berthe" **** (CD E-Bop)
Geoff Keezer, p "Gollum's Song" ***** (CD Falling Up)
Brad Mehldau, p "Anything Goes" ***** (CD Anything Goes)
Denny Zeitlin, p "E.S.P." ***** (CD Slickrock)
Anthony Wonsey, p "Darn That Reality" ***** (CD Blues For Hiroshi)  back

RAVI COLTRANE Saxophonist, db November 2005 über
Gene Ammons, ts "Nature Boy" **** (CD Stranger in Town)
Michael Brecker/David Liebman/Joe Lovano, sax "A Gathering Of Spirits" *** (CD Saxophone Summit)
Anat Cohen, ts "Say it" ***° (CD Place & Time)
David Binney, as "Sintra" **** (CD Welcome To My Life)
Ralph Bowen, ts "Meltdown" ***° (CD Soul Proprietor)
Harry Connick Jr. p, Branford Marsalis ts "Brown World" *** (CD Occasion)
Fred Anderson ts/Hamid Drake dr "Leap Forward" *** (CD Back Together Again)                                       back

RUSSELL MALONE Gitarrist, db Juni 2006 über
Ted Dunbar & Kevin Eubanks g "Freid Pies" Eubanks *****, Dunbar *** (CD Project G-7: A Tribute To Wes Montgomery, Vol. 1)
Jonathan Kreisberg g "Gone With The Wind" **** (CD New For Now)
Joel Harrison g "Folsom Prison Blues" ***** (CD Free Country)
Rodney Jones g "Summertime" ** (CD Soul Manifesto Live!)
Jim Hall g, Geoff Keezer p "End The Beguine" ***** (CD Free Association)
Bill Frisell g "My Man's Gone Now" *** (CD East-West)
Calvin Newborn g "Newborn Blues" ***** (CD New Born)                                                                back

JEREMY PELT Trompeter, db Dezember 2005 über
SFJazz Collective mit Nicholas Payton tp "When Will The Blues Leave" ***** (CD SFJAZZ Collective)
Dave Douglas tp "My Old Man" ***° (CD Moving Portrait)
Clark Terry With The Chicago Jazz Orchestra "My Man's Gone Now" ***** (CD Porgy And Bess)
Robert Hurst p, Marcus Belgrave flh "Bert's Flirt" ***** /CD Robert Hurst Presents: Robert Hurst)
Wallace Roney tp "Cyberspace" ***** (CD Prototype)
Randy Sandke tp & Dick Hyman p "Thinking Of Bix" *** (CD Now And Again)
Jon Faddis tp "In Your Own Sweet Way" ****° (CD Remembrances) back

FRED HERSCH Pianist, März 2006 über
Ran Blake, p solo "Only Yesterday" *** (CD Horace is Blue. A Silver Noir)
Jason Moran p, Tarus Mateen b; Nasheet Waits dr "Fire Waltz" **** (CD Same Mother)
Vijay Iyer p solo "Imagine" ** (CD Reimagining)
Cedar Walton p solo "Sophisticated Lady" **** (CD Underground Memoirs)
Tardo Hammer p, Dennis Irwin b; Jimmy Wormworth dr "Russian Lullaby" **** (CD Tardo's Tempo)
Danilo Perez p; Ben Street b; Adam Cruz dr "Monk's Dream" ***** (CD Live At The Jazz Showcase)                 back

CHICO HAMILTON Drummer, April 06 über:
Charles Mingus "Mysterious Blues" ***** (CD The Complete Candid Recordings of Charles Mingus; 1960/89 Mosaic Records)
Baby Dodds "Spooky Drums No. 1" ***** (CD Talking And Drum Solos; Atavistic, 1946/2003)
Charles Lloyd "Heaven" ***** [Billy Higgins dr] (CD The Water Is Wide; 2000 ECM)
Chick Webb "Liza" ***** (CD Chick Webb/Ella Fitzgerald: Savoy Ambassadors; JBM 1937/1991)
Tony Williams "Crystal Palace" ***** (CD Native Heart; 1990 Blue Note)
Don Byron "I've Found A New Baby" 0* [Jack DeJohnette dr] (Ivey -Divey; 2004 Blue Note)
Roy Haynes "The Best Thing For You" ***** (CD Love Letters; 2003 Eighty-Eights)                  back

KURT ROSENWINKEL Gitarrist, Juli 2006 über
Doug Wamble, g "Antoine's Pillow Rock" **** (CD Bluestate)
Lionel Loueke, g "Hormonix" ***** (CD In A Trance)
Mark Whitfield, g "Unzipped" * (CD Soul Conversation)
Jimmy Ponder, g "Please Give Me Someone To Love" *** (CD What's New)
Pat Martino, g "13 To Go" *** (CD Stone Blue)
Russel Malone, g "Remind Me" ***** (CD Playground)
Dave Allen, g "Paradigm Shift" *** (CD Untold Stories)    

LOU DONALDSON Altsaxophonist, August 2006 über
Donald Harrison as "Third Plane" *** (CD Live At The Blue Note)
David Sanborn as "Tin Tin Deo" *** (CD Closer)
Lee Konitz/Ted Brown as/ts "317 E. 32nd St." *** (CD Dig-It)
Charles McPherson as "Blue And Boogie" ***** (CD Manhattan Nocturne)
Jim Snidero as "Prisoner Of Love" **** (CD Close Up)                            back

CHRIS BOTTI Trompeter, November 2006 über
Lee Morgan tp "Tom Cat" ***** (CD Tom Cat Blue Note 1964)
Christian Scott tp "Rewind That" **** (CD Rewind That Concord 2006)
Tim Hagans tp "Fanfare For Miles" ***°/**° for composition (CD Future Miles ACT 2002)
Steven Bernstein tp "Happy Hour Blues" *** (CD MTO Vol. 1 Sunnyside 2006)
Wynton Marsalis tp "Donna Lee" ***** (CD Live At The House Of Tribes Blue Note 2005)
Kenny Dorham tp "Lotus Blossom" **** (CD Quiet Kenny Prestige/Concord 1959)
Dave Douglas "Painter's Way" ***° (CD Meaning And Mystery Greenleaf 2006)
Wallace Roney tp "Hey Young World" ****/**° for composition (CD Mystikal HighNote 2005)                          back

LARRY WILLIS Pianist, db April 2007 über:
Gonzalo Rubalcaba p; "The Hard One" **** (CD Supernova - Blue Note 2001)
Chano Dominguez p; "No Me Platiques, Mas" **** (CD Con Alma - Venus 2004)
Denny Zeitlin "Bemsha Swing" ***** (CD Solo Voyage - MaxJazz 2005)
Marcin Wasilewski p; "Plaza Real" **** (CD Trio - ECM 2005)
Oscar Peterson p; "Sweet Lorraine" ***** (CD Freedom Song - Pablo 1982 / 2001)
Dave McKenna p; "C-Jam Blues" *** (CD Live At Maybeck Recital Hall - Concord 1990)
Jason Moran p; "Out Front" *** (CD The Bandwagon - Blue Note 2003)
Bebo Valdés p; "Lamento Cubano" ***** (CD El Arte Del Sabor - Blue Note 2001)                                              back