Ed Love Recommeneds for 2008
Destination Jazz: The Ed Love Program
2008 Highly Recommended New Cd’s
Artist Album Title Record label
1.Alvin Queen Jamin’ Uptown Just a Memory
2.Conrad Herwig The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter Half Note
3.Cory Weeds Big Weeds Cellar Live
4.Joe Magnarelli Persistence Reservoir
5.Houston Person The Art and Soul Of High Note
6.Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note
7.Dianne Reeves When You Know Blue Note
8.Grant Stewart Young at Heart Sharp Nine
9.Ahmad Jamal It’s Magic Dreyfus
10.John Swana Bright moments Criss Cross
11.Scott Hamilton Across the Tracks Concord Jazz
12.Tom Scott All Stars Cannon ReLoaded Concord Jazz
13.James Moody & Our Delight IPO
Hank Jones
14.Mike LeDonne Five Live Savant
15.The John Hicks Mind Wine Savant
Legacy Band
16.Joey DeFrancesco Joey D! High Note
17.Doug Hamilton Jazz Band OA2
18.Dan Heck Compositionality Origin
19.Jeremy Pelt November Max Jazz
20.Wycliffe Gordon Boss Bones Criss Cross
21.Mike Melito In the Tradition Mike Melito Music
22.Tim Warfield One for Shirley Criss Cross
23.Luther Hughes Spectacular Primrose
24.Javon Jackson Once Upon a Melody Palmetto
25.The Vanguard Monday Night Live at the Planet Arts
Jazz Orchestra Village Vanguard
26.Freddie Hubbard On the Real Side Times Square
27.Ralph Bowen Five Criss Cross
28.Joe Lovano Symphonica Blue Note
29.Sean Dobbins Blue Horizons Alley
30.Dr. Bruce Eskovitz One for Newk Pacific Coast Jazz
31.Don Hales Unified String Theory Chicken Coup
32.Ralph LaLama Energy Fields Mighty Quinn
33.Roger Kellaway Live at the Jazz Standard IPO
34.Horace Silver Live at Newport ’58 Blue Note
35.Pete Zimmer Chillin’ Live at Jazz Factory Tippin
36.Eric Alexander The Offering High Note
37.Rob Schneiderman Glass Enclosure Reservoir
38.Larry Willis The Offering High Note
39.Avery Sharpe Legends and mentors JKNM
40.The Brubeck Classified Koch
Brothers
41.Ellis Marsalis An Open Letter to the Lonious ELM Records
42.Ted Nash The Mancini Project Palmetto
43.Marian McPartland Twilight World Concord Jazz
44.Wayne Escoffery Hopes and Dreams Savant
45.Bill Cunliffe The Blues and The Abstract Resonance
Take 2
46.Mark Colby Reflections Origin
47.Fred Taylor Circling CCR-FT-3
48.Roger Tilton Jazz Tones Skipper
49.Gary Matsumoto Days Ahead Skipper
50.David Finck Future Day Sound Brush
51.Steve Turre Rainbow People High Note
52.Cedar Walton Seasoned Wood High Note
53.Don Braden Gentle Storm High Note
54.Peter Yellin How Long has this Been Going On? Jazzed media
55.David Murray & Silence Justin Time
Mal Waldron
56.David “Fathead” Diamondhead High Note
Newman
57.Houston Person Just Between Friends High Note
with Ron Carter
58.Willie Nelson & Two Men with the Blues Blue Note
Wynton Marsalis
59.Dave Holland Pass It On Dare 2
60.Lafayette Harris Jr. Trio Talk Airmen
61.Daniel Sadownick There Will Be a Day In Time
62.Hadley Caliman Gratitude Origin
63.James Carter Present Tense Emarcy
64.Russell Gunn Love Stories High Note
65.Peter Sommer Crossroads Capri
66.Jeff Hackworth Where the Blue Begins Big Bridge
67.Joe Locke Force of Four Origin
68.Jay Hoggard Soular Power JHVM
69.Eric J. Morones About Time Arabesque
70.Generations Tough Guys Intl. Center for the Arts
71.Pete Malinverni Invisible Cities Reservoir
72.Grace Kelly & GracefulLee Pazz
Lee Konitz
73.The Stein Brothers Quixotic Jazzed Media
74.Gasper Bertoncelj Caution Hard Hat Area Arabesque
75.Bobby Broom The Way I Play Origin
76.Benny Powell Nextep Origin
77.Roy Hargrove Earfood Groovin’ High
78.Phil Norman Totally live at Catalina Jazz Club Mama
79.Mark Sherman Live at the Bird’s Eye Mile High
80.Pat Metheny Day Trip Nonesuch
81.Brad Mehldau Trio Live Nonesuch
82.Nicholas Payton Into the Blue Nonesuch
83.Stanley Jordan State of Nature Mack Avenue
84.Hot Club of Detroit Night Town Mack Avenue
85.McCoy Tyner Guitars Half Note
86.Roberta Gambarini You are There Emarcy
& Hank Jones
87.Libby York Here With You York Music
88.Sunny Wilkinson A Gentle Time Chase Music
& Tom Garvin
2008 New Blue Note Re-Issues
Remastered by: Rudy Van Gelder
1.Horace Silver Further Exploration Blue Note
2.Freddie Redd Shades of Redd Blue Note
3.Sonny Clark Leapin’ and Lopin’ Blue Note
4.Hank Mobley Quintet Blue Note
5.J.R. Monterose J.R. Monterose Blue Note
6.Stanley Turrentine Dearly Beloved Blue Note
7.Lou Donaldson Here Tis Blue Note
8.Hank Mobley Peckin’ Time Blue Note
9.Jimmy Smith Plays Fats Waller Blue Note
10.Stanley Turrentine Look Out Blue Note
11.Lou Donaldson Lou Takes Off Blue Note
12.Louis Smith Here Comes Louis Smith Blue Note
13.Curtis Fuller The Opener Blue Note
14.Wayne Shorter The Soothsayer Blue Note
15.Grachan Moncur III Evolution Blue Note
16.Ike Quebec Blue and Sentimental Blue Note
17.Jimmy Smith Live at the Club Baby Grand Blue Note
Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
18.Jutta Hipp Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims Blue Note