Releases I am Awaiting

Between catalogues, magazines, blogs, and label sites, here is a list of the recently released and upcoming CDs from February to early April that I have on my purchase list, which I am sure will expand:

• Eric Alexander and Vincent Herring, "Friendly Fire" High Note
• Richard Galliano, "Nino Rota" Deutche Grammaphone
• Andy Shepherd, "Trio Liibero ECM
• Lynne Arriale, "Solo" Motema
• Billy Hart, "All Our Reasons" ECM
• Ulysses Owens, "Unanimous" Criss Cross
• Dayna Stephens, "Today is Tomorrow" Criss Cross
• Bud Shank and Phil Woods, "Bouncing with Bud and Phil" Capri
• Upper Left Trio, "Ulternative" Origin
• Matthew Shuipp, "Elastic Aspects" Thirsty Ear
• Jeff Hamilton Trio, "Red Sparkle" Capri
• Luis Perdomo, "Universal Mind" RKM
• Brad Mehldau, "Ode" Nonesuch
• Pete Zimmer, "Prime of Life" Tippin'
• Kenny Werner, "Me, Myself, and I" Justin Time
• Phronesis, "Walking Dark" Edition
• Dialogues Trio, "Twinkle Twinkle" Babel
• Gwilym Simcock, Tim Garland, "Lighthouse" ACT
• EST, "301" ACT
• Masabumi Kikuchi, "Trio" ECM
• Michael Wollny's [em], "Wasted and Wanted" ACT

And these are recent purchases, all of which are very nice and within the generally straight-ahead framework:

• Ahmad Jamal, "Blue Moon" Jazz Village
• Mark Soskin, "Nino Rota" Kind of Blue
• Enrico Pieranunzi, "Permutation" CamJazz
• Ben Wendel, "Frame" Sunnyside
• Johnathan Blake, "The Eleventh Hour" Sunnyside

One additional note. As a long-time and fully committed fan of Leonard Cohen, I was blown away by an advance copy ( April release in the U.S. athough it is available already in Canada) of his son Adam Cohen's upcoming CD,  "Like a Man". It's eerie how much he sounds like his father circa 1968, and the music itself, lyrics, voice and simple instrumentation all add up to an A-one recording.