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Alan Chase · "Best Of List" for 2004 · Jan 1st

I have to admit, this was a hard list for me to put together. It seems to me that a lot of what has been coming out in jazz lately, just doesn’t grab me. Must be a sign of advancing age.

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Dimitry Ukhov · 10 bests as seen from (Eastern) Europe · Dec 30th

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Matt Merewitz · Top 11 Recordings for 2004 · Dec 30th

I’m in the world of college radio as a DJ and genre director at a station that has a ridiculous amount of jazz that doesn’t get played often enough (Carnegie Mellon University). I am honored to have my picks featured in this listing. Hope you dig on what you’ve heard and dig deeper what you haven’t.

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W. Royal Stokes · Favorite CDs & DVDs of 2004 · Dec 29th

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Phil DiPietro · Top 10 for '04 · Dec 29th

Phil DiPietro here, jja member and writer for Allaboutjazz, submitting my top 10 for ‘04 with links to my articles/reviews. Indulge me in submitting a “top ten sideman appearances” category for 2004; an slight bit of recognition for some stellar, essential performances.

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Elzy Kolb Dozen · Dec 22nd

Here are the dozen CDs I listened to over and over this year.

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Bill Milkowski Top 10 plus 3 · Dec 22nd

Bill Milkowski, freelance music writer, contributor to Jazz Times and Jazziz, author of “JACO: The Extraordinary And Tragic Life Of Jaco Pastorius”

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Rusty Hassan's Favorite 2004 Jazz Recordings · Dec 21st

A baker’s dozen of new and reissued recordings in no particular order.

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Bill Beuttler's Top Ten CDs · Dec 20th

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Owen Cordle · Top 10 List for 2004 · Dec 15th

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Alain Drouot · Eleven is the New 10 · Dec 15th

In no particular order, 10 recordings (+1) that I strongly recommend.

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Ryan McDermott's Top 10 · Dec 15th

Ryan McDermott is a new member of the JJA. He’s an NYU graduate student and freelance jazz writer (first article: on the JJA Jazz Awards 2004, in what is sadly the last issue of Canada’s Planet Jazz). Living in New Jersey, Ryan adds that he’ll “write anything, really,” and that we should “send him work.”

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Kurt Gottschalk · Top Number · Dec 13th

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Andrey Henkin · Top 10 · Dec 13th

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Russ Musto · Dec 13th

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Laurence Svirchev · Ten CDs of Highest Artistic Integrity in 2004 · Dec 11th

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James Hale · Top 10 · Dec 10th

James Hale is the managing editor of JazzHouse.org and a regular contributor to DownBeat, Coda, Words + Music and the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada.

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Mark Corroto · Dec 10th

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Laurence Donohue-Greene · Best Releases of 2004 · Dec 10th

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Larry Appelbaum · Dec 10th

Let’s call it 10 favorites (plus 5).

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George W. Harris · Dec 10th

Here’s my list, including reissues.

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Jaap Ludeke · Dec 10th

Greetings from Holland. As you see, here’s my favorite 10. I did not include re-issues.

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Ken Franckling · Dec 10th

New jazz releases, boxed sets or reissues, and biggest surprises

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Joe Lang · Top 10 · Dec 9th

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John Chacona · Top 10 · Dec 9th

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Steve Dollar's 10 list · Dec 9th

Since moving to New York five years ago, my relationship to jazz has changed completely. Where recordings once were my primary medium for hearing the music, performance is how I mostly get my jollies now.

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David Adler · Top 10 · Dec 9th

David Adler is editor of the JJA’s Jazz Notes journal, as well as a contributor to diverse magazines and The New Republic Online.

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Patricia Myers · Top Ten 2004 · Dec 9th

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John Kelman · Best Albums of 2004 · Dec 9th

Here’s my best of 2004. Top 10 new releases, top 5 reissues and a notation at the end with a few runners-up. This is the format for Jazzviews.co.uk, to which I contribute along with being Contributing Editor at Allaboutjazz.

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Steve Emerine · 10 picks · Dec 9th

Here are my 10 picks for the annual Jazz Journalists Association listing.

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Ron Sweetman · Top Ten 2004 · Dec 9th

Here’s my two-cents worth.

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Chris Hovan · Top 10 · Dec 9th

Journalist/Photographer C. Andrew Hovan is a regular contributor to All About Jazz, The Jazz Review, Down Beat, and The Cleveland Free Times. He also regularly pens liner note for Criss Cross Jazz.

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David Rickert · My ten best · Dec 9th

I had problems coming up with ten that I felt really stood out from the pack. And since I deal most with reissues, that’s what these are.

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David Whiteis · A Blues Top 10 · Dec 9th

With the caveat that I have fallen grievously behind on my listening, and thus have no doubt missed some sparkling and irreplaceable diamonds along the way, here are ten disks — listed in no particular order — that provided me with inordinate listening pleasure in 2004.

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