Now Playing on AccuJazz - 7/23

It's been about a month since the last one, not bad, but still enough time to amass a huge quantity of new music. And already since this update went through to our server there have been new additions that will just have to wait 'til next time to be heard. Next update will include lots of stuff from veteran Avant-Garde label ESP Disk, who so generously offers up their back catalog to radio and press entities. Look forward to ESP releases by Ornette Coleman, Paul Bley, Steve Lacy, Sun Ra, Fred Anderson and many more.

Those CD's are for next time, though. Let's focus on the here and now: these are the 62(!) CDs newly playing on the many channels of AccuJazz as of Tuesday morning, 7/21. In the spirit of inclusion-over-exclusion, I've included older releases that just made their way to AccuJazz as well as all of the new releases. The older releases (some of them almost new enough to be called new releases) are at the bottom of the post.


This update would not be possible without the help of the folks who work so hard on behalf of the artists they represent and help me enjoy my job by offering so much great music: super-publicist Matt Merewitz, of Fully Altered Media, hooked me up with a lot of great music including some Vijay Iyer discs and some much-desired CDs from Chicago-centric label 482 Music. Delmark records came through with some good stuff to beef up our upcoming Chicago Jazz Fest 2009 channel, and Nate Snell of 18th & Vine Records sent along a big package of their excellent modern straight-ahead offerings, including the new one by master drummer Louis Hayes.

There are a couple of new Franz Jackson discs thanks to the late, great saxophonist's daughter, Michelle Jewell, contacting me personally as part of her quest to make sure her dad gets his just due. Read more about him on his website if you're in the dark.

As before, I've included information about which channels the discs are playing on and I've provided links to purchase each album though Amazon. I've also given the much-coveted double star (**) to my favorite releases of the batch. I still haven't had a chance to listen to every single disc very deeply, so I'm certain that there are CDs worthy of the stars that just haven't had enough time to make their impressions on me. I've also included label info this time around.

New Releases:

Steve Kuhn - Mostly Coltrane (ECM)
Piano Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, New York

Jeremy Davenport - We'll Dance 'Til Dawn (Basin Street)
Straight Ahead, Vocal Jazz, New Orleans, Trumpet Jazz

Kevin Hays Trio - You've Got a Friend (Jazz Eyes)
Piano, New School, Modern Mainstream, New York, Composers: Monk, Composers: Bird and Diz


**Kurt Elling - Dedicated to You (Concord)**
Vocal Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Live Jazz, Chicago, Third Stream

Ralph Bowen - Dedicated (Posi-Tone)
Saxophone Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, New York

Towner Galaher - Courageous Hearts (Self-Released)
New School, Modern Mainstream, New York, Give the Drummers Some


Stanley Clarke Trio - Jazz in the Garden (Heads Up)
New School, Modern Mainstream, Covering All the Bassists, Nothin' But the Blues

Avery Sharpe - Autumn Moonlight (Jknm)
Straight Ahead, New School, Modern Mainstream, Covering all the Bassists, Nothin' but the Blues


Louis Hayes - The Time Keeper (18th and Vine)
Straight Ahead, New School, Modern Mainstream, Give the Drummers Some

Jackie Allen - Starry Night (Avant Bass)
Vocal Jazz, Live Jazz, Chicago, Third Stream

Greta Matassa - I Wanna Be Loved (Resonance)
Vocal Jazz, Modern West Coast, Women of Jazz

Lauren Sevian - Blueprint (Inner Circle)
Straight Ahead, Saxophone Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, New York, Women of Jazz

**Paul Giallorenzo - Get in to Go Out (482 Music)**
New School, Cutting Edge, Emerging Voices, Chicago, Avant-Garde Jazz


Tom Lellis - Skylark (Adventure Music)
Vocal Jazz, Modern Mainstream, Third Stream

**Vijay Iyer - Historicity (ACT Music) (not yet available for purchase)**
Piano Jazz, New School, Cutting Edge, Emerging Voices, New York


Akiko Tsuruga - Oriental Express (18th and Vine)
Straight Ahead, New School, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, New York, Organ Jazz, Groove Jazz, Women of Jazz


**The Story - The Story (Self-Released)**
New School, Cutting Edge, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, New York

**James Falzone's Klang - Tea Music (Allos Documents)**
New School, Cutting Edge, Emerging Voices, Chicago, Avant-Garde Jazz

Joe Morris - Wildlife (AUM Fidelity)
New School, New York, Avant-Garde Jazz


Kevin Tkacz Trio - It's Not What You Think (Piece of Work of Art)
New School, Cutting Edge, Emerging Voices, New York, Avant-Garde Jazz, Covering All the Bassists

**Rudder - Matorning (Nineteen-Eight Records)**
New School, Cutting Edge, New York, Jazz Fusion, Groove Jazz


Resonance Big Band - Tribute to Oscar Peterson (Resonance)
Straight Ahead, Piano Jazz, Modern Mainstream, Modern West Coast, Big Band


James Carney - Ways & Means (Songlines)
Piano Jazz, New School, Cutting Edge, Modern West Coast, Avant-Garde Jazz


