Label: Original Jazz Classics
Released: 2011
Track listing: Abide With Me; Well, You Needn't; Ruby, My Dear; Off Minor (take 5); Epistrophy; Crepuscle With Nellie (take 6); Off Minor (take 4); Crepuscle With Nellie (takes 4/5); Blues For Tomorrow.

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The Definitive Thelonious Monk on Prestige and Riverside

By Thelonious Monk

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2011
Track listing: CD1: Bye-Ya; We See; Blue Monk; I Want to Be Happy; Bemsha Swing; Caravan; Tea For Two; Pannonica; Brilliant Corners; 'Round Midnight. CD2: Well, You Needn't; Off Minor (Take 5); Epistrophy; Trinkle, Tinkle; Rhythm-a-ning; Evidence; Nutty; Little Rootie Tootie; Straight, No Chaser; Ruby, My Dear; Four in One (Take 2).

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The Eric Ineke Jazzxpress: Jazz XL

by Greg Simmons
December 30, 2011

Straight-ahead and alternatively swinging and blue, The Eric Ineke Jazzxpress' Jazz XL delivers a terrific performance through first-rate material treated with energetic, loving respect. Some of jazz's great composers are represented, with performances of material by Xavier Cugat, Johnny Griffin, and the ubiquitous Thelonious Monk, showing admiration for the tunes, overlain with top-notch individual performances. Culled ...

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John Surman: The Rainbow Band Sessions

Read "The Rainbow Band Sessions" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
December 27, 2011

It's been nearly two decades since British saxophonist/clarinetist John Surman last did a large ensemble disc, with the exception of Free and Equal (ECM, 2003), which teamed the duo of Surman and drummer/pianist Jack DeJohnette with the London Brass ensemble. But the last time Surman did a swinging session beyond a quartet was The Brass Project ...

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Norm Zocher: Cambridge, MA, December 6, 2011

by Andrew J. Sammut
December 23, 2011

Norm Zocher Outpost 186 Cambridge, MA December 6, 2011 Norm Zocher is well known for his guitar work on Boston's forward-thinking jazz scene, as well as gigs with Maria Schneider, Steve Lacy, Bob Brookmeyer, Esperanza Spalding and local mainstay the Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra, all between teaching at ...

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Penang Island Jazz Festival: Penang, Malaysia, Dec 1-4, 2011

by Ian Patterson
December 21, 2011

8th Penang Island Jazz FestivalPenang, MalaysiaDecember 1-4, 2011 For small, independent jazz festivals heavily reliant on private sector sponsorship, it can be a jungle out there. In the case of the Penang Island Jazz Festival, sandwiched between the Straits of Malacca and tropical forest, this is literally true. Monkeys, civet and leopard ...