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Joni Mitchell (jonimitchell.com)Critics Week: The Year in Rock and Jazz
All this week, Soundcheck explores the highlights of 2007 in music. Today, find out how one album ignited controversy inside rock music while the jazz world stayed classy -- with a little help from Joni Mitchell. Pitchfork Media editor Ryan Schreiber and PopMatters writer Will Layman recap the year in rock and jazz. And later: flutist Eugenia Zukerman visits the Soundcheck studio.
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Rock Music: The Best of 2007
Pitchfork Media founding editor Ryan Schreiber weighs in the best rock albums of 2007.
Ryan Schreiber's top 10 albums of 2007:
1. Panda Bear, Person Pitch
2. LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
3. Deerhunter, Cryptograms
4. The Field, From Here We Go Sublime
5. Of Montreal, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
6. Animal Collective, Strawberry Jam
7. Dan Deacon, Spiderman of the Rings
8. Dirty Projectors, Rise Above
9. Grizzly Bear, Friend EP
10. Jens Lekman, Night Falls Over Kortedala
Pitchfork staff's top albums
Pitchfork's overall top 50 albums of 2007
Jazz: The Best of 2007
Will Layman, a jazz critic for Pop Matters and other publications, shares his favorite albums of 2007.
Will Layman's top albums of the year
Herbie Hancock, River: The Joni Letters
Robert Glasper, In My Element
Kenny Werner, Lawn Chair Society
Terence Blanchard, A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina)
Chris Potter, Follow the Red Line: Live at the Village Vanguard
Nels Cline Singers, Draw Breath
Eugenia Zukerman
Eugenia Zukerman lives a triple life as a flutist, author and television arts commentator. She joins us to share her new recording of songs by the hot young composer Jake Heggie, and to reflect on the state of classical music in 2007.
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