Ahora nos llega su nuevo proyecto discográfico: Hello Earth!: The Music of Kate Bush. En este álbum Theo Bleckmann (voz líder, electrónicos y percusión) recrea algunos clásicos de la legendaria –y aún vigente- cantautora británica Kate Bush en compañía de Henry Hey (piano, sintetizador mini-moog, piano Fender Rhodes, clavecín preparado y voz), Skuli Sverrisson (bajo eléctrico y voz), Caleb Burhans (violín, guitarra y voz) y John Hollenbeck (batería, percusión y voz).

Hello Earth!: The Music of Kate Bush incluye personales relecturas de –entre otros- dos temas del álbum The Kick Inside de 1978 (Saxophone Song y The Man with the Child in His Eyes), dos de Never for Ever de 1980 (Violin y Army Dreamers), otros dos provenientes de The Dreaming de 1982 (Suspended in Gaffa y All the Love), seis del álbum Hounds of Love de 1985 (Running Up that Hill, And Dream of Sheep, Under Ice, Hello Earth, Cloudbusting y Watching You Without Me) y dos en origen incluidos en The Sensual World de 1989 (Love and Anger y The Woman’s Work).

El lanzamiento de este material estuvo a cargo del sello alemán Winter & Winter.

La propuesta del trío, además de hacer base en la música improvisada del nuevo milenio, congrega las imaginativas abstracciones pianísticas que distinguen a Thollem McDonas, la reconocida maestría instrumental de William Parker en contrabajo y los infinitos e innovadores arrestos sonoros que emergen de la guitarra de Nels Cline.

Este emprendimiento tendrá una inminente materialización discográfica mediante The Gowanus Session, álbum cuyo lanzamiento –a cargo del sello Porter Records- está previsto para el próximo 17 de abril.

El material será presentado simultáneamente en formato digital, disco compacto y en una edición ilustrada en vinilo limitada a sólo 500 copias.

Músicos:

Cam Collins: saxo

JJ Wright: piano, Wurlitzer

Adam Hopkins: bajo

Nathan Ellman Bell: batería

Sello y año: Morphius Records, 2011

Calificación: Está muy bien

Dentro de nosotros existe algo que no tiene nombre y eso es lo que realmente somos (José Saramago)

La palabra nombre en su significado más corriente designa, identifica o denomina verbalmente a seres animados o inanimados, tangibles o intangibles, concretos o abstractos. El nombre que se le otorga a una persona, animal o cosa sirve para distinguirlo de otros aunque, ocasionalmente, “persona, animal o cosa” puede referirse a un mismo individuo (tengo pruebas). Los nombres representan un signo lingüístico construido a partir de un concepto o significado y de una imagen acústica o significante que, al combinarse entre sí, componen una entidad lingüística. La relación entre el significado y el significante de los nombres –en cuanto signos- es estudiada por la semiótica, en tanto que su estudio en un entorno social corresponde ala semiología. Probablemente usted se preguntará para qué sirve –aparte de lo ya mencionado- la semiótica o la semiología e incluso puede llegar a experimentar un irrefrenable deseo por conocer la diferencia sustancial entre ambas; así que, para abreviar esfuerzos e iluminar su camino, respondo a dicho interrogante con sólo dos palabras tan lapidarias y convincentes como esclarecedoras: no sé.

Resulta apropiado consignar que, desde una óptica puramente gramatical, los nombres son denominados sustantivos y que desde el punto de vista léxico se clasifican en lexías, unidades fraseológicas o títulos. No es menos importante saber que la semántica lingüística se ocupa de la división de los nombres en campos semánticos. En relación a esto último, y a modo de apostilla, me permito señalar que suena mucho más que lógico que la división en campos semánticos corresponda a la semántica y no –por dar ejemplos al azar- a la ingeniería nuclear o la cosmetología, así como tampoco me parece demasiado productivo que un experto en semántica se ocupe del estudio de la aplicación práctica del núcleo atómico o de cómo combatir el acné, las manchas y otras alteraciones cutáneas. Si bien no es muy frecuente, también puede darse el caso de un cosmetólogo que al mismo tiempo es perito en semántica y experto en ingeniería nuclear; es decir que mientras nos aplica una máscara facial va explicándonos qué es una unidad fraseológica y nos ilustra sobre el proceso exotérmico de la fisión de núcleos pesados. Por supuesto, me cabe advertirle que el resultado no sería el mismo si el citado perito semántico, en lugar de ser también cosmetólogo e ingeniero nuclear, fuera un asesino serial o un sicario de la mafia china que además –por ironía del destino- es el marido de esa curvilínea vecinita a la que usted ha tratado de seducir infructuosamente en repetidas ocasiones.

El destino principal de los nombres es desarrollar la función comunicativa de apuntar o designar un referente; e incluso su combinación en frases o unidades lingüísticas pueden apuntalar la facultad expositiva que permita expresar conceptos mucho más complejos tales como definir ideas o identificar proyectos y/o acuñar su permanencia y difusión.

En la música, los nombres adjudicados a las obras, los álbumes y los proyectos grupales no sólo contribuyen al reconocimiento de los mismos a través del tiempo sino que, además, establecen una comunión “nombre-concepto” que hace de ambas nociones un todo inseparable. Por ello, los nombres de las bandas suelen reforzar su identidad y explicar –si las hubiera- sus intenciones más profundas. Existen grupos con nombres más o menos felices; los hay con nombres simples o complejos, extravagantes o vulgares, graciosos o anodinos y también algunos que pueden llegar a inducirnos a investigar un poco más acerca del origen y las aspiraciones de la denominación adoptada enriqueciendo así nuestros conocimientos. Éste es el caso de la banda debutante Turn Around Norman, cuarteto que integran el saxofonista Cam Collins (Michael Formanek’s Cautions Optimism, Fred Hersch, etc.), el pianista y tecladista JJ Wright, el contrabajista Adam Hopkins (Quartet Offensive, Out of your Head Collective) y el baterista Nathan  Ellman-Bell (Quartet Offensive, Soul Cannon).

Por supuesto, no es necesario que usted le pregunte a alguno de los miembros del grupo por qué decidieron denominarse Turn Around Norman (literalmente “date vuelta Norman”) y no hace falta por una buena razón: ya lo hice yo. El nombre de la banda proviene de un personaje de la novela Skinny Legs and All que el notable escritor estadounidense Tom Robbins publicara en 1990. Desde ya, no es imprescindible que usted deba leer o comprar el libro para saber más sobre esta banda y no lo es porque… también lo hice yo.

Skinny Legs and All nos ofrece una visión alucinada del mundo actual difuminada en varias tramas y sub-tramas que van describiendo las traumáticas experiencias vividas por una serie de extraños personajes interrelacionados. El núcleo narrativo acompaña a la protagonista (la pintora Ellen Cherry Charles) y su esposo (el rudimentario soldador Boomer Petway) en su viaje desde un pueblo alejado del sur estadounidense a la ciudad de Nueva York. A modo de adelanto le cuento que la protagonista fracasa en el intento por consagrar su vocación y termina trabajando como camarera, mientras que su esposo triunfa artísticamente –merced a sus habilidades como soldador- al presentar una obra en metal que simula un gigantesco pavo asado con ruedas(¡?). Lo cierto es que esta satírica –y adorablemente absurda- novela está plagada de extravagantes personajes tales como un exaltado telepredicador fundamentalista llamado Buddy Winkler; Salome (una bailarina libanesa cuyas piernas huesudas dan título a la novela), Raoul Ritz (un libidinoso portero que se convierte en estrella de rock), el judío Spike Cohen y el árabe Roland Abu Ha (socios y co-propietarios del restaurante en donde trabaja el personaje central), Paited Stick y Conch Shell (con quienes los protagonistas emprenden un viaje a Jerusalén) y, por supuesto, un tal Turn Around Norman –autoproclamado como “el único auténtico artista de Nueva York”- cuyo único número callejero consiste en girar sobre sí mismo de forma imperceptible hasta completar una vuelta cada dos horas. En definitiva, si esto no resulta suficiente para entender por qué una banda originaria de Baltimore -hoy relocalizada en Brooklyn, New York- se llama Turn Around Noman, al menos le servirá para jactarse de haber leído la novela ante familiares, amigos y conocidos.

Lo cierto es que Turn Around Norman, en We Turned Around, su álbum debut, configura un sólido alegato estético orientado al jazz experimental en donde, además de las cualidades interpretativas de sus jóvenes integrantes, se conjugan las diferentes personalidades de sus tres principales compositores: una marcada tendencia a la improvisación en el caso de Cam Collins, la apropiación de algunos elementos provenientes del minimalismo de la última centuria en las partituras pergeñadas por JJ Wright y las complejidades subyacentes en las experimentaciones asociadas al math-rock que se intuyen en los temas aportados por Adam Hopkins.

El álbum abre con la composición de Cam Collins Chronograph Hesperidium, una efervescente demostración de jazz moderno interceptada por un interludio de libre improvisación, posteriormente rematado en un clímax de aliento épico a cuya interpretación le sobran personalidad, soltura y empaque.

Transparency I y su secuela Transparency II, ambas pertenecientes a JJ Wright, ofrendan climas vaporosos y etéreos signados por líneas melódicas afables, pausados movimientos armónicos de impronta minimalista y delicados efectos ornamentales, luego coronados en sutil ascenso dinámico deliberadamente contenido en la primera de las piezas y mediante un lirico arrebato instrumental en la segunda.

A la abundante información armónica contenida en el núcleo del tema de Adam Hopkins Where The El is John? se adosan las complejas asimetrías rítmicas que propulsan el contrabajo y la batería de Nathan Ellman-Bell y las desbordantes intervenciones solistas de JJ Wright en piano eléctrico y del saxo de Cam Collins.

La energía escénica que distingue al cuarteto –aquí recreada mediante un registro en vivo en el estudio de grabación – propicia una entrega que en todo momento luce acelerada y potente pero también permeable a atravesar distintos climas y humores sonoros: Del encantado optimismo rítmico de Consolation a la confluencia de jazz eléctrico y libre improvisación en Pirata Issue Pataphisics, pasando por la solvente simplicidad formal de Awakening, las angulosas aristas armónicas y su proximidad con el indie-rock de We Turned Around y el elusivo romanticismo implícito en Fin.

La enérgica propuesta de Turn Around Norman no es fácil de encasillar en una palabra o de identificar con un nombre; pero eso no impide que en todo momento luzca honesta y convincente ni impide su valoración y disfrute auditivo.

No todo asume un nombre. Algunas cosas van más allá de las palabras (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)

Sergio Piccirilli

6th Annual International Musicians Poll on New Creative Music

With four mentions each:

Kris Davis – Aeriol Piano (Clean Feed), Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Coleur Libres (Constellation), Okkyung Lee – Noisy Love Songs (Tzadik), Roscoe Mitchell – Before There Was Sound (Nessa), Red Trío + John Butcher – Empire (No Business) and Tony Malaby – Novela (Clean Feed)

The participants (in alphabetic order):

Achim Kaufmann, Adam Hopkins, Alexandra Grimal, Alan Ferber, Alon Nechustan, Andrew Raffo Dewar, Andrea Centazzo, Aram Shelton, Asaf Sirkis, Ben Kono, Ben Wendel, Bobb Bruno, Brandon Seabrook, Brett Sroka, Brian Settles, Bryan Murray, Carla Bozulich, Carlo Costa, Carlos Bica, Carlos Zíngaro, Ches Smith, Chris Dingman, Christopher Hoffman, C. Spencer Yeh, Curtis Hasselbring, Daniel Studer, Dave Ballou, Dave Rempis, David Bindman, David Weiss, Dennis González, Dylan Ryan, Eivind Opsvik, Florian Egli, Frank Gratkowski, Fred Hersch, Fumio Yasuda, Gerry Hemingway, Greg Burk, Harris Eisenstadt, Hasse Poulsen, Hernani Faustino, Hugo Antunes, Hugo Carvalhais, Jason Kahn, Jason Kao Hwang, Jason Stein, Jeb Bishop, Jeremiah Cymerman, Jeremy Viner, Jessica Pavone, Jewlia Einsenberg, Jim Campilongo, Jim Pugliese, John Butcher, John Ewing, John Schott, Jon Irabagon, Jon Lundbom, Joseph Daley, Josh Berman, Katherine Young, Ken Field, Ken Hyder, Keir Neuringer, Kevin Shea, Kyoko Kitamura, Larry Ochs, Lasse Marhaug, Lisa Mezzacappa, Lotte Anker, Lucas Niggli, Mark Dresser, Mark Holub, Martin Kuchen, Mary Halvorson, Mats Gustafsson, Matt Wright, Mazen Kerbaj, Meg Okura, Michael Jaeger, Michael Pisaro, Miguel Zenon, Mike Pride, Moppa Elliott, Nate Wooley, Nathan Hanson, Nicholas Urie, Nils Wogram, Paolo Angeli, Pete Fitzpatrick, Pete Robbins, Rez Abbasi, Rob Mazurek, Rodrigo Amado, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Russ Lossing, Saadet Turkoz, Sabrina Lastman, Sam Pluta, Sam Sadigursky, Samuel Blaser, Sarah Bernstein, Sarah Wilson, Sara Serpa, Satoko Fujii, Scott Amendola, Sebastian Gramss, Silke Eberhard, Shawn Baltazor, Simon Nabatov, Steve Cardenas, Steve Swell, Stew Cutler, Szilard Mesei, Tassos Spiliotopoulos, Taylor Ho Bynum, Terrence McMannus, Theo Bleckmann, Thomas Heberer, Thollem McDonas, Tim Daisy, Toby Driver, Todd Sickafoose, Tomas Fujiwara, Tom Blancarte, Vijay Anderson, Vijay Iyer, Waclaw Zimpel

Voting details in the order to which they were submitted:

Nicholas Urie

John O’Gallagher / Vardan Ovsepian – Nocturnal Prophecy (Red Piano Records)

Theo Bleckmann – Hello Earth! The Music of Kate Bush (Winter & Winter)

Erik Friedlander – Bonebridge (Skipstones Records)

Frank Carlberg – Uncivilized Ruminations (Red Piano Records)

http://www.nicholasurie.com/

Kevin Shea

Alan Wilkinson – Practice (Bo Weavil Recordings)

Ambrose Akinmusire – When the Heart Emerges Glisting (Blue Note Records)

Bitch Magnet – Bitch Magnet (Temporary Residence)

Brian Ferneyhough – Funerailles (Stradivarius)

David S. Ware / Cooper Moore / William Parker / Muhammed Ali – Planetary Unknow (AUM Fidelity)

Miles Davis – Live in Europe 1967: The Book Series Vol. 1 (Sony Legacy)

Ravish Momin – After the Disquiet (EP)

Samuel Blaser & Paul Motian – Consort in Motion (Kind of Blue)

Tyshawn Sorey – Oblique-I (Pi Recordings)

Wolfgang Rihm – Fetzen (Winter & Winter)

www.kevinshea.info

www.myspace.com/kevinshea

www.facebook.com/kevinshea

Tom Blancarte

Krallice – Diotima (Profound Lore)

Peter Evans / Nate Wooley – High Society (Carrier Records)

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM Records)

Björk – Biophilia (One Little Indian)

http://www.tomblancarte.com/

http://www.myspace.com/tomblancarte

Michael Pisaro

Hecker / Meillassoux – Speculative Solution (Urbanomic / Editions Mego)

Antoine Beuger – keine fernen mehr (Edition Wandelweiser)

David Lynch – Crazy Clown Time (Sunday Best)

Taku Unami / Takahiro Kawaguchi – Teatro Assente (Erstwhile)

Julia Holter – Tragedy (Leaving Records)

Anett Nemeth – A Pauper’s Guide to John Cage & Early Morning Melacholia (Another Timbre)

http://www.timescraper.de/pisaro/

Miguel Zenon

Intifada – Intifada III (independent)

Yuba Ire – ¡Ya Está! ¡Se formó! (Héctor Calderón)

Radiohead – The King of Limbs (TBD Records)

Dave Binney – Graylen Epicenter (Mithology Records)

Gonzalo Rubalcaba – Fe (SPassion)

Danger Mouse and Danielle Luppi – Rome (Capitol)

Branford Marsalis & Joey Calderazzo – Songs Of Mirth And Melancholy (Marsalis Music)

Adam Cruz – Milestone (101 Distribution ADA)

Aca Seca Trío – Ventanas (Sony Music)

Becca Stevens – Weightless (Sunnyside Records)

www.miguelzenon.com

Carlos “Zíngaro” Alves

Daunik Lazro – Some Other Zongs (Ayler Records)

http://efi.group.shef.ac.uk/
http://www.granular.pt
http://www.myspace.com/carloszingaro
http://www.facebook.com/profile.phpref=profile&id=1051161473

Jeremiah Cymerman

-List with no particular order-

Esoteric – Paragon of Dissonance (Season of Mist)

Morton Feldman – Orchestra (Mode Records)

John Zorn – Enigmata (Tzadik)

Asva – Presences of Absences (Important Records)

Eliane Radigue – Transamorem Transmortem (Important Records)

Evan Parker & Matthew Wright – Trance Map (Psi Records)

Nate Wooley – [8] syllables (Peira Records)

Marc Maron – This Has to Be Funny (Comedy Central Records)

www.jeremiahcymerman.com

Szilard Mezai

Anthony Braxton – Trillium E (New Braxton House)

http://www.szilardmezei.net/

Tim Daisy

John Cage – Etudes Australes [Sabine Liebner-piano] (Wergo)

Jason Stein Quartet – The Story This Time (Delmark)

Extraordinary Popular Delusions – Apocyphal Fire in the Wharehouse, and Other Explanations (Harmonic Convergence)

Cylinder [Aram Shelton/Darren Johnston/Lisa Mezzacappa/ Kjell Nordeson] – Cylinder (Clean Feed)

Paal Nillsen-Love – Townorchestrahouse (Clean Feed)

Sten Sandell Trío + John Butcher – Strokes (Clean Feed)

Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres (Constellation)

Starlicker – Double Demon (Delmark)

Earl Brown – A Life In Music -Vol 4 [Earle Brown's Contemporary Sound Series] (Wergo)

1Ircha – Mikolaj Trzska Clarinet Quartet – Watching Edvard (Kilogram)

www.timdaisy.com

Andrea Centazzo

Andrea Centazzo Ensemble (Dave Ballou, Nobu Stowe, Achille Succi y Daniel Barbiero) – Moon in Winter (ICTUS)

Don Preston/ Andrea Centazzo – Escape from 2012 (ICTUS)

Elliott Sharp / Andrea Centazzo – Snowplow (ICTUS)

AC Mitteleuropa Orchestra – Rain on the Border (ICTUS)

http://www.andreacentazzo.com/

http://www.myspace.com/andreacentazzo

Alexandra Grimal

Photo credit: Etienne Bauduin

Marc Ducret – Tower Vol 1 & Vol 2 (Ayler Records)

Giovanni di Domenico (con Arve Henriksen/ Tatsuhisa Yamamoto) – Clinamen (Off-Rat 2010)

Nelson Veras (con Thomas Morgan / Stephane Galland) – Rouge sur Blanc (Bee Jazz)

Eric Thielemans – Solo http://oorwerk.bandcamp.com/releases (ET’s own Oorverk Label, 2010)

Jozef Dumoulin – Rainbow Dody (con Trevor Dunn/ Eric Thielemans) - (Bee Jazz)

Steve Coleman & Five Elements – Mancy of Sound (Pi Recordings, 2010)

Tyshawn Sorey (con Thomas Morgan / Todd Neufeld) – Koan (482 Music, 2009)

Alejandro Castaños – Intersecciones (incluido en el álbum Pasajes México) – (Neos)

Silencers (con Benoit Delbecq, Kim Myhr, Nils Ostendorf, Toma Gouband) – Balance des Blancs (Sofa Records)

Joelle Leandre – Solo (Kadima Collective Recordings)

www.alexandragrimal.com

Thomas Heberer

Achim Kaufmann – Verivyr (Pirouet Records)

Okkyung Lee – Noisy Love Songs (Tzadik)

Francesco Bigoni – Hopscotch (Ilk Records)

www.thomasheberer.com

Jon Lundbom

Feist – Metals (Cherrytree / Interscope)

Beatie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee, Part 2 (Capitol Records)

The Decemberists – The King is Dead (Capitol Records)

My Morning Jacket – Circuital (ATO Recors / Red)

Tom Waits – Bad as Me (Anti)

Wye Oak – Civilian (Merge Records)

Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord – Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! (Hot Cup Records)

Bryan & the Haggards – Still Alive and Kickin’ Down the Walls (Hot Cup Records)

Noam Pikelny – Beat the Devil and Carry a Rail (Compass Records)

Tim Kuhl – Doomsaver

www.jonlundbom.com

John Butcher

“More and more I value serendipity when listening. The best thing I’ve heard this year is Mike Osborne, Paul Rogers and John Stevens playing “Summertime” at “The Plough” in South London in 1979. It’s on a CD I bought from Ayler records (John Stevens Trio – Live at The Plough. People write with varying degrees of sense and nonsense about Outsider Art. This feels like it is genuinely that, and more. There’s a wonderful Vanishing Point just after 3 minutes when Osborne’s attempted altissimo evaporates into the aether, only to be magicked back by Stevens’ tom-tom rolls just before the end.”

http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk/

Nate Wooley

C.Spencer Yeh – 1975 (Intransitive Recordings)

Don Dietrich / Ben Hall – Spitfire (What)

DJ Sniff – EP (Psi Recordings)

Jeremiah Cymerman – Fire Sign (Tzadik)

Adam linson Systems Quartet – Figures and Grounds (Psi Recordings)

Scott Joplin – Treemonisha (Deutsche Grammophon)

Sissy Spacek – Dash (Helicopter)

Evan Parker and Matthew Wright – Trance Map (Psi Recordings)

RED Trio and John Butcher – Empire (No Business Records)

Alva Noto / Ryuichi Sakamoto with Ensemble Modern – Utp (Raster Music)

www.natewooley.com

Theo Bleckmann

Gabriel Kahane – Where are the Arms (2nd Story Sound Records)

Kate Bush – 50 Words for Snow (ANTI Records)

Håkon Kornstad – Symphonies in my Head (Jazzland Recording)

Todd Reynolds – Outerborough (Innova Records)

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angels (ECM)

Meredith Monk – Songs of Ascension (ECM)

Phil Minton/Okkyung Lee – Anicca (LP) (Dancing Wayang)

Okkyung Lee – Noisy Love Songs (Tzadik)

Giovanna Pessi – If Grief Could Wait (ECM)

Uri Caine – The Drummer Boy (Winter & Winter)

www.theobleckmann.com

Scott Amendola

Paul Motian – Time and Time Again (ECM) y Garden of Eden (ECM)

The Beatles – Mono Box Set (EMI)

Neil Young – Zuma (Reprise Records) “¡Sí, otra vez!”

Wadada Leo Smith and Ed Blackwell – The Blue Mountain Sun’s Drummer (Kabell)

Peter Gabriel and New Blood Orchestra – Live in London (DVD)

Wilco – The Whole Love (dBpm / Anti)

Arthur Verocai – Arthur Verocai (Luv N Haight)

www.scottamendola.com

Brandon Seabrook

Krallice – Diotima (Profound Lore)

Marika Hughes – After Life Music Radio (DD Records)

Alec K. Redfearn And the Siezures – Exterminating Angel (Corleone)

Grace Jones – Warm Leatherette (Island)

Racer X – Street Lethal (Shrapnel)

Dysrhythmia – Psychic Maps (Relapse)

AC/DC – Powerage (Atlantic)

Mick Barr – Coiled Malescence (Savage Land Records)

Adele – 21 (Columbia)

http://www.seabrookpowerplant.com/

Sam Sadigursky

Dan Blake – The Acquarian Suite (Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records)

Alexis Cuadrado – Noneto Ibérico (Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records)

Ben Allison – Action Refraction (Palmetto Records)

Danny Fox – The One Constant (Songlines)

Aaron Goldberg / Guillermo Klein – Bienestan (Sunnyside Records)

Fabian Almazan – Personalities (Palmetto Records)

James Hirschfeld – Two Medicine (independent)

Jeremy Udden – If the Past Seems so Bright (Sunnyside Records)

The Bad Plus – Never Stop (E1 Entertainment)

Gilad Hekselman – Hearts Wide Open (Le Chant du Monde)

http://samsadigursky.com/

Christopher Hoffman

Henry Threadgill – This Brings Us To Vol II (Pi Recordings)

Peter Evans & Nate Wooley – High Society (Carrier Records)

Jeremiah Cymerman – Fire Sign (Tzadik)

Andy Laster – Riptide (Tzadik)

Warren Smith – Dragon Dave Meets Prince Black Knight from the Darkside of the Moon (Porter Records)

Tom Waits – Bad as Me (Anti)

Ian Hoffmann – Dome Swan (Cobraside)

Radiohead – King of Limbs

www.christopherhoffman.com

www.hundredpocketsrecords.com

Sara Serpa

Bjork – Biophilia (Nonesuch)

Jen Shyu / Mark Dresser – Sinastry (Pi Recordings)

Kris Davis – Aeriol Piano (Clean Feed)

Frank Carlberg – Uncivilized Ruminations (Red Piano Records)

Ran Blake – Live in Rome (Tompkins Square)

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

Radiohead – King of Limbs (Ticker Tape)

Other Dimensions in Music + Fay Victor – Kaiso Stories (Silkheart)

Dan Blake – Aquarian Suite (Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records)

http://saraserpa.com/

Harris Eisenstadt

-List in alphabetical order-

Michael Bates – Acrobat: Music for, And By, Dmitri Shostakovich (Sunnyside)

Bobby Bradford / Glenn Ferris / Mark Dresser – Live in LA (Clean Feed)

Joseph Daley’s Earth Tones Ensemble – The Seven Deadly Sins (JARO)

Chris Dingman – Waking Dreams (Between Worlds)

Endangered Blood – Endangered Blood (Skirl Records)

James Falzone’s Klang – Other Doors (Altos Documents)

Tony Malaby – Novela (Clean Feed)

Seabrook Power Plant – Seabrook Power Plant II (Loyal Label)

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

Nate Wooley – The Almond (Pogus)

http://harriseisenstadt.com/

Jessica Pavone

Jeremiah Cymerman – Fire Sign (Tzadik)

Travis Laplante – Heart Protector (Skirl Records)

http://jessicapavone.com/

Jeb Bishop

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

Re-edition:

Julius Hemphill – Dogon A.D.

http://jebbishop.com/

Simon Nabatov

-List with no particular order-

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

Tyshawn Sorey – Oblique–I (Pi Recordings)

John Escreet – The Age We Live In (Mithology Records)

Angélica Sánchez – A Little House (Clean Feed)

The Claudia Quintet – What is the beautiful? (Cuneiform Records)

Ellery Eskelin – Trio New York (Prima Source)

Mark Helias’ Open Loose – Explicit / Live at the Sunset (Futura Marge)

Tony Malaby – Novela (Clean Feed)

http://www.nabatov.com/

Matt Wright

Agusti Fernández & Joan Saura – Vents (Psi)

Keir Neuringer & Rafael Mazur – Unison Lines (Not Two Records)

Peter Adriaansz – Waves (Ensemble Klang Records)

Tom Johnson – Cows, Chords and Combinations (Ensemble Klang Records)

Oscar Bettison – O Death (Ensemble Klang Records)

Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Ensemble Modern – Utp (Raster Norton)

Seasick Steve – Man from Another Time (Warner Bros)

Janek Schaefer – Double Exposure (Cronica)

www.matt-wright.co.uk

Bryan Murray

Merle Haggard – Working In Tennessee (Hag Records)

Waylon Jennings – Nashville Rebel (RCA)

Steve Earle – I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive (New West)

Seabrook Power Plant – Seabrook Power Plant II (Loyal Label)

Melanie – Gather Me (C-Five Records)

http://www.bryanmurray.net/index.html

Rob Mazurek

Florian Hecker – Speculative Solution (Editions Mego)

http://www.robmazurek.com/

Vijay Iyer

-List with no particular order-

Steve Coleman and Five Elements – The Mancy of Sound (Pi Recordings)

Das Racist – Relax (Red General)

Amir ElSaffar – Inana (Pi Recordings)

Mike Ladd – Kids and Animals (EP) (Marathon of Dope)

Okkyung Lee – Noisy Love Songs (Tzadik)

George Lewis – Les Exercices Spirituels (Tzadik)

MeShell Ndegeocello – Weather (Naïve)

Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres (Constellation)

Tyshawn Sorey – Oblique-I (Pi Recordings)

CraigTaborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

“También quiero mencionar tres álbumes en los que tuve el placer de ser parte este año:”

Vijay Iyer / Prasanna / Nitin Mitta – Tirtha (ACT Music)

Carlo DeRosa’s Cross-Fade – Brain Dance (Cuneiform Records)

Rez Abbasi’s Invocation – Suno Suno (ENJA)

http://vijay-iyer.com

http://facebook.com/vijayiyermusic

http://twitter.com/vijayiyer

Jewlia Eisenberg

Marika Hughes – The Simplest Thing (DD Records)

Marika Hughes – Afterlife Music Radio (DD Records)

www.charminhostess.us

John Schott

Sonny Rollins – Road Shows Vol. 2

www.johnschott.com

Ken Hyder

Ziggy Modeliste – New Life (JZM Records)

www.myspace.com/kenhyderdrums

www.myspace.com/shamfonkrhythmsection

www.myspace.com/kspacesiberia

www.myspace.com/raz3uk

www.hyder.demon.co.uk

Carla Bozulich

Father Murphy – Anyway Tour Children Will Deny It (Aagoo Records)

Lydia Lunch – Queen of Siam (Atavistic)

Borful Tang – Herd and Unherd (Gigante Sound)

John Weise / Evan Parker – Helicopter (Troniks).

www.carlabozulich.com

Aram Shelton

ROVA – Planetary (SoLyd Records 2010)

Exploding Customer – At Your Service (Ayler 2007)

Lila – Tol’s Toy (Veto Records)

Ornette Coleman and Sound Museum – Three Women (Polygram 1996)

Charlie Kohlhase – Adventures (BoxHolder 2009)

Beep – City of the Future (3rd Culture Records 2011)

Alex Vittum – Prism (Prefecture 2010)

Nick Mazzarella Trio – This is Only a Test (Sonichla Records 2011)

http://www.aramshelton.com/

Taylor Ho Bynum

Gerald Cleaver Uncle June – Be It As I See It (Fresh Sound Records)

Ken Filiano Quantum Entanglements – Dreams from a Clown Car (Clean Feed Records)

Alexander Hawkins Ensemble – All There, Ever Out (Babel)

Jason Kao Hwang Spontaneous River – Symphony of Souls (Mulatta Records)

Joe Morris / Agusti Fernández – Ambrosia (Riti)

Jessica Pavone’s Army of Strangers – Army of Strangers (Porter Records)

Mark Taylor – At What Age (Artist Recording Collective)

Wadada Leo Smith’s Organic – Heart’s Reflection (Cuneiform Records)

Nate Wooley Quintet – (Put Your) Hands Together (Clean Feed Records)

“Usualmente no menciono álbumes en los que haya estado involucrado pero estos dos son especiales:”

Anthony Braxton – Trillium E (New Braxton House) 

Bill Dixon – Envoi (Victo Records)

http://taylorhobynum.com/

Tomas Fujiwara

Tim Berne – Insomnia (Clean Feed)

Dan Blake – The Aquarian Suite (Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records)

Anthony Braxton – Trillium E (New Braxton House)

Taylor Ho Bynum / Joe Morris / Sara Schoenbeck – Next (Porter Records)

Gerald Cleaver – Be It As I See It (Fresh Sound Records)

Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone – Departure of Reason (Thirty Ear Recordings)

My Silence – It Only Happens At Night (482 Music)

Brian Settles and Central Union – Secret Handshake (Engines Studios)

Jeremy Udden’s Plainville – If the Past Seems So Bright (Sunnyside Records)

Nate Wooley Quintet – (Put Your) Hands Together (Clean Feed)

http://www.tomasfujiwara.com/

Sabrina Lastman

Theo Bleckmann – Hello Earth!: The music of Kate Bush (Winter & Winter)

Pablo Aslan Quintet – Piazzolla in Brooklyn (Soundbrush Records)

The Claudia Quintet +1 (con Kurt Elling y Theo Bleckmann) – What is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform Records)

So Percussion – Paul Lansky: Threads (Cantaloupe Music)

Malika Zarra – Berber Taxi (Motema Music)

http://www.sabrina-lastman.com/

Kyoko Kitamura

Anthony Braxton – Trillium E (New Braxton House)

Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet – Apparent Distance (Firehouse 12)

Dirty Projectors + Björk – Mount Wittenberg Orca (Domino)

Other Dimensions in Music & Fay Victor – Kaiso Stories (Silkheart Records)

Jessica Pavone – Army of Strangers (Porter Records)

Angélica Sánchez – A Little House (Clean Feed)

Matthew Shipp – Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear)

Jen Shyu + Mark Dresser – Synastry (Pi Recordings)

Cory Smythe – Pluripotent (self release, descarga digital gratis)

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

www.kyokokitamura.com

Hugo Carvalhais

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

Benoit Delbecq – The Sixth Jum (Songlines Recordings)

Scott Fields & Multiple Joyce Orchestra – Moersbow/OZZO (Clean Feed)

http://hugocarvalhais.wordpress.com/
www.hugocarvalhais.com

David Bindman

Bill Dixon – Envoi (Victo Records)

Amir ElSaffar & Hafez Modirzadeh – Radif Suite (Pi Recordings)

www.davidbindman.com

Ken Field

Alexander Berne & Abandoned Orchestra – Flickers of Mime / Death of Memes (Innova)

The Claudia Quintet +1 – What is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform Records)

Peter Garland –Waves Breaking on Rocks (New World)

Julie Huslsmann Trio – Imprint (ECM)

Leah Kardos – Feather Hammer (Bigo & Twigetti)

Dickie Landry – Fifteen Saxophones (Unseen World) – reedición.

Manciet & Vieussens – Esquic, seguit d’aruost (CIRMA)

Jim Perkins – Grains (Bigo & Twigetti)

Graham Reynolds – The Difference Engine (Innova)

Colin Vallon Trio – Rruga (ECM)

http://kenfield.org

http://wmbr.org/newedge
http://www.RevolutionarySnakeEnsemble.org
http://facebook.com/RevolutionarySnakeEnsemble
http://www.birdsongsofthemesozoic.org

Mats Gustafsson

PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Island)

Lol Coxhill & Roger Turner – Sucess with your Dog (Emanem)

www.matsgus.com

Lasse Marhaug

The Beach Boys – The Smile Sessions (Capitol / EMI)

Lou Reed/Metallica – Lulu (Warner Bros.)

Dag Stiberg – Turpentine Intoxicated Sax Rape (Tape Rape Records)

Sindre Bjerga/Edward Sol – Ukraine Tour CD-R

Erkki Kurenniemi – Dry ’73-9-8 (Ruton Music)

Phurpa – Phurnag Ceremony (Sketis Music)

Rodger Stella – Kosmische Dub + Reich/Riley (Second Layer Records)

Chulki Hong – Amplified WC (Ghost & Son)

http://www.lassemarhaug.no/

http://twitter.com/lassemarhaug

Jason Kahn

- List in order of preference –

PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Island)

John Fahey – Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You: The Fonotone 1958-1965 (Dust to Digital)

The Beach Boys – The Smile Sessions Box Set (Capitol / EMI)

Various Artists – Music for Merce (New World Records)

Bill Orcutt – How the Thing Signs (Editions Mego)

Thurston Moore – Solo Acoustic Volume Five: 12 String Meditations for Jack Rose (Vin Du Select Qualitite)

http://jasonkahn.net

Fumio Yasuda

Paul Motian – The Windmills of Your Mind (Winter & Winter)

http://www.fumioyasuda.com

Fred Hersch

Bill Carrothers Trio – A Night at the Village Vanguard (Pirouet Records)

http://www.fredhersch.com
http://www.mycomadreams.com

Nathan Hanson

-List with no particular order-

Das Kapital – Conflicts and Conclusions (L’Autre Distribution)

Daniel Levin Quartet – Organic Modernism (Cleen Feed Records)

Deric Dickens – Speed Date (Mole Tree Music)

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey – Race Riot Suite (The Royal Potato Family)

Travis Laplante – Heart Protector (Skirl Records)

Guillaume Roy, Vincent Courtois, Claude Tchmitchian-Amarco, Lol Coxhill, Barre Phillips, JT Bates – The Rock on the Hill (Emouvance)

Daniel Levin – Inner Landscape (Clean Feed Records)

Tribraco – Glue (Megasound)

Neo – Neoclassico (Megasound)

http://www.nathanhanson.com/

Adam Hopkins

-List with no particular order-

Five Dollar Ferrari – F$F (Prom Night Records)

Sunshine Soldier – Sunshine Soldier (Prom Night Records)

Yolt – Yolt (Prom Night Records)

Make A Circus – Beijing Olympics (Prom Night Records)

Tim Berne – Insomnia (Clean Feed)

Ralph Alessi – Wiry Strong (Clean Feed)

BB&C (Nels Cline / Tim Berne / Jim Black) – The Veil (Cryptogramophone)

Bon Iver – Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)

The Beach Boys – The Smile Sessions (Capitol)

St. Vincent – Strange Mercy (4AD)

http://adamhopkinsbass.com

http://outofyourhead.org

Jim Pugliese

Sam Rivers – The Rivbea Orchestra (Rivbea Music Productions)

Tyshawn Sorey – Oblique-I (Pi Recordings)

PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Island)

Aram Bajakian – Kef (Tzadik)

Gerald Cleaver Uncle June – Be It As I See It (Fresh Sound Records)

www.jimpugliese.org

Satoko Fujii

Bill Wells – Lemondale (Double Six Records)

http://satokofujii.com/

http://www.myspace.com/satokofujii

Moppa Elliott

Punch Brothers – Antifogmatic (Nonesuch)

Miles Davis – Live in Europe 1967 (Sony)

Peter Evans Quintet – Ghosts (More is More)

Seabrook Power Plant – Seabrook Power Plant II (Loyal Label)

Mastodon – The Hunter (Reprise)

Tyshawn Sorey – Oblique-I (Pi)

Michael Moore Quartet – Easter Sunday (Ramboy)

www.moppaelliott.com

Jason Stein

Jason Adasiewicz’s Sun Rooms – Spacer (Delmark)

Darius Jones Trio – Big Curl (AUM Fidelity)

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

Breakway – Hot Choice (Piera)

Matt Schneider – Solo (CNDY – DNR Solo Series)

James Falzone’s Klang – Other Doors (Altos Documents)

Tony Malaby – Novela (ECM)

Tyshawn Sorey – Oblique-I (Pi)

http://jasonsteinmusic.com

John Ewing

Muhal Richard Abrams – Sounddance (Pi Recordings)

Ivo Perelman – The Hour of the Star (Leo Records)

BassDrumBone – The Other Parade (Clean Feed)

Wadada Leo Smith’s Organic – Heart’s Reflections (Cuneiform Records)

Heiner Stadler – A Tribute to Monk and Bird (Labor)

http://reptet.com/bio/

Pete Robbins

Ambrose Akinmusire – When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)

Tyshawn Sorey – Oblique-I (Pi Recordings)

Gerald Cleaver – Be It As I See It (Fresh Sound Record)

Mostly Other People do the Killing – The Coimbra Concert (Clean Feed)

http://www.peterobbins.com

Steve Cardenas

Paul Motian (Bill Frisell, Thomas Morgan, Petra Haden) – Windmills of Your Mind (Winter & Winter)

Anthony Wilson – Campo Belo (Goat Hill Recordings)

Vince Mendoza – Nights on Earth (Horizontal)

David Binney – Graylen Epicenter (Mithology)

Joe Lovano – Bird Songs (Blue Note)

http://www.stevecardenasmusic.com

Hasse Poulsen

María Laura Baccarini, Regis Huby, Yann Apperry – All Around (Abelone Productions)

Orchestra National de Jazz – Shut Up and Dance (Bee Jazz)

Rubatong – Rubatong (Red Note)

Paul Simon – So Beautiful or So What (Hear Music)

Bruno Chevillon / Tim Berne – Old and Unwise (Clean Feed)

Sidony Box – Pink Paradise (Naive)

Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester- Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester (Gateway)

Nik Bartsch Ronin – Llyria (ECM)

Daunik Lazro, Benjamin Duboc, Didier Lasserre – Pourtant les Cimes des Arbres (Dark Tree)

Louis Sclavis, Craig Taborn, Tom Rainey – El Dorado Trio (Clean Feed)

http://poulsen.fr/

http://www.myspace.com/hassepoulsen

Mazen Kerbaj

Radio Paradise – Mike Cooper in Beirut (Johnny Kaftas’s kids menu –www.johnnykafta.com)

http://kerbaj.com/

http://mazenkerblog.blogspot.com/

Sam Pluta

Peter Evans / Nate Wooley – High Society (Carrier Records)

Alex Mincek – Lift-tilt-filter-split (Carrier Records)

http://sampluta.com/

Tassos Spiliotopoulos

Gary Husband – Dirty & Beautiful (Abstract Logix)

Corea, Clarke & White – Forever (Concorde)

Jonathan Kreisberg – Shadowless (New for New Music)

http://www.myspace.com/tassosspiliotopoulos

www.tassos-spiliotopoulos.com

Lisa Mezzacappa

Rent Romus’s Lord of Outland con Vinny Golia – Edge of Dark (Edgetone)

Darren Johnston’s Gone to Chicago – The Big Lift (Porto Franco)

Evan Francis Group – Crazy Skeleton (self released)

Michael Coleman’s Schumann’s Humanns – Strange Lands (self-released on Bandcamp)

Michael Coleman’s Arts and Sciences – New You (self-released on Bandcamp)

Beep (Coleman-Brenner-Ospovat) – City of the Future (self-released)

Timosaurus (Osvat-Conklin-Nelson) – I Love You More Than Yesterday (self-released on Bandcamp)

Aram Shelton’s Arrive – There Was (Clean Feed Records)

Nordeson / Shelton – Inline (Singlesped)

Jordan Glenn’s Weiner Kids – What a Mess (self-released)

Aaron Novik – Floating World, Vol 1 (Porto Franco)

ROVA: Zorn – The Receiving Surfaces (Rova Arts)

ROVA Saxophone Quartet – Planetary (Rova Arts)

Joelle Leandre / Phillip Greenlief – That Overt Desire of Object (Relative Pitch)

www.lisamezzacappa.com

Rodrigo Pinheiro

The Necks – Mindset (ReR)

Fire! With Jim O’Rourke – Unreleased? (Rune Grammofon)

Peter Evans Quintet – Ghosts (More is More)

Akira Sikata & Jim O’ Rourke with Chikamorachi (Family Vineyard)

Søren Kjærgaard, Ben Street & Andrew Cyrille – Femklang (Chalenge Records)

Kris Davis – Aeriol Piano (Clean Feed)

Rodrigo Amado, Taylor Ho Bynum, John Hebert & Gerald Cleaver – Searching for Adam (Not Two Records)

Nate Wooley Quintet – (Put Your) Hands Together (Clean Feed)

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

http://rodrigo-pinheiro.com

Rez Abbasi

Evan Weiss – Math Or Magic (Inner Circle Music)

Curtis Macdonald – Community Immunity (Greenleaf Music)

Samir Zarif – Starting Point (Mythology)

Rudresh Mahanthappa – Samdhi (ACT)

Ohad Talmor – Newsreel (Auand)

Tineke Postma – The Dawn of Light (Challenge)

Carlo Derosa – Brain Dance (Cuneiform)

Samuel Blaser – Consort In Motion (Kind of Blue)

Pablo Held – Glow (Pirouet)

Vijay Iyer – Tirtha (ACT)

Vince Mendoza – Nights On Earth (Horizontal)

Chris Tarry – Rest of the Story (Nineteen Eight)

Denman Maroney – Double Zero (Porter)

Sam Trapchak – Lollipopocalypse (self released)

http://www.reztone.com/

Joseph Daley

Sam Rivers & The Rivbea Orch. – Trilogy (Mosaic)

Jason Kao Hwang & Edge - Crossroads Unseen (Euonymus Records)

Hazmat Modine – Cicada (Barbas Records)

Mark Taylor – At What Age (Artists Recording Collective)

Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres (Constellation)

Adam Rudolph Go: Organic Orchestra – Can You Imagine the Sound of a Dream? (Meta Records)

Billy Bang / Bill Cole – Duet (BillCole.org)

http://jodamusic.com/

Dennis González

Roscoe Mitchell – Before There Was Sound (Nessa Records)

Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet – Smells Like Tape Spirit (Mystic Productions)

Luis Lopes’ Humanization 4tet – Electricity (Ayler Records)

Red Trio with John Butcher – Empire (No Business Records)

Julius Hemphill – Dogon AD (International Phonograph)

Frode Gjerstad – East of West (Ciculasione Totale)

Amir ElSaffar – Inana (Pi Recordings)

http://www.dennisgonzalez.com/

Asaf Sirkis

Frank Harrison Trio – Sideways (Linus Records)

Kit Downes – Quiet Tiger (Basho Records)

Gwilym Simcock – Good Days at Schloss Elmau (ACT)

http://www.asafsirkis.co.uk/

Nils Wogram

Pablo Held – Glow (Pirouet Records)

http://www.nilswogram.com

Carlos Bica

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

Charles Lloyd – Athens Concert (ECM)

www.carlosbica.com

www.myspace.com/carlosbica

Eivind Opsvik

Louis Cole – Album 2 (Louis Cole)

Peter Evans Quintet – Ghosts (More is More)

Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic)

Seabrook Power Plant – Seabrook Power Plant II (Royal Label)

Håkon Kornstad – Symphonies in my Head (Jazzland Recordings)

Gerald Cleaver Uncle June – Be It As I See It (Fresh Sound)

Battles – Gloss Drop (Warp Records)

Russ Lossing – Oracle (hatOLogy)

Julius Hemphill – Dogon A.D. –reedición- (International Phonograph)

Paul Motian

http://www.eivindopsvik.com/

Dave Rempis

Akira Sakata – In A Babble (Presspop)

Pandelis Karayorgis Quintet – System of 5 (Hatology)

Christof Kurzmann – El Infierno Musical (Mikroton)

David S. Ware – Organica (AUM Fidelity)

Big Bill Broonzy – The Anthology (Not Now)

Julius Hemphill – Dogon A.D. (re-edition– International Phonograph)

http://daverempis.com/

Toby Driver

-List with no particular order-

Björk – Biophilia (Nonesuch)

Chelsea Wolfe – Apokalysis (Pendu Sound Recordings)

Thrones / Sedan – (Split 12”)

Ga’an – Black Equus (Captcha Records)

Ches Smith –Noise to Men (self released)

Jeremiah Cymerman – Fire Sign (Tzadik)

Negative Plane – Stained Glass Revelations (Anja Offensive)

Secret Chiefs 3 – Saptarshi / Radar (Mimicry Records)

Esoteric – Paragon of Dissonance (Season of Mist)

Kevin Hufnagel – Transparencies (Nightfloat Recordings)

http://www.kayodot.net/toby/

Vijay Anderson

Vinny Golia Quartet – Take Your Time (Relative Pitch Records)

Paul Motian – The Windmills of Your Mind (ECM)

Darius Jones Trio – Big Gurl (Smell My Dream) (AUM Fidelity)

Lisa Mezzacappa & Nightshade – Cosmic Rift (Leo Records)

Darren Johnston’s Gone to Chicago – The Big Lift (Porto Franco Records)

Evan Francis Group – Crazy Skeleton (Evan Francis Group)

http://vijayanderson.com

Bobb Bruno

-List with no particular order-

Those Darlins – Screws Get Loose (Oh Wow Dang Records)

Wilco – The Whole Love (ANTI)

Mastodon – The Hunter (Reprise)

Spectrals – Bad Penny (Slumberland Records)

Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats – Blood Lust (Ais)

Jim O’Rourke – Old News No.5 (Editions Mego)

Alexander Tucker – Dorwych (Comunity Music)

Smith Westerns – Dye it Blonde (Fat Possum Records)

Wold – Freermasonry (Profound Lore Records)

Applehead – Applehead de Applehead (Pre-cart Home)

http://bunnytuff.com/

http://www.myspace.com/bobbbruno

Mark Holub

PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Island)

John Surman – Flashpoint NDR Jazz Workshop – April ’69 (Cuneiform Records)

http://ledbib.com/index.html

http://www.myspace.com/ledbib

Gerry Hemingway

1. Mark Dresser – Guts (DVD + CD disponible en www.kadimacollective.com )

2. Burkhard Strangl – Hommage a Moi (Loew)

3. Free Tallin Trio (Anne-Liis Poll-vc, Anto Pett – piano, Jaak Sooäär – guitarra) – A Tale (Leo Records)

4. Jean-Luc Capozzo – Joy Spirit (Quark)

5. Peter Brötzmann – Soldier of the Road DVD (FMP)

6. Han Bennink – Hazentijd DVD (Date Images)

7. Mark Helias’ Open Loose – Explicit: Live at Sunset (Future Merge)

8. Matthew Jacobson – Never Odd or Even (Diatribe) 

9. Blixband Øystein Blix – Pinseria (NORCD)

10. Benoit Delbecq – Circles and Caligrams (Songlines)

http://www.gerryhemingway.com/

Frank Gratkowski

1. Shift! – Songs from Aipotu (Leo Records)

2. Zeitkratzer – (Old School) Karlheinz Stockhausen (Zeitkratzer)

3. Reinhold Friedl – Inside Piano (Zeitkratzer) 

4. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca (Domino)

http://www.gratkowski.com/

Hernani Faustino

Matthias Muche / Philip Zoubek / Achim Tang – Excerpts from anything (Creative Sources)

Joana Sá – Through This Looking Glass (Blinker)

Rafael Toral – Space Elements Vol.III (Staubgold)

Alfredo Costa Monteiro – Umbralia (Triple Bath)

HubBub – Whobub (Matchless)

Tarfala Trio – Syzygy (NoBusiness Records)

Abdul Moimême / Ricardo Guerreiro – Khettahu (Creative Sources)

Olaff Rupp / Joe Williamson/ Tony Buck – Weird Weapons 2 (Creative Sources)

Manuel Mota – Dias das Cinzas (Headlights)

Magda Mayas & Anthea Caddy -Schatten (Dromos)

http://www.hernanifaustino.com

Mary Halvorson

-List in alphabetical order-

Jason Adasiewicz’s Sun Rooms – Spacer (Delmark)

Matt Bauder – Day in Pictures (Clean Feed)

Anthony Braxton – Trillium E (New Braxton House)

Stephan Crump / Steve Lehman – Kaleidoscope and College (Intakt)

Jeremiah Cymerman – Fire Sign (Tzadik)

Marc Ducret – Tower, Vol. 2 (Ayler Records)

Endangered Blood – Endangered Blood (Skirl Records)

Peter Evans Quintet – Ghosts (More is More Records)

Jessica Pavone – Army of Strangers (Porter Records)

Greg Ward – Phonic Juggernaut (Thirsty Ear)

http://www.maryhalvorson.com/

Ben Kono

The Claudia Quintet +1 – What is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform Records)

Kermit Driscoll – Reveille (Nineteen Eight)

Colin Stetson – New History Warfare, Vol. 2: Judges (Constellation)

David Binney – Graylen Epicenter (Mithology Records)

Todd Reynolds – Outerborough (Innova)

http://benkono.com/

Dylan Ryan

Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic)

Jason Stein – The Story This Time (Delmark)

Magical Beautiful – Here Come The Wild Waves (I Hear a New World Records)

Ether Feather – White Dog (self release)

Holloys – Suns Lungs (Memory Bulldozer)

Axis: Sova – (I Feel Like) Laying Low (Drag City)

Rainbow Arabia – Boys And Diamonds (Kompakt)

The Field – Looping State of Mind (Kompakt)

Nick Mazzarella Trío – This Is Only A Test: Live at the Hungry Brain (Sonichla Records)

www.dylanmusic.com

Dave Ballou

Tyshawn Sorey – Oblique-1 (PI Recordings)

Jen Shyu & Mark Dresser – Synastry (Pi Recordings)

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

Farmer’s by Nature – Out of This World’s Distortions (AUM Fidelity)

Bobby Bradford – Live in LA (Clean Feed Records)

Turn Around Norman – We Turn Around (Turn Around Norman)

Ellery Eskelin – Trio New York (Prime Source)

Sunshine Soldier – Sunshine Soldier (self release)

Angélica Sánchez- A Little House (Clean Feed Records)

Gerald Cleaver / Uncle June – Be It As I See It (Fresh Sound)

http://www.daveballou.com/

C. Spencer Yeh

-List in alphabetical order-

Gui Boratto – III (Kompakt)

Don Dietrich & Ben Hall – Spitfire (What the…?)

Mark Fell – Manitutshu (eMego)

PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Vagrant/ Island / Def Jam)

Shin Joong Hyun – Beautiful Rivers and Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound of South Korea’s 1958/74 (Light in the Attic)

Graham Lambkin – Amateur Doubles (Kye)

Seth Price – Honesty (AVA)

Prurient – Bermuda Drain (Hydra Head)

Taku Unami & Takahiro Kawaguchi – Teatro Assente (Erstwhile)

Virgo/Virgo Four – Resurrection (Rush Hour)

http://www.dronedisco.com

Jeremy Viner

Tyshawn Sorey – Oblique-I (Pi Recordings)

Peter Evans Quintet – Ghosts (More is More)

Kris Davis – Aeriol Piano (Clean Feed)

Stephan Crump / Steve Lehman – Kaleidoscope & Collage (Intakt)

Marc Ducret – Tower, vol. 2 (Ayler Records)

Carlo De Rosa’s Cross-Fade – Brain Dance (Cuneiform Records)

Steve Coleman and Five Elements – The Mancy of Sound (Pi Recordings)

John Escreet – The Age We Live In (Mythology Records)

Endangered Blood – Endangered Blood (Skirl Records)

Chris Dingman – Waking Dreams (Between Worlds Music)

http://jeremyviner.com/

Shawn Baltazor

-List with no particular order-

- Peter Bernstein / Larry Goldings / Bill Stewart- Live at Smalls (Smalls Live)

- J.D. Allen – Victory! (Sunnyside)

- Tyshawn Sorey – Oblique-I (Pi)

- Adam Cruz- Milestone (Sunnyside)

- Paul Motian – The Windmills of Your Mind (Winter & Winter)

- Beninghove’s Hangmen – Beninghove’s Hangmen (self release)

- New Tricks – Alternate Side (self release)

http://shawnbaltazor.com/index.html

Keir Neuringer

Matt Bauder – Day in Pictures (Clean Feed)

Jason Ajemian and the HighLife – Riding the Light into the Birds Eye (Sundmagi)

Marek Choloniewski, Krzysztof Knittel et al – Go-Go Beuys Band (Audio Tong)

Red Trio – Red Trio (Clean Feed)

dj sniff – ep (psi)

Travis Laplante – Heart Protector (Skirl)

Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges (Constellation)

Hyrrokkin – Astrionics (Sundmagi)

Evan Parker & Matthew Wright – Trance Map (psi)

Tomek Choloniewski – un (Mathka)

http://keirneuringer.com

Stew Cutler

Stew Cutler – After Hours (Cogna)

http://www.stewcutler.com/

Ben Wendel

Louis Cole – Louis Cole (Louis Cole)

Louis Cole – Album 2 (Louis Cole)

Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi – Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi (Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi)

Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi – Think Thoughts (Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi)

Dave Binney – Graylen Epicenter (Mythology Records)

Walter Smith III – III (Criss Cross Jazz)

Dan Tepfer – Goldberg Variations / Variations (Sunnyside)

Radiohead – King of Limbs (Ticker Tape)

Thundercat – The Golden Age of Apocalypse (Brainfeeder)

The Belle Brigade – The Belle Brigade (Reprise)

http://www.myspace.com/benwendelmusician

www.benwendel.com

Waclaw Zimpel

Michael Zerang, Jim Baker, Kyle Bruckmann – Psychotic Redaction (Multikulti)

http://www.waclawzimpel.pl/

http://www.myspace.com/zimpelwaclaw

Alon Nechustan

Tom Waits – Bad as Me (Anti)

Chick Corea, Lenny White, Stanley Clarke – Forever (Concord)

James Farm – James Farm (Nonesuch)

Tom Harrell – Roman Nights (HighNote)

Eli Degibri – Israeli Song (Anzic Records)

