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THE CITY RECORD BEST OF 2011 BEST OF 2011 BEST OF 2011 BEST OF 2011 BEST OF 2011 BEST OF 2011 OF THE YEAR BEN ALLISON - Action-Refraction (Palmetto) BAD LUCK - Two (Table & Chairs Music) BB&C - The Veil (Cryptogramophone) BRIAN CARPENTER’S GHOST TRAIN ORCHESTRA - MICHAEL BATES - Acrobat: Music for, And By, BAD LUCK - Two (Table & Chairs Music) Hothouse Stomp (Accurate) Dmitri Shostakovich (Sunnyside) MICHAEL BATES - Acrobat: Music for, And By, ALEXIS CUADRADO - Noneto Ibérico (BJU Records) - Envoi (Victo) Dmitri Shostakovich (Sunnyside) CHRIS DINGMAN - Waking Dreams (Between Worlds) DARIUS JONES - Big Gurl (Smell My Dream) (AUM Fidelity) RAOUL BJÖRKENHEIM/BILL LASWELL/ ’S NOVELA - Eponymous (Clean Feed) SØREN KJÆRGAARD// MORGEN ÅGREN - (Cuneiform) PAT METHENY - What’s It All About (Nonesuch) ANDREW CYRILLE - Femklang (ILK Music) ELEKTRO - Featuring (Blackout) RALPH PETERSON’S UNITY PROJECT - TONY MALABY’S NOVELA - Eponymous (Clean Feed) PETER EVANS/AGUSTÍ FERNÁNDEZ/ Outer Reaches (Onyx) OTHER DIMENSIONS IN MUSIC - Kaiso Stories (Silkheart) MATS GUSTAFSSON - Kopros Lithos (Multikulti Project) - Coin Coin Chapter One: Les Gens de RED TRIO + JOHN BUTCHER - EMPIRE (NoBusiness) JEFF GAUTHIER GOATETTE - Open Source (Cryptogramophone) Couleur Libres (Constellation) GEORG RUBY/ - Deuxième Bureau PASCAL NIGGENKEMPER - Upcoming Hurricane - Avenging Angel (ECM) (JazzHaus Musik) (NoBusiness) ANTHONY WILSON - Seasons: Live at the Metropolitan ’S MOVING PICTURES WITH REED TRIO - Last Train to the First Station (Kilogram) Museum of Art (Goat Hill) ORGANIC STRING ORCHESTRA - Both/And (Meta) /JOACHIM KÜHN - Wo!Man (Archieball) -David R. Adler -Laurence Donohue-Greene -Andrey Henkin UNEARTHED GEMS REISSUES LARGE ENSEMBLE RELEASES - LIVE in Europe 1967: Bootleg Series Vol. 1 BILL DIXON ORCHESTRA - JOSEPH DALEY EARTH TONES ENSEMBLE - (Legacy) (RCA Victor-International Phonograph) The Seven Deadly Sins (JARO) /PIET NOORDIJK QUARTET - JOE FARRELL - Outback (CTI-Masterworks Jazz) JACOB FRED JAZZ ODYSSEY - Race Riot Suite Journey (MCN) JULIUS HEMPHILL - Dogon A.D. (The Royal Potato Family) - Before There Was Sound (Nessa) (Mbari/Freedom- International Phonograph) FRED HO AND THE GREEN MONSTER BIG BAND - JUMA SULTAN’S ABORIGINAL MUSIC SOCIETY - ROSCOE MITCHELL - Complete Old/Quartet Sessions The Sweet Science Suite (Big Red Media-Mutable Music) Father of Origin (Eremite) (Nessa) TONY MALABY’S NOVELA – Eponymous (Clean Feed) - Flashpoint: NDR Jazz Workshop RANDY WESTON - Blue Moses (CTI-Masterworks Jazz) GERALD WILSON - Legacy (Mack Avenue) (April ‘69) (Cuneiform) BOXED SETS VOCAL RELEASES TRIBUTES LOUIS ARMSTRONG - The Armstrong Box (Storyville) GIACOMO GATES - The Revolution Will Be Jazz (Savant) MICHAEL BATES - Acrobat: Music for, And By, HOWARD RILEY - The Complete Short Stories (NoBusiness) RENÉ MARIE - Voice of My Beautiful Country (Motéma) Dmitri Shostakovich (Sunnyside) JUMA SULTAN’S ABORIGINAL MUSIC SOCIETY - YOUN SUN NAH - Same Girl (ACT Music) SAMUEL BLASER - Consort in Motion (Kind of Blue) Father of Origin (Eremite) OTHER DIMENSIONS IN MUSIC - GIACOMO GATES - The Revolution Will Be Jazz (Savant) VARIOUS ARTISTS - In Retrospect (FMP) Kaiso Stories (featuring Fay Victor) (Silkheart) FRED HO AND THE GREEN MONSTER BIG BAND - PER HENRIK WALLIN/SVEN-ÅKE JOHANSSON - JEN SHYU/ - Synastry (Pi) The Sweet Science Suite (Big Red Media-Mutable Music) 1974-2004 (Umlaut) US FIVE - Bird Songs (Blue Note) BOOKS Clark: The Autobiography of (Univ. of California Press) DEBUTS Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice JOSEPH DALEY EARTH TONES ENSEMBLE - (Univ. of California Press) The Seven Deadly Sins (JARO) Alex Steinweiss: The Inventor of the Modern Cover (Taschen) CHRIS DINGMAN - Waking Dreams (Between Worlds) The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-1968 KERMIT DRISCOLL - Reveille (19/8) (Oxford University Press) ECO D’ALBERI - Eponymous (Porter) Traveling the Spaceways , the Astro Black and other JE SUIS! - Mistluren (Umlaut) Solar Myths (University of Press-White Walls)

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