AllMusic's Favorite Jazz Albums of 2008

 
Azymuth - Butterfly
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Brian Blade Fellowship - Season of Changes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Anthony Braxton - Beyond Quantum
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
James Carter - Present Tense
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Francisco Mora Catlett - Outerzone
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gerald Cleaver - Gerald Cleaver's Detroit
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bill Dixon/Exploding Star Orchestra - Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dave Douglas & Keystone - Moonshine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lisle Ellis - Sucker Punch Requiem
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Kenny Garrett - Sketches of MD
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Billy Harper - Blueprints of Jazz, Vol. 2
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Charles Lloyd - Rabo de Nube
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rudresh Mahanthappa - Kinsmen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Bennie Maupin Quartet - Early Reflections
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis - Two Men with the Blues
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jason Palmer - Songbook
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Evan Parker/Transatlantic Art Ensemble - Boustrophedon (In Six Furrows)
 
 
 
 
 
 
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Steve Reid Ensemble - Daxaar
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures - Dream Garden
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Heikki Sarmanto - Moonflower
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Todd Sickafoose - Tiny Resistors
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Alex Sipiagin - Out of the Circle
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nick Vayenas - Synesthesia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Spike Wilner - 3 to Go
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jacob Young - Sideways