{"id":487,"date":"2009-12-21T21:58:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T02:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/?p=487"},"modified":"2009-12-21T21:58:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T02:58:43","slug":"ken-franckling-year-end-rundown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/2009\/12\/ken-franckling-year-end-rundown\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Franckling: Year End Rundown"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 10 best new jazz releases of 2009, listed alphabetically:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Lili A\u00f1el, \u201cEvery Second in Between\u201d (Wall-I Records)<\/p>\n

– Big Band Ritmo Sinfonica Citt\u00e0 Di Verona, “Restless Spirits” (Velut Luna)<\/p>\n

– Seamus Blake, \u201cLive in Italy\u201d (Jazz Eyes)<\/p>\n

– Mike Clark, \u201cBlueprints of Jazz, Vol. 1\u201d (Talking House)<\/p>\n

– Bill Cunliffe, \u201cBlues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2\u201d (Resonance)<\/p>\n

– Kat Edmonson, \u201cTake to the Sky\u201d (Convivium Records)<\/p>\n

– Steve Kuhn, \u201cMostly Coltrane\u201d (ECM)<\/p>\n

– LeBoeuf Brothers, \u201cHouse Without a Door\u201d (LeBoeuf Brothers Music)<\/p>\n

– John Scofield, \u201cPiety Street\u201d (EmArcy)<\/p>\n

– Joe Zawinul, \u201c75\u201d (Heads Up International)<\/p>\n

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The 10 best new songs of the year, listed alphabetically:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Lynne Arriale, \u201cA Gentle Soul\u201d from \u201cNuance\u201d (Mot\u00e9ma Music)<\/p>\n

– Jeff Ballard, \u201cLady B\u201d from Fly\u2019s \u201cSky & Country\u201d (ECM)<\/p>\n

– Scotty Barnhart, \u201cHaley\u2019s Passage\u201d from \u201cSay It Plain\u201d (Unity Music)<\/p>\n

– Gerald Clayton, \u201cPeace for the Moment\u201d from \u201cTwo-Shade\u201d (ArtistShare)<\/p>\n

– N. Glenn Davis, \u201cCome Right In\u201d from \u201cCome Right In\u201d (Jazzed Media)<\/p>\n

– Richie Goods, \u201cDesert Song\u201d from \u201cLive at the Zinc Bar\u201d (RichMan Productions)<\/p>\n

– Fareed Haque. \u201cBig Bhangra\u201d from \u201cFlat Planet\u201d (Owl Studios)<\/p>\n

– Sean Jones, \u201cThe Ambitious Violet\u201d from \u201cThe Search Within\u201d (Mack Avenue)<\/p>\n

– Mark Rapp, \u201cThank You\u201d from \u201cToken Tales\u201d (Paved Earth)<\/p>\n

– Greg Skaff, \u201cWillie D\u201d from \u201cEast Harlem Skyline\u201d (Zoho)<\/p>\n

The best jazz boxed set or historic recordings of 2009, listed alphabetically:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Dupree Bolton, \u201cFireball,\u201d (Uptown)<\/p>\n

– Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, \u201cThe Classic Prestige Sessions, 1951-1956 (Prestige)<\/p>\n

– Lucky Thompson, \u201cNew York City, 1965-65\u201d (Uptown)<\/p>\n

– Freddie Hubbard, \u201cWithout a Song* (Live in Europe, 1969)\u201d (Blue Note)<\/p>\n

– Scott LaFaro, \u201cPieces of Jade\u201d (Resonance)<\/p>\n

The best jazz-related DVDs of 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

– “‘Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris” (Outsider Pictures\/Naxos of <\/strong>America)<\/p>\n

Ken Franckling<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The 10 best new jazz releases of 2009, listed alphabetically: – Lili A\u00f1el, \u201cEvery Second in Between\u201d (Wall-I Records) – Big Band Ritmo Sinfonica Citt\u00e0 Di Verona, “Restless Spirits” (Velut Luna) – Seamus Blake, \u201cLive in Italy\u201d (Jazz Eyes) – Mike Clark, \u201cBlueprints of Jazz, Vol. 1\u201d (Talking House) – Bill Cunliffe, \u201cBlues and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}