WNUR Jazz: Best of 2002
Compiled by:
Greg Shapiro, Jazz Music Director
jazz-md@wnur.org
1920 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
Top 10 Albums of 2002
NEW RELEASES
These are the top 10 new releases of 2002, as voted on by the entire WNUR Jazz Staff.
1 - Matthew Shipp - nu bop - Thirsty Ear
2 - Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory - Song for my Sister - Pi
Recordings
3 - The Vandermark 5 - Free Jazz Classics Vols. 1 & 2 - Atavistic
4 - Tim Berne - Science Friction - Screwgun
5 - Susie Ibarra trio - Songbird Suite - Tzadik
6 - Spaceways Inc. - Version Soul - Atavistic
7 - Nicole Mitchell Black Earth Ensemble - Afrika Rising - Dreamtime
8 - Von Freeman - The Improvisor - Delmark
9 - Conference Call - Final Answer - Soul Note
10 - DKV Trio - Trigonometry - Okkadisk
REISSUES
These are the top 10 reissues of 2002, as voted on by the entire WNUR Jazz Staff.
1 - Peter Brotzmann Trio - For Adolphe Sax - Unheard Music Series
2 - Roscoe Mitchell - Quartet - Sackville
3 - Oliver Lake & Julius Hemphill - Buster Bee - Sackville
4 - Alexander Von Schlippenbach - The Living Music - Unheard Music
Series
5 - Rahsaan Roland Kirk - The Man Who Cried Fire - Hyena
6 - John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (Deluxe Edition) - Impulse
7 - Evan Parker - Six of One - Psi Records
8 - Anthony Braxton Quartet - (Coventry) 1985 - Leo
9 - Albert Ayler - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght 1970 - Water Records
10 - Sunny Murray - Sunshine and an Even Break (Never Give a Sucker) -
Fuel 2000
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