Eliane Elias – Light my Fire (Concord Picante)

www.musicalon.com

Josh Berman

Roscoe Mitchell – Before There Was Sound (Nessa)

Jason Adasiewicz’s Sun Rooms – Spacer (Delmark)

Jason Stein Quartet – The Story This Time (Delmark)

Nicole Mitchell – Awaking (Delmark)

Aram Shelton’s Arrive – There Was (Clean Feed)

Michael Moore – Amsterdam (Ramboy)

Available Jelly – Live at Baarle Nassau, Set 1 (Ramboy)

Available Jelly – Live at Baarle Nassau, Set 2 (Ramboy)

Matt Bauder – Day in Pictures (Clean Feed)

Julius Hemphill – Dogon AD (original Arista 1972, re-edited in 2011 by International Phonograph Inc.)

http://joshberman.net/

Brian Settles

-List in alphabetical order-

Charles Lloyd / Maria Farantouri – Athens Concert (ECM)

Matthew Shipp – The Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear Recordings)

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

Gerald Cleaver / Uncle June – Be It As I See It (Fresh Sound Records)

William Parker – Solo Bass–Crumbling In The Shadows Is Fraulein Miller’s Stale Cake (Centering Records)

Steve Coleman & Five Elements – The Mancy of Sound (Pi Recordings)

Tony Malaby – Novela (Clean Feed)

Tyshawn Sorey – Oblique-I (Pi Recordings)

Farmers By Nature (William Parker, Craig Taborn, Gerald Cleaver) – Out Of This World’s Distorsions (AUM Fidelity)

Muhal Richard Abrams (dúos con Fred Anderson y George Lewis) – SoundDance (Pi Recordings)

http://briansettles.com/

Samuel Blaser

-Listed in no particular order-

Michael Bates – Acrobat: Music for and by Dmitri Shostakovich (Sunyside)

Russ Lossing – Oracle (Hatology)

Marc Ducret – Tower, Vol. 2 (Ayler Records)

Francois Houle & Benoit Delbecq – Because She Hoped (Songlines)

Farmers by Nature – Out of this World’s Distorsions (AUM Fidelity)

Miles Davis – Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 (Sony)

Jeff Davis – We Sleep Outside (Loyal Label)

http://www.samuelblaser.com/

Ches Smith

Motion Man – Adult Situations (442 Records)

Dave King – Indelicate (Sunyside)

Andrew Cyrille and Haitian Fascination – Route d Freres (TUM Records)

Muhal Richard Abrams / Roscoe Mitchell / George Lewis – Streaming (Pi Recordings)

Cleric – Regressions (Mimicry)

Fat – Fat 32 (Mimicry)

Mastodon – The Hunter (Reprise)

http://www.chessmith.com/

Jon Irabagon

The Spanish Donkey — XYX (Northern-Spy Records)

Weasel Walter, Mary Halvorson and Peter Evans – Electric Fruit (Thirsty Ear)

Mick Barr – Coiled Malescence (Savage Land)

Peter Evans / Nate Wooley – High Society (Carrier Records)

The Last Hurrah! – Spiritual Non-Believers (Rune Grammofon)

Jason Stein’s Locksmith Isidore – Three Kinds of Happiness (Not Two)

http://jonirabagon.com

Russ Lossing

Paul Motian – The Windmills of Your Mind (Winter & Winter)

Samuel Blaser Quartet – Boundless (hatOLOGY)

Terrence McManus – solo guitar – Brooklyn EP (FlattenedPlanetRecords)

Rez Abbasi’s Invocation – Suno Suno (Enja)

Kirk Knuffke – Orange Was The Color (Steeplechase Records)

BassDrumBone (Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway & Ray Anderson) - The Other Parade (Clean Feed Records)

www.russlossing.com

Brett Sroka

Supersilent – 10 (Rune Grammofon)

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Summvs (Raster Music)

Radiohead – King of Limbs (TBD Records)

Sao Paolo Underground – Tres Cabecas Loucuras (Cuneiform Records)

Tim Hecker – Ravedeath 1972 (Kranky)

Björk – Biophilia (Nonesuch)

Arvo Part – In Principio (ECM)

Colin Stetson – New History Warfare, vol. 2: Judges (Constellation)

www.ergoisaband.com
www.myspace.com/ergo

Greg Burk

Keith Jarrett – Rio (ECM)

Paul Motian – The Windmills of Your Mind (Winter and Winter)

Gerald Cleaver / Uncle June - Be It As I See It (Fresh Sound)

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

Lee Konitz, Brad Mahldau, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian – Live in Birdland (ECM)

Enzo Pietropaoli – Yatra (Jando)

Greg Burk – The Path Here (482Music)

www.gregburk.com

Sarah Bernstein

Anthony Braxton – Trillium E (New Braxton House)

Death Grips – Exmilitary (Third Worlds)

Jen Shyu & Mark Dresser – Synastry (Pi Recordings)

Kris Davis – Aeriol Piano (Clean Feed Records)

Oxbow – King of the Jews (Hydra Head Records)

http://sarahbernstein.com
http://irondogmusic.com

Steve Swell

Reggie Workman (con Sam Rivers, Julian Priester) – Cerebral Caverns (Postcards)

Reggie Workman (con Sam Rivers, Julian Priester) – Summit Conference (Postcards)

Michael Formanek – The Rub and Spare (ECM)

Elliott Carter – 100th Anniversary Release (Naxos American)

Thomas Heberer’s Clarino – Klippe (Clean Feed)

Starlicker – Double Demon (Delmark)

Roscoe Mitchell – Before There Was Sound (Nessa Records)

http://steveswell.com/

Rodrigo Amado

Tim Berne – Insomnia (Clean Feed Records)

Peter Evans Quintet – Ghosts (More is More)

Bill Dixon – Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph Inc)

Darius Jones Trio – Big Gurl (AUM Fidelity)

PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Vagrant Records)

Red Trío & John Butcher – Empire (No Business)

Farmers by Nature – Out of this World’s Distorsion (AUM Fidelity)

Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop)

Shabazz Palaces – Black Up (Sub Pop)

Bill Callahan – Apocalypse (Drag City)

www.rodrigoamado.com

Florian Egli

Christoph Irniger – Pilgrim: Mt. Tongariro (Between the Lines)

www.florianegli.ch

Paolo Angeli

Francesco Guerri – From your beginning to my [ha]nd

Seun Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80 – From Africa With Fury: Rise (Knitting Factory Records / Because Music)

Björk – Biophilia (One little indian / Nonesuch)

Okapi & Aldo Kai Orchestra – Opera Riparata (Off set)

Peter Gabriel – New Blood (Real World)

Paco de Lucia – En vivo: Conciertos España 2010 (Universal)

Amanda Jayne – Swoom (Whatabout Music 2007)

Camarón de la Isla – Flamenco Vivo (Universal 1987)

Porrina de Badaloz  (Universal 1969)

Enrique Morente (con Niño Ricardo) – Cantes Antiguos de Flamenco (Hisavox 1969)

Coro Galletto di Gallura – Gli Aggius (I dischi del Sole 1966)

Nigerian Special 1970-76 (Soundway Records 2007)

Serafino Murru – Cantadores a chiterra (Frorias 2008)

www.paoloangeli.it

Jim Campilongo

Bo Diddley – The Black Gladiator (Universal)

Dick Hyman Moog – The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman (Varese Sarabande)

Johnny Paycheck – Johnny Paycheck at Carnegie Hall (Little Darlin’)

Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Greatest Hits (Xlarge)

Alana Amram Snow Shadows: Songs of Vince Martin (Kingswood)

Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden (Capitol)

Lightnin Hopkins – Lightnin Hopkins (Smithsonians Folksways)

Lenny Breau – Guitar Sounds from Lenny Breau (Wounded Bird Records)

Link Wray – Link Wray (Rumble)

Bill Jennings – Glide On (Prestige)

http://jimcampilongo.com/

http://www.facebook.com/jim.campilongo

http://twitter.com/JimCampilongo

Mark Dresser

1. Peter Evans Quintet – Ghosts (More is More)

2. Mary Ehrlich – Fable (Tzadik)

3. Haakon Thelin – Light (Atterklang)

4. Michael Dessen Trio – Forget the Pixel (Clean Feed)

http://www.mark-dresser.com/

Andrew Raffo-Dewar

-List with no particular order-

Sam Rivers Studio RivBea Orchestra – Trilogy (Mosaic)
Matt Bauder Quartet – Day in Pictures (Clean Feed)
Bill Dixon – Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph)
Julius Hemphill & Peter Kowald – Live at Kassiopeia (No Business)
Christian Wolff – Kompositionen 1950-1972 (Edition RZ)
Various – Music for Merce, 1952-2009 (New World Records)
Guillermo Gregorio, Jason Roebke, Brian Labycz -Colectivos (Peira)
Sun Ra – The Eternal Myth Revealed, Vol. 1 (Transparency)
Nate Wooley Quintet – (Put Your) Hands Together (Clean Feed)
Anthony Braxton -Trillium E (Braxton House)

http://adewar.web.wesleyan.edu/

Thollem McDonas

BB&C – The Veil (Cryptogramophone Records)

Deerhoof – Deerhoof Vs. Evil (Polyvinyl)

Rent Romus’s Lords of Outland – Edge of Dark (Edgetone Records)

Red Trío + John Butcher – Empire (No Business)

Suonatori Terra Terra – Ma Statevi Attenti… (Suonatori Terra Terra)

Seabrook Power Plant – Seabrook Power Plant II (Royal Label)

Odu Afro Beat Orchestra – Revenge of the One Eyed Hyena (Ghetto Recorders)

Andrea Belfi & Ignaz Schick – The Myth of Persistence of Vision Revisited (Zarek)

Brigadisco 3 – Ulula (C.A.Ga Records)

Malaikat dan Singa – Suara Naga (K Records)

dUASsEMIcOLCHEIASiNVERTIDAS – SADITREVNiSAIEHCLOclMEsSAUd (A Giant Fem)

Capillary Action – Capsized (Natural Selection)

http://thollem.com/

Alan Ferber

Charlie Hunter – Public Domain –solo- (self-released)

Anthony Wilson – Campo Belo (Goat Hill Recordings)

Joey Sellers Solo Trombone – What The…? (Circumvention Music)

Taylor Haskins – Recombination (Nineteen-Eight Records)

Jody Redhage – Of Minutiae and Memory (New Amsterdam)

www.alanferber.com

Pete Fitzpatrick

The Feelies – Here Before (Bar None)

Toro Y Moi – Still Sound -incluida en el álbum Underneath the Pine (Carpark Records)

www.petefitzpatrick.com

Carlo Costa

Baloni – Fremdenzimmer (Clean Feed Records)

Sunshine Soldier – Sunshine Soldier (Prom Night Records)

http://www.carlocostamusic.com/carlocostamusic/home.html

Mike Pride

-List in alphabetical order-

Mick Barr- Coiled Malescence (Savage Land Records)

Kate Bush – 50 Words for Snow (Anti)

Bill Dixon – Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph)

Endangered Blood – Endangered Blood (Skirl Records)

Julius Hemphill – Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)

Bill McHenry – Ghosts of the Sun (Sunnyside Records)

Paul Motian – Windmills of Your Mind (Winter & Winter)

Jamie Saft’s New Zion Trio – Fight Against Babylon (Veal Records)

St. Vincent – Strange Mercy (4AD)

tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l (4AD)

www.mikepride.com

Michael Jaeger

Tom Waits – Bad As Me (Anti)

Irène Schweizer – Piano Solo Tonhalle Zürich (Intakt Records)

Vincent Membrez – OZMO (Unit Records)

Joseph Tawadros – The Hour Of Separation (Enja)

William Parker – The Inside Songs Of Curtis Mayfield (RaiTrade)

Tobias Meier – Periskop Wundersam (WideEar Records WER 004)

Ingrid Laubrock – The Madness Of Crowds (INTAKT Records)

Marc Copland – Speak To Me (Pirouet)

Trio 3 & Geri Allen – Celebrating Mary Lou Williams (INTAKT Records)

www.michaeljaeger.ch

Lucas Niggli

Elliot Sharp Carbon – The Age of Carbon (Intakt Records)

Tom Waits – Bad As Me (Anti)

Michel Godard – Monteverdi (Carpe Diem Records)

Eugene S. Robinson & Philippe Petit – The Crying of lot 69 (MonotypeRec)

Maya Homburger – J.S.Bach / Barry Guy (Maya Recordings)

Trio 3 + Gerri Allen – Celebrating Mary Lou Williams, Live at Birdland New York (Intakt Records)

Steve Coleman and Five Elements – The Mancy of Sound (Pi Recordings)

http://www.lucasniggli.ch/

Terrence McMannus

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

Gerry Hemingway Quintet – Riptide (Clean Feed)

Terrence McManus / Mark Helias / Gerry Hemingway – Transcendental Numbers (NoBusiness)

website: http://terrence-mcmanus.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/terrencemcmanus

Facebook: http://facebook.com/terrencemcmanusguitarist

Youtube: http://youtube.com/weirdtones

Lotte Anker

The Thing – Mono (Smalltown Superjazz)

The Necks – Mindset (ReR)

Farmers by Nature – Out of this Worlds Distortions (AUM Fidelity)

Atomic – Here Comes Everybody (Jazzland)

Mural – Live at the Rothko Chapel (Rothko Chapel Publications)

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

Julius Hemphill – Dogon A.D. (1972) (International Phonograph Inc)

L’Orchestre Kanaga de Mopti – Kanaga de Mopti (1977) (Kindred Spirits)

Fred Frith – Live in Japan (1981) (Fred Records)

www.lotteanker.com

Achim Kaufman

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

http://www.achimkaufmann.com/

Martin Kuchen

Julius Hemphil – Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph Inc)

Radu Malfatt / Keith Rowe – Radu Malfatt/Keith Rowe (Erswhile Records)

Muhal Richard Abrams – Soundsdance (Pi Recordings)

Nate Wooley Quintet – (Put Your) Hands Together (Clean Feed)

http://www.martinkuchen.com

Sarah Wilson

Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society – Infernal Machine (New Amsterdam)

Feist – Metals (Interscope)

www.sarahwilsonmusic.com

Silke Eberhard

Trio 3 + Geri Allen – Celebrating Mary Lou Williams (Intakt)

Marilyn Crispell / Gerry Hemingway – Affinities (Intakt)

Matana Roberts – Live in London (Central Control)

Tobias Delius 4tet – Luftlucht (ICP)

DVD – “Brötzmann” (Siegersbusch)

http://www.silkeeberhard.com/

Curtis Hasselbring

Deerhoof – Deerhoof vs. Evil (Polyvynil Records)

Endangered Blood – Endangered Blood (Skirl Records)

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

Alvo Noto – Univrs (Raster Music)

Liturgy – Aesthetica (Thrill Jockey)

The Claudia Quintet – What Is Beautiful? (Cuneiform Records)

PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Vagrant Records)

http://curha.com/index.html

Katherine Young

Anthony Braxton – Trillium E (New Braxton House)

Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson – Horpma (Carrier Records)

Make a Circus – Beijing Olympics

Matana Roberts – COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres (Constellation)

My Silence – It Only Happens at Night (482 Music)

Melvins – Sugar Daddy Live (Ipacac)

Peter Evans / Nate Wooley – High Society (Carrier Records)

PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Vagrant Records)

Roscoe Mitchell – Before There Was Sound (Nessa Records)

Thou – The Archer & the Owle (Robotic Empire)

http://katherineyoung.info/

Daniel Studer

Paul Hubweber / Philip Zoubek – Archiduc Concert (Emanem 2010)

Jacques Demierre – Pièces sur textes (Editions Héros-limite)

John Butcher / Gerry Hemingway – Bufalo Pearl (Auricle Music)

Alfred Zimmerlin – Streichquartette (ECM, 2009)

Markus Weiss – Xenakis (XAS)

Baloni (Frantz Loriot, Joachim Badenhorst, Pascal Niggenkemper) – Fremdenzimmer (Clean Feed Records)

http://www.danielstuder.ch

Jason Kao Hwang

Ken Filiano – Dreams From a Clown Car (Clean Feed Records)

Joseph Daley and Earth Tones Ensemble – The Seven Deadly Sins (Jam Records)

Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet – Apparent Distance (Firehouse 12)

www.jasonkaohwang.com

Chris Dingman

Ambrose Akinmusire – When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)

The Claudia Quintet – What Is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform Records)

Gerald Clayton – Bond, the Paris Sessions (Emarcy)

Radiohead – The King of Limbs (Ticker Tape)

Starlicker – Double Demon (Delmark)

Vijay Iyer with Prasanna & Nitin Mitta – Tirtha (ACT)

http://chrisdingman.com/

Sebastian Gramss

Ornette Coleman Quartet – The 1987 Hamburg Concert (Domino)

Stefano Scodanibbio – Oltracuidansa (Mode)

Stefano Scodanibbio / Marino Formenti / Laura Mancini / Fabrizio Ottaviucci / Rohan de Saram - Composition No. 2 “Dies irae” / Sonata No. 6 / Grand Duet (Wergo)

Frank Gratkowski – Special Reflections (Leo Records)

John Zorn – A Dreamers Christmas (Tzadik)

http://www.sebastiangramss.de/

Saadet Türköz

1. Sonny Rollins – Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Emarcy)

2. Tom Waits – Bad As Me (Anti)

http://www.saadet.ch

Hugo Antunes

1- Craig Taborn – Avenging Angels (ECM)

2- Nate Wooley Quintet – (Put your) Hands together (Clean Feed Records)

3- Tyshawn Sorey – Oblique-I (Pi Recordings)

4- Weasel Walter / Peter Evans / Mary Halvorson – Electric Fruit (Thristy Ear)

5- Nate Wooley / Peter Evans – High Society (Carrier Records)

6- Motion Sickness – For the Love of Sarah (Grizzley Music)

7- Jen Shyu / Mark Dresser – Synastry (Pi Recordings)

8- Scott Fields and the Multiple Joyce Orchestra – Moersbow/Oz (Clean Feed Records)

http://www.myspace.com/hugoantunes

Todd Sickafoose

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra – Hothouse Stomp: The Music of 1920s Chicago and Harlem (Accurate Records)

BB&C – The Veil (Cryptogramophone Records)

Bill Frisell – Sign of Life, Music for 858 Quartet (Savoy Jazz)

www.toddsickafoose.com

Meg Okura

Jason Kao Hwang / EDGE – Crossroads Unseen (Euonymus Records)

Sara Serpa – Mobile (Inner Circle Music)

Endangered Blood – Endangered Blood (Skirl Records)

http://megokura.com/

Larry Ochs

Julius Hemphil – Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)

John Carter & Bobby Bradford – Mosaic Select: John Carter & Bobby Bradford (Mosaic Select)

Henry Threadgill & Air – Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic Select)

Fred Frith – Live in Tokyo (Fred Records)

Ikue Mori – Kibiyoshi (Tzadik)

Peter Brötzmann – Soldier of the Road: A Portrait of Peter Brötzmann –documental- (Soldier of the Road)

