Ken Dryden
My top ten list, combining new issues, reissues, boxed sets and historical discoveries (a banner year for the latter!):
Top ten of 2005 (in no particular order)
- Denny Zeitlin: Solo Voyage (Maxjazz)
- Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker: Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 (Uptown)
- Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane: At Carnegie Hall (Blue Note)
- Lorraine Feather: Dooji Wooji (Sanctuary)
- Gene Bertoncini: Quiet Now (Ambient)
- Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax (Rounder)
- Dave Brubeck: London Flat, London Sharp (Telarc)
- Mark O’Connor’s Hot Swing Trio: Live in New York (Omac)
- Mel Torme/Gerry Mulligan/George Shearing: The Classic Concert Live (Concord)
- Count Basie: The Complete Clef/Verve Count Basie Fifties Studio Recordings (Mosaic)