What's the Top Five CDs/SACDs/DVD-As you purchased in 2003? My tastes are for jazz & blues, but I'm sure there's lots of great music we all missed. My five are:
Taylor Eigsti Trio- Resonance Kurt Elling -Man in the Air Ahmad Jamal- In Search Of Wayne Shorter- Footpronts Live! McCoy Tyner- Land of the Giants
It must be that time of year for "best of" lists. What follows are my nominees:
Best Top 5 New Music for 2003:
1. The Thorns ... "The Thorns" 2. Mark O'Connor ... "In Full Swing" 3. Rosanne Cash ... "Rules of Travel" 4. Evanescence ... "Fallen" 5. John Mellencamp ... "Trouble No More"
My taste runs toward jazz,classical and ecclectic. My top 5 purchased CDs are: 1) Rosanne Cash Rules of Travel 2) Yo-Yo Ma Obrigado Brazil 3) Karrin Allyson In Blue 4) Tom Harrell Wise Children 5) Hilary Hahn Brahms Violin Concerto john Dean
My five favorites from 2003 (in no particular order):
1) Bill Frisell - "The Intercontinentals" 2) Pat Metheny - "One Quiet Night" 3) Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - "Little Worlds" (3 discs) 4) Daniel Lanois - "Shine" (my "reference" disc - incredible sound) 5) Steely Dan - "Everything Must Go"
It was tough to pare it down to just five, so I put DVDs in a separate list:
1) Peter Gabriel - "Growing Up Live" (much better than "Up") 2) Pat Metheny - "Speaking of Now Live"
Allison Krauss -- "Live" Michel Camilo -- "Live at the Blue Note" Wayne Shorter -- "Footprints Live" Bruce Springsteen -- "The Essential Bruce Springsteen" B.B. King -- "Anthology"
Neil Young- Seeing "Greendale" performed live this summer and have tickets for late Feb. in LA; while the music is the same the live show is a whole new way to enjoy this work Jon
Anouar Brahem "Le Pas Du Chat Noir" Richard Buckner "Devotion & Doubt" Gillian Welch "Time the Revelator" Jordi Savall "El Cant de la Sibil-la, Mallorca & València, 1400-1560" Patti Griffen "1000 Kisses"
funny I thought these were 2003 releases not music purchased this year
can't limit to 5 but 6 I can do
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief Sarah McLachlan - Fallen Lucinda Willams - World Without Tears Daniel Lanois - Shine Steely Dan - Everything Must Go
best live shows in 2003 two I did vacations around Peter Gabriel Growing Up tour in Detroit Steely Dan in Albequerque and at home in New Orleans Suzanne Vega rescheduled Diana Krall Brian Blade Orchestra Randy Newman
CDs & SACDs together in no particular order... [Can't remember if these are the BEST five bought but they seem to remain in heavy rotation]
1) Mariza "Fado en mim" (2 disk set with Live at Womad 2002 (UK)) - CD/World Connection 2) Bill Evans & Cannonball Adderley "Know What I Mean" - SACD/AnalogueProductions 3) Lizz Wright "Salt" - CD/Verve 4) Edgar Meyer "Bach Unnacompanied Cello Suites" performed on double bass - CD/SONY 5) The Bad Plus "These Are the Vistas" - CD/Columbia
Well here is my top five (in no particular order):
Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music (pure pop at it's best) Ziggy Marley - Dragonfly (Zig's coming of age record) David Sanborn - Time Again (soooooo smoooth) Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step (hard rock at it's best) Rosanne Cash - Rules of Travel (a triumphant piece of music)
-Geez, there's no way to amputate it down to five without some kind of torture or some pretty convincing threats (it's not gonna happen by email). It's probably just plain stupid to hope that this listing could help the following musicians get listened to a little more, but (no foolin') all of these are real good:
Patrick Cress, Telepathy/Liberate the Radio Stations
D'Angaro, Glerum, Bennink/Sandjutters
Absolute Zero/Crashing Icons
Berithiaume, Bailey, Frith/Soshin
Scott Ray Quintet/Active Vapor Recovery
Erik Friedlander/Quake
Charlie Kohlhase Quintet/Play Free Or Die
Jack West and Curvature/Around About Now
Lucas Niggli>Zoom/Rough Ride
David Fiuczynski/Kif
J.A. Granelli and Mr. Lucky/Gigantic
Bendian, Gauthier, Liebig, Stinson/Bone Structure
Beirach, Hubner, Mraz/Round About Monteverdi (Not as corny as you might think, and the 1923 rosewood Hamburg Steinway on this one will send most audiophile recordings crawling for a place to hide).
Jacques Chanier Trio/Quilt
The Vandermark 5/Airports For Light
Pablo Ablanedo Octet/Alegria
Thinking Plague/History of Madness
Married Couple/Looks Like A Pie To Me
Upper Left Trio/Cycling
Frank Gratkowski Quartet/Spectral Reflections
Go-Go Fightmaster/Go-Go Fightmaster (i know dumb name, but this stuff really is the super depraved high quality twisted science fiction avant jazz rock poop that you've always wanted).
Roscoe Mitchell - "Snurdy McGurdy and Her Dancing Shoes" (Nessa) Faruq Z. Bey w/ Northwoods Improvisers - "Ashirai Pattern" (entropy stereo records) Griot Galaxy - "Live at the D. I. A. 1983" (entropy stereo records) Dennis Gonzalez New Southern Quintet - "Old Time Revival" (entropy stereo records) William Parker Violin Trio - "Scrapbook" (Thirsty Ear)
I'm sure a year from now my list will be totally revised, but for the moment...
Radiohead: Hail to the Thief Broken Social Scene: You Forgot it in People Jeff Buckley: Live at Sine (Deluxe) Yo La Tengo: Summer Sun !!!: Me and Giuliani Down By the School Yard
Not a very strong year in my opinion but I still haven't heard a lot of stuff that's supposed to be good (Califone, Unicorns, The Rapture, Strokes, etc.)
However, the reissue of Marquee Moon made me aware of a classic that had up to that point gone unnoticed.
Audioslave - Audioslave Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step Ben Harper - Diamonds on the Inside Coldplay - Rush of blood to the head Chilipeppers - by the way
Give'em a break folks....the question that started the thread was about the top five you "PURCHASED" in 2003....NOT exclusive, as far as I understood it, to those released in 2003. If so, it should have been phrased differently. Now lets hear s'more....
beck sea change sacd and dvdA I bought it in 2002 and twice in 2003 radiohead hail to the thief cash the man comes around sigur ros ( ) red snapper red snapper
Marco - You're correct, I said purchased, not released in 2003, because "I'm sure there's lots of great music we all missed." For me, it's the thrill of discovery, not the release date that's important. Aloha, Dan.
The Cure - Trilogy (DVD) (2003) Lycia - Cold (1997) best of the 9 cds I've purchase last year by this band. Mission - Aura Delight (Dec. 2002) Angels Of Venice - Sanctus (2003)(Christmas Music) Sigur Ros - untitle ep with DVD (2003) Rush - Rush In Rio (2003)
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