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All About Jazz: New York - Best of 2009
ByMUSICIANS OF THE YEAR
Fred Anderson (tenor saxophone)
Chick Corea (keyboards)
Dave Douglas (trumpet)
Peter Evans (trumpet)
Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet)
RECORD LABELS OF THE YEAR
CLEAN FEED
ECM
LEO
NO BUSINESS
STEEPLECHASE
VENUES OF THE YEAR
BAR NEXT DOOR (West Village)
DIZZY'S CLUB (Columbus Circle)
JAZZ STANDARD (Murray Hill/Gramercy)
ROULETTE (SoHo)
THE STONE (Alphabet City)
PERFORMANCES OF THE YEAR
JOSHUA REDMAN DOUBLE TRIO
Larry Grenadier, Reuben Rogers, Brian Blade, Greg Hutchinson
Highline Ballroom, January 21st
WALTER THOMPSON SOUNDPAINTING ORCHESTRA WITH ANTHONY BRAXTON
Irondale Center, April 18th
ROB BROWN / CRAIG TABORN / NASHEET WAITS
Vision Festival, Abrons Arts Center, June 13th
NANCY KING/FRED HERSCH
The Kitano, June 26th
JOHN PATITUCCI / JOE LOVANO / BRIAN BLADE
Dizzy's Club, August 23rd
JOHN SURMAN QUARTET
John Abercrombie, Drew Gress, Jack DeJohnette
Birdland, September 5th
EVAN PARKER / MILFORD GRAVES
The Stone, October 3rd
BOBBY BRADFORD OCTET
Baikida Carroll, David Murray, Marty Ehrlich, James Weidman, Mark Helias, Andrew Cyrille
Jazz Standard, October 4th
MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS / FRED ANDERSON
Community Church of New York, October 16th
JOHN BUTCHER
solo and with Okkyung Lee
Issue Project Room, November 11th
Laurence Donohue-Greene
BY ANY MEANS
Charles Gayle, William Parker, Rashied Ali
Winter Jazzfest, Kenny's Castaways, January 10th
THE NECKS
Chris Abrahams, Lloyd Swanton, Tony Buck
Le Poisson Rouge, February 10th
LISTENING IN, FEEDING BACK
James Fei / Kato Hideki / Nakamura Toshimara / Alvin Lucier / Otomo Yoshihide
Miller Theatre, February 13th
JAAP BLONK / JOAN LA BARBARA
The Human Voice in a New World Festival, Frederick Loewe Theatre NYU, February 23rd
RAZ MESINAI
Roulette, Mar. 29th
MARC RIBOT'S SUN SHIP
Mary Halvorson, Chad Taylor, Jason Ajemian
The Stone, May 14th
COLLECTIVE QUARTET
Zim Ngqawana, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Nasheet Waits
Vision Festival, Abrons Arts Center, June 12th
STEVEN BERNSTEIN MILLENIAL TERRITORY ORCHESTRA TRIBUTE TO SLY STONE
Castle Clinton, July 16th
MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS / FRED ANDERSON
Community Church of New York, October 16th
INCUS FESTIVAL
Cyro Baptista, Min Xiao-Fen, Fred Frith, Milford Graves, Susie Ibarra, George Lewis, Richard Teitelbaum, John Zorn
Abrons Arts Center, October 18th
Kurt Gottschalk
THE NECKS
Chris Abrahams, Lloyd Swanton, Tony Buck
Le Poisson Rouge, February 10th
COSMOLOGIC
Jason Robinson, Michael Dessen, Nate Hubbard, Scott Walton
Le Grand Dakar, February 19th
MICHAEL MANRING SOLO
The Stone, March 26th
TOMASZ STANKO GROUP
Craig Taborn, Thomas Morgan, Jim Black
Merkin Hall, April 4th
INTERSTELLAR SPACE TRIBUTE
Darius Jones / Jackson Krall; Ras Moshe / Tyshawn Sorey; Ned Rothenberg / Samir Chatterjee
The Local 269, April 20th
SEX MOB
Steven Bernstein, Briggan Krauss, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen
Joe's Pub, July 21st
RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA NORTH SEA QUARTET
Craig Taborn, Francois Moutin, Dan Weiss
Iridium, September 2nd
GEORGE GARZONE / BOB GULLOTTI / TAKEO MORIYAMA
Cornelia Street Cafe, October 15th
MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS / FRED ANDERSON
Community Church of New York, October 16th
-Andrey Henkin
DAVE HOLLAND OCTET
Alex Sipiagin, Chris Potter, Gary Smulyan, Antonio Hart, Robin Eubanks, Steve Nelson, Nate Smith
Birdland, January 7th
THE "WATTS" PROJECT
Jeff "Tain" Watts, Branford Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Christian McBride
Winter Jazzfest, Le Poisson Rouge, January 10th
EDDIE PALMIERI LA PERFECTA II
Rose Hall, February 7th
JASON MORAN'S THE BIG BANDWAGON
Town Hall, February 27th
BRANFORD MARSALIS QUARTET
Joey Calderazzo, Eric Revis, Jeff "Tain" Watts
Jazz Standard, May 6th
BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO
Larry Grenadier, Jeff Ballard
Village Vanguard, May 7th
BILLY HARPER QUINTET
Francesca Tanksley, Freddie Hendrix, Clarence Seay, Aaron Scott
MoMA Sculpture Garden, July 12th
CEDAR WALTON QUARTET
Vincent Herring, David Williams, Joe Farnsworth
Dizzy's Club, August 4th
CECIL TAYLOR TRIO
Alby Balgochian, Jackson Krall
Highline Ballroom, August 31st
CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE & INSIDE STRAIGHT
Steve Wilson, Peter Martin, Carl Allen, Warren Wolf
Village Vanguard, November 15th
Russ Musto
ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
DARCY JAMES ARGUE'S SECRET SOCIETYInfernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
DAVID BINNEYThird Occasion (Mythology)
GERALD CLAYTONTwo-Shade (ArtistShare)
HERCULANEUMHerculaneum III (Clean Feed)
VIJAY IYER TRIOHistoricity (ACT Music)
STEVE LEHMAN OCTETTravail Transformation and Flow (Pi)
SFJAZZ COLLECTIVELive 2009: The Works of McCoy Tyner (SFJazz)
EDWARD SIMONPoesi