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Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected the timezone 'UTC' for now, but please set date.timezone to select your timezone. in /web/jh/public_html/top06/wp-includes/functions.php on line 30

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Ken Dryden


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Top Ten List for 2006:

  • Jimmy Heath Big Band: Turn Up the Heath (Planet Arts)
  • Bob Brookmeyer: Spirit Music (ArtistShare)
  • Joe Locke & Christos Rafalides: Van Gogh by Numbers (Wire Walker)
  • Dominique Eade & Jed Wilson: Open (Jazz Project)
  • Peter Madsen: Prevue of Tomorrow (Playscape)
  • Gene Bertoncini & Frank Vignola: This is the Way We Play (VMDownloads.com)
  • Fred Hersch: In Amsterdam: Live at the Bimhuis (Palmetto)
  • Phil Woods & the Los Angeles Jazz Orchestra: Unheard Herd (Jazzed Media)
  • Randy Weston & His African Rhythm Trio: Zep Tepi ((Random Chance)
  • David Liebman & Bobby Avey: Vienna Dialogues (Zoho Music)

Top Five Reissues/Box Sets/Historical Releases:

  • Duke Ellington’s Spacemen: The Cosmic Scene (Mosaic Singles)
  • James Williams-Bobby Watson Duo: Soulful Serendipity (We Always Swing Jazz Series)
  • Microscopic Septet: Seven Men in Neckties + Surrealistic Swing (Cuneiform) [two separate double CD sets]
  • Stuff Smith: Tenor Sax Septets 1937-1942 (AB Fable)
  • Dizzy Gillespie: The Verve/Phillips Dizzy Gillespie Small Group Sessions (Mosaic)