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BEST OF 2018 BEST OF 2018 BEST OF 2018 BEST OF 2018 BEST OF 2018 BEST OF 2018 THE CITY RECORD BEST OF 2018 BEST OF 2018 BEST OF 2018 BEST OF 2018 BEST OF 2018 BEST OF 2018 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR CONCERTS OF THE YEAR MISCELLANEOUS CATEGORIES OF THE YEAR IDRIS ACKAMOOR & THE PYRAMIDS— NELS CLINE TRIO / An Angel Fell (Strut) , January 16th, The Stone UNEARTHED GEMS BOXED SETS TRIBUTES TRIO—D’Agala (Intakt) January 3rd, Bar Lunàtico — Art Ensemble of Chicago— —Monk’s Dreams: The Complete Don Menza Quartet Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album (Impulse-Verve) And Associated Ensembles (ECM) Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk (Sunnyside) —Uncharted Territories (Dare2) JAMES BRANDON LEWIS UNRULY NOTES Frank Kimbrough, Ed Howard, Bernd Reiter /DAN TEPFER—Decade (Impulse) Jaimie Branch, Anthony Pirog, Luke Stewart, Warren Trae Crudup January 20th, Jazz at Kitano Johnny Mbizo Dyani—African Bass (Solo Concert: Frank Kimbrough—Monk’s Dreams: The Complete Gregory Lewis—Organ Monk Blue (s/r) Willisau Jazz Festival 1978) (Sing a Song Fighter) Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk (Sunnyside) MICHAEL LEONHART ORCHESTRA— January 12th, Winter Jazzfest, Zinc Bar /John Stowell— The Painted Lady Suite (Sunnyside) John Abercrombie “Timeless, A Tribute” —Mønk (Gearbox) Don Rendell/ Quintet— Petite Fleur: The Music of Sidney Bechet (Origin) / , Randy Brecker, Nels Cline, , Wes Montgomery— The Complete Lansdowne Recordings (1965-1969) (Jazzman) Brian Marsella Trio— JOHAN LINDSTRÖM SEPTETT— February 15th, Issue Project Room Jack DeJohnette, , Peter Erskine, Mark Feldman, Music For Empty Halls (Moserobie) In Paris: The Definitive ORTF Recording(Resonance) Teddy Wilson—Classic Brunswick & Columbia Teddy Outspoken: The Music of the Legendary Hasaan (Tzadik) , , , , Dave Liebman, Wilson Sessions (1934-1942) (Mosaic) BRIAN MARSELLA TRIO— , , Adam Nussbaum, Alexander von Schlippenbach/Aki Takase— Miles Okazaki—WORK (The Complete Compositions Outspoken: The Music of the Legendary Hasaan (Tzadik) , and guest Mike Rivard March 26th, Roulette Live at Café Amores (NoBusiness) Various Artists—The Savory Collection 1935-1940 (Mosaic) of Thelonious Monk) (s/r) CHRISTIAN McBRIDE—New Jawn March 15th, The Stone at The New School (Mack Avenue-Brother Mister Prod.) / RYAN TRUESDELL’S PROJECT April 5th, Zürcher Gallery LATIN RELEASES ORIGINAL ALBUM ARTWORK DEBUTS THUMBSCREW—Theirs (Cuneiform) “PORGY AND BESS 60TH ANNIVERSARY” Fernando García—Guasábara Puerto Rico (ZOHO) Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids—An Angel Fell (Strut) Johan Graden—Olägenheter (Moserobie) —In a Convex Mirror (Tzadik) FEATURING SCOTT ROBINSON Amir ElSaffar, Ole Mathisen, Tomas Fujiwara Carlos Henriquez—Dizzy Con Clave John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension Adam Hopkins—Crickets (Out of Your Head) May 19th, April 11th, The Stone at The New School —Laurence Donohue-Greene (Live From Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola) (RodBros Music) (with Jimmy Herring & The Invisible Whip)— Mattias Risberg—Stamps (Clean Feed) Live in (Abstract Logix) THUMBSCREW Dan Weiss Starebaby Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Phil Stewart—Melodious Drum (Cellar Live) —In-House Science (ECM) Orchestra—Fandango at the Wall: A Soundtrack for The Rafal Sarnecki—Climbing Trees (Outside In Music) , , Tomas Fujiwara Craig Taborn, Matt Mitchell, , Gabriel Zucker—Weighting (ESP-Disk´) Nels Cline 4—Currents, Constellations (Blue Note) July 17th, Village Vanguard September 19th, Nublu 151 , Mexico and Beyond (Resilience Music Alliance) Sons of Kemet—Your Queen Is A Reptile (Impulse) Phillip Johnston—The Adventures of Prince Achmed Fran Vielma and his Venezuelan Various Artists— (Asynchronous) TRIO Jazz Collective—Tendencias (Papelón) A Day in the Life: Impressions of Pepper (Impulse) John Hébert, Eric McPherson , , , REISSUES Lee Konitz/Dan Tepfer—Decade (Impulse) —Igbó Alákorin (The Singer’s Grove) Art Ensemble of Chicago— July 29th, Village Vanguard Oct 14th, Iridium Vol. I & II (Pi/El Tivoli Music) Kukuruz Quartet— LIVE ALBUMS A Jackson In Your House (AECO) Julius Eastman Piano Interpretations (Intakt) IDRIS ACKAMOOR & THE PYRAMIDS /Arturo O’Farrill Alan Braufman—Valley of Search Sandra Poindexter, Skyler Stover, David Molina, November 8th, Bar Lunàtico Cyrille Aimée—Cyrille Aimée Live (Mack Avenue) John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension ( Navigation-Valley of Search) George Hearst, Bradie Speller, Margaux Simmons, Lady Kube VOCAL RELEASES (with Jimmy Herring & The Invisible Whip)— Arild Andersen—In-House Science (ECM) c c Cyrille Aimée—Cyrille Aimée Live (Mack Avenue) Joe M Phee—The Willisau Concert Live in San Francisco (Abstract Logix) October 4th, Blank Forms Artists Space Makaya M Craven Universal Beings Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia, Josh Johnson, John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension (hatHUT-Corbett vs. Dempsey) Tony Bennett & Diana Krall— (with Jimmy Herring & The Invisible Whip)— Gard Nilssen’s Acoustic Unity— SOFT MACHINE Brandee Younger, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Jeff Parker, Love is Here to Stay (Verve/Columbia) Misha Mengelberg—Pech Onderweg (BVHaast-ICP) Live in (Clean Feed) John Etheridge, Theo Travis, Roy Babbington, John Marshall Joel Ross, Dezron Douglas, Junius Paul, Carlos Niño Live in San Francisco (Abstract Logix) kat edmonson—Old Fashioned Gal (Spinnerette) Misha Mengelberg, Peter Brötzmann, Barre Phillips—End To End (ECM) October 13th, Iridium December 2nd, Le Poisson Rouge Gard Nilssen’s Acoustic Unity— Evan Parker, Peter Bennink, Paul Rutherford, Champian Fulton—The Stylings of Champian (s/r) Live in Europe (Clean Feed) Marc Sinan/Oguz Büyükberber—White (ECM) , — MARS WILLIAMS “AN AYLER XMAS” peter bernstein quartet Cécile McLorin Salvant—The Window (Mack Avenue) Evan Parker//Paul Lytton— Groupcomposing (ICP-Corbett vs. Dempsey) Alexander von Schlippenbach Nels Cline, , , , Chris Corsano Sullivan Fortner, Doug Weiss, Leon Parker Music for David Mossman (Live at Vortex London) (Intakt) Globe Unity Orchestra— November 27th, The Stone at The New School December 6th, Village Vanguard Globe Unity: 50 Years (Intakt) —Laurence Donohue-Greene —Andrey Henkin LARGE