BEST OF 2017 BEST OF 2017 BEST OF 2017 BEST OF 2017 BEST OF 2017 BEST OF 2017 THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD BEST OF 2017 BEST OF 2017 BEST OF 2017 BEST OF 2017 BEST OF 2017 BEST OF 2017 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR CONCERTS OF THE YEAR MISCELLANEOUS CATEGORIES OF THE YEAR ANTHONY BRAXTON—Solo (Victoriaville) 2017 (Victo) BILL CHARLAP WITH CAROL SLOANE DARCY JAMES ARGUE’S SECRET SOCIETY PHILIPP GERSCHLAUER/DAVID FIUCZYNSKI— January 11th, Jazz Standard Dave Pietro, Rob Wilkerson, Chris Speed, John Ellis, UNEARTHED GEMS BOXED SETS TRIBUTES Mikrojazz: Neue Expressionistische Musik (RareNoise) Carl Maraghi, Seneca Black, Jonathan Powell, Matt Holman, ELLA FITZGERALD—Ella at Zardi’s (Verve) WILLEM BREUKER KOLLEKTIEF— TONY ALLEN—A Tribute to Art Blakey REGGIE NICHOLSON BRASS CONCEPT Nadje Noordhuis, Ingrid Jensen, Mike Fahie, Ryan Keberle, Out of the Box (BVHaast) and The Jazz Messengers (Blue Note) CHARLES LLOYD NEW QUARTET— Vincent Chancey, Nabate Isles, Jose Davila, Stafford Hunter Jacob Garchik, George Flynn, Sebastian Noelle, TUBBY HAYES QUINTET—Modes and Blues Passin’ Thru (Blue Note) February 4th, Sistas’ Place Carmen Staaf, Matt Clohesy, Jon Wikan (8th February 1964): Live at Ronnie Scott’s (Gearbox) ORNETTE COLEMAN—Celebrate Ornette (Song X) KIRK KNUFFKE—Cherryco (SteepleChase) THE NECKS—Unfold (Ideological Organ) January 6th, Winter Jazzfest, SubCulture STEVE LACY—Free For A Minute (Emanem) WILD BILL DAVISON— WADADA LEO SMITH— SAM NEWSOME/JEAN-MICHEL PILC— ED NEUMEISTER SOLO MIN XIAO-FEN/SATOSHI TAKEISHI THELONIOUS MONK— The Danish Sessions: 1973-1978 (Storyville) Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk (TUM) Magic Circle (Some New Music) February 7th, Zürcher Gallery February 4th, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga) ELLA FITZGERALD— VARIOUS ARTISTS—Sky Music: A Tribute to Terje Rypdal Sings the George & Ira Gershwin Songbooks (Verve) (Rune Grammofon) ARUÁN ORTIZ—Cub(an)ism (Intakt) SPANISH FLY INSPIRED—CELEBRATING JIM HALL TON-KLAMI (MIDORI TAKADA/KANG TAE HWAN/ WADADA LEO SMITH— Steven Bernstein, Marcus Rojas, David Tronzo John Abercrombie, Peter Bernstein, Lage Lund, Rale Micic MASAHIKO SATOH)—Prophecy of Nue (NoBusiness) SVEN-ÅKE JOHANSSON—Blue for a Moment MARS WILLIAMS—An Ayler Xmas (Soul What) Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk (TUM) March 31st, The Stone May 22nd, Blue Note (Ni-Vu-Ni-Connu) GÜNTER “BABY” SOMMER— BRIAN MARSELLA TRIO Le Piccole Cose (Live at Theater Gütersloh) (Intuition) NATE WOOLEY/KEN VANDERMARK Trevor Dunn, Kenny Wollesen LATIN RELEASES DEBUTS May 16th, Issue Project Room June 5th, The Stone MICHEL CAMILO—Live in London (Redondo Music) LARGE ENSEMBLE RELEASES JAIMIE BRANCH—Fly or Die (International Anthem) TYSHAWN SOREY—Verisimilitude (Pi) ANGLES 9—Disappeared behind the sun (Clean Feed) BENNY GOLSON AND JIMMY HEATH CURTIS BROTHERS QUARTET— KATE GENTILE—Mannequins (Skirl) GEBHARD ULLMANN/OLIVER POTRATZ/ RAOUL BJÖRKENHEIM/JOE FONDA/GERALD CLEAVER Syzygy (Truth Revolution) HARRIS EISENSTADT—Recent Developments (Songlines) ERIC SCHAEFER—Das Kondensat (WhyPlayJazz) June 5th, Zürcher Gallery Jeremy Pelt, Bill Charlap, David Wong, Kenny Washington MARÍA GRAND & DIATRIBE—Tetrawind (s/r) July 19th, 92nd Street