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2008 Contributor Picks

By AAJ Staff
January 16, 2009
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We solicited opinions from all active All About Jazz contributors, and out of more than 1,000 nominations, the following 2008 releases garnered the most votes.

New Releases

Charles Lloyd

saxophone
b.1938

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Rabe de Nube
(ECM Records)
Reviews

Rudresh Mahanthappa

saxophone, alto
b.1971

" data-original-title="" title="">Rudresh Mahanthappa
Kinsmen
(Pi Recordings)
Reviews

James Carter

multi-instrumentalist
b.1969

" data-original-title="" title="">James Carter
Present Tense
(Emarcy/Universal)
Reviews

Ben Allison

bass, acoustic
b.1966

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Little Things Run The World
(Palmetto Records)
Review

Bobby Previte

drums
b.1957

" data-original-title="" title="">Bobby Previte
Set the Alarm for Monday
(Palmetto Records)
Review

Brad Mehldau

piano
b.1970

" data-original-title="" title="">Brad Mehldau
Live
(Nonesuch Records)
Review

Aaron Parks

drums
b.1983

" data-original-title="" title="">Aaron Parks
Invisible Cinema
(Blue Note Records)
Reviews

Todd Sickafoose

bass, acoustic

" data-original-title="" title="">Todd Sickafoose
Tiny Resistors
(Cryptogramophone)
Review

Bobo Stenson

piano
b.1944

" data-original-title="" title="">Bobo Stenson
Cantando
(ECM Records)
Reviews

Vijay Iyer

piano
b.1971

" data-original-title="" title="">Vijay Iyer
Tragicomic
(Sunnyside Records)
Review

Harris Eisenstadt

drums

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Guewel
(Clean Feed)
Review

Joe Locke

vibraphone
b.1959

" data-original-title="" title="">Joe Locke
Force of Four
(Origin Records)
Reviews

Kurt Rosenwinkel

guitar
b.1970

" data-original-title="" title="">Kurt Rosenwinkel
The Remedy: Live at the Village Vanguard
(ArtistShare)
Reviews

Nik Bärtsch

piano
b.1971

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Holon
(ECM Records)
Reviews

Steve Turre

trombone
b.1948

" data-original-title="" title="">Steve Turre
Rainbow People
(HighNote Records)

Brian Blade

drums
b.1970

" data-original-title="" title="">Brian Blade
Season of Changes
(Verve Music Group)
Review

Enrico Pieranunzi

piano
b.1949

" data-original-title="" title="">Enrico Pieranunzi
As Never Before
(CAM Jazz)
Review

Guillermo Klein

piano

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Filtros
(Sunnyside Records)
Reviews

e.s.t.
Leucocyte
(ACT Music)
Review

Donny McCaslin

saxophone, tenor
b.1966

" data-original-title="" title="">Donny McCaslin
Recommended Tools
(Greenleaf)
Reviews

JD Allen

saxophone, tenor
b.1972

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I Am I Am
(Sunnyside Records)
Review

James Moody

woodwinds
1925 - 2010

" data-original-title="" title="">James Moody
Our Delight
(IPO Recordings)
Reviews

Anthony Braxton

woodwinds
b.1945

" data-original-title="" title="">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

trombone
1937 - 2022

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Evolution
(Blue Note Records)
Review

Sahib Shihab

woodwinds
1925 - 1989

" data-original-title="" title="">Sahib Shihab
And the Danish Radio Jazz Group
(OKTAV Music)
Review

Anthony Braxton

woodwinds
b.1945

" data-original-title="" title="">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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