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True Story

Jean-Michel Pilc
2010-05-12
431

The Audience

Ralph Lalama
2010-03-07
203

Only Everything

David Sanborn
2010-02-05
509

Obsession

Tessa Souter
2010-01-19
200

Men of Honor

Jeremy Pelt
2010-01-13
384

Risa Negra

Arturo O'Farrill
2009-12-07
354

Uptown

Wayne Escoffery
2009-12-06
360

Endurance

Heath Brothers
2009-11-11
217

Infinito

Cyro Baptista's Banquet of the Spirits
2009-10-10
323

Two Legends of Jazz

Johnny Varro
2009-10-02
326

When the Heart Dances

Laurence Hobgood
2009-09-04
219

Disfarmer

Bill Frisell
2009-09-03
357

Remembrance

John Patitucci
2009-08-03
508

Subway Moon

Roy Nathanson
2009-06-04
295

The Bright Mississippi

Allen Toussaint
2009-05-15
504

Lobster Leaps In

Microscopic Septet
2009-04-06
251

Desire

Tierney Sutton Band
2009-03-20
226

Live 2008: 5th Annual Concert Tour

SFJAZZ Colective
2009-03-19
220

Road Shows, Vol. 1

Sonny Rollins
2009-01-23
337

The Soothsayer

Wayne Shorter
2008-12-11
537

You and the Night and the Music

Jackie Ryan
2008-11-15
293

Love, Peace and Jazz!

Al Foster Quartet
2008-11-14
470

Live At the 1994 Monterey Jazz Festival

Shirley Horn Trio
2008-10-10
352

Forked Tongue

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
2008-10-04
274

Across the Crystal Sea

Danilo Perez
2008-09-12
464

Early Trane: The John Coltrane Songbook

Various Atists
2008-09-11
345

New Blues

Third World Love
2008-09-05
215

The Private Collection

Charlie Haden
2008-06-12
212

Present Tense

James Carter
2008-06-10
190

Karibu

Lionel Loueke
2008-05-05
216

Dance Like There's No Tomorrow

John Ellis and Double-Wide
2008-05-03
229

Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary All Stars

Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival
2008-04-05
241

My Foolish Heart

Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette
2008-03-16
236

Roses

Bill McHenry
2008-01-14
224

Gifts and Givers

Jimmy Greene
2007-12-14
146

Funk Tango

Paquito D'Rivera Quntet?
2007-12-09
345

Peaceful Walking

Jimmy Owens
2007-11-07
297

Really Big!

Jimmy Heath Orchestra
2007-10-17
395

Love is What Stays

Mark Murphy
2007-10-16
258

Homecoming - Live At The Iridium

Eddie Daniels
2007-10-15
145

Live at MCG

Billy Taylor and Gerry Mulligan
2007-10-13
290

Cocktails For Two

Harry Allen and Joe Temperley
2007-09-07
180

jazz, JAZZ, jazz

Michael Wolff Trio
2007-08-04
231

You and the Night and the Music

Sonny Fortune
2007-07-16
169

Live At Birdland

Steve Kuhn Trio
2007-07-14
181

Mosaic Select 25

McCoy Tyner
2007-06-05
403

Mosaic Select 26

Bobby Hutcherson
2007-05-20
192

Spirit of the Moment

Michel Camilo
2007-05-05
151

The King and I

Ted Rosenthal
2007-04-16
149

Read more album reviews by Joel Roberts

Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years

Book Review | 2024-03-04
1

The Parisian Jazz Chronicles

Book Review | 2011-12-18
157

Sonny Rollins, Live at NJPAC

Live Review | 2011-05-25
255

Geri Allen: Solo and Quartet

Multiple Reviews | 2010-06-12
457

Hank Jones: With Oliver Jones & the Great Jazz Trio

Multiple Reviews | 2010-05-15
505

Posi-Tone Saxophones

Multiple Reviews | 2010-04-03
293

Marc Copland: Solo and Duo

Multiple Reviews | 2010-01-16
212

Chico Hamilton: Now and Then

Multiple Reviews | 2009-08-02
268

Blue Note at 70

Record Label Profile | 2009-02-14
455

Lee Morgan: Vols. 2 and 3

Multiple Reviews | 2008-04-06
164

Terell Stafford and Alvin Queen

Multiple Reviews | 2008-01-05
110

Jazz Katz: Jazz in NY

Book Review | 2007-12-08
507

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound

Book Review | 2007-11-04
448

Miles, Miles, Miles

Multiple Reviews | 2007-07-07
174

Spirituality in Jazz

Multiple Reviews | 2007-02-21
508

Jazz ABZ and Jazz

Book Review | 2006-12-09
355

With Billie

Book Review | 2006-06-13
231

The Fantastic Jimmy Smith; At the Organ, Volume 3

Multiple Reviews | 2006-05-23
401

Jim Marshall: Jazz

Book Review | 2005-12-12
282

Geoff Keezer: Wildcrafted; Peter Martin: In the P.M.

