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Fay Victor Puts Jazz Pianist Herbie Nichols in Today’s Vanguard

Fay Victor Puts Jazz Pianist Herbie Nichols in Today’s Vanguard

This is Fay Victor’s best recording to date because it looks at a past great composer and reimagines that tradition as part of jazz music’s daring vanguard.

Tony Malaby’s Sabino Comes Out from Under the Turnpike with Sonic Power

Tony Malaby’s Sabino Comes Out from Under the Turnpike with Sonic Power

Saxophonist Tony Malaby reconvenes his Sabino band, emerging from a set of concerts under the New Jersey Turnpike with an unfussy quartet date that’s wide open.

The New Nels Cline 4 Sinks a Putt on ‘Currents, Constellations’

The New Nels Cline 4 Sinks a Putt on ‘Currents, Constellations’

Nels Cline used to go nuts on all of us. Now he's measuring things out more carefully.

Brad Shepik Trio: Places You Go

Mark Helias and Open Loose: Atomic Clock

Best Jazz of 2006

Mark Feldman: What Exit