John Kelman's Best of 2006

Selected picks representing the top recorded events in jazz and beyond for 2006....

Jazz New Releases

Iro Haarla Northbound (ECM)

Joe Locke/Geoffrey Keezer Group Live in Seattle (Origin)

The Vandermark 5 A Discontinuous Line (Atavistic)

Stephan Oliva Miroirs (Minium Music)

Trio Beyond Saudades (ECM)

Nels Cline New Monastery: A View into the Music of Andrew Hill (Cryptogramophone)

John Taylor Angel of the Presence (Cam Jazz)

David Binney Cities and Desire (Criss Cross)

Chris Potter Underground (Sunnyside)

Bill Frisell Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian (Nonesuch)

Nik Bartsch's Ronin Stoa (ECM)

Marc Copland New York Trio Recordings Vol. 1: Modinha (Pirouet)

Reissues/Historical Releases

Miles Davis The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions (Prestige)

Tony Williams Mosaic Select 24 (Mosaic)

Soft Machine Grides (Cuneiform)

Soft Machine Floating World Live (Moonjune)

Weather Report Forecast: Tomorrow (Legacy Recordings)

Steve Reich Phases: A Nonesuch Retrospective (Nonesuch)

Progressive/Fusion/Other

Brian Eno/David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Nonesuch)

Rez Abbasi Bazaar (Zoho)

Scott Kinsey Kinesthetics (Abstract Logix)

John McLaughlin Industrial Zen (Verve)

Robert Fripp Exposure (Discipline Global Mobile)

Univers Zero Live (Cuneiform)

New Discoveries

Alex Machacek [sic] (Abstract Logix)

So Percussion Amid the Noise (Cantaloupe Music)

Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra The Mothership Plays the Music of Mike Nock (Jazzgroove Records)