Music Year 2006 [Frozen]

This is my year-end list for records released in 2006. This file is frozen as of Jan. 12, 2007, reflecting what I knew by the time I finished my 2006 year-end comments. Further changes, up to Dec. 31, 2007, will be made here.

For records in hand, * identifies an advance copy, ** something borrowed. % indicates an album with a 2005 release date that appeared here as new in 2006 -- these are mostly imports or self-releases and often hard to figure out.

New Records

1. Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar (Sound Grammar)
2. Todd Snider: The Devil You Know (New Door)
3. Public Enemy: Rebirth of a Nation (Guerrilla Funk)
4. The Coup: Pick a Bigger Weapon (Epitaph)
5. Jon Faddis: Teranga (Koch)
6. Ghostface Killah: Fishscale (Def Jam)
7. The Klezmatics: Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie (JMG)
8. World Saxophone Quartet: Political Blues (Justin Time)

9. Jesus H Christ and the Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse (Jesus Christ Rocks)
10. Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra: New Magical Kingdom (Clean Feed) *
11. The Handsome Family: Last Days of Wonder (Carrot Top)
12. Mario Pavone Sextet: Deez to Blues (Playscape)
13. The Harry Allen-Joe Cohn Quartet: Hey, Look Me Over (Arbors)
14. Odyssey the Band: Back in Time (Pi)
15. Adam Lane Trio: Zero Degree Music (CIMP)
16. Cabruêra: Proibido Cochilar: Sambas for Sleepless Nights (Piranha)
17. Bob Dylan: Modern Times (Columbia)
18. Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra: MTO Volume 1 (Sunnyside)
19. Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped (Geffen)
20. Nik Bärtsch's Ronin: Stoa (ECM)
21. Satoko Fujii Four: When We Were There (Libra)
22. Steve Lacy Quintet: Esteem (1975, Atavistic)
23. Joe Morris Quartet: Beautiful Existence (Clean Feed)
24. The Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America (Vagrant)
25. Tom Waits: Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Anti-, 3CD)
26. The Rakes: Capture/Release (V2)
27. Los de Abajo: LDA V The Lunatics (Real World)
28. The Vandermark 5: A Discontinuous Line (Atavistic)
29. The Roots: Game Theory (Def Jam) **
30. Toumani Diabaté's Symmetric Orchestra: Boulevard de l'Indépendence (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
31. Ben Allison: Cowboy Justice (Palmetto) *
32. The Streets: The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living (Vice/Atlantic)
33. Maria Muldaur: Heart of Mine: Love Songs of Bob Dylan (Telarc)
34. KRS-One: Life (Antagonist)
35. Zentralquartett: 11 Songs -- Aus Teutschen Landen (Intakt)
36. Gato Libre: Nomad (No Man's Land)
37. OutKast: Idlewild (La Face/Zomba) **
38. Sonny Rollins: Sonny, Please (Doxy)
39. Fred Anderson: Timeless: Live at the Velvet Lounge (Delmark)
40. Art Brut: Bang Bang Rock & Roll (Downtown)
41. Madonna: I'm Going to Tell You a Secret (Warner Brothers) **
42. Diana Krall: From This Moment On (Verve)
43. Hank Williams III: Straight to Hell (Bruc, 2CD)
44. Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (Domino)
45. François Carrier: Happening (Leo, 2CD)
46. Bob Reynolds: Can't Wait for Perfect (Fresh Sound New Talent)
47. Ramón Díaz: Diàleg (Fresh Sound New Talent)
48. Pink: I'm Not Dead (LaFace/Zomba)
49. Maurice El Médioni Meets Roberto Rodriguez: Descarga Oriental: The New York Sessions (Piranha)
50. Drive-By Truckers: A Blessing and a Curse (New West)
51. Sound in Action Trio: Gate (Atavistic)
52. Be Your Own Pet (Ecstatic Peace)
53. Ignacio Berroa: Codes (Blue Note)
54. Scott Hamilton: Nocturnes & Serenades (Concord)
55. The Rapture: Pieces of the People We Love (Universal Motown)
56. Ulf Wakenius: Notes From the Heart (ACT)
57. The Gothic Archies: The Tragic Treasury: Songs From a Series of Unfortunate Events (Nonesuch)
58. Soft Machine: Grides (1971, Cuneiform)
59. Charles Lloyd: Sangam (ECM)
60. Erik Friedlander: Prowl (Cryptogramophone)
61. Rabih Abou-Khalil/Joachim Kühn: Journey to the Centre of an Egg (Enja/Justin Time)
62. Manu Katché: Neighbourhood (ECM)
63. Jeff Healey & the Jazz Wizards: It's Tight Like That (Stony Plain)
64. Kékélé: Kinavana (Stern's Africa)
65. Rhymefest: Blue Collar (J/All I Do)
66. Harry Miller's Isipingo: Which Way Now (1975, Cuneiform)
67. Omer Avital: The Ancient Art of Giving (Smalls)
68. Saborit: Que Linda Es Mi Cuba (Tumi Music)
69. Clipse: Hell Hath No Fury (Re-Up Gang/Zomba)
70. Golem: Fresh Off Boat (JDub)
71. Club D'Elf: Now I Understand (Accurate)
72. Rudresh Mahanthappa: Codebook (Pi)
73. Chris Knight: Enough Rope (Drifter's Church)
74. Les Primitifs du Futur: World Musette (1999, Sunnyside)
75. Johnny Cash: Personal File (1973-82, Columbia/Legacy, 2CD)
76. Frank Hewitt: Fresh From the Cooler (1996, Smalls)
77. Rosanne Cash: Black Cadillac (Capitol) **
78. Prince: 3121 (Universal) **
79. Rachid Taha: Diwan 2 (Wrasse)
80. Bill Sheffield: Journal on a Shelf (American Roots)
81. Kidd Jordan/Hamid Drake/William Parker: Palm of Soul (AUM Fidelity)
82. Maurice Hines: To Nat "King" Cole With Love (Arbors)
83. Sir Douglas Quintet: Live From Austin TX (1981, New West)
84. Paul Motian: On Broadway Vol. 4 (Winter & Winter)
85. Ghostface Killah: More Fish (Def Jam)
86. Sonic Liberation Front: Change Over Time (High Two)
87. Moncef Genoud: Aqua (Savoy Jazz)
88. Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor (Atlantic)
89. Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid: The Exchange Session Vol. 1 (Domino)
90. Bill Carrothers: Shine Ball (Fresh Sound New Talent) %
91. Carneyball Johnson (Akron Cracker)
92. This Moment in Black History: It Takes a Nation (of Assholes to Hold Us Back) (Cold Sweat)
93. New York Dolls: Some Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This (Roadrunner)
94. Hat: Hi Ha (Fresh Sound New Talent)
95. The David S. Ware Quartet: BalladWare (Thirsty Ear)
96. Guitar Gabriel & the Brothers in the Kitchen: Toot Blues (1991, Music Maker)
97. Thunderbirds Are Now!: Make History (Frenchkiss)
98. Junk Box: Fragment (Libra)
99. Vittor Santos: Renewed Impressions (Adventure Music)
100. T Bone Burnett: The True False Identity (DMZ/Columbia)
101. Merle Haggard: Live From Austin TX (1985, New West)
102. Thomas Strønen: Pohlitz (Rune Grammofon)
103. Hazmat Modine: Bahamut (Barbès)
104. Bruce Springsteen: We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (Columbia)
105. Mohammed "Jimmy" Mohammed: Takkabel! (Terp)
106. Willie Nelson: You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker (Lost Highway)
107. Mr. Lif: Mo' Mega (Definitive Jux)
108. Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins: Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)

Pending:

Records in hand, but which haven't yet been graded.

