Best of 2007

[steve(thelil)]

I know it's a little early, but any nominees yet? I'm having trouble coming up with 10.

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Tin Hat Trio -- The Sad Machinery of Spring, due out in two weeks, can't miss

[Gerardo A]

This reminds me of someone at IHM who posted his list of the 10 best 2006 cd's he hasn't heard yet.

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Keats:

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard

are sweeter.

[Gary Sisco]

This is a record for beginning one of these threads. Better let it go down or it'll be hundreds of pages long by year's end.

[Gary Sisco]

I like the IHM guy's idea.

I had a professor once who wanted to have a party where everyone came as others see them.

[rollhead]

I know it's a little early, but any nominees yet? I'm having trouble coming up with 10.

You just started this now because you knew I was thinking of starting it.

I am with SDS on the Tin Hat as being can't miss.

I am going to go see them 1/27, hoping they will have copies of their new CD with them to sell. I love buying CDs directly from Carla. She is so sexy.

[Gerardo A]

[Carla] is so sexy.

[mjb]

http://www.emusic.com/album/10949/10949810.html

[John L]

I would say that 2007 so far just doesn't stack up. There are very few jazz releases of note. I haven't felt the need to buy a single 2007 release yet this year. Is jazz dead?

[rollhead]

I would say that 2007 so far just doesn't stack up. There are very few jazz releases of note. I haven't felt the need to buy a single 2007 release yet this year. Is jazz dead?

No, that's going to happen under my watch. 2008.

[Sand]

I expect to put this on my Best of 2007 list. Don't prove me wrong, Songlines.

[jaka]

I expect to put this on my Best of 2007 list. Don't prove me wrong, Songlines.

How can you doubt Arve and Benoît?

[Sand]

How can you doubt Arve and Benoît?

I certainly have no reason to doubt them. It was just a modest attempt to portray myself as openminded.

[olie brice]

Reuben Radding/Nate Wooley/Jack Wright/Andrew Drury, available here:
http://www.reubenradding.com/12.html
is my favourite 2007 release so far!

[Uli]

Rob Mazurek's EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA "We Are All From Somewhere Else" so far. Easy choice for me as it's the only i have heard so far.

[Nate Dorward]

Two months into the year... time to get the ball rolling. So far not a lot that's come in which I might list, but two definite early contenders:

Chris Byars, Photos in Black, White and Gray (Smalls)--more or less the same band as Ari Roland's quartet disc from last year, but I think this one is stronger, & Byars' playing & composing are terrific.

The Flatlands Collective, Gnomade (Skycap)--a Dutch/Chicago band led by Jorrit Dijkstra, with Jeb Bishop, Fred Lonberg-Holm, James Falzone, Jason Roebke & Tim Mulvenna.

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

TIN HAT -- The Sad Machinery of Spring

Carla Kihlstedt (vocals, violin, viola, piano, celesta); Mark Orton (guitar, dobro, banjo, autoharp, harmonica, piano, pump organ, bass drum); Zeena Parkins (harp); Ben Goldberg (clarinet, alto clarinet); Ara Anderson (trumpet, baritone horn, piano, toy piano, celesta, pump organ).

[Root Doctor]

Alvin Fielder Trio: A Measure of Vision

[jaka]

TIN HAT -- The Sad Machinery of Spring

Alvin Fielder Trio: A Measure of Vision

[rollhead]

How do you guys find these CDs?

I have the Tin Hat CD, but the others don't seem to be available yet or at least not in the U.S.

Or am I just looking in all the wrong places?

check that... I think one is available through e-music, but I forget which.

[walto]

I'm hoping to have my 2006 list finalized in another month or two....

[Nate Dorward]

Well, I'm still adding to the 2006 list too.....

Another good one from 2007:

Michael Dessen, Lineal (Circumvention Music). The leader's probably not a familiar name, but the sidemen are (on most tracks: Vijay Iyer, Susie Ibarra, Mark Dresser). Excellent stuff, & it's nice to hear Iyer in a less relentlessly scripted context than on his own work--he good good here. & Susie swings hard!

The Nathan Hubbard 2-CD set & ARC Trio discs that were released at the same time on Circumvention are also very good, though I haven't digested them enough to be able to list them here. Nifty label.

[Sand]

A good start, and they will last:

Frode Haltli - Passing Images (ecm)
Enrico Rava - The Words And The Days

[Gary Sisco]

Check Ruben Radding's free download for January in his current 12 For 12 project. January's performance is excellent. I've been loving it and am really impressed. Great idea, also.

[Frisco]

The Irene Schweizer/Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake "Willisau & Taktlos" disc on Intakt will surely be a favorite.

[Gary Sisco]

I like this one very much and so would a lot of hardboppers here. A really nice session. Free but it swings, with lots of melodic variety.

Alvin Fielder -- A Measure Of Vision

[relyles]

Two months into the year... time to get the ball rolling. So far not a lot that's come in which I might list, but two definite early contenders:

Chris Byars, Photos in Black, White and Gray (Smalls)--more or less the same band as Ari Roland's quartet disc from last year, but I think this one is stronger, & Byars' playing & composing are terrific.

I have been listening to this disc the past couple of days and agree that it is a good one. After my first couple of listens, however, I think I still have a small preference for Byars previous octet disc. I am still listening though.

[Cicero Slim]

Root and Sisco got to me.

Is it me, or is Dennis' playing on this one crisper and more melodic than ever?

[Gary Sisco]

Dennis is on a real roll. I can't even remember how many winners in a row there are, now.