Here we are again for the Free Jazz Blog Readers Poll for the best innovative listening experience of the year. Let me emphasise that we are not talking about the best album as such, but we will reward the band or musician who show us new paths for music to take in the future, while at the same time offering lots of joy to the listener. The list of best albums will be on a separate overview.
Here are the simple rules for the HAPPY NEW EARS AWARD 2011 :
Phase 1 - between now and December 3 - establishment of the shortlist - everyone can make recommendations for the most innovative listening experience of the year. The contributors to this blog will make a shortlist out of the suggestions. Of course you can only select the albums that were reviewed during the year on this blog.
Phase 2 - from December 4 till December 29 - everybody can vote on the shortlist of fifteen albums selected by the reviewers.
To kick-start, here is my (Stef's) recommendation for the longlist, but as said, more suggestions are welcome.
- Foton Quartet - Zomo Hall
- Afterfall
- Lisa Ullén & Nina de Heney - Carve
- Agustí Fernández, Barry Guy & Ramón López - Morning Glory
- AMM - Uncovered Correspondence
- Jim Black, Trevor Dunn, Oscar Noriega, Chris Speed - Endangered Blood
- Darren Johnston, Aram Shelton, Lisa Mezzacappa, Kjell Nordeson - Cylinder
- Nate Wooley & Taylor Ho Bynum - The Throes
- Sei Miguel & Pedro Gomes - Turbina Anthem
- Rob Mazurek - Calma Gente
- Peter Evans Quintet - Ghosts
- Louie Belogenis Trio - Tiresias
- Thomas Heberer's Clarino - Klippe
- Joe Hertenstein, Thomas Heberer, Joachim Badenhorst, Pascal Niggenkemper - Polylemma
- Guillaume Roy, Vincent Courtois, Claude Tchamitchian - Amarco
- Vyacheslav Gaivoronsky & Alexander Ragazanov Revelation
- Scoolptures - White Sickness
- Reed Trio - Last Train to the First Station
- Bruno Duplant, Paulo Chagas & David Sait - Late Winter, Early Spring
- Kiyoharu Kuwayama & Masayoshi Urabe - From The Abolition Port
- BB&C - the Veil
- Farmers By Nature - Out Of This World's Distortions
- Fire! with Jim O'Rourke - Unreleased
- Kontra Trio - Jeux Circulaires
- Bill Dixon - Envoi
- Tarfala - Syzygy
- Satoko Fujii & Min-Yoh - Watershed
- Kaza - Rafale
- RED Trio + John Butcher - Empire
- William Parker - Winter Sun Crying
- Peter Evans & Nate Wooley - High Society
- Daunik Lazro - Some Other Zongs
- Mural - Live At The Rothko Chapel
- Benoît Delbecq & François Houle - Because She Hoped
- The Limbo Ensemble - Plebiscitu
Please share your thoughts!
Thanks
stef
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35 comments:
I've listened to only about half the albums on this tentative list, and though there were all indeed fantastic, one stood out for me: Peter Evans Quintet - Ghosts. I might add more recommendations here for the short list, but I would hate not seeing this one there.
Don't worry, I review here with Stef, Paul, Stan and Co. Even we don't get the chance, or the time, to listen to everything. Just pick what you know and send in suggestions, it's always interesting to hear of alternatives .... that way we get to learn something also.
Big thanks for your support.
'Ghosts' would also be my pick of the year at this moment.
But I'm still waiting for a bunch of albums to arrive, especially from Poland. There's a new clarinet quartet record with Zimpel en Trzaszka for instance...
some suggestions:
Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres;
Sei Miguel / Pedro Gomes - Turbina Anthem;
Joe McPhee & Chris Corsano - Under a Double Moon;
Nate Wooley - (Put Your) Hands Together;
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges;
Mostly Other People Do the Killing - The Coimbra Concert;
Les Yeux de la Tete - Nerf;
Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel;
The Ames Room – Bird Dies;
Gutbucket - Flock;
RED Trio & John Butcher – Empire.
Nate Wooley's solo work belongs in this list:
- The Almond (Pogus Records)
-[8] Syllables (unfortunately limited to 100 copies)
Two very special albums with new trumpet music. Totally different from his duo with Peter Evans or his Trumpet/Amplifier record.
1. Tarfala
2. Farmers by Nature
3. Daunik Lazro
4. RED Trio / John Butcher
Les Exercices Spirituels (George E. Lewis) should also be on the list!
Hi stef .. Maybe you have time to review the album Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone - Departure of reason.. I think it should be also on the list ..
Ran Blake live in rome...
As for the most innovative, or new, or fresh or wahtever I feel that Michael Zerang/Jim Baker/Kyle Bruckmann cd shuould be included. As well as the clarinet quartet IRCHA with Mikolaj Trzaska, Waclaw Zimpel and Joe McPhee. both among the most surprising releases of this year I've heard.
www.jazzalchemist.blogspot.com
-Indigo Trio & Michel Edelin - The Ethiopian Princess Meets The Tantric Priest
-Mark Nauseef,IMori,Evan Parker,B. Laswell - Near Nadir) Tzadik
-Frank Zappa - Feeding The Monkies At Ma Maison
-William Parker solo box
-Leandre solo cdc+dvd
-Leandre nicole mitchel vander schyff ,before after
You are lucky to have the chance to listen to so much stuff.....