1. Muhal Richard Abrams/George Lewis/Roscoe Mitchell: Streaming (Pi)
2. Azam Ali: Elysium for the Brave (Six Degrees)
3. Don Aliquo: Jazz Folk (Young Warrior)
4. Nanny Assis: Double Rainbow (Blue Toucan)
5. Berkeley Guitar 2006 (Tompkins Square) *
6. Between the Covers (Legacy)
7. Big Neighborhood: 11:11 (Origin, 2CD)
8. David Bixler: Call It a Good Deal (Zoho)
9. The Black Keys: Magic Potion (Nonesuch)
10. Dave Burrell: Momentum (High Two)
11. Regina Carter: I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey (Verve)
12. Mark Chesnutt: Heard It in a Love Song (CBUJ)
13. Circus (ICP)
14. Fay Claassen: Sings Two Portraits of Chet Baker (Jazz 'N Pulz, 2CD)
15. François Couturier: Nostalgia: Song for Tarkovsky (ECM) *
16. Eli Degibri: Emotionally Available (Fresh Sound New Talent)
17. Brett Dennen: So Much More (Dualtone)
18. Desole: A Story to Tell (Abacus) *
19. Duo Baars-Henneman: Stof (Wig)
20. Eminem Presents the Re-Up (Shady/Interscope)
21. Ellery Eskelin: Quiet Music (Prime Source, 2CD)
22. Feathermerchants: Last Man on Earth (Innocent 12th Street)
23. The Follow: Up With the Sun () *
24. Amanda Ford: On Fire (Alanna)
25. Forever, for Always, for Luther: Vol. II (Rendezvous) *
26. Mitchel Forman: Perspectives (Marsis Jazz)
27. The Four Bags: Live at Barbès (NCM East)
28. Mimi Fox: Perpetually Hip (Favored Nations, 2CD)
29. Joel Futterman/Alvin Fielder/Ike Levin Trio: Live at the Blue Monk (Charles Lester Music)
30. Eve Graham: The Mountains Welcome Me Home (Scotdisc)
31. A Good Year (Legacy/Sony Music Soundtrack)
32. Lou Grassi's PoBand: Infinite POtential (CIMP)
33. Brian Groder: Torque (Latham)
34. Scotty Hard's Radical Reconstructive Surgery (Thirsty Ear)
35. Taylor Haskins: Metaview (Fresh Sound New Talent)
36. The Skip Heller Trio: Mean Things Happening in This Land (Ropeadope)
37. Joan Hickey: Between the Lines (Origin)
38. The Hilliard Ensemble: Niocolas Gombert: Missa Media Vita in Morte Sumus (ECM)
39. John Hollenbeck & Jazz Bigband Graz: Joys & Desires (Intuition)
40. Incognito: Beer + Things + Flowers (Narada Jazz)
41. Sean Jones: Roots (Mack Avenue) *
42. Kayhan Kalhor: The Wind (ECM) *
43. Nancy King: Live at Jazz Standard With Fred Hersch (MaxJazz)
44. Art Lillard's Heavenly Band: Reasons to Be Thankful (Summit)
45. Rolf Lislevand: Nuove Musiche (ECM)
46. The Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Project: Simpático (ArtistShare)
47. Russell Malone: Live at Jazz Standard Volume One (MaxJazz)
48. Nicolas Masson: Yellow (A Little Orange) (Fresh Sound New Talent)
49. Ray Mason Band: Don't Mess With Our Routine (Hi-N-Dry)
50. MB3: Jazz Hits Volume 1 (Mel Bay)
51. Loreena McKennitt: An Ancient Muse (Verve/Quinlan Road) *
52. Francisco Mela: Melao (AYVA)
53. Myra Melford/Be Bread: The Image of Your Body (Cryptogramophone)
54. Misha Mengelberg: Afijn (ICP/Data Images, DVD)
55. The Mercenaries: Locks, Looks and Hooks (Melted Vinyl)
56. Brian Stokes Mitchell (Playbill/Legacy)
57. Stanton Moore: III (Telarc)
58. New Ghost: Live Upstairs at Nick's (ESP-Disk)
59. The Notekillers: Airport + Ants ()
60. Mikkel Ploug Group (Fresh Sound New Talent)
61. Roger Powell: Fossil Poets (Inner Knot)
62. Pure Prairie League: All in Good Time (Drifter's Church)
63. Queen Mab Trio: Thin Air (Wig)
64. Kevin Roth: Between the Notes (Star Gazer)
65. Roswell Rudd/Mark Dresser: Airwalkers (Clean Feed) *
66. Dino Saluzzi Group: Juan Condori (ECM) *
67. András Schiff: Ludwig Van Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas (ECM New Series)
68. Shapes and Sizes (Asthmatic Kitty)
69. Nina Simone: Remixed and Reimagined (RCA/Legacy)
70. David Smith Quintet: Circumstance (Fresh Sound New Talent)
71. Snapback: Purgatory (CD Baby)
72. The Bob Sneider & Joe Locke Film Noir Project: Fallen Angel (Sons of Sound)
73. Peter Stampfel: Antonia's 11 (Blue Navigator)
74. Sufjan Stevens: The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras From the Illinois Album (Asthmatic Kitty)
75. Melissa Stylianou: Sliding Down (Festival)
76. Steve Swallow With Robert Creeley: So There (ECM/XtraWatt) *
77. Tammen Harth Rosen Dahlgren: Expedition (ESP-Disk)
78. David Taylor-Steve Swell Quintet: Not Just . . . (CIMP)
79. Ximo Tebar & Fourlights: Eclipse (Sunnyside)
80. Bow Thayer: Maintenance for Mood Swings (Crooked Root)
81. Third World Love: Sketch of Tel Aviv (Smalls)
82. Tyft: Meg Nem Sa (Skirl)
83. Andreas Vollenweider: Midnight Clear (SLG)
84. Torben Waldorff Quartet: Brilliance: Live at 55 Bar NYC (ArtistShare)
85. Mort Weiss: The B3 and Me (SMS Jazz)
86. Dan Willis: Velvet Gentlemen (Omnitone)
87. Why the Hell Not . . . The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Sustain) *

Also Noted:

Records in hand, graded B+ or below, in roughly declining order:

