Ed Love's Highly Recommended New CDs for 2018
Artist Title Label
Dave Young and Terry Promane Octet Volume Two Modica Music
Phil Parisot Creekside OA2
John Stowell And Ulf Bandgren Night Visitor Origin
Eric Reed A Light In Darkness WJ3
Katharine McPhee I Fall In Love Too Easily BMG
Takaaki Otomo New Kid In Town Troy
Dr. Lonnie Smith All In My Mind Blue Note
Clovis Nicolas Freedom Suite Ensuite Sunnyside
Wayne Escoffery Vortex Sunnyside
Steve Hobbs Tribute To Bobby Challenge
Adam Shulman Full Tilt Cellar Live`
Scott Hamilton Live At Pyat Hall Cellar Live
Keith O’ Rourke Sketches From The Road Chronograph
Jason Marsalis Melody Reimagined Book One Basin Street
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Artist Title Label
Dan Block Block Party High
Michael Waldrop Origin Suite Origin
Roberto Margris Live In Miami J Mood
Dan Pugach Nonet Plus One Unit UTR
Jeff Hamilton Live From San Pedro Capri
Phil Stewart Melodious Drum Cellar Live
Ben Paterson That Old Feeling Cellar Live
Jemal Ramirez African Skies Joyful Beat
Michael Dease Reaching Out Positone
Ken Fowser Don’t Look Down Positone
New Faces Straight Forward Positone
Emmet Cohen With Ron Carter Masters Legacy Series Volume Two Cellar Live
Bob Washut Journey To Knowhere N/C
Mike Jones and Penn Jillette The Show Before The Show Capri
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Dave Tull Texting And Driving Toy Car
Corcoran Holt The Mecca Holt House Music
Bill Warfield For Lew Planet Arts
Wynton Marsalis United We Swing Blue Engine
Scott Reeves Without A Trace Origin
Kevin Bales and Keri Johnsrud Beyond The Neighborhood N/C
Azar Lawrence Elementals High Note
Jay Rodriguez Your Sound Whaling City Sound
Ken Peplowski Sunrise Arbors
Monika Herzig Sheroes Whaling City Sound
Jeremy Pelt Noiren Rouge Live In Paris High Note
Renee Rosnes Beloved Of The Sky Smoke Sessions
John Colianni I never Knew Patuxent Music
Miles Davis And John Coltrane The Final Tour New 4 CD Box Set Columbia Legacy
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Artist Title Label
Steven Kroon In Your Dreams Kroonatune
Shirley Crabbe Bridges N/C
Jim Snidero and Jeremy Pelt Jubilation Savant
Bill O’ Connell Jazz Latin Savant
Denny Zeitlin Wishing On The Moon Sunnyside
Kenny Barron Concentric Circles Blue Note
Eddie Henderson Be Cool Smoke Sessions
Tia Fuller Diamond Cut Mack Avenue
Benito Gonzalez, Gerry Gibbs, Passion Reverence Transcendence Whaling City Sound Essiet Okon Essiet
Brubeck Brothers Timeline Blue Forest
Leo Sidran Cool School Bonsai Nardis
Bryant- Fabian- Marsalis Do For You? CAP
E.J. Decker Bluer Than Velvet Candela
Allan Harris The Genius Of Eddie Jefferson Resilience Music Alliance
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Artist Title Label
Joey Alexander Eclipse Motema
Don Braden Earth Wind And Wonder Creative Perspective Music
Ellis Marsalis Plays Music of Ellis Marsalis ELM
McClenty Hunter The Groove Hunter Strikezone
Jared Gold Reemergence Strikezone
Shamie Royston Beautiful Liar Sunnyside
Javier Colina and Chano Chano and Colina Sunnyside Dominguez
Tiffany Austin Unbroken CAM
Gregory Generet and Richard 2 Of A Kind Afar Music Johnson
Laura Walls Olori Live Sonic Portraits
Jerry Weldon Those Were The Days Cellar Live
Bill Anschell Shifting Standards Origin
Brad Mehldau Seymour Reads The Constitution Nonesuch
Mike Le Donne From The Heart Savant
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Artist Title Label
Band Of Bones Picadillo? Yes, Madly Band Of Bones Prod.
