Best Records of 2017

Nicole Mitchell – Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE Records)
Irreversible Entanglements – self-titled (International Anthem/Don Giovanni)
Tomas Fujiwara Double Trio – Triple Double (Firehouse 12)
James Brandon Lewis Trio – No Filter (BNS Sessions)
Rempis Percussion Quartet – Cochonnerie (Aerophonic)
Brandon Lopez’s The Mess – Holy, Holy (Tombed Visions)
Han-earl Park – Sirene 1009 (self-released)
Hear In Now – Not Living in Fear (International Anthem)
Harriet Tubman – Araminta (Sunnyside)
Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson – Crop Circles (Relative Pitch)
Matthew Shipp Trio – Piano Song (Thirsty Ear)
Mike Reed – Flesh & Bone (482 Music)
Jaimie Branch Quartet – Fly or Die (International Anthem)
While We Still Have Bodies – self-titled (Neither/Nor)
Michael Foster, Steve Swell, Brandon Lopez, Weasel Walter – Throes Are the Only Trouble (self-released)
Jason Kao Hwang – Sing House (Euonymous)
Eivind Opsvik – Overseas V (Loyal Label)
Natura Morta – Environ (Neither/Nor)
Jessica Ackerley Trio – Coalesce (Bandcamp)
Paula Shocron, German Lamonega, Pablo Diaz – Tensegridad (Hat Hut)

Important Historical Releases and Re-issues of 2017:

Michael Cosmic – Peace in the World & Phill Musra Group – Creator Spaces (Now Again)

David S. Ware Trio – Live in New York, 2010 (AUM Fidelity)

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Han-earl Park - December 14, 2017

Thank you so, so much. Honored and flattered to find my work in such amazing company. And, again, big thanks to John Morrison for the wonderful review.

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