Top Jazz Picks for 2019

New Releases

Mike Le Donne- Partners in Time (Savant)

Akiko/Hamilton/Dechter- Equal Time (Capri)

Dave Stryker- Eight Track III (StrikeZone)

Brian Lynch Big Band- The Omni-American Book Club/My Journey Through Literature in Music (Hollistic MusicWorks)

Ralph Peterson's Gen-Next Big Band- Listen Up! (Onyx)

Ralph Peterson & The Messenger Legacy- Legacy Alive: Vol. 6 Live at the Sidedoor (Onyx)

Herlin Riley- Perpetual Optimism (Mack Avenue)

Steve Davis- Correlations (Smoke Sessions)

Harold Mabern- The Iron Man: Live at Smoke (Smoke Sessions)

Walt Weiskopf European Quartet- Worldwide (Orenda)

Joey DeFrancesco- In the Key of the Universe (Mack Avenue)

Reissues/Historic Releases

Tamba 4- California Soul (Elemental Music)

Stan Getz- Getz at the Gate: Quartet Live at the Village Gate (Verve)

Bill Evans- Evans in England (Resonance)

Johnny Griffin/Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis- Ow! Live at the Penthouse (Reel Music)

Andrew Hill- Black Fire (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)

John Coltrane- Blue World (Impulse)

Sam Rivers- Contours (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)

Chick Corea- Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)

Grant Green- Sunday Morning (Slow Down Sounds)

Azar Lawrence- Summer Solstice (Craft Recordings)

John Coltrane- Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings (Craft Recordings)