Y’s Jazz in July ARTURO O’FARRILL/CHUCHO VALDES— SATOKO FUJII ORCHESTRA TOKYO—Peace (Libra) JAZZMEIA HORN—A Social Call (Prestige) -Laurence Donohue-Greene Familia (Tribute to Bebo + Chico) (Motéma Music) BROOKLYN RAGA MASSIVE SEXMOB WITH GUESTS JOHN MEDESKI, NELS CLINE JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA— MATTHEW WHITAKER—Outta The Box Marc Cary, Brandee Younger, Sameer Gupta, Jay Gandhi, Steven Bernstein, Briggan Krauss, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen CHARLIE SEPULVEDA & THE TURNAROUND— Handful of Keys (Blue Engine) (Jazz Foundation of America) JAIMIE BRANCH—Fly or Die (International Anthem) Neel Murgai, Arun Ramamurthy, Trina Basu, Pawan Benjamin, August 9th, City Winery Mr. EP: A Tribute to Eddie Palmieri (HighNote) ROSCOE MITCHELL—Bells for the South Side (ECM) Amali Premawardhana, Michael Gam and guest Nicholas Payton DAVID VIRELLES—Gnosis (ECM) JOANA GAMA/LUÍS FERNANDES/ June 23rd, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival, HUDSON RICARDO JACINTO—Harmonies (Clean Feed) Prospect Park Bandshell John Scofield, John Medeski, Larry Grenadier, Jack DeJohnette REISSUES October 7th, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater ORIGINAL ALBUM ARTWORK MADE TO BREAK—Trébuchet (Trost) VOCAL RELEASES RÜDIGER CARL INC.— MATT MITCHELL—førage (Screwgun) THE EARREGULARS FEATURING BRIANNA THOMAS JOHN MCLAUGHLIN AND JIMMY HERRING MICHAEL BLAKE—Red Hook Soul (Ropeadope) King Alcohol (FMP-Corbett vs. Dempsey) Jon-Erik Kellso, John Allred, Matt Munisteri, Sean Cronin Gary Husband, Jason Crosby, Matt Slocum, DOMINIQUE EADE & RAN BLAKE— JAIMIE BRANCH—Fly or Die (International Anthem) SONNY CLARK TRIO—The 1960 Time Sessions REFLECTIONS IN COSMO—Eponymous (RareNoise) September 23rd, New York Hot Jazz Festival, McKittrick Hotel Town and Country (Sunnyside) Etienne M’Bappe, Kevin Scott, Jeff Sipe, Ranjit Barot THE HELIOSONIC TONE-TETTE— (Time-Tompkins Square Park) TOMMY SMITH—Embodying the Light (Spartacus) November 3rd, Town Hall JAZZMEIA HORN—A Social Call (Prestige) CHICO FREEMAN PLUS+TET Heliosonic Toneways, Vol. 1 (ScienSonic) FLIP PHILLIPS—Your Place or Mine? (Jump-Delmark) GEBHARD ULLMANN/OLIVER POTRATZ/ TODD CAPP CLARINET CHOIR LILLY (FEAT. GILAD HEKSELMAN)— ERIC SCHAEFER—Das Kondensat (WhyPlayJazz) Anthony Wonsey, Gust Tsilis, Kenny Davis, Billy Hart KASPER TRANBERG/PETER DANSTRUP/ SUN RA AND HIS SOLAR ARKESTRA— October 19th, Village Vanguard Sylvain Kassap, Guillermo Gregorio, Tenderly (Gateway Music) MARILYN MAZUR—Damaztra: Flag of Time (ILK Music) The Magic City (Saturn-Cosmic Myth) PAUL VAN GYSEGEM/CHRIS JORIS/ Patrick Holmes, Michael Lytle CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT— PATRICK DE GROOTE—Boundless (El Negocito) November 19th, Downtown Music Gallery TRIO KONTRASZT—From Dyonisian Sound Sparks NORMA WINSTONE—Well Kept Secret SCOTT ROBINSON HELIOTONES Dreams and Daggers (Mack Avenue) To The Silence Of Passing (BMC) (Enodoc-Sunnyside) VARIOUS ARTISTS—Sky Music: A Tribute to Terje Rypdal Philip Harper, Frank Lacy, Gary Versace, Pat O’Leary, DANILO PÉREZ PANAMONK ERIC MINGUS/DAVID AMRAM/ (Rune Grammofon) Matt Wilson and guest Frank Kimbrough Ben Street, Terri Lyne Carrington LARRY SIMON/GROOVE BACTERIA— MARS WILLIAMS—An Ayler Xmas (Soul What) October 31st, Jazz