PBS contributors assemble eyewitness accounts and flash photography to give an overlooked West Coast jazz scene its day in the sun, and their Harlem of the West makes Matthew Moyer a happy kid indeed in the eye candy store.

The Bastress (Tellous). Review by Aaron Shaul.

From the Sky (Neurodisc Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

8 Armed Monkey (Thirsty Ear). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Twenty (Sanctuary Records Group). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Agony Pipes and Misery Sticks (BC Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Shelton Hull eagerly devours reissues of lesser-known work by the jazz titans Coltrane, Ellington, and Mingus. What’s left to do then but riff, baby, riff!

A Year to Demonstrate (Isidore). Review by Aaron Shaul.

What We Must (Ninja Tune). Review by Aaron Shaul.

The women are doing it for themselves! This issue of Target or Flag gives you the low down on four women making music in very different styles but displaying the same independent spirit.

From the Lion’s Mouth (Kill Rock Stars). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Triumph of Time (ObliqSound). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Brain (Telarc). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Rocksteady (Telark Jazz). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Elements of Style, Exercises in Surprise (Atavistic). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Pockets (Southern). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

Til the Dawn (Bloodshot). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Ideas of Reference (Black Market Activities). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

Living Colour,Jazz,fusion,free form,instrumental,experimental,groovy,Vernon Reid & Masque,Known Unknown,Favored Nations,Joe Frietze

math metal,jazz,punk,Psyopus,Ideas of Reference,Black Market Activities,Daniel Mitchell