best recordings of 2001?

For Jazz I must go with few choices;

Bill Charlap Trio-"Written in the stars"
Dave Holland-"Not for Nothin"
Kenny Barron-"Freefall"

I also heard that NEW CD from Jacky Tarrasson "Kindred"is very good too.

As for classical I would say that honor has to go to Reference Recordings "Symphonic Dances" ( I know it is not chamber music but I still recommend that due to extraordinary sonic and artistic values)

Enjoy it, Happy Holidays

Celtic66. Please accept my apologies. My fingers goofed.how could ,I with Scottish blood in me, spell celtic eltic???/duh......see thread above...also, the website I mentioned by Jazzsamba is no longer valid.....I had hoped for some more music from this group....oh well.....cheers, Bluenose

Gotta agree on the Rubalcaba and Holland recommendations. Here are a few other great ones:
-Eberhard Weber, Endless Days (ECM)
-Michael Blake, Drift (Intuition)
-Jack West and Curvature, Big Ideas (ABM (I think))
-Scott Amendola Band (Artofmyheart)
Not sure how outside you'd want to go, but if you want to scorch some new nerve endings w/ some pretty amazing stuff, try:
-Massacre, Meltdown (Tzadik)
-Louis Sclavis, L'Affrontement des Pretendents (ECM)
-Miriodor, Mekano (Cuneiform)

Thanks to all...already picked up the Rubalcaba today!

Ken

Ditto on the Eberhard Webber "Endless Days" selection. Sensational.