20+20: Forrest Bryant’s CD Picks for 2009
January 5th 2010 08:02 pm
Copyright © 2010 Forrest Bryant
THE TOP TWENTY (in alphabetical order)…
- Dee Alexander – “Wild Is the Wind” (Blujazz)
- Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society – “Infernal Machines” (New Amsterdam)
- David Binney – “Third Occasion” (Mythology)
- Luis Bonilla – “I Talking Now!” (Planet Arts)
- Alex Cline – “Continuation” (Cryptogramophone)
- Marc Copland – “Night Whispers: New York Trio Recordings, Vol. 3” (Pirouet)
- DeJohnette/Patitucci/Perez – “Music We Are” (Golden Beams)
- Oran Etkin – “Kelenia” (Motema)
- Fly – “Sky and Country” (ECM)
- The Fully Celebrated – “Drunk on the Blood of the Holy Ones” (AUM Fidelity)
- John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble – “Eternal Interlude” (Sunnyside)
- Vijay Iyer – “Historicity” (ACT)
- Arthur Kell Quartet – “Victoria: Live in Germany” (BJU)
- Steve Lehman Octet – “Travail, Transformation & Flow” (Pi)
- Joe Lovano Us Five – “Folk Art” (Blue Note)
- Medeski Martin & Wood – “Radiolarians 3” (Indirecto)
- John Scofield – “Piety Street” (Emarcy)
- SFJAZZ Collective – “Live 2009: Sixth Annual Concert Tour” (SFJAZZ)
- Allen Toussaint – “The Bright Mississippi” (Nonesuch)
- Mark Weinstein & Omar Sosa – “Tales from the Earth” (Otá)
…and 20 more discs I greatly enjoyed over the past year…
- Rashied Ali Quintet – “Live in Europe” (Survival)
- Vinnie Cutro & NYC Soundscape – “Sakura” (Royal Music)
- Mélanie Dahan – “La Princesse et les Croque-Notes” (Sunnyside)
- Harris Eisenstadt – “Canada Day” (Clean Feed)
- Fat Cat Big Band – “Meditations on the War…” (Smalls)
- Firecracker Jazz Band – “Red Hot Band” (Euphonian)
- Gaucho – “Deep Night” (self-released)
- Dave Holland / Monterey Quartet – “Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival” (MJF)
- Rocco John Group – “Devotion” (COCA)
- Irvin Mayfield & New Orleans Jazz Orchestra – “Book One” (World Village)
- Nice Guy Trio – “Here Comes the Nice Guy Trio” (Porto Franco)
- Gretchen Parlato – “In a Dream” (Obliqsound)
- Alvin Queen – “Mighty Long Way” (Justin Time)
- Joshua Redman – “Compass” (Nonesuch)
- Arturo Stable Quintet – “Call” (Origen)
- John Surman – “Brewster’s Rooster” (ECM)
- Jeremy Udden – “Plainville” (Fresh Sound New Talent)
- Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet – “Bien Bien!” (Patois)
- Jeff “Tain” Watts – “Watts” (Dark Key)
- Miguel Zenón – “Esta Plena” (Marsalis Music)
