We've asked our talented staff of jazz hosts to select their favorite new CDs of 2007. Here are their picks for the cream of the crop of 2007.
Josh McDonald - Fridays 6am-9am
1. Maria Schneider - "Sky Blue" - (Artists Share)
2. Thomas Marriott - "Both Sides of the Fence" - (Origin)
3. BUG - "Murmur"
4. Rufus Reid - "Live at the Kennedy Center" - (Motema)
5. Russell Gunn - "Plays Miles" (HighNote)
6. Robert Glasper - "In My Element" - (Blue Note)
7. TOMO - "I'll Always Know" - (Torii)
8. Sean Jones - "Kaleidoscope" - (Mack Avenue)
9. Matt Wilson - "The Scenic Route" - (Palmetto)
10. Carolyn Leonhart & Wayne Escoffery - "If Dreams Come True" - (Nagel Heyer)
Jean Gunn - Mondays 9am-12pm
1. Metheny-Mehldau - Duo - (Nonesuch) [2006 release]
2. Metheny-Mehldau - Quartet - (Nonesuch)
3. Kurt Elling - Night Moves _ (Concord)
4. Diana Krall - From this Moment On - (Verve) [2006 release]
5. Oregon - 1000 Kilometers - (CAM Jazz)
6. Fred Hersch Trio - Night & the Music - (Palmetto)
7. Terrance Blanchard - A Tale of God's Will - (Blue Note)
8. Brian Lynch & Eddie Palmieri - Sympatico - (Artists Share) [2006 release]
9. Bill Mays Inventions Trio - Fantasy - (Palmetto)
10. Michael Brecker - Pilgrimage - (Telarc)
DJ Kirsten: Tuesdays 6:00pm - 9:00pm
1. DNTEL - Dumb Luck
2. M.I.A - Kala
3. Bjork - Volta
4. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
5. Feist - The Reminder
6. The Chemical Brothers - We Are the Night
7. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
8. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
9. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
10. Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English
Don Fischer: Wednesdays 6:00pm - 9:00pm
1. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
2. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
3. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
4. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
5. Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
6. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
7. Radiohead - In Rainbows
8. Shins - Wincing the Night Away
9. El Perro Del Mar - El Perro Del Mar
10. Over The Rhine - The Trumpet Child
M. Garcia: Thursdays 9:00pm - Midnight
1. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
2. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
3. The Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
4. Shape of Broad Minds - Craft of the Lost Art
5. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - 100 Days 100 Nights
6. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
7. Besnard Lakes - Are the Dark Horse
8. Radiohead - In Rainbows
9. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
10. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Hope Munro Smith - Wednesdays 6pm-9pm
1. Angelique Kidjo - Djin Djin (Razor & Tie)
2. Vieux Farka Toure - Vieux Farka Toure Remixed: UFOs over Bamako (Modiba/World Village)
3. Dee Dee Bridgewater - Red Earth: A Malian Journey (Emarcy/Umgd)
4. Luciana Souza - The New Bossa Nova (Verve)
5. Tinariwen Aman - Iman (World Village)
6. Ceu Ceu (Six Degrees)
7. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Roots, Rock, Remixed (Quango/Tuff Gong/Rockr)
8. Taraf de Haidouks - Maskarada (Crammed Disc US)
9. Cindy Combs - Sunny Rain (Dancing Cat)
10. Konono No. 1 - Live at Couleur Cafe (Crammed Disc US)
Kevin McDonald - Tuesdays 6am-9am
1) Maria Schneider - Sky Blue
2) Hiromi's SonicBloom - Time and Space
3) BUG - Murmur
4) Robert Glasper - In My Element
5) Sam Yahel Trio - Truth and Beauty
6) Matt Wilson's Arts and Crafts - The Scenic Route
7) Miles Davis Quintet - Live at the 1963 Monterey
Jazz Festival
8) McCoy Tyner - Quartet
9) Rufus Reid Quintet - Live at the Kennedy Center
10) Fred Hersch Trio – Night & the Music
Joe Moore - Top 10 Jazz CDs of 2007
Bill Charlap Trio - "Live at the Village Vanguard" - (Blue Note)
Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau - "Quartet" - (Nonesuch)
Various - "Lush Life - A Billy Strayhorn Songbook" - (Blue Note)
Anat Cohen - "Poetica" - (Anzic)
Till Bronner - "Oceana" - (Emarcy)
Matt Wilson's Arts and Crafts- "The Scenic Route" - (Palmetto)
Michael Brecker - "Pilgrimage" - (Heads Up)
McCoy Tyner - "Quartet" - (McCoy Tyner Music)
Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra - "Sky Blue" - (Artists Share)
Andy Bey - "It Ain't Necessarily So" - (12th Street Records)
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