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Joel Roberts has been contirbuting to AAJ since its earliest days.

True Story

Jean-Michel Pilc

2010-05-12

431

The Audience

Ralph Lalama

2010-03-07

203

Blues on the Corner: The Music of McCoy Tyner

Peter Zak

2010-03-06

316

Only Everything

David Sanborn

2010-02-05

510

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

216

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

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

Two Tributes to Bille Holiday: Dee Dee Bridgewater and Stepanie...

Multiple Reviews | 2010-02-06

424

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

Frank London: A Night in the Old Marketplace & Gachupin

Multiple Reviews | 2008-03-07

320

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

Larry Willis: The Big Push & The Powers of Two, Vol. 2

Multiple Reviews | 2006-12-07

260

Blackout: Stefon Harris's African Tarantella and Marc Cary's...

Multiple Reviews | 2006-10-08

188

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

Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie

Book Review | 2005-10-09

378

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

Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century

Book Review | 2005-06-01

158

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

Louis Armstrong & Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz

Book Review | 2005-01-12

243

Duke Ellington: The Centennial Collection & The Jaywalker

Multiple Reviews | 2004-12-16

365

Count Basie: 100th Birthday Bash & The Count Basie Story

Multiple Reviews | 2004-12-16

385

Jelly's Blues: the Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll...

Book Review | 2004-10-02

Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela

Book Review | 2004-09-05

367

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

Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years

Book Review | 2004-03-04

308

A Century of Jazz

Book Review | 2004-03-04

158

Good Vibes: A Life in Jazz

Book Review | 2003-10-01

152

Faith in Time: the Life of Jimmy Scott By David Ritz

Book Review | 2003-02-11

481

A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album

Book Review | 2003-02-11

355

Antoine Silverman

Profile | 2001-05-10

Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn

Book Review | 2004-03-08

730

Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life

Book Review | 2004-03-08

673

Jaleel Shaw: Perspective

Album Review | 2005-08-26

546

Paul Chambers: Bass on Top

Album Review | 1997-05-01

349

Pat Martino: Think Tank

Album Review | 2004-01-21

511

Read "Gerry Mulligan at the Village Vanguard"

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

Album Review | 2002-11-01

237

John Patitucci: Remembrance

Album Review | 2009-08-03

508

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

510

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

Horace Silver Quintet: Six Pieces of Silver

Album Review | 1997-05-01

398

Spirituality in Jazz

Multiple Reviews | 2007-02-21

508

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

McCoy Tyner: Illuminations

Album Review | 2004-10-02

584

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

Album Review | 2004-11-13

239

Jimmy Heath Orchestra: Really Big!

Album Review | 2007-10-17

395

Jimmy McGriff: McGriff Avenue

Album Review | 2004-03-18

259

Jafar Barron: The Free-Bop Movement

Album Review | 2001-04-01

241

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound

Book Review | 2007-11-04

448

McCoy Tyner: Land of Giants

Album Review | 2003-08-25

403

Jazz Improvisation: Advice from the Masters

Book Review | 2005-01-12

318

Mark Murphy: Love is What Stays

Album Review | 2007-10-16

258

Dexter Gordon: The Squirrel

Album Review | 1997-09-01

338

Hank Jones: With Oliver Jones & the Great Jazz Trio

Multiple Reviews | 2010-05-15

505

Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi

Album Review | 2009-05-15

504

Duke Ellington: The Centennial Collection & The Jaywalker

Multiple Reviews | 2004-12-16

365

Read "Makowicz vs. Mozdzer at Carnegie Hall"

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

Album Review | 2005-05-06

306

Sidney Bechet: Sidney Bechet, 1938-1952

Album Review | 2005-05-04

236

Count Basie: 100th Birthday Bash & The Count Basie Story

Multiple Reviews | 2004-12-16

385

Blue Note at 70

Record Label Profile | 2009-02-14

455

Faith in Time: the Life of Jimmy Scott By David Ritz

Book Review | 2003-02-11

481

Al Foster Quartet: Love, Peace and Jazz!

Album Review | 2008-11-14

470

Terence Blanchard: Bounce

Album Review | 2004-04-24

458

Dr. Michael White: Dancing in the Sky

Album Review | 2005-01-08

257

Mark Murphy: Memories of You

Album Review | 2003-11-16

305

Wayne Escoffery: Uptown

Album Review | 2009-12-06

360

Jimmy Owens: Peaceful Walking

Album Review | 2007-11-07

297

Chris Anderson & Charlie Haden: None But The Lonely Heart

Album Review | 1998-07-01

453

Louis Armstrong & Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz

Book Review | 2005-01-12

243

Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela

Book Review | 2004-09-05

367

Vijay Iyer: Panoptic Modes

Album Review | 2001-12-01

260

The Fantastic Jimmy Smith; At the Organ, Volume 3

Multiple Reviews | 2006-05-23

401

Read "Blues on the Corner: The Music of McCoy Tyner"

Peter Zak: Blues on the Corner: The Music of McCoy Tyner

Album Review | 2010-03-06

316