Highly Recommended New Cds for 2014
Ed Love's Highly Recommended CDs for 2014
Artist Title Label
Harold Mabern Right On Time Smoke Sessions
Jacques Lesure When She Smiles WJ3
Bobby Watson Check Cashing Day Lafiya Music
Archie Shepp I Hear the Sound Arch
Craig Handy Craig Handy and 2nd Line Okeh
Cory Weeds Let's Go Cellar Live
Steve Davis For Real Positone
Pete Mills Sweet Shadow Cellar Live
King William King William Jazz Collective BK
Joshua Breakstone With the Wind and the Rain Capri
Stan Kenton Alumni Band Road Scholars Live Summit
George Cables Icons and Influences High Note
Vincent Herring The Uptown Shuffle Smoke Sessions
Dave Stryker Eight Track Strike Zone
Sheryl Bailey A Meeting of Minds Cellar Live
Jeff Hackworth Soul to Go Big Bridge
Javon Jackson Expression Smoke Sessions
Octobop Out of Nowhere Mystic Lane
Pete Christlieb and Linda Small Tall and Small Bosco
Tilden Webb with David "Fathead" NewmanCellar Groove Cellar Live
Clovis Nicolas Nine Stories Sunnyside
Leslie Pintchik In the Nature of Things Pintch Hard
Bruce Barth Daybreak Savant
Mike Allen Panorama Cellar Live
Tim Hegarty Tribute Miles High
Mike Longo Step On It CAP
Janice Borla Promises to Burn Tall Grass
Monty Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express Vol. 2 Motema
Mike DiRubbo Threshold Ksanti
Jimmy Heath Big Band Togetherness Jazz Legacy
David Hazeltine For All We Know Smoke Sessions
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Artist Title Label
Misha Tsiganov The Artistry of the Standard Criss Cross
Seamus Blake and Chris Cheek Reeds Ramble Criss Cross
Zach Brock Purple Sounds Criss Cross
Louis Hayes Return of the Jazz Communicators Smoke Sessions
Eric Reed The Adventurous Monk Savant
Eric Alexander Chicago Fire High Note
Sonny Rollins Road Shows Volume 3 Okeh Doxy
Paul Tynan and Aaron Lington Bicoastal Collective Chapter Four OA2
Libby York Memoir Libby York Music
Mike LeDonne I Love Music Savant
Dena DeRose We Won't Forget You High Note
Jimmy Cobb The Original Mob Smoke Sessions
Steve Kaldestad Straight Up Cellar Live
Adam Schroeder Let's Capri
Bobby Hutcherson Enjoy the View Blue Note
Cory Weeds As of Now Cellar Live
Elio Villafranca Caribbean Tinge Motema
Ralph Bowen Standard Deviation Positone
Toni Lincoln Toni Lincoln Nu-Wrinkle
Sean Jones Im-pro-vise Mack Avenue
Charlie Haden and Keith Jarrett Last Dance ECM
Justin Robinson Alana's Fantasy Criss Cross
Cyrus Chestnut Midnight Melodies Smoke Sessions
Opus 5 Progression Criss Cross
Johnathan Blake Gone, But Not Forgotten Criss Cross
Diane Schuur I Remember You Jazzheads
Wynton Marsalis and Marcus Roberts Together Again J-Master
Freda Payne Come Back to Me Love Mack Avenue - Artistry
Craig Scott Introducing Cellar Live
Joe Magnarelli Lookin' Up Positone
Oliver Gannon Easy Sailing Cellar Live
2 Ed Love's Highly Recommended CDs for 2014
Artist Title Label
Mike Longo The Mike Longo Trio Celebrates Oscar PetersonCAP
Orrin Evans Liberation Blues Smoke Sessions
Wayne Coniglio and Scott Whitfield Fast Friends Summit
Michael Carvin Flash Forward Motema
Mack Avenue Super Band Live from the Detroit Jazz Festival 2013 Mack Avenue
Michael Dease Relentless Positone
Mark Elf Mark Elf Returns 2014 Jen Bay
Nancy Kelly B That Way Blue Bay
Chick Corea Trilogy Concord Jazz
Gerry Gibbs, Ron Carter, Kenny Barron We're Back Whaling City Sound
The Cookers Time and Time Again Motema
Larry Fuller Larry Fuller Capri
John Webber Down for the Count Cellar Live
John David Simon Phantasm Warm Groove
Eric Reed Groovewise Smoke Sessions
Marc Pompe Monk's Dream Marc Pompe
Dayna Stephens Peace Sunnyside
Walt Weiskopf Overdrive Positone
Peter Zak The Disciple SteepleChase
Frank Kimbrough Frank Kimbrough Quartet Palmetto
Steve Heckman Search for Peace Jazzed Media
Dave Liebman A Tribute to Wayne Shorter Mama
Gerald Beckett The Messenger Summit
Peter Hand Out of Hand Savant
Christian Tambur Voyage CTW
Clare Fischer Big Band Pacific Jazz Clavo Records
Dana Landry Memphis Skyline Artist Alliance
Andy Bey Pages From an Imaginary Life High Note
Marcus Roberts Romance, Swing and the Blues J-Master
Barbara Morrison I Love You, Yes I Do Savant
Marlene VerPlanck I Give Up, I'm In Love Audiophile
3 Ed Love's Highly Recommended CDs for 2014
Artist Title Label
Peter Leitch Landscape Jazz House
Greg Abate Motif Whaling City Sound
Champian Fulton Change Partners Cellar Live
Jason Marsalis The 21st Century Trad Band Basin Street
Irvin Mayfield A New Orleans Creole Christmas Basin Street
Rodney Whitaker When We Find Ourselves Alone Mack Avenue
Frank Walton and Yoron Israel Live In Chicago Han-Wal Productions
Houston Person The Melody Lingers On High Note
Chicago Yestet Just Say Yes TWM Joel Adams
Alexis Cole A Kiss In The Dark Chesky
Freddy Cole Singing The Blues High Note
Bill O'Connell Imagine Savant
Kenny Barron and Dave Holland The Art Of Conversation Impulse
Candido The Master Chesky
Thomas Marriott Urban Folklore Origin
Ryan Shultz Hair Dryers Origin
Brad Goode Montezuma Origin
Roseanna Vitro Clarity Random Act
Joey DeFrancesco Home For The Holidays JDM
Michael Blake Tiddy Boom Sunnyside
Tammy McCann Love Stories JTM
Louis Hayes Live At Cory Weeds' Cellar Jazz Club Cellar Live
David Hazeltine I Remember Cedar Sharp Nine
Jim Self Tis The Season Tuba Jolly Basset Hound
Brian Charette Good Tipper Positone
Tony Monaco Furry Slippers Chicken Coup
Phil Brown Arkadia A Caldera
Jane Potter Now I KNow Jane Potter PMP
Brice Winston Child's Play Criss Cross
Manuel Valera In Motion Criss Cross
Hendrik Meurkens And Misha Tsiganov Junity HMS
4 Ed Love's Highly Recommended CDs for 2014
Artist Title Label
Compilation It's Christmas On Mack Avenue Mack Avenue
Gary Urwin Jazz Orchestra A Beautiful Friendship Summit
Carl Saunders America Summit
Swiss Youth Jazz Orchestra Future Steps Shanti
Bob Lark Alumni Big Band Sweet Return Jazzed Media
Radam Schwartz Swingin' The Holidays Arabesque
Ann Hampton Callaway From Sassy To Divine Shanachie
Jim Norton Time Remembered Origin
Renee Fleming Christmas In New York Decca
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