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Ed Love's Highly Recommended Cds for 2017 Ed Love's Highly Recommended CDs for 2017 Artist Title Label Azar Lawrence & Al McLean Frontiers Cellar Live Kenny Burrell Unlimted High Note Wallace Roney A Place In Time High Note Steve Slagle Alto Manhattan Panorama Terell StaFFord Forgive And Forget HHM Emmet Cohen Masters Legacy, Vol 1 Cellar Live Dizzy Gillespie Concert OF The Century Justin Time Ron Boustead Unlikely Valentine N/C Scott WhitField New Jazz Standards Volume Two Summit Ben Markley Clockwise OA2 Charlie Sepulveda Mr. EP High Note Greg Abate Road To Forever Whaling City Sound Jeremy Pelt Make Noise High Note Heads OF State Four In One Smoke Sessions Claire Daly 2648 West Grand Blvd. Glass Beach Sidney Jacobs First Man Baby Chubs Howard Johnson Testimony Tuscarora Ken Fowser Now Hear This Positone The Muh Trio Prague After Dark J Mood Mike Longo Only Time Will Tell CAP 1 Ed Love's Highly Recommended CDs for 2017 Artist Title Label Bill Evans On A Monday Evening Fantasy Chicago Orchestra Live From Space IDBLM 049400 The Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra The Music oF John Lewis Blue Engine Benny Green Happiness Sunnyside Bobby Watson Made In America Smoke Sessions Robert McCarther Stranger In Town N/C Angie Wells Love And MischieF AW Cory Weeds Dreamsville Cellar Live Steve Nelson Brothers Under The Sun High Note Eric Alexander Second Impression High Note Tom Harrell Something Gold, Something Blue High Note Mark Murphy Wild and Free High Note Steve Davis Think Ahead Smoke Sessions Jazzmeia Horn A Social Call Prestige Giacomo Gates What Time Is It? Savant Ray Mantilla High Voltage Savant Terence Blanchard The Comedian Blue Note Diana Krall Turn Up The Quiet Verve Uptown Jazz Tentet There It Is Irabbagast Louis Hayes Serenade For Horace Blue Note 2 Ed Love's Highly Recommended CDs for 2017 Artist Title Label Terry Gibbs Jammin' At The Gibbs House Whaling City Sound Mark Winkler The Company I Keep N/C Grant Stewart Roll On Cellar Live Spike Wilner Odalisque Cellar Live Walt WeiskopF Fountain OF Youth Positone Ahmad Jamal Marseille Jazz Village Various Artist The Passion oF Charlie Parker Impulse Tardo Hammer Swinging On A Star Cellar Live Steps Ahead Steppin' Out Sunnyside Peter Bernstein Signs Live Smoke Sessions Cyrus Chestnut There's A Sweet, Sweet Spirit High Note Russell Malone Time For The Dancers High Note MONK'estra John Beasley Presents MONK'estra Vol. 2 Mack Avenue Harold Mabern To Love And Be Loved Smoke Sessions Jen Siukola Lighthouse Reverie N/C Andrew Scott The Brightest Minute Cellar Live Steve Langone Breathe Whaling City Sound Dave Stryker Strykin' Ahead Strike Zone Friocity I Believe In You Origin Unhinged Sextet Don't Blink OA2 3 Ed Love's Highly Recommended CDs for 2017 Artist Title Label Adrian Cunningham Jazz Speak Arbors Charles Overton Convergence Jazz Urbane Cecile McLorin Salvant Dreams And Daggers Mack Avenue Christian McBride Big Band Bringin' It Mack Avenue Kirk Lightsey And Harold Danko Shorter By Two Sunnyside John Dokes Forever Reasons Rondette Nathan Brown This Is The Moment Gut String Vince Mendoza And The WDR Big Band Homecoming Sunnyside Cologne Johnny Summers Calgary Jazz Suite Jubilation JSQ-006 Orchestra Behn Gillece Walk oF Fire Positone Eric Alexander Song OF No Regrets High Note Houston Person Rain Or Shine High Note Pat Martino Formidable High Note Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra With HandFul OF Keys Blue Engine Wynton Marsalis Johnny O'Neal In The Moment Smoke Sessions Bruce Harris Beginnings Positone Bob Ferrel Jazztopian Dream BFM The Verve Jazz Ensemble Swing - A - Nova N/C Woody Shaw And Louis Hayes The Tour Volume Two High Note Tom Harrell Moving Picture High Note 4 Ed Love's Highly Recommended CDs for 2017 Artist Title Label Bill Charlap Uptown, Downtown Impulse Ella Fitzgerald Somebody To Watch Over Me Verve Willie Jones The Third My Point Is WJ3 Jacques Lesure For The Love OF You WJ3 Guilhem Flouzat A Thing Called Joe Sunnyside Norma Winstone Well Kept Secret Sunnyside Alma Micic That Old Feeling Whaling City Sound Cory Weeds Let's Groove Cellar Live Sherman Irby Cerulean Canvas BWR - Black Warrior Vincent Herring Hard Times Smoke Sessions Glenn Kostur The Way OF It Artist Alliance Marc Devine Inspiration ITI Joey Alexander Joey, Monk, Live Motema Lizz Wright Grace Concord Richie Cole Latin Lover Richie Cole Presents Danny Grissett Remembrance Savant Jerry Bergonzi Dog Star Savant Debbie Poryes Loving Hank OA2 PJ Perry Alto Gusto Cellar Live Sam Taylor Along The Way Cellar Live 5 Ed Love's Highly Recommended CDs for 2017 Artist Title Label Kent Miller Minor Step T NEK Jazz Eric Wyatt Look To The Sky Whaling City Sound Dave Zinno River OF January Whaling City Sound Caesar Frazier Instinct Doodlin' Gregory Proter Nat "King" Cole And Me Blue Note Leslie Odom Jr. Simply Christmas BMG Idit Shner Short Stories OA2 Michael Treni You Better Watch Out N/C Michel Camilo Live In London Redondo Nick Maclean Rites OF Ascension Brown Tasauras 6.
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