(listed ABC)
\nBEST NEW RELEASES:
\nSteve Adams Trio – Surface Tension (Clean Feed)
\nBill Dixon – Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12)
\nAgust\u00ed Fern\u00e1ndez – Un Llamp Que No S’Acaba Mai (psi)
\nJim Hall\/Bill Frisell – Hemispheres (ArtistShare)
\nIndigo Trio (Nicole Mitchell\/Harrison Bankhead\/Hamid Drake) – Anaya (Rogue Art)
\nMary Halvorson\/Reuben Radding\/Nate Wooley – Crackleknob (hatOLOGY)
\nH\u00e5kon Kornstad – Dwell Time (Jazzland)
\nMasada Quintet – Book of Angels, Vol.12: Stolas (feat. Joe Lovano) (Tzadik)
\nBobby Previte – Pan Atlantic (Auand)
\nMiroslav Vitous Group – Remembering Weather Report (with Michel Portal) (ECM)<\/p>\n
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BEST REISSUES:
\nLester Bowie – All The Numbers (Numbers 1 & 2) (Nessa)
\nKarin Krog & Friends – Joy (Meantime-Sonet)
\nKeiki Midorikawa – Complete Gr\u00fcne Revolution (Doubt Music)
\nItaru Oki – Phantom Note (Doubtmusic-Offbeat)
\nCharles Tyler – Saga of the Outlaws (Nessa)<\/p>\n
BEST TRIBUTES:
\nPeter Bernstein – Monk (Xanadu-The Orchard)
\nJesse Stacken\/Kirk Knuffke – Mockingbird: The Music of Thelonious Monk & Duke Ellington (SteepleChase)
\nDok Wallach – Live in Lisbon [Mingus Tribute] (Jazzwerkstatt)
\nBabatunde Lea – Umbo Weti (A Tribute to Leon Thomas) (Motema Music)
\nSF Jazz Collective – Live 2009 (6th Annual Concert Tour: The Works of McCoy Tyner) (SF Jazz)<\/p>\n
BEST UNEARTHED GEMS:
\nJoe Bushkin Quartet – Live Embers Violin Solos Feat. Stuff Smith (AB Fable)
\nModern Jazz Quartet – 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival (Douglas)
\nScott LaFaro – Pieces of Jade (Resonance)
\nLucky Thompson – New York City (1964-65) (Uptown)
\nFreddie Hubbard – Without A Song: Live in Europe 1969 (Blue Note)<\/p>\n
BEST VOCAL RELEASES:
\nRoberta Gambarini – So In Love (Emarcy-Groovin’ High)
\nCameron Brown and the Hear & Now – Here and How!, Volume 2! (w\/Sheila Jordan) (OmniTone)
\nThe Jeff Oster-Peter Welker Jazz Alliance – Shining Hour (Jazzed Media)
\nLisa Sokolov – A Quiet Thing (Laughing Horse)
\nFay Victor Ensemble – The Freesong Suite (Greene Ave. Music)<\/p>\n
BEST DEBUT RELEASES (as leader):
\nTerry Clarke – It’s About Time (Blue Music Group)
\nJohn H\u00e9bert – Byzantine Monkey (Firehouse 12)
\nDarius Jones Trio – Man’ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) (AUM Fidelity)
\nLinda Oh Trio – Entry (s\/r)
\nThe Oster-Welker Jazz Alliance – Shining Hour (Jazzed Media)<\/p>\n
BEST BOXED SETS:
\nToshiko Akiyoshi\/Lew Tabackin Big Band – Mosaic Select 33 (Mosaic)
\nElla Fitzgerald – Twelve Nights in Hollywood (Verve)
\nJohn Handy – Mosaic Select 35 (Mosaic)
\nJonas Kulhammar Quartet – The Half Naked Truth (1998-2008) (Moserobie)
\nKen Vandermark – Resonance (Not Two)<\/p>\n
BEST BIG BANDS\/LARGE ENSEMBLES:
\nAnthony Braxton\/Italian Instabile Orchestra – Creative Orchestra (Bolzano) 2007 (Rai Trade)
\nDarcy James Argue’s Secret Society – Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
\nJohn Hollenbeck Large Ensemble – Eternal Interlude (Sunnyside)
\nSwiss Improvisers Orchestra – Zwitzerland (Creative Sources)
\nGerald Wilson Orchestra – Detroit (Mack Ave.)<\/p>\n
-Laurence Donohue-Greene, Managing Editor (AllAboutJazz-New York)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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