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The Progressive Sounds of Cuneiform and Cleopatra Records (Part I) Special CD Review: The South Is Doing It Again: The Capricorn Chronicles The Bacchanalian music of Dionysus Luv N Haight and the Ubiquitious Funk Bompin! to the Sounds of the Underground
Jam On It!!: The Inaugral Jammys and new Jam Band Releases New Releases from a Guitar Point of View Please, Don't Blow Up Your Television Five Releases from the Grateful Dead Northcountry Jam - Viperhouse and Strangefolk
Rock in the Name of Progress (Part I- "From the Beginning") Rock in the Name of Progress (Part II-"Space Wranglers") Rock in the Name of Progress (Part III-"Mainstream Prog?") Rock in the Name of Progress (Part IV-"The Triple Alliance") Rock in the Name of Progress (Part V-"A Snapshot of Hopperiania")
Rock in the Name of Progress (Part VI-"Thelonius Punk") Rock in the Name of Progress (Part VII-"The Return of the Giant Progweed") Alive with the Live: Phoenix Presents- Blueground Undergrass, Ulu, Jiggle theHandle, Soup, All Mighty Senators Music from South of the Border: Massachusetts Music Jam Gems of Yore: Phoneix Presents the Tubes, Spirit, Derringer and Omar and the Howlers.
New Orleans Jazz Festival Tease: Los Hombres Calientes, George Porter, Nicholas Payton and Steve Masakowski New Orleans Jazz Festival Tease Part Two: Galactic and Jason Marsalis Karl Denson's Tiny Universe The Legacy: The Dead and Today’s Jam Bands: Illumninati, Cool Water Canyon, Floodplain Gang, Sir Fried and Dick's Picks Residential Avant-Garde Rock & Roll: The Residents
Bill Laswell: Ambient Warlord Better Living Through Coltrane:Coltrane Jazz, The Avant Garde, Impressions, New Thing at Newport, Kulu Se Mama, Ascension and Interstellar Space Experimentation is a New York Thing: The Knit Classics-Part I Experimentation is a New York Thing: The Knit Classics-Part II Experimentation is a New York Thing: The Knit Classics-Part III
Guitarismo!-Charlie Hunter, Kipori Woods, Son Seals, Dave "Honeyboy" Edwards, T-Bone Walker Get Dazed by the Meters: The Meters, Look-Ka Py Py, Struttin’, Rejuvenation and Fire on the Bayou Afro-Latin Grooves: Mark Ribot, Drumplay, Carribean Jazz Project, Antibalas, Either/Orchestra, Claudia Acuna, Longineu Parsons and Poncho Sanche Soul Groovin'  Liquid Collectives The Space Age Rock of National Steam and Quarkspace
A Six Pack of Phoenix Jams: Max Creek, Uncle Sammy, the Big Wu, Blind Man's Sun, Lake Trout, and Foxtrot Zule Celestial Music:New Releases from Hawkwind, Sun Ra, the Durutti Column, Richard Pinhas, Lan Xang, Moon Dance Experiement, Space Team Electra, Hednoize Two from AUM Fidelity - Joe Morris & Mat Maneri's Soul Search and William Parker & The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra's Mayor of Punkville A 6/4 Getaway with  Rockin’ Teenage Combo Hard Boppin' Jazz Messages: The Music of Art Blakey and Friends
Ornette Coleman Before the Electricity: The Early 1970s Jazz Butcher Conspiracy Those Jazz Hot Sounds: Jazz in the 1920s (Louis Armstrong, Clarence Williams, Sidney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton, George Lewis, Original Dixieland Jazz Band) Atavistic's Unheard Music Series- European Free Jazz (leo Cuypers, nachtluft and Han Bennink) The Jazz Saxophones of 1201 Music-are Albert Ayler’s Witches and Devils, Ben Webster’s Stormy Weather and Dexter Gordon’s Body and Soul
Jazz and the French Violinist: Stephane Grappelli and Didier Lockwood No Small Elf: Mark Elf – Live at Smalls Organ Donors: Freddie Roach & Big John Patton Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet `