Best Records of 2017

  1. Nicole Mitchell – Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE Records)
  2. Irreversible Entanglements – self-titled (International Anthem/Don Giovanni)
  3. Tomas Fujiwara Double Trio – Triple Double (Firehouse 12)
  4. James Brandon Lewis Trio – No Filter (BNS Sessions)
  5. Rempis Percussion Quartet – Cochonnerie (Aerophonic)
  6. Brandon Lopez’s The Mess – Holy, Holy (Tombed Visions)
  7. Han-earl Park – Sirene 1009 (self-released)
  8. Hear In Now – Not Living in Fear (International Anthem)
  9. Harriet Tubman – Araminta (Sunnyside)
  10. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson – Crop Circles (Relative Pitch)
  11. Matthew Shipp Trio – Piano Song (Thirsty Ear)
  12. Mike Reed – Flesh & Bone (482 Music)
  13. Jaimie Branch Quartet – Fly or Die (International Anthem)
  14. While We Still Have Bodies – self-titled (Neither/Nor)
  15. Michael Foster, Steve Swell, Brandon Lopez, Weasel Walter – Throes Are the Only Trouble (self-released)
  16. Jason Kao Hwang – Sing House (Euonymous)
  17. Eivind Opsvik – Overseas V (Loyal Label)
  18. Natura Morta – Environ (Neither/Nor)
  19. Jessica Ackerley Trio – Coalesce (Bandcamp)
  20. 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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