Win Wenders – Pina (380 Grad)

Jason Robinson – Two Faves of Janus (Cuneiform Records)

Vieux Farka Toure – Fondo (Six Degrees)

John Zorn – Enigmata (Tzadik) 

Marc Ducret – Tower, Vol. 2 (Ayler Records)

Cylinder  – Cylinder (Clean Feed Records)

Rova – Planetary (United One Records)

Foton Quartet – Zomo Hall (Not Two Records)

http://www.ochs.cc/

David Weiss

David Binney – Graylen Epicenter (Mythology Records)

Chris Dingman – Walking Dreams (Between Worlds Music)

Steve Coleman and Five Elements – Mancy of Sound (Pi Recordings)

Seamus Blake – Live at Smalls (Smallslive)

Jeremy Pelt – The Talented Mr. Pelt (HighNote)

Rudresh Mahanthappa – Samdhi (ACT Music)

Miguel Zenón – Alma Adentro: A Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)

Joel Harrison – Music of Paul Motian (SunnySide)

JD Allen – Victory! (SunnySide)

http://www.davidweissmusic.com/

4th Annual International Critics Poll on New Creative Music

Musician of The Year				Newcomer Musician
Wadada Leo Smith	28			Ambrose Akinmusire		33
Peter Evans	19			Joana Sá		13
Anthony Braxton	17			Travis Laplante		12
Craig Taborn	17			Ingrid Laubrock		11
Rob Mazurek	17			Susana Santos Silva		11
Group of The Year			Newcomer Group
Mostly Other People do the Killing		42	BB&C			18
The Claudia Quintet		12	Inzinzac			15
Farmers by Nature		11	Lama			15
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet		11	Cylinder			12
The Thing		10	Fourth Page			12
Album of The Year
Peter Evans Quintet – Ghosts (More is More)						18
Bill Dixon – Envoi (Victo)						17
Craig Taborn – Avenging Angels (ECM)						15
Wadada Leo Smith’s Organic – Heart’s Reflections (Cuneiform)						15
Mostly Other People do the Killing – Live in Coimbra (Clean Feed)						14
Composer				Drums
Wadada Leo Smith	22			Gerald Cleaver		40
Anthony Braxton	18			Tyshawn Sorey		29
John Hollenbeck	18			Paal Nilssen-Love		17
John Zorn	17			Jim Black		16
Peter Evans	17			Ches Smith		14
Acoustic / Electric Bass				Guitar
William Parker	56			Mary Halvorson	73
Barry Guy	16			Nels Cline	37
Mark Dresser	16			Bill Frisell	35
Pascal Niggenkemper	15			Rez Abbasi	16
John Edwards	14			Marc Ribot	15
Piano				Keyboards/Synthesizer/Organ
Craig Taborn	46			John Medeski	24
Matthew Shipp	37			Craig Taborn	22
Agusti Fernández	25			Gary Versace	15
Vijay Iyer	18			Alexander Hawkins	14
Kris Davis	17			Toby McLaren	12
Saxophone				Trumpet/Cornet
Darius Jones	31			Nate Wooley	50
Mats Gustaffson	22			Peter Evans	44
Rudresh Mahanthappa	21			Taylor Ho Bynum	31
Ken Vandermark	14			Wadada Leo Smith	24
Peter Brötzmann	14			Ambrose Akinmusire	23
Clarinet				Trombone
Joachim Badenhorst	30			Samuel Blaser	57
James Falzone	27			Steve Swell	45
Anat Cohen	25			Roswell Rudd	24
Jason Stein	21			Jeb Bishop	16
Waclaw Zimpel	20			Michael Dessen	15
Violin / Viola				Cello
Jason Kao Hwang	40			Fred Lonberg-Holm	47
Jessica Pavone	26			Daniel Levin	39
Carlos Zíngaro	22			Erik Friedlander	35
Jenny Scheinman	21			Okkyung Lee	31
Carla Kihlstedt	18			Ernst Reijseger	12
Vibraphone				Other Instruments
Jason Adasiewicz	109			Nicole Mitchell (flute)	35
Chris Dingman	22			Brandon Seabrook (banjo)	26
Matt Moran	21			Jason Stein (bass clarinet)	11
Gary Burton	15			Andrea Parkins (accordion)	9
Bill Ware	9			Matthew Wright (electronics)	8
Female Singer				Male Singer
Fay Victor	19			Theo Bleckmann	55
Jen Shyu	11			Kurt Elling	33
Ute Wasserman	10			Phil Minton	16
Carla Kihlstedt	9			Charlie Beresford	14
Sheila Jordan	8			Mose Allison	8
Best Live Band			Record Label
The Thing		19	Clean Feed		72
Mostly Other People do the Killing		15	Cuneiform		33
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble		12	No Business		32
Peter Evans (Quartet/Quintet)		8	ECM		13
Peter Brötzmann (Tentet/Hairy Bones)		7	Leo Records		13

The following critics have participated in this poll (in alphabetical order):

Alain Drouot, Andrea Canter, Andrey Henkin, Antonio Branco, Bartek Adamczak, Cayetano López, Clifford Allen, Dan Bilawsky, David Adler, Esteban Arizpe Castañeda, Eyal Hareuveni, Francis Davis, Gordon Marshall, Guillaume Belhomme, Hrayr Attarian, John Eyles, John Sharpe, Karl Ackerman, Laurence Donohue-Greene, Lyn Horton, Marcelo Morales, Marcin Kicinski, Mark Corroto, Matthew Marshall, Mike Borella, Pachi Tapiz, Paul Acquaro, Paul Banks, Raul da Gama, Roberto Barahona, Rui Eduardo Paes, Sean Patrick Fitzel, Sergio Piccirilli, Simon Jay Harper, Stef Gijssels, Stuart Broomer, Tim Niland, Tom Hull, Troy Collins.

Voting details for each critic in the order to which they were submitted:

Marcelo Morales

www.elintruso.com

Musician: Peter Evans, Ken Vandermark, Wadada Leo Smith

Newcomer Musician: Susana Santos Silva, Travis Laplante, Joana Sá

Group: Mostly Other People do the Killing, The Claudia Quintet, Seabrook Power Plant

Newcomer Group: BB&C, Side A, Lama

Album: Mostly Other People do the Killing – The Coimbra Concert (Clean Feed), Matana Roberts – COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres (Constellation), Wadada Leo Smith – Heart’s Reflections (Cuneiform)

Composer: Anthony Braxton, Matana Roberts, John Hollenbeck

Drums: Tyshawn Sorey, Kevin Shea, Jim Black

Bass: Moppa Elliott, William Parker, Lisa Mezzacappa

Guitar: Nels Cline, Mary Halvorson, Marc Ducret

Piano: Craig Taborn, Havard Wilk, Satoko Fujii

Keyboards: Michel Wintsch, Toby McLaren, John Medeski

Saxophone: Ken Vandermark, Tim Berne, Jon Irabagon

Trumpet/Cornet: Peter Evans, Nate Wooley, Wadada Leo Smith

Clarinet: Chris Speed, Joachim Badenhorst, Jeremiah Cymerman

Trombone: Samuel Blaser, Ray Anderson, Steve Swell

Violin/Viola: Jason Kao Hwang, Jessica Pavone, Cornelius Dufallo

Cello: Daniel Levin, Okkyung Lee, Hank Roberts

Vibraphone: Matt Moran, Chris Dingman, Kjell Nordeson

Other Instruments: Nicole Mitchell (flute), Mieko Miyazaki (koto), Brandon Seabrook (banjo)

Male Singer: Theo Bleckmann, Tom Waits, Kurt Elling

Female Singer: Lucía Pulido, Carla Bozulich, Jennifer Charles

Live Band: NguyênLê Saiyuki, Arild Andersen Trio

Record Label: Clean Feed, Cuneiform, Intakt

Sergio Piccirilli

www.elintruso.com

Musician: Wadada Leo Smith, Craig Taborn, Okkyung Lee,

Newcomer Musician: Jeremiah Cymerman, Joana Sá, Travis Laplante

Group: Mostly Other People do the Killing, The Claudia Quintet, Farmers by Nature

Newcomer Group: BB&C, Lama, Fourth Page

Album: Wadada Leo Smith’s Organic – Heart’s Reflections (Cuneiform), BB&C – The Veil (Cryptogramophone), Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM)

Composer: Wadada Leo Smith, John Hollenbeck, Harris Eisenstadt

Drums: Gerald Cleaver, Jim Black, Paal Nilssen-Love

Bass: Mark Dresser, Michael Bisio, Pascal Niggenkemper

Guitar: Nels Cline, Marc Ducret, Mary Halvorson

Piano: Craig Taborn, Agusti Fernández, Marilyn Crispell

Keyboards: Toby McLaren, Michel Wintsch, John Escreet

Saxophone: Rudresh Mahanthappa, Jon Irabagon, Darius Jones

Trumpet/Cornet: Nate Wooley, Peter Evans, Taylor Ho Bynum

Clarinet: James Falzone, Joachim Badenhorst, Jason Stein

Trombone: Samuel Blaser, Steve Swell, Jeb Bishop

Violin/Viola: Jessica Pavone, Jason Kao Hwang, Carla Kihlstedt

Cello: Okkyung Lee, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Daniel Levin

Vibraphone: Chris Dingman, Jason Adasiewicz, Matt Moran

Other Instruments: Brandon Seabrook (banjo), Nicole Mitchell (flute), Matthew Wright (electronics)

Female Singer: Fay Victor, Carla Kihlstedt, Sara Serpa

Male Singer: Theo Bleckmann, Kurt Elling, Charlie Beresford

Live Band: John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, Theo Bleckmann, Todd Sickafoose’s Tiny Resistors

Record Label: Clean Feed Records, Cuneiform Records, Ayler Records

Rui Eduardo Paes

http://rep.no.sapo.pt

Musician: Kris Davis

Newcomer Musician: Joana Sá

Group: Seabrook Power Plant, Huntsville, Carlos “Zíngaro” – John Edward – Paul Lovens

Newcomer Group: Paradoxical Frog

Album: Tony Malaby – Novela (Clean Feed), Malcom Goldstein – A Sounding of Sources (New World), Moraine – Metamorphic Rock (Moon in June)

Composer: Scott Fields

Drums: Tom Rainey

Bass: John Edwards, Devin Hoff (electric bass)

Guitar: Elliott Sharp

Piano: Agusti Fernández

Keyboards: Richard Barrett

Saxophone: Tony Malaby

Trumpet/Cornet: Nate Wooley

Clarinet: Frank Gratkowsky (bass and contrabass clarinet)

Trombone: Michael Dessen

Violin/Viola: Carlos “Zíngaro”

Cello: Daniel Levin

Vibraphone: Mathias Stahl

Other Instruments: Brandon Seabrook (banjo)

Female Singer: Ute Wassermann

Male Singer: Theo Bleckmann

Live Band: Red Trio – ZNGR Electro-Acoustic Ensemble

Record Label: No Business Records

Tim Niland

jazzandblues.blogspot.com

Musician: Wadada Leo Smith

Newcomer Musician: Captain Black Big Band

Group: Mostly Other People do the Killing

Newcomer Group: Inzinzac

Album: Mostly Other People do the Killing – The Coimbra Concert (Clean Feed)

Composer: John Zorn

Drums: Hamid Drake

Bass: William Parker

Guitar: Rez Abbasi

Piano: Vijay Iyer

Keyboards: John Medeski

Saxophone: Billy Harper

Trumpet/Cornet: Charles Tolliver

Clarinet: Anat Cohen

Trombone: Steve Swell

Violin/Viola: Jeff Gauthier

Cello: Fred Lonberg-Holm

Vibraphone: Jason Adasiewicz

Other Instruments: David Murray (bass clarinet)

Female Singer: Leena Conquest

Male Singer: Mose Allison

Live Band: Sam Rivers Trio

Record Label: TUM

Andrey Henkin

http://nycjazzrecord.com/

Musician: Nate Wooley

Newcomer Musician: Yoni Kretzmer

Group: Bad Luck (Neil Welch / Chris Icasiano)

Newcomer Group: BB&C (Tim Berne, Nels Cline, Jim Black)

Album: Michael Bates – Acrobat: Music for, And By, Dimitri Shostakovich (Sunnyside)

Composer: Michael Bates

Drums: Gerald Cleaver

Bass: Pascal Niggenkemper

Guitar: Nels Cline

Piano: Agusti Fernández

Saxophone: Darius Jones

Trumpet/Cornet: Nate Wooley

Clarinet: Mikolaj Trzaska

Trombone: Samuel Blaser

Violin/Viola: Ig Henneman

Vibraphone: Jason Adasiewicz

Live Band: Pulverize the Sound (Peter Evans, Tim Dahl, Mike Pride)

Record Label: Cuneiform Records

Hrayr Attarian

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/contrib.php?id=3300

Musician: Satoko Fujii, Paul Motian, Billy Bang

Newcomer Musician: D-Erania, Gregoire Maret, Larry Brown Jr

Group: James Farm, Trio 3, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

Newcomer Group: Marbin, Starlicker, Imperial Tiger Orchestra

Album: Julius Hemphill – Dogon A.D (International Phonograph), Konitz / Mehldau / Haden / Motian – Live at Birdland (ECM), Andrew Cyrille & Haitian Fascination -Route De Freres (TUM)

Composer: Nicole Mitchell, Henry Threadgill, Phillip Cohran

Drums: Terri Lyne Carrington, Marilyn Mazur, Roy Haynes

Bass: Lisa Mezzacappa, Christian McBride, Esperanza Spalding

Guitar: Mary Halvorson, Ken Silverman, John Scofield

Piano: Reginald Robinson, Geri Allen, Vijay Iyer,

Keyboards: Chris Foreman, Rhoda Scott, Barbara Dennerlein

Saxophone: Tia Fuller (alto), Tineke Postma (alto), Lauren Sevian:(baritone)

Trumpet/Cornet: Ibrahim Maalouf, Etienne Charles, Carol Morgan

Clarinet: Don Byron, Anat Cohen, Sabir Mateen

Trombone: Curtis Fuller, George Lewis, Trombone Shorty (Troy Andrews)

Violin/Viola: Regina Carter, Jessica Pavone, Diane Monroe

Cello: Tomeka Reid, Okkyung Lee, Anja Lechner

Vibraphone: Jason Adasiewicz, Stefon Harris, Jay Hoggard

Other Instruments: Nicole Mitchell (flute), Andrea Parkins (accordion), Marcus Rojas (tuba)

Female Singer: Sara Serpa, Cymin Samawatie (Cyminology), René Marie

Male Singer: Nicholas Payton, Kurt Elling, Mose Allison

Live Band: Nicole Mitchell and the Black Earth Ensemble, Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings

Record Label: Inner Circle, TUM, ECM

Guillaume Belhomme

http://grisli.canalblog.com/

Musician: Daunik Lazro

Newcomer Musician: Nate Wooley

Group: Mimeo

Newcomer Group: The Ames Room

Album: Jim O’Rourke & Oren Ambarchi – Inside (De Mego)

Stef Gijssels

http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com/

Bio: http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com/2010/01/stef.html

Musician: Rob Mazurek

Newcomer Musician: Antonin Tri-Hoang

Group: Hera

Newcomer Group: Cylinder (Darren Johnston, Aram Shelton, Lisa Mezzacappa, Kjell Nordeson)

Album: Bill Dixon – Envoi (Victo)

Composer: Rob Mazurek

Drums: Gerald Cleaver

Bass: Benjamin Duboc

Guitar: Kim Myhr

Piano: Benoît Delbecq

Keyboards: Luca Venitucci

Saxophone: Mats Gustafsson

Trumpet/Cornet: Thomas Heberer

Clarinet: Joachim Badenhorst

Trombone: Stuart Dempster

Violin/Viola: Guillaume Roy

Cello: Vincent Courtois

Vibraphone: Jason Adasiewicz

Other Instruments: Andrea Parkins (accordion), Delphine Latil (harp)

Female Singer: Andre Pabarciute

Live Band: The Thing

Record Label: No Business

Dan Bilawsky

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/contrib.php?id=74649

Musician: Ambrose Akinmusire

Newcomer Musician: Dida Pelled

Group: SF Jazz Collective

Newcomer Group: James Farm

Album: Ambrose Akinmusire – When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)

Composer: John Hollenbeck, Josh Nelson, David Binney

Drums: Eric Harland, Paul Motian, Nasheet Waits

Bass: Linda Oh, Matt Penman

Guitar: Bill Frisell

Piano: Jason Moran, Uri Caine, Fred Hersch

Saxophone: Miguel Zenon, David Binney, Charles Lloyd

Trumpet/Cornet: Ambrose Akinmusire, Avishai Cohen, Dave Douglas

Clarinet: Anat Cohen

Trombone: Luis Bonilla, Roswell Rudd

Violin/Viola: Jenny Scheinman, Meg Okura

Cello: Anja Lechner

Vibraphone: Stefon Harris, Gary Burton, Jason Adasiewicz

Other Instruments: Dino Saluzzi (bandoneon)

Female Singer: Tierney Sutton, Sophie Milman, Roseanna Vitro

Male Singer: Theo Bleckmann

Live Band: Omar Sosa Afri-lectric Quintet, Gary Burton New Quartet, SF Jazz Collective

Record Label: Greenleaf Music, Mythology Records, Mosaic Records

Eyal Hareuveni

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/contrib.php?id=1976

Musician: Peter Brötzmann

Newcomer Musician: Nina de Heney, Eylof Dale

Group: The Thing Big Band: Trondheim Jazz Orchestra

Newcomer Group: Hera

Album: Amir ElSaffar – Inana (Pi); Hera – Where My Complete Beloved Is (Multikulti); Ola Kvernberg – Liarbird (Jazzland)

Composer: Satoko Fujii

Drums: Tyshawn Sorey, Marilyn Mazur (percusión)

Bass: Mark Dresser

Guitar: Hasse Poulsen

Piano: Søren Kjærgaard

Saxophone: Mats Gustafsson

Trumpet/Cornet: Wadada Leo Smith

Clarinet: Waclaw Zimpel

Trombone: Øyvind Brække

Violin/Viola: Ola Kvernberg

Cello: Okkyung Lee

Vibraphone: Chris Dingman

Other Instruments: Kayhan Kalhor (kamancheh)

Female Singer: Jen Shyu

Male Singer: Phil Minton

Live Band: The Thing

Record Label: Pi, Clean Feed, Ilk

Clifford Allen

http://cliffordallen.blogspot.com

Musician: Anthony Braxton

Newcomer Musician: Joe Hertenstein

Group: The Thirteenth Assembly

Newcomer Group: HNH

Album: Bill Dixon – Envoi (Victo)

Composer: Anthony Braxton

Drums: Tomas Fujiwara

Bass: Ingebrigt Haker Flaten

Guitar: Mary Halvorson

Piano: Matthew Shipp

Keyboards: Gary Versace

Saxophone: Ingrid Laubrock

Trumpet/Cornet: Nate Wooley

Clarinet: Joachim Badenhorst

Trombone: Samuel Blaser

Violin/Viola: Billy Bang

Vibraphone: Jason Adasiewicz

Other Instruments: Denman Maroney (hyperpiano), Mark Taylor (french horn), Katherine Young (bassoon)
Female Singer: Anne Rhodes

Male Singer: Miles Griffith

Live Band: Humanization 4tet

Record Label: No Business

Paul Banks

http://killedincars.com/

Musician: Andy Stott, Taku Unami

Newcomer Musician: Miles (on the Modern Love label), Araab Muzik

Group: Sandwell District, Tierce (on Another Timbre label)

Newcomer Group: Black Zone Myth Chant

Album: Lionel Marchetti – Une Saison (Monotype)

Record Label: Erstwhile Records, Modern Love, Another Timbre

John Eyles

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/contrib.php?id=112

Musician: Evan Parker, Peter Evans, John Tilbury

Newcomer Musician: Esperanza Spalding, Charlie Beresford (Fourth Page), James O’Sullivan

Group: Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, AMM, London Improvisers Orchestra

Newcomer Group: Fourth Page, Barrel, Elvers

Album: Peter Evans – Beyond Civilized and Primitive (Dancing Wayang), Radu Malfatti / Keith Rowe – Phi (Erstwhile), Boom Box – Jazz (Jazzwerkstatt)

Composer: Peter Evans

Drums: Eddie Prevost, Paal Nilssen-Love, Mark Sanders

Bass: John Edwards, Paul Rogers, Guillaume Viltard

Guitar: Mary Halvorson, Keith Rowe, John Russell

Piano: Magda Mayas, Elisabeth Harnik, John Tilbury

Keyboards: Alexander Hawkins

Saxophone: Evan Parker, Mats Gustafsson, Ornette Coleman

Trumpet/Cornet: Peter Evans, Kenny Wheeler, Axel Dorner

Clarinet: Alex Ward

Trombone: Alan Tomlinson, Robert Jarvis

Violin/Viola: Alison Blunt, Ivor Kallin, Mat Maneri

Cello: Hannah Marshall, Okkyung Lee, Ute Kanngieser

Vibraphone: Orphy Robinson

Other Instruments: Matthew Wright (electronics, etc.), Steve Beresford (electronics, etc.)

