How come I haven’t heard about the following albums until like this week:
Vandermark 5, A Discontinuous Line (first album with the new lineup)
Delfeayo Marsalis, Minions Dominion (album w/Branford, Donald Harrison, Mulgrew Miller, and Elvin Jones’ last recording besides the ones with Hank Jones which were interesting but really not all that great, let’s be honest)
Is it because they have horrible titles?
i saw vandermark 5 this year and it was amazing, i should go buy that record.
JordanC, i have tagged some 2006 jazz music best of lists at
Thanks. The Kenny Garrett record mention on one of those lists sounds cool, Pharoah Sanders + Brian Blade + some Chinese dudes chanting. Hadn’t heard anything about it.
I don’t know if my point is that I’m out of touch (because I wasn’t really trying to hear jazz records for most of the year) or that no one talks about this stuff anymore.
See, this is what I’m talking about. Dave Holland dropped some new quintet shit, the record is great, and I had no idea (until I made it to the good record store yesterday).
If you would scan All About Jazz, you would know about this stuff.
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Okay okay. I used to read Downbeat and check AAJ, now I rarely do. I’ll stop ignoring a niche genre and then whining about not knowing what’s new.
Anyway this Dave Holland record is great even if the new drummer isn’t quite as blazing (which I sort of like, honestly).
My 2006 jazz top ten:
Ornette Coleman, Sound Grammar
David S. Ware, BalladWare
Shot X Shot, s/t
Frank Wright, Unity [recorded in 1974 but only officially released this year]
Rudresh Mahanthappa, Codebook
William Parker, Long Hidden: The Olmec Series
Nels Cline, New Monastery
Fred Anderson, Timeless
Art Ensemble of Chicago, Non-Cognitive Aspects Of The City: Live At Iridium
Jason Moran, Artist In Residence
with that Kenny Garrett disc, Beyond The Wall, at #11.
I guess these would be my favorites, but don’t hold me to the order:
Itiberê Orquestra Familia, Calendario do Som
Erik Friedlander, Prowl
Kaspar Ewald’s Exorbitantes Kabinett, Reptil
Wycliffe Gordon/Jay Leonhart, This Rhythm on My Mind
Mike Marshall & Hamilton de Hollanda, New Words / Novos Palabras
Charles Lloyd, Sangam
Marc Perrenaud/Sylvain Ghio, Stream Out
David Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness! with Socalled, Bubbemeises: Lies My Grandma Told Me
Hiromi, Spiral
Marco Kaeppeli and the Even Odds, Prisoner of Time
Grupo Choro Rasgado, Baba de Calango
All About Jazz are organizing a 2006 readers poll
With the usual non-disingenuous disclaimers of not liking jazz all that much, especially in its purer (or “purer” or purer or) forms, I liked these:
Sunny Jain Collective: Avaaz
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb: Mayim Rabim
Uri Caine: Book of Angels: Moloch, Vol. 6 [I’ve only heard half of it so far, but I’m confident I will still like it once I’ve heard the second half]
and to a lesser extent these:
Koby Israelite: Orobas: Book of Angels, Vol. 4
Anthony Braxton/Fred Frith: Duo (Victoriaville)