2008's Top Recordings
Ken Dryden
Top ten new releases
- Kenny Werner Trio, With a Song in My
Heart (Venus)
- Marian McPartland, Twilight
World
(Concord)
- Roberta Gambarini/Hank Jones, You
Are There
(EmArcy)
- Eliane Elias, Something
for You
(Blue Note)
- Martin Taylor, Double
Standards
(P3 Music)
- Judy Wexler, Dreams
& Shadows
(Jazzed Media)
- Scott Robinson, Forever
Lasting
(Arbors)
- Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Monday
Night Live at the Village Vanguard
(Planet Arts)
- Joe Locke, Force
of Four
(Origin)
- Jamie Baum Septet, Solace
(Sunnyside)
Top ten reissues/boxed sets/historical releases
- Oscar Peterson, Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings of the Oscar Peterson Trio
(1951-1953) (Mosaic)
- Art Tatum: Tatum
Art
(Storyville)
- Lester Young, Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion Lester Young with Count Basie
(1936-1940) (Mosaic)
- Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big
Band (Mosaic Select)
- Mary Lou Williams, A
Grand Night for Swinging
(HighNote)
- Dave Brubeck: 50
Years of Dave Brubeck: Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1958-2007
(MJF/Concord)
- Charlie Parker, Washington
D.C. 1948
(Uptown)
- Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, Showtime
at the Spotlite
(Uptown)
- Horace Silver, Live
at Newport '58
(Blue Note)
- Art Blakey & the Giants of Jazz, Live
at the 1972 Monterey Jazz Festival
(MJF/Concord)
Amazon links used for purchases help fund the JJA