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C. Michael Bailey's Best Recordings of 2014

By C. Michael Bailey
December 16, 2014
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This year turned out to be a watershed of jazz and beyond vocals, instrumental jazz and important reissues. It was a year of music that further opened my eyes and ears to music I had not previously valued or considered. How short-sighted of me.

Beat Kaestli

vocals

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Collage
(B&B Productions)

Bob Dorough

vocals
1923 - 2018

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Eulalia
(Self Produced)

Kate McGarry

vocals

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Genevieve & Ferdinand -Live
(Sunnyside Records)

Cindy Scott

flute

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Historia
(STEM Records)

Uri Caine

piano
b.1956

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Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
(Winter & Winter)

Laurie Antonioli

vocals

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Songs of Shadow, Songs of Light: the Music of Joni Mitchell
(Origin Records)

Roseanna Vitro

vocals
b.1954

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Clarity: Music of Clare Fischer
(Random Acts Records)

Natalie Cressman

trombone

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Turn the Sea
(Self Produced)

InDuologue
Blue Skies
(Snip Records)

Donna Deussen

vocals

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On the Street Where You Live
(Self Produced)

Cat Conner

vocals

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Cat House
(Cat Tales Records)

Low Society

various
b.2007

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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
(Icehouse Records)

David Ian

piano

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Valentine's Day
(Prescott Recordings)

Vittorio Gennari

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Blues
(Red Records)

Dave Stryker

guitar
b.1957

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Eight Track
(Self Produced)

John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionnaire...
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
(Soli Gloria Deo)

Allman Brothers Band

band / ensemble / orchestra

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The 1971 Fillmore Recordings
(Mercury Records)

Jack Cooper

woodwinds
b.1963

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Mist—Charles Ives for Orchestra
(Planet Arts)

Joanne Lunn, Rowan Hellier, Thomas Hobbs, Matthew Brooks...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—Requiem
(Linn Records)

Philip Corner

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Satie Slowly
(Unseen Worlds Records)

The Bad Plus

band / ensemble / orchestra
b.2000

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The Rite of Spring
(Sony Records)

Eric Reed

piano
b.1970

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Groovewise
(Smoke Sessions)

George Taylor

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Rain or Shine
(Self Produced)

Rory Gallagher

guitar
1949 - 1995

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Irish Tour '74—40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
(Sony Legacy)

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