1. Trio 3 (Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille): Time Being (Intakt)
2. Billy Stein Trio: Hybrids (Barking Hoop)
3. Anders Aarum Trio: First Communion (Jazzaway)
4. Pete McCann: Most Folks (Omnitone)
5. BassDrumBone: The Line Up (Clean Feed)
6. Chris Smither: Leave the Light On (Signature Sounds)
7. Congotronics 2: Buzz'n'Rumble From the Urb'n'Jungle (Crammed Discs)
8. Marcus Strickland: Quartets: Twi-Life (Strick Muzik, 2CD)
9. Satoko Fujii Orchestra Nagoya: Maru (Bakamo)
10. Andy Fairweather Low: Sweet Soulful Music (Proper)
11. Ismaël Lo: Sénégal (Wrasse)
12. François Carrier/Dewey Redman/Michel Donato/Ron Séguin/Michel Lambert: Open Spaces (1999, Spool/Line)
13. Lady Sovereign: Public Warning (Def Jam)
14. John Taylor: Angel of the Presence (CAM Jazz)
15. Tomasz Stanko Quartet: Lontano (ECM)
16. Von Freeman: Good Forever (Premonition)
17. Enrico Pieranunzi/Marc Johnson/Joey Baron: Ballads (CAM Jazz)
18. Mark Helias' Open Loose: Atomic Clock (Radio Legs Music)
19. Batagraf: Statements (ECM)
20. David Krakauer: Bubbemeises: Lies My Grandma Told Me (Label Bleu)
21. Lisbon Improvisation Players: Spiritualized (Clean Feed) *
22. Lynne Arriale Trio: Live (In+Out/Motema)
23. Samo Salamon Quartet: Two Hours (Fresh Sound New Talent)
24. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Show Your Bones (Interscope) **
25. Soft Machine Legacy: Live at the New Morning (Inakustik, 2CD)
26. Johnnie Valentino: Stingy Brim (Omnitone)
27. Stoll Vaughan: Love Like a Mule (Shadow Dog)
28. Adam Lane Trio: Music Degree Zero (CIMP)
29. Houston Person/Bill Charlap: You Taught My Heart to Sing (High Note)
30. The Source (ECM)
31. Dave Burrell/Billy Martin: Consequences (Amulet)
32. Gianluca Petrella: Indigo 4 (Blue Note)
33. Kimya Dawson: Remember That I Love You (K) *
34. Carl Maguire: Floriculture (Between the Lines)
35. Michael Musillami's Dialect: Fragile Forms (Playscape)
36. Bole 2 Harlem: Volume 1 (Sounds of the Mushroom)
37. George Lewis: Sequel (For Lester Bowie) (Intakt)
38. Trio-X: Moods: Playing With the Elements (CIMP)
39. Boban Markovic Orkestar: The Promise (Piranha)
40. Ben Goldberg Quintet: The Door, the Hat, the Chair, the Fact (Cryptogramophone)
41. Billy Hart: Quartet (High Note)
42. David Kweksilber + Guus Janssen (Geestgronden)
43. Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet: Way Out East (Songlines)
44. Dave Holland Quintet: Critical Mass (Dare2/Sunnyside)
45. Helen Sung Trio: Helenistique (Fresh Sound New Talent)
46. Michy Mano: The Cool Side of the Pillow (Enja/Justin Time)
47. Thomas Chapin Trio: Ride (1995, Playscape)
48. Jamie Davis: It's a Good Thing (Unity Music)
49. Les DeMerle: Cookin' at the Corner, Vol. 1 (Origin)
50. Andrew Hill: Time Lines (Blue Note)
51. Big Al Anderson: After Hours (Legacy)
52. Rhett Miller: The Believer (Verve Forecast)
53. Ali Farka Touré: Savane (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
54. Jerry Leake: The Turning: Percussion Expansions (Rhombus Publishing)
55. Run the Road Volume 2 (Vice)
56. Neil Young: Living With War (Reprise)
57. Hamid Drake & Assif Tsahar: Live at Glenn Miller Café (Ayler)
58. Industrial Jazz Group: Industrial Jazz a Go Go! (Evander Music)
59. Van Morrison: Pay the Devil (Lost Highway) **
60. Thomas Storrs and Sarpolas: Time Share (Louie)
61. The Andy Biskin Quartet: Early American: Melodies of Stephen Foster (Strudelmedia)
62. Shot x Shot (High Two)
63. Avishai Cohen: Continuo (RazDaz/Sunnyside)
64. Frank Morgan: Reflections (High Note)
65. Bob Belden: Three Days of Rain (Original Soundtrack) (Sunnyside)
66. Charles Gayle Trio: Live at Glenn Miller Café (Ayler)
67. Dave Frishberg: Retromania: At the Jazz Bakery (Arbors)
68. Brent Jensen: Trios (Origin)
69. Jovino Santos Neto: Roda Carioca (Rio Circle) (Adventure Music)
70. Ray Russell: Goodbye Svengali (Cuneiform)
71. Christian McBride: Live at Tonic (Ropeadope, 3CD)
72. Whit Dickey: Sacred Ground (Clean Feed) *
73. Kris Davis: The Slightest Shift (Fresh Sound New Talent)
74. Sofia Koutsovitis: Ojalá (CD Baby)
75. The Derek Trucks Band: Songlines (Columbia)
76. Las Rubias del Norte: Panamericana (Barbès)
77. Randy Sandke and the Metatonal Big Band: The Subway Ballet (Evening Star)
78. Hamilton de Holanda Quintet: Brasilianos (Adventure Music)
79. Ismael Dueñas: Mirage (Fresh Sound New Talent)
80. Jessica Williams: Billy's Theme: A Tribute to Dr. Billy Taylor (Origin)
81. Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble: The Messenger: Live at the Original Velvet Lounge (Delmark)
82. Larry Vuckovich Trio: Street Scene (Tetrachord)
83. Stephen Stubbs: Teatro Lirico (ECM New Series)
84. Jimmy Amadie Trio: Let's Groove! A Tribute to Mel Tormé (TP)
85. Billy Martin & Grant Calvin Weston: Live at Houston Hall (2002, Amulet)
86. Theo Bleckmann/Fumio Yasuda: Las Vegas Rhapsody: The Night They Invented Champagne (Winter & Winter)
87. Marc Mommaas with Nikolaj Hess: Balance (Sunnyside)
88. The Roger Kellaway Trio: Heroes (IPO)
89. Dennis González Boston Project: No Photograph Available (Clean Feed) *
90. Ingrid Jensen: At Sea (ArtistShare)
91. Delfeayo Marsalis: Minions Dominion (Troubadour Jass)
92. Gian Tornatore: Blackout (Fresh Sound New Talent)
93. Tom Zé: Estuando O Pagode (Luaka Bop)
94. Meredith d'Ambrosio: Wishing on the Moon (Sunnyside)
95. Fred Fried: The Wisdom of Notes (Ballet Tree)
96. Boxhead Ensemble: Nocturnes (Atavistic)
97. Rodrigo Amado/Kent Kessler/Paal Nilssen-Love: Teatro (European Echoes)
98. Charles Gayle Trio: Consider the Lilies . . . (Clean Feed) *
99. Toph-E & the Pussycats: Live in Detroit (CD Baby)
100. Stefano Battaglia: Raccolto (ECM, 2CD)
101. "Killer" Ray Appleton/Melvin Rhyne: Latin Dreams (Lineage)
102. The Little Willies (Milking Bull) **
103. Sonny Simmons: I'll See You When You Get There (Jazzaway)
104. Mike Boone: Yeah, I Said It . . . (Dreambox Media)
105. George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band: Tiger by the Tail (TCB)
106. Conjure: Bad Mouth (American Clave, 2CD)
107. Jeremy Udden: Torchsongs (Fresh Sound New Talent)
108. Texas Tornados: Live From Austin TX (1990, New West)
109. Buck Hill: Relax (Severn)
110. Trio East: Best Bets (Origin)
111. Kali Z. Fasteau/Kidd Jordan: People of the Ninth: New Orleans and the Hurricane 2005 (Flying Note)
112. Rob Mullins: Standards & More (Planet Mullins)
113. Scenes [John Stowell/Jeff Johnson/John Bishop]: Along the Way (Origin)
114. Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid: The Exchange Session Vol. 2 (Domino)
115. Thomas Strønen: Parish (ECM)
116. RockDownBaby: Love & Sex & Rock & Roll (Life Force, EP)
117. Irène Schweizer: First Choice: Piano Solo KKL Luzern (Intakt)
118. Dave Liebman/Steve Swallow/Adam Nussbaum: We Three: Three for All (Challenge)
119. Anke Helfrich Trio: Better Times Ahead (Double Moon)
120. Florian Weber/Jeff Denson/Ziv Ravitz: Minsarah (Enja/Justin Time)
121. Ted Nash & Still Evolved: In the Loop (Palmetto) *
122. John Tchicai/Charlie Kohlhase/Garrison Fewell: Good Night Songs (Boxholder, 2CD)
123. Misja Fitzgerald Michel: Encounter (No Format/Sunnyside)
124. Jason Kao Hwang: Edge (Asian Improv)
125. Mike Melvoin Trio: You Know (City Light)
126. Branford Marsalis: Braggtown (Marsalis Music/Rounder)
127. Martin Speake: Change of Heart (ECM)
128. Ralph Sutton: At St. George Church, Brandon Hill, Bristol, England (1992, Arbors, 2CD)
129. Michele Rosewoman & Quintessence: The In Side Out (Advance Dance Disques)
130. Scott McLemore: Found Music (Fresh Sound New Talent)
131. Michael Blanco: In the Morning (Fresh Sound New Talent)
132. Oscar Peterson/Ella Fitzgerald: JATP Lausanne 1953 (Swiss Radio Days, Vol. 15) (1953, TCB)
133. The Revenge of Blind Joe Death: The John Fahey Tribute Album (Takoma)
134. Luis Rodríguez: U-Turn (Fresh Sound New Talent)
135. Susanne Abbuehl: Compass (ECM)
136. Dr. Lonnie Smith: Jungle Soul (Palmetto) *
137. Winard Harper Sextet: Make It Happen (Piadrum)
138. Bill Coon/Oliver Gannon: Two Much Guitar (Cellar Live)
139. Jason Rigby: Translucent Space (Fresh Sound New Talent)
140. Liberty Ellman: Ophiuchus Butterfly (Pi)
141. Ollabelle: Riverside Battle Songs (Verve Forecast)
142. Sebastian Noelle Quartet: Across the River (Fresh Sound New Talent)
143. Cedar Walton: One Flight Down (High Note)
144. Re-Bop: The Savoy Remixes (1945-59, Savoy Jazz)
145. Jerry Bergonzi: Tenor of the Times (Savant)
146. Vinny Golia Quartet: Sfumato (Clean Feed)
147. Fattigfolket: Le Chien et la Fille (ILK)
148. Bruce Robison: Eleven Stories (Sustain)
149. Metta Quintet: Subway Songs (Sunnyside)
150. Patricia Barber: Mythologies (Blue Note)
151. Kenny Wheeler: It Takes Two! (CAM Jazz)
152. Citay (Important)
153. Nick Russo + 11: Ro (On the Bol)
154. Eric Alexander: It's All in the Game (HighNote)
155. Chuck Redd: Remembers Barney Kessel: Happy All the Time (Arbors)
156. Tania Maria: Intimidade (Blue Note)
157. Ari Roland: Sketches From a Bassist's Album (Smalls)
158. David Sills: Down the Line (Origin)
159. Dom Minasi: The Vampire's Revenge (CDM, 2CD)
160. Hank Jones/Frank Wess: Hank and Frank (Lineage)
161. Nels Cline: New Monastery: A View Into the Music of Andrew Hill (Cryptogramophone)
162. Pierre Favre/Yang Jing: Two in One (Intakt)
163. Marty Grosz and His Hot Combination (Arbors)
164. Eri Yamamoto: Cobalt Blue (Thirsty Ear)
165. Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra: Negra Tigra (ILK)
166. Baby Loves Jazz (Verve) *
167. Louis Hayes and the Cannonball Legacy Band: Maximum Firepower (Savant)
168. Rhonda Towns: I Wanna Be Loved by You (Dawn)
169. Alan Broadbent: Every Time I Think of You (Artistry)
170. Free Range Rat: Nut Club (Clean Feed) *
171. Pete Robbins: Waits & Measures (Playscape)
172. Sonando: Tres (Origin)
173. Denis DiBlasio: View From Pikes (Dreambox Media)
174. William Parker: Long Hidden: The Olmec Series (AUM Fidelity)
175. Lew Tabackin Trio: Tanuki's Night Out (CD Baby)
176. Mold: Rotten in Rødby (ILK)
177. Bobby Zankel & the Warriors of the Wonderful Sound: Ceremonies of Forgiveness (Dreambox Media)
178. Linton Garner Trio: Quiet Nights (Cellar Live)
179. Liquid Soul: One-Two Punch (Telarc)
180. Mario Adnet: From the Heart (Adventure Music)
181. Klemens Marktl: Ocean Avenue (Fresh Sound New Talent)
182. Cheikh Lô: Lamp Fall (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
183. Ab Baars Quartet: Kinda Dukish (Wig)
184. Aaron Goldberg: Worlds (Sunnyside)
185. Michael Bates: A Fine Balance (Between the Lines)
186. J.A. Granelli and Mr. Lucky: Homing (Love Slave)
187. John Ellis: By a Thread (Hyena)
188. Bobby Previte: The Coalition of the Willing (Ropeadope)
189. Carla White: A Voice in the Night (Bright Moon)
190. Jamie Stewardson: Jhaptal (Fresh Sound New Talent)
191. Oscar Castro-Neves: All One (Mack Avenue)
192. Jay McShann: Hootie Blues (Stony Plain)
193. Instinctual Eye: Born in Brooklyn (Barking Hoop)
