Otis Spann Is The Blues / Lightnin’ in New York (Candid Records). Review by James Mann.

Rosa Parks: Pure Love. An Oratorio of Seven Songs (TUM Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Jazz at Massey Hall (Original Jazz Classics/Debut). Review by James Mann.

Raga Bop Trio (Abstract Logix). Review by Shelton Hull.

Shelton Hull finds there is much to learn in this collection of conversations with the enigmatic and innovative trumpeter, not nearly as reticient with interviewers as legend has it.

Shelton Hull makes a case for Mel Lewis, an underrated and subtle jazz drummer, who is finally starting to get his reissue due - including this excellent concert dvd from 1986.

Shelton Hull is awed by Mosaic’s exhaustive new Max Roach box set, and how it lovingly excavates and elevates the drumming titan’s dizzying 1950s output to its proper place amongst the greats.

San Francisco Debut, Unfinished Symphony (Kufala Recordings). Review by Shelton Hull.

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Random Acts of Happiness (Summerfold). Review by Eric J. Iannelli.

Bird’s Best Bop on Verve (Verve). Review by Bill Campbell.

So What / Love Letters (Eighty Eight’s (Columbia)). Review by Eric J. Iannelli.

So What / Love Letters (Eighty Eight’s (Columbia)). Review by Eric J. Iannelli.