| TOP CHOICES |
2012 |
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| Ray Anderson |
Sweet Chicago Suite |
Intuition |
| Ravi Coltrane |
Spirit Fiction |
Blue Note |
| Marty Ehrlich |
Frog Leg Logic |
clean feed |
| Michael Formanek |
Small Places |
ECM |
| Francois Houle |
Genera |
Songlines |
| Steve Lehman |
Dialect Fluorescent |
Pi |
| Mike Reed |
Clean on the Corner |
482 Music |
| Jason Robinson |
Tiresian Symmetry |
Cuneiform |
| Jenny Scheinman |
Mischief Mayhem |
J.Scheinman |
| Trio M (Myra Melford) |
The Guest House |
Yellowbird |
| Ryan Truesdell |
Centennial: newly discovered works of Gil Evans |
ArtistShare |
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| OTHERS WORTH A LISTEN |
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| John Abercrombie |
Within a song |
ECM |
| Jason Adasiewicz |
Spacer |
Delmark |
| Tim Berne |
Snakeoil |
ECM |
| Bobby Bradford |
Live in L.A. |
clean feed |
| Anat Cohen |
Claroscuro |
Anzic |
| Marilyn Crispell/Dresser/Hemingway |
Play Braxton |
Tzadik |
| Kris Davis |
Aeriol Piano |
clean feed |
| Harris Eisenstadt |
Canada Day III |
Songlines |
| Amir ElSaffar |
Inana |
Pi |
| Bill Frisell |
Floratone II |
Savoy |
| Ben Goldberg |
Baal |
Tzadik |
| Mary Halvorson |
Bending Bridges |
Firehouse 12 |
| Billy Hart |
All Our Reasons |
ECM |
| Andy Hunter |
Think Like a Mountain |
River |
| Charlie Hunter/Scott Amendola |
Not Getting Behind Is the New Getting... |
CharlieHunterMusic |
| Vijay Iyer |
Accelerando |
ACT |
| Sheila Jordan |
Yesterdays |
HighNote |
| Frank Kimbrough |
Live at Kitano |
Palmetto |
| Klang |
Brooklyn Lines... Chicago Spaces |
AllosDocuments |
| Lee Konitz |
Enfants Terribles |
HalfNote |
| Steve Kuhn |
Wisteria |
ECM |
| Living by Lanterns |
New Myth/Old Science |
Cuneiform |
| Pat Metheny |
Unity Band |
Nonesuch |
| Ron Miles |
Quiver |
yelllowbird/enja |
| Hafez Modirzadeh |
Post-chromodal out! |
Pi |
| Ted Nash |
The Creep |
Plastic Sax |
| Jimmy Owens |
The Monk Project |
ipo |
| William Parker |
Essence of Ellington |
Centering |
| Jeremy Pelt |
Soul |
HighNote |
| Ralph Peterson |
Duality Perspective |
Onyx |
| Josh Rzepka |
Into the Night |
J.Rzepka |
| Wadada Leo Smith |
Ten Freedom Summers |
Cuneiform |
| Jason Stein |
The Story This Time |
Delmark |
| Henry Threadgill |
Tomorrow Sunny/The Revelry Spp |
Pi |
| Steve Turre |
Woody's Delight |
HighNote |
| Matt Wilson |
An Attitude for Gratitude |
Palmetto |
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| MISSED FROM PREVIOUS YEARS |
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| 3 Cohens |
Family |
Anzic (2011) |
| Vinny Golia |
Take Your Time |
Relative Pitch (2007) |
| Klang |
Other Doors |
AllosDocuments (2011) |
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| REISSUES/FROM THE VAULTS |
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| Joe Alexander |
Blue Jubilee |
Fresh Sound |
| Blue Notes |
Before the Wind Changes |
Ogun |
| Marion Brown |
Geechee Recollections/Sweet Earth Flying |
Impulse! |
| Charlie Christian |
Electric |
Uptown |
| Gigi Gryce |
Doin' the Gigi |
Uptown |
| Keith Jarrett |
Sleeper |
ECM |
| Charles Mingus |
Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65 |
Mosaic |
| Buell Neidlinger |
Live at Ravenna '87 |
K2B2 |
| Sam Rivers |
Reunion: Live in New York |
Pi |
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| JAZZ LIVE |
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| Cleveland Jazz Orchestra/Monk |
Hanna Theatre |
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| Jack DeJohnette |
Tri-C JazzFest |
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| Bill Frisell |
NightTown |
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| Charlie Hunter/Bobby Previte |
NightTown |
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| Mike Lee/New Tricks |
NightTown |
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| Spoke |
NightTown |
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| Matt Wilson |
Tri-C JazzFest |
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| NON-JAZZ LIVE |
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| Antibalas |
Beachland |
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| Aretha Franklin |
Tri-C JazzFest |
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| Hesitations/Lou Ragland |
Beachland |
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| Novalima, etc. |
Solstice - Cleveland Museum of Art |
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| Steve Reich |
Cleveland Museum of Art |
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| Revolutionary Brass Band |
Parade the Circle |
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| MOVIES |
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| The Girls in the Band |
Cleveland International Film Festival |
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| BOOKS |
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| Paul Combs |
Dameronia: the life and music of Tadd Dameron |
Univ. Michigan |
| Ted Gioia |
The Jazz Standards |
Oxford |
| Daniel Goldmark et al |
Jazz/Not Jazz: the music and its boundaries |
Univ. California |
| Robin D. G. Kelley |
Africa Speaks, America Answers |
Harvard Univ. |
