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