Here are my Top 10 recordings for 2010, in order:
Ashcan Rantings – Adam Lane’s Full Throttle Orchestra (Clean Feed)
Paradoxical Frog – Davis/Laubrock/Sorey (Clean Feed)
Day in Pictures – Matt Bauder (Clean Feed)
Royal Toast – The Claudia Quintet (Cuneiform)
Summer Works 2009 – Riviere Composers’ Pool (Emanem)
Three – Gauci/Davis/Bisio (Clean Feed)
Actionspeak – Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up (482 Music)
Ground Rush – Julian Arguelles Trio (Clean Feed)
Live in Lisbon – Peter Evans Quartet (Clean Feed)
The Rub And Spare Change – Michael Formanek (ECM)
And my Honorable Mentions, in no particular order:
Searching for Adam – Rodrigo Amado (Not Two)
Transmit – Ideal Bread (Cuneiform)
Desert Ship – Satoko Fujii ma-do (Not Two)
The Horse Jumps & The Ship is Gone – The Vandermark 5 Special Edition (Not Two)
Saturn Sings – Mary Halvorson Quintet (Firehouse 12)
All is Gladness in the Kingdom – Fight The Big Bull (Clean Feed)
Dual Identity – Mahanthappa & Lehman (Clean Feed)
