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		<title>Marcela Breton: Top 10 List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Orbert Davis: Collective Creativity (3Sixteen)
2. Buika &#38; Chucho Valdes: El Ultimo Trago (WEA International)
3. Paquito Hechavarria: Frankly (Call  54)
4. Hilton Ruiz: Hilton&#8217;s Last Note (Hilton Ruiz Music)
5. Lynne Arriale: Nuance (Motema)
6. Bobby Sanabria: Kenya Revisited Live!!! (Jazzheads)
7. Teddy Charles: Dances With Bulls (Smalls)
8. Sophie Milman: Take Love Easy (Koch)
9. Pedro Giraudo: El Viaje (PGM)
10. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazzhouse.org/diary/2010/02/top-10-list/</link>
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		<title>Lyn Horton: Making One Last Point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the last two weeks in January of 2010, the jazz media flooded the avant-garde jazz public with descriptions of the persona of Matthew Shipp in anticipation of the release of his “last” solo recording, 4D, scheduled on the 26th of the month. JazzTimes featured a story; Signal to Noise did a cover story; and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazzhouse.org/diary/2010/02/lyn-horton-making-one-last-point/</link>
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		<title>Antonio Terzo&#8217;s 2009 Top CD&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not in any specific order:

Okkyung Lee/Peter Evans/Steve Beresford &#8220;Check For Monster&#8221; (Emanem)
The Bad Plus joined by Wendy Lewis &#8220;For All I Care&#8221; (Heads Up)
Satoko Fuji-Myra Melford &#8220;Under the Water&#8221; (Libra)
Carla Kihlstedt Satoko Fujii (Minamo) &#8220;Kuroi Kawa&#8221; (Tzadik )
Louis Moholo-Moholo/Duets with Marilyn Crispell &#8220;Sibanye – We Are One&#8221; (Intakt)
Matthew Shipp &#8220;Harmonic Disorder&#8221; (Thirstyear)
Samuel Blaser &#8220;Solo Bone&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazzhouse.org/diary/2010/01/antonio-terzos-2009-top-cds/</link>
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		<title>Mitch Myers&#8217; Most Played from his laptop iTunes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://sonicboomers.com/shelflife/my-2009-ten-most-played-songs-ever
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		<link>http://www.jazzhouse.org/diary/2010/01/mitch-myers-most-played-from-his-laptop-itunes/</link>
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		<title>Larry Blumenfeld on &#8220;Facing the Music: Who Hears Jazz?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A survey of reactions and responses to NEA data on declines in audiences for live music:
 http://www.apapconference.com/docs/InsideArts_ND09_Jazz.pdf
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		<link>http://www.jazzhouse.org/diary/2010/01/larry-blumenfeld-on-facing-the-music-who-hears-jazz/</link>
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		<title>Alain Drouot: Top 10 and more</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 10 of 2009 
1. Michel Edelin &#8211; Kuntu &#8211; Rogue Art
2. Vijay Iyer &#8211; Historicity &#8211; ACT
3. Miroslav Vitous &#8211; Remembering Weather Report &#8211; ECM
4. Louis Moholo-Moholo/Duets with Marilyn Crispell &#8211; Sibanye (We Are One) &#8211; Intakt
5. Sophie Agnel &#8211; Capsizing Moments &#8211; Emanem
6. Darren Johnston &#8211; The Edge of the Forest &#8211; Clean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazzhouse.org/diary/2010/01/alain-drouot-top-10-and-more/</link>
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		<title>20+20: Forrest Bryant&#8217;s CD Picks for 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE TOP TWENTY (in alphabetical order)&#8230;

Dee Alexander &#8211; &#8220;Wild Is the Wind&#8221; (Blujazz)
Darcy James Argue&#8217;s Secret Society &#8211; &#8220;Infernal Machines&#8221; (New Amsterdam)
David Binney &#8211; &#8220;Third Occasion&#8221; (Mythology)
Luis Bonilla &#8211; &#8220;I Talking Now!&#8221; (Planet Arts)
Alex Cline &#8211; &#8220;Continuation&#8221; (Cryptogramophone)
Marc Copland &#8211; &#8220;Night Whispers: New York Trio Recordings, Vol. 3&#8243; (Pirouet)
DeJohnette/Patitucci/Perez &#8211; &#8220;Music We Are&#8221; (Golden Beams)
Oran [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazzhouse.org/diary/2010/01/2020-forrest-bryants-cd-picks-for-2009/</link>
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		<title>Willard Jenkins: Top 20</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(listed in alpha order)

Dee Alexander, Wild is the Wind, Blu Jazz
Jane Bunnett, Embracing Voices, Sunnyside
Kurt Elling, Dedicated to You, Concord
Oran Etkin, Kelenia, Motema
Robert Glasper, Double Booked, Blue Note
Stefon Harris &#38; Blackout, Urbanus, Concord
Bobby Hutcherson, Wise One, Kind of Blue
Vijay Iyer, Historicity, ACT
Sean Jones, The Search Within, Mack Avenue
James King, Allen’s Odyssey, Vibrant Tree
Joe Locke/David Hazeltine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazzhouse.org/diary/2010/01/willard-jenkins-top-20/</link>
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		<title>Mark Gridley: Perception of Emotion in Jazz Improvisation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Abstract
Knowing that the jazz improviser creates his own material while performing, some jazz listeners assume that the improvisations can reveal the musician’s emotions. To evaluate this assumption, fifteen studies were conducted. These studies focused on the possible perception of anger upon hearing the improvisations of tenor saxophonist John Coltrane. The instigation for the studies was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazzhouse.org/diary/2010/01/perception-of-emotion-in-jazz-improvisation/</link>
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		<title>Geoffrey Himes: 20 Best Jazz Albums, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Bill Frisell: Disfarmer (Nonesuch)
2. Fly: Sky &#38; Country (ECM)
3. Joe Lovano: Us Five Folk Art (Blue Note)
4. The Branford Marsalis Quartet: Metamorphosen (Marsalis)
5. Dave Douglas with Jim McNeely + Frankfurt Radio Bigband: A Single Sky (Greenleaf)
6. Vijay Iyer Trio: Historicity (ACT)
7. The Matt Wilson Quartet: That&#8217;s Gonna Leave a Mark (Palmetto)
8. John Hollenbeck Large [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazzhouse.org/diary/2010/01/geoffrey-himes-20-best-jazz-albums-2009/</link>
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