As we all embark on a bright shiny new year, I’d like to take this opportunity to look back on 2013 and thank all of the Society’s loyal partisans. I know there are many different ways to listen to music in this brave new world, but records on the scale of Brooklyn Babylon would simply never get made without your support and advocacy. So on behalf of myself and all of my co-conspirators, please accept our very deepest gratitude.Here is a sampling of some of the year-end accolades Brooklyn Babylon has received:
- Best Album of 2013 — The New Republic
- Best Jazz Album of 2013 — Lucid Culture
- Best Jazz of 2013 — Slate
- 2013 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll
- NPR Music’s 50 Favorite Albums Of 2013
- Best Albums of 2013 — The Boston Globe
- NewMusicBox 2013 Staff Picks
- iTunes Best of 2013: Jazz
- Top 10 Recordings of 2013 — The Province
- Top 10 Album — 2013 DownBeat Readers Poll
- Best Music of 2013 — Francis Davis
- Kansas City Star — Top Albums for 2013
- Top 10 Jazz Discs for 2013 — Gene Seymour
- Favorite Music of 2013 — A Fool in the Forest
- The 100 Best Albums of 2013 — Ted Gioia
- Best of 2013 — Bird is the Worm
- Top 25 Classical Albums of 2013 — Rhapsody
- Les disques jazz de 2013 — Le Devoir
- Top Jazz 2013 — La Presse