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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) |
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