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American jazz critic, author, and director, born March 21, 1948 in New York, best known for his longtime work with The Village Voice.

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Jimmy Heath
Love Letter
2020
Arthur Blythe
Four Arthur Blythe Albums On Two Discs - Lenox Avenue Breakdown / In The Tradition / Illusions / Blythe Spirit
2016, 2x CD, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop
Pat Martino
Footprints / Exit
2010, CD, Album, Comp, RE, Jazz Lips
Abbey Lincoln
Through the Years
2010, 3xCD, Comp, Universal Music France, Verve Records, Universal Music Jazz France,
David Murray Cuban Ensemble
David Murray Cuban Ensemble Plays Nat King Cole En Español
2010, CD, ,
Latin Jazz
Stan Getz - Kenny Barron
People Time (The Complete Recordings)
2010, 7x CD, Box Set, ,
Cool Jazz
Sonny Rollins
Road Shows, Vol. 1
2008, CD, ,
Post Bop
Jimmy Heath And Percy Heath
The Jazz Master Class Series From NYU
2007, 2xDVD-V, Artists House
Hank Jones
The Jazz Master Class Series From NYU
2007, DVD-V, Artists House
Phil Woods
The Jazz Master Class Series From NYU
2007, DVD-V, Artists House, ,
Bop/Hard Bop/Interview
Toots Thielemans
The Jazz Master Class Series From NYU
2007, DVD-V, Artists House
Clark Terry
The Jazz Master Class Series From NYU
2007, DVD-V, Artists House
Cecil Taylor
The Jazz Master Class Series From NYU
2007, DVD-V, NTSC, Artists House
Charles Mingus Sextet With Eric Dolphy
Cornell 1964
2007
Billie Holiday
Lady Day: The Master Takes And Singles
2007, 4x CD, Box Set, ,
Swing
Trio 3
Time Being
2006, CD, Album, Intakt Records, Intakt Records
Charlie Parker
Celebrating Bird - The Legend Of Charlie Parker
2004
Louis Armstrong
The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings, Vol. 1
2003
Charles Mingus
Me Myself An Eye / Something Like A Bird
2001, CD, Album + CD, Album + Comp, Collectables
Billie Holiday
Lady Day (The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia) (1933-1944)
2001, 10x CD, Box Set, ,
Vocal
Pat Martino
Head And Heart (Consciousness / Live!)
2000
Ella Fitzgerald
The Johnny Mercer Songbook
1999
Awie
Satu
1998
Kenny Barron
Soft Spoken Here: Sunset To Dawn/Golden Lotus
1997, 2xCD, Comp, 32 Jazz, ,
Bop/Post Bop/Contemporary Jazz
Sonny Rollins
Silver City - A Celebration Of 25 Years On Milestone
1996, 2x CD, ,
Bop/Hard Bop/Post Bop/Latin Jazz/Soul-Jazz
Rosemary Clooney
Dedicated To Nelson
1996, CD, ,
Vocal/Easy Listening
Cecil Taylor
3 Phasis
1996
Hannibal*
One With The Wind
1994, CD, Album, Muse Records, Muse Records, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Various
The Best Of Newport In New York '72 Volume 3 The Soul Sessions
1993, CD, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Charlie Parker
The Complete "Birth Of The Bebop"
1991, CD, Comp, Stash Records Inc., ,
Bop
Walter Norris & George Mraz, Aladar Pege*
