December
8th 2009
Posted under Jazz News & Jazz Writing & Podcast
These lists are always a bit ridiculous to compile, given the near impossibility of rating art and the sheer number of CDs released each year. That said, I compiled the list below for the 2009 Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll.
TOP 10
Artist – Album (Label)
- Fay Victor – The FreeSong Suite (Greene Avenue)
- Vijay Iyer – Historicity (ACT)
- Darius Jones – Man’ish Boy (AUM Fidelity)
- The Fully Celebrated – Drunk On The Blood Of The Holy Ones (AUM Fidelity)
- The Respect Sextet – Sirius Respect (Mode)
- Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls – Seize The Time (Naim)
- Digital Primitives – Hum Crackle & Pop (Hopscotch)
- Terence Blanchard – Choices (Concord)
- Steve Lehman – Travail, Transformation & Flow (Pi Recordings)
- Kat Edmonson – Take To The Sky (Convivium)
TOP 3 REISSUES
- Art Pepper – The Art History Project (Widow’s Taste)
- Tony Bennett & Bill Evans – The Complete Tony Bennett & Bill Evans Recordings on Fantasy (Concord)
- — not voting for a 3rd —
BEST VOCAL ALBUM
Fay Victor – The FreeSong Suite (Greene Avenue)
BEST DEBUT CD
Darius Jones – Man’ish Boy (AUM Fidelity)
BEST LATIN JAZZ CD
– not voting —
Jason Crane’s Top 10 Jazz CDs Of 2009 « Improvised Communications on 09 Dec 2009 at 11:19 am #
[...] that The Jazz Session’s Jason Crane has chosen three of our clients’ releases for his Top 10 list for [...]
Best of Best of 2009 | Avant Music News on 30 Dec 2009 at 8:45 am #
[...] welcome to the best of the best of 2009. The Village Voice Howard Mandel NPR’s Take Five. Jason Crane Music and More Stuart Broomer Susanna Bolle Laurence Donohue-Greene Derek Taylor Adam Strohm Nate [...]
Fay Victor » Blog Archive » Year-END Kudos For the FreeSong Suite!! on 30 Dec 2009 at 4:15 pm #
[...] >>Jason Crane’s Top 10 of 2009 – The FreeSong Suite was Jason’s TOP Pick for the Year http://thejazzsession.com/2009/12/08/my-top-10-jazz-cds-of-2009/ [...]
Jazz@Rochester on 16 Jan 2010 at 8:59 pm #
Riffing the Jazz Links: The “Best of 2009″ Edition…
This can’t start to be a series of posts until I do more than Number 1, and what better way to continue this series than with a number of “best of” lists that various jazz writers, bloggers and sites have……
My favourite discs of 2009 | Ottawa Citizen Blogs on 16 Aug 2011 at 7:39 pm #
[...] utterly unlike mine, is here. Jason Crane’s list, which is 90-per-cent unlike mine, is here. (They are neither pianists nor [...]
Through the fire: Recent, recommended avant-jazz (CD reviews) | Ottawa Citizen Blogs on 17 Aug 2011 at 10:36 am #
[...] Suite (Greene Avenue), Fay Victor Ensemble ((the No. 1 2009 CD of jazz writer Jason Crane, as noted here, and Victor was named top singer in this international [...]