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| Dave Holland Scoops Major Jazz Poll Bassist Dave Holland has scooped a major survey of newer and up-and-coming jazz artists conducted by the Jazz 100 website. Jazz 100 is the internet's premier website featuring an "all-time best" list of jazz CDs. The site was launched in mid-2002 and quickly established a prominent net presence thanks to the popularity of its Top 200 Jazz CDs list designed for the casual listener. The site's New Breed 100 list is aimed at bringing long overdue attention to jazz artists that have been active mainly in the 1990s and beyond. The list includes jazz records released in the last ten years and is based on the results of a net survey of critics, record stores and popular polls. The list is further supplemented using the results of the site's own 'new jazz' online poll. The latest New Breed 100 list has Holland breaking into the Top 10 with two entries -- Extended Play: Live at Birdland (2003) in the top spot and his big band effort from 2002, What Goes Around coming in at #4. Jazz 100 site manager Peter Sykes said that there were only two Top 10 survivors from the list published a year ago. "The Bad Plus is hanging on at #10 with their 2003 'power jazz' effort, These Are the Vistas - while clarinettist Don Byron's Ivey-Divey is up two places to #7, " Sykes said. "Based on the results of the online poll there is also a good chance that pure popularity will see Diana Krall's Love Scenes and the third volume of pianist Brad Mehldau's The Art of the Trio back in the ten at some stage in the not-too-distant future. As it currently stands, however, the high level of critical interest in both Dave Holland and veteran saxophonist Wayne Shorter has both in the Top 10 with two entries each." The top ten CDs on the list are as follows: 1) Dave Holland, Extended Play: Live at Birdland [2003] 2) Wayne Shorter, Footprints Live! [2002] 3) Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny, Beyond the Missouri Sky [1996] 4) Dave Holland Big Band, What Goes Around [2002] 5) Wayne Shorter, Alegrķa [2003] 6) Dave Douglas, Strange Liberation [2004] 7) Don Byron, Ivey-Divey [2004] 8) Branford Marsalis Quartet, Eternal [2004] 9) Wayne Shorter, Beyond the Sound Barrier [2005] 10) The Bad Plus, These Are the Vistas [2003] "Also of interest is that critics have started drawing a fairly clear line between what is and isn't jazz, " Sykes added. "Norah Jones and Jamie Cullum have both been well and truly shunned. Meanwhile, only fleeting attention has come the way of 'soft jazz' saxophonist Michael Brecker thanks to his fine 1996 effort Tales From the Hudson, which has scraped into the list at #97." Artists with the most number of records listed in the New Breed 100 include pianist Keith Jarrett with five; Dave Holland, Jason Moran and Brad Mehldau with four each; and Dave Douglas, bassist Charlie Haden, Wayne Shorter and saxophonist Branford Marsalis all with three entries. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |