Your Top Five for 2003


What's the Top Five CDs/SACDs/DVD-As you purchased in 2003? My tastes are for jazz & blues, but I'm sure there's lots of great music we all missed. My five are:

Taylor Eigsti Trio- Resonance
Kurt Elling -Man in the Air
Ahmad Jamal- In Search Of
Wayne Shorter- Footpronts Live!
McCoy Tyner- Land of the Giants

Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!
kana813
My taste runs toward jazz,classical and ecclectic.
My top 5 purchased CDs are:
1) Rosanne Cash Rules of Travel
2) Yo-Yo Ma Obrigado Brazil
3) Karrin Allyson In Blue
4) Tom Harrell Wise Children
5) Hilary Hahn Brahms Violin Concerto
john Dean
Teirney Sutten - Something Cool
Patricia Barber- Nightclub
Karrin Allyson - In Blue
Patricia Barber- Companion
George Duke - After Hours
My five favorites from 2003 (in no particular order):

1) Bill Frisell - "The Intercontinentals"
2) Pat Metheny - "One Quiet Night"
3) Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - "Little Worlds" (3 discs)
4) Daniel Lanois - "Shine" (my "reference" disc - incredible sound)
5) Steely Dan - "Everything Must Go"

It was tough to pare it down to just five, so I put DVDs in a separate list:

1) Peter Gabriel - "Growing Up Live" (much better than "Up")
2) Pat Metheny - "Speaking of Now Live"
In no particular order:

1) Peter Gabriel "UP" SACD
2) Rosanna Cash "Rules of Travel"
3) Beck "Sea Change" SACD
4) Police "Syncronicity" SACD
5) Blur "Think Tank"

1)The Libertines - 'Up the Bracket'
2)Drive-By Truckers - 'Decoration Day'
3)The Wrens - 'The Meadowlands'
4)The Jayhawks - 'Rainy Day Music'
5)White Stripes - 'Elephant'