best recordings of 2001?

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.