Now Playing on AccuJazz - 3/22/10

So, there were about 5 months between the last two Now Playing posts. I'm committed to staying more on top of it now and I have some fantastic new releases to let you know about as well as some older music that I've just added to the collection.

Also, I hope to introduce a new AccuJazz channel playing my favorite new releases. It will be a "Staff Picks" sort of thing, and I'm planning on writing brief reviews of each CD I add to the list. I floated the idea on FB and Twitter and everyone seemed to be into it. Watch out for it! Artists who send me your stuff: promise not to be sad if you're not on my channel, K?

I've broken up this post into two sections: first New Releases, then older stuff that I added recently. Included are links to purchase the CDs on Amazon as well as info about which AccuJazz channels are playing each CD. All New Releases are playing on the New Releases channel and, most likely, the Main Channel. The double star means I like it a lot.

New Releases:

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

**Gerald Clayton - Two-Shade (Emarcy/ArtistShare)**
Piano Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, New York

Garaj Mahal - More Mr. Nice Guy (Owl Studios)
Guitar Jazz, New School, Chicago, Jazz Fusion, Groove Jazz

**Ted Sirota - Seize the Time (NAIM)**
New School, Modern Mainstream, Chicago, Give the Drummers Some, Groove Jazz

Gabriel Johnson - Fra_ctured (Electrofone Music)
Cutting Edge, Emerging Voices, Modern West Coast, Trumpet Jazz, Jazz Fusion

Billy Cobham - Palindrome (Rhythmatix Ltd.)
Give the Drummers Some, Jazz Fusion, Groove Jazz

**Colorlist - A Square White Lie (482 Music)**
New School, Cutting Edge, Emerging Voices, Chicago, Avant-Garde Jazz

Demi-Seq - By Nature (Squint Records)
New School, Modern Mainstream, Europe

**Empty Cage Quartet & Soletti Besnard - Take Care of Floating (Rude Awakening)**
New School, Cutting Edge, Modern West Coast, Europe, Avant-Garde Jazz

**Empty Cage Quartet - Gravity (Clean Feed Records)**
New School, Cutting Edge, Modern West Coast, Avant-Garde Jazz

Jerry Leake - Cubist (Self-Released)
New School, Good Vibes, Give the Drummers Some, Jazz Fusion

Peter Madsen - The Litchfield Suite (Playscape Recordings)
Piano Jazz, New School, Live Jazz, New York

Mark O'Connor - Jam Session (OMAC Records)
Old School

Univers Zero - Clivages (Cuneiform)
Cutting Edge, Europe, Third Stream

Older Releases:

Paul Bley - Memoirs (1990, Soul Note)
Piano Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Avant-Garde Jazz

Paul Bley - My Standard (1985, Steeplechase)
Piano Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Nothin' But the Blues

Paul Bley - Not Two, Not One (1999, ECM)
Piano Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Avant-Garde Jazz

The Pantastic 4 - Lornabarret (2007, Upbeat Music Publications)
Latin Jazz, New School, Chicago, Good Vibes, Give the Drummers Some

Cedar Walton - The Promise Land (2001, High Note)
Straight Ahead, Piano Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream

Ari Erev - About Time (2008, Self-Released)
Piano Jazz, Modern Mainstream, Europe

Now Playing, Part 2 of 2

As part 2 of this week's 2 "Now Playing" posts (part 1 here), these are the dozens of CDs that started playing on AccuJazz in 2010 so far. Again, most are new, so you can catch them on the New Releases Channel, and many are featured on the Main Channel as well. As always, the album title is a link to purchase the disc, and I've honored my personal favorites with the double asterisk.

