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The best of the decade
(very very very tentative - i am sure i forgot many)
- Spring Heel Jack: Disappeared
- Spring Heel Jack: Amassed
- Marty Ehrlich: Malinke's Dance
- John Butcher: Fixations
- Territory Band: A New Horse for the White House (october 2005)
- Jane Ira Bloom: Chasing Paint (2002)
- Franz Koglmann: Fear Death By Water (2003)
- Denman Maroney: Fluxations (New World)
- Kolkhoze Printanium: Kolkhoznitsa Vol 1
- Ivo Perelman: Suite for Helen F (2003)
- Acoustic Ladyland: Last Chance Disco (Babel)
- Brad Mehidau: Largo (Warner)
- Dave Douglas: Mountain Passages (Green Leaf)
- Marty Ehrlich: The Long View (Enja)
- Either/Orchestra: Ethiopiques 20: Live In Addis (Buda Musique)
- Keith Rowe: The Room (Earstwhile)
Honorable mention (and some of these may be upgraded to the top 20 at some point):
- 33.3: Plays Music
- Abdullah Ibrahim: African Symphony (Enja)
- Acoustic Alchemy: The Beautiful Game
- Acoustic Ladyland: Skinny Grinn (Babel)
- Agusti Martinez: Are Spirits What I Hear (Etude)
- Alex Von Schlippenbach: Monk's Casino (Intakt)
- Andrew Hill: A Beautiful Day (Palmetto)
- Andrew Hill: Passing Ships (Blue Note)
- Andrew Hill: Time Lines
- Andrew Hill: Dusk
- Angelica Sanchez: Mirror Me (Omnitone)
- Antripodean Collective: Funcall
- Antripodean Collective: The Massacre of the Egos
- Bad Plus: These Are The Vistas (Columbia)
- Benny Greb's Grebfruit (2005)
- Bill Dixon: Papyrus
- Bill Frisell: Disfarmer
- Bill Frisell: Ghost Town
- Bob Belden: Black Dahlia
- Bobby Previte: The 23 Constellations of Joan Miro (Tzadik)
- Bobby Previte: The 23 Constellations (Tzadik)
- Bobo Stenson: Trio Serenity
- Brad Mehldau: Art of the Trio: Progression
- Branford Marsalis: Eternal (Marsalis)
- Carla Bley: Appearing Nightly (Watt)
- Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra: Not In Our Name (Verve)
- Clark Terry: One on One
- Claudia Quintet: I Claudia (Cuneiform)
- Claudia Quintet: I
- Crispell, Peacock, Motian: Amaryllis
- Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines
- Dave Douglas: Freak In (Bluebird)
- Dave Douglas: Strange Liberation (Bluebird)
- Dave Douglas: The Infinite (RCA)
- Dave Douglas: Witness
- Dave Douglas: El Trilogy
- Dave Holland: Critical Mass
- Dave Holland: Extended Play (ECM)
- Dave Holland: Pass it On (Dare2)
- Dave Holland: Over Time (Dare2)
- Dave Hurley: Outer Nebula, Inner Nebula (Porter)
- David Berkman: Communication Theory
- David Murray: Octect Plays
- David Ware: Corridors & Parallels
- David Ware: Freedom Suite (Aum)
- David Ware: Threads (Thirsty Ear)
- Diana Krall: The Girl in the Other Room (Verve)
- Django Bates: You Live and Learn (Lost Marble)
- Don Byron: Ivey-Divey (Blue Note)
- Edmund Welles: Agrippa's 3 Books (Self-Released)
- Evan Parker: Memory/Vision (2002)
- Evan Parker: The Eleventh Hour (2004)
- Fred Hersch: Songs Without Words
- Free Music Ensemble: Cuts (Okkadisk)
- George Lewis: Endless Shout
- Geri Allen: The Life of a Song (Telarc)
- Gilad Atzmon: Exile (Justin Time)
- Greg Osby: The Invisible Hand
