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Top 10 jazz albums of 2008. - By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine
slate.com - 12/18/2008
Top 10 jazz albums of 2008. - By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine
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The best jazz album of 2008 is such a clear choice—not just a stunning disc of music but a breakthrough in music history—that I will say this: If any jazz critics out there leave it off their Top 10 lists, don't trust another word that they say about anything. 1. The album is Sonny Rollins' Road ...
The Best Jazz of 2008 < PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2008
popmatters.com - 12/17/2008
The Best Jazz of 2008 < PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2008
— popmatters.com — 1 Aaron Parks, in his Blue Note debut, continues to expand the jazz vocabulary with the new rhythms of hip-hop. Like last year’s In My Element by Robert Glasper, Invisible Cinema does not graft some jazz playing onto a hip-hop album, nor does it tack ... The Best Jazz of 2008 < PopMatters Picks: The Best Music ...

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Standouts in Rap, Jazz and Country
nytimes.com - 12/24/2008
Standouts in Rap, Jazz and Country
— nytimes.com — Music by Lil Wayne, Bon Iver, Guillermo Klein y Los Gauchos, Lionel Loueke and Jamey Johnson top this list of the best in rock, pop and jazz this year. > Standouts in Rap, Jazz and Country

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John Kelman's Best of 2008
allaboutjazz.com - 12/11/2008
John Kelman's Best of 2008
— allaboutjazz.com — Selected picks representing the top recorded events in jazz and beyond for 2008.... Jazz New Releases e.s.t. Leucocyte (ACT) Bobo Stenson TrioCantando (ECM) AtomicRetrograde (Jazzland) Vince MendozaBlauklang (ACT) Phil MarkowitzCatalysis ... John Kelman's Best of 2008

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