"Best Indie of 2009" — With the xx, Phoenix, Passion Pit, Grizzly Bear, and Animal Collective

2009 Revisited: Jazz
Critics' picks for the best of 2009

2000s Jazz
Jazz of this century's first decade

ECM Records
The leading label for cutting edge modern jazz for 50 years

Pure Jazz
The rich art of Jazz: classic and modern, vocal and instrumental

New School Jazz
Jazz after bop!

Instrument: Trumpet Jazz
Satchmo and Miles to Roy Hargrove and Dave Douglas

Avant Garde Jazz
Jazz way outside the box

Cutting Edge Jazz
Contemporary experimental jazz. Not Avant-Garde, not Straight-Ahead

Third Stream
Where Jazz and Classical meet

World Fusion
Jazz improvisation along with global folk music traditions
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