LA Jazz Scene








May 2013
Miles Davis Quintet
Live In Europe 1969 - Columbia/Legacy
Lalo Schifrin
My Life In Music - Aleph
New York Art Quartet
Call It Art - Triple Point
Bunny Berigan
Birth Of A Band - Mr. Music
Stan Kenton
East Coast Encores - Mr. Music

April 2013
The Speakeasy Quartet
The Speakeasy Quartet - WJS
Eric Person
Triokinesis - Distinction
Thoughts On God - Distinction
Jimmy Lytell
The Complete Pathe Recordings - Jazz Oracle
Various Artists
Americans In Europe - Jazz Oracle
Maurice Gainen
Global Jazzatronics - Empyrean Music
Mark Masters
Ellington Saxophone Encounters - Capri
Hiromi
Move - Telarc
Mark Weinstein
Todo Corazon - Jazz Heads
Charles Lloyd/Jason Moran
Hagar's Song - ECM

March 2013
Chet Baker
The Sesjun Radio Shows - Out Of The Blue
Dizzy Gillespie
The Sesjun Radio Shows - Out Of The Blue
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
The Sesjun Radio Shows - Out Of The Blue
Barbara Rosene
Nice And Naughty - Stomp Off
Maria Jacobs
Art Of The Duo - self-produced
Jackie Ryan
Listen Here - Open Art
Amanda Castro
Songbird - self-produced
Chick Corea & Gary Burton
Hot House - Concord
Brian Holland & Danny Coots
Two Man Job - Rivermont
Butch Thompson & Pat Donohue
Vicksburg Blues - Red House
London Jazz Quartet
London Jazz Quartet - Fantastic Voyage
Tony Crombie
Whole Lotta Tony - Fantastic Voyage
Ronnie Ross
Stompin' With The Ronnie Ross Quintet - Fantastic
Voyage
Champian Fulton
Champian Sings And Swings - Sharp Nine
Michael Stephans
Open Spance - Lunazure
Benny Green
Magic Beans - Sunnyside
Johnny Wiggs & Raymond Burke
Wiggs-Burke Big 4 - American Music

February 2013
Benny Goodman
Vols. 9-13 - Sounds Of Yesteryear
John Wasson's Cool Brass Jazztet
The New Cool - John Wasson Music
Jo Ann Greer
Hollywood's Secret Singing Star - Jasmine
Earl Hines
Classic Sessions, 1928-1945 - Mosaic
Charles Mingus
Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65 - Mosaic
John diMartino/Warren Vache
Impromptu - Kilimanjaro Disques
Toots Thielemans
Yesterday & Today - Out Of The Blue
90 Years - Challenge
Frank Westphal Orchestra
Oh Sister, Ain't That Hot? - Rivermont
Irving Aaronson and his Commanders
Let's Misbehave - Rivermont
Paul Asaro and the Fat Babies
What A Heavenly Dream - Rivermont
Art Hodes/Don Ewell
Some Legendary Art/Yellow Dog Blues - Audiophile
Emile Christian
And His New Orleans Jazz Bands - GHB
Henry "Red  Allen
Second Concert - Jazzology
Greg Abate
Featuring Phil Woods - Rhombus
Hank Mobley
Newark 1953 - Uptown
Grant Green
The Holy Barbarian, St. Louis, 1959 - Uptown
Frank Wess/Johnny Coles
Two At The Top - Uptown
Sherri Roberts
Lovely Days - Blue House/Pacific Coast Jazz
Paul Winter Sextet
Count Me In, 1962 & 1963 - Living Music

January 2013
Esther Valentine
Go Where The Love Is - Clandestiny
Poncho Sanchez
Live In Hollywood - Concord Picante
Pete Escovedo
Live From Stern Grove - Concord Picante
Ninety Miles
Live At Cubadisco - Concord Picante
Louis Armstrong
The Okeh, Columbia & RCA Victor Recordings,
1925-1933 - Legacy
Duke Ellington
The Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection,
1951-1958 - Legacy
Mort Weiss
I'll Be Seeing You - SMS Jazz
Theo Saunders
When The Saints Go Out - Arabesque
Anne Farnsworth
Sealed With A Kiss - Jazz Media
Tateng Katindig
Half & Half - Ickard
Oscar Peterson Trio
Swiss Radio Days Vol. 30 - TCB
Stan Getz
Swiss Radio Days Vol. 29 - TCB
Miles Davis
Swiss Radio Days Vol. 31 - TCB
The Fat Babies
Chicago Hot - Delmark
Jazzmazzorene
Mississippi Blues - Herman Records
Pharoah Sanders
In The Beginning 1963-1964 - ESP
Peggy Lee
Ridin' High - Fantastic Voyage
Larry McDonough/Richard Terrill
Solitude - Poetry In Jazz - privately released
Louis Armstrong
Satchmo At Symphony Hall - Universal
Beverly Kenney
Complete Royal Roost Recordings - Fresh Sound
Complete Decca Recordings - Fresh Sound
Anat Cohen
Claroscuro - Anzic

December 2012
Five Rare Sets
Fresh Sound
Various Artists
1917 - Archeophone
Dizzy Gillespie
Legends Live - SWR Music
Zoot Sims
Lost Tapes - SWR Music
Albert Mangelsdorff
Legends Live - SWR Music
Earl Roach/Duke Burrell/Louis Gaillaud
Crescent City Piano Players - American Music
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
30th Anniversary Celebration - Columbia/Legacy
Dale Fielder
Each Time I Think Of You - Clarion
David S. Ware
Planetary Unknown - AUM Fidelity
Scott Robinson Doctette
Bronze Nemesis - Doc-Tone
Tia Fuller
Angelic Warrior - Mack Avenue
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Rattle Them Bones - Savoy Jazz
Art Pepper
Unreleased Vol. VII. - Widow's Taste
Danise Donatelli
Soul Shadows - Savant
Kurt Elling
1619 Broadway - Concord
Nancy Osborne
Songs IN The Key Of Love - NJOY
Teri Roiger
Dear Abbey - Inner Circle Music
CD Reviews
Jazz Around Town
May 2013
My New Book
Bobby McFerrin
Tamir Hendelman
Chick Corea
6 from Fresh Sound Records

April 2013
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
Jazzartz
Lineup for this year's Playboy Jazz Festival
Chris Potter
Bob Sheppard

March 2013
Mike Price Orchestra
Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour
Billy Childs
Chris Dawson
Goh Kurosawa
Upcoming

February 2013
8 Reissues from Avid Jazz
3 Important Jazz Books:
What A Wonderful World (Louis
Armstrong)
Mr. Trumpet (Bunny Berigan)
The Man Who Used Jazz For Justice
(Norman Granz)
The Latest Reissues from Fresh Sound

January 2013
Tessa Souter
Peter Marshall
Bela Fleck & Marcus Roberts
Roy Hargrove
Manhattan Transfer
Books - Jazz Body & Soul and
The Complete Illustrated History of Miles
Davis
Pat Metheny DVD
Marty Grosz DVD

December 2012
Dave Grusin and the Symphonic Jazz
Orchestra
Chambers, Herbert & Ellis
Roberta Donnay
Delfeayo Marsalis
Lionel Loueke
Jane Bunnett & Candido
Bob Barry