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Troy Collins' Best of 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) |