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2008 Contributor Picks
ByNew 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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