best music of 2008

Better Than All the Rest

Visit the Music Awards Store and find this year's featured Grammy® Award nominees, as well as this year's CMA winners, a decade of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, 2007 Tony Award winners, and more.

Award-winning music

Odetta is dead at 77

- December 3, 2008
- The only time I heard her sing live was at the memorial service for the writer, James Baldwin, in New York City. ...

They’ve Been Hittin’ in Pairs All Year

- September 18, 2008
- First, it was Think of One's Camping Shaabi   (packaged with a really interesting...

Hope for Jazz

- August 22, 2008
 


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Jazz

Best Jazz of 2008

Ear FoodEsperanza Grammy-winning trumpeter Roy Hargrove's Ear Food took a five-star rating from customers, and we agree. Our second favorite jazz album was Esperanza Spalding's eponymous scorcher, Esperanza. See more picks:

The 10 best jazz albums of 2008

Listening Station

No Strangers Here
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Live at Jazz...
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Electric Side
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Most Wished For in Music

Day & Age
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And Winter Came
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And Winter Came
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Twilight Soundtrack
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Twilight Soundtrack
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The Unforgettable Natalie Cole

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Seventeen years after multiplatinum album Unforgettable: With Love, eight-time Grammy®-winning singer Natalie Cole will release her follow-up album, Still Unforgettable. This Amazon-exclusive edition contains a bonus track for "How Do You Keep the Music Playing."

Browse New Jazz Releases by Week

Dec 30, 2008