Ten Top Tens: 2005

• Tony Bevan, Bruised, Foghorn Records
• Steve Reid Ensemble, Spirit Walk, Soul Jazz Records
• Polar Bear, Held On The Tips Of Fingers, Babel
• Evan Parker, The Eleventh Hour, ECM
• Hendrik Meurkens, Amazon River, Blue Toucan Music
• Enrico Pieranunzi, Play Morricone, Cam Jazz
• Konono No.1, Congotronics, Crammed Discs
• Acoustic Ladyland, Last Chance Disco, Babel
• Nachito Herrera, Bembe En Mi Casa, FS Music
• The Necks, Mosquito, See Through, ReR Megacorp

• John Coltrane, One Down, One Up: Live At The Half Note, Impulse
• Various Artists, Lagos Chop Up, Lagos All Routes, Honest Jons
• Shrimp Boat, Speckly, Aum Fidelity
• Ike Quebec, The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions, Blue Note
• Leo Parker, Let Me Tell You 'Bout It, Blue Note

• The Brad Mehldau Trio, Day Is Done, Nonesuch
• The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, The Sameness of Difference, Hyena
• Jazz Mandolin Project, The Deep Forbidden Lake, Lenapee
• The Benevento, Russo Duo, Best Reason to Buy the Sun, Ropeadope
• Pat Metheny Group, The Way Up, Nonesuch
• Wayne Shorter, Beyond the Sound Barrier, Verve
• John Scofield, That's What I Say, Verve
• Groundtruther, Longitude, Thirsty Ear
• Garage a Trois, Outre Mer, Telarc
• John Ellis, One Foot in the Swamp, Hyena
• Greg Osby, Channel Three, Blue Note

• Grateful Dead, Complete Fillmore West 1969, Rhino-GD Productions
• Phish, Island Tour, Live Phish
• Miles Davis, The Complete Cellar Door Sessions, Sony BMG Legacy
• Miles Davis, 'Round Midnight-Legacy Edition, Sony BMG Legacy
• Rory Gallagher, Big Guns, Sony BMG Legacy

• Don Ellis, Don Ellis at Filmore, Wounded Bird
• Joe Lovano, Joyous Encounter, Blue Note
• Jessica Williams, Live at Yoshi's, Volume Two, MaxJazz
• Clayton-Hamilton Orch., Live at MCG, MCG
• Greg Osby, Channel Three, Blue Note
• Jimmy Thackery, Healin' Ground, Telarc Blues
• Bireli Lagrene, Move, Dreyfus
• Connie Evingson, Gypsy in My Soul, Minnehaha
• Brad Dutz, Nine Gardeners Named Ned, pfMENTUM
• Dan Cray, Save Us!, Blujazz

• Stan Tracey & Evan Parker Crevulations, Psi
• James Blood Ulmer, Birthright, Hyena
• David S Ware, Live in the World, Thirsty Ear
• Joe Giardullo, No Work Today: Nine for Steve Lacy, Drimala
• Louis Moholo-Moholo, Stan Tracey Khumbula, Remember, Ogun
• Oren Marshall, Introduction to the story of Speedy Sponda. Part One: In a silent room, Slowfoot
• Jim McAuley, Gongfarmer18, Nine Winds
• Anthony Braxton Quintet, London 2004 Live at the Royal Festival Hall, Leo Records
• Free Base, The Ins and Outs, Emanem
• Bill Frisell, Richter 858, Songlines

• Moondog, The Viking of 6th Avenue, Honest Jon's

• SF Jazz Collective, The Inaugural Season 2004, Self-published
• Samo Salamon, Ela's Dream, Splasc(H)
• Fred Hersch, Leaves Of Grass, Palmetto
• Wayne Shorter, Beyond The Sound Barrier, Verve
• Bud Shank, Phil Woods, Bouncing With Bud And Phil, Capri
• Drew Gress, 7 Black Butterflies, Premonition
• Sonny Rollins, Without A Song, Milestone

• John Coltrane, One Down, One Up: Live At The Half Note, Impulse
• Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane: At Carnegie Hall, Blue Note
• Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945, Uptown
• Pat Metheny, Ornette Coleman, Song X, Geffen
• Jazz Crusaders, Complete Pacific Jazz Studio Quintet Sessions, Mosaic
• Blue Mitchell, The Thing To Do, Blue Note

