Top Ten Jazz CDs of 2005

Everyone's got their two cents. As promised, here are my choices for the best jazz records of 2005.

1. Kenny Wheeler: What Now?
2. Kenny Barron: Live at Bradley's II
3. Bill Frisell: East/West
4. Wayne Shorter Quartet: Beyond the Sound Barrier
5. Wynton Marsalis: Live at the House of Tribes
6. Joe Lovano: Joyous Encounter
7. George Russell's Living Time Orchestra: The 80th Birthday Concert
8. Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis: Occasion
9. Doug Wamble: Bluestate
10. Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane: Live at Carnegie Hall

Here's hoping this will become an annual tradition. Start shopping.