BIRD CALLS JAZZ ON CD 2009

BEST JAZZ ON CD 2009

Dave Douglas. Spirit Moves (Greenleaf)

Marty Ehrlich. Things Have Got to Change (clean feed)

Fly. Sky & Country (ECM)

Klang (James Falzone). Tea Music (Allos Documents)

Mike Lee/Ted Chubb. New Tricks (New Tricks)

Steve Lehman. Travail, Transformation and Flow (Pi)

Joe Lovano. Folk Art (Blue Note)

Roswell Rudd. Trombone Tribe (Sunnyside)

Henry Threadgill. This Brings Us To, Vol. 1 (Pi)

Allen Toussaint. Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)

Trio 3 + Geri Allen. At This Time (Intakt)

Corey Wilkes. Cries from tha Ghetto (Pi)

John Zorn/Masada Quintet. Stolas (Tzadik)   

MISSED FROM PREVIOUS YEAR

Aki Takase/Silke Eberhard. Ornette Coleman Anthology (Intakt)

ALSO WORTH A LISTEN

John Abercrombie. Wait Till You See Her (ECM)

Jason Adasiewicz. Varmint (Cuneiform)

Ben Allison. Think Free (Palmetto) 

Ernestine Anderson. A Song for You (HighNote)

Donald Bailey. Blueprints in Jazz, v. 3 (Talking House)

David Berkman. Live at Smoke (Challenge)

Josh Berman. Old Idea (Delmark)

Carla Bley. Carla's Christmas Carols (Watt)

Luis Bonilla. I Talking Now (Planet Arts)

Ralph Carney. Serious Jazz Project (Akroncracker)

Eddie Daniels/Roger Kellaway. A Duet for One (ipo)

Von Freeman. Vonsky Speaks (Nessa)

Bill Frisell. Disfarmer (Nonesuch)

Gene's Jazz Hot. Live, Love, Laugh & Be Happy (Gene's Jazz Hot)

Dennis Gonzalez. Renegade Spirits (furthermore)

Billy Harper. Blueprints in Jazz, v. 2 (Talking House)

John Hollenbeck. Eternal Interlude (Sunnyside)

Vijay Iyer. Historicity (ACT Music)

Sean Jones. The Search Within (Mack Ave.) 

Tony Malaby. Paloma Recio ( New World )

Bill Mays. Mays at the Movies (Steeplechase)

Odean Pope. Plant Life (Porter)

Postive Catastrophe. Garabatos Vol. 1 (Cuneiform)

Enrico Rava. New York Days (ECM)

Joshua Redman. Compass (Nonesuch)

Wadada Leo Smith. Spiritual Dimensions (Cuneiform)

Jim Snidero. Crossfire (Savant)

Martial Solal. Live at the Village Vanguard (Camjazz)

John Surman. Brewster's Rooster (ECM)

McCoy Tyner. Solo: Live from San Francisco (HalfNote)

Miroslav Vitous. Remembering Weather Report (ECM)

James Weidman. Three Worlds (Inner Circle)

Miguel Zenon. Esta Plena (Marsalis Music) 

REISSUES

Air. Air Song (Whynot/Candid)

Don Cherry. Live at Café Montmartre, vol. 3 (ESP)

Miles Davis. Kind of Blue (Columbia/Legacy)

Miles Davis. Sketches of Spain (Columbia/Legacy)

Walt Dickerson. Tell Us Only the Beautiful Things (Whynot/Candid)

Steve Lacy. Best Wishes (Labirinti Sonori)

Charles Mingus. Mingus Ah Um (Columbia/Legacy)

Roscoe Mitchell. Congliptuous (Nessa)

Roscoe Mitchell. Noonah (Nessa)

Archie Shepp/Bill Dixon . Quartet (FreeFactory)

Sun Ra. Sun Ra Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold (ESP)

LIVE JAZZ IN CLEVELAND   

Randy Weston/Roy Haynes/TriC JazzFest

Bill Frisell/NightTown

Mike Lee/NightTown

Howie Smith/Dave Thomas/NightTown

Kurt Rosenwinkel/NightTown

Klang/Bela Dubby