Music of 2007

I listened to a lot of really great music in 2007 and reviewed 97 albums, almost all of them jazz, on 50 Words. Ignoring albums I'd heard before, but never reviewed, that still leaves a whole lot of really phenomenal music that came through my headphones in 2007. Many of these albums I'd heard excerpts of, but never listened to the album all the way through. While very few of them were horrible, a few of them were just not that great (although some of the albums in the "worst" list were still albums I graded above a C). A lot of them, in contrast, were superb.

I guess I have a higher tolerance for bad movies than I do for bad music.

The Best

1. Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker — Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 (2005) - A++
2. Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane — At Carnegie Hall (2005) - A++
3. Bill Evans — Complete February 1972 Paris ORTF Performance (2006) - A++
4. John Coltrane — A Love Supreme (1964) - A++
5. Miles Davis — Kind of Blue (1959) - A++
6. Clifford Brown — Clifford Brown Memorial Album (1953) - A++
7. Dave Brubeck — Time Out (1959) - A++
8. John Coltrane — Live European Tours (2001) - A++
9. Sonny Stitt — Personal Appearance (1957) - A+
10. Eric Dolphy — The Illinois Concert (1999) - A+

The Worst

1. Eric Dolphy — Wherever I Go (2000) - D-
2. Dave Valentin — Come Fly With Me (2006) - C
3. Andy LaVerne — Double Standard (1993) - C
4. Oscar Peterson — A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra (1959) - C
5. Bill Evans — Eloquence (1982) - C
6. Ella Fitzgerald — Ella By Starlight (1993) - C+
7. Charlie Parker — Congo Blues (1993) - C+
8. Stan Getz — At the Shrine (1955) - C+
9. Stanley Jordan — Stolen Moments (1991) - B-
10. Various Artists — Spike & Co: Do It A Cappella (1988) - B-