194. Jason Moran: Artist in Residence (Blue Note)
195. The New Orleans Social Club: Sing Me Back Home (Burgundy/Honey Darling) *
196. Jimmy Cobb: Marsalis Music Honors Jimmy Cobb (Marsalis Music/Rounder)
197. Raúl Jaurena: Te Amo Tango (Soundbrush)
198. Ran Blake: All That Is Tied (Tompkins Square) *
199. Odean Pope Saxophone Choir: Locked & Loaded: Live at the Blue Note (Half Note)
200. Gordon Grdina/Gary Peacock/Paul Motian: Think Like the Waves (Songlines)
201. Donny McCaslin: Soar (Sunnyside)
202. Jim Black/AlasNoAxis: Dogs of Great Indifference (Winter & Winter)
203. Marc Cary: Focus (Motema Music)
204. Harvie S: Funky Cha (Zoho)
205. Satoko Fujii Quartet: Angelona (Libra)
206. Yungchen Lhamo: Ama (Real World)
207. Jay Geils-Gerry Beaudoin and the Kings of Strings (Arbors)
208. Monk's Music Trio: Monk's Bones (CMB)
209. Philip Dizack: Beyond a Dream (Fresh Sound New Talent)
210. The Chris Byars Octet: Night Owls (Smalls)
211. Toby Koenigsberg Trio: Sense (Origin)
212. Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Brotherman in the Fatherland (1972, Hyena)
213. Reuben Hoch and Time: Of Recent Time (Naim)
214. Fred Frith/Carla Kihlstedt/Stevie Wishart: The Compass, Log, and Lead (Intakt)
215. Virginia Mayhew: Sandan Shuffle (Renma)
216. Paul Shapiro: It's in the Twilight (Tzadik)
217. Terje Rypdal: Vossabrygg (ECM)
218. John Bishop: Nothing If Not Something (Origin)
219. Upper Left Trio: Sell Your Soul Side (Origin)
220. Peter Madsen: Prevue of Tomorrow (Playscape)
221. Nancy Kelly: Born to Swing (Amherst)
222. Jeannette Lambert: Sand Underfoot (Jazz From Rant)
223. Paul Motian Band: Garden of Eden (ECM)
224. Marcos Amorim: Sete Capelas (Seven Chapels) (Adventure Music)
225. Karen Blixt: Spin This (Hi-Fli)
226. Gilbert Castellanos: Underground (Seedling)
227. Anita O'Day: Indestructible! (Kayo Stereophonic)
228. Vincent Herring: Ends and Means (HighNote)
229. David "Fathead" Newman: Cityscape (HighNote)
230. Mike Tucker: Collage (www.tuckerjazz.com)
231. Pamela Luss: There's Something About You I Don't Know (Savant)
232. The Dutch Jazz Orchestra: The Lady Who Swings the Band: Rediscovered Music of Mary Lou Williams (Challenge)
233. Tempest: The Double-Cross (Magna Carta)
234. Duduka Da Fonseca: Samba Jazz in Black and White (Zoho)
235. Ernie Andrews: How About Me (HighNote)
236. Chris Potter: Underground (Sunnyside)
237. Larry Willis Trio: The Big Push (HighNote)
238. Joe Chambers: The Outlaw (Savant)
239. Edsel Gomez: Cubist Music (Zoho)
240. Hiromi: Spiral (Telarc)
241. Iro Haarla: Northbound (ECM)
242. John McNeil: East Coast Cool (Omnitone)
243. Trio Beyond (Jack DeJohnette, Larry Goldings, John Scofield): Saudades (ECM, 2CD)
244. The World's Greatest Jazz Band: At Manchester's Free Trade Hall, England 1971 (1971, Arbors, 2CD)
245. Keith Oxman: Dues in Progress (Capri)
246. Aki Takase/Lauren Newton: Spring in Bangkok (Intakt)
247. Jon De Lucia Group: Face No Face (Jonji Music)
248. Geoff Farina/Luther Gray/Nate McBride: Out Trios Volume Four (Atavistic)
249. Ben Adams Quintet: Old Thoughts for a New Day (Lunar Module)
250. Kip Hanrahan: Every Child Is Born a Poet: The Life & Work of Piri Thomas (American Clavé)
251. Carolina Chocolate Drops: Dona Got a Ramblin' Mind (Music Maker)
252. Gilad Hekselman: Split Life (Smalls)
253. Art Ensemble of Chicago: Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City: Live at Iridium (Pi, 2CD)
254. Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo: Live!! (Libra)
255. Territory Band-5: New Horse for the White House (Okka Disk, 2 CD)
256. Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood: Out Louder (Indirecto) *
257. Chris Cheek: Blues Cruise (Fresh Sound New Talent)
258. Anne McCue: Koala Motel (Messenger) *
259. Freddy Cole: Because of You: Freddy Cole Sings Tony Bennett (High Note)
260. Adam Unsworth: Excerpt This! (Adam Unsworth)
261. Hot Club of Detroit (Mack Avenue)
262. Vienna Teng: Dreaming Through the Noise (Zoë/Rounder) *
263. Satoko Fujii Orchestra NY: Undulation (PJL)
264. The Jeff Gauthier Goatette: One and the Same (Cryptogramophone)
265. Roy Nathanson: Sotto Voce (AUM Fidelity)
266. Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet: Husky (Hyena)
267. Jordi Berni Trio + Santi de la Rubia: Afinke (Fresh Sound New Talent)
268. Ray Mantilla: Good Vibrations (Savant)
269. Walter Smith III: Casually Introducing (Fresh Sound New Talent)
270. The Klezmatics: Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah (JMG)
271. Dave Glasser: Above the Clouds (Arbors)
272. D.D. Jackson: Serenity Song (Justin Time)
273. Charles Mingus: At UCLA 1965 (1965, Sunnyside, 2CD)
274. Scott Burns: Passages (Origin)
275. Jacques Loussier Trio: Bach: The Brandenburgs (Telarc)
276. Ron Horton: Everything in a Dream (Fresh Sound New Talent)
277. So Percussion: Amid the Noise (Cataloupe)
278. Marguerite Mariama: Wild Women Never Get the Blues . . . Well, Not Anymore! (PowerLight Media)
279. Esperanza Spalding: Junjo (Ayva)
280. Sugar Pie DeSanto: Refined Sugar (Jasman)
281. The Bennie Maupin Ensemble: Penumbra (Cryptogramophone)
282. Paul Lytton/Ken Vandermark/Phillip Wachsmann: CINC (Okka Disk)
283. Barbara Fasano: Written in the Stars (Human Child)
284. The John Cowan Band: New Tattoo (Pinecastle)
285. Open Door: So Close So Beautiful (Hipbone/Kindred Rhythm)
286. Stephan Crump: Rosetta (Papillon Sounds)
287. Grismore/Scea Group: Well Behaved Fish (Accurate)
288. George Colligan Trio: Blood Pressure (Ultimatum)
289. Brian Owen: Unmei (OA2)
290. Willie Nelson: Live From Austin TX (1990, New West)
291. Elliott Sharp: Plays the Music of Thelonious Monk (Clean Feed) *
292. The Uptown Quintet: Live in New York (Cellar Live)
293. All Ones: Bloom (Number)
294. Dr. John: Mercenary (Blue Note)
295. Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Long Walk to Freedom (Heads Up)
296. Pete Malinverni: Theme & Variations (Reservoir)
297. Jordi Matas Quintet: Racons (Fresh Sound New Talent)
298. Sathima Bea Benjamin: Musical Echoes (Ekapa)
299. Múm: The Peel Sessions (2002, Fat Cat, EP) *
300. Don Byron: Do the Boomerang: The Music of Junior Walker (Blue Note)
301. Frequency (Thrill Jockey)
302. Guillaume de Chassy/Daniel Yvinec: Wonderful World (Sunnyside)
303. Satoko Fujii Orchestra Kobe: Kobe Yee!! (Crab Apple)
304. Bridge 61: Journal (Atavistic)
305. Joe Lovano Ensemble: Streams of Expression (Blue Note)
306. Grant Green: Live at Club Mozambique (1971, Blue Note) **
307. Deep Blue Organ Trio: Goin' to Town: Live at the Green Mill (Delmark)
308. Mark Elf: Liftoff (Jen Bay)
309. Anouar Brahem: Le Voyage de Sahar (ECM)
310. Dave Douglas: Meaning and Mystery (Greenleaf Music)
311. Pete Zimmer Quintet: Judgment (Tippin)
312. Matt Duke: Winter Child (MAD Dragon)
313. Rossano Sportiello: Heart and Soul (Arbors)
314. Ayelet Rose Gottlieb: Mayim Rabim (Tzadik) *
315. Mike LeDonne: On Fire (Savant)
316. The Mary Lou Williams Collective: Zodiac Suite: Revisited (Mary)
317. Francisco Pais: Not Afraid of Color (Fresh Sound New Talent)
318. Robert Stillman: Horses (Mill Pond)
319. Billy Martin: Solo Live Tonic 2002 (Amulet)
320. Charles Gayle: Time Zones (Tompkins Square) *
321. The Omer Avital Group: Asking No Permission (1996, Smalls)
322. Beans (featuring William Parker and Hamid Drake): Only (Thirsty Ear)
323. Jazzmob: Infernal Machine (Jazzaway)
324. Daniel Santiago: On the Way (Adventure Music)
325. The John Popper Project Featuring DJ Logic (Relix) *
326. The Eddie Daniels Quartet: Mean What You Say (IPO)
327. Duke Robillard: Guitar Groove-A-Rama (Stony Plain)
328. Sex Mob: Sexotica (Thirsty Ear)
329. The Paul Carlon Octet: Other Tongues (Deep Tone)
330. Christian Scott: Rewind That (Concord)
331. Don Braden: Workin' (HighNote)
332. Arnal/Misterka/Radding/Wooley: Transit (Clean Feed)
333. Marcus Goldhaber: The Moment After (Fallen Apple)
334. DJ Logic: Zen of Logic (Ropeadope) *
335. Carlos Barbosa-Lima: Carioca (Zoho)
336. Joe Locke & Charles Rafalides: Van Gogh by Numbers (Wire Walker)
337. Bernd Lhotzky: Piano Portrait (Arbors)
338. Ralph Towner: Time Line (ECM)
339. Heernt: Locked in a Basement (RazDaz/Sunnyside)
340. Paul Bollenback: Brightness of Being (Elefant Dreams)
341. Gebhard Ullmann/Chris Dahlgren/Jay Rosen: Cut It Out (Leo)
342. Sarah Hommel: A Sarah Hommel Drum All (Sahara Ford)
343. Roger Davidson: Pensando En Ti (Soundbrush)
344. Daryl Sherman: Guess Who's in Town (Arbors)
345. Bill Anschell: More to the Ear Than Meets the Eye (Origin)
346. Stefon Harris: African Tarantella (Blue Note)
347. Sergi Sirvent/Santi Careta: Anacrònics (Fresh Sound New Talent)
348. Vicente Espí Quartet: Tras Coltrane (Fresh Sound New Talent)
349. Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra: Sacred Music of Duke Ellington (Origin, 2CD)
350. Bill Bruford/Tim Garland: Earthworks Underground Orchestra (Summerfold)
351. Kevin Hays: Piano Works III: Open Range (ACT)
352. Ken Filiano & Steve Adams: The Other Side of This (Clean Feed) *
353. Pete Zimmer Quintet: Burnin' Live at the Jazz Standard (Tippin')
354. John McLaughlin: Industrial Zen (Verve)
355. Andrew Rathbun/George Colligan: Renderings: The Art of the Duo (Fresh Sound New Talent)
356. Laszlo Gardony: Natural Instinct (Sunnyside)
357. Rez Abbasi: Bazaar (Zoho)
358. Colin Stranahan: Transformation (Capri)
359. Mingus Big Band: Live in Tokyo (Sunnyside)
360. Béla Fleck & the Flecktones: The Hidden Land (Columbia)
361. Mike Melvoin Presents Dan Jaffe: Playing the Word (City Light)
362. Ahleuchatistas: What You Will (Cuneiform)
363. Matthew Shipp: One (Thirsty Ear)
364. Mort Weiss Meets Sam Most (SMS Jazz)
365. Ray Barretto: Standards Rican-ditioned (Zoho)
366. Brazilian Girls: Talk to La Bomb (Verve Forecast)
367. Andy Biskin: Trio Tragico (Strudelmedia)
368. The Taylor/Fidyk Big Band: Live at Blues Alley (OA2)
369. Lucian Ban & Alex Harding: Tuba Project (CIMP)
370. Fred Wesley & the Swing'N Jazz All-Stars: It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (Sons of Sound)
371. Stevie Holland: More Than Words Can Say (150 Music)
372. Shawn Glyde: Alternate Rhythm (Imuso)
373. Dafnis Prieto: Absolute Quintet (Zoho)
374. Madeleine Peyroux: Half the Perfect World (Rounder)
375. McGill Manring Stevens: What We Do (Free Electric Sound, 2CD)
376. Michael Moore Quintet: Osiris (Ramboy)
377. Saadet Türköz: Urumchi (Intakt)
378. Dominique Eade/Jed Wilson: Open (Jazz Project)
379. Mike Marshall/Hamilton de Holanda: New Worlds/Novas Palavras (Adventure Music)
380. Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (Verve Forecast)
381. Diego Urcola: Viva (Cam Jazz)
382. The Miles Donahue Quintet: In the Pocket (Amerigo)
383. Yellowjackets: Twenty Five (Heads Up)
384. Shaynee Rainbolt: At Home (33 Jazz)
385. The Wood Brothers: Ways Not to Lose (Blue Note)
386. John Holloway: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Sonatas and Partitas (ECM New Series, 2CD)

