AAJ's Michael Ricci Listed on JazzTimes 2004 "Power Index"

Source: All About Jazz
January 26, 2005
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Last Year's Power Index stirred up plenty of discussion within the jazz industry, much of it of the “Who the hell does JazzTimes think it is?" variety. We were merely trying to give the public a peek behind the curtain at who controls the jazz world of Oz. Instead, the Power Index angered some who didn't place and irritated many of those who did because they didn't believe their ranking was high enough.

The Power Index is based on informal roundtable discussions in the JT offices, based on experience, observation and conjecture. To any of you industry people who are sore because you weren't rated high enough, or weren't rated at all, we know how you feel: None of us are listed in the poll. Maybe next year we'll earn some self-respect.

Top 25 from 2004

1. Wynton Marsalis
2. Bruce Lundvall
3. Ted Kurland
4. Bill McFarlin
5. John Phillips
6. Glen Barros
7. Jessica Sendra
8. Ann Marie Wilkins
9. Dave Love
10. Derek Gordon
11. Steve Macklam
12. Mary Ann Topper
13. Jeff Jones
14. Theo Van Den Hoek
15. Ron Goldstein
16. Don Lucoff
17. Randall Kline
18. Tim Jackson
19. Paxton Baker
20. George Wein
21. Steven Scott
22. Maxx Myrick
23. Matt Abramowitz
24. Todd Barkan
25. Suzan Jenkins

As if ranking the top 25 wasn't hard enough, we've picked more folks with more than enough jazz juice than we know what to do with. We've listed them alphabetically.