All That Jazz - The year's best records. By Fred Kaplan

Read Slate.com's top Jazz albums of the year. Jazz my not be at the forefront of the modern psyche, but it is the most sophiticated form of truely american music.

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All That Jazz - The year's best records. By Fred Kaplan It was a good year for jazz recordings. Yes, sales continued to slip, a few more labels shut their doors, and the next John Coltrane or Charlie Parker—some genius-messiah who transcends all boundaries and pushes jazz to a startling new level—failed, once again, to materialize. Still, young musicians scaled new heights, elders renewed their spirits, and, in the reissue bins, forgotten masterworks returned to astonish us.

posted by Dan Flies @ 12/27/2004 10:56:00 AM