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Troy Collins' Best of 2009

By Troy Collins
December 30, 2009
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The titles listed below are among the most exceptional albums I've heard in a year filled with great music. Considering the quantity of recordings released in a years time, attempting to mention every high-quality session received would result in a list of ponderous proportions. As such, I have narrowed this list down to the records I repeatedly returned to throughout the year.

New Releases

Jack DeJohnette
Music We Are
(Golden Beams)

The Frame Quartet
35mm
(Okka Disk)

Dennis Gonzalez
A Matter of Blood
(Furthermore)

Vijay Iyer Trio
Historicity
(ACT)

Joe Lovano Us Five
Folk Art
(Blue Note)

Tony Malaby
Paloma Recio
(New World)

Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings
Renegades
(Delmark)

John Surman
Brewster's Rooster
(ECM)

The Thirteenth Assembly
(un)sentimental
(Important)

Henry Threadgill Zooid
This Brings Us To, Vol.1
(Pi)

David S. Ware
Shakti
(AUM Fidelity)

Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse
Cries From Tha Ghetto
(Pi)

New Discoveries

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
Infernal Machines
(New Amsterdam)

Darius Jones Trio
Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing)
(AUM Fidelity)

Reut Regev
This Is R Time
(Ropeadope)

Historical Reissues

Ronnie Boykins
The Will Come, Is Now
(ESP Disk)

Horace Tapscott
The Dark Tree
(Hatology)

Charles Tyler
Saga of the Outlaws
(Nessa)

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