GA Russell Posted December 5, 2010 Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 It's that time of year again when we list our Top Ten new albums of the year. Here are mine in my chronological order: Gail Pettis - Here in the Moment Ralph Lalama Quartet - The Audience organissimo - alive & kickin'! Antonio Adolfo and Carol Saboya - La e Ca/Here and There Manu Katche - Third Round Ketil Bjornstad - Remembrance Mina Cho - Originality Milton Suggs - Things to Come Conrad Herwig - The Latin Side of Herbie Hancock Mason Brothers - Two Sides One Story What are your Top Ten of the year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
save0904 Posted December 5, 2010 Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 Dave Liebman Group Turnaround: The Music Of Ornette Coleman Jason Moran Trio Ten Aaron Goldberg Home David Weiss & Point Of Departure Snuck In Tomasz Stanko Dark Eyes Charles Lloyd Mirror Fred Hersch Whirl! Michael Formanek The Rub And Spare Change Sclavis / Taborn / Rainey Eldorado Trio Contact Five On One Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kh1958 Posted December 5, 2010 Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 Sonny Fortune--Last Night at Sweet Rhythm (Sound Reason) Aaron Goldberg--Home (Sunnyside) Bunky Green and Rudresh Mahanthappa--Apex (Pi) Jimmy Greene--Live at Smalls (Smalls Live) Tom Harrell--Roman Nights (High Note) Magos Herrera--Mexico Azul (Sony Mexico) Vijay Iyer--Solo (Act) Charnett Moffett--Treasure (Motema) Jason Moran--Ten (Blue Note) Jean Michel Pilc--True Story (Dreyfus) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.:.impossible Posted December 12, 2010 Report Share Posted December 12, 2010 NPR JAZZ's list: http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2010/12/05/131712050/top-10-jazz-albums-of-2010 I only have two of these... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Goren. Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 (edited) I haven't listened to too many new releases this year but among those I listened to, here are my favorites: Junko Onishi - Baroque Jason Moran - Ten Geri Allen- Flying Toward the Sound Marc Cary - Focus Trio Live 2009 Edited December 14, 2010 by B. Goren. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 Looking through my "new" CD purchases, I see that many of them came out in 2009 - I usually stay about a year behind. Out of the 2010 releases I've picked up, I'll nominate half a dozen, some of which have been mentioned already, and some of which haven't: Paul Motian - Lost in a Dream (ECM) Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green - Apex (Pi) Evan Christopher - Remembering Song (Arbors) Mose Allison - The Way of the World (Anti) Dave Holland Octet - Pathways (Dare2) Matt Perrine & Sunflower City - Bayou Road Suite (Threadhead). And for good measure, a non-jazz album which has unexpectedly given me a great deal of pleasure since my wife gave it to me: Galactic - Ya-Ka-May (Anti). This one, by the New Orleans funk/jam band, features some distinguished New Orleans guests, including The Rebirth Brass Band, Irma Thomas, Allen Toussaint, Trombone Shorty, Bo Dollis, and several exponents of the city's "Sissy Bounce" hip-hop scene, all chopped and remixed in the studio. It's a lot of fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal Pomea Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 Really the Blues Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LWayne Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 (edited) In the moment... Artist Title Label 1 Frank Kimbrough Rumors Palmetto Records 2 Jason Moran Ten Blue Note 3 Jason Adasiewicz Trio Sun Rooms Delmark 4 SF Jazz Collective Live 2010: 7th Annual Concert Tour SFJazz Records 5 Mike Reed's People, Places, and Things Stories and Negotiations 482 Music 6 Paul Motian Trio Lost in a Dream ECM 7 Dave Holland Octet Pathways Dare 2 Records 8 Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green Apex Pi Recordings 9 Bill Frisell Beautiful Dreamers Savoy 10 Michael Formanek Quartet The Rub and Spare Change ECM I have only recently given a couple of listens to the Rudresh/Bunky and Formanek CDs, but both will move up in the rankings from early indications. Edited December 13, 2010 by LWayne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 Best New Releases 1) Jason Adasiewicz, "Sun Rooms" (Delmark) 2) Warne Marsh, "New York City Live" (Riverworks) 3) Jeb Bishop Trio, "2009" (Better Animal) 4) Henry Threadgill Zooid, "This Brings Us To, Volume II" (Pi) 5) Keefe Jackson Quartet, "Seeing You See" (Clean Feed) 6) Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens, "Two Cities" (Delmark) 7) The Engines, "Wire and Brass" (Okka) 8) James Falzone's Allos Musica, "Lamentations" (Allos) 9) Rich Corpolongo Trio, "Get Happy" (Delmark) 10) Walt Weiskopf, "See The Pyramid"(Criss Cross) Best reissues 1) John Carter & Bobby Bradford (Mosaic) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeBop Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Only bought one CD this year: Organissimo Alive & Kickin' Now if you want a list of top ten live musical events... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ep1str0phy Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Marc Cary - Focus Trio Live 2009 I just played a gig with David Ewell (the Focus Trio bassist)--unreal player. I actually hadn't heard him before that (save for hearing the Focus Trio, momentarily). The local talent here can be very, very intense (Ewell and Dan Seamans--of the Lost Trio and New Klezmer Trio--are two of the best bass soloists I've heard in person, period). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Here is my top ten: Ni Kantu Or, if you hate clicking things - 1. Joshua Abrams – Natural Information (Eremite) 2. Circulasione Totale Orchestra – Bandwidth (Rune Grammofon) 3. Bill Dixon/Aaron Siegel/Ben Hall – Weight/Counterweight (Broken Research) 4. Grex – Live at Home (SUA) 5. Mary Halvorson Quintet – Saturn Sings (Firehouse12) 6. Stephen Haynes – Parrhesia (Engine Studios) 7. No Mor Musik – No Mor Musik (ugExplode) 8. Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley – Ailanthus/Altissima (bilateral dimensions of two root songs) (Triple Point) 9. David S. Ware – Saturnian (Aum Fidelity) 10. Katherine Young – Further Secret Origins (Porter) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunky Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Best New Releases 7) The Engines, "Wire and Brass" (Okka) How does this compare with their self titled debut disc on Okka ? I found their first hard to like despite my admiration for the band in other contexts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 (edited) In no particular order Carter/Jorgensmann/Maurer/Rolin - Riviere Composers' Pool [Emanem] Food - Quiet Inlet [ECM] Evan Parker/Sten Sandell - Psalms [Psi] Steve Coleman & Five Elements - Harvesting semblances and affinities [Pi] Sum [Prevost/Lambert/Wright] - Invenio Ergo [Matchless] Sei Miguel - Esfingico [Clean Feed] Jason Adasiewicz - Sun Rooms [Delmark] Bill Dixon/Aaron Siegel/Ben Hall Weight/Counterweight [broken Research] Ounaskari/Mikkonen/Jorgesen - Kuara [ECM] Stefano Battaglia - Pastorale [ECM] with a very honourable mention to Kris Davis/Ingrid Laubrock/Tyshawn Sorey - Paradoxical frog [Clean Feed] Edited December 14, 2010 by mjazzg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Best New Releases 7) The Engines, "Wire and Brass" (Okka) How does this compare with their self titled debut disc on Okka ? I found their first hard to like despite my admiration for the band in other contexts Think I've got that one, but rather than sit down and compare them -- too much other stuff to listen to and/or I'm just lazy -- this new one did knock my socks off. BTW, I numbered my choices because that's what the Village Voice Jazz Poll ballot required; in my mind the order is semi-arbitrary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utevsky Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Seeing other folks’ picks just serves to remind me of how many new releases I haven’t heard, but here are my favorites anyway: Rez Abassi Acoustic Quartet - Natural Selection Lina Allemano Four - Jargon Geri Allen - Flying Toward The Sound Amir El Saffar & Hafez Modirzadeh - Radif Suite Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier - Oblivia Vijay Iyer - Solo Darius Jones Trio - Man’ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) Linda Oh Trio - Entry Matthew Shipp - 4D The Vandermark 5 - Annular Gift Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
relyles Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 It would be interesting to know an estimate of how many new releaes posters have actually heard? Seems that selecting ten favorites from a pool of one hundred new releases has a bit more weight than selecting ten from twenty? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Not knowing any of these, I'd be tempted to see if any names recur in such diverse lists. On this test Jason Moran's Ten and Geri Allen's Flying Toward the Sound must have something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 It would be interesting to know an estimate of how many new releaes posters have actually heard? Seems that selecting ten favorites from a pool of one hundred new releases has a bit more weight than selecting ten from twenty? Me? Eleven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Basten II Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Jason Moran Ten Charlkes Lloyd Mirror Sclavis / Taborn / Rainey Eldorado Trio Nicole Mitchell Emerald Hills Christine Jensen Treelines David Binney Aliso Paul Motian Trio Lost in a Dream Christian Scott Yesterday you said tomorrow Renaud Garcia-Fons Méditérranées Ahmad Jamal A quiet time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utevsky Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 It would be interesting to know an estimate of how many new releaes posters have actually heard? Seems that selecting ten favorites from a pool of one hundred new releases has a bit more weight than selecting ten from twenty? That's a good point. I would roughly guess that I've heard about 80 new releases in the last year, most of them through the radio station where I volunteer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Heard fewer than 10. That's why I didn't join in. I spend most of my money making new issues (new and reissues). :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 It would be interesting to know an estimate of how many new releaes posters have actually heard? Seems that selecting ten favorites from a pool of one hundred new releases has a bit more weight than selecting ten from twenty? my ten from about 30 new releases I've heard over the year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Basten II Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Heard about 40 new releases over the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.L.M Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 (edited) No order - Braxton/ Hemingway: "Old Dogs" (Mod/Avant) - Parker/ Guy/ Lytton + Peter Evans: "Scenes In The House Of Music" (Clean Feed) - Warne Marsh Trio: "New York City Live" (Riverworks Records) - Potsa Lotsa: "The Complete Works Of Eric Dolphy" (Jazzwerkstatt) - Steve Lacy: "November" (Intakt) - Ross Bolleter: "Night Kitchen: An Hour Of Ruined Piano" (Emanem) - Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley: "Ailanthus/ Altissima (Bilateral Dimension Of Two Roots Songs)" (Triple Point) - Nate Wooley & Paul Lytton: "Crack Above 33" (Emanem) - Herman Keller: "Nicht Ohne Wasser (Quartet)/ 29 Stücke (Solo)" (Jazzwerkstatt) - Uwe Oberg & Evan Parker: "Full Bloom" (Jazzwerstatt) + (copyright 2009, but I get it in early 2010) - Fred Anderson Trio: "A Night At The Velvet Lounge/ Made In Chicago Festival 2007" (Estrada Poznanska) Reissues: - John Carter & Bobby Bradford: "Mosaic select 036" (Mosaic Records) - Henry Threadgill: "Complete Novus/ Columbia Recordings" (Mosaic Records Limited Edition Box Set) - Bill Dixon: "The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note" (CamJazz) Edited December 16, 2010 by P.L.M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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