Derek Taylor's Best of 2006
Another year gone and an especially bountiful one for excellent jazz and improvised music. Paring down to a modest number was particularly difficult to accomplish, but here are several handfuls of my favorite releases from 2006.
![]() Thomas Chapin Trio Ride (Playscape) | ![]() Trio 3 Time of Being (Intakt) | ![]() Bill & Kenny Barron Quartet Live at Cobi's, Vol. 2 (Steeplechase) |
![]() Buck Hill Relax (Severn) | ![]() Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet Live in Lisbon (Clean Feed) | ![]() The Gauci Trio We're Coming Just One Time (Cadence Jazz) |
![]() Roscoe Mitchell Trio No Side Effects (RogueArt) | ![]() Ellery Eskelin Quiet Music (Prime Source) | ![]() Iskra 1903 Chapter Two: 1981-3 (Emanem) |
![]() Cooper-Moore/Assif Tsahar/Chad Taylor Digital Primitives (Hopscotch) | ![]() Loren Conners Night Through (Family Vineyard) | ![]() Brötzmann/Mangelsdorff/Sommer Pica Pica (Atavistic) |
![]() Evan Parker Topography of the Lungs (Psi) | ![]() Roswell Rudd Blown Bone (Emanem) | ![]() Rashaan Roland Kirk Brotherman in the Fatherland (Hyena) |
![]() Fred Anderson Timeless (Delmark) | ![]() Larry Kart Jazz In Search of Itself (Yale University Press) |