Staff Picks 2007

David R. Adler

1. Michael Brecker - Pilgrimage - Heads Up
2. Joe Lovano & Hank Jones - Kids: Live at Dizzy's - Blue Note
3. Bill McHenry - Roses - Sunnyside
4. Maria Schneider - Sky Blue - ArtistShare
5. Jason Lindner Big Band - Live at the Jazz Gallery - Anzic
6. Joshua Redman - Back East - Nonesuch
7. Enrico Pieranunzi - Live In Japan - CAM Jazz
8. David Murray Black Saint Quartet - Sacred Ground - Justin Time
9. Michael Blake - Amor de Cosmos - Songlines
10. Human Feel - Galore - Skirl

1. Delta Saxophone Quartet - Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening: The Music Of Soft Machine - Moonjune
2. Kneebody - Low Electrical Worker - Self Produced
3. Yutaka Uchida - Living Together - Self Produced
4. David Torn - Prezens - ECM Records
5. Omer Avital - Arrival - Fresh Sounds New Talent
6. Alex Machacek/Matthew Garrison/Jeff Sipe - Improvision - Abstract Logix
7. Teddy Presberg - Bluepring Of Soul - Outright Music/Ropeadope
8. Chris Potter Underground - Follow The Red Line: Live At The Village Vanguard - Sunnyside
9. Alan Pasqua - The Antisocial Club - Cryptogramophone
10. Soft Machine Legacy - Steam - Moonjune

1. Joe Lovano & Hank Jones - Kids: Duets Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola - Blue Note Records
2. Maria Schneider - Sky Blue - Self Produced
3. Charles Tolliver - With Love - Blue Note Records
4. Nicole Mitchell - Black Unstoppable - Delmark
5. Vijay Iyer - Still Life with Commentator - Savoy
6. Stefano Battaglia - Re: Pasolini - ECM
7. Joshua Redman Trio - Back East - Nonesuch
8. Ted Curson - In Paris: Live at the Sunside - Blue Marge
9. Enrico Rava Quintet - The Words And The Days - ECM
10. Dee Dee Bridgewater - Red Earth -Universal

1. Jakob Bro - Pearl River - Loveland Records
2. Josh Nelson - Let it Go - Native Language
3. Fred Hersch Trio - Night & the Music - Palmetto Records
4. Fred Anderson - From the River to the Ocean - Thrill Jockey
5. Enrico Rava - The Words and the Days - ECM
6. Jerry Bergonzi - Tenorist - Savant
7. John Abercrombie - The Third Quartet - ECM
8. Paul Motian - Time and Time Again - ECM
9. David Torn - Prezens - ECM
10. Exploding Star Orchestra - We Are All From Somewhere Else - Thrill Jockey

1. Ron Carter - Dear Miles - Blue Note
2. John McLean - Better Angels - Origin
3. Chicago Underground Trio - Chronicle - Delmark
4. Patrick Prouty - The Charmed Life - Leedle Music
5. Wallace Roney - Jazz - High Note
6. The Rodriguez Brothers - Conversations - Savant
7. Zaid Nasser - Escape From New York - Smalls
8. Carl Allen & Rodney Whitaker - Get Ready - Mack Avenue
9. Kahil El'Zabar's Infinity Orchestra - Transmigration - Delmark
10. Deep Blue Organ Trio - Folk Music - Origin

1. Big Band Urban Folktales - Bobby Sanabria - Jazzheads
2. In Case You Missed It - Marlon Simon and the Nagual Spirits - Jazzheads
3. Papa Mambo - The John Santos Quintet - Machete Records
4. Con Alma - Mark Weinstein - Jazzheads
5. From The Badlands - Papo Vazquez Pirates Troubadours
6. Tambolero - Jazz on the Latin Side All Stars - Saungu Records
7. Funk Tango - Paquito D'Rivera Quintet - Sunnyside Records
8. Buenos Aires Tango Standards - Pablo Aslan - Zoho
9. For The Rest of Your Life - Chembo Corniel - Chemboró Records, Inc.
10. A Genesis - Insight - Curtis Brothers Music

1. Maria Schneider Orchestra - Sky Blue - ArtistShare
2. Andy Martin-Jan Lundgren Quartet - How About You - Fresh Sound Records
3. Wayne Bergeron - Plays Well With Others - Concord Jazz
4. Steve Huffsteter Big Band - Live at Cafe 322 - Specs-X Music
5. Turtle Island String Quartet - A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane - Telarc
6. Bill Holman Band - Hommage - Jazzed Media
7. Jose Rizo's Jazz on the Latin Side All Stars - Tambolero - Saungu

