If you were to cast a vote, what five would receive yours?

"Topaz"-Rippingtons
"Got The Magic"-Spyro Gyra
"Listen"-Chuck Loeb
"Synergy"-Dave Weckl Band
"Yin Yang"-Victor Wooten
"Tower of Power-Live"-T.O.P (not really jazz but a great live r/b recording)

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"Topaz" - Rippingtons
"Got the Magic" - Spyro Gyra
"Four Corners" - Craig Chaquico
Keiko Matsui's Live CD
Chris Botti's latest

Topaz-Rippingtons (the saving grace of the year..a new release by a big name group that wasn't a total sellout)
Vertu-Vertu
Keiko Matusi Live
Synergy-Dave Weckl
Joyce Cooling-Keeping Cool

Biggest disappointment-Craig Chaquico "Four Corners" ..there is enough sax driven Lite RnB instrumental music out there without a truly individualistic artist putting out a generic album. Yes, it got him a song on the charts but the people who buy music don't read the radio trades so will the chart activity help sales in the long run?

Hey Shannon, did you really like 'Vertu'?? I am a bassist and I love Stanley Clarke and I thought that the cd was going to be the next big thing and then I bought it!!
I personally hated it. Now I love Jazz-Fusion but this cd is way out there. I just can't get into it at all. This is just my personal opinion. I had Paul Hardcastle's III in my other hand.....I should have taken that one instead

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1. Keiko Matsui Live
2. Spyro Gyra Got The Magic
3. Joyce Cooling Playing It Cool
4. Rippingtons Topaz
5. Steve Reid Passion In Paridise
5. Hiroshima Black and White
5. Michael Franks Barefoot on the Beach

Sorry, I was unable to limit the list to just five.

Hey DW..I probably came into the Vertu CD with less expectations so it was a pleasant suprise, also the fact that it is in my top 5 in a year when so much bland, generic Lite RnB instrumental stuff has been released weighs heavy..in a year when good stuff was coming out It probably wouldn't be there. This is a bad year if ya don't like lite RnB.
However you could have done worse, as in the Hardcastle. Until you have heard what they did to Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" you have not experienced true misery. Wanna irritate a fortysomething woman..blandify a Stevie Nicks song!

My five would be:

1. "Synergy" - Dave Weckl
2. "Smokin' Section" - Tom Scott
3. "Pat Metheny & Jim Hall" - Guess who?
4. "Do You Have Any Sugar" - Stanley Turrentine
5. "Thick" - Tribal Tech