List: Best of the Aughts

As we approach the end of the decade, requisite best-of lists are popping up, so I thought I would add my two cents. As I mention in my annual year-end roundups, my status as an amateur critic and holder of a day job means I cannot review more than a tiny fraction of the new music that gets released in a given year. With that in mind, the list below is necessarily incomplete, so I will supplement it with other best-of lists from professional critics as well as crowd-sourced lists. Feel free to list your favorites in the comments.

Some Good Albums from the 2000s (in alphabetical order by artist)

• The Bad Plus: These Are The Vistas
  
• Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar
  
• Steve Coleman: Resistance Is Futile
  
• Jack DeJohnette with Bill Frisell: The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers
  
• Dave Douglas: Strange Liberation
  
• Robert Glasper: Double Booked
• Happy Apple: Youth Oriented
  
• Andrew Hill: Dusk
  
• Dave Holland: Prime Directive
  
• Vijay Iyer Trio: Historicity
• Charles Lloyd: Rabo De Nube
  
• Medeski Martin & Wood: Tonic
  
• Brad Mehldau: House on Hill
  
• Motian/Lovano/Frisell: I Have The Room Above Her
  
• Jason Moran: Modernistic
  
• Scolohofo: Oh!
  
• Wayne Shorter: Footprints Live!
  
• Trio Beyond: Saudades
  

And here are some other end-of-the-decade lists by people who listen to far more music than I do (updated as I find them).

• A Blog Supreme
  
• All About Jazz Bulletin Board
• Jazz Chronicles (James Hale)
• Peter Hum
  
• Fred Kaplan
• Lament for a Straight Life (Jim Macnie)
• Music and More (Tim Niland)
  
• NPR's All Songs Considered (not just jazz)
• Times Online
  
• 91.5 WUML, Lowell
  

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