Thursday, May 27, 2010

Best Reads and Listens 2010, so far...

Listening to:

1. Bryan And The Haggards - Pretend It’s The End Of The World (Hot Cup) - Is it a jazz country album or a country jazz record?

2. The Mark Lomax Trio (with Eddie Bayard) - The State Of Black America (Inahyme) Coltrane reborn

3. The Claudia Quintet - Royal Toast (Cuneiform) Brilliance from John Hollenbeck

4. Zorn/Lewis/Frisell - More news For Lulu (Hatology) Remastered from the 1980s - Die Wynton die!

5. Vandermark/Nilssen-Love/Ex Guitars - Lean Left Vol. 1 (Smalltown Jazz) Noise marvelous Noise

6. Bernardo Sassetti Trio - Motion (Clean Feed) Might be my favorite new pianist

7. Mose Allison - The Way Of The World (Anti-) A nearly perfect recording


Reading, no read:

1. The Girl Who Kicked The Honets Nest - Stieg Larsson

2. Nelly’s Version - Eve Figes

3. Cold - Bill Streever

4. The Homecoming Party - Carmine Abate

5. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith

6. Let The Great World Spin - Colum McCann

7. Beatrice And Virgil - Yann Martel

8. Sunnyside - Glen David Gold

9. Solar - Ian McKewan

10. Bike Snob - Bike Snob NYC

11. Nixonland - Rick Perlstein

No comments: