John Kelman's Best Releases of 2010

Selected picks representing the top recorded events in jazz and beyond for 2010. Note that only albums that have been reviewed can qualify....





Jazz New Releases

Kurt Rosenwinkel/OJM Our Secret World (Wommusic)

Oregon In Stride (Cam Jazz)

Paul Motian Lost in a Dream (ECM)

Vic Juris Omega is the Alpha (Steeplechase)

Norma Winstone Stories Yet to Tell (ECM)

Ralph Alessi Cognitive Dissonance (Cam Jazz)

Supersilent 10 (Rune Grammofon)

Dave Liebman Group Turnaround (Jazzwerkstatt)

Tommy Smith Torah (Spartacus)

John Scofield/Vince Mendoza 54 (Emarcy)

Contact Five on One (Pirouet)

Trygve Seim/Andreas Utnem Purcor: Songs for Saxophone and Piano (ECM)

Jazz Reissues/Historical Releases

Chick Corea Solo Piano (ECM)

Zbigniew Seifert Man of the Light (Promising Music/MPS)

Quest Searching for the New Sound... (Storyville)

Kenny Wheeler Windmill Tilter (BGO)

Marc Copland Haunted Heart (HATology)

Arild Andersen Green Into Blue (ECM)

Progressive/Fusion/Funk New Releases

Jaga Jazzist One-Armed Bandit (Smalltown Supersound)

Transatlantic Whirld Tour 2010 (Radiant/Metal Blade)

Médéric Collignon Shangri-Tunkashi-La (Plus Loin)

Elephant9 Walking the Nile (Rune Grammofon)

Eivind Aarset Live Extracts (Jazzland)

Gary Husband Dirty & Beautiful Volume One (Abstract Logix)

Progressive/Fusion/Funk Reissues/Historical Releases

King Crimson Islands (DGM Live)

Paolo Vinaccia Very Much Alive (Jazzland)

Soft Machine NDR Jazz Workshop (Cuneiform)

Ulf Wakenius Signature Edition 2 (ACT)

Soft Machine Bundles (Esoteric)

Lars Danielsson Signature Editon 3 (ACT)

New Discoveries

Ounaskari/Mikkonen/Jørgensen Kuara: Psalms and Folk Songs (ECM)

Klaus Gesing Heartluggage (ATS)

Marzio Scholten World of Thought (O.A.P.)

Knut Reiersrud Gitar (Jazzland)

Ranjit Barot Bada Boom (Abstract Logix)

Geggietrio + Donny McCaslin Across the Sky (Plunge)

Beyond

Jan Bang ...and poppies from Kandahar (Samadhi Sound)

Stian Westerhus Pitch Black Star Spangled (Rune Grammofon)

Jan Garbarek/Hilliard Ensemble Officium Novum (ECM)

Cosa Brava Ragged Atlas (Intakt)

Richard Thompson Dream Attic (Shout! Factory)

Alex Machacek 24 Tales (Abstract Logix)