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Derek Taylor's Best of 2006
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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) |