Drifting
1991
The American Jazz Orchestra
The Music Of Jimmie Lunceford
1991
Dom Um Romao
Dom Um Romao
1990, CD, ,
Bossa Nova/Jazz-Funk/Samba
Woody Shaw
Cassandranite
1989
Louis Armstrong
Satchmo
1989
The American Jazz Orchestra Conducted By John Lewis
Ellington Masterpieces
1989, ,
Big Band/Swing
Art Pepper
The Complete Galaxy Recordings
1989, 16x CD, Box Set, ,
Bop/Post Bop
Charlie Haden with Chet Baker, Enrico Pieranunzi, Billy Higgins
Silence
1989
John Lewis
Vol. 3: Preludes And Fugues - Based On The Well Tempered Clavier Book 1
1989
Bud Powell
Jazz Giant
1988, ,
Bop
Jimmy Lyons (2), Andrew Cyrille
Something In Return
1988
Bud Powell
The Genius Of Bud Powell
1988, ,
Bop
Sonny Rollins
Saxophone Colossus - A Film By Robert Mugge
1987, VHS, ,
Interview/Bop/Post Bop
The Modern Jazz Quartet with New York Chamber Symphony
Three Windows
1987
Marvin "Smitty" Smith
Keeper Of The Drums
1987, Vinyl, ,
Post Bop
The American Jazz Orchestra / Benny Carter
Central City Sketches
1987, 2x Vinyl, ,
Big Band/Swing
Frank Sinatra
The Voice (The Columbia Years 1943-1952)
1986
Charlie Parker
Bird On Tenor 1943 / Birth Of The Bebop
1986, Vinyl, ,
Bop
Dinah Washington
The Fats Waller Songbook
1985
Oscar Peterson
The George Gershwin Songbook
1985
Jaki Byard And The Apollo Stompers
Phantasies
1985
Billie Holiday
The Billie Holiday Songbook
1985, Vinyl, ,
Swing/Vocal
Charlie Parker
The Cole Porter Songbook
1985
Max Roach And Cecil Taylor
Historic Concerts
1984
Sarah Vaughan & Billy Eckstine
The Irving Berlin Songbook
1984
Mel Torme*
The Duke Ellington & Count Basie Songbooks
1984, ,
Big Band/Vocal/Cool Jazz
Miles Davis
Heard 'Round The World
1983, ,
Hard Bop/Contemporary Jazz
The James Williams Trio
The Arioso Touch
1982
Woody Herman
Presents Volume 2 ...Four Others
1982, Vinyl, ,
Swing/Post Bop
Fathers & Sons
Fathers & Sons
1982,
Pee Wee Russell, Nat Pierce, Dave Frishberg, Walter Page, George Wettling
Over The Rainbow
1982,
Clark Terry
Yes, The Blues
1981
Ran Blake
Duke Dreams (The Legacy Of Strayhorn-Ellington)
1981
McCoy Tyner
La Leyenda De La Hora (The Legend Of The Hour)
1981, ,
Afro-Cuban Jazz
Albert Mangelsdorff, J.F. Jenny-Clark*, Ronald Shannon Jackson
Albert Live In Montreux!
1981, Vinyl, ,
Post Bop/Avant-garde Jazz
The Heath Bros.*
Live At The Public Theater
1980, Vinyl Terre Haute Pressing, ,
Bop/Soul-Jazz/Latin Jazz/Post Bop
Jess Stacy / Lee Wiley
J. Stacy & Friends
1980
Don Byas / Bud Powell
A Tribute To Cannonball
1979
Arthur Blythe
In The Tradition
1979, Vinyl, ,
Post Bop
Mingus*
Me Myself An Eye
1979, ,
Post Bop
Various
Shake, Rattle And Roll: Rock 'N' Roll In The 1950s
1978, LP, Album, Comp, Mono, Gat, New World Records
Roy Eldridge
Dale's Wail
1978
Booker Ervin
The Book Cooks
1977
Ted Curson & Company
Quicksand
1977
Cecil Taylor
The Great Concert Of Cecil Taylor
1977, ,
Free Jazz
Ray Bryant
