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2008's Top Recordings

Hank Shteamer

darkforcesswing.blogspot.com, timeoutnewyork.com

seven new, three reissue/archival

  1. Harris Eisenstadt — Guewel (Clean Feed)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet — Tabligh (Cuneiform)
  3. Ideal Bread — The Ideal Bread (KMB Jazz)
  4. Eivind Opsvik — Overseas III (Loyal Label)
  5. Bill Dixon — 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur (Aum Fidelity)
  6. Ari Hoenig — Bert's Playground (Dreyfus)
  7. Fieldwork — Door (Pi)


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  1. Andrew Hill/Chico Hamilton — Dreams Come True (Joyous Shout)
  2. Anthony Braxton — The Complete Arista Recordings (Mosaic)
  3. Don Cherry — Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966, Vol. 2 (ESP)


Six outstanding live shows I caught (all in NYC except the first one):

  • Bobby Few and Sonny Simmons at the Philadelphia Art Alliance — 6/14/08
  • Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis and Wadada Leo Smith at Community Church — 5/9/08
  • Cecil Taylor and Tony Oxley at the Village Vanguard — 7/15/08
  • The Bad Plus at the Village Vanguard — 9/25/08
  • Han Bennink, Peter Brotzmann, Peter Evans and Tom Blancarte at Clemente Soto Velez — 420/08
  • Paul Motian Octet at Birdland — 2/1/08


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