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[AndersVinberg]

I agree:

Your Album of the Year (2018)

I’ll break the rules and list two albums that are other people’s best-of-2018 but not mine. Two sources I respect, Giovanni Russonello in The NY Times and Fred Kaplan in Slate (and Stereophile) have published their best jazz of 2018, and I agree with most of it. But each has an album of a musician that ambitiously covers all of Thelonious Monk’s compositions. Monk famously is one of the two most covered composers despite writing only 70 tunes, with Duke Ellington who wrote 2,000. I appreciate …