Standard November 30th, Jazz Standard Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper (Mode Avant) SOLO RECORDINGS JAZZ BOOKS -Andrey Henkin —Laurence Donohue-Greene —Andrey Henkin ANTHONY BRAXTON—Solo (Victoriaville) 2017 (Victo) 50 Years at the Village Vanguard: Thad Jones, Mel Lewis MATT MITCHELL—førage (Screwgun) and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra— LIVE ALBUMS Dave Lisik and Eric Allen (Skydeck Music) SAM NEWSOME—Sopranoville (s/r) ANTHONY BRAXTON—Solo (Victoriaville) 2017 (Victo) Good Things Go Slowly: A Life In and Out of Jazz— JOHN MCLAUGHLIN & THE 4TH DIMENSION— ARUÁN ORTIZ—Cub(an)ism (Intakt) Fred Hersch (Crown Archetype) Live at Ronnie Scott’s (Abstract Logix) WADADA LEO SMITH— Loft Jazz Improvising in the 1970s— MUSICIANS OF THE YEAR VENUES OF THE YEAR LABELS OF THE YEAR EVE RISSER/BENJAMIN DUBOC/ Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk (TUM) Michael C. Heller (University of California Press) JOHN MCLAUGHLIN (guitar) ISSUE PROJECT ROOM (Downtown Brooklyn) BLUE NOTE (bluenote.net) EDWARD PERRAUD—En Corps Generation (Dark Tree) Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan— MATT MITCHELL (piano) JAZZ STANDARD (Gramercy) CLEAN FEED (cleanfeed-records.com) MARTIAL SOLAL/DAVE LIEBMAN— Elaine M. Hayes (Harper Collins) ROSCOE MITCHELL (reeds) THE STONE AT THE NEW SCHOOL (West Village) ECM (ecmrecords.com) Masters in Bordeaux (Sunnyside) Whisper Not: The Autobiography of Benny Golson— THELONIOUS MONK (piano) VILLAGE VANGUARD (West Village) INTAKT (intaktrec.ch) GÜNTER “BABY” SOMMER— with Jim Merod (Temple University Press) TYSHAWN SOREY (drums) ZÜRCHER GALLERY (East Village) PI (pirecordings.com) Le Piccole Cose (Live at Theater Gütersloh) (Intuition) HONORABLE MENTIONS—NEW RELEASES alt.timers—CRISPR (s/r) • Barry Altschul & The 3Dom Factor—Live in Krakow (Not Two) • Amok Amor—We Know Not What We Do (Intakt) • Anyaa Arts Quartet—Harmattan (Voxlox) • Bambostic—DJ’s Nightmare (JazzHausMusik) • Han Bennink Trio—Adelante (ICP) • Tim Berne’s Snakeoil—Incidentals (ECM) Raoul Björkenheim Triad—Beyond (Eclipse Music) • Bobby Bradford/Hafez Modirzadeh—Live at the Magic Triangle (NoBusiness) • Brooklyn Raga Massive—Coltrane Raga Tribute (s/r) • Buffalo Jazz Octet—PausaLive (Cadence Jazz) • Chicago Edge Ensemble—Decaying Orbit (Varanid Music) Chicago/London Underground—A Night Walking Through Mirrors (Cuneiform) • Cortex—Avant-Garde Party Music (Clean Feed) • Tim Daisy/Ken Vandermark/Michael Thieke—Triptych (Relay) • Ted Daniel—Zulu’s Ball (Plays The Music of King Oliver) (s/r) • Jakob Davidsen—Silence Trio 1 (ILK Music) Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble (featuring Vijay Iyer)—Transient Takes (s/r) • Massimo De Mattia/Bruno Cesselli—Teatro Arrignoi (Artesuono) • DEK Trio—Construct 2: Artacts (Audiographic) • Robert Dick—Our Cells Know (Tzadik) • Chano Dominguez—Over the Rainbow (Sunnyside) Dave Douglas—Little Giant Still Life (Greenleaf Music) • Hamid Drake/Sylvain Kassap—Heads or Tails (Rogue Art) • Scott Dubois—Autumn Wind (ACT Music) • Paul Dunmall Brass Project—Maha Samadhi (SLAM) • Paul Dunmall/Liam Noble/John Edwards/Mark Sanders—Chords of Connections (FMR) Agustí Fernández/Artur Majewski/Rafał Mazur—Spontaneous Soundscapes (Not Two) • The Firebirds—Aladdin’s