MAGNET’s Bill Meyer picks the best jazz releases of the year.
1. MATT BAUDER Day In Pictures (Clean Feed)
2. REMPIS PERCUSSION QUARTET Montreal Parade (482 Music)
3. MATTHEW SHIPP Art Of The Improviser (Thirsty Ear)
4. ACID BIRDS Acid Birds III (Blackest Rainbow)
5. KEN VANDERMARK Strade d’Acqua/Roads Of Water (Multikulti)
6. KEITH ROWE Concentration Of The Stare (Bottrop Boy)
7. THE SPANISH DONKEY XYX (Northern Spy)
8. AMIR ELSAFFAR TWO RIVERS ENSEMBLE Inana (Pi)
9. DAVID S. WARE Organica (Aum Fidelity)
10. BILL DIXON Envoi (Victo)
6 replies on “Best Of 2011: Jazz”
YAY Ken Vandermark 🙂 Congrats to all the great artists.
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