I don't know what they mean when they say 'swing hard' anyway. Rolling Jazz Dflat 2014 Thread

http://larryappelbaum.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/2014-favorites/

critic, radio dj, and Library of Congress employee

1. Billy Childs “Map To The Treasure” (Sony)

2. Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden “Last Dance” (ECM)

3. Otis Brown III “The Thought of You” (Blue Note)

onward to 10 plus some reissues

I'm looking for jazz vocalists faves

curm, this has a jazz vocalists faves section:
Francis Davis presents his round-up of jazz crits. Intrigued by descriptions of ones I've missed, and his comments on others are mostly right-on (incl. his push-back against high ranking of Moran's half-good Waller project). But, despite Davis's opening caveats, Rollins' Road Shows Vol. 3 doesn't seem quite right for Top 10, much less No.4, considering that SR has set the bar very high---and the octogenarian diabetic doesn't spare himself on the longest tracks, or the 8-minute-plus "Solo Sonny"---but sounds like he should, just a bit (another kind of self-discipline). Still, "Patanjali" is so fucking tight, reminds me again that I need to check out yoga, and will make my P&J Singles (the album was on there for a while, and would make a Top 20)(History is a very well-chosen 2014 Rollins anth, on Spotify just below RS V3)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2014/12/19/371282561/the-2014-npr-music-jazz-critics-poll?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nprmusic&utm_term=music&utm_content=2045

thanks

Incredible story about the stolen Smalls Buddha.

New Year, New Thread. "Weird Means Something You Never Heard Before": Rolling Jazz D-bag Thread 2015

Your subtitle on the new thread suggests that once can't post there unless they go to Smalls...You New Yorkers

You need to post a photo of the Buddha

Take it to I Must Protest!