387. George Cotsirilos: On the Rebop (OA2)
388. Anton Schwartz: Radiant Blue (Anton Jazz)
389. Spady: The Long Way Around and Other Short Stories (Post Script)
390. Mike Holober: Wish List (Sons of Sound)
391. John Bunch: At the Nola Penthouse: Salutes Jimmy Van Heusen (Arbors)
392. Phil Kelly & the SW Santa Ana Winds: My Museum (Origin)
393. Janice Borla: From Every Angle (Blujazz)
394. IMI Kollektief: Snug as a Gun (Clean Feed) *
395. Archie Bronson Outfit: Derdang Derdang (Domino)
396. Nelly Furtado: Loose (Geffen) **
397. Harry Connick Jr.: Harry on Broadway: Act 1 (Columbia, 2CD) **
398. Oscar Peñas Group: The Return of Astronautus (Fresh Sound New Talent)
399. Martirio & Chano Domínguez: Acoplados (Sunnyside)
400. Gypsy Schaeffer: Portamental (PeaceTime)
401. Maria Kalaniemi: Bellow Poetry (Alula)
402. Kid Rock & the Twisted Brown Trucker Band: 'Live' Trucker (Atlantic) **
403. Chico Hamilton: 6th Avenue Romp (Joyous Shout) *
404. The Baldwin Brothers: Return of the Golden Rhodes (TVT)
405. The Diplomats: We Are Not Obstinate Islands (Clean Feed) *
406. Sonya Kitchell: Words Came Back to Me (Velour)
407. Edward Simon: Unicity (CAM Jazz)
408. Dave Stryker: The Chaser (Mel Bay)
409. Mark Feldman: What Exit (ECM)
410. John Butcher/Paal Nilssen-Love: Concentric (Clean Feed) *
411. Philippe Baden Powell: Estrada de Terra/Dirt Road (Adventure Music)
412. Jay Lawrence Trio: Thermal Strut (OA2)
413. Chet Doxas Quartet: Sidewalk Etiquette (Justin Time)
414. Bang on a Can/Don Byron: A Ballad for Many (Cantaloupe)
415. Sam Moore: Overnight Sensation (Rhino)
416. Tom Wurth (Aspirion)
417. Dave Liebman & Bobby Avey: Vienna Dialogues (Zoho)
418. Jackie Greene: American Myth (Verve Forecast)
419. Mike Frost Project: Comin' Straight At Ya' (Blujazz)
420. One for All: The Lineup (Sharp Nine)
421. The Frankenstein Consort: Classical A-Go-Go (Sfz)
422. Santi Careta Group: Obertura (Fresh Sound New Talent)
423. Keith Jarrett: The Carnegie Hall Concert (ECM, 2CD)
424. Dixie Chicks: Taking the Long Way (Open Wide/Columbia)
425. Papa John DeFrancesco: Desert Heat (Savant)
426. Chico Hamilton: Believe (Joyous Shout)
427. Mujician: There's No Going Back Now (Cuneiform)
428. Tom Cohen: The Guitar Trio Project (Dreambox Media)
429. Sam Bardfeld: Periodic Trespasses (Fresh Sound New Talent)
430. Daniel Smith: Bebop Bassoon (Zah Zah)
431. Ludacris: Release Therapy (Disturbing Tha Peace)
432. Kat Parra: Birds in Flight (JazzMa)
433. Al Di Meola: Consequence of Chaos (Telarc)
434. Elvis Costello Live With the Metropole Orkest: My Flame Burns Blue (Deutsche Grammophon, 2CD)
435. John Pizzarelli/The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra: Dear Mr. Sinatra (Telarc)
436. Charlie Musselwhite: Delta Hardware (RealWorld)
437. Vijay Iyer & Rudresh Mahanthappa: Raw Materials (Savoy Jazz)
438. Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint: The River in Reverse (Verve Forecast)
439. Will Holshouser Trio: Singing to a Bee (Clean Feed) *
440. The Bob Gallo Quintet: Wake-Up Call (CD Baby)
441. Anne Ducros: Piano, Piano (Dreyfus)
442. Chicago Underground Duo: In Praise of Shadows (Thrill Jockey)
443. Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Geffen) **
444. Lulendo: Angola (Buda Musique)
445. Chick Corea: The Ultimate Adventure (Stretch)
446. Tresa Jordan (South River Road)
447. David Berger & the Sultans of Swing: Hindustan (Such Sweet Thunder)
448. Toots Thielemans: One for the Road (Verve)
449. Michael Carvin: Marsalis Music Honors Michael Carvin (Marsalis Music/Rounder)
450. Planet Jazz: In Orbit (Sharp Nine)
451. Angá: Echu Mingua (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
452. Jeff Barnhart: In My Solitude (Arbors Piano Series, Volume 16) (Arbors)
453. Frank Kimbrough: Play (Palmetto) *
454. The RH Factor: Distractions (Verve)
455. World Drummers Ensemble: A Coat of Many Colors (Summerfold)
456. The Skip Heller Trio: Liberal Dose (Skyeways)
457. Pat Martino: Remember: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery (Blue Note)
458. Monsieur Dubois: Ruff (Challenge)
459. Gutbucket: Sludge Test (Cantaloupe)
460. Norm Kubrin: I Thought About You (Arbors)
461. Mindi Abair: Life Less Ordinary (GRP) *
462. Nancy Wilson: Turned to Blue (MCG Jazz)
463. Michael O'Neill: Ontophony (Songlines)
464. Manuel Valera: Melancolía (Mavo)
465. Brad Goode: Hypnotic Suggestion (Delmark)
466. Aaron Irwin Group: Into the Light (Fresh Sound New Talent)
467. Cassandra Wilson: Thunderbird (Blue Note)
468. Ugetsu: Live at the Cellar (Cellar Live)
469. Janis Siegel: A Thousand Beautiful Things (Telarc)
470. Andrey Dergatchev: The Return (ECM) *
471. Fred Hersch: In Amsterdam: Live at the Bimhuis (Palmetto) *
472. Monty Alexander: Concrete Jungle: The Music of Bob Marley (Telarc)
473. Cecil Brooks III: Double Exposure (Savant)
474. Dr. John: Right Place, Right Time (1989, Skinji Brim/Hyena)
475. Billy Martin: Starlings (Tzadik)
476. Roseanna Vitro: Live at the Kennedy Center (Challenge)
477. Incognito: Eleven (Narada Jazz)
478. Eric Darius: Just Getting Started (Narada Jazz) *
479. Nick Colionne: Keepin' It Cool (Narada Jazz) *
480. Jaco Pastorius Big Band: The Word Is Out (Heads Up)
481. Nils Landgren & Joe Sample: Creole Love Call (ACT)
482. Darrell Scott: The Invisible Man (Full Light)
483. Bob Sneider & Paul Hofmann: Escapade (Sons of Sound)
484. John Moulder: Trinity (Origin)
485. Gnappy: Unloaded (Bean Pie)
486. Bonnie Bramlett and Mr. Groove Band: Roots, Blues & Jazz (Zoho Roots)
487. John Rich: Underneath the Same Moon (BNA/Legacy)
488. Erin Boheme: What Love Is (Concord)
489. Jerry Vivino: Walkin'; With the Wazmo (Zoho)
490. Mary Foster Conklin: Blues for Breakfast (Rhombus)
491. Carl Hancock Rux: Good Bread Alley (Thirsty Ear) *
492. Elliott Caine Quintet: Blues From Mars (EJC Music)
493. Wesla Whitfield: Livin' on Love (High Note)
494. Bruce Arkin Quartet: Wake Up! (Fresh Sound New Talent)
495. Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet: ONJQ Live in Lisbon (Clean Feed) *
496. Pete Malinverni: Joyful! (ArtistShare)
497. Miles Donahue: Bounce (Amerigo)
498. Cyrus Chestnut: Genuine Chestnut (Telarc)
499. Quinsin Nachoff: Magic Numbers (Songlines)
500. Roy Hargrove: Nothing Serious (Verve)
501. Deadstring Brothers: Starving Winter Report (Bloodshot)