1. Warren Smith - Natural/Cultural Forces - Engine Studios
2. 3 Cohens - Braid - Anzic Records
3. Fred Hersch - Night and the Music - Palmetto
4. Jason Lindner Big Band - Live at the Jazz Gallery - Anzic Records
5. Amir ElSaffar - Two Rivers - Pi Recordings
6. Paul Motian Trio 2000 + Two - Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. - Winter & Winter
7. Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette - My Foolish Heart - ECM
8. Tony Malaby - Tamarindo - Clean Feed
9. MI - Free Advice - Clean Feed
10. Steve Lehman Quartet - Manifold - Clean Feed

1. Antonio Sanchez - Migration - CamJazz
2. Jacky Terrasson - Mirror - Blue Note
3. Billy Martin / John Medeski - Mago - Amulet
4. John Scofield - This Meets That - Emarcy
5. Chris Whitley / Jeff Lang - Dislocation Blues - Rounder
6. Club d'Elf - Perhapsody Live - Kufala
7. Charlie Hunter Trio - Mistico - Fantasy
8. Dave Brubeck - Indian Summer - Telarc
9. John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - In the Palace of The King - Eagle
10. MaMaVig - MaMaVig - Self Produced

1. Dave Rempis/Bishop/Daisy/McBride - The Engines - Okka
2. McCoy Tyner - McCoy Tyner Quartet - McCoy Tyner Music
3. Dennis Gonzalez NY Quartet - Dance Of The Soothsayer's Tongue - Clean Feed
4. Jimmy Bruno - Maplewood Avenue - Affiliated Artists
5. Alessandro Bosetti - Her Name - Crouton
6. Nicole Mitchell/Bankhead/Drake - Live In Montrwal - Greenlief
7. Michael Musillami Trio - The Treatment - Playscape
8. Bobby Selvaggio - UnSpoken Dialogue - Playscape
9. Mostly Other People Do The Killing - Shamokin!!! - Hot Cup
10. Carla Bley - The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu - ECM

1. Alex Machacek, Jeff Sipe, Matthew Garrison - Improvision - Abstract Logix
2. Ben Monder, Theo Bleckmann - At Night - Songlines
3. Andre Fernandes - Timbuktu - Tone of a Pitch
4. Steve Lehman - On Meaning - Pi Recordings
5. Mike Brecker - Pilgrimage - HeadsUp
6. Adam Rogers - "Time and the Infinite - Criss Cross
7. Mike Moreno - Between the Lines - World Culture Music
8. Alan Pasqua - The Antisocial Club - Cryptogramophone
9. Frank LoCrasto - When You're There - MaxJazz
10. Logan Richardson - Cerebral Flow - Fresh Sound New Talent
11. Kneebody - Low Electrical Worker - Colortone Media

1. Maria Schneider - Sky Blue - Artistshare
2. Various Artists - The Benny Carter Centennial Project - Evening Star
3. Dave Brubeck - Indian Summer - Telarc
4. Phil Woods & Irio De Paula - The Gershwin Affair - Philology
5. Wayne Escoffery - Veneration - Savant
6. Hal Galper - Furious Rubato - Origin
7. Bud Shank & Bill Mays - Beyond the Red Door - Jazzed Media
8. Jerry Bergonzi - Tenorist - Savant
9. Anat Fort - A Long Story - ECM
10. Judy Niemack - Blue Nights - BluJazz

1. John Abercrombie Quartet - The Third Quartet - ECM
2. Metheny and Mehldau - Duet - Nonesuch
3. David Torn - Prezens - ECM
4. Dino Saluzzi / Anja Lechner - Ojos Negros - ECM
5. Eivind Aarset - Sonic Codex - Jazzland Recordings
6. Kokan Dimusevski - Works - Aura Publishing
7. Keith Jarrett Trio - My Foolish heart - ECM
8. Orchestra Baobab - Made In Dakar - World Circuit
9. Jordan Kostov and Ensemble Moderne - Chicken Madness
10. Ry Cooder - My Name is Buddy

