This was an amazing year with a number of innovative and revolutionary releases that made it very difficult to choose. I spent many days narrowing the best records of 2014 down to fifteen:
- Josh Sinton’s Ideal Bread – Beating the Teens (Cuneiform)
- Travis Laplante’s Battle Trance – Palace of Wind (NNA Tapes)
- Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio & Peter Evans – Live in Lisbon (No Business)
- Tomas Fujiwara Trio – Variable Bets (Relative Pitch)
- Tony Malaby’s Tamarindo – Somos Agua (Clean Feed)
- Matt Bauder’s Day in Pictures – Nightshades (Clean Feed)
- Thumbscrew – self-titled (Cuneiform)
- VAX – Count to VAX (self-released)
- Mary Halvorson – Reverse Blue (Relative Pitch)
- Max Johnson – The Prisoner (No Business)
- Tyshawn Sorey – Alloy (Pi)
- Anna Webber – SIMPLE (Skirl)
- William Hooker & Liudas Mockunas – Live at Vilnius Jazz Festival (No Business)
- Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey – And Other Desert Towns (Relative Pitch)
- Patrick Breiner’s Double Double – Mileage (Sulde)
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I would have added Bobby Broom’s “My Shining Hour” (Origin).
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