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The OFN Top 10 : 2004

by OFN Staff
January 2005

The master top 10 was compiled from tallying each writer's individual list, with releases needing a minimum of two votes to qualify.  They were then rated on the following point system as it corresponded to placement in the personal lists:

01) = 100, 02) = 085, 03) = 075, 04) = 060, 05) = 050, 06) = 040, 07) = 025, 08) = 015, 09) = 010, 10) = 005

JASON BIVINS
01) Dennis González Inspiration Band "Nile River Suite" (Daagnim)
02) Keith Rowe/Burkhard Beins "Erstlive 001" (Erstwhile)
03) Fages/Barberan/Monteiro "Atolon" (Rossbin)
04) Joost Buis "Astronotes" (Data)
05) Sachiko M/Nakamura/Yoshihide "Good Morning Good Night" (Erstwhile)
06) Frank Gratkowski Quartet "Facio" (Leo)
07) Ellery Eskelin "Ten" (hatOLOGY)
08) Korber/eriKm/Nakamura/Yoshihide "Brackwater" (For4Ears)
09) Günter/Halliwell/Wastell "+minus [first meeting]" (Trente Oiseaux)
10) Simon H. Fell "SFQ: Four Compositions" (Red Toucan)

JAY COLLINS
01) Jim Black's AlasNoAxis "Habyor" (Winter & Winter)
02) Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls "Breeding Resistance" (Delmark)
03) Frank Gratkowski Quartet "Facio" (Leo)
04) Nels Cline Singers "The Giant Pin" (Cryptogramophone)
05) Atomic/School Days "Nuclear Assembly Hall" (Okka Disk)
06) Rob Brown Quartet "The Big Picture" (Marge)
07) Hilmar Jensson "Ditty Blei" (Songlines)
08) Tim Berne's Big Satan "Souls Saved Hear" (Thirsty Ear)
09) Jewels and Binoculars "Floater" (Ramboy)
10) Anthony Braxton "23 Standards (Quartet) 2003" (Leo)

DAVID DUPONT
01) Grachan Moncur III Octet "Exploration" (Capri)
02) Katharine Cartwright & Richard Oppenheim "A Mumbai of the Mind: Ferlinghetti Improvisations" (Harriton Carved Wax)
03) Ernie Krivda Quintet "Plays Ernie Krivda, Vol. 1 & 2" (CIMP)
04) Steve Swell "Suite for Players, Listeners and Other Dreamers" (CIMP)
05) Kahil El'Zabar & David Murray "We Is: Live at the Bop Shop" (Delmark)
06) Maria Schneider Orchestra "Concert in the Garden" (Artist Share)
07) Myra Melford's The Tent "Where the Two Worlds Touch" (Arabesque)
08) Jenny Scheinman "Shalagaster" (Tzadik)
09) Malachi Thompson and Africa Brass "Blue Jazz" (Delmark)
10) NAM "Song of Time" (Clean Feed)

MWANJI EZANA
01) Ben Allison "Buzz" (Palmetto)
02) The Claudia Quintet "I, Claudia" (Cuneiform)
03) Frank Hewitt "We Loved You" (Smalls)
04) Soweto Kinch "Conversations With the Unseen" (Dune)
05) Polar Bear "Dim Lit" (Rub)
06) Maak's Spirit & Gnawa Express "Al Majmaa" (Igloo)
07) Jef Neve "It's Gone" (Contour)
08) Rêve d'Eléphant Orchestra "Lobster Caravan" (De Werf)
09) Maria Schneider Orchestra "Concert in the Garden" (Artist Share)
10) Pascal Schumacher Quartet "Change of the Moon" (Igloo)

ADAM HILL
01) Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey "Walking With Giants" (Sin-Drome)
02) Cecil Taylor "Algonquin" (Bridge)
03) Atomic/School Days "Nuclear Assembly Hall" (Okka Disk)
04) Dennis González NY Quartet, "NY Midnight Suite" (Clean Feed)
05) Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake "Back Together Again" (Thrill Jockey)
06) Trapist "Ballroom" (Thrill Jockey)
07) Zu & Spaceways, Inc "Radiale" (Atavistic)
08) Cecil Taylor & Italian Instabile Orchestra "The Owner of the River Bank" (Enja/Justin Time)
09) Dave Douglas "Strange Liberation" (RCA)
10) James Carter "Live at Baker's Keyboard Lounge" (Warner Bros.)