1. Abercrombie, John - The Third Quartet - ECM
2. Ardizzone, Leonia - Quartet Afraid of the Heights - Self Produced
3. Binney, David/Edward Simon - Oceanos - Criss Cross
4. Hancock, Herbie - River:The Joni Letters - Verve
5. Herberman, Steve Trio - Action:Reaction - Reach
6. Nordic Connection - Ingrid Jensen - Flurry - ArtistShare
7. Octobop - Very Early - Mystic Lane
8. Pisano, John - Guitar Night - Mel Bay
9. Schneider, Maria Orchestra - Sky Blue - ArtistShare
10. Stiles, Joan - Hurly-Burly - Oo-Bla-Dee

1. Keith Jarrett - The Carnegie Hall Concert - ECM
2. Sinnika Langeland - Starflowers - ECM
3. Pietro Tonolo - Your Songs: The Music Of Elton John - ObliqSound
4. Anat Fort - A Long Story - ECM
5. Paul Bley - Solo In Mondsee - ECM
6. Andy Milne & Gregoire Maret - Scenarios - ObliqSound
7. Sam Sadigursky - The Words Project - New Amsterdam

1. Sylvie Courvoisier - Lonelyville - Intakt
2. John Coxon / Wadada Leo Smith - Brooklyn Duos - Treader
3. Mostly Other People Do The Killing - Shamokin!!! - Hot Cup Records
4. John Butcher - The Geometry of Sentiment - Emanem
5. Jorrit Dijkstra + John Hollenbeck - Sequence - Trytone
6. Sainkho Namchylak / Roy Carroll - Tuva-Irish Live Music Project - Leo
7. Swami LatePlate - Bobby Previte & Jamie Saft - Doom Jazz - Veal
8. Fred Anderson / Hamid Drake - From the River to the Ocean - Thrill Jockey
9. Aki Takase / Silke Eberhard - Ornette Coleman Anthology - Intakt
10. Territory Band-6 with Fred Anderson - Collide (for Fred Anderson, Bruno Johnson and Michael Orlove) - Okka

1. Sonny Rollins - Sonny, Please - Doxy
2. Abbey Lincoln - Abbey Sings Abbey - Verve
3. Peter Brötzmann/Mats Gustafsson/Ken Vandermark - Sonore: Only the Devil Has No Dreams - Jazzwerkstatt
4. Trio M (Myra Melford/Mark Dresser/Matt Wilson) - Big Picture - Cryptogramophone
5. Wadada Leo Smith/Gunter Baby Sommer - Wisdom in Time - Intakt
6. Billy Bang - Above & Beyond: An Evening in Grand Rapids (feat. Frank Lowe) - Justin Time
7. (Various Artists) - Free Zone Appleby 2006 - Psi
8. David S. Ware - Renunciation - AUM Fidelity
9. Enrico Rava Quintet - The Words and the Days - ECM
10. McCoy Tyner - Quartet - McCoy Tyner Music/Half Note

1. Other Dimensions in Music - Live at the Sunset - Marge
2. Speeq-Or - Live at Strasbourg - Red Note
3. Amir ElSaffar - Two Rivers - Pi
4. Carla Kihlstedt & Satoko Fujii - Minamo - Henceforth
5. Powerhouse Sound - Oslo/Chicago: Breaks - Atavistic
6. Supersilent - 8 - Rune Grammofon
7. Terje Isungset - Two Moons - All Ice
8. Wadada Leo Smith & Günter 'Baby' Sommer - Wisdom in Time - Intakt
9. Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet - Inner Constellations, Vol.1 - Nemu
10. Otomo Yoshihide New Jazz Orchestra - Live Vol. 1 - Series Circuit & 2 - Parallel Circuit - Doubt Music

1. Cato Salsa Experience/The Thing/Joe Mcphee - Two Bands And A Legend - Smalltown Superjazz
2. Brotzmann Chicago Tentet - American Landscapes - Okkadisk
3. Don Friedman - Waltz For Marilyn - Jazz Excursion
4. Francois Houle/Evan Parker/Benoit Delbecq - La Lumière de Pierres - Psi
5. Joachim Kuhn/Majid Bekkas - Kalimba - ACT
6. Evan Parker/Ned Rothenberg - Live At Roulette - Animul
7. Herb Robertson - Live At Alchemia - Not Two
8. Sonore - Only The Devil Has No Dreams - Jazzwerkstatt
9. David Torn - Prezens - Ecm
10. Alexander Von Schlippenbach - Globe Unity - 40 Years - Intakt

