ILM Best Jazz Albums of the '90s - RESULTS thread!

And what of the Brian Blade Fellowship? I love that guy. Great drummer.

How did I miss Unwound on the noms list?! I would have voted for it. Thanks for doing this Jordan.

I love Brian Blade and the Fellowship too, he's one of my favorites. The first BBF album was on the nomination list, but I think I didn't vote for it because I like Perceptual more (and that came out in 2000).

Btw, another one of my votes - Derrick Shezbie, Spodie's Back - may be out of print, but I highly recommend picking up one of the many 55 CENT COPIES (!) available through amazon.

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He's the current trumpet player for the R3birth Brass Band and pretty much my favorite musician ever, but back then he was about 15 and poised to be the next Wynton/Nicholas Payton/Terrence Blanchard etc. (i.e., New Orleans-born trumpet player cum modern jazz star). Things didn't work out like that, but this record is the perfect mix between funky-ass "modern trad" New Orleans jazz and rough & tumble swing. Mark Turner & Herlin Riley (as well as some drummers who I've never heard from again) sound like Branford & Tain on some cuts, and they themselves show up for some ballads. Oh, and Quincy Jones is on production!

Is "Ask the Ages" out of print?

Shit, I think so.

Wait a sec...are the TOP FOUR records in this poll out of print?? That's horrible.

(I'm just going off of Amazon, mind you)

I think most of Sharrock's later material is out of print. I'm pretty sure everything on Enemy is. It's odd that Monkey Pockie Boo and Black Woman are now among the easier Sharrock titles to track down.