• Entrance

• 2008 Top 10s
  • A–F   —>
    • David R. Adler
    • Nancy Barell
    • Paul Blair
    • Philip Booth
    • Christian Broecking
    • Stuart Broomer
    • Francis Davis
    • Philip DiPietro
    • Laurence Donohue-Greene
    • Ken Dryden
    • Alain Drouot
    • Steve Feeney
    • Mitchell Feldman
    • Ken Franckling
  • G–Z   —>
    • Andrew Gilbert
    • James Hale
    • Andrey Henkin
    • Geoffrey Himes
    • Lyn Horton
    • Elzy Kolb
    • Howard Mandel
    • Bill Milkowski
    • Dan Ouellette
    • Bob Protzman
    • Bob Putignano
    • Hank Shteamer
    • W. Royal Stokes

• Past Top 10s
  • 2007
  • 2006
  • 2005
  • 2004
  • 2003
  • 2002
  • 2001

Hank Shteamer

darkforcesswing.blogspot.com, timeoutnewyork.com

seven new, three reissue/archival

1. Harris Eisenstadt — Guewel (Clean Feed)
   
2. Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet — Tabligh (Cuneiform)
   
3. Ideal Bread — The Ideal Bread (KMB Jazz)
   
4. Eivind Opsvik — Overseas III (Loyal Label)
   
5. Bill Dixon — 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur (Aum Fidelity)
   
6. Ari Hoenig — Bert's Playground (Dreyfus)
   
7. Fieldwork — Door (Pi)
   

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8. Andrew Hill/Chico Hamilton — Dreams Come True (Joyous Shout)
   
9. Anthony Braxton — The Complete Arista Recordings (Mosaic)
   
10. Don Cherry — Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966, Vol. 2 (ESP)
    

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Six outstanding live shows I caught (all in NYC except the first one):

• Bobby Few and Sonny Simmons at the Philadelphia Art Alliance — 6/14/08
• Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis and Wadada Leo Smith at Community Church — 5/9/08
• Cecil Taylor and Tony Oxley at the Village Vanguard — 7/15/08
• The Bad Plus at the Village Vanguard — 9/25/08
• Han Bennink, Peter Brotzmann, Peter Evans and Tom Blancarte at Clemente Soto Velez — 420/08
• Paul Motian Octet at Birdland — 2/1/08