Six Picks

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, September 2012: Riccardo Fassi, Sitting in a Song (Alice) Jürgen Friedrich, Monosuite for String Orchestra and Improvisers (Pirouet) Fred Hersch Trio, Alive at the Vanguard (Palmetto) François Houle 5 + 1, Genera (Songlines) Hafez Modirzadeh, Post-Chromodal Out! (Pi) Arturo O’Farrill, The Noguchi Sessions (Zoho)

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, August 2012: Harris Eisenstadt, Canada Day III (Songlines) Russ Lossing, Drum Music: Music of Paul Motian (Sunnyside) Giacomo Merega/Noah Kaplan/Marco Cappelli, Watch the Walls Instead (Underwolf) Mike Reed’s People, Places & Things, Clean on the Corner (482 Music) Luciana Souza, Duos III (Sunnyside) Ryan Truesdell, Centennial:

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My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, July 2012: Bill Carrothers, Family Life (Pirouet) Darius Jones, Book of Mae’bul: Another Kind of Sunrise (Aum Fidelity) Branford Marsalis Quartet, Four MF’s Playing Tunes (Marsalis Music) Bob Mintzer Big Band, For the Moment (MCG) Aruán Ortiz, Santiarican Blues Suite (Sunnyside) Jesse Stacken, Bagatelles for Trio

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My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, June 2012: Chick Corea, The Continents (Deutsche Grammophon) Linda Oh, Initial Here (Greenleaf) Eivind Opsvik, Overseas IV (Loyal Label) Ulysses Owens Jr., Unanimous (Criss Cross) Phronesis, Walking Dark (Edition) Larry Willis, This Time the Dream’s On Me (HighNote)

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, May 2012: Andy Clausen, The Wishbone Suite (Table & Chairs) Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up, The Air Is Different (482 Music) Steve Lehman, Dialect Fluorescent (Pi) Eric Reed, The Baddest Monk (Savant) Tom Tallitsch, Heads Or Tales (Posi-Tone) Yosvany Terry, Today’s Opinion (Criss Cross)

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, April 2012: Josh Ginsburg, Zembla Variations (BJU) Billy Hart, All Our Reasons (ECM) Brad Mehldau Trio, Ode (Nonesuch) Michael Musillami Trio + 4, Mettle (Playscape) Gregory Porter, Be Good (Motéma) Ben Wendel, Frame (Sunnyside)

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, March 2012: Juhani Aaltonen & Heikki Sarmanto, Conversations (TUM) David Berkman, Self-Portrait (Red Piano) Tim Berne, Snakeoil (ECM) Hans Glawischnig, Jahira (Sunnyside) Luis Perdomo, Universal Mind (RKM) Tom Warrington Trio, Nelson (Jazz Compass)

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, February 2012: Jason Adasiewicz’s Sun Rooms, Spacer (Delmark) David Budway, A New Kiss (MaxJazz) Benoît Delbecq & François Houle, Because She Hoped (Songlines) Guilhem Flouzat, One Way… (ind.) Tineke Postma, The Dawn of Light (Challenge) Matt Wilson’s Arts & Crafts, An Attitude for Gratitude (Palmetto)