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The Best Jazz Albums of 2007

Mingus, Hancock, Lovano, Friedlander …

It's been a good year for jazz. No single new recording stands out, as Ornette Coleman's Sound Grammar did in 2006, but many albums more than satisfy.

Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy, Cornell 1964
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