1. Howard Alden & Ken Peplowski - Pow-Wow - Arbors
2. Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake - From The River To The Ocean - Thrill Jockey
3. Joshua Redman - Back East - Nonesuch
4. Michael Brecker - Pilgrimage - Heads Up
5. David Murray Black Saint Quartet - Sacred Ground - Justin Time
6. Terence Blanchard - A Tale Of God's Will - Blue Note
7. Fred Hersch Trio - Night And The Music - Palmetto
8. The Willie Williams Trio - Comet Ride - Miles High
9. The Bad Plus - Prog - Heads Up
10. Rex Richardson - Jazz Upstairs: Live At The Bar Guru - Summit

1. Michael Brecker - Pilgrimage
2. Tom Harrell - Light On
3. Akiko Tsuruga - Sweet and Funky
4. Robert Sabin - Romero
5. Kenny Werner - Lawn Chair Society
6. Metheny / Mehldau - Quartet
7. Keith Jarrett - My Foolish Heart
8. Anat Cohen - Poetica
9. Terence Blanchard - A Tale of God's Will - A Requiem for Katrina
10. Joshua Redman - Back East

1. SFJazz Collective - Live 2007: 4th Annual Concert Tour - SFJAZZ
2. Pablo Aslan - Buenos Aires Tango Standards - Zoho
3. Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake - From the River to the Ocean - Thrill Jockey
4. Ralph Alessi & This Against That - Look - Between the Lines
5. Dan Loomis Quartet - I Love Paris - Jazz Excursion
6. Paul Motian/Bill FRisell/Joe Lovano - Time and Time Again - ECM
7. Kurt Elling - Nightmoves - Concord
8. Jackson Harrison Trio - Land Tides - HatOLOGY
9. Ron Carter - Dear Miles - Blue Note
10. Tardo Hammer - Look, Stop & Listen: The Music of Tadd Dameron - Sharp 9

1. Michael Bisio - CIMP 360: Circle This - CIMP
2. Blueprint Project / Han Bennink - People I Like - Creative Nation Music
3. Harris Eisenstadt - The All Seeing Eye + Octets - Poo Bah
4. Steve Lacy / Roswell Rudd - Early And Late - Cuneiform
5. Michael Mussilami - The Treatment - Playscape
6. Mrafi - Eduardo Marraffa- La Terra Di Giubba - RAI Trade
7. Other Dimensions In Music - Live At The Sunset - Marge
8. William Parker - Alphaville Suite - Rogue Art
9. Steve Swell - Living In A Galaxy Of Goodwill And Sorrow - Rogue Art
10. Aki Takase / Silke Eberhard - Ornette Coleman Anthology - Intakt

1. Nik Bartsch's Ronin - Live - Ronin Rhythm Records
2. Buck 65 - Situation - Warner Music
3. Guillaume de Chassy - Piano solo - Bee Jazz
4. Exploding Star Orchestra - We are all from somewhere else - Thrill Jockey
5. Herbie Hancock - River: The Joni Letters - Verve
6. Orchestra Baobab - Made in Dakar - World Circuit
7. Chris Potter Underground - Follow the Red Line: Live at the Village Vanguard - Sunnyside
8. Rockingchair - Rockingchair - Chief Inspector
9. Maria Schneider Orchestra - Sky Blue - Artist House
10. Rachid Taha - Diwan 2 - Universal

1. The Blueprint Project with Han Bennink- People I Like - Creative Nation Music
2. Lol Coxhill - More Together Than Alone - Emanem
3. Kahil El'Zabar's Infinity Orchestra - Transmigration - Delmark
4. John Russell - Analekta - 2004/6 - Emanem
5. Sten Sandell Trio - Oval - Intakt
6. Sten Sandell Trio with John Butcher - Strokes - Cleanfeed
7. Wadada Leo Smith & Gunther Baby Sommer - Wisdom In Time - Intakt
8. Soft Machine Legacy - Steam - Moonjune
9. Aki Takase - Silke Eberhard/Ornette Coleman Anthology - Intakt
10. Robert Wyatt - Comicopera - Domino

1. Steve Kuhn - Live at Birdland - Blue Note
2. Anthony Wilson - Power of Nine - Groove Note
3. Bob Florence - Eternal Licks & Grooves - MAMA
4. Satoko Fujii - When We Were There - MTCG
5. Carey & Lurie Bell - Gettin' Up Live - Delmark
6. Joe Lovano - Steams of Expression - Blue Note
7. Jennifer Hall - Tribute to Gerry Mulligan - Sea Breeze
8. Andrew Hill - Solo - Mosaic Select
9. Hendrik Meurkens - New York Samba Jazz Quintet - ZOHO
10. Arturo Sandoval - Rumba Palace - Telarc

