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) |