On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 11:02, mwisckol@ocregister.com wrote:
John Scofield, "Up All Night" (Verve) -- this is the post-hiphop jazz CD Sco's been after, a melange that consistently holds up song to song like no album he's done since A Go Go
I've also enjoyed this, and have been playing this a lot at the store. The list of new albums that came out this year and that I listened to for enjoyment more than once is surprisingly small. A lot of my listening has been to MP3s, meaning that I've been listening to individual tracks rather than albums, and I don't listen to music at home much, since I'm bombarded with music all the time at work. This also means that much of what I'm exposed to is at the more commercial end of the spectrum. And I've been doing a lot of listening to albums that were released earlier, reissues, and compilations. But here's a rough Top 10, in alphabetical order: David Bowie: Reality Annie Lennox: Bare John Mellencamp: Trouble No More Pat Metheny: One Quiet Night Rachel's: Systems/Layers Damian Rice: O David Sylvian: Blemish Various Artists: Masked & Anonymous (soundtrack) Rufus Wainwright: Want One Weird Al Yankovic: Poodle Hat