The Year in Jazz
Monday, December 18, 2006
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Critics Week
Every year, Soundcheck presents "Critics Week," a series highlighting the best and worst of music of the year. Host John Schaefer is joined by music critics to discuss the year’s best- and worst- albums in pop, hip-hop, classical, opera, rock, jazz, world and Latin.
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Doug Ramsey, author of several books on jazz including Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond, and editor of the jazz blog, "Rifftides," at Artsjournal.com shares his favorites of 2006 in jazz.
Doug Ramsey's 2006 Picks:
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: ”Up From the Skies” (Planet Arts)
Sonny Rollins: “Sonny, Please” (Doxy)
Various: “The Summary, Music of Thad Jones, Volume 2” (IPO)
Bob Brookmeyer: “Spirit Music” (ArtistShare)
Martial Solal, Dave Douglas: “Rue De Seine” (CamJazz)
Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri: “Simpatico” (ArtistShare)
John McNeil: “East Coast Cool” (OmniTone)
Harold Danko: “Hinesight” (Steeplechase)
Alan Broadbent: “Every Time I Think of You” (Artistry)
Houston Person with Bill Charlap: “You Taught My Heart to Sing” (High Note)
Reissues
Charles Mingus: “Music Written for Monterey, 1965, Not Heard, Played at UCLA” (Sunnyside)
Gerry Mulligan: “The Fabulous Gerry Mulligan Sextet” (Fresh Sound)
Shirley Horn, Marian McPartland: “Piano Jazz” (Jazz Alliance)
Benny Carter, Wilbert Baranco, Gerald Wilson: “Groovin’ High in L.A. 1946” (HEP)
Miles Davis: “The Legendary Quintet” (Prestige)
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