**Pat Metheny - Orchestrion (Nonesuch)**
Guitar Jazz, New School, Cutting Edge, Jazz Fusion, Third Stream

**Ahmad Jamal - A Quiet Time (Dreyfus)**
Piano Jazz, Modern Mainstream

**Christian Scott - Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (Concord Jazz)**
New School, Cutting Edge, Emerging Voices, New Orleans, Trumpet Jazz, Pop Composers

**Myra Melford - The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12)**
New School, Cutting Edge, Chicago, Modern West Coast, Women of Jazz

John Stein - Raising the Roof (Whaling City Sound)
Straight Ahead, Guitar Jazz, Modern Mainstream

**Mike Reed - Stories and Negotiations (482 Music)**
New School, Modern Mainstream, Live Jazz, Emerging Voices, Chicago, Give the Drummers Some

**Nels Cline Singers - Initiate (Crytogramophone)**
Guitar Jazz, New School, Cutting Edge, Live Jazz, Modern West Coast, Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Groove Jazz

Matthew Shipp - 4D (Thirsty Ear)
Piano Jazz, New School, New York, Avant-Garde Jazz

David S. Ware - Saturnian (AUM Fidelity)
Avant-Garde Jazz

**Dave Rempis and Frank Rosaly - Cyrillic (482 Music)**
New School, Emerging Voices, Chicago, Avant-Garde Jazz, Give the Drummers Some

Annie Sellick - Street of Dreams (Chalice Music)
Vocal Jazz, Women of Jazz

**Allison Miller - Boom Tic Boom (Foxhaven Records)**
New School, Modern Mainstream, New York, Avant-Garde Jazz, Give the Drummers Some, Women of Jazz

**Gary Lucas and Dean Bowman - Chase the Devil (Knitting Factory)**
Vocal Jazz, New School, Cutting Edge

Steve Raegele - Last Century (Songlines)
Cutting Edge, Avant-Garde Jazz

Jay D'Amico - Nocturne: Jazz Under Glass (CAP)
Piano Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Third Stream

Gail Pettis - Here In the Moment (OA2)
Jazz Vocals, Modern West Coast, Mellow Jazz, Women of Jazz

**Jeb Patton - New Strides (MaxJazz)**
Straight Ahead, Piano Jazz, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, New York

**Eri Yamamoto - In Each Day, Something Good (AUM Fidelity)**
Piano Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, New York, Women of Jazz

VW Brothers - Muziek (Patois Records)
Latin Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Modern West Coast, Covering All the Bassists, Give the Drummers Some, Jazz Fusion

Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore - Three Less Than Between (Clean Feed)
New School, Chicago, Emerging Voices, Avant-Garde Jazz

**Matthew Shipp - Harmonic Disorder (Thirsty Ear)**
New School, Cutting Edge, New York, Avant-Garde Jazz

Marc Pompe - Hi-Fly (Self-Released)
Vocal Jazz, Chicago

New Haven Improvisers Collective - Inflection (NHIC)
New School, Cutting Edge, Avant-Garde Jazz

Pat Mallinger with Dan Trudell - Dragon Fish (Chicago Sessions)
Saxophone Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Chicago

Chris Kelsey - Not Cool {As In, "The Opposite of Paul Desmond"} (Tzazz Krytyk)
Avant-Garde Jazz

Whitney James - The Nature of Love (Damselfly Productions & Stir Stick Music)
Vocal Jazz, Modern Mainstream, Women of Jazz

Dewey Jackson - Live at the Barrell, 1952 (Delmark)
Old School

Chris Greene Quartet - Merge (Single Malt Recordings)
Saxophone Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Chicago, Groove Jazz

Tony Foster - In Between Moods (Indie)
Piano Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices

Jon Crowley - Connections (Self-Released)
New School, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, New York, Trumpet Jazz

Babik - American Gypsy (Self-Released)
Guitar Jazz, Old School

Mads Tolling - The Playmaker (Madsman Records)
New School, Emerging Voices, Modern West Coast, Pop Composers, Jazz Fusion

Salsamba Latin Jazz Group - Mojito Blues (Clave)
Latin Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Groove Jazz

Buckley Mills - Violin on Fire (Chacra Music)
Straight Ahead, Composers: Ellington