• Evan Parker, With Birds, Treader
• Jeff Parker, The Relatives, Thrill Jockey
• Joshua Redman, Momentum, Nonesuch
• Alexander von Schlippenbach, Monk's Casino, Intakt
• Dave Douglas, Keystone, Greenleaf
• Jenny Scheinmann, 12 Songs, Cryptogramophone
• James Finn, Plaza de Toros, Clean Feed
• Gerry Hemingway Quartet, The Whimbler, Clean Feed
• Steve Lehman, Demian As Posthuman, Pi
• Ben Monder, Oceana, Sunnyside
• Bebo Valdez, Cigala, Blanco Y Negro, Bebo & Cigala, RCA, (CD/DVD)

• Ike Quebec, Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions, Blue Note
• Dizzy Gillespie, Town Hall, NYC, June 22, 1945, Uptown
• Bill Evans, Complete Village Vanguard Recordings: 1961, Riverside
• Herbie Hancock, Inventions And Dimensions, Blue Note

• Dafnis Prieto, About the Monks, Zoho
• Enrico Pieranunzi, Paul Motian, Doorways, CamJazz
• Ravi Coltrane, In Flux, Savoy
• Drew Gress, 7 Black Butterflies, Premonition
• Myron Walden, This Way, Fresh Sound New Talent
• JC Hopkins Biggish Band, Underneath a Brooklyn Moon, Tigerlily Records
• The Susan Weinert Band, Running Out of Time, Tough Tone Records
• Cuong Vu, It's Mostly Residual, ArtistShare
• New Talent Jazz Orchestra, The Sound Of New York Jazz Underground, Fresh Sound New Talent

• Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane: At Carnegie Hall, Blue Note

• Steve Heckman Quartet, Live at Yoshi's, World City
• Dave Holland Big Band, Overtime
• Keith Jarrett, The Out of Towners, ECM
• Branford Marsalis, Eternal, Marsalis Music
• Mark Masters Ensemble, Porgy & Bess Redefined!
• Grachan Moncur III Octet, Exploration
• Sonny Rollins, Without A Song The 9/11 Concert, Milestone
• SFJazz Collective, SFJazz Collective, Nonesuch

• Wes Montgomery, Smokin' at the Half Note, Verve
• Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane: At Carnegie Hall, Blue Note

• Taylor Ho Bynum & SpiderMonkey Strings, Other Stories (Three Suites), 482 Music
• Vijay Iyer, Reimagining, Savoy
• Tom Christensen, New York School, Playscape Recordings
• Drew Gress, 7 Black Butterflies, Premonition
• Mat Maneri, Pentagon, Thirsty Ear
• Dave Douglas, Keystone, Greenleaf Music
• Cuong Vu, It's Mostly Residual, ArtistShare
• Ben Monder, Oceana, Sunnyside
• Claudia Quintet, Semi-Formal, Cuneiform
• Paraphrase, Pre-emptive Denial, Screwgun

• Pat Metheny, Song X, Nonesuch
• George Russell, The Complete Bluebird Recordings, Lone Hill Jazz

• Ben Monder, Oceana, Sunnyside Records
• Fieldwork, Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman and Elliott Humberto Kavee, Simulated Progress, Pi Recordings
• Mat Maneri, Pentagon, Thirsty Ear Recordings
• Janek Gwizdala, Mystery to Me, Live in New York, Self-released
• Avishai Cohen, At Home, Razdaz, Self-released
• Nelson Cascais, Nine Stories, Tone of a Pitch Records
• Sebastiaan Cornelissen with Gary Willis, Lale Larson, Timeline, Self-released
• Tim Berne, with Craig Taborn and Tom Rainey, Hardcell Live, Screwgun Records
• Claudia Quintet, John Hollenbeck, Semi-Formal, Cuneiform
• Marc Ducret, Bruno Chevillon, Eric Echampard, lânnexe, Self-released

• Miles Davis, The Complete Cellar Door Sessions, Sony BMG Legacy
• Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane: At Carnegie Hall, Blue Note

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