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Mark F. Turner wrote on January 24, 2008 reportIMHO lists are nice to see what others think but are somewhat irrelevent; unless it spurs the reader to discover some music they're not familiar with.
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Ken Dryden wrote on January 24, 2008 reportMark:
I think I included your point in my article. Trying to pick ten CDs from an entire year's releases will always be arbitrary to some extent, though I feel the toughest choices are narrowing my list from 25-30 down to just 10. -
C. Michael Bailey wrote on January 25, 2008 reportKen:
I thought this was a hopping good article. I generally begin my list in December of the previous year, allowing a one month overlap. I add to my list as the year goes on, considering and reconsidering what I hear. I am just glad that most of the music is of such a high quality that it makes my end-of-the-year list hard to assemble. -
John Kelman wrote on January 27, 2008 reportKen,
You say: "I feel the toughest choices are narrowing my list from 25-30 down to just 10."
That's why I don't :-) I break it down to 12 jazz picks, 6 historical/reissue, 6 progressive/fusion/other and 6 new discoveries: 30 in all. Props to you, man, for being able to whittle it down to only 10!
Best!
John
