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09/12/2003

Best of 2003: the Music for Grown-Ups picks

This year has seen a large number of outstanding record releases suitable for grown-ups, as well as a much larger number which were, well, outside our scope.

My lists below.

What were your highlights of 2003? Please email your lists to GerrySmith@musicforgrownups.co.uk, and I'll add them to the web site; please include your name and location, for posting with your lists.

BEST OF 2003

New releases:

Esbjorn Svensson Trio, Seven Days of Falling
Gillian Welch, Soul Journey
Lucinda Williams, World Without Tears
Cecilia Bartoli, The Salieri Album
Cassandra Wilson, Glamoured
Bob Dylan, Masked And Anonymous OST
Roberto Alagna, Nessum Dorma
Magdalena Kozena, French Arias
Soweto Kinch, Conversations with the Unseen
Rolling Stones, Four Flicks (DVD)

Reissues:

Bob Dylan, SACD remasters, especially Freewheelin' and Another Side
Rolling Stones, SACD remasters, especially Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed
Miles Davis, Complete Jack Johnson
Miles Davis, In Person Complete Blackhawk
Clash, Essential
Maria Callas, Tosca (1954)
Very Best of World Duets
Bruce Springsteen, Essential (3CD)

Most disappointing new releases:

Neil Young, Greendale
Jamie Cullum, Twentysomething
Bryn Terfel, Bryn
John Lee Hooker, Face to Face
Waterboys, Universal Hall
Van Morrison, What's Wrong With This Picture

(Re)/Discoveries:

Sting
Jeff Buckley
Duke Ellington
Mozart's Don Giovanni and Magic Flute
Herbie Hancock
Hendrix
Frank Zappa
Coltrane
Carter Family
Youssou N' Dour
The Who

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