Ken Hohman's Best Releases of 2010

Ken Hohman

Contributor since 2002

Ken Hohman is a veteran jazz writer and jazz DJ based out of Richmond, Virginia.

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Published: January 7, 2011

Year end lists seem to overlook so much, but in a way that's a good thing. After all, it means that good jazz is plentiful these days. The truth of the matter is I spent a great deal of 2010 exploring all the overlooked releases from the past two years. And with so much jazz being released under artist-run online labels, cobbling together a list is all the more trying. Nevertheless, here's my cream of the crop in a year full of fine jazz. Listen and love it:

Jim Corpolongo, Get Happy (Delmark Records);
Wynton Marsalis Wynton Marsalis
b.1961
trumpet Quintet/Richard Galliano Richard Galliano
b.1950
accordion , From Billie Holiday To Edith Piaf: Live In Marciac (Rampart Street);
Geri Allen Geri Allen
b.1957
piano , Flying Toward The Sound (Motema Music);
Brad Goode Brad Goode
b.1963
trumpet , Tight Like This (Delmark Records);
Brandon Wright Brandon Wright

saxophone , Boiling Point (Posi-Tone Records);
Rex Richardson Rex Richardson

trumpet , Magnum Opus: 21st Century Trumpet Concertos (Summit Records);
Tia Fuller Tia Fuller

saxophone , Decisive Steps (Mack Avenue);
Jason Adasiewicz Jason Adasiewicz

vibraphone , Sun Rooms (Delmark Records);
Assaf Kehati Assaf Kehati

guitar Quartet, A View From My Window (AKJazz);
Mostly Other People Do the Killing Mostly Other People Do the Killing

band/orchestra , Forty Fort (Hot Cup Records).