2009 in Review

Better late than never, right? Here, for those into lists:

Top 10 Jazz CDs

1. Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)

2. Vijay Iyer, Historicity (ACT)

3. Steve Lehman Octet, Travail, Transformation and Flow (Pi)

4. Abdullah Ibrahim, Senzo (Sunnyside)

5. David Binney, Third Occasion (Mythology)

6. Henry Threadgill Zooid, This Brings Us To, Vol. 1 (Pi)

7. Tarbaby, s/t

8. Fly, Sky and Country (ECM)

9. The Monterey Quartet, Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival (Monterey Jazz Festival)

10. Darius Jones Trio, Man'ish Boy (AUM Fidelity)

For details, my Citypaper piece is here.

Top Ten Films

1. 35 Shots of Rum

2. The Hurt Locker

3. Revanche

4. Still Walking

5. Fantastic Mr. Fox

6. Summer Hours

7. Hunger

8. Lorna’s Silence

9. Tokyo Sonata

10. Up

The Citypaper piece is here.

I'm hesitant to make a decade-spanning list (and won't, in the case of music), but with the caveat of a deeply-flawed memory, here's a list of top films for the Aughts:

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Mulholland Dr.
3. In the Mood For Love
4. What Time Is It There?
5. Syndromes and a Century
6. Cache
7. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
8. Pan's Labyrinth
9. Grizzly Man
10. Shaun of the Dead