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The Best Jazz Albums of 2012: #10-1

December 14, 2012 By Anthony Dean-Harris

By the circumstances of our calendar, we culturally use the transition into the new year as a time to reflect. We reflect on how we have grown as people, about the ties to our friends new and old, about how we have conducted ourselves, of what we have liked and didn't like. We as people periodically reflect, and as people who love music, we periodically reflect on what moved … [Read more...]

The Best Jazz Albums of 2012: #25*-11

December 13, 2012 By Anthony Dean-Harris

This has been a particularly strong year for music. I feel like I've been saying it more and more but do you remember how you felt at the beginning of this year when you heard you were going to get a new Robert Glasper album, two Brad Mehldau albums, and Christian Scott was making a comeback? You didn't even think about all the other surprises you'd encounter because it just … [Read more...]

The Best Non-Jazz Albums of 2012: #10*-1

December 12, 2012 By Anthony Dean-Harris

To be honest, these are the top ten non-jazz albums as voted by our staff, but since ties are a habit with this year's lists, we're going to start things off at #8. We'd be a little more accurate in the title of our list, but the desire to make round numbers beat out the need for complete accuracy. It, much like our balloting, was a weighty decision. Nevertheless, these are the … [Read more...]

The Best Non-Jazz Albums of 2012: #25*-11

December 11, 2012 By Anthony Dean-Harris

I've always loved the collective of voices we have here at Nextbop. This international group of talents has always been a sort of inspiration to me, shining a light on the things that I don't know. While we usually share in one another's knowledge in a jazz sense, that has always been but a microcosm of our interests. It is when we look at the rest of our taste that our … [Read more...]

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