JazzMusicArchives.com Homepage
Forum Home Forum Home >Jazz Music Lounges >Top 10s and lists
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - JMA 2016 Album Top
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Register Register  Login Login

JMA 2016 Album Top

 Post Reply Post Reply
Author
Message
snobb View Drop Down
Forum Admin Group
Forum Admin Group
Avatar
Site Admin

Joined: 22 Dec 2010
Location: Vilnius
Status: Offline
Points: 28367
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote snobb Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Topic: JMA 2016 Album Top
    Posted: 01 Jan 2017 at 2:05pm
As every year, it's time to place on paper what great happened during last 2016 year among jazz music releases. From my point of view, the year was quite fruitful and interesting, partially with growing exposing and popularity of very current trend in jazz - creative mix of pre-composed material with quite free improvisation, often richly arranged (what we mostly tag "21st Century Modern Jazz" here on JMA). As always, my very subjective list of best 2016 albums (choosing of 300-400 new albums I was able to listen to during last year)


1.  Wadada Leo Smith - America's National Parks
2.  Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith - A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke  
3.  Christopher Hoffman - Silver Cord Quintet
4.  Henry Threadgill - Old Locks And Irregular Verbs
5.  Tyshawn Sorey - The Inner Spectrum Of Variables

Laura Jurd Dinosaur - Together,As One
Akira Sakata Arashi - Semikujira
Ches Smith/Craig Taborn/Mat Manieri - The Bell
Nate Wooley - Argonautica
Emile Parisien - Sfumato

I would like to mention very special album from US trumpeter Peter Evans - not his popular quintet work "Genesis", but his true solo live work "Lifeblood". Starting from early 70s sax players release solo improvisation albums quite regularly, but almost two-hour long trumpeter-only live recording (released in a form of USB drive) full of tunes, mood changes and being  non-boring requires special attention!


Edited by snobb - 01 Jan 2017 at 2:24pm
Back to Top
Cannonball With Hat View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Location: The Opium Den
Status: Offline
Points: 1211
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Cannonball With Hat Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Jan 2017 at 6:09pm
I'll do a proper review of albums when I do my end of the year thing for PA, but my #1 album of the year (which isn't really a jazz album, but I believe is on the site) is Supersilent's 13. Wonderful all the way through and more active than they've been of late.
Hit it on Five.

Saxophone Scatterbrain Blitzberg

Stab them in the ears.
Back to Top
idlero View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP member

Joined: 07 Apr 2011
Status: Offline
Points: 2158
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote idlero Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 Jan 2017 at 10:27am
My favourites in no particular order:

Avishai Cohen - Into the Silence
Danny Green Trio - Altered Narratives
Emile  Parisien Quintet with Joachim  Kuhn  - Sfumato
Ethan Iverson - The Purity Of The Turf 
Fred Hersch Trio - Sunday Night At The Vanguard
Hiromi Uehara - Spark
Lars Danielsson, Marius Neset, Morten Lund - Sun Blowing
Phronesis - Parallax
Roberto Fonseca - ABUC
Søren Bebe Trio - Home
Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang - Atmosphères 
Tord Gustavsen – What Was Said
John Zorn - Flaga The Book of Angels Volume 27


Edited by idlero - 03 Jan 2017 at 10:40am
I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again ...
Ken Burns
Back to Top
Sean Trane View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: 19 Apr 2011
Location: Brussels
Status: Offline
Points: 789
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 Feb 2017 at 10:07am

Prog: (some could fit as jazz as well)

1- Maelstrom - S/T

3- King Crimson - Radical Action to Unseat Monkey Mind
4- Van Der Graaf Generator - Do Not Disturb
5- Gösta Berlings Saga - Sersophane
6- Agusa - Katarsis
7- Panzerpappa – Pestrottedans
8- Bubu - Resplandor
9- Santana - Live at House of Blues
10- Ill Wicker - Untamed
11- Éléphant Tôk - Tôk
12- Universal Totem orchestra - Mathematic Mother
13- Seven Impale - Contrapasso
14- Santana - IV
15- Ryley Walker - Golden Sings That Can Be Sun
16- Fire! Orchestra - Ritual
17- Deus Ex Machina – Devoto
18- Seven Impale - Contrapasso


Prog reissue of the year:
Plat Du Jour - s-t


Jazz:
1- GoGo Penguin - Man Made Object
2- Antoine Pierre - Urbex
3- Shabaka and the Ancestors: Wisdom of Elders
4- Guillaume Perret - Free
5- Dhafer Youseef - Diwan
6- Flat Earth Society - Terms of Embar Ass-Ment
7- Nik Bartsch Mobile - Continuum
8- Nils Petter Molvaer - Buoyancy



Edited by Sean Trane - 09 Mar 2017 at 7:17am
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....

Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply
  Share Topic   

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down

Forum Software by Web Wiz Forums® version 10.16
Copyright ©2001-2013 Web Wiz Ltd.

This page was generated in 0.141 seconds.