1. William Parker - Corn Meal Dance - AUM Fidelity
2. Anthony Braxton - 9 Compositions - Iridium200/Firehouse 12
3. Steve Swell - Swimming in a Galaxy of Goodwill and Sorrow - RogueArt
4. Taylor Ho Bynum - The Middle Picture - Firehouse 12
5. Taylor Ho Bynum/Thomas Fujiwara - True Events - 482 Music
6. Peter Evans - Peter Evans Quartet - Firehouse 12
7. Rob Brown - Sounds - Clean Feed
8. Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake - From The River To The Sea - Thrill Jockey
9. Convergence Quartet - FMR
10. Matthew Shipp - Piano Vortex - Thirsty Ear

1. Tim Berne's Bloodcount - Seconds - Screwgun Records
2. Cold Bleak Heat - Simitu - Family Vineyard
3. William Hooker & Sabir Mateen - Dharma - KMB Jazz
4. 1000 - Unplayable - Skycap Records
5. Anthony Braxton - Solo Willisau - Intakt Records
6. Avarus - Rasvaaja - Secret Eye
7. Evil Eye - Doin' It All for My Baby - KMB Jazz
8. Kill Devil Hills - Ex Kill Devil Hill - American Tapes
9. No Neck Blues Band - Roodemas - Sound at One
10. Graveyards - Black Paintings Vol.
11. Lost Treasures of the Underworld

1. Michael Brecker Pilgrimage - Heads Up
2. Metheny Mehldau Quartet - nonesuch
3. Keith Jarrett Standards Trio - My Foolish Heart - ECM
4. Joshua Redman - Back East - nonesuch
5. Eddie Daniels - Homecoming - IPO
6. SFJAZZ Collective - Live 2007 - SFJAZZ
7. Martin Bejerano - Evolution/Revolution - Reservoir
8. Steve Kuhn - Live at Birdland - Blue Note
9. Jonathan Kreisberg - South of Everywhere - Mel Bay Music

1. Chris Botti - Italia - Columbia
2. Andrea Bocelli - The Best Of Andrea Bocelli: Vivire - Decca Records
3. Harry Connick, Jr. - Oh, My Nola - Sony
4. Herbie Hancock - River: The Joni Letters - ANTOnline
5. Michael Buble - Call Me Irresponsible - Reprise/WEA
6. Dave Koz - At The Movies - Capitol
7. Jeff Lorber - He Had a Hat - Blue Note
8. Keiko Matsui - Moyo - Shout Factory
9. Avishai Cohen - As Is - Razdaz Recordz
10. Paula Cole - Courage - Decca Records

1. Trio of Doom: John McLaughlin, Jaco Pastorious & Tony Williams - Columbia/Legacy
2. Jane Monheit - Surrender - Concord Music Group
3. Randy Crawford & Joe Sample - Feeling Good - Universal
4. Chuck Loeb - Presence - Heads Up
5. Keiko Matsui - Moyo - Shout Factory
6. Michael Brecker - Pilgrimage - Heads Up
7. Miles Davis - The Complete On the Corner Sessions - Columbia/Legacy
8. Down to the Bone - Supercharged - Narada
9. Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau - Quartet - Nonesuch
10. Everette Harp - My Inspiration - Shanachie

1. Donny McCaslin - In Pursuit - Sunnyside
2. Chris Potter - Follow The Red Line - Sunnyside
3. Billy Hart - Quartet - HighNote
4. Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake - From The River To The Ocean - Thrill Jockey
5. Pierrick Pedron - Deep In A Dream - Nocturne
6. Antonio Sanchez - Migration - Cam Jazz
7. Terell Stafford - Taking Chances: Live At The Dakota - MaxJazz
8. David Torn - Prezens - ECM
9. E.S.T. - Tuesday Wonderland - Emarcy Universal
10. Jerry Bergonzi - Tenorist - Savant
11. Loren Stillman - Blind Date - Piroquet
12. Eric Alexander - The Temple Of Olympic Zeus - HighNote
13. David Binney/Edward Simon - Oceanos - Criss Cross
14. Wayne Escoffery - Veneration - Savant
15. Ari Hoenig - Inversations - Dreyfus

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