Jazz New Releases - January 2011

New releases and re-releases for January 2011. The best new jazz album releases this month. And some good hard bop re-releases

Some really good looking jazz new releases coming up this month. Look out for the second batch of releases in the excellent series 'Live At Smalls- Jimmy Greene, Peter Bernstein, Ari Hoenig, Ben Woolfe, Spike Wilner, Omer Avital. And new albums from Mike DiRubbo and

Jazz Albums of the Year 2011

The Top 20 best jazz albums of the past year.
Some great new music makes this one of the best years in recent times for innovative jazz.

1.           Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden - Jasmine (ECM) Review

2.          Tom Harrell - Roman Nights (HighNote) Review

3.          Charles Lloyd - Mirror (ECM) Review


4.           Bobby Hutcherson-

Chad McCullough / Michal Vanoucek - The Sky Cries

Album review. Trumpeter Chad McCullough teams up with Slovakian pianist Michal Vanoucek in a breakthrough album of innovative jazzOriginRecorded at Robert Lang Studios, Seattle WA on 23rd October 2009Release date: October 19th 2010Availability: CD, MP3 DownloadAs in last year's excellent 'Dark Wood, Dark Water', Chad McCullough teams up with saxophonist Mark Taylor – also featured on Randy

Jazz New Releases - December 2010

New releases and re-releases for December 2010. The best new jazz album releases this month. And some good hard bop re-releases

Not a great month for new jazz releases - the jazz labels put out what they were planning for the Holiday season in November. But there are some good hard bop re-releases which, if you don't know them, are a real treat. And Charlie Haden pops up with an interesting