Doug Wamble, Country Libations (Marsalis Records)

Thelonious Monk, Criss Cross/It’s Monk’s Time/Solo Monk/Underground (Columbia/Legacy)

Michel Camilo, Live at the Blue Note (Telarc Jazz)

Laura Love, Welcome to Pagan Place (Koch)

Regina Carter, Paganini: After a Dream (Verve)

Fest Focus: Tom McDermott & Evan Christopher Quartet

It’s no secret that traditional jazz is an amalgam of musics from Europe, Africa, and the Americas fused into a distinctive cultural expression by the native genius of New Orleans, and you can hear it in its most glorious and debased forms all over this city.

Herbie Hancock, The Herbie Hancock Box (Columbia/Legacy)

Solomon Burke, Don’t Give Up On Me (Fat Possum)

Jeff “Tain” Watts, Bar Talk (Sony)

Tom McDermott and Evan Christopher, Danza (STR Digital)