{"id":403,"date":"2009-12-09T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/2009\/12\/top-10-2009-2\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T13:27:45","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T18:27:45","slug":"top-10-2009-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/2009\/12\/top-10-2009-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Lang: Top 10, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In no particular order:<\/p>\n<p>Terry Vosbein &amp; The Knoxville Jazz Orchestra -Progressive Jazz 2009 (Max Frank Music &#8211; 001) &#8211; A superb concert of progressive big band jazz.<\/p>\n<p>Bud Shank &#8211; Fascinating Rhythms (Jazzed Media &#8211; 1045) &#8211; Bud&#8217;s last recording.  He was right there until the end.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Tull &#8211; I Just Want to Get Paid (Toy Car &#8211; 0110) &#8211; A witty and engaging set of original tunes.<\/p>\n<p>Quadro Nuevo &#8211; Cine Passion (Justin Time &#8211; 8540) &#8211; Engaging from first note to last.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Vax Big Band &#8211; Sounds from the Road (Summit &#8211; 5187) &#8211; Inspired by Kenton, but these cats are no mere imitations.<\/p>\n<p>Hilary Kole &#8211; Haunted Heart (Justin Time &#8211; 8543) &#8211; A long overdue first album by a terrific vocal talent.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Florence Limited Edition &#8211; Legendary (MMA -1037) &#8211; A fitting tribute to one of the great modern big band arrangers.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Winkler &#8211; Till I Get It Right (Free Ham Records &#8211; 0907) &#8211; It is nice that there are still some hipsters around the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Daryl Sherman &#8211; Johnny Mercer: A Centennial Celebration (Arbors &#8211; 19388)  &#8211; This would have put a smile on Mr. Mercer&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Sandke &#8211; Randy Sandke&#8217;s Jazz for Juniors (Arbors &#8211; 19385) &#8211; A perfect way to introduce kids to jazz, and engage the adults at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In no particular order: Terry Vosbein &amp; The Knoxville Jazz Orchestra -Progressive Jazz 2009 (Max Frank Music &#8211; 001) &#8211; A superb concert of progressive big band jazz. Bud Shank &#8211; Fascinating Rhythms (Jazzed Media &#8211; 1045) &#8211; Bud&#8217;s last recording. He was right there until the end. Dave Tull &#8211; I Just Want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}