Review of 2008 in music

These tracks were chosen from some of our favorite releases in 2008. Many are also a reminder of some of the great musical performances we had a chance to experience this past year. Claire and I took many trips to NYC, as well as catching some great jazz acts at local venues. Some of the highlights for us were Monday night jazz jams at Black Eyed Sally's, Hartford International Jazz Festival, Porkpie Hat Series, and Firehouse 12. The JVC Jazz Festival at Newport was a big highlight and is represented on this podcast. This is not a best of 2008, but more of a review of our year in music. I hope that listeners to In The Groove are in some way able to experience the great joys that jazz music has brought to our lives, through this Podcast and the YouTube videos, links and information on my website.

We took this video of Mike Stern at one of his infamous Monday night gigs at 55bar in the West Village in NYC, September 2008. We saw him again at the Iridium near Times Square last weekend playing with Kenny Garret (as), and Dennis Chambers (dr). Mike and Kenny are featured in this podcast.


Playlist
Track * Artist * Album
NY Hartford Connections * Albert Rivera * Re-introduction
Wilkes BBQ * Bobby Watson * From The Heart
Blessings * Empirical * Empirical
The Ring * Kenny Garrett * Sketches of MD
Dreams Go * The Yellowjackets feat. Mike Stern * Lifecycle
Pleades * Mystery Feet * Upstream
True * Lauren Sevian * Blueprint
Ulysses in Motion * Miguel Zenon * Awake
A Change is Gonna Come * Anat Cohen * Notes From the Village
Do Nothing till you hear from me * Houston Person * The Art and Soul of Houston Person
** End of Podcast **
Steppin' With the Lord * Harry Whitaker * Thoughts (Past and Present)
Yardbird Suite * Dwight West * Tribute to the Jazz Masters
You the Night and the Music * Greg Abate * Live in Monterey
Song of Delilah * James Carter * Present Tense
Omni * Brian Blade Fellowship * Season of Changes
The Lesson * Victor Wooten * Palmystery
Afterglow * aaron parks * Invisible Cinema