Lunes 9 Ene 2012, 17:52

Cross-posted to A Stable Reference

You know the drill, just like the 70s, 80s, and 90s lists. Too much good stuff, so unfortunately knocked off were Christian Scott, Hiromi, Robert Glasper, Steve Lehman, Drew Gress, Brad Mehldau, Susie Ibarra, The Bad Plus, as well as a bunch of great big bands (Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra, Exploding Star Orchestra) and European groups (Polar Bear, Led Bib, Acoustic Ladyland, Portico Quartet, The Thing, Zu, Esbjörn Svensson Trio). Also unfortunately cut were albums by veterans leading young bands including Wayne Shorter's fantastic album Beyond The Sound Barrier with his new quartet featuring Brian Blade, Danilo Perez, and John Patitucci, as well as Charles Lloyd's Rabo de Nube with the quartet of Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers, and Eric Harland.

Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths - Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet (2009 hatOLOGY)
Bounce - Terence Blanchard (2003 Blue Note)
Compass - Joshua Redman (2009 Nonesuch)
Deep Song - Kurt Rosenwinkel (2005 Verve)
Emit - Chris Speed's Yeah No (2000 Songlines)
Fly - Fly (2004 Savoy)
Gently Disturbed - Avishai Cohen Trio (2008 Sunnyside)
Human Activity Suite - Brad Shepik (2009 Songlines)
Invisible Cinema - Aaron Parks (2008 Blue Note)
Junk Magic - Craig Taborn (2004 Thirsty Ear)
Kinsmen - Rudresh Mahanthappa (2008 Pi)
Lawn Chair Society - Kenny Werner (2007 Blue Note)
Masses - Spring Heel Jack (2001 Thirsty Ear)
New York Days - Enrico Rava (2009 ECM)
Oceana - Ben Monder (2005 Sunnyside)
Perceptual - Brian Blade Fellowship (2000 Blue Note)
Quake - Erik Friedlander (2003 Cryptogramophone)
Riding The Nuclear Tiger - Ben Allison & Medicine Wheel (2001 Palmetto)
Strange Liberation - Dave Douglas (2004 RCA)
Tragicomic - Vijay Iyer (2008 Sunnyside)
Ultrahang - Chris Potter Underground (2009 ArtistShare)
Vu-Tet - Cuong Vu (2007 ArtistShare)
Worlds - Aaron Goldberg (2006 Sunnyside)
Xpansion - Patrick Zimmerli Ensemble (2000 Songlines)
Yo Miles! Sky Garden - Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith (2004 Cuneiform)
Zoo Is Far - Christian Wallumrød Ensemble (2007 ECM)

Notes:
Obviously, Xpansion is actually Expansion. Also Christian Wallumrød's Zoo Is Far is actually The Zoo Is Far, as I couldn't find an album the started with Z as well, except for Medeski, Martin & Wood's album of John Zorn compositions Zaebos, which was disqualified since MMW was already on the 90s list.

Spring Heel Jack's Masses is the first in a series of collaborations with top shelf avantgarde jazz instrumentalists, including, on this album, Tim Berne, Matthew Shipp, Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter, Mat Maneri, Evan Parker, and William Parker.

Yo Miles! Sky Garden is one of several albums from Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith's Yo Miles! project, which is a tribute to Miles Davis' electric/fusion period featuring his compositions from this period and those of his sidemen that were performed by his bands including on this album Joe Zawinul, original material by Smith influenced by that period, and some group pieces, on this album a tune called Cozy Pete, a reference to Miles sideman guitarist Pete Cosey. In addition to Smith and Kaiser, the band featured, among others, Greg Osby, John Tchicai, and tabla master Zakir Hussain.

For more recommendations, check out my Jazz Now post.