ENSEMBLE RELEASES JAZZ BOOKS —Andrey Henkin Orrin Evans and The Captain Black — SOLO RECORDINGS Art Kane Harlem 1958: 60th Anniversary Edition Presence (Smoke Sessions) Sigurd Hole—Elvesang (Elvesang) (Wall of Sound Editions) Michael Leonhart Orchestra— Miles Okazaki—WORK (The Complete Compositions of History of European Jazz (Edited by Francesco Martinelli) MUSICIANS OF THE YEAR VENUES OF THE YEAR LABELS OF THE YEAR The Painted Lady Suite (Sunnyside) Thelonious Monk) (s/r) (Equinox Publishing) Jim McNeely/Frankfurt Radio Big Band— Barre Phillips—End To End (ECM) Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of nels cline (guitar) Bar Lunàtico (Stuyvesant Heights) clean feed (cleanfeed-records.com) Barefoot Dances and Other Visions (Planet Arts) Martial Solal—My One and Only Love (Intuition) Expression by Eugene Marlow (University Press of Mississippi) satoko fujii (piano) the jazz Gallery (Korea Town) corbett vs. dempsey (corbettvsdempsey.com) 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg— Lisa Ullén—Piano Works (Disorder) Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of mary halvorson (guitar) Jazz Standard (Gramercy) ecm (ecmrecords.com) Dirt... And More Dirt (Pi) by Maxine Gordon (University of California Press) (bass) The Stone at The New School (West Village) intakt (intaktrec.ch) Alexander von Schlippenbach Tropical Riffs: Latin America and the Politics of Jazz joel ross (vibraphone) village vanguard (West Village) tzadik (tzadik.com) Globe Unity Orchestra— by Jason Borge (Duke University Press) Globe Unity: 50 Years (Intakt)

HONORABLE MENTIONS—NEW RELEASES /Raoul Björkenheim—Awakening (Eclipse Music) • ABIAH—ABIAH sings NINA (Madoh Music Group) • JD Allen—Lovestone (Savant) • AMM—An Unintended Legacy (Matchless) • Hearts and Minds—Electroradiance (Astral Spirits) • Angles 3—Parede (Clean Feed) • Bad Luck—Four (Origin) Duck Baker—Plays Monk (Triple Point) • /Matt Mitchell—Angel Dusk (Screwgun/Knuckles) • Samuel Blaser—Early in the Mornin’ (OutNote/Outhere) • —Returnings (ECM) • Aaron Burnett—Digital Light (moreismore) • David Byrd-Marrow/Peter Evans—Eye of the Mind (moreismore) /William Parker/—Seraphic Light (AUM Fidelity) • David Chesky—Aural Paintings (Chesky) • Chicago Edge Ensemble—Insidious Anthem (Trost) • Musæum Clausum—En/Musæum Clausum (Umlaut) • and Five Elements—Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (Pi) Jeremiah Cymerman—Decay of the Angel (5049 Records) • Andrew Cyrille//Bill Frisell—Lebroba (ECM) • Benoît Delbecq 4—Spots on Stripes (Clean Feed) • Michael Dessen Trio—Somewhere in the Upstream (Clean Feed) • Robert Dick/Tiffany Chang—Raise the River (Rogue Art) Pierre Dørge—Soundscapes (SteepleChase) • /Ralph M. Jones/—Karuna (META) • —Trio Exaltation (Clean Feed) • Wendy Eisenberg—The Mechanic Unconscious (Tzadik) • Peter Evans—The Veil (moreismore) • Peter Evans/Cory Smythe—Weatherbird (moreismore/Tundra) Fire!