The Wind At Four To Fly (Diamond Riggs). Review by Carl F Gauze.

29 Pieces for the Microtonal Guitar (g-wOw). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Absolute Noon (Hometapes). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Mean Things Happen in this Land (Ropeadope). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Spider Monkey. Review by Carl F Gauze.

Electropolis (Innova). Review by Carl F Gauze.

PBS contributors assemble eyewitness accounts and flash photography to give an overlooked West Coast jazz scene its day in the sun, and their Harlem of the West makes Matthew Moyer a happy kid indeed in the eye candy store.

The Bastress (Tellous). Review by Aaron Shaul.

From the Sky (Neurodisc Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

8 Armed Monkey (Thirsty Ear). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Twenty (Sanctuary Records Group). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Agony Pipes and Misery Sticks (BC Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Shelton Hull eagerly devours reissues of lesser-known work by the jazz titans Coltrane, Ellington, and Mingus. What’s left to do then but riff, baby, riff!

A Year to Demonstrate (Isidore). Review by Aaron Shaul.

What We Must (Ninja Tune). Review by Aaron Shaul.

The women are doing it for themselves! This issue of Target or Flag gives you the low down on four women making music in very different styles but displaying the same independent spirit.

From the Lion’s Mouth (Kill Rock Stars). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Triumph of Time (ObliqSound). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Brain (Telarc). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Rocksteady (Telark Jazz). Review by Bob Pomeroy.