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Editor's Choice
Troy Collins' Best of 2009
By
TROY COLLINS,
Published: December 30, 2009
Troy Collins
After hearing Sonny Sharrock's Ask The Ages, there was no turning back.The titles listed below are among the most exceptional albums I've heard in a year filled with great music. Considering the quantity of recordings released in a years time, attempting to mention every high-quality session received would result in a list of ponderous proportions. As such, I have narrowed this list down to the records I repeatedly returned to throughout the year.
New Releases
 Jack DeJohnette Music We Are (Golden Beams) |  The Frame Quartet 35mm (Okka Disk) |  Dennis Gonzalez A Matter of Blood (Furthermore) |
 Vijay Iyer Trio Historicity (ACT) |  Joe Lovano Us Five Folk Art (Blue Note) |  Tony Malaby Paloma Recio (New World) |
 Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings Renegades (Delmark) |  John Surman Brewster's Rooster (ECM) |  The Thirteenth Assembly (un)sentimental (Important) |
 Henry Threadgill Zooid This Brings Us To, Vol.1 (Pi) |  David S. Ware Shakti (AUM Fidelity) |  Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse Cries From Tha Ghetto (Pi) |
New Discoveries
 Darcy James Argue's Secret Society Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam) |  Darius Jones Trio Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) (AUM Fidelity) |  Reut Regev This Is R Time (Ropeadope) |
Historical Reissues
 Ronnie Boykins The Will Come, Is Now (ESP Disk) |  Horace Tapscott The Dark Tree (Hatology) |  Charles Tyler Saga of the Outlaws (Nessa) |
