{"id":455,"date":"2009-12-16T20:06:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T01:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/?p=455"},"modified":"2009-12-20T12:48:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T17:48:55","slug":"455","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/2009\/12\/455\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Dryden&#8217;s 2009 Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ken Dryden&#8217;s 2009 Favorites<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With between 800 and 1000 CDs arriving annually, it is impossible to hear everything, let alone the titles I didn&#8217;t obtain. My choices, in no particular order, represent some of my favorites from 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 10 New Releases<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Charles Tolliver Big Band:   Emperor March: Live at the Blue Note    (Half Note)<\/p>\n<p>Roberta Gambarini:  So in Love    (Emarcy)<\/p>\n<p>Fred Hersch Pocket Orchestra:    Live at Jazz Standard      (Sunnyside)<\/p>\n<p>Mel Martin:   Where the Warm Winds Blow   (Jazzed Media)<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Jones &amp; Hank Jones:   Pleased to Meet You   (Justin Time)<\/p>\n<p>Terell Stafford-Dick Oatts Quintet:   Bridging the Gap    (Planet Arts)<\/p>\n<p>The Heath Brothers:    Endurance    (Jazz Legacy)<\/p>\n<p>Bud Shank Quartet:   Fascinating Rhythms    (Jazzed Media)<\/p>\n<p>Geoff Keezer:   Aurea    (ArtistShare)<\/p>\n<p>Ted Kooshian&#8217;s Standard Orbit Quartet:    Underdog, and Other Stories&#8230;    (Summit)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 10 Reissues\/Historical Discoveries\/Boxed Sets<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Ella Fitzgerald:    Twelve Nights in Hollywood   (Verve\/Hip-O-Select)<\/p>\n<p>Oscar Peterson:  Debut: The Clef\/Mercury Duo Recordings 1949-1951    (Verve\/Hip-O-Select)<\/p>\n<p>Denny Zeitlin:  The Columbia Studio Trio Sessions   (Mosaic Select)<\/p>\n<p>Fats Waller:  Fats Waller on the Air 1938 Broadcasts     (TPR)<\/p>\n<p>Joe Bushkin Quartet with Stuff Smith:   Live Embers 1964     (AB Fable)<\/p>\n<p>Scott LaFaro:   Pieces of Jade   (Resonance)<\/p>\n<p>Freddie Hubbard:   Without a Song: Live in Europe 1969    (Blue Note)<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Rushing:   The Scene        (HighNote)<\/p>\n<p>Lucky Thompson:   New York City, 1964-65     (Uptown)<\/p>\n<p>Philly Joe Jones\/Dameronia:   Look, Stop and Listen     (Uptown)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Dryden&#8217;s 2009 Favorites With between 800 and 1000 CDs arriving annually, it is impossible to hear everything, let alone the titles I didn&#8217;t obtain. My choices, in no particular order, represent some of my favorites from 2009. Top 10 New Releases: Charles Tolliver Big Band: Emperor March: Live at the Blue Note (Half Note) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[97,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455"}],"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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}