Female Singer: Julie Tippetts, Kay Grant, Ute Wassermann

Male Singer: Charlie Beresford, Phil Minton

Live Band: The Thing, Schlippenbach Trio, Mujician

Record Label: Emanem/Psi, Leo, Another Timbre

Gordon Marshall

http://mindsonsong.com

Musician: Lukas Ligeti

Newcomer Musician: Forbes Graham

Group: Gutbucket

Newcomer Group: Skinny Vinny

Album: Lukas Ligeti – Pattern Time (Innova Records)

Composer: Lukas Ligeti

Drums: Lukas Ligeti

Bass: Esperanza Spalding

Guitar: Mary Halvorson

Piano: Yoko Miwa

Keyboards: Art Hillier

Saxophone: Matana Roberts

Trumpet/Cornet: Forbes Graham

Clarinet: Steve Norton

Trombone: Steve Swell

Violin/Viola: Carla Kihlstedt

Cello: Juko Fuliwara Simons

Vibraphone: Bill Ware

Other Instruments: Andrea Pensado

Female Singer: Robin Holcomb

Male Singer: Buzz Gundersun

Live Band: Grizzler (Dave Gross)

Record Label: Rogue Art

Mark Corroto

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/contrib.php?id=419
http://inaspinlovingthespinimin.blogspot.com/

Musician: Paul Motian

Newcomer Musician: Terence McManus, Nick Mazzarella

Group: Charles Lloyd Quartet, Mostly Other People do The Killing

Newcomer Group: Todd Clouser’s A Love Electric

Album: The Claudia Quintet +1 – What Is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform), Mambo Legends Orchestra – Watch Out! ¡Ten Cuidao! (Zoho Music), Spike Wilner – Solo Live At Smalls (SmallsLive)

Composer: Steve Lehman, Jim Connolly, Harris Eisenstadt

Drums: Dan Weiss, Gerry Hemingway, Tomas Fujiwara

Bass: Gary Peacock

Guitar: Mary Halvorson, Ben Monder, Marc Ribot

Piano: Matthew Shipp, Agusti Fernández

Keyboards: Craig Taborn

Saxophone: Akira Sakata, Petr Cancura, Mats Gustafsson

Trumpet/Cornet: Peter Evans, Taylor Ho Bynum, Dave Douglas

Clarinet: James Falzone, Chris Speed

Trombone: Michael Dessen

Violin/Viola: Jenny Scheinman, Christian Howes, Jeff Gauthier

Cello: Fred Lonberg-Holm, David Levin

Vibraphone: Jason Adasiewicz

Other Instruments: Jason Stein (bass clarinet), Nicole Mitchell (flute)

Female Singer: Cyrille Aimée

Male Singer: Vinicio Capossela, Theo Bleckmann

Live Band: JD Allen Trio

Record Label: Clean Feed, Sunnyside Records, Delmark

Antonio Branco

http://www.jacc.pt/jazzpt/index.php
http://www.jazz6por4.pt.to/

E-Mail antbranco@gmail.com

MSN antbranco1@hotmail.com

Twitter http://twitter.com/antbrnco

Musician: Peter Evans, Craig Taborn, Ken Vandermark

Newcomer Musician:

Group: Farmers by Nature, Side A, Mostly Other Poeple do the Killing

Newcomer Group: Side A, Lama

Album: Peter Evans Quintet – Ghosts (More Is More), Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM), David S Ware – Planetary Unknown (AUM Fidelity)

Composer: John Hollenbeck, Peter Evans, Ken Vandermark

Drums: Tyshawn Sorey, Paul Lovens, Paal Nilssen-Love

Bass: William Parker, John Edwards, Tom Blancarte

Guitar: Elliott Sharp, Scott Fields,Manuel Mota

Piano: Craig Taborn, Vijay Iyer, Havard Wiik

Keyboards: Uri Caine, John Medeski

Saxophone: Ken Vandermark, David S Ware, Mats Gustafsson

Trumpet/Cornet: Peter Evans, Nate Wooley, Magnus Broo

Clarinet: Marty Ehrlich, Ken Vandermark

Trombone: Steve Swell, Jeb Bishop

Violin/Viola: Carlos “Zíngaro”, Jason Kao Hwang

Cello: Daniel Levin, Fred Lonberg-Holm

Vibraphone:

Other Instruments: Rafael Toral (electronics), Sam Pluta (electronics), Sérgio Carolino (tuba)

Male Singer: Theo Bleckmann

Live Band: John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, Steve Lehman Octet, Peter Brötzmann Hairy Bones

Record Label: Clean Feed, NoBusiness Records, AUM Fidelity

Cayetano López

http://oscuraeralanoche.blogspot.com

Musician: Waclaw Zimpel, Ken Vandermark

Newcomer Musician: Greg Ward, Ambrose Akinmusire

Group: Undivided, Farmers by Nature

Newcomer Group: Erdmann-Roher Quartet, Cylinder

Album: Undivided – Moves Between Cloud (Multikulti), Side A – A New Margin (Clean Feed), Farmers by Nature – Out of This World’s Distortions (AUM Fidelity)

Composer: Waclaw Zimpel, Matana Roberts

Drums: Gerald Cleaver, Tim Daisy

Bass: William Parker, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten

Guitar: Mary Halvorson, Jon Lundbom

Piano: Kris Davis, Angélica Sánchez

Keyboards: John Escreet

Saxophone: Darius Jones, Matana Roberts

Trumpet/Cornet: Nate Wooley, Taylor Ho Bynum

Clarinet: Waclaw Zimpel

Trombone: Jeb Bishop

Violin/Viola: Jessica Pavone

Cello: Daniel Levin

Vibraphone: Matt Moran

Other Instruments: Nicole Mitchell (flute)

Live Band: Angles, Mostly Other Poeple do the Killing

Record Label: Clean Feed, Intakt

Lyn Horton

http://jazztimes.com/community/profiles/17952-lyn-horton

www.lynhorton.net

http://lynhorton.blogspot.com/

Musician: Wadada Leo Smith

Newcomer Musician: Jason Stein

Group: Matthew Shipp Trio

Newcomer Group: Sun Rooms

Album: Matthew Shipp – Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear)

Composer: Wadada Leo Smith

Drums: Michael Zerang

Bass: John Lindberg, Michael Bisio

Guitar: Mary Halvorson, Bill Frisell

Piano: Matthew Shipp

Saxophone: Joe McPhee (tenor), Darius Jones (alto), David S. Ware (soprano)

Trumpet/Cornet: Wadada Leo Smith

Clarinet: James Falzone, Jason Stein (bass clarinet)

Violin/Viola: Mat Maneri

Cello: Harrison Bankhead

Vibraphone: Jason Adasiewicz

Record Label: AUM Fidelity

Mike Borella

http://www.avantmusicnews.com/

Musician: Rob Mazurek

Newcomer Musician: Ingrid Laubrock

Group: Starlicker

Newcomer Group: Tarana

Album: São Paulo Underground – Tres Cabeças Loucuras

Live Band: Dweezil Zappa / Zappa Plays Zappa

Marcin Kicinski

http://impropozycja.blogspot.com/

Musician: Thomas Heberer, Aram Shelton, Andrzej Przybielski

Newcomer Musician: Susana Santos Silva, Robert Kusiolek

Group: Levity, Scoolptures, Swedish Azz

Newcomer Group: Lama

Álbum: Levity (Jacek Kita / Piotr Domagalski / Jerzy Rogiewicz) – Afternoon Delights (Lado ABC), Swedish Azz (Mats Gustafsson / Per Ake Holmlander / Kjell Nordeson / Dieb13 / Erik Carlson) – Azz Appeal (Not Two Records)

Composer: Matana Roberts, Lisa Mezzacappa

Drums: Zlatko Kaucic, Kjell Nordeson

Bass: Pascal Niggenkemper, Mark Dresser, Liza Mezzacappa

Piano: Jacek Kita

Saxophone: Aram Shelton, Colin Stetson

Trumpet/Cornet: Thomas Heberer, Andrzej Przybielski, Susana Santos Silva

Clarinet: Joachim Badenhorst

Trombone: Johannes Bauer, Samuel Blaser

Vibraphone: Jason Adasiewicz

Female Singer: Carla Kihlstedt

Record Label: Multikulti, Constellation Records, Not Two

Stuart Broomer

http://pointofdeparture.org/

Photo credit: Herb Greenslade

Musician: Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker, John Butcher

Newcomer Musician: Peter Evans, Kris Davis, Nate Wooley

Group: Parker / Guy / Lytton Trio, AMM, The Thing

Newcomer Group: Peter Evans Quintet, Paradoxical Frog, Nate Wooley Quintet

Album: Nate Wooley Quintet – (Put Your) Hands Together (Clean Feed), Peter Evans Quintet – Ghosts (More Is More), Agustí Fernández – El laberint de la memòria (Mbari)

Composer: Anthony Braxton, Peter Evans, Veryan Weston

Drums: Nasheet Waits, Paul Lytton, Harris Eisenstadt

Bass: Barry Guy, Joelle Leandre, Pascal Niggenkemper

Guitar: John Russell, Mary Halvorson, Roger Smith

Piano: Veryan Weston, Agusti Fernández, Simon Nabatov

Keyboards: Craig Taborn, Jamie Saft, Alexander Hawkins

Saxophone: Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker, John Butcher

Trumpet/Cornet: Peter Evans, Taylor Ho Bynum, Nate Wooley

Clarinet: Josh Sinton, Matt Bauder, Joachim Badenhorst

Trombone: Samuel Blaser, Nils Wogram

Violin/Viola: Carlos “Zíngaro” Alves, Ernesto Rodríguez, Phil Wachsmann

Cello: Ernst Reijseger, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Okkyung Lee

Vibraphone: Kevin Norton, Jason Adasiewicz, Matt Moran

Other Instruments: Rodhri Davies (harp), Ikue Mori (portable), Gino Robair (percussion)

Female Singer: Lauren Newton, Sainkho Namchylak, Ute Wassermann

Male Singer: Phil Minton

Live Band: Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, Peter Evans Quintet, The Thing

Record Label: Clean Feed, Psi, No Business Records

Raul Da Gama

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/contrib.php?id=277

Musician: Wadada Leo Smith, Heiner Stadler

Newcomer Musician: Gene Pritsker

Group: The Claudia Quintet + 1

Newcomer Group: International Street Cannibals

Album: Blaslatar – Jonas Knutsson (Country and Eastern)

Composer: Wadada Leo Smith

Drums: Andrew Cyrille, Duduka Da Fonseca, Horacio “El Negro” Hernández

Bass: Boris Kozlov, Georg Breinschmid, Bill Laswell

Guitar: Morten Agren, Romero Lubambo

Piano: Satoko Fujii

Saxophone: Jonas Knutsson

Trumpet/Cornet: Natsuki Tamura

Clarinet: Don Byron

Trombone: Roswell Rudd

Violin/Viola: Charlotte Hug

Cello: Jaques Morelenbaum

Vibraphone: Jason Adasiewicz

Female Singer: Mónica Salmaso

Male Singer: Theo Bleckmann

Record Label: Cuneiform Records

Troy Collins

http://www.pointofdeparture.org

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/contrib.php?id=3551

Musician: Billy Bang

Newcomer Musician: Ambrose Akinmusire

Group: Jason Kao Hwang’s Edge

Newcomer Group: Carlo DeRosa’s Cross-Fade

Album: FAB Trio – History of Jazz in Reverse (TUM Records)

Composer: Gerry Hemingway

Drums: Gerald Cleaver

Bass: William Parker

Guitar: Mary Halvorson

Piano: Greg Burk

Keyboards: Russ Lossing

Saxophone: Darius Jones

Trumpet/Cornet: Nate Wooley

Clarinet: Jason Stein

Trombone: Samuel Blaser

Violin/Viola: Billy Bang

Cello: Erik Friedlander

Vibraphone: Jason Adasiewicz

Other Instruments: Nicole Mitchell (flute)

Female Singer: Fay Victor

Male Singer: Kurt Elling

Live Band: Mostly Other People do the Killing

Record Label: Clean Feed

Paul Acquaro

http://acquaro.com/main/pages/home.php

http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com/

Musician: Dave S. Ware

Newcomer Musician: Aram Bajakian

Group: BB&C

Newcomer Group: The Spanish Donkey

Album: Tony Malaby – Novela (Clean Feed), David S. Ware – Planetary Unknown (AUM Fidelity)

Composer: Alon Nechushtan

Drums: Ches Smith

Bass: William Parker

Guitar: Nels Cline, Marc Ribot

Piano: Kris Davis, Alon Nechushtan

Keyboards: Jamie Saft

Saxophone: Ingrid Laubrock, Aram Shelton

Trumpet/Cornet: Rob Mazurek, Tim Hagans

Clarinet: Jason Stein, Ken Vandermark

Violin/Viola: Jessica Pavone

Cello: Fred Longberg-Holm

Vibraphone: Jason Adasiewicz

Record Label: Not Two, Clean Feed

Karl Ackerman

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/contrib.php?id=79788

Musician: David Mott

Newcomer Musician: Jen Allen

Group: Sebastian Liedke Trio

Newcomer Group: Seval

Album: David Mott – Dragonhorn (Independent), Keith Jarrett – Rio (ECM), Seval – I Know You (482 Music)

Composer: Bob Gluck, Anthony Branker, David White

Drums: Tyshawn Sorey, Roy Haynes, Brian Blade

Bass: Nina de Heney, William Parker, Ben Allison

Guitar: Osvaldo Di Dio, Bill Frisell

Piano: Brad Mehldau; Keith Jarrett; Craig Taborn

Saxophone: David Mott; Tim Berne; Fred Ho

Trumpet/Cornet: Dennis González; Taylor Ho Bynum

Clarinet: Oscar Noriega

Trombone: Roswell Rudd

Violin/Viola: Jason Kao Hwang

Cello: Fred Lonberg-Holm

Female Singer: Nellie McKay, Gretchen Parlato, Sidsel Endresen

Live Band: Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society

Record Label: Innova, Clean Feed, ECM

Alain Drouot

http://members.jazzjournalists.org/
http://members.jazzjournalists.org/Content/Members

Musician: Matthew Shipp

Newcomer Musician: Travis Laplante, Lisa Mazzacappa, Jacob Sacks

Group: Rova Saxophone Quartet, Led Bib, Atomic

Newcomer Group: Endangered Blood, Sun Rooms, Cylinder

Album: Matthew Shipp – Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear), Darius Jones Trio – Big Gurl (AUM Fidelity), Vijay Iyer / Prasanna / Nitin Mitta – Tirtha (ACT)

Composer: Vijay Iyer, Steve Adams, Rob Mazurek

Drums: Andrew Drury, Jim Black, Tyshawn Sorey

Bass: Harrison Bankhead, Mark Helias

Guitar: Ava Mendoza, Mary Halvorson, Prasanna

Piano: Keith Jarrett, Sten Sandell, Denman Maroney

Keyboards: Jim Baker, Toby McLaren

Saxophone: Darius Jones, Trevor Watts, Rob Brown

Trumpet/Cornet: Darren Johnston, Natsuki Tamura

Clarinet: Andy Biskin

Trombone: Steve Swell, Ben Gerstein, Jeb Bishop

Violin/Viola: Jeff Gauthier, Christian Howes

Cello: Okkyung Lee, Didier Petit

Vibraphone: Jason Adasiewicz, Matt Moran

Live Band: Endangered Blood

Record Label: Cuneiform, Thirsty Ear, Intakt

David R. Adler

http://adlermusic.com/

Musician: Fred Hersch, Sonny Rollins, Nicholas Payton

Newcomer Musician: Chris Dingman, Ambrose Akinmusire, Dan Tepfer

Group: Tom Harrell Quintet, Tony Malaby’s Novela, Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures

Newcomer Group: Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Herculaneum, Chris Dingman’s Waking Dreams

Album: Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM), Ben Allison – Action-Refraction (Palmetto), Anthony Wilson – Seasons: Live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Goat Hill)

Composer: John Ellis, Darcy James Argue, Anthony Wilson

Drums: Eric Harland, Tyshawn Sorey, Justin Brown

Bass: Christian McBride, Joe Sanders, John Hebert

Guitar: Pat Metheny, Julian Lage, Anthony Wilson

Piano: Craig Taborn, Dan Tepfer, Fred Hersch

Keyboards: Jason Lindner, Russ Lossing, Andy Milne

Saxophone: Marcus Strickland, Donny McCaslin, Ralph Bowen

Trumpet/Cornet: Nicholas Payton, Ambrose Akinmusire, Amir ElSaffar

Clarinet: Michael McGinnis, Anat Cohen, James Falzone

Trombone: Michael Dease, Samuel Blaser, Joe Fiedler

Violin/Viola: Mark Feldman, Jeff Gauthier, Jason Kao Hwang

Cello: Erik Friedlander, Daniel Levin, Marika Hughes

Vibraphone: Warren Wolf, Gary Burton, Jason Adasiewicz

Other Instruments: Brandon Seabrook (banjo), Ben Kono (english horn), Edmar Castañeda (colombian harp)

