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Editor's Choice
Troy Collins' Best of 2007
By
TROY COLLINS,
Published: December 26, 2007
Troy Collins
After hearing Sonny Sharrock's Ask The Ages, there was no turning back.Considering the sheer multitude of recordings released in a year's time, narrowing down what amounts to hundreds of recordings heard to a mere handful is never easy. The titles listed below define for me the most exceptional and rewarding albums heard in a year filled with great music.
New Releases
 The Bad Plus Prog (Heads Up) |  Michael Brecker Pilgrimage (Heads Up) |  Nels Cline Singers Draw Breath (Cryptogramophone) |
 Peter Evans The Peter Evans Quartet (Firehouse 12) |  Exploding Star Orchestra We Are All From Somewhere Else (Thrill Jockey) |  Satoko Fujii Quartet Bacchus (Muzak) |
 Human Feel Galore (Skirl) |  Mostly Other People Do The Killing Shamokin!!! (Hot Cup) |  Michael Musillami Trio w/Mark Feldman The Treatment (Playscape) |
 Powerhouse Sound Oslo/Chicago: Breaks (Atavistic) |  Charles Tolliver Big Band With Love (Blue Note) |  Gebhard Ullmann New Basement Research (Soul Note) |
New Discoveries
 James Carney Green-Wood (Songlines) |  Harris Eisenstadt The All Seeing Eye/Octets (Poobah) |  Amir ElSaffar Two Rivers (Pi) |
 Ross Hammond Teakayo Mission (Prescott) |  Kneebody Low Electrical Worker (Colortone Media) |  Sacks/Opsvik/Maneri/Motian Two Miles a Day (Loyal/Yeah Yeah) |
 Robert Sabin Romero (Ranula) |  Russ Spiegel Chimera (Steeplechase) |  Wagner/Drake/Ozaki Trio (Valid) |
Historical Reissues
 Booker Ervin The Freedom Book (Prestige) |  Joe Henderson Power To The People (Milestone) |  Joseph Jarman As If It Were The Seasons (Delmark) |
 Fred Katz Folk Songs For Far Out Folk (Reboot) |  Sun Ra The Night Of The Purple Moon (Atavistic) |  George Russell Ezz-Thetics (Riverside) |