502. Thirsty Ear Presents: Nu Jazz Today (Thirsty Ear) *
503. Melvin Sparks: Groove On Up (Savant)
504. Tomasz Stanko: Chameleon (TC Music)
505. Bruno Hubert Trio/B3 Kings: A Cellar Live Christmas (Cellar Live)
506. Oleta Adams: Christmas Time With Oleta (Koch)
507. Chico Hamilton: Heritage (Joyous Shout)
508. Jazz Yule Love II (Mack Avenue)
509. Ann Hampton Callaway: Blues in the Night (Telarc)
510. JC and the Jazz Hoppers: Chillin' at Home (Jazz-Hop)
511. Joe Locke-Geoffrey Keezer Group: Live in Seattle (Origin)
512. HR-Bigband: Once in a Lifetime (TCB)
513. Warren Vaché and the Scottish Ensemble: Don't Look Back (Arbors)
514. Benevento/Russo Duo: Play Pause Stop (Butter Problems/Reincarnate Music) *
515. Hironobu Saito: The Sea (Fresh Sound New Talent)
516. Chico Hamilton: Juniflip (Joyous Shout)
517. Mike Stern: Who Let the Cats Out? (Heads Up)
518. Fred Lonberg-Holm Quartet: Bridges Freeze Before Roads (Longbox)
519. Taylor Eigsti: Lucky to Be Me (Concord)
520. Chris Gestrin/Ben Monder/Dylan van der Schyff: The Distance (Songlines)
521. Larry Goldings: Quartet (Palmetto) *
522. Harri Stojka: A Tribute to Gypsy Swing (Zoho)
523. Geri Allen: Timeless Portraits and Dreams (Telarc)
524. Liam Sillery With the David Sills Quartet: On the Fly (OA2)
525. Jim Brickman: Escape (SLG)
526. Wayne Horvitz: Whispers, Hymns and a Murmur: Music for a String Quartet (Tzadik) *
527. Diane Delin: Offerings for a Peaceable Season (Blujazz)
528. The Robert Cray Band: Live From Across the Pond (Nozzle/Vanguard, 2CD)
529. Joyce Cooling: Revolving Door (Narada Jazz) *
530. Jason Miles: What's Going On? (Narada Jazz) *