Male Singer: Sachal Vasandani, Jose James, Kurt Elling

Record Label: Clean Feed, Sunnyside, Posi-Tone

Andrea Canter

www.jazzink.com

www.jazzink.blogspot.com

Musician: Craig Taborn, Theo Bleckmann, Dave King

Newcomer Musician: Ambrose Akinmisure, Gregory Porter, Bryan Nichols

Group: Turtle Island Quartet, Kronos Quartet, Zeitgeist

Newcomer Group: Dave King Trucking Company, Shane Endsley Music Band

Album: Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM), Keith Jarrett – Rio (ECM), Dan Tepfer –Goldberg Variations / Variations (Sunnyside)

Composer: Maria Schneider, Keith Jarrett, Theo Bleckmann

Drums: Paul Motian, JT Bates, Dave King

Bass: Michael Formanek, Chris Lightcap, Adam Linz

Guitar: Bill Frisell, Stanley Jordan

Piano: Craig Taborn, Bill Carrothers, Marilyn Crispell

Keyboards: Craig Taborn, Aaron Parks, Sam Yahel

Saxophone: Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins, Rudresh Mahanthappa

Trumpet/Cornet: Dave Douglas, Tom Harrell, Enrico Rava

Clarinet: Anat Cohen, Don Byron, Pat O’Keefe

Trombone: Robin Eubanks, Josh Roseman

Violin/Viola: Jenny Scheinman, Mads Tolling, Eyvind Kang

Cello: Matt Haimovitz, Mark Dresser, Daniel Levin

Vibraphone: Dave Hagedorn

Other Instruments: Guy Klucevsek (accordion)

Female Singer: Karrin Allyson, Norma Winstone, Kendra Shank

Male Singer: Kurt Elling, Gregory Porter, Theo Bleckmann

Live Band: Zeitgeist, Beautiful Dreamer Trio (Frisell), Fantastic Merlins

Record Label: Motema, ECM, Nonesuch

Matthew Marshall

http://cmixolydian.wordpress.com/

Musician: Rudresh Mahanthappa

Newcomer Musician: Ambrose Akinmusire

Group: Us Five

Newcomer Group: Julian Lage Group

Album: Rudresh Mahanthappa – Samdhi (ACT)

Drums: Kenny Wollesen

Guitar: Bill Frisell, Rez Abbasi

Piano: Craig Taborn, Matthew Shipp

Saxophone: Rudresh Mahanthappa

Trumpet/Cornet: Ambrose Akinmusire

Vibraphone: Gary Burton

Live Band: Dave Holland Octet

Pachi Tapiz

www.tomajazz.com / bun.tomajazz.com

Photo credit: Sera Martin

Musician: Anthony Braxton, Peter Evans

Newcomer Musician: Michel Reis, Nicholas Urie

Group: Mostly Other People do the Killing, Big Zoom, Hybrid Tentet

Newcomer Group: Peter Evans Quintet, Piccola Orchestra Gagarin, Honey Ear Trio

Album: Lucas Niggli Big Zoom – Polisation (Intakt), Peter Evans Quintet – Ghosts (More Is More Records), Kris Davis – Aeriol Piano (Clean Feed)

Composer: Lucas Niggli, Michiel Braam, Simon H. Fell

Drums: Ramón López, Harris Eisenstadt, Paal Nilssen-Love

Bass: Barry Guy, William Parker

Guitar: Mary Halvorson, Marc Ribot, Paolo Angeli

Piano: Michiel Braam, Agusti Fernández, Kris Davis

Saxophone: Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark

Trumpet/Cornet: Taylor Ho Bynum, Peter Evans, Nate Wooley

Trombone: Nils Wogram, Samuel Blaser

Violin/Viola: Ig Hennemann

Cello: Hank Roberts, Erik Friedlander, Harris Bankhead

Record Label: New Braxton House, Clean Feed,Leo Records

Sean Patrick Fitzel

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/contrib.php?id=470

Musician: Nels Cline, Jason Moran, Sonny Rollins

Newcomer Musician: Evan Woodle (drums), Luke Bergman (bass), Travis Laplante (saxophone)

Group: Endangered Blood, Mostly Other People do the Killing

Newcomer Group: Operation ID, Agogic

Album: BB&C (Berne, Black, Cline) – The Veil (Cryptogramophone), Lukas Ligeti – Pattern Time (Innova), Cuong Vu 4tet – Leaps of Faith (Origin Records)

Composer: John Zorn, John Hollenbeck, Gina Leishman

Drums: Jim Black, Ches Smith, Ted Poor

Bass: Michael Formanek, Trevor Dunn, Skuli Sverrisson

Guitar: Nels Cline, Marc Ribot, Mary Halvorson

Piano: Craig Taborn, Jason Moran, Frank Kimbrough

Keyboards: John Medeski, Brian Marsella, Jamie Saft

Saxophone: Tim Berne, Chris Speed, JD Allen

Trumpet/Cornet: Cuong Vu, Peter Evans, Steven Bernstein

Clarinet: Oscar Noriega, Doug Wieselman, Ben Goldberg

Trombone: Curtis Fowlkes, Clark Gayton, Ben Gerstein

Violin/Viola: Jenny Scheinman, Jessica Pavone, Mark Feldman

Cello: Erik Friedlander, Hank Roberts

Vibraphone: Bryan Carrott, Bill Ware, Matt Moran

Other Instruments: Marcus Rojas (tuba), Brandon Seabrook (banjo), Cyro Baptista (percussion / vocals)

Male Singer: Joseph Arthur

Live Band: Billy Martin’s Wicked Knee, Tim Berne’s Los Totopos, Jenny Scheinman’s Mischief and Mayhem

Record Label: Cryptogramophone, Clean Feed, Table and Chairs

Esteban Arizpe Castañeda

www.elintruso.com

Musician: Rob Mazurek, Wadada Leo Smith, Peter Evans

Newcomer Musician: Chris Dingman, Ambrose Akinmusire, Joana Sá

Group: Mostly Other People do the Killing, Sao Paulo Underground, The Thing

Newcomer Group: Fourth Page, Inzinzac, BB&C

Album: Wadada Leo Smith’ Organic – Heart’s Reflections (Cuneiform), Mostly Other People do the Killing – Live in Coimbra (Clean Feed), Peter Evans Quintet – Ghosts (More is More)

Composer: Peter Evans, Rob Mazurek, Wadada Leo Smith

Drums: Ches Smith, Jim Black, Paal Nilssen-Love

Bass: Nina De Heney, Michael Bisio, Ingebrigt Hakker-Flatten

Guitarra: Nels Cline, Jon Lundbom, Pete Fitzpatrick

Piano: Vijay Iyer, Craig Taborn, Matt Mitchell

Keyboards: John Medeski, Adam Benjamin, Russ Lossing

Saxophone: Miguel Zenon, Mats Gustaffson, Rudresh Mahanthappa

Trumpet/Cornet: Wadada Leo Smith, Peter Evans, Rob Mazurek

Clarinet: Waclaw Zimpel, Jason Stein, Ben Goldberg

Trombone: Steve Swell, Michael Dessen, Alan Ferber

Violin/Viola: Carlos “Zíngaro”, Carla Kihlstedt, Jason Kao Hwang

Cello: Marika Hughes, Okkyung Lee, Theresa Wong

Vibraphone: Jason Adasiewicz, Chris Dingman, Kenny Wollesen

Other Instruments: Brandon Seabrook (banjo), Sam Pluta (electronics), Rob Reich (accordion)

Female Singer: Jen Shyu, Fay Victor, Kate McGarry

Male Singer: Theo Bleckmann, Charlie Beresford, Peter Eldrige

Live Band: Mostly Other People do the Killing, Peter Evans Quintet, John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble

Record Label: Cuneiform, Clean Feed Records,Leo Records

Tom Hull

http://tomhull.com/blog/

Musician: William Parker, Gerry Hemingway, Ivo Perelman

Newcomer Musician: Darren Johnston, Carlo De Rosa

Group: Mostly Other People do the Killing

Newcomer Group: Inzinzac, Honey Ear Trio

Album: Dan Raphael/Rich Halley/Carson Halley – Children of the Blue Supermarket (Pine Eagle), Avram Fefer – Eliyahu (Not Two), Allen Lowe – Blues & the Empirical Truth (Music & Arts)

Composer: Tyshawn Sorey, Michael Bates

Drums: Gerry Hemingway, Tom Rainey, Lewis Nash

Bass: William Parker, John Hebert, Ken Filiiano

Guitar: Luis Lopes, Raoul Bjorkenheim, Marc Ducret

Piano: Myra Melford, Kris Davis, Satoko Fujii

Keyboards: Brian Charette, Gary Versace

Saxophone: David Murray, Ellery Eskelin, Dave Rempis

Trumpet/Cornet: Dennis Gonzalez, Ralph Alessi, Matt Lavelle

Clarinet: Michael Moore, Perry Robinson, Mort Weiss

Trombone: Roswell Rudd, Steve Swell, Joe Fiedler

Violin/Viola: Jason Kao Hwang

Cello: Erik Friedlander

Vibraphone: Jason Adasiewicz

Female Singer: Sheila Jordan

Male Singer: Freddy Cole

Live Band: Vandermark 5

Record Label: Clean Feed, Cuneiform, AUM Fidelity

John Sharpe

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/contrib.php?id=2462

Musician: Peter Brötzmann, Craig Taborn, Barry Guy

Newcomer Musician: Ingrid Laubrock, Darius Jones, Alexander Hawkins

Group: Peter Brötzmann Tentet

Newcomer Group: Dawn of Midi, Ingrid Laubrock’s Anti-House, Alexander Hawkins Ensemble

Album: Peter Evans Quintet – Ghosts (More is More) Wadada Leo Smith – Heart’s Reflections (Cuneiform) Tarfala Trio – Syzygy (No Business)

Composer: Ken Vandermark, Wadada Leo Smith, Anthony Braxton

Drums: Hamid Drake, Paal Nilssen-Love, Mark Sanders

Bass: Barry Guy, William Parker, Michael Bisio

Guitar: Mary Halvorson, Joe Morris, Frank Mobus

Piano: Craig Taborn, Howard Riley, Matthew Shipp

Keyboards: Alexander Hawkins

Saxophone: Joe McPhee, Peter Brotzmann, Paul Dunmall

Trumpet/Cornet: Wadada Leo Smith, Taylor Ho Bynum, Peter Evans

Clarinet: Perry Robinson, Michael Marcus, Ken Vandermark

Trombone: Reut Regev, Alan Tomlinson, Steve Swell

Violin/Viola: Jason Kao Hwang, Charles Burnham, Philip Wachsmann

Cello: Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ernst Reijseger, Tristan Honsinger

Vibraphone: Jason Adasiewicz, Gunter Hampel

Other Instruments: Nicole Mitchell (flute), Oren Marshall (tuba)

Live Band: Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, Paradoxical Frog, The Thing

Record Label: No Business, Intakt, Aum Fidelity

Bartek Adamczak

http://jazzalchemist.blogspot.com/

Musician: Mikolaj Trzaska, Joelle Leandre, Andrzej Przybielski

Newcomer Musician: Alexey Kruglov, Brian Settles, Rafal Mazur

Group: Ken Vandermark Resonance Project, IRCHA Clarinet Quartet, Splatter

Newcomer Group: Ha Tichona Trio, Rafal Mazur / Liudas Mockunas / Raymond Strid Trio, Vojtech Prochazka Trio

Album: Joelle Leandre Tentet / Trio – Live at the Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon (Leo Records), Ig Henneman Sextet – Cut a Caper (Wig)

Composer: Veryan Weston, Achim Kauffman, Ig Henneman

Drums: Tom Rainey, Paal Nilssen-Love, Gerald Cleaver

Bass: Nick Stephens, Lisa Mezzacappa, Eric Revis

Guitar: Raphael Roginski, Fred Frith, Aram Bajakian

Piano: Veryan Weston, Achim Kauffman, Marcin Masecki

Keyboards: Jacob Aanderskov, Pawel Kaczmarczyk

Saxophone: Peter Brötzmann, Mikolaj Trzaska, Ivo Perelman

Trumpet/Cornet: Andrzej Przybielski, Dennis González, Taylor Ho Bynum

Clarinet: James Falzone, Waclaw Zimpel, Perry Robinson

Trombone: Samuel Blaser, Henrik Munkeby Norstebo, Jeb Bishop

Violin/Viola: Ig Henneman, Szilard Mezei, Tom Swafford

Cello: Fred Lonberg Holm, Daniel Levin, Henna Chou

Vibraphone: Pasquale Mirra, Kjell Nordeson

Other Instruments: Jim Baker (electronics), Mark Alban Lotz (flute)

Female Singer: Kerry Andrew, Basia Derlak (de Chlopcy Kontra Basia)

Male Singer: Jorgos Skolias, Charlie Beresford, Michael Schiefel

Live Band: Hera, Jewish Surf, AutorYno

Record Label: Leo Records, NoBusiness Records

Simon Jay Harper

www.mymusicdiscovery.com

Musician: Hiromi

Newcomer Musician: Lola Danza (Janya), Noah Preminger, Naoko Sakata

Group: JD Allen Trio, David Murray Cuban Ensemble

Newcomer Group: Janya, Naoko Sakata Trio

Album: Hiromi – Voice (Telarc), Sonny Rollins – Road Shows Vol. 2 (Emarcy), Kurt Elling – The Gate (Concord)

Composer: Hiromi

Drums: Roy Haynes, Rudy Royston

Bass: Anthony Jackson, Anton Blomgren

Guitar: John McLean

Piano: Matthew Shipp, Hiromi

Saxophone: Rudresh Mahanthappa, Joe Lovano

Trumpet/Cornet: Ambrose Akinmusire

Trombone: Steve Swell

Violin/Viola: Ali Bello, Anthony Blea

Female Singer: Terri Lyne Carrington, Eliane Elias

Male Singer: Kurt Elling, Theo Bleckmann

Live Band: David Murray Cuban Ensemble, Janya

Record Label: ECM

Roberto Barahona

www.purojazz.com

Musician: Sonny Rollins

Newcomer Musician: Ambrose Akinmusire

Group: Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet

Newcomer Group: Ninety Miles – Stefon Harris / David Sánchez / Christian Scott

Album: Ambrose Akinmusire – When The Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)

Composer: John Zorn

Drums: Gerald Cleaver

Bass: William Parker

Guitar: Rez Abbasi

Piano: Fred Hersch

Keyboards: Craig Taborn

Saxophone: Ellery Eskelin

Trumpet/Cornet: Roy Campbell

Clarinet: Perry Robinson

Trombone: George Lewis

Violin/Viola: Carla Kihlstedt

Cello: Erik Friedlander

Vibraphone: Steve Nelson

Female Singer: Diana DeRose

Male Singer: Kurt Elling

Live Band: William Parker & ICI Ensemble

Record Label: CleanFeed

Francis Davis

http://www.villagevoice.com/authors/francis-davis/

http://www.rhapsody.com/#blog/2012/01/jazzpoll

Musician: Sonny Rollins, Ambrose Akinmusire, Matthew Shipp

Newcomer Musician: Steven Lugerner

Group: ICP Orchestra, Trio M, Klang

Newcomer Group: Dollshot, Brian Carpenter’s New Ghost Train Orchestra

Album: Dave Douglas – Three Views (Greenleaf), James Carter – Caribbean Rhapsody (Emarcy), Tony Malaby – Novela (Clean Feed)
Composer: Dave Douglas, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jason Kao Hwang

Drums: Gerald Cleaver, Tyshawn Sorey, Matt Wilson

Bass: Christian McBride, William Parker, John Hebert

Guitar: Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, Mary Halvorson

Piano: Matthew Shipp, Myra Melford, Vijay Iyer

Keyboards: Gary Versace

Saxophone: Sonny Rollins, James Carter, Tony Malaby

Trumpet/Cornet: Dave Douglas, Ambrose Akinmusire, Darren Johnston

Clarinet: Don Byron, James Falzone, Anat Cohen

Trombone: Roswell Rudd, Ray Anderson, Samuel Blaser

Violin/Viola: Charles Burnham, Mark Feldman, Jason Kao Hwang

Cello: Erik Friedlander

Vibraphone: Jason Adasiewicz, Gary Burton, Chris Dingman

Other Instruments: Joseph Daley (tuba)

Female Singer: Catherine Russell, Rebecca Kilgore, Rosalie Kaplan

Male Singer: Theo Bleckmann, Bryan Anthony

Laurence Donohue-Greene

nycjazzrecord.com

Musico: Chick Corea, Craig Taborn, Fred Ho

Newcomer Musician: Matt Mitchell, Dan Tepfer, Joachim Badenhorst

Group: Adam Rudolph Go Organic Orchestra, Orrin Evans Captain Black Big Band, Tony Malaby’s Novela

Newcomer Group: Starlicker, Herculaneum, Honey Ear Trio

Album: Bill Dixon – Envoi (Victo), Other Dimensions in Music – Kaiso Stories -feat. Fay Victor- (Silkheart), Michael Bates – Acrobat: Music for, And By, Dmitri Shostakovich (Sunnyside)

Composer: Fred Ho, Adam Rudolph, Butch Morris

Drums: Paul Motian, Roy Haynes, Nasheet Waits

Bass: Joelle Leandre, Mark Helias, Mark Dresser

Guitar: Nels Cline, Mary Halvorson, Pat Metheny

Piano: Craig Taborn, Chick Corea, Matthew Shipp

Keyboards: Dr. Lonnie Smith, John Medeski, Brian Charette

Saxophone: Joe Lovano, John Butcher, Darius Jones

Trumpet/Cornet: Nate Wooley, Peter Evans, Kirk Knuffke

Clarinet: Joachim Badenhorst, Ab Baars, Michael Moore

Trombone: Samuel Blaser, Steve Swell, Ray Anderson

Violin/Viola: Jason Kao Hwang, Mark Feldman, Szilard Mezei

Cello: Ernst Reijseger, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Daniel Levin

Vibraphone: Jason Adasiewicz, Chris Dingman, Kenny Wollesen

Other Instruments: Jason Stein (bass clarinet), Michel Pilz (bass clarinet), Scott Robinson (everything is possible!)

Female Singer: Fay Victor, Rene Marie, Sheila Jordan

Male Singer: Giacomo Gates, Gregory Porter, Ed Reed

Live Band: Wayne Shorter Quartet, Adam Rudolph GO: Organic Orchestra, Peter Evans Quartet

Record Label: Clean Feed, Delmark, Cuneiform

Note: 10 points were awarded for each category broken into a sequence of 5, 3 and 2 (for first, second and third place respectively) in cases in which they chose three; then 6 and 4 in those which two were mentioned. In cases in which just one was chosen per category, a maximum of 6 points were granted.

