Sacred Music / Basset Hound Music / New Music / the Sun / RCA / Mosaic / Motéma Music / YOLK Music / Elemental Music / Tone Ventures / Improvised Music / MOD Technologies / ILK Music / ACT Music / Sony Music / /
Continent
Africa / /
Country
Columbia / /
Event
Product Release / /
Facility
Merkin Concert Hall / Grace Cathedral / NIGHTHAWKS Town Hall / Masada / Lewis Nash The Jazz Gallery / Nasheet Waits Cornelia Street Café / Nasar Abadey The Jazz Gallery / JULIAN LAGE/NELS CLINE Rockwood Music Hall / Basement Sessions / Hunter College / Sauna Session / Lang Recital Hall / VENUES OF THE YEAR Cornelia Street Café / /
Movie
Keeper of the Flame / /
MusicAlbum
The Rite of Spring / /
MusicGroup
Fury / John La Barbera Big Band / Caravan / Sound / NEW YORK CITY / Space / Legacy / The Bad Plus / Structures / Smoke / /
NaturalFeature
Oliver Lake / Red Stream / Andrew White Quartet Wade Beach / Great Lakes / /
Organization
SATOKO FUJII ORCHESTRA / Billy Hart Quartet / In Trio / Daniel Blacksberg Trio / Kris Davis Trio / Baptist Church / 4th TOMAS FUJIWARA TRIO / Judson Church / Red Trio / Itamar Borochov Quartet / ALEXANDER VON SCHLIPPENBACH TRIO / Dizzy’s Club / HAL RUSSELL NRG ENSEMBLE / Sam Newsome Skirball Center / ICP ORCHESTRA / GUSTAFSSON NU ENSEMBLE / Brooklyn Youth Chorus / REISSUES JOHN CARTER/BOBBY BRADFORD QUARTET / Alexander Hawkins Ensemble / Matthew Shipp Trio / Barry Guy New Orchestra / Fonterossa/Jambona Lab / 4th HENRY THREADGILL ENSEMBLE / AFRO LATIN JAZZ ORCHESTRA / Sylvie Courvoisier Trio / Ted Rosenthal Trio / KURT ROSENWINKEL QUARTET / 22nd Andrew White Quartet / Hunter College / Masada Quartet / Chris Speed Trio / Platypus Trio / JC SANFORD ORCHESTRA / WAYNE ESCOFFERY QUARTET / Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble / Tomas Fujiwara Trio / Mark Turner Quartet / /
Person
Greg Cohen / Double Windsor (Tzadik) / Cole Porter / Flying Soul (Intakt) / ANNE METTE IVERSEN / Alexander Hawkins / Michael Formanek / RUSS JOHNSON / Jonas Kulhammar / Matthew Shipp / Benjamin Duboc / Paul Bley / Eddie Gomez / Ron Stabinsky / Martin Wind / Frank Kimbrough / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Jim Self / Michel Godard / Aki Takase La Planète / Drew Gress / Ingrid Laubrock / TOMAS FUJIWARA / Och Den Stora Frågan / Tom Rainey / Marian McPartland Kenny Barron / Johnathan Blake / Rudi Records / Wayne Horvitz / BILLY CHILDS / CHARLES LLOYD / Stefan Pasborg / Jeremiah Cymerman / Andrey Henkin / Lewis Nash / David Kikoski / PETER EVANS / Roger Davidson / Kris Davis / Tony Malaby / Tim Berne / Evan Parker / Gerald Cannon / Adrian Raso / Wilbert De Joode / Frank Gratkowski / Philip Catherine / PETER BRENDLER / Mat Maneri / Trios Live (Nonesuch) / Drum Faces (Stunt) / Christopher Hoffman / Nils Davidsen / Stéphane Spira / Colin Stetson / GEORGE LEWIS / Dianne Berkun-Menaker / Mike Kaupa / Donald Edwards / Achim Kaufmann / Helen Sung / Nelson MandoomJazz / Chad Taylor / SAM RIVERS / Brad Jones / Lower Bottoms (Tubapede) / Alban Darche / Georg Graewe / Lukas Ligeti / Ramón López / Grace Kelly / Kirk Knuffke / Sebastien Boisseau / HENRY THREADGILL / Michael Carvin / Didier Lasserre / Allan Mednard / Ben Allison / MILES DAVIS / John Zorn / Kenny Barron / SCOTT AMENDOLA / Simon Nabatov / CHARLIE HADEN / Michael Schiefel / Bill Dobbins / Joe Martin / SAM NEWSOME / Jerry Dodgion / Joshua Redman / Jimmy Cobb / Chris Speed / RAVI COLTRANE / Vivian Sessoms / James Zollar / Steven Bernstein / David Krakauer / CRAIG TABORN / Doug Wieselman / Jacques Coursil / ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ / Branford Marsalis / JEAN LOUIS / STEVE LEHMAN OCTET / Mary Halvorson / Rob Mazurek / Tony Bennett / Sylvie Courvoisier / Hazel Jazz / Daniel Blacksberg / Laurence Donohue-Greene / Michael Feinstein / John Tilbury / CHARLES TYLER / Andreas Schaerer / Bill Crow / Bill Dixon / Bill Charlap / Dave Brubeck / Catherine Russell / Barbara Carroll / CHARLIE HUNTER / YOUN SUN NAH / JIM BLACK / Dave Rempis / Mark Sanders / DAVID VIRELLES / Curtis Macdonald / Ralph Alessi / Gerry Hemingway / David Berkman / Bill Laswell / JON IRABAGON / Nash Smoke / François Courneloup / Dave Holland Birdland / Jason Roebke Octet / Brandon Seabrook Barbès / JOHN CARTER / JULIAN LAGE / BOBBY BRADFORD / BRANDEE YOUNGER / ALEXANDER VON SCHLIPPENBACH / DARIUS JONES / Jon Faddis / John Russell / Charles Burnham / Giovanni di Domenico / ERIC MCPHERSON / James Brandon Lewis / Joëlle Léandre / Vijay Iyer / John Edwards / Steve Williamson / Michael Blake / Mario Pavone / Craig Weinrib Winter Jazzfest / Ted Rosenthal / Doug Kassel / Imaginary Images (Leo) / Eric Dolphy / Vol / RUFUS REID / JIM HALL / Dave Lombardo Le Poisson / Joshua Abrams / Azar Lawrence / Marco Colonna / Alan Silva / Chris Brubeck / Marc Ducret / Ulysses Owens / Jr. / Hank Williams / Anna Webber / Oliver Lake / Jon Weber / Andrew White / Jason Moran / Ralph Peterson Fo’tet / Christian Lillinger / Step Deep (Babel) / PAUL MOTIAN / John Hébert / WAYNE ESCOFFERY / Roscoe Mitchell / Matt Bauder / Davis Trio / EARL MCINTYRE / JIMMY GIUFFRE / Roman Filiu / Mike Reed / RALPH ALESSI BAIDA / David R. Adler / Jason Ajemian / David R. Adler Jason Adasiewicz / Justin Brown / Sebastian Zawadzki / Yolande Bavan / Samuel Blaser / Alex Riel / Cory Smythe / Brian Owens / AKI TAKASE / Ingrid Laubrock Octet / SATOKO FUJII / Barry Guy / Marianne Solivan / HenRy Butler / Duke Ellington / Trevor Todd / Steve Wilson / BRANDON SEABROOK / Doug Wamble / Matt Nelson / MARK TURNER / Laura Nyro / Scott Robinson / Frank Wess / Billy Hart / HAL RUSSELL NRG / Aaron Parks / Tiddy Boom (Sunnyside) / Zürich Concert (Intakt) / PETER KOWALD / Aliens Deliberating / Steve Lacy (Cuneiform) / Dave Douglas / Brianna Thomas / Robert Landfermann / KEITH JARRETT / George Mraz / Akira Sakata / WALTER SMITH III / Noir Lumière / Russell Graham / WADADA LEO SMITH / Robert Hurst / John La Barbera / VINCE GIORDANO / Reid Anderson / Jesse Stacken / John Hollenbeck / ERIC REVIS / ARAM BAJAKIAN / Dave King / Brooklyn Youth / ULF WAKENIUS / MATS GUSTAFSSON / LOUIS ARMSTRONG / Bob Stewart / Patrick Bebelaar / EDWARD SIMON / NELS CLINE / MARK WEINSTEIN / TOM HARRELL / Jose Davila / Roberta Gambarini / John Escreet / KURT ROSENWINKEL / KRIS DAVIS CAPRICORN CLIMBER / /
Position
REAL AMBASSADORS / electric bass/producer / Flash Forward / King / Porter / /
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