531. Susi Hyldgaard: Blush (Enja/Justin Time)
532. Albert Kuvezin and Yat-Kha: Re-Covers (World Village)
533. Janet Jackson: 20 Years Old (Virgin) **
534. Michael Bolton: Bolton Swings Sinatra (Concord)
535. Winds of Brazil (Um Sopro de Brasil) (Adventure Music)
536. The Matt Savage Trio: Quantum Leap (Savage)
537. Erich Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops Orchestra: Christmastime Is Here (Telarc)
538. The Catz in the Hatz: Resilience (Rhombus)
539. The Chris Walden Big Band: No Bounds (Origin)

540. Javon Jackson: Now (Palmetto) *
541. Peter Eldridge: Decorum (www.petereldridge.com)
542. Steve Oliver: Snowfall (Koch)
543. Randy Brecker w/Michael Brecker: Some Skunk Funk (Telarc)
544. Tom Lellis: Avenue of the Americas (Beamtide)
545. Chris Walden Big Band: Winter Games (Origin, EP)

546. Cheryl Bentyne: The Book of Love (Telarc)
547. Michel Camilo: Rhapsody in Blue (Telarc)
548. Lisa B: What's New Pussycat? Tunes & Tales About Cool Cats (Piece of Pie)
549. Chicago: XXX (Rhino) **
550. The Ed Palermo Big Band: Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance (Cuneiform)

Compilations/Vault Music:

