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Top 10 + 2, 2006

This list encompasses a dozen of my favorite new releases of the year, hewing to albums in my hands between November 1 2005 and November 1, 2006. There are easily two dozen more cds I like just about as well, including excellent albums I worked on by artists including but not limited to Rez Abassi, Chris Jentsch, Rob Reddy, Hans Tammen’s improv quartet, Ingrid Jensen, Michael Wolff, Greg Osby with Andrew Cyrille, Cyrille with Reggie Workman and John Tchicai, Jimmy Cobb with Cedar Walton, Javon Jackson and Christian McBride. The historical list ignores single best-of compilations, though there are some good recent ones.

  • Abdallah Helmey (ney) - Takasim Kawala, volume 2 (D.J. Recording, Cairo)
  • Leroy Jenkins, Driftwood - The Art of Improvisation (Mutable Music)
  • Bill Frisell Ron Carter Paul Motian (Nonesuch)
  • Muhal Richard Abrams-George Lewis-Roscoe Mitchell, Streaming (Pi)
  • Toumani Diabate’s Symmetric Orchestra - Boulevard de l’ind?pendence (World Circuit)
  • Myra Melford Be Bread, The Image of Your Body (Crytogramophone)
  • Odean Pope Saxophone Choir - Locked and Loaded (Half Note)
  • Bobby Previte, Coalition of the Willing (Ropeadope)
  • Bennie Maupin Ensemble, Penumbra (Cryptogramaphone)
  • Ornette Coleman, Sound Grammar (Phrase Text)
  • Dom Minasi, The Vampire’s Revenge (CDM Records)
  • Klezmatics with lyrics by Woody Guthrie, Wonder Wheel (JMG)

Historical albums:

  • Charles Mingus, Unheard at UCLA (Mingus Music)
  • Red Garland Trio at the Prelude (Prestige)
  • St. Louis Frank Melrose, Bluesiana (Delmark)
  • Otis Rush, All Your Love I Miss Loving (Delmark)
  • Fats Waller & His Rhythm, If You Got To Ask, You Ain’t Got It (Bluebird Legacy)
  • Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys Legends of Country Music (Columbia Legacy)