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Chris May's Best Releases of 2011

By Chris May
December 12, 2011
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2011 produced a bigger than usual crop of engaging new albums and important reissues. In no special order, here are ten new releases and five reissues: la crème de la crème.

The Waitiki 7 In Hi-Fi (Pass Out)	Dub Colossus Addis (Real World)	Alice Coltrane Impulse! Reissues (Impulse!)
Archie Shepp Wo!man (Archie Ball)	Fela Kuti Fela Power Show (Knitting Factory)	Arun Ghosh Primal Odyssey (Camoci)
Club d'Elf Electric Moroccoland (Face Pelt)	Terry Branam Aram Bajakian's Kef (Tzadik)	Stan Getz Clef Studio Albums (Verve)
Steven Bernstein MTO Plays Sly (Royal Potato Family)	Billy Jenkins Jazz Gives Me The Blues (VTOP)	Various Artists First Impulse (Impulse!)
Ojos de Brujo Corriente Vital (Warner Music)	Dawda Jobarteh Northern Light (Sterns)	Randy Weston Blue Moses (CTI Masterworks)

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