Good year for the roses

... and for the Society. Sweet mercy.

Here are some of the year-end honors for Infernal Machines:

Village Voice Jazz Critic's Poll (Best Debut Record, and #4 overall)
JazzTimes Top 50 New Releases
New York Times - Best Albums of 2009 (Nate Chinen)
Wall Street Journal - Toasting 2009's Best CDs (Larry Blumenfeld)
Paste Magazine - Favorite Albums of 2009 (Andy Whitman)
NPR's Take Five - Top 10 Jazz Records of 2009
WBGO's The Checkout: Best Jazz of 2009 (Josh Jackson)
WNYC's Soundcheck - Best Live Performances of 2009
Time Out New York - Best Music of 2009 (Steve Smith)
New York Observer - The 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2009 (Devin Leonard)
Washington City Paper - Top 10 Jazz Albums of 2009 (Michael J. West)
WMFU's Beware of the Blog - Top 10+ of 2009 (Scott McDowell)
eMusic Best of 2009
Jazz.com - The Best CDs of 2009 (Ted Gioa)
Jazz Beyond Jazz - Best beyond "jazz" CDs of 2009 (Howard Mandel)
Ottawa Citizen's Jazzblog.ca - My favourite discs of 2009 (Peter Hum)
Hour.ca - Year in Review (Mike Chamberlain)
Lament For A Straight Line - 10 Best Jazz CDs of 2009 (Jim Macnie)
AccuJazz AccuBlog Critics' and Bloggers' Poll
All About Jazz - Best of 2009 (Troy Collins)
Neil Tesser - Top Ten recordings of 2009
Destination: Out - Fave Jazz Jamz of 2009
Step Tempest - 2009, A Great Year for Big Bands and Large Ensembles (Richard Kamins)
Avant Music News - Top 5 of 2009
Hot House (David Hill)
Bill King
David Adler - Top 25
Hank Shteamer - 2009 Jazz Top 10, and more
Laurence Donohue-Greene - Top 10+ of 2009
The Big City - Best Music of 2009 (George Grella)
About.com - Best Jazz Albums of 2009 (Jacob Teichroew)
Spinner.ca - Top 10 Jazz Albums of 2009 (Tad Hendrickson)
Exclaim.ca - Year in Review
TheCoast.ca - Top Jazz of 2009 (Lulu Healey)
CKUT's Jazz Amuck - 2009 Top 20 Jazz
Screen of Distance - Favorite Records 2009

We cannot possibly thank you, our listeners, enough for your loyal support -- but of course we are especially grateful to those who made it possible for us to go into the recording studio for the first time, just over a year ago (it feels like it was in another lifetime). 

2009 was a Year of Wonders for us. My co-conspirators and I wish each of you the very best for the year to come.

Comments

[DaveS]

1.

All the praise is well deserved. Can't wait to see what you cook up next! Congrats!

[Redheadjazzwriterchick]

2.

You and your group deserve every single word of this praise. I saw you tonight at LPR and I'm completely blown away. COMPLETELY. In awe of you Mr. Argue.