the week on disc

In case you missed the last one… Chuck Owen & The Jazz Surge, The Comet’s Tail: Performing the Compositions of Michael Brecker (MAMA Records) Joris Teepe Big Band, We Take No Prisoners (Challenge) Digital Primitives, Hum Crackle & Pop (Hopscotch) Steve Davis, Eloquence (Jazz Legacy) Dafnis Prieto, Si O Si Quartet: Live at Jazz Standard NYC (Dafnison) Keith Jarrett, Testament

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In case you missed the last one… Danny Grissett, Form (Criss Cross) Jason Marsalis, Music Update (Elm) Luis Bonilla, I Talking Now! (Planet Arts) Fernando Benadon, Intuitivo (Innova) Yaron Herman Trio, Muse (Sunnyside) John Beasley, Positootly! (Resonance)

In case you missed the last one… Rez Abassi, Things to Come (Sunnyside) Heath Brothers, Endurance (Jazz Legacy) Dave Rivello Ensemble, Facing the Mirror (Allora) Pluto Junkyard, Lucky 7s (Clean Feed) Mika Pohjola, Northern Sunrise (Blue Music Group) Tom Abbs & Frequency Response, Lost & Found (Engine)

In case you missed the last one… Stefon Harris and Blackout, Urbanus (Concord) Brad Dutz Quartet, Whimsical Excursion Boats (ind.) Fat Cat Big Band, Face (Smalls Records) Joshua Breakstone Trio, No One New (Capri) James Carney Group, Ways & Means (Songlines) Andy Sheppard, Movements in Colour (ECM)

In case you missed the last one… Southern Excursion Quartet, Trading Post (ARC) Terence Blanchard Group, Choices (Concord) Oran Etkin, Kelenia (Motéma) Sean Nowell, The Seeker (Posi-Tone) Eldar, Virtue (Sony) Roy Hargrove Big Band, Emergence (Groovin’ High/Emarcy)

In case you missed the last one… Paul Meyers, World on a String (Miles High Records) Andrew Rathbun, Where We Are Now (SteepleChase) Edmar Castaneda, Entre Cuerdas (ArtistShare) Donny McCaslin, Declaration (Sunnyside) Pete McCann, Extra Mile (Nineteen-Eight) Steve Swell, Planet Dream (Clean Feed)

In case you missed the last one… Dave Holland/Chris Potter/Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Eric Harland, The Monterey Quartet: Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF Records) Baptiste Trotignon, Share (Sunnyside) Christian McBride and Inside Straight, Kind of Brown (Mack Avenue) Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, The Moment’s Energy (ECM) Laurent Coq, Eight Fragments of Summer (88 Trees) Opsvik & Jennings, A Dream I

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In case you missed the last one… Chris Potter Underground, Ultrahang (ArtistShare) Miroslav Vitous Group with Michel Portal, Remembering Weather Report (ECM) John Hebert, Byzantine Monkey (Firehouse 12) Sebastiaan Cornelissen, U-Turn (Abstract Logix) Jacám Manricks, Labryinth (Manricks Music) Matt Wilson Quartet, That’s Gonna Leave a Mark (Palmetto)