1. Chuck Berry: The Definitive Collection (1955-72, Geffen/Chess/Chronicles)
2. Night in Tunisia: The Very Best of Dizzy Gillespie (1946-49, Bluebird/Legacy)
3. Wilson Pickett: The Definitive Collection (1961-71, Atlantic/Rhino, 2CD)
4. The Essential George Jones (1954-99, Epic/Legacy, 2CD)
5. Fats Waller: If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It (1926-43, Bluebird/Legacy, 3CD)
6. Muddy Waters: The Definitive Collection (1948-76, Geffen/Chess/Chronicles)
7. Buddy Holly: The Definitive Collection (1956-58, Geffen/Decca/Chronicles)
8. Sonny Rollins: Milestone Profiles (1972-2001, Milestone)
9. God Bless the Child: The Very Best of Billie Holiday (1935-42, Columbia/Legacy)
10. Irène Schweizer: Portrait (1984-2004, Intakt)
11. Ska Bonanza: The Studio One "Ska" Years (1961-65, Heartbeat, 2CD)
12. Etta James: The Definitive Collection (1954-2004, Geffen/Chronicles)
13. Bob Wills: Legends of Country Music (1932-73, Columbia/Legacy, 4CD)
14. New Order: Singles (1981-2005, Rhino, 2CD)
15. Pérez Prado: The Hits (1949-59, RCA/Legacy)
16. Ernest Tubb: The Definitive Collection (1941-67, MCA Nashville/Chronicles)
17. One O'Clock Jump: The Very Best of Count Basie (1936-42, Columbia/Legacy)

18. Thomas Mapfumo: Spirits to Bite Our Ears: The Singles Collection 1977-1986 (DBK)
19. The Miles Davis Quintet: The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions (1955-58, Prestige, 4CD)
20. Allen Ginsberg: First Blues (1971-81, Water, 2CD)
21. Ion Petre Stoican: Sounds From a Bygone Age Vol. 1 (1966-77, Asphalt Tango) %
22. The Best of Delroy Wilson: Original Eighteen Deluxe Edition (1964-70, Heartbeat)
23. Hallelujah Chicken Run Band: Take One (1974-79, Alula)
24. Otis Redding: Stax Profiles (1966-68, Stax)
25. Crunk Hits Vol. 2 (2004-05, TVT)
26. Journey Into Paradise: The Larry Levan Story (1978-86, Rhino, 2CD)
27. Archie Shepp: The Impulse Story (1964-72, Impulse)
28. Joe Henderson: Milestone Profiles (1967-75, Milestone)
29. Downbeat the Ruler: Killer Instrumentals From Studio One (1966-74, Heartbeat)
30. Everybody's Talkin': The Very Best of Harry Nilsson (1967-77, RCA/Legacy)
31. The Best of Studio One (1967-80, Heartbeat)
32. John Coltrane: The Impulse Story (1961-67, Impulse)
33. '70s Soul: Gold (1970-79, Hip-O, 2CD)
34. Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou: Éthiopiques 21: Ethiopia Song (1963-96, Buda Musique)
35. Sonny Rollins: The Impulse Story (1965-66, Impulse)
36. Rufus Thomas: Stax Profiles (1967-75, Stax)
37. The Essential Charley Pride (1966-84, RCA Nashville/Legacy, 2CD) *
38. Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane: The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings (1957, Riverside, 2CD)
39. Earl King: The Sonet Blues Story (1977, Verve)
40. Best of Luna (1992-2004, Elektra/Rhino)
41. The Rough Guide to Bhangra Dance (1998-2005, World Music Network)
42. Buddy Guy: Can't Quit the Blues (1957-2005, Silvertone/Legacy, 3CD)
43. Jerry Lee Lewis: The Definitive Collection (1957-81, Hip-O/Chronicles)
44. Do You Love Him Like You Say: The Very Best of Terence Trent D'Arby (The Hits) (1987-95, Columbia/Legacy)
45. The Staple Singers: Stax Profiles (1969-73, Stax)
46. Fatboy Slim: The Greatest Hits: Why Try Harder (1996-2006, Astralwerks) **
47. Big Joe Williams: The Sonet Blues Story (1972, Verve)
48. Romica Puceanu & the Gore Brothers: Sounds From a Bygone Age, Vol. 2 (1964-73, Asphalt Tango)
49. Champion Jack Dupree: The Sonet Blues Story (1971, Verve)
50. Buck Owens: 21 #1 Hits: The Ultimate Collection (1963-88, Rhino)
51. Nils Petter Molvaer: An American Compilation (2001-06, Thirsty Ear)
52. Tom T. Hall: The Definitive Collection (1968-84, Hip-O)
53. Waylon Jennings: Nashville Rebel (1958-95, RCA Nashville/Legacy, 4CD)
54. Steve Earle: The Definitive Collection (1983-97, Hip-O)
55. The Green Arrows: 4-Track Recording Session (1974-79, Alula)
56. Conway Twitty: Gold (1958-91, MCA Nashville, 2CD)
57. Pharoah Sanders: The Impulse Story (1966-73, Impulse)
58. The House That Trane Built: The Best of Impulse Records (1961-76, Impulse)

Pending:

1. Cannonball Adderley: Riverside Profiles (1958-62, Riverside)
2. Chet Baker: Riverside Profiles (1958-59, Riverside)
3. The Beatles: Love (1963-70, Capitol)
4. Mary J Blige: Reflections (A Retrospective) (Geffen)
5. The Essential Michael Bolton (1987-99, Columbia/Legacy, 2CD)
6. Eric Burdon: Wild & Wicked (AIM)
7. Stella Chiweshe: Double Check (1987-2005, Piranha, 2CD)
8. Corbett Vs. Dempsey: Eye & Ear (1943-2004, Atavistic)
9. DJ Quik: Born and Raised in Compton: The Greatest Hits (Arista/Profile/Legacy)
10. Earth, Wind & Fire: Beautiful Ballads (1973-79, Columbia/Legacy)
11. Edition Pierre Verger: Africa: From Dakar to Johannesburg (Playa Sound)
12. Edition Pierre Verger: Japan: From Kyoto to Tokyo (Playa Sound)
13. The Essential Gloria Estefan (1984-2003, Epic/Legacy, 2CD)
14. Bill Evans: Riverside Profiles (1958-63, Riverside)
15. Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal (The Numero Group)
16. John Lee Hooker: Hooker (Shout! Factory, 4CD)
17. The Isley Brothers: Beautiful Ballads, Volume 2 (1972-85, Epic/Legacy)
18. Ricky Jay Plays Poker (Octone/Legacy)
19. Gladys Knight & the Pips: Beautiful Ballads (RCA/Legacy) *
20. Patty LaBelle: Beautiful Ballads (1976-86, Epic/Legacy)
21. The Microscopic Septet: Seven Men in Neckties: History of the Micros Volume One (1982-90, Cuneiform, 2CD)
22. The Microscopic Septet: Surrealistic Swing: History of the Micros Volume Two (1981-90, Cuneiform, 2CD)
23. Life of the Infamous: The Best of Mobb Deep (1993-2004, Loud/Legacy)
24. Thelonious Monk: Riverside Profiles (1955-59, Riverside)
25. Wes Montgomery: Riverside Profiles (1959-63, Riverside)
26. The O'Jays: Beautiful Ballads (1969-93, Epic/Legacy)
27. Panama! Latin, Calypso and Funk on the Isthmus 1965-75 (Soundway) *
28. Putumayo Presents: Blues Around the World (Putumayo World Music)
29. Putumayo Presents: One World, Many Cultures (Putumayo World Music)
30. Putumayo Presents: Radio Latino (Putumayo World Music)
31. Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? The Best of the Replacements (1981-2006, Sire/Reprise/Rhino)
32. Savoy Brown: Blues, Balls & Boogie (AIM)
33. Frankie Lee Sims: Walking With Frankie (1960, AIM)
34. Stereolab: Serene Velocity: A Stereolab Anthology (1993-2003, Rhino/Elektra)
35. The Tommy Boy Story Vol. 1 (Rhino, 2CD)
36. The U.S. vs. John Lennon (Capitol)