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BEST OF 2004

These are the top 50 releases ranked by actual total airplay by our 20+ jazz DJ's for the entire year 2004.

1) Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls - Breeding Resistance - Delmark
2) Dave Rempis Quartet - Out of Season - 482 Music
3) Dave Douglas - Strange Liberation - Bluebird
4) Triage - American Mythology - Okkadisk
5) Matthew Shipp - Harmony and Abyss - Thirsty Ear
6) Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - Bremen to Bridgewater - Cuneiform
7) Hugh Ragin - Revelation - Justin Time
8) Sticks and Stones - Shed Grace - Thrill Jockey
9) Tomato Box - Any Road - Rattle Tick Buzz
10) Fred Anderson / Hamid Drake - Back Together Again - Thrill Jockey
11) Marilyn Crispell trio - Storyteller - ECM
12) Conference Call - Spirals: The Berlin Concert - 482 Music
13) Anthony Braxton - 23 Standards (Quartet) - Leo
14) Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - Walking with Giants - Hyena
15) Who Trio - The Current Underneath - Leo
16) El-P - High Water - Thirsty Ear
17) Boykin / Seigfried / Reed - s/t - Imaginary Records
18) Von Freeman - The Great Divide - Premonition
19) Yoshida Tatsuya/Satoko Fujii - Erans - Tzadik
20) Claudia Quintet - I, Claudia - Cuneiform
21) The Blueprint Project - The Blueprint Project - Creative Nation Music
22) Paul Bley - Nothing to Declare - Justin Time
23) Kalaparush and the Light - Morning Song - Delmark
24) Atomic / School Days - Nuclear Assembly Hall - Okkadisk
25) Jean-Jacques Avenel - Waraba - Songlines
26) Jon Balke & Magnetic North Orchestra - Diverted Travels - ECM
27) Erik Friedlander - Maldoror - Brassland
28) Ken Vandermark - Furniture Music - Okkadisk
29) Across 7th Street - Made In New York - Smalls
30) Craig Taborn - Junk Magic - Thirsty Ear
31) Babardah - Babardah - Abzu
32) John Zorn - The Unknown Masada - Tzadik
33) The Vandermark Five - Elements of Style, Excercises in Surprise - Atavistic
34) The Exciting Trio - In Chicago There Is Willy - 482 Music
35) Dave Burrell Full-Blown Trio - Expansion - High Two
36) Julius Hemphill - One Atmosphere - Tzadik
37) John Scofield Trio - En Route - Verve
38) Fly - s/t - Savoy Jazz
39) Louis Sclavis - Napoli's Walls - ECM
40) Bud Powell - Bebop - Pablo
41) Chris Potter Quartet - Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard - Sunnyside
42) Liebig / Vatcher / Golia - On the Cusp of Fire and Water - Red Toucan
43) World Saxophone Quartet - Experience - Justin Time
44) Big Satan (Berne/Rainey/Ducret) - Souls Saved Hear - Thirsty Ear
45) Steve Swallow/Ohad Talmor Sextet - L'Histoire du Clochard (The Bum's Tale) - Palmetto
46) Jarrett/Peacock/DeJohnette - The Out-of-Towners - ECM
47) Dragons 1976 - On Cortez - Locust
48) Stan Tracey / Evan Parker - Suspensions and Anticipations - Psi
49) Myra Melford - The Tent - Arabesque
50) Tanya Kalmanovitch - Hut Five - Perspicacity

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