Melissa Morgan - Until I Met You (Telarc)
Straight Ahead, Vocal Jazz, Emerging Voices, Modern West Coast, Women of Jazz


Sean Nowell - The Seeker (Posi-Tone)
Saxophone Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, New York

Daniel Santiago - Metropole (Adventure Music)
Guitar Jazz, New School, Cutting Edge, Modern Mainstream


**John Hebert - Byzantine Monkey (Firehouse 12)**
New School, Cutting Edge, New York, Avant-Garde Jazz, Covering All the Bassists

Bobby Selvaggio - Modern Times (Arabesque)
Saxophone Jazz, New School, Modern Jazz


Trey Wright - Thinking Out Loud (Blue Canoe)
Guitar Jazz, New School, Cutting Edge, Modern Mainstream

**Darwin Noguera - The Gardener (Chicago Sessions)**
Latin Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, Chicago


Carl Maguire's Floriculture - Sided Silver Solid (Firehouse 12)
New School, Cutting Edge, New York, Avant-Garde Jazz


Hristo Vitchev - Song for Messambria (First Orbit Sounds Music)
Latin Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, Modern West Coast


Art Pepper - Essential Standards (OJC)
Straight Ahead, Saxophone Jazz, Everybody's Boppin', Cool Jazz

Antonio Valdetaro - Leticia (Tratore Music)
Latin Jazz

Irene & Her Latin Jazz Band - A Song of You (Self-Released)
Vocal Jazz, Latin Jazz

Sunna Gunnlaugs - Songs From Iceland (Sunny Sky)
Piano Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Europe, Women of Jazz

Cai Marle-Garcia - Mr. Ears (Self-Released)
New School, Emerging Voices, Europe, Covering All the Bassists, Jazz Fusion

Nat Birchall - Akhenaten (Gondwana)
Saxophone Jazz, New School, Europe

Older Releases (But New to AccuJazz!):


**Vijay Iyer - Tragicomic (Sunny Side)**
Piano Jazz, New School, Cutting Edge, Emerging Voices, New York

Richie Cole and the Alto Madness Orchestra - Rise's Rose Garden (Jazz Excursion)
Straight Ahead, Saxophone Jazz, Everybody's Boppin', Chicago, Big Band

Reuben Wilson, Bernard Purdie and Grant Green, Jr. - Godfathers of Groove (18th and Vine)
Guitar Jazz, Modern Mainstream, Organ Jazz, Nothin' but the Blues, Groove Jazz


Mike Reed's Loose Assembly - The Speed of Change (482 Music)
New School, Cutting Edge, Emerging Voices, Chicago, Avant-Garde Jazz, Give the Drummers Some


Sonny Fortune - You and the Night and the Music (18th and Vine)
Straight Ahead, Saxophone Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream

Art Hodes - Up in Volly's Room (Delmark)
Piano Jazz, Old School, Nothin' But the Blues, Decade: '70s

**Muhal Richard Abrams - Things to Come From Those Now Gone (Delmark)**
New School, Chicago, Avant-Garde Jazz, Decade: '70s


Yves Francois - Blues for Hawk (Delmark)
Old School, Chicago, Trumpet Jazz, Nothin' But the Blues

Eric Vloeimans - Bitches and Fairy Tales (Challenge)
New School, Modern Mainstream, Europe, Trumpet Jazz

Jason Adasiewicz - Rolldown (482 Music)
New School, Emerging Voices, Chicago, Avant-Garde Jazz, Good Vibes

Eric Alexander - Mode for Mabes (Delmark)
Straight Ahead, Saxophone Jazz, Everybody's Boppin', Modern Mainstream, Chicago

Harris Eisenstadt - The Soul and Gone (482 Music)
New School, Emerging Voices, Avant-Garde Jazz


Franz Jackson - A Night at Red Arrow (Pinnacle)
Saxophone Jazz, Old School, Chicago

**Mike Reed's People, Places and Things - Proliferation (482 Music)**
New School, Cutting Edge, Emerging Voices, Chicago, Avant-Garde Jazz, Give the Drummers Some

Dave Rempis' Percussion Quartet - Hunter Gatherers (482 Music)
New School, Emerging Voices, Chicago, Avant-Garde Jazz

Fred Anderson - Timeless (Delmark)
New School, Chicago, Avant-Garde Jazz


Vijay Iyer - Reimagining (Savoy Jazz)
Piano Jazz, New School, Cutting Edge, Emerging Voices, New York


Roscoe Mitchell - In Walked Buckner (Delmark)
Chicago, Avant-Garde Jazz


Jay T. Vonada - Jammin' (Self-Released)
Straight Ahead, Emerging Voices, Trombone Jazz


Archie Shepp with Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio - Conversations (Delmark)
Saxophone Jazz, New School, Chicago

Franz Jackson - I is What I is (Pinnacle)
Saxophone Jazz, Old School, Chicago

Lin Halliday - Where or When (Delmark)
Straight Ahead, Saxophone Jazz, Chicago

Bob Seeley & Bob Baldori - Boogie Stomp! (Spirit Records)
Piano Jazz, Old School, Nothin' But the Blues


Sunna Gunnlaugs - Mindful (Sunny Sky)
Piano Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Europe, Women of Jazz