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CultureCatch.com's Best Of 2012 List

Source: Steve Holtje
January 5, 2013

CultureCatch.com's annual Best New Jazz Albums list is out. Sitting at #1 is David S. Ware & Planetary Unknown's album on AUM Fidelity, Live at Jazz Festival Saalfelden 2011. Artist of the Year honors go to Brazilian saxophonist Ivo Perelman, who released six albums on Leo Records in 2012. Top historical recording is the Miles Davis Quintet's Live in Europe 1967. For author Steve Holtje's complete list of the top ten new albums, the top five historical releases, and commentary ...

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Opinion

My Life an Album a Year

Source: Dusty Wright's Culture Catch
April 4, 2011

By Steve Holtje My 50th birthday was March 29, which has me feeling retrospective. I could just make lists of favorite albums, but that would mostly cluster around my formative years (lots of '70s and '80s stuff). Going a year at a time produced a more nuanced and less obvious set of albums. Thanks for indulging me, it's the best birthday present. 1961 Bill Evans: Sunday at the Village Vanguard (Riverside) Of course, in 1961 I wasn't actually ...

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