My tips from Poland (all on Multikulti Records):
Andrzej Przybielski - Tren Żałobny
Piotr Mełech/Fred Lonberg-Holm - Coarse Day
Kusiołek/Sjarov/Wójciński/Kugel – Nuntium
Tom
Hi,
great list, 2 suggestions:
- Daunik Lazro / Benjamin Duboc / Didier Lasserre: Pourtant les cimes des arbres (Dark Tree)
- Kris Davis: Aeriol Piano (Clean Feed)
But I don't think they have been reviewed here.
Whatever, thanks for your work.
Humble thanks for being so kind as to put The Limbo Ensemble (of which I am one part) on your top list along with these remarkable musicians, some of which are strong influences on me. Keep up the good work!
/Thomas Olsson
Thanks for list. There are few new names for me.
I would add the following:
Harris Eisenstadt - September Trio
Jason Stein Quartet - The Story This Time
Nicole Mitchell - Awakening
Gerry Hemingway Quintet - Riptide
Of the ones listed that I've heard,
I would vote for Farmers by Nature and BB&C.
One that I would nominate is Giovanni Di Domenico & Alexandra Grimal - Ghibli.
But the important thing is that I need to listen to more of these!
Don't forget about Kaiso Stories by Other Dimension in Music also a new album by Henri Texier - Canto Negro is great. The last of my suggestion is De Profundis - Oles Brother & Andrzej Przybielski
Thanks Marti
Two to consider:
BoNObo trio with mederic Collignon - toGEther (neuklang)
Trio Grande with matthew Bourne (Hold the Line (WERF)
From Stef's list (and from titles i have too) I pick following five:
Peter Evans Quintet - Ghosts
Farmers By Nature - Out of this worlds distortions
Satoko Fujii & Min-Yoh - Watershed
Endangered Blood
and
Darren Johnston's Cylinder
Grtz
your list seems a little bit limited, too strong
my most recommended ones this year, so far:
- Peter Evans Quintet >> Ghosts
- Akira Sakata & Jim O'Rourke >> And That's The Story Of Jazz...
- Boom Box >> Jazz
- David S. Ware >> Organica
- Ellery Eskelin >> Trio New York
Thanks, Stef. Some suggestions from my list.
Aram Shelton - There Was...
Gerry Hemingway – Riptide
Kris Davis – Aeriol Piano
Agustí Fernández - El Laberint de la Memòria
Daniel Erdmann Quartet - How To Catch A Cloud
Darius Jones Trio - Big Gurl (Smell My Dream)
Ellery Eskelin Trio – Trio New York
Jürg Wickihalder European Quartet –Jump!
Marilyn Crispell & Gerry Hemingway – Affinities
Peter Evans Quintet – Ghosts
Tim Daisy & Ken Vandermark – The Conversation
Undivided 5tet - Moves Between Clouds.
fred ho -sweet science suite
irene schweitzer -solo chicago
just listen to them this week end
Heddy Boubaker http://www.discogs.com/WPB3-Nusch-Werchowska-Mathias-Pontevia-Heddy-Boubaker-A-Floating-World/release/2779873
Sabrina Siegel http://www.rekonstrukt.com/re_konstrukt/051.html
Bruno Duplant and Paulo Chagas Late Winter, Early Spring http://www.audiotong.net/catalogue/bruno-duplant-paulo-chagas-david-sait-late-winter-early-spring/
Darren Johnston, Aram Shelton, Lisa Mezzacappa, Kjell Nordeson - Cylinder
Undivided - Moves Between Clouds
Darren Johnston - Big Lift
Odean Pope's Universal Sounds
Matana Roberts's Coin Coin
Starlicker by Rob Mazurek. An album that really demands "new ears"!
should be added:
odean pope - unversial sounds
boom box - jazz
.
From Stef's list :
Rob Mazurek - Calma Gente
Kaze - Rafale
William Parker - Winter Sun Crying
My list:
- Sakoto Fuji & Min-Yoh - WATERSHED (more i listen, more i liked...)
- Bill Dixon - ENVOI
- Angelica Sanchez - A LITLE HOUSE
- AFTERFALL
- Sei Miguel & Pedro Gomes - TURBINA ANTHEM
- Daniel Levin Quartet - ORGANIC MODERNISM
- Peter Evans Qintet - GHOSTS
- Duplant, Chagas & Sait - LATE WINTER, EARLY SPRING
- The Limbo Ensemble - PLEBISCITU
- Nate Wooley & Taylor Ho Bynum - THE THROES
- Thomas Herbere`Clarino - KLIPPE
- Joelle Leandre - SOLO, DVD AND BOOK!
Tank you so much Stef, and all fantastic Free Jazz Blog Team!
This Fabulous era for creative music have in this blog a powerfull dynamo.
Peter Evans Quintet - Ghosts, David S. Ware - Planetary Unknown, Kaiso Stories, The Ames Room, Farmers by Nature, Michael Zerang & Jim Baker & Kyle Bruckmann, Pourtant les cimes des arbres, Akira Sakata with Jim O'Rourke, Side A to name a few - are in my playlist with enormous playing counts.
Some honorable mentions, too: Seval of Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ig Henneman Sextet- Cut a Caper, Daunik Lazro - Some other Zongs, Masayuki Takayanagi - solo, Joe Morris - Wildlife, Joe McPhee survival unit iii - syncronicity, The Rempis Percussion Quartet - Montreal Parade.
KonstruKt & Peter Brötzmann – Dolunay.
obviously KonstruKt guys are the new ears.
KonstruKt & Peter Brötzmann – Dolunay.
obviously KonstruKt guys are the new ears.
Music of John Coltrane
Dominic Duval/ Jimmy Halperin and Brian Wilson
nobusiness records
Music of John Coltrane
Dominic Duval/ Jimmy Halperin and Brian Wilson
nobusiness records
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