New Yorker's jazz "best of 2004"

[ghost of miles]

Have at it:

Bestjazz2004

[Guest Chaney]

All I can say is that it's a crying shame that so many non-American musicians have failed to take an interest in jazz and so it's up to the U.S.A. to keep this music alive.

:ambiguity alert:

[Adam]

Rather than start a new thread, I thought I would add The Economist's latest "Round up of Jazz CDs" in the 18 Dec 2004 issue, p. 131.

Here's a link, but you need a subsciption:

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?...27%210%22%24%0A

Full text contextualizes things, and there is no countdown. Albums mentioned are (not all only with praise):

Wynton Marsalis "The Magic Hour" (BN)

Django Bates "You Live and Learn...(Apparently)" (Lost Marble)

Uri Caine "Live at the Village Vanguard" (Winter & Winter)

Brad Mehldau "Live in Tokyo" (Nonesuch)

Jan Garbarek "In Praise of Dreams" (ECM)

Duke Ellington "Ellington Uptown" (Columbia/Legacy)

Abdullah Ibrahim "A Celebration" (Enja)

Dave Brubeck "Private Brubeck Remembers" (Telarc)

Louis Armstrong "Satchel Mouth Swing" (Naxos)