Some of the best jazz I heard this year was caught live—felt and heard and then gone, save for my notes or a published article. But as for recordings, here’s a Top 10 list, along with some related lists. Let me know who’s on yours.
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Now Playing (New & Forthcoming CDs)…
File Under: Reasons To Be Cheerful
The packages flooding in lately from music labels and musicians really do seem like holiday presents (though none of them contain the leather coat I want): The music so far is just that good. Already, I’ve begun listening to a few CDs that will in all likelihood end up on my best-of list for a year that hasn’t even begun. And 2013 ends with a late-breaking release that deserves repeated listens.
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Jim Hall, Inimitable and Influential Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 83
Jim Hall, a guitarist who came to define modern jazz guitar and yet projected a singular warmth, sensitivity, and erudite approach to his instrument, died yesterday morning at his Greenwich Village home of heart failure, at 83.
Read the full piece at ARTINFO
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