JAZZIZ - Critics Choice - Best Albums 2006
Artist Album [Label]
Chris Standring -- Soul Express -- [Trippin ‘N Rhythm Records]
The RH Factor -- Distractions -- [Verve]
The Rippingtons -- 20th Anniversary -- [Peak Records]
Christian Scott -- Rewind That -- [Concord Jazz]
Dave Valentin -- Come Fly With Me -- [HighNote Records]
James Hunter -- People Gonna Talk -- [GO/Rounder Records]
Enrico Pieranunzi -- Ballads -- [CAMJazz]
Steve Oliver -- Radiant -- [Koch Records]
Kenny Garrett -- Beyond the Wall -- [Nonesuch]
Eric Darius -- Just Getting Started -- [Narada Jazz]
Joe Lovano -- Streams of Expression -- [Blue Note Records]
Solomon Burke -- Nashville -- [Shout! Factory]
Frank Kimbrough -- Play -- [Palmetto Records, Inc]
Mindi Abair -- Life Less Ordinary -- [GRP]
Keith Jarrett -- The Carnegie Hall Concert -- [ECM Records]
JAZZIZ - Critics Choice - Best Albums 2005
Artist Album [Label]
Lee Ritenour -- Overtime -- [Peak Records]
Rigmor Gustafsson & Jack Terrasson Trio -- Close To You -- [Act Music / Highnote Records]
Eric Truffaz -- Saloua -- [Blue Note Records]
Bobo Stenson / Anders Jormin / Paul Motian -- Goodbye -- [ECM]
David Pack -- The Secret of Movin' On -- [Peak Records]
Jean-Michel Pilc -- Live at Iridium, New York -- [Dreyfus Jazz]
Chiara Civello -- Last Quarter Moon -- [Verve Forecast]
Lars Danielsson -- Libera Me -- [Act Music / Highnote Records]
Chuck Perrin -- 44 Minutes of Love -- [Webster's Last Word Records]
Tord Gustavsen Trio -- The Ground -- [ECM]
Otis Taylor -- Below the Fold -- [Telarc]
Guilermo Klein -- Una Nave -- [Sunnyside Records]
Warren Hill -- Popjazz -- [Popjazz / Native Language]
Lalo Schifrin -- Kaleidoscope: Jazz Meets the Symphony #6 -- [Aleph Records]
JAZZIZ - Critics Choice - Best Albums 2004
Artist Album [Label]
Mike Marshall & Jovino Mike Marshall & Jovino Santos-Neto -- Serenata [Adventure Music]Jaco Pastorius Big Band, featuring Jimmy Haslip -- Word of Mouth Revisited [Heads Up]
Marilyn Crispell Trio -- Storyteller [ECM]
Mike Stern -- These Times [ESC]
Lynne Arriale Trio -- Come Together [Motéma Music]
Eric Darius -- Night on the Town [Higher Octave Music]
Dr. John -- N'Awlinz: Dis, Dat, or d’Udda [Blue Note Records]
Glauco Sagebin -- When Baden Meets Trane [Blue Toucan Music]
Viktor Krauss -- Far from Enough [Nonesuch]
Kirk Lightsey -- The Nights of Bradley’s [Sunnyside Records]
Eliane Elias -- Dreamer [Bluebird/RCA Victor]
E.S.T. -- Seven Days of Falling [215 Records]
John Lee Hooker -- Jack O’ Diamonds: 1949 Recordings [Eagle Records]
Dan Siegel -- Inside Out [Native Language]
Lila Downs -- One Blood [Narada Productions]
Courtney Pine -- Devotion [Telarc]
Mavis Staples -- Have a Little Faith [Alligator Records]
Miles Davis -- Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis 1963-1964 [Columbia/Legacy]
