Ancient Future: Top 20+ for 2009

2009 Ancient Future Top 20 (in alphabetical order)

Dee Alexander, Wild is the Wind, Blu Jazz

Jane Bunnett, Embracing Voices, Sunnyside

Kurt Elling, Dedicated to You, Concord

Oran Etkin, Kelenia, Motema

Robert Glasper, Double Booked, Blue Note

Stefon Harris & Blackout, Urbanus, Concord

Bobby Hutcherson, Wise One, Kind of Blue

Vijay Iyer, Historicity, ACT

Sean Jones, The Search Within, Mack Avenue

James King, Allen’s Odyssey, Vibrant Tree

Joe Locke/David Hazeltine Quartet, Mutual Admiration Society 2, Sharp Nine

Joe Lovano UsFive, Folk Art, Blue Note

Branford Marsalis, Metamorphosen, Marsalis Music

Nicole Mitchell Black Earth Strings, Renegade, Delmark

David Murray, The Devil Tried to Kill Me, Justin Time

Joshua Redman, Compass, Nonesuch

Marcus Roberts, New Orleans to Harlem, J Master

Jackie Ryan, Doozy, Open Art

Michael Thomas Quintet, Live at Twins Jazz, Jazhead

Miguel Zenon, Esta Plena, Marsalis Music

 

REISSUE of the year:

Fela Kuti, The Best of The Black President, Knitting Factory

 

…And another deserving Baker’s Dozen

JD Allen Trio, Shine, Sunnyside

Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber, Making Love to the Dark Ages,

    Livewired Music

Donald Bailey, Blueprints of Jazz, Talking House

Babatunde Lea Umbo Weti, A Tribute to Leon Thomas, Motema

Marcus Strickland, Idiosyncracies, Strick Muzik

Stanley Clarke Trio, Jazz in the Garden, Heads Up

Tar Baby, Tar Baby, Imani

Pepe Gonzalez, Looking Back, IFP

Aruan Ortiz, Alameda, Fresh Sound

Jack DeJohnette-Danilo Perez-John Patitucci, Music We Are,

    Golden Beams

John Surman, Brewster’s Rooster, ECM

Gerald Clayton, Two-Shade, Artists Share’

Wayne Wallace, Bien Bien!, Patois

 

The Ancient Future radio program, produced & hosted by Willard Jenkins, airs on WPFW 89.3 FM (www.wpfw.org) Pacifica Radio for the Washington, DC metro area.

 

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