Solo Flight
1977
Charlie Parker
Bird With Strings (Live At The Apollo, Carnegie Hall & Birdland)
1977
Ben Webster / Coleman Hawkins
Tenor Giants
1977
Harry Edison / Hot Lips Page / Roy Eldridge
Sweets, Lips & Lots Of Jazz
1976, ,
Bop/Swing
Various
Masters Of The Modern Piano 1955-1966
1976, 2x Vinyl Pitman Pressing, ,
Bop/Free Jazz/Big Band/Swing/Latin Jazz/Hard Bop/Cool Jazz
Al Grey
Basic Grey
1976, 2x Vinyl,
Kenny Burrell
Recapitulation
1976, 2x Vinyl,
Bud Powell
The Genius Of Bud Powell
1976, 2x Vinyl, ,
Bop
Charlie Parker With Benny Carter / Johnny Hodges / Ben Webster & Oscar Peterson
Norman Granz Jam Session / The Charlie Parker Sides
1975
Joe Venuti And Zoot Sims
Joe Venuti And Zoot Sims
1975, Vinyl, ,
Bop/Swing
Don Elliott
Rejuvenation
1975,
Cecil Taylor = セシル・テイラー*
Silent Tongues: Live At Montreux '74 = 黙舌 ライヴ・アット・モントルー '74
1975
Eric Dolphy / Ron Carter
Magic
1975
Buddy Tate
The Texas Twister
1975, ,
Swing
Stanley Cowell
Brilliant Circles
1975
Joe Chambers
The Almoravid
1974
Eddie Jefferson
Things Are Getting Better
1974
The Cedar Walton Trio* Special Guest Star Clifford Jordan
A Night At Boomers, Vol. 2
1974, Vinyl Presswell Pressing, ,
Post Bop
James Moody
Feelin' It Together
1974
Yusef Lateef
Blues For The Orient
1974
Bobby Pierce
New York
1974, Vinyl, ,
Free Jazz/Jazz-Funk
Dom Um Romao
Dom Um Romao
1974, Vinyl, ,
Bossa Nova/Jazz-Funk/Samba
Albert Heath
Kwanza (The First)
1974, ,
Hard Bop
Pat Martino
Consciousness
1974, Vinyl, ,
Fusion
Various
Newport In New York '72 - The Soul Sessions, Vol. 6
1973, LP, Album, Atlantic, ,
Electric Blues/Post Bop/Rhythm & Blues/Soul/Funk
Catalyst
Perception
1973, Vinyl, ,
Soul-Jazz/Modal/Fusion
Kenny Barron
Sunset To Dawn
1973
Richard Davis
Epistrophy & Now's The Time
1973
Sonny Stitt
12!
1973, ,
Post Bop/Hard Bop
Eric Kloss
One, Two, Free
1973, Vinyl, ,
Post Bop/Fusion
Ray Charles
Live
1973
Jimmy Heath
Love And Understanding
1973, ,
Hard Bop/Soul-Jazz
The Cedar Walton Trio* Special Guest Star Clifford Jordan
A Night At Boomers, Vol. 1
1973, ,
Bop
The Visitors
In My Youth
1973
Muddy Waters
Mud In Your Ear
1973
Carolyn Franklin
I'd Rather Be Lonely
1973
Chick Corea
Bliss!
1973
The Carter Family
More Golden Gems From The Original Carter Family
1972
Various
Newport In New York '72 - The Soul Sessions, Vol. 6
1972
Waylon Jennings
Heartaches By The Number And Other Country Favorites
1972
Pat Martino
The Visit!
1972
Ruth Brown
The Real Ruth Brown
1972, ,
Rhythm & Blues/Soul-Jazz
Various
Newport In New York '72 (The Complete Six Record Set, Vols 1-6)
1972, 6x Vinyl Monarch Pressing, Box Set, ,
Bop/Hard Bop/Swing/Rhythm & Blues/Post Bop/Soul
Roy Brooks
The Free Slave
1972, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Hard Bop/Soul-Jazz
Wayne Shorter
Footprints Live!
Charlie Parker And The All-Stars*
Summit Meeting At Birdland
1997
Louis Armstrong
Satchmo