Bebel Gilberto - All in One (Verve)
Vocal Jazz, Brazilian Jazz, Women of Jazz

Fred Fried - Core 3.0 (Ballet Tree)
Guitar Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream

Laura Klein and Ted Wolff - Cerulean Blue (Self-Released)
Piano Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Modern West Coast, Good Vibes

Suresh Singaratnam - Lost in New York (Self-Released)
New School, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, New York, Trumpet Jazz

Kenny Davis - Kenny Davis (Daken)
New School, Modern Mainstream, New York, Covering All the Bassists

**Steve Colson - The Untarnished Dream (Silver Sphinx)**
Piano Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Chicago, Avant-Garde Jazz

Antonio Ciacca - Lagos Blues (Motema Music)
Piano Jazz, Modern Mainstream

**Greg Burk - Many Worlds (482 Music)**
New School, Avant-Garde Jazz

Project Trio - Project Trio (Harmonyville Records)
New School, Cutting Edge, New York, Pop Composers

Anita Wardell - Noted (Specific Jazz)
Vocal Jazz, Europe, Nothin' But the Blues, Women of Jazz

Monica Ramey - Make Someone Happy (Cognito Music)
Vocal Jazz, Women of Jazz

Diana Panton - Pink (Self-Released)
Vocal Jazz, Emerging Voices, Mellow Jazz, Women of Jazz

Nancy Harms - In the Indigo (Self-Released)
Vocal Jazz, Emerging Voices, Mellow Jazz, Women of Jazz

Antoinette Montague - Behind the Smile (In the Groove)
Vocal Jazz, Pop Composers, Women of Jazz

**Rob Clearfield - A Thousand Words (Self-Released)**
Piano Jazz, New School, Emerging Voices, Chicago

Anita Wardell - Kinda Blue (Specific Jazz)
Vocal Jazz, Modern Mainstream, Europe

Charlie Apicella & Iron City - Sparks (CArlo Music Records)
Guitar Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, New York, Organ Jazz, Groove Jazz

Johnny Butler - Solo (Hi4Head / Modern Vintage Recordings)
Cutting Edge, Emerging Voices, New York

Greg Spero - Radio Over Miles (Self-Released)
New School, Live Jazz, Emerging Voices, Chicago, Jazz Fusion, Pop Composers, Groove Jazz

Sarah Marie Young - Expressive (Self-Released)
Vocal Jazz, Emerging Voices, Chicago

Tim Green - Catching Yourself Gracefully (OA2)
Piano Jazz, Modern Mainstream, Chicago

Tim Green - Jeannie's Song (OA2)
Straight Ahead, Piano Jazz, Guitar Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Chicago

**SFJazz Collective - SFJazz Collective (Nonesuch)**
New School, Modern Mainstream, SFJazz 2010

BMR4 - Turning Point (Hallway Records)
Straight Ahead, Guitar Jazz, Modern Mainstream, Chicago

Jimmy Bennington - The Spirits at Belle's (Cadence Jazz)
Avant-Garde Jazz

Steven Schoenberg - An Improvisational Journey (Quabbin Records)
Piano Jazz, Live Jazz

Queen Esther - What is Love? (EL Recordings)
Vocal Jazz, Women of Jazz

Thomas Lorenzo - Spanish Breeze (Barcelona Music)
Guitar Jazz, Jazz Fusion

Joel Moore Quartet - Joel Moore Quartet (Self-Released)
Saxophone Jazz, Modern Mainstream, Chicago

GMG Trio - GMG (Phuture Trax)
New School, Emerging Voices, Chicago, Organ Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Groove Jazz

Shawn Maxwell - Maxwell's House (Chicago Sessions)
Chicago

The Twin Cats - Thick (OWL Studios)
Jazz Fusion, Groove Jazz

Kat Walker - Jazz Skat Gumbo (Self-Released)
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2010

The Subdudes - Street Symphony (Back Porch)
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2010

Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer - The Melody of Rhythm (Koch Records)
SFJazz 2010

Now Playing, Part 1 of 2

Caught up in Holiday-themed promotions, month-long jazz celebrations, and learning a little bit about HTML, I haven't posted a "Now Playing" post in quite a while. In fact, I posted the last one on October 30. For shame.