Eddie Daniels Heart Of Brazil Resonance
Buster Williams Audacity Smoke Sessions
Dan Wilensky Good Music Polyglot Music
Gary Brumburgh Moonlight Café Pacific
Bob Mintzer, Big Band and New Meeting Of Minds MCG Jazz York Voices
Lauren Sevian Bliss Positone
Jocelyn Michelle Live At Viva Cantina Chicken Coup
Geoffrey Keezer On My Way To You N/C
Kate Reid The Heart Already Knows N/C
Black Art Jazz Collective Armor Of Pride High Note
J.D. Allen Love Stone Savant
Kobie Watkins Movement Origin
Jarod Bufe New Spaces OA2
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Artist Title Label
Tucker Antell Grime Scene OA2
Erroll Garner Night Concert Mack Avenue
Akira Tana Jazzanova Vega
Ark Ovrutski Journey Moments AOM
Cory Weeds Little Big Band Explosion Cellar Live
Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big West Side Story JazzHeads Band
Tom Tallitsch WheelHouse Positone
Both Directions, At Once The Lost John Coltrane Impulse Album
Jay Lawrence Sonic Paragon Jazz Hang
The Verve Jazz Ensemble Connect The Dots N/C
John Bailey In Real Time Summit
Michika Fukumori Piano Images Summit
Vivian Lee Let’s Talk About Love Tara
Dee Bell Lins, Lennox and Life Laser
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Artist Title Label
Ben Paterson Live at Van Gelder’s Cellar Live
Are We Still Dreaming The Music of Gary The South Florida Jazz Orchestra Lindsay Summit
Miho Hazama and Metropole Orkest The Monk: Live At Bimhuis Sunnyside Big Band
Mike Freeman Venetian Blinds Vibes Out Front
Miki Yamanaka Miki Cellar Live
Judy Niemack New York Stories Sunnyside
Mark Winkler and Cheryl Bentyne Eastern Standard Time Café Pacific
Charlie Sepulveda Songs For Nat High Note
Houston Person and Ron Carter Remember Love High Note
Steve Turre The Very Thought of You Smoke Sessions
Octobop Live At Savanna Jazz Mystic Lane
Sam Dillon Out In The Open Cellar Live
The Count Basie Orchestra and Artist Variety All About That Basie Concord Jazz
Lucia Jackson You And The Night And The Music Concord Jazz
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Artist Title Label
Frank Cunimondo Epilogue MCG Jazz
Cecile McLorin Salvant The Window Mack Avenue
Chip White New Dedications and Latin Moods Dark Colors
Kent Miller Sunday Evenin’ Tnek Jazz
Christopher Hollyday Telepathy Jazzbeat
Stafford, Oatts, Barth, Warfield, Wong, Landham Family Feeling Bcmandd
Ralph Peterson’s Gennext Big Band I Remember Bu Onyx Production
Darren Barrett But Beautiful DB Studios
Mike Steinel Song and Dance OA2
Bootsie Barnes and Larry Mckenna The More I see You Cellar Live
The Humanity Quartet Humanity Cellar Live
Sam Kirmayer High and Low Cellar Live
Orrin Evans and The Captain Black Big Band Presence Smoke Sessions
Jeb Patton Tenthish, Live In New York Cellar Live
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Artist Title Label
Dexter Gordon Espace Cardin 1977 Elemental
Woody Shaw Live In Bremen 1983 Elemental
Benny Green Then and Now Sunnyside
Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Una Noche Con Ruben Blades Blue Engine
Randy Halberstadt Open Heart Origin
Kristen Strom Moving Day: The Music of John Shifflett OA2
Cyrus Chestnut Kaleidoscope High Note
Frank Morgan and George Cables Montreal Memories High Note
Pat Bianchi In The Moment Savant
Chucho Valdes Jazz Bata 2 Mack Avenue
Walter Gorra In Due Time Pathways Jazz
Richie Cole Cannonball Richie Cole Presents RCP
Chris Pasin Ornettiquette Planet Arts
Alyssa Allgood Exactly Like You Cellar Live
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Artist Title Label
Joe Magnarelli If You Could See Me Now Cellar Live
David Hazeltine The Time Is Now Smoke Sessions
Dan Adler Friends On The Moon N/C
Alexander Claffy Standards: What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life SMK Jazz
GayeLynn McKinney McKinfolk Detroit Music Factory
In The Tradition Ancestral Alliances AFJ
Jack Mouse Inatimate Adversary Tall Grass
Songs By Renee Rosnes and David Hajdu Ice on The Hudson SMK Jazz
Bobby Broom Soul Fingers Clean Sweep Music
Aaron Goldberg At The Edge of The World Sunnyside
Brad Goode Featuring Ernie Watts That’s Right Origin
Connie Han Crime Zone Mack Avenue
ChrIstian McBride New Jawn Mack Avenue
Rachel Caswell We’re All In The Dance Turtle Ridge
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Artist Title Label
Lindsey Blair All Wes All Day Southernmost
Harold Mabern The Iron Man: Live at Smoke Smoke Sessions
Al Muirhead Undertones Chronograph
Charlie Haden and Brad Mehldau Long Ago and Far Away Impulse
Andy James Caravan Le Coq
Steve Kuhn To And From The Heart Sunnyside
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