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2008 Contributor Picks
New Releases
 Charles Lloyd Rabe de Nube (ECM Records) Reviews |  Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen (Pi Recordings) Reviews |
 James Carter Present Tense (Emarcy/Universal) Reviews |  Ben Allison Little Things Run The World (Palmetto Records) Review |  Bobby Previte Set the Alarm for Monday (Palmetto Records) Review |
 Brad Mehldau Live (Nonesuch Records) Review |  Aaron Parks Invisible Cinema (Blue Note Records) Reviews |  Todd Sickafoose Tiny Resistors (Cryptogramophone) Review |
 Bobo Stenson Cantando (ECM Records) Reviews |  Vijay Iyer Tragicomic (Sunnyside Records) Review |  Harris Eisenstadt Guewel (Clean Feed) Review |
 Joe Locke Force of Four (Origin Records) Reviews |  Kurt Rosenwinkel The Remedy: Live at the Village Vanguard (ArtistShare) Reviews |  Nik Bärtsch Holon (ECM Records) Reviews |
 Steve Turre Rainbow People (HighNote Records) |  Brian Blade Season of Changes (Verve Music Group) Review |  Enrico Pieranunzi As Never Before (CAM Jazz) Review |
 Guillermo Klein Filtros (Sunnyside Records) Reviews |  e.s.t. Leucocyte (ACT Music) Review |  Donny McCaslin Recommended Tools (Greenleaf) Reviews |
 JD Allen I Am I Am (Sunnyside Records) Review |  James Moody Our Delight (IPO Recordings) Reviews |  Anthony Braxton Quartet (Moscow) 2008 (Leo Records) Review |
Other top vote-getters...
Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves & Wiliam Parker, Beyond Quantum (Tzadik Records); Bill Dixon, 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur (AUM Fidelity); Danilo Perez, Across the Crystal Sea (Decca Records); Karrin Allyson, Imagina: Songs of Brazil (Telarc Records); Mary Halvorson Trio, Dragon's Head (Firehouse 12); Dianne Reeves, When You Know (Blue Note Records).
Esperanza Spalding, Esperanza (Heads Up Int'l); Pat Metheny Trio, Day Trip (Nonesuch Records); Mostly Other People Do The Killing, This Is Our Moosic (Hot Cup Records); Roy Hargrove, Earfood (Groovin' High/EmArcy); Ahmad Jamal, It's Magic (Dreyfus); John Beasley, Letter to Herbie (Resonance Records).
John McLaughlin, Floating Point (Abstract Logix); The Microscopic Septet, Lobster Leaps In (Cuneiform Records); Kenny Garrett, Sketches of MD: Live at the Iridium (Mack Avenue); Tim Hagans, Alone Together (Pirouet Records); Steve Khan, The Suitcase (Tone Center); Mario Pavone, Ancestors (Playscape Recordings).
Reissues/Historical Releases
 Grachan Moncur III Evolution (Blue Note Records) Review |  Sahib Shihab And the Danish Radio Jazz Group (OKTAV Music) Review |  Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings (Mosaic Records) Review |
Book
 George Lewis A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago Press) Review |
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