JMA best albums top 2015

As every December, it's time for summarizing year's results. 2015 was a great year in general, here is my personal list:

1. Pierre Dorge - Blui
2. Stephen Hayes - Pomegranate
3. Kris Davis - Save Your Breath
4. Steve Coleman - Synovial Joints
5. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter 3: River Run Thee


Rusresh Mahanthappa - Bird Calls
Vijay Iyer - Break Stuff
Masabumi Kikuchi/Ben Street/Thomas Morgan/Kresten Osgood - s/t
John Hebert - Rambling Confessions
Nonoko Yoshida - Lotus (and the best year's debut)


Edited by snobb - 01 Jan 2016 at 4:47pm

here's mine:

Top 2015 Jazz:

1- Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Kamasi revisits the Trane clan's heritage over three discs and four hours of exhilarating music, where you’ll find Pharoah, McCoy Tyner, Archie, John & Alice, the whole thing over great Santana-like rhythms. Some sung soul jazz and some trad-jazz spread throughout the three discs. You’d swear you’re back in the early 70’s on Impulse!

2- Ibrahim Maalouf – Red & Black Light
Released in parallel to Kalthoum, but with a different band and a magical successor to the JR/F of his phenomenal Illusion album

3- Algiers – Algiers
Difficult to describe this UFO,probably not anywhere close to jazz but it sounds fresh’n new

4- Ibrahim Maalouf –Kalthoum
An homage to the great Egyptian singer, a typical pre-Illusion Maalouf album.

5- Tigran Hamasyan – Mockroot
Though I prefer his live renditions of this album, Tigran climbs another rung on the ladder of true world fusion, sometimes slightly Zeuhl

6- Henry Threadgill Zooid - In for a Penny, In for a Pound
Typical Threadgrill, but one of his best in almost two decades

=====================


Jazz-related 2015 posted for the ProgArchives TOP 2015 (read JR/F, Zeuhl or Canterbury)

^ Did you ever hear that big set that Brad Mehldau put out this year?