In the time since, dozens and dozens of new CDs have started playing on AccuJazz, so I'll do my best to list them in a two-part post. Part 1 lists CDs added in the tail end of 2009. The second part will have all the CDs added in the new year.

Most of these CDs are new releases, with a few exceptions. Some of them were purchased for specific channels: the Jobim composers channel, the Grammy channel, and Best of '09. Most of the releases are currently featured on the main channel, and you'll also find a list of the other channels on which you're most likely to hear them. As always, I've adorned my personal faves with the coveted double-asterisk (**).

Enjoy perusing, and be sure to listen to the New Releases channel to hear the music.

**Miguel Zenon - Esta Plena (Marsalis Music)**
Saxophone Jazz, Latin Jazz, New School, Cutting Edge, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, Best of '09, 2010 Jazz Grammy Nominations

**Ben Allison - Think Free (Palmetto)**
New School, Cutting Edge, New York, Best of '09, Covering all the Bassists, Jazz Fusion, Groove Jazz

**John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble - Eternal Interlude (Sunnyside)**
New School, Cutting Edge, New York, Best of '09, 2010 Jazz Grammy Nominations

**Kurt Rosenwinkel - Reflections (WOMmusic)**
Guitar Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, New York, Best of '09, Monk

**Dana Hall - Into the Light (Origin)**
New School, Modern Mainstream, Chicago, Give the Drummers Some

Joe Zawinul - 75 (Heads Up)
Live Jazz, Jazz Fusion, 2010 Jazz Grammy Nominations

**Dave Douglas - A Single Sky (Greenleaf Music)**
New School, Modern Mainstream, Big Band, Best of '09, Trumpet Jazz

Wadada Leo Smith - Spiritual Dimensions (Cuneiform)
New School, Cutting Edge, Trumpet Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz

**Jason Adasiewicz 's Rolldown - Varmint (Cuneiform)**
New School, Cutting Edge, Emerging Voices, Chicago, Avant-Garde Jazz, Best of '09, Good Vibes

Nellie McKay - Normal as Blueberry Pie (Verve)
Vocal Jazz, Emerging Voices, Women of Jazz

**Fred Hersch - Plays Jobim (Sunnyside)**
Piano Jazz, Brazilian Jazz, Modern Mainstream, Best of '09, Jobim, Mellow Jazz

Cyrus Chestnut - Spirit (JLP)
Piano Jazz

New Orleans Jazz Orchestra with Irvin Mayfield - Book One (World Village)
Modern Mainstream, Big Band, New Orleans, 2010 Jazz Grammy Nominations

Bill Dixon - Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12)
New School, Avant-Garde Jazz, Best of '09

Heath Brothers - Endurance (JLP)
Straight Ahead, Saxophone Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream

**Kat Edmonson - Take to the Sky (Convivium)**
Vocal Jazz, New School, Emerging Voices, Best of '09, Pop Composers, Women of Jazz

Steve Davis - Eloquence (JLP)
Straight Ahead, Modern Mainstream, Trombone Jazz

Myron Walden - Momentum (Demi Sound)
Saxophone Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, New York

The Bob Florence Limited Edition - Legendary (Mama)
New School, Modern Mainstream, Big Band, 2010 Jazz Grammy Nominations

**Zevious - After the Air Raid (Cuneiform)**
New School, Cutting Edge, New York, Jazz Fusion

Kalil Wilson - Easy to Love (Self-Released)
Vocal Jazz, Emerging Voices, Modern West Coast

Hristo Vitchev and Weber Iago - The Secrets of an Angel (First Orbit Sounds Music)
Piano Jazz, Guitar Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Modern West Coast