Sexta Encuesta Anual a Músicos Internacionales sobre la Nueva Música Creativa

Con cuatro menciones cada uno aparecen:

Kris Davis – Aeriol Piano (Clean Feed), Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Coleur Libres (Constellation), Okkyung Lee – Noisy Love Songs (Tzadik), Roscoe Mitchell – Before There Was Sound (Nessa), Red Trío + John Butcher – Empire (No Business) y Tony Malaby – Novela (Clean Feed)

Han participado (por orden alfabético):

Achim Kaufmann, Adam Hopkins, Alexandra Grimal, Alan Ferber, Alon Nechustan, Andrew Raffo Dewar, Andrea Centazzo, Aram Shelton, Asaf Sirkis, Ben Kono, Ben Wendel, Bobb Bruno, Brandon Seabrook, Brett Sroka, Brian Settles, Bryan Murray, Carla Bozulich, Carlo Costa, Carlos Bica, Carlos Zíngaro, Ches Smith, Chris Dingman, Christopher Hoffman, C. Spencer Yeh, Curtis Hasselbring, Daniel Studer, Dave Ballou, Dave Rempis, David Bindman, David Weiss, Dennis González, Dylan Ryan, Eivind Opsvik, Florian Egli, Frank Gratkowski, Fred Hersch, Fumio Yasuda, Gerry Hemingway, Greg Burk, Harris Eisenstadt, Hasse Poulsen, Hernani Faustino, Hugo Antunes, Hugo Carvalhais, Jason Kahn, Jason Kao Hwang, Jason Stein, Jeb Bishop, Jeremiah Cymerman, Jeremy Viner, Jessica Pavone, Jewlia Einsenberg, Jim Campilongo, Jim Pugliese, John Butcher, John Ewing, John Schott, Jon Irabagon, Jon Lundbom, Joseph Daley, Josh Berman, Katherine Young, Ken Field, Ken Hyder, Keir Neuringer, Kevin Shea, Kyoko Kitamura, Larry Ochs, Lasse Marhaug, Lisa Mezzacappa, Lotte Anker, Lucas Niggli, Mark Dresser, Mark Holub, Martin Kuchen, Mary Halvorson, Mats Gustafsson, Matt Wright, Mazen Kerbaj, Meg Okura, Michael Jaeger, Michael Pisaro, Miguel Zenon, Mike Pride, Moppa Elliott, Nate Wooley, Nathan Hanson, Nicholas Urie, Nils Wogram, Paolo Angeli, Pete Fitzpatrick, Pete Robbins, Rez Abbasi, Rob Mazurek, Rodrigo Amado, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Russ Lossing, Saadet Turkoz, Sabrina Lastman, Sam Pluta, Sam Sadigursky, Samuel Blaser, Sarah Bernstein, Sarah Wilson, Sara Serpa, Satoko Fujii, Scott Amendola, Sebastian Gramss, Silke Eberhard, Shawn Baltazor, Simon Nabatov, Steve Cardenas, Steve Swell, Stew Cutler, Szilard Mesei, Tassos Spiliotopoulos, Taylor Ho Bynum, Terrence McMannus, Theo Bleckmann, Thomas Heberer, Thollem McDonas, Tim Daisy, Toby Driver, Todd Sickafoose, Tomas Fujiwara, Tom Blancarte, Vijay Anderson, Vijay Iyer, Waclaw Zimpel

Listas completas según el orden en que fueron presentadas:

Nicholas Urie

(Compositor y arreglista estadounidense. Líder de Nicholas Urie’s Large Ensemble; co-lidera The Frank Carlberg/Urie City Band. Algunas de sus composiciones han sido interpretadas por Bob Brookmeyer, Vince Mendoza, Chris Speed, The Metropole Orchestra, The Moebius Chamber Orchestra, The Berklee Chamber Orchestra, Bob Moses, John McNeil’s Concert Jazz Orchestra, Kurt Elling y Klavers Big Band, entre otros)

John O’Gallagher / Vardan Ovsepian – Nocturnal Prophecy (Red Piano Records)

Theo Bleckmann – Hello Earth! The Music of Kate Bush (Winter & Winter)

Erik Friedlander – Bonebridge (Skipstones Records)

Frank Carlberg – Uncivilized Ruminations (Red Piano Records)

http://www.nicholasurie.com/

Kevin Shea

(Baterista estadounidense. Líder de Kevin Shea’s Lonely Gold Mine of Symbolic Subterfuge. Integra Mostly Other People do the Killing, Talibam!, People, Great Lakes, I Was a King, Puttin’ on the Ritz, etc.)

Alan Wilkinson – Practice (Bo Weavil Recordings)

Ambrose Akinmusire – When the Heart Emerges Glisting (Blue Note Records)

Bitch Magnet – Bitch Magnet (Temporary Residence)

Brian Ferneyhough – Funerailles (Stradivarius)

David S. Ware / Cooper Moore / William Parker / Muhammed Ali – Planetary Unknow (AUM Fidelity)

Miles Davis – Live in Europe 1967: The Book Series Vol. 1 (Sony Legacy)

Ravish Momin – After the Disquiet (EP)

Samuel Blaser & Paul Motian – Consort in Motion (Kind of Blue)

Tyshawn Sorey – Oblique-I (Pi Recordings)

Wolfgang Rihm – Fetzen (Winter & Winter)

www.kevinshea.info

www.myspace.com/kevinshea

www.facebook.com/kevinshea

Tom Blancarte

(Bajista, contrabajista y compositor estadounidense. Integra Seabrook Power Plant, Peter Evans Quartet & Quintet, Dan Peck Trio y Totem. Ha colaborado con Sylvie Courvoisier, Peter Brötzmann, Mary Halvorson, Okkyung Lee, Jeremiah Cymerman, Weasel Walter,etc.)

Krallice – Diotima (Profound Lore)

Peter Evans / Nate Wooley – High Society (Carrier Records)

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel (ECM Records)

Björk – Biophilia (One Little Indian)

http://www.tomblancarte.com/

http://www.myspace.com/tomblancarte

Michael Pisaro

(Guitarrista y compositor estadounidense. Miembro de Wandelweiser Composer Ensamble; fundador y director del Experimental Music Workshop)

Hecker / Meillassoux – Speculative Solution (Urbanomic / Editions Mego)

Antoine Beuger – keine fernen mehr (Edition Wandelweiser)

David Lynch – Crazy Clown Time (Sunday Best)

Taku Unami / Takahiro Kawaguchi – Teatro Assente (Erstwhile)

Julia Holter – Tragedy (Leaving Records)

Anett Nemeth – A Pauper’s Guide to John Cage & Early Morning Melacholia (Another Timbre)

http://www.timescraper.de/pisaro/ 

Miguel Zenon

(Compositor y saxofonista nacido en San Juan, Puerto Rico. Ha lanzado seis álbumes como líder incluyendo el reciente Alma Adentro en donde rinde tributo al Puerto Rican Songbook. Trabajó con Charlie Haden, David Sánchez, The Mingus Big Band, Bobby Hutcherson, Steve Coleman y SF Jazz Colective. Recibió múltiples nominaciones a los premios Grammy y obtuvo becas del John Simon Guggenheim Foundation y MacArthur Fellowship. Es miembro facultativo del New England Conservatory of Music y fundador del programa Caravana Cultural que presenta conciertos de jazz gratuitos en zonas rurales de Puerto Rico)

Intifada – Intifada III (Independiente)

Yuba Ire – ¡Ya Está! ¡Se formó! (Héctor Calderón)

Radiohead – The King of Limbs (TBD Records)

Dave Binney – Graylen Epicenter (Mithology Records)

Gonzalo Rubalcaba – Fe (SPassion)

Danger Mouse and Danielle Luppi – Rome (Capitol)

Branford Marsalis & Joey Calderazzo – Songs Of Mirth And Melancholy (Marsalis Music)

Adam Cruz – Milestone (101 Distribution ADA)

Aca Seca Trío – Ventanas (Sony Music)

Becca Stevens – Weightless (Sunnyside Records)

www.miguelzenon.com

Carlos “Zíngaro” Alves

(Compositor, violinista e improvisador portugués. Trabajó con Richard Teitenbaum, Joelle Leandre, Peter Kowald, Barre Phillips, Derek Bailey, Ken Vandermark, Rodrigo Amado, Ned Rothenberg, Evan Parker, Paul Lovens, etc. Ha compuesto música para teatro, cine y compañías de danza y es un reconocido ilustrador y autor de historietas)

Daunik Lazro – Some Other Zongs (Ayler Records)

http://efi.group.shef.ac.uk/
http://www.granular.pt
http://www.myspace.com/carloszingaro
http://www.facebook.com/profile.phpref=profile&id=1051161473

Jeremiah Cymerman

(Clarinetista, compositor, productor, curador y líder de banda estadounidense. Integra Tartar Lamb y ha trabajado con John Zorn, Nate Wooley, Harris Eisenstadt, Evan Parker, Butch Morris, Peter Evans, Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone, Toby Driver, Otomo Yoshihide, Anthony Coleman y Matthew Welch, entre otros)

-Lista sin orden en particular-

Esoteric – Paragon of Dissonance (Season of Mist)

Morton Feldman – Orchestra (Mode Records)

John Zorn – Enigmata (Tzadik)

Asva – Presences of Absences (Important Records)

Eliane Radigue – Transamorem Transmortem (Important Records)

Evan Parker & Matthew Wright – Trance Map (Psi Records)

Nate Wooley – [8] syllables (Peira Records)

Marc Maron – This Has to Be Funny (Comedy Central Records)

www.jeremiahcymerman.com

Szilard Mezai

(Compositor, violinista, violista y contrabajista serbio. Lidera Szilard Mezei Trio, Szilard Mezei Wind Quartet, MAKUZ, Szilard Mezei Quintet, etc. Trabajó con Matthias Schubert, Robert Benko, Peter Ole Jorgensen, Joe Fonda, Joelle Leandre, Hamid Drake, Herb Robertson y Frank Gratowski, entre otros.  Es miembro de Composer Association of Serbia, Hungarian Gyoofree Jazz y Contemporary and Folk Music Workshop Comitee)

Anthony Braxton – Trillium E (New Braxton House)

http://www.szilardmezei.net/

Tim Daisy

(Compositor, baterista y percusionista nacido en Estados Unidos. Es miembro de Vox Arcana, James Falzone’s KLANG, Resonance Ensemble, The Rempis Percussion Quartet e integra sendos dúos junto a Frank Rosaly, Dave Rempis y Ken Vandermark)

John Cage – Etudes Australes [Sabine Liebner-piano] (Wergo)

Jason Stein Quartet – The Story This Time (Delmark)

Extraordinary Popular Delusions – Apocyphal Fire in the Wharehouse, and Other Explanations (Harmonic Convergence)

Cylinder [Aram Shelton/Darren Johnston/Lisa Mezzacappa/ Kjell Nordeson] – Cylinder (Clean Feed)

Paal Nillsen-Love – Townorchestrahouse (Clean Feed)

Sten Sandell Trío + John Butcher – Strokes (Clean Feed)

Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres (Constellation)

Starlicker – Double Demon (Delmark)

Earl Brown – A Life In Music -Vol 4 [Earle Brown's Contemporary Sound Series] (Wergo)

1Ircha – Mikolaj Trzska Clarinet Quartet – Watching Edvard (Kilogram)

www.timdaisy.com

Andrea Centazzo

(Compositor, percusionista, productor y artista multimedios italiano. Ha dirigido American Youth Symphonic Orchestra, LA Contemporary Orchestra, Mitteleuropa Orchestra y ER Youth Symphonic Orchestra. Trabajó con John Zorn, Sylvano Bussotti, Steve Lacy, Don Cherry, Evan Parker, Fred Frith, Tom Cora, Henry Kaiser, Albert Mangelsdorff, etc.)

Andrea Centazzo Ensemble (Dave Ballou, Nobu Stowe, Achille Succi y Daniel Barbiero) – Moon in Winter (ICTUS)

Don Preston/ Andrea Centazzo – Escape from 2012 (ICTUS)

Elliott Sharp / Andrea Centazzo – Snowplow (ICTUS)

AC Mitteleuropa Orchestra – Rain on the Border (ICTUS)

http://www.andreacentazzo.com/

http://www.myspace.com/andreacentazzo

Alexandra Grimal

(Saxofonista y compositora nacida en El Cairo, Egipto. Es egresada del Conservatorio Real de La Haya en Países Bajos y estudió en el Conservatorio Nacional Superior de Música de París y en la Academia Sibelius de Helsinki en Finlandia. Lidera el Alexandra Grimal Quartet y Dragons; integra el Alexandra Grimal/Joelle Leandre Duo  y ha colaborado como sesionista con Birgitte Lyregaard, You had me at hello, Eduard Ferlet, Fred Norel y Julio Resende, entre otros.)

-Agradecemos el aporte fotográfico de Etienne Bauduin-

Marc Ducret – Tower Vol 1 & Vol 2 (Ayler Records)

Giovanni di Domenico (con Arve Henriksen/ Tatsuhisa Yamamoto) – Clinamen (Off-Rat 2010)

Nelson Veras (con Thomas Morgan / Stephane Galland) – Rouge sur Blanc (Bee Jazz)

Eric Thielemans – Solo http://oorwerk.bandcamp.com/releases (ET’s own Oorverk Label, 2010)

Jozef Dumoulin – Rainbow Dody (con Trevor Dunn/ Eric Thielemans) - (Bee Jazz)

Steve Coleman & Five Elements – Mancy of Sound (Pi Recordings, 2010)

Tyshawn Sorey (con Thomas Morgan / Todd Neufeld) – Koan  (482 Music, 2009)

Alejandro Castaños – Intersecciones (incluido en el álbum Pasajes México) – (Neos)

Silencers (con Benoit Delbecq, Kim Myhr, Nils Ostendorf, Toma Gouband) – Balance des Blancs (Sofa Records)

Joelle Leandre – Solo (Kadima Collective Recordings)

www.alexandragrimal.com

Thomas Heberer

(Trompetista y compositor alemán, actualmente radicado en Estados Unidos. Lidera el Thomas Heberer’s Clarino e integra el trío HNH y el Joe Hertenstein 4tet. Ha colaborado con Full Blast, Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Braxton, Peter Brotzmann, Dave Douglas, Gerry Hemingway, Steve Lacy, Butch Morris, John Zorn, Evan Parker, etc.)

Achim Kaufmann – Verivyr (Pirouet Records)

Okkyung Lee – Noisy Love Songs (Tzadik)

Francesco Bigoni – Hopscotch (Ilk Records)

www.thomasheberer.com

Jon Lundbom

(Guitarrista, compositor y líder de banda estadounidense. Encabeza Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord e integra Bryan Murray & The Haggards y The Stutt Brothers.  Ha colaborado con Tom Harrell, Andi Rae Healy, Ken Vandermark, Joe Lovano, Wolfe & the Wayside, Fred Lomberg-Holm, Wolfe & the Wayside y Aaron Irwin’s Vicious World Project, entre otros)

Feist – Metals (Cherrytree / Interscope)

Beatie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee, Part 2 (Capitol Records)

The Decemberists – The King is Dead (Capitol Records)

My Morning Jacket – Circuital (ATO Recors / Red)

Tom Waits – Bad as Me (Anti)

Wye Oak – Civilian (Merge Records)

Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord – Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! (Hot Cup Records)

Bryan & the Haggards – Still Alive and Kickin’ Down the Walls (Hot Cup Records)

Noam Pikelny – Beat the Devil and Carry a Rail (Compass Records)

Tim Kuhl – Doomsaver

www.jonlundbom.com

John Butcher

(Saxofonista, compositor e improvisador inglés. Lidera el John Butcher Group e integra el Anemone Quintet, The Contest of Pleasure, Elision, Thermal, The Way Out Northwest. Recientemente se asocio al grupo portugués Red Trío Fue miembro de Polwechsel, Spontaneus Music Ensemble, News from the Shed y trabajo con Elton Dean, Jon Corbett y Phil Minton, entre muchos otros)

“Cada vez valoro más y más el descubrimiento fortuito cuando escucho música. Lo mejor que he escuchado este año es a Mike Osborne, Paul Rogers y John Stevens tocando Summertime en The Plough en el sur de Londres en 1979. Éste es un CD que compré en Ayler Records – John Stevens Trio – Live at The Plough (Ayler Records) – La gente escribe con diferentes grados de sentido y sinsentido sobre el arte marginal. Esto se siente genuinamente así y más aún. Allí hay un maravilloso punto de fuga justo después de los tres minutos en el que Osborne hace un altissimo (el registro más alto en un instrumento de viento) que parece evaporarse en el éter para luego regresar por arte de magia cuando Stevens hace unos redobles en los tambores justo antes del final”

http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk/

Nate Wooley

(Trompetista, compositor e improvisador estadounidense. Líder del Nate Wooley Quintet y de Seven Storey Mountain. Miembro de Cracklnob, Peter Evans/Nate Wooley Dúo, Transit, Nate Wooley/Paul Lytton Dúo, Blue Collar, Adam Lane’s Full Throttle Orchestra y Harris Eisenstadt’s Canada Day & Octet. Ha colaborado con Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Jeremiah Cymerman, Marilyn Crispell, Pete Robbins, Taylor Ho Bynum, etc.)

C.Spencer Yeh – 1975 (Intransitive Recordings)

Don Dietrich / Ben Hall – Spitfire (What)

DJ Sniff – EP (Psi Recordings)

Jeremiah Cymerman – Fire Sign (Tzadik)

Adam linson Systems Quartet – Figures and Grounds (Psi Recordings)

Scott Joplin – Treemonisha (Deutsche Grammophon)

Sissy Spacek – Dash (Helicopter)

Evan Parker and Matthew Wright – Trance Map (Psi Recordings)

RED Trio and John Butcher – Empire (No Business Records)

Alva Noto / Ryuichi Sakamoto with Ensemble Modern – Utp (Raster Music)

www.natewooley.com

Theo Bleckmann

(Cantante, compositor y artista multimedios nacido en Alemania. Líder de Theo Bleckmann’s Hello Earth! e integra sendos dúos con el guitarrista Ben Monder, el pianista Fumio Yasuda y  el baterista John Hollenbeck. Miembro de Refuge Trio, MOSS y el John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble. Colabora con el Meredith Monk Ensemble, The Claudia Quintet y Uri Caine Ensemble, entre otros)

Gabriel Kahane – Where are the Arms (2nd Story Sound Records)

Kate Bush – 50 Words for Snow (ANTI Records)

Håkon Kornstad – Symphonies in my Head (Jazzland Recording)

Todd Reynolds – Outerborough (Innova Records)

Craig Taborn – Avenging Angels (ECM)

Meredith Monk – Songs of Ascension (ECM)

Phil Minton/Okkyung Lee – Anicca (LP) (Dancing Wayang)

Okkyung Lee – Noisy Love Songs (Tzadik)

Giovanna Pessi – If Grief Could Wait (ECM)

Uri Caine – The Drummer Boy (Winter & Winter)

www.theobleckmann.com

Scott Amendola