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Editor's Choice
John Kelman's Best of 2008
By
JOHN KELMAN,
Published: December 11, 2008
John Kelman
With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, John wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.Selected picks representing the top recorded events in jazz and beyond for 2008....
Jazz New Releases
 e.s.t. Leucocyte (ACT) |  Bobo Stenson Trio Cantando (ECM) |  Atomic Retrograde (Jazzland) |
 Vince Mendoza Blauklang (ACT) |  Phil Markowitz Catalysis (Sunnyside) |  Arild Andersen Live at Belleville (ECM) |
 Sylvain Luc / Trio Sud Young and Fine (Dreyfus Jazz) |  Steve Khan The Suitcase (Tone Center) |  Kurt Rosenwinkel Group The Remedy: Live at the Village Vanguard (ArtistShare) |
 Pat Metheny Tokyo Day Trip (Nonesuch) |  Marc Copland Another Place (Pirouet) |  Enrico Pieranunzi Trio feat. Kenny Wheeler As Never Before (Cam Jazz) |
Reissues/Historical Releases
 Pat Metheny Question and Answer (Nonesuch) |  Charlie Haden The Private Collection (NAIM) |  David Liebman Pendulum: Live at the Village Vanguard (Mosaic) |
 Charlie Mariano Helen 12 Trees (Promising Music/MPS) |  George Duke My Soul: The Complete MPS Fusion Recordings (MPS/Universal Group) |  Genesis Genesis: 1970-1975 (Rhino) |
Progressive/Fusion
 The Wrong Object Stories From the Shed (MoonJune) |  Elephant9 Dodovoodoo (Rune Grammofon) |  Jimmy Herring Lifeboat (Abstract Logix) |
 Deus Ex Machina Imparis (Cuneiform) |  Asaf Sirkis Trio The Monk (SAM Productions) |  King Crimson The Collectable King Crimson Volume Three (DGM Live) |
Beyond
 Punkt / Sidsel Endresen / Jon Hassell Live Remixes Vol. 1 (Jazzland) |  Arve Henriksen Cartography (ECM) |  Todd Sickafoose Tiny Resistors (Cryptogramophone) |
 Jon Balke Book of Velocities (ECM) |  Trygve Seim / Frode Haltli Yeraz (ECM) |  Fred Frith The Happy End Problem (ReR/Fred) |
New Discoveries
 Mathias Eick The Door (ECM) |  Aaron Parks Invisible Cinema (Blue Note) |  Splashgirl Doors.Keys. (AIM Records) |
 Motif Apo Calypso (Jazzland) |  Havard Wiik The Arcades Project (Jazzland) |  Skyphone Avellaneda (Rune Grammofon) |
