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BEST OF 2005
by Dr. Bill
1/1/2006
DR. BILL'S PICKS FOR 2005
BEST OF YEAR FROM WRUW LIBRARY
Anthony Brown/Rhapsodies/Water Baby
Drew Gress/7 black butterflies/Premonition
Mingus Big Band/I am three/S.Mingus
Grachan Moncur III/Exploration/Capri
Greg Osby/Channel three/Blue Note
Marc Ribot/Spiritual unity/Pi
Sam Rivers/Vista/Meta
Kenny Wheeler/What now/Camjazz
ALSO WORTH A LISTEN
Kenny Barron/Perfect Set/Sunnyside
Ravi Coltrane/In flux/Savoy Jazz
Dave Douglas/Mountain passages/Koch
Marty Ehrlich/News on the rail/Palmetto
Either/Orchestra/Live in Addis/Buda
Bill Frisell/East west/Nonesuch
Henry Grimes/Live at Kerava/Ayler
Charlie Haden/Not in Our name/Verve
Donald Harrison/New York Cool/HalfNote
Dave Holland/Overtime/ECM
Marc Johnson/Shades of Jade/ECM
Hank Jones/For my father/JustinTime
Joe Lovano/Joyous encounters/Blue Note
Bill Mays/Live at Jazz Standard/Palmetto
Jason Moran/Same mother/Blue Note
Ted Nash/La espada/Palmetto
NOJO/City of neighbors/True North
William Parker/Sound unity/AUM
Hugh Ragin/Revelation/JustinTime
Enrico Rava/Tati/ECM
Sonny Rollins/Without a song/Milestone
Woody Shaw/Live 4/HighNote
Up Ensemble
Jessica Williams/Live at Yoshi's 2/MaxJazz
Gerald Wilson/In my time/Mack Ave
WSQ/Experience/JustinTime
BEST OF YEAR BUT NOT IN WRUW LIBRARY
Pierre Dorge/Dancing Cheek to cheek/Stunt
Frank Gratkowski/Loft exile v/Leo
Julius Hemphill/The hard blues/Clean Feed
Andrew Hill/Day the world stood still/Stunt
Steve Lacy/One more time/Leo
Paul Motian/I have the room above her/ECM
Vandermark 5/Color of memory/Atavistic
Vandermark/Territory Band/Company switch/OkkaDisk
Mal Waldron/One more time/Sketch
BEST REISSUES (including unreleased older recordings)
John Coltrane/One down one up/Impulse!
Dirty Dozen Brass Band/Collection/Shout Factory
Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker/Town Hall 1945/Uptown
Andrew Hill/Mosaic select 16/Mosaic
Abdullah Ibrahim/A celebration/ENJA
Steve Lacy/The gap/ and rest of America series/Verve
Pat Metheny/Song x/Nonesuch
Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane/At Carnegie Hall/Blue Note
Happy Birthday Newport/Columbia
BEST LIVE JAZZ IN CLEVELAND 2005
Peter Brotzmann/Nasheet Waits/Beachland Ballroom
Mats Gustaffson/Joe McPhee/Beachland Ballroom
Ted Nash/Matt Wilson/CCC JazzFest
CJO plays Hendrix/CCC JazzFest
CJO plays Kenny Wheeler/Fairmont Temple
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