Multiple Reviews | 2005-11-06
96

Hank Jones and the Great Jazz Trio

Multiple Reviews | 2005-08-13
311

A Love Supreme and La Espada de la Noche

Multiple Reviews | 2005-06-05
134

Billie Holiday: The Sensitive & 1937-1952

Multiple Reviews | 2005-05-07
598

Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

Book Review | 2005-03-09
214

New Orleans: Then and Now

Multiple Reviews | 2005-02-04
113

Living with Jazz: A Reader

Book Review | 2005-02-02
126

Jazz Improvisation: Advice from the Masters

Book Review | 2005-01-12
318

The Sound of the Trumpet

Book Review | 2004-03-08
192

Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn

Book Review | 2004-03-08
730

Jazz Lives: 100 Portraits in Jazz

Book Review | 2004-03-08
290

Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life

Book Review | 2004-03-08
673

Seeing Jazz: Artists and Writers on Jazz

Book Review | 2004-03-08
116

Free Jazz in New York

Live Review | 2004-03-08
248

New York Love-In For Billy Higgins

Live Review | 2004-03-08
113

A Century of Jazz

Book Review | 2004-03-04
158

Good Vibes: A Life in Jazz

Book Review | 2003-10-01
152



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Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn

Book Review | 2004-03-08
730

Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life

Book Review | 2004-03-08
673

Paul Chambers: Bass on Top

Album Review | 1997-05-01
349

Jaleel Shaw: Perspective

Album Review | 2005-08-26
546

Pat Martino: Think Tank

Album Review | 2004-01-21
511

John Patitucci: Remembrance

Album Review | 2009-08-03
508

Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band: Gerry Mulligan at the Village Vanguard

Album Review | 2002-11-01
237

Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

Book Review | 2005-03-09
214

Joe Henderson: The Joe Henderson Big Band

Album Review | 1997-06-01
380

Charles Mingus: Tonight at Noon

Album Review | 2004-11-08
483

Hank Jones and the Great Jazz Trio

Multiple Reviews | 2005-08-13
311

David Sanborn: Only Everything

Album Review | 2010-02-05
509

Frank Sinatra with the Red Norvo Quintet: Live in Australia, 1959

Album Review | 1997-07-01
391

Jimmy Smith: Prayer Meetin

Album Review | 2004-07-25
223

Spirituality in Jazz

Multiple Reviews | 2007-02-21
508

Horace Silver Quintet: Six Pieces of Silver

Album Review | 1997-05-01
398

Jeremy Pelt: Men of Honor

Album Review | 2010-01-13
384

Billy Strayhorn: The Peaceful Side

Album Review | 1997-08-01
493

Ray Charles: Genius+Soul=Jazz/My Kind of Jazz

Album Review | 1997-07-01
338

Billie Holiday: The Sensitive & 1937-1952

Multiple Reviews | 2005-05-07
598

Freddy Cole: I'm Not My Brother, I'm Me

Album Review | 2004-11-13
239

McCoy Tyner: Illuminations

Album Review | 2004-10-02
584

Jimmy Heath Orchestra: Really Big!

Album Review | 2007-10-17
395

Jafar Barron: The Free-Bop Movement

Album Review | 2001-04-01
241

Jimmy McGriff: McGriff Avenue

Album Review | 2004-03-18
259

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound

Book Review | 2007-11-04
448

Jazz Improvisation: Advice from the Masters

Book Review | 2005-01-12
318

McCoy Tyner: Land of Giants

Album Review | 2003-08-25
403

Hank Jones: With Oliver Jones & the Great Jazz Trio

Multiple Reviews | 2010-05-15
505

Mark Murphy: Love is What Stays

Album Review | 2007-10-16
258

Dexter Gordon: The Squirrel

Album Review | 1997-09-01
338

Sidney Bechet: Sidney Bechet, 1938-1952

Album Review | 2005-05-04
236

Adam Makowicz and Leszek Mozdzer: Makowicz vs. Mozdzer at Carnegie Hall

Album Review | 2005-05-06
306

Blue Note at 70

Record Label Profile | 2009-02-14
455

Terence Blanchard: Bounce

Album Review | 2004-04-24
458

Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi

Album Review | 2009-05-15
504

Al Foster Quartet: Love, Peace and Jazz!

Album Review | 2008-11-14
470

Dr. Michael White: Dancing in the Sky

Album Review | 2005-01-08
257

Wayne Escoffery: Uptown

Album Review | 2009-12-06
360

The Fantastic Jimmy Smith; At the Organ, Volume 3

Multiple Reviews | 2006-05-23
401

Mark Murphy: Memories of You

Album Review | 2003-11-16
305

Vijay Iyer: Panoptic Modes

Album Review | 2001-12-01
260

Chris Anderson & Charlie Haden: None But The Lonely Heart

Album Review | 1998-07-01
453

Jimmy Owens: Peaceful Walking

Album Review | 2007-11-07
297

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