Bob Bernotas, host of WNTI's Just Jazz, picks his 10 BEST NEW JAZZ CDS of 2011:
- Duduka Da Fonseca: The Duduka Da Fonseca Trio Plays Toninho Horta
- Claire Daly: Mary Joyce Project: Nothing to Lose
- Jeff Fairbanks' Project Hansori: Mulberry Street
- Roy Haynes: Roy-alty
- Nilson Matta & Roni Ben-Hur: Mojave
- Virginia Mayhew: Mary Lou Williams: The Next 100 Years
- Mark Nightingale: Out of the Box
- Ted Rosenthal: Out of This World
- Terell Stafford: This Side of Strayhorn
- Martin Wind: Get It?
More of Bob's "Best of 2011" Picks…
BEST LATIN CDs:
BRAZILIAN: Jovino Santos Neto: Veja o Son / See the Sound
CUBAN: Jane Bunnett & Hilario Duran: Cuban Rhapsody
BEST REISSUE CDs:
Curtis Fuller: Soul Trombone / Cabin in the Sky
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie: The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings
BEST BOX SETS:
The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings of The Modern Jazz Quartet 1956-64
The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions
Bob will be featuring all these excellent 2011 releases on his special January 1st "2011: The Year in Jazz" edition of Just Jazz. He'll also be looking back on his "Artists of the Month" from 2011, and paying tribute to giants of music who left us during this past year: Bob Brookmeyer, Ray Bryant, Frank Foster, Joe Morello, Paul Motian, Pete Rugolo, George Shearing, Joe Lee Wilson, Snooky Young.
