Led by AACM reed player Ed Wilkerson and featuring Aaron Dodd, Mwata Bowden, and Robert Griffin Jr. CD

A quintet session. Tracks include "Count Up", "Sheer Lunacy", "Inner Urge", "Bells", and "Elvinesque". CD

With Theo Bleckmann, Skuli Sverrisson and Jim Black. Titles include "Mistral", "Luteous Pangolin", "Ellenville", "Sunny Manitoba", "Hatchet Face", 'Etching", "Windowpane" and "You Are My Sunshine". CD

Features Ted Nash on tenor, clarinet, and bass clarinet – with work from Wycliffe Gordon on trombone, and William Schimmel on accordion! CD

With James Emery on guitar, Regina Carter on violin, and John Lindberg on bass. CD

Norman Hedman on congas & percussion, Willie Martinez on timbales, Ron Monroe on bass, Glen Pearson & Robert Aron on piano, AJ Mantas on vibes, Talib Kibwe on alto & soprano sax, Craig Rivers & Andrienne Wilson on flute, Joe Gonzalez on bongos with special guest Hilton Ruiz on piano. CD

A set that mostly includes Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's take on The Nutcracker Suite – getting more than a few nice jazzy changes out of Tchaikovsky's famous ballet! As Jimmy Smith and others have also shown, the Nutcracker's got some pretty nice themes to improvise around – and Ellington's group here is filled with strong players who can do a lot in a small space – Harry Carney, Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, Ray Nance, Juan Tizol, and others – making the material a very good fit for the record. Titles include "Toot Toot Tootie Toot", "Entr'Acte", "Sugar Rum Cherry", "The Volga Vouty", "Arabesque Cookie", and "Chinoiserie". Also includes a 1960 recording of "Peer Gynt Suites No 1 & 2". LP, Vinyl record album