SCOTT HREHA
01) Rivers/Rudolph/Eisenstadt "Vista" (Meta)
02) Dennis González NY Quartet, "NY Midnight Suite" (Clean Feed)
03) Rob Brown Quartet "The Big Picture" (Marge)
04) Paul Murphy Trio "Shadow-Intersections-West" (Cadence Jazz Records)
05) Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls "Breeding Resistance" (Delmark)
06) Brötzmann/Ellis/Eneidi/Krall "Live at Spruce Street Forum" (Botticelli)
07) James Finn "Faith in a Seed" (CIMP)
08) Atomic/School Days "Nuclear Assembly Hall" (Okka Disk)
09) Frank Gratkowski Quartet "Facio" (Leo)
10) Revolutionary Ensemble "And Now..." (Pi)

MICHAEL ROSENSTEIN
01) Doneda/Wright/Nakatani "From Between" (Soseditions)
02) Vinny Golia Quintet "One, Three, Two" (Jazz'Halo)
03) Günter/Halliwell/Wastell "+minus [first meeting]" (Trente Oiseaux)
04) Irene Schweizer & Pierre Favre "Ulrichsberg" (Intakt)
05) Axel Dörner/Tony Buck "Durch und Durch" (Tes)
06) Sachiko M/Nakamura/Yoshihide "Good Morning Good Night" (Erstwhile)
07) Filament "Filament BOX" (F.M.N. Sound Factory)
08) Brötzmann/Eneidi/Ellis/Krall "Live at Spruce Street Forum" (Botticelli)
09) Steve Swell "Suite for Players, Listeners and Other Dreamers" (CIMP)
10) Dave Burrell's Full-Blown Trio "Expansion" (High Two)

MATTHEW SUMERA
01) Rivers/Rudolph/Eisenstadt "Vista" (Meta)
02) James Finn "Opening the Gates" (Cadence Jazz Records)
03) Liebig/Vatcher/Golia "on the cusp of fire and water" (Red Toucan)
04) Jewels and Binocluars "Floater"  (Ramboy)
05) Elvin Jones "The Truth: Heard Live at the Blue Note" (Half Note)
06) John Zorn/Milford Graves "50th Birthday Celebration Volume Two" (Tzadik)
07) Dave Burrell Full-Blown Trio "Expansion" (High Two)
08) Simon Nabatov Trio "Autumn Music" (Leo)
09) Phillips/Léandre/Parker/Saitoh "After You Gone" (Victo)
10) Koch/Schutz/Studer "Life Tied" (Intakt)

DEREK TAYLOR
01) Gunda Gottschalk "Wassermonde" (Free Elephant)
02) Parker/Schlippenbach/Lytton "America 2003" (Psi)
03) Sonore "No One Ever Works Alone" (Okka Disk)
04) Tim Berne's Big Satan "Souls Saved Hear" (Thirsty Ear)
05) Satoko Fujii "Illusion Suite" (Libra)
06) Brötzmann/McPhee/Kessler/Zerang "Tales Out of Time" (hatOLOGY)
07) Von Freeman "The Great Divide" (Koch)
08) Rich Perry "East of the Sun & West of 2nd Avenue" (Steeplechase)
09) Paul Murphy "Shadows-Intersection-West" (Cadence Jazz)
10) Ivo Perelman "Suite for Helen F." (Boxholder)

KEN WAXMAN
01) Uri Caine Trio "Live at the Village Vanguard" (Winter & Winter)
02) Butcher/Irmer/Fernandez "Clearings" (ART.CappuccinoNet)
03) Sten Sandell Trio "Flat Iron" (SOFA)
04) Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls "Breeding Resistance" (Delmark)
05) Hans Koch "London Duos and Trios" (Intakt)
06) Burton Greene "Live at Grasland" (Drimala)
07) Fabio Martini-Intrio "Practicality" (Leo)
08) Dennis González Inspiration Band "Nile River Suite" (Daagnim)
09) Parker/Schlippenbach/Lytton "America 2003" (Psi)
10) Cecil Taylor & Italian Instabile Orchestra "The Owner of the River Bank" (Enja/Justin Time)
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