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Best New Releases 2006:

  • MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS/GEORGE LEWIS/ROSCOE MITCHELL - Streaming (Pi)
  • ORNETTE COLEMAN - Sound Grammar (Sound Grammar)
  • BILL FRISELL/RON CARTER/PAUL MOTIAN - Eponymous (Nonesuch)
  • ANDREW HILL - Time Lines (Blue Note)
  • KIDD JORDAN/HAMID DRAKE/WILLIAM PARKER - Palm of Soul (Aum Fidelity)
  • NANCY KING - Live at Jazz Standard (MAXJAZZ)
  • PETER MADSEN - Prevue of Tomorrow (Playscape)
  • BENNIE MAUPIN - Penumbra (Cryptogramophone)
  • BEN RILEY’S MONK LEGACY SEPTET - Memories of T (Concord)
  • DAVID S. WARE - BalladWare (Thirsty Ear)

Best Box Set Release:

  • 30th Anniversary Collection (Ictus)

Best Reissue:

  • CHARLES MINGUS - Music Written for Monterey 1965 Not Heard: At UCLA 1965 (CME-Sunnyside)

Laurence Donohue-Greene
Managing Editor
AllAboutJazz-New York
NEW YORK’s ONLY HOMEGROWN JAZZ GAZETTE