2008's Top Recordings
Laurence Donohue-Greene
Managing Editor, AllAboutJazz-New YorkBEST NEW RELEASES:
The Antripodean Collective (Scott Tinkler, John Rodgers, Marc Hannaford, Ken Edie) — Funcall
(Extreme)
Raoul Bjorkenheim/William Parker/Hamid Drake — DMG @ The Stone; Vol. 2
(DMG-Arc)
Anthony Braxton/Milford Graves/Wiliam Parker — Beyond Quantum
(Tzadik)
Taylor Ho Bynum — Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths
(hatOLOGY)
Roberta Gambarini/Hank Jones — You Are There
(Emarcy)
Barry Guy/Marilyn Crispell/Paul Lytton — Phases of the Night (Intakt)
Charles Lloyd — Rabo de Nube
(ECM)
Mauger (Rudresh Mahanthappa/Mark Dresser/Gerry Hemingway) — The Beautiful Enabler
(Clean Feed)
Mario Pavone — Trio Arc
(Playscape)
Martial Solal — Longitude
(Camjazz)
BEST BOOK:
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
by George E. Lewis (University of Chicago Press)
BEST REISSUES/HISTORICAL RELEASES:
Ray Russell Quartet — Turn Circle
(CBS/Realm - Vocalion)
John Tchicai & Cadentia Nova Danica — Afrodisiaca
(MPS-Universal)
Sahib Shihab — And the Danish Radio Jazz Group
(OKTAV Music)
Jeremy Steig — Howlin' for Judy
(Legwork/Wayfaring Stranger) (Solid State-Blue Note)
Graham Collier — Down Another Road/Songs for My Father/Mosaics
(Fontanta/Philips - BGO)
Dizzy Gillespie Big Band — Showtime at the Spotlite
(Uptown)
BEST BOXED SET:
Albert Mangelsdorff — Originals, Vol. 1 & 2 (MPS-Universal)
BEST DEBUT RELEASE:
John Escreet — Consequences
(Posi-Tone)
Amazon links used for purchases help fund the JJA