Laurence Donohue-Greene

2007's Top Recordings

New Releases (listed alphabetically)

• Billy Bang - Above & Beyond: An Evening in Grand Rapids (feat. Frank Lowe) (Justin Time)
• Peter Brötzmann/Mats Gustafsson/Ken Vandermark: Sonore: Only the Devil Has No Dreams (Jazzwerkstatt)
• Abbey Lincoln: Abbey Sings Abbey (Verve)
• Enrico Rava Quintet: The Words and the Days (ECM)
• Sonny Rollins: Sonny, Please (Doxy)
• Wadada Leo Smith/Gunter Baby Sommer: Wisdom in Time (Intakt)
• Trio M (Myra Melford/Mark Dresser/Matt Wilson): Big Picture Cryptogramophone)
• McCoy Tyner: Quartet (McCoy Tyner Music-Half Note)
• David S. Ware: Renunciation (AUM Fidelity)
• Various Artists: Free Zone Appleby 2006 (Psi)

Honorable mention

• Howard Wiley - Angola Project (High Cotton Productions)

Historical/Archival Releases (listed alphabetically)

• Albert Ayler Quartet: The Hilversum Session (Osmosis-ESP Disk)
• Michael Garrick Trio: Moonscape (Airborne-Trunk)
• Joe Henderson: Power to the People - Keepnews Collection (Milestone-Concord)
• Andrew Hill: Compulsion (Blue Note)
• Noah Howard: The Black Ark (Freedom-Bo'Weavil)
• Albert Mangelsdorff Quintett: Folk Mond & Flower Dream (CBS -Tropical Music GMBH/Bellaphon)
• Charles Mingus: Cornell 1964 (with Eric Dolphy) (Blue Note)
• Art Pepper: Unreleased Art, Vol.1 & 2 (Widow's Taste)
• Live at Monterey Jazz Festival (by Miles Davis; Sarah Vaughan; Thelonious Monk; etc.) (Monterey Jazz Festival Records-Concord)