- Guillermo Gregorio: Faktura
- Hamiet Bluiett: Blueback (Justin Time)
- Henry Threadgill: Everybody's Mouth's A Book
- Henry Threadgill: This Brings to Us
- Hilmar Jensson: Meg Nem Sa (Skirl)
- Hiromi: Another Mind (Telarc)
- Jan Garbarek: In Praise of Dreams (ECM)
- Jane Ira Bloom: Like Silver Like Song (2004)
- Jason Moran: Black Stars
- Jason Moran: Modernistic (Blue Note)
- Jason Moran: The Bandwagon (Blue Note)
- Jetemy Pelt: Close to My Heart (Maxjazz)
- Joe Lovano/ Us Five: Folk Art (Blue Note)
- Joe Maneri: Going To Church
- Joe Morris: Colorfield
- Joe Zawinul: Faces and Places (ESC)
- Joshua Redman: Elastic (Warner)
- Joshua Redman: Passage of Time
- Keith Jarrett: Always Let Me Go (ECM)
- Keith Jarrett: Whisper Not
- Ken Vandermark Territory Band: Atlas (2001)
- Ken Vandermark Territory Band: Map Theory (2002)
- Ken Vandermark: Alchemia (Not Two)
- Kenny Garrett: Beyond the Wall
- Leo Smith: Tabligh (Cuneiform)
- Leo Smith: The Year of the Elephant (Pi)
- Leo Smith: Golden Quartet
- Marco Minneman: Broken Orange (2003)
- Mats Gustafsson: Catapult (Doubt)
- Matthew Shipp: New Orbit (2001)
- Michael Attias: Renku (Playscape)
- Michael Brecker: Wide Angles (2003)
- Myra Melford: Dance Beyond the Color
- Nels Cline: Instrumentals (Cryptogramophone)
- Nels Cline: Destroy All Nels Cline
- New Orchestra: Entropy (2004)
- New Orchestra: Inscape
- Nicholas Payton: Sonic Trance (Warner)
- Okkyung Lee: I Saw The Ghost Of An Unknown Soul And It Said (Ecstatic Peace)
- Outward Sound Ensemble: Cloudburst
- Paul Dunmall: The Great Divide (Cuneiform)
- Paul Dunmall: I Wish You Peace (Cuneiform)
- Paul Motian: Garden of Eden
- Paul Motian: Holiday for Strings (Winter)
- Paul Rucker: History of an Apology (Jackson Street)
- Peter Broetzmann: Fuck DeBoere
- Randy Sandke: Inside Out (Nagel)
- Randy Weston: Ancient Future (Mutablemusic)
- Repeat: Select Dialect
- Rez Abbasi: Things To Come (Sunnyside)
- Robert Glasper: In My Element
- Robert Glasper: Mood (Fresh Sound)
- Roscoe Mitchell: Song For my Sister (Pi)
- Roy Campbell: Ethnic Stew
- Scott Rosenberg: Creative Orchestra Music (New World)
- Sonny Rollins: This Is What I Do
- Splattercell: OAH
- Spring Heel Jack: Live (Thirsty Ear)
- Steve Lehman: Travil Transformation and Flow
- Steve Turre: In The Spur of the Moment
- Supersilent: 5 (Rune Grammofon)
- Sven Ake Johansson: Six Little Pieces for Quintet
- Terence Blanchard: Flow (Blue Note)
- Thomas Buckner: Alone Together Apart (Mutablemusic)
- Tim Berne: Science Friction (Screwgun)
- Tom Harrell: Paradise
- Tomasz Stanko: Lontano
- Tomasz Stanko: Soul of Things (ECM)
- Tord Gustavsen: Changing Places (ECM)
- Triangles: Triangles
- Triosk: Moment Returns (Leaf)
- Vijay Iver: Historicity
- Vijay Iyer: Blood Sutra (Artists House)
- Vijay Iyer: Reimagining (Savoy)
- Wayne Shorter: Alegria (Verve)
- Wayne Shorter: Beyond The Sound Barrier (Verve)
- William Parker: O'Neal's Porch
- William Parker: Painter's Spring
- Wynton Marsalis: All Rise
- Yeah No: Swell Henry (Squealer)
- Zeena Parkins: Necklace
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