**Lennie Tristano - The New Tristano (Atlantic)**
Piano Jazz, Everybody's Boppin'

Trio This That - Trio This That (GM Recordings)
Piano Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream

The New 5 - Introducing the New 5 (Blue Canoe)
New School, Modern Mainstream

**Stefania Tallini - Maresia (Alfamusic)**
Piano Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Europe, Women of Jazz

Vince Seneri - Prince's Groove (Prince V Records)
Straight Ahead, Modern Mainstream, Organ Jazz, Groove Jazz

David Mackenzie and Josh Johnston - Notes Home (Shandon Records)
Old School, Europe

Mike Longo - Sting Like a Bee (CAP)
Straight Ahead, Piano Jazz, Modern Mainstream

Jake Langley - Here and Now (Tone Poet Productions)
Straight Ahead, Guitar Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, New York, Organ Jazz, Pop Composers

Ergo - Multitude, Solitude (Cuneiform)
New School, Cutting Edge, Emerging Voices, New York, Avant-Garde Jazz, Trombone Jazz

**John Coltrane - Side Steps (Prestige)**
Straight Ahead, Saxophone Jazz, Everybody's Boppin', Nothin' but the Blues, '50s

Amy Cervini - Lovefool (Anzic)
Vocal Jazz, New School, Emerging Voices, New York, Pop Composers, Women of Jazz

Peter Cardarelli - Knights of the Living Groove (Musica Tyrnaviensis)
Saxophone Jazz, Groove Jazz, Europe

Frank Sinatra - Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (Warner)
Vocal Jazz, Brazilian Jazz, Jobim, Mellow Jazz, Third Stream

Joe Henderson - Double Rainbow (Polygram)
Saxophone Jazz, Brazilian Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Jobim, '90s

Jeff Lofton - Jazz to the People (Self-Released)
Modern Mainstream, Trumpet Jazz

Steve Hudson's Outer Bridge Ensemble - Seamless (Groovaholic Music)
New School, Modern Mainstream, New York

Brigitte Zarie - Make Room for Me (Self-Released)
Vocal Jazz

Ben Sidran - Dylan Different (Nardis)
New School, Pop Composers

Jacques Schwarz-Bart - Abyss (Obliqsound)
Saxophone Jazz, New School, Cutting Edge, New York

Iris Ornig - New Ground (Gema)
New School, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, New York, Covering all the Bassists, Women of Jazz

Haftor Medboe Group - A Box of Monkeys (Fabrikant Records)
Europe, Jazz Fusion

David Berger Jazz Orchestra - Sing Me a Love Song (Such Sweet Thunder)
Straight Ahead, Vocal Jazz, Old School, Big Band

Sharel Cassity - Relentless (JLP)
Saxophone Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, Best of '09, Women of Jazz

**Maria Schneider - Sky Blue (ArtistShare)**
New School, Modern Mainstream, Big Band, Women of Jazz

Bebo Valdes & Chucho Valdes - Juntos Para Siempre (Ariola Germany)
Piano Jazz, Latin Jazz, 2010 Jazz Grammy Nominations

Tierney Sutton Band - Desire (Telarc)
Vocal Jazz, Modern Mainstream, Modern West Coast, 2010 Jazz Grammy Nominations

Mike Stern - Big Neighborhood (Heads Up)
Guitar Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Jazz Fusion, 2010 Jazz Grammy Nominations

**Martial Solal - Live at the Village Vanguard (Camjazz)**
Piano Jazz, 2010 Jazz Grammy Nominations

Philippe Saisse - At World's Edge (Koch Records)
2010 Jazz Grammy Nominations

Sammy Nestico - Fun Time (Hanssler Classics)
Big Band, 2010 Jazz Grammy Nominations

Chembo Corniel - Things I Wanted to Do (Chembororecords, Inc.)
Latin Jazz, Modern Mainstream, 2010 Jazz Grammy Nominations