• Entrance

• 2008 Top 10s
  • A–F   —>
    • David R. Adler
    • Nancy Barell
    • Paul Blair
    • Philip Booth
    • Christian Broecking
    • Stuart Broomer
    • Francis Davis
    • Philip DiPietro
    • Laurence Donohue-Greene
    • Ken Dryden
    • Alain Drouot
    • Steve Feeney
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    • Bob Protzman
    • Bob Putignano
    • Hank Shteamer
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Stuart Broomer

2008's top ten new releases

1. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (Moscow) 2008 (Leo)
   
2. Stephen Gauci's Stockholm Conference, Live at Glenn Miller Café, pt. 1 & 2 (Ayler)
   
3. Grosse Abfarht, Everything that Disappears (Emanem)
   
4. Joe Morris / Barre Phillips, Elm City Duets 2006 (Clean Feed)
   
5. Mostly Other People Do the Killing, This Is Our Moosic (Hot Cup)
   
6. Evan Parker Transatlantic Art Ensemble, Boustrophedon (ECM)
   
7. Enrico Pieranunzi with Kenny Wheeler, As Never Before (CAM Jazz)
   
8. Angelica Sanchez, Life Between (Clean Feed)
   
9. Totem (Eisenbiel/Blancarte/Drury), Solar Forge (ESP)
   
10. John Zorn, The Dreamers (Tzadik)
    

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2008's top ten historical recordings

1. Paul Bley, Barrage (ESP)
   
2. The Complete Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton (Mosaic)
   
3. Bob James Trio, Explosions (ESP)
   
4. The Giuseppi Logan Quartet (ESP)
   
5. Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, Eclipse at Dawn (Cuneiform)
   
6. Blue Mitchell, Blue Soul (Riverside/Concord)
   
7. Roscoe Mitchell, Nonaah (Nessa)
   
8. Grachan Moncur III, Evolution (Blue Note)
   
9. Evan Parker, Conic Sections (psi)
   
10. Django Reinhardt, Django on the Radio (JSP)