JMA 2016 Album Top
Printed From: JazzMusicArchives.com
Category: Jazz Music Lounges
Forum Name: Top 10s and lists
Forum Description: List all your favourites here
URL: http://www.JazzMusicArchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6072
Printed Date: 28 Apr 2024 at 8:46pm
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 10.16 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: JMA 2016 Album Top
Posted By: snobb
Subject: JMA 2016 Album Top
Date 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!
|
Replies:
Posted By: Cannonball With Hat
Date 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. |
Posted By: idlero
Date 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
------------- 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 |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date 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 ------------- my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....  |