{"id":381,"date":"2009-12-08T08:14:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T13:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/?p=381"},"modified":"2009-12-08T10:05:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T15:05:40","slug":"hank-shteamer-2009-jazz-top-10-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/2009\/12\/hank-shteamer-2009-jazz-top-10-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Hank Shteamer: 2009 Jazz Top 10, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top 10 Jazz Albums of 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Ran Blake Driftwoods<\/em> (Tompkins Square)<\/p>\n

2. Chad Taylor Circle Down<\/em> (482 Music)<\/p>\n

3. Jon Irabagon with Mike Pride I Don’t Hear Nothin’ but the Blues <\/em>(Loyal Label)<\/p>\n

4. John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble Eternal Interlude<\/em> (Sunnyside)<\/p>\n

5. Darius Jones Trio Man’ish Boy (A Raw and Beautiful Thing)<\/em> (Aum Fidelity)<\/p>\n

6. Henry Threadgill Zooid This Brings Us To, Volume 1<\/em> (Pi)<\/p>\n

7. Borah Bergman Trio Luminescence<\/em> (Tzadik)<\/p>\n

8. Jim Black AlasNoAxis Houseplant<\/em> (Winter & Winter)<\/p>\n

9. Charles Evans and Neil Shah Live at Saint Stephens <\/em>(Hot Cup)<\/p>\n

10. Loren Stillman Winter Fruits<\/em> (Pirouet)<\/p>\n

+<\/p>\n

Multimedia:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Miles Davis Quintet Live in Europe ’67<\/em> [DVD, available with The Complete Miles Davis Columbia Album Collection<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original<\/em> by Robin D.G. Kelley (Free Press)<\/p>\n

Click past the jump for ten honorable-mention discs and seven live shows.<\/p>\n

Honorable mention:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Steve Lehman Octet Travail, Transformation, and Flow<\/em> (Pi)<\/p>\n

John H\u00e9bert Byzantine Monkey<\/em> (Firehouse 12)<\/p>\n

Linda Oh Trio Entry<\/em> (self-released)<\/p>\n

Tony Malaby Paloma Recio<\/em> (New World)<\/p>\n

Warren Smith Composer’s Workshop Ensemble Old News, Borrowed Blues<\/em> (Engine Studios)<\/p>\n

Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society Infernal Machines<\/em> (New Amsterdam)<\/p>\n

Bill Dixon Tapestries for Small Orchestra<\/em> (Firehouse 12)<\/p>\n

Digital Primitives Hum, Crackle & Pop<\/em> (Hopscotch)<\/p>\n

Seabrook Power Plant [Self-titled<\/em>] (Loyal Label)<\/p>\n

Fly Sky & Country<\/em> (ECM)<\/p>\n

A few great live shows I saw (NYC):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winter Jazzfest at (Le) Poisson Rouge, etc. (January 10)<\/p>\n

H\u00e5kon Kornstad and Ingebrigt H\u00e5ker Flaten at Monkey Town (April 10)<\/p>\n

Joe McPhee at the Local 269 (May 4)<\/p>\n

Fieldwork at the Stone (August 19)<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Bill McHenry and Ben Monder at Cornelia St. Caf\u00e9 (September 21)<\/p>\n

Billy Hart Quartet at Village Vanguard (September 25)<\/p>\n

Connie Crothers Quartet at the Stone (September 26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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