—The Hands (Rune Grammofon) • Bill Frisell—Music IS (OKeh) • Satoko Fujii/—Mizu (Long Song) • Satoko Fujii/Joe Fonda/Gianni Mimmo—Triad (Long Song) • Full Blast—Rio (Trost) • Benito Gonzalez/Gerry Gibbs/Essiet Okon Essiet—Passion Reverence Transcendence (Whaling City Sound) Georg Graewe/Damon Smith/—Unhesitating (Nuscope) • /Jason Adasiewicz—Timeless (Corbett vs. Dempsey) • Barry Guy—Blue Horizon: Barry Guy@70 (Fundacja Słuchaj) • Mary Halvorson/Bill Frisell—The Maid with The Flaxen Hair: A Tribute to Johnny Smith (Tzadik) Tigran Hamasyan—For Gyumri (Nonesuch) • Here’s To Us—Animals, Wild and Tame (Hoob) • Fred Hersch Trio—Live in Europe (Palmetto) • Hobby Horse—Helm (Auand/Rous) • Per-Åke Holmlander It’s Never Too Late Orchestra—Carliot (Not Two) • Hot Heros—Folkjazz from Finland (Eclipse Music) Hungry March Band—Running Through with the Sadness (Imaginator) • Kaze—Atody Man (Libra) • Kyoko Kitamura’s Tidepool Fauna—Protean Labyrinth (s/r) • Martin Küchen & Landæus Trio—Vinyl (Moserobie) • James Brandon Lewis/Chad Taylor—Radiant Imprints (Off-Record) Dave Liebman/Tatsuya Nakatani/Adam Rudolph—The Unknowable (RareNoise) • Fredrik Lundin—5 Go Adventuring Again (Stunt) • Harold Mabern—The Iron Man: Live at Smoke (Smoke Sessions) • Mark Masters Ensemble—Our Métier (Capri) • Peter McEachern Trio—Bone Code (Clean Feed) The Miyumi Project—Reduction Ensemble (Asian Improv) • Louis Moholo-Moholo’s Five Blokes—Uplift the People (Ogun) • Mopo—Mopocalypse (We Jazz) • Roberto Negro—Kings and Bastards (CAM Jazz) • NES—Ahlam (ACT Music) • Lucas Niggli—Alchemia Garden (Intakt) No Fast Food—Settings for Three (Corner Store Jazz) • Adam O’Farrill’s Stranger Days—El Maquech (Biophilia) • Aruán Ortiz Trio—Live in Zurich (Intakt) • Kathrin Pechlof Trio—Toward the Unknown (Pirouet) • Ken Peplowski Big Band—Sunrise (Arbors) • Pulverize The Sound—Sequel (moreismore) Quoan—Fine Dining (Orenda) • Stephen Riley—Hold ‘em Joe (SteepleChase) • —Fishes (Clean Feed) • Samo Salamon//Robert Dani—Traveling Moving Breathing (Clean Feed) • Susana Santos Silva—All the Rivers (Clean Feed) • Winged Serpents—Six Encomiums for (Tzadik) Kavita Shah & François Moutin—INTERPLAY (Dot-Time) • Quartet—Romaria (ECM) • Mako Sica/Hamid Drake—Ronda (Astral Spirits-Feeding Tube) • Josh Sinton’s Predicate Trio—making bones, taking draughts, bearing unstable millstones pridefully, idiotically, prosaically (Iluso) Soft Machine— (MoonJune) • Günter Baby Sommer/Till Brönner—Baby’s Party (Intakt) • Sonar—Live At Moods (7D Media) • —Pillars (Firehouse 12) • Jason Stein’s Locksmith Isidore—After Caroline (Northern Spy) • Subtle Degrees—A Dance That Empties (New Amsterdam/NNA Tapes) Craig Taborn/Kris Davis—Octopus (Pyroclastic) • Hans Teuber & Jeff Johnson—Deuce (Origin) • The Liquid Trio—Plays Bernoulli (Fundacja Słuchaj) • The Necks—Body (Northern-Spy) • This Is It!—1538 (Libra) • Ken Thomson—Sextet (New Focus) • Henry Threadgill—Double Up, Plays Double Up Plus (Pi) Valk/Mahnig/Manderscheid/Sternal—POP (JazzHausMusik) • Various Artists—A Day in the Life: Impressions of Pepper (Impulse) • Alexander von Schlippenbach/Dag Magnus Narvesen—Interweaving (Not Two) • Dan Weiss—Starebaby (Pi) • —SOUND (African Rhythms) Mars Williams—An Ayler Xmas, Vol. 2 (Soulwhat/ESP-Disk’) • Stéphane Wrembel—The Django Experiment III (Water Is Life) • Yokada—Stillness & Sirens (Plugged) • Jeppe Zeeberg—Eight Seemingly Unrelated Pieces of Piano Music (Barefoot) • John Zorn—The Garden of Earthly Delights (Tzadik)