{"id":8409,"date":"2017-01-18T16:04:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T16:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=8409"},"modified":"2017-01-19T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T16:07:08","slug":"culture-currents-best-jazz-recordings-etc-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=8409","title":{"rendered":"Culture Currents best jazz recordings, etc. of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Readers will note, in my belated list, a preponderance of piano recordings indicating that, like classical music\u2019s string quartet, the piano trio remains jazz\u2019s most fundamental and vital chamber ensemble form. And my top choice, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith\u2019s epic 2-CD adventure in tribute to America\u2019s National Parks<\/em> and beyond, shows how far a chamber-sized jazz group can travel in their evocation, expression and beauty.<\/p>\n

At the spectrum\u2019s other end, Darcy James Argue makes his maximalist orchestral approach incisive, dramatic and unsettlingly to the point that presses into our darkest fears about beneath-the-radar politics, especially conspiracy “theorists.”<\/p>\n

The improbable sleeper of the year is The State of the Baritone<\/em> by Madison WI reed player Anders Svanoe, who rewarded producer-saxophonist Jon Irabagon\u2019s faith in him, with an ambitious and conceptually lucid\u00a0statement about the hulking horn\u2019s ability to float like a butterfly and roar like a buffalo stampede, among other qualities.<\/p>\n

And historically speaking, Resonance Records continues to open up windows into the past that we never dreamed existed.<\/p>\n

Top Ten Jazz Albums of 2016 (in order of preference)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wadada Leo Smith \u2013 America\u2019s National Parks<\/em> (Cuneiform)<\/p>\n

Denny Zeitlin \u2013 Solo Piano: Early Wayne: Explorations of Classic Wayne Shorter Compositions<\/em> (Sunnyside)<\/p>\n

Fred Hersch Trio \u2013 Sunday Night at the Vanguard<\/em> (Palmetto)<\/p>\n

Darcy James Argue Secret Society \u2013 Real Enemies<\/em> (New Amsterdam)<\/p>\n

Kim Davis \u2013 Duopoly<\/em> (CD\/DVD) (Pyroclastic)<\/p>\n

Frank Kimbrough \u2013 Solstice<\/em> (Piroet)<\/p>\n

Marcus Strickland\u2019s Twi-Life \u2013 Nihil Novi<\/em> (Blue Note)<\/p>\n

Loren Richardson \u2013 Shift<\/em> (Blue Note)<\/p>\n

Anders Svanoe \u2013 State of the Baritone<\/em> (Irabaggast Records)<\/p>\n

Aziza \u2013 Aziza<\/em> (Redeye)<\/p>\n

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Best Latin Jazz Album<\/strong><\/p>\n

(tie) Harold Lopez-Nussa \u2013 El Viaje<\/em> (Mack Avenue)<\/p>\n

Edward Simon \u2013 Latin American Songbook<\/em> (Sunnyside)<\/p>\n

Best Vocal Album<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gregory Porter\u00a0\u2013 Take Me to the Alley<\/em> (Blue Note)<\/p>\n

Best Historic Recordings\/Reissues<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry Young \u2013 In Paris: The ORTF Recordings<\/em> (Resonance)<\/p>\n

Bill Evans \u2013 Some Other Time: The Lost Session from the Black Forest<\/em> (Resonance)<\/p>\n

Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra \u2013 All My Yesterdays: The Debut 1966 Recordings at the Village Vanguard<\/em> (Resonance)<\/p>\n

Paul Butterfield Blues Band \u2013 Got a Mind to Give Up Living Live 1966<\/em> (Real Gone Music)<\/p>\n

Best Blues\/Roots Album<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tedeschi Trucks Band \u2013 Let Me Get By<\/em> (Deluxe Edition) (Fantasy)<\/p>\n

Best World Music<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yo-Yo Ma and Silk Road Ensemble \u2013 Sing Me Home<\/em> (Masterworks)<\/p>\n

Best Live Performance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tedeschi Trucks Band\/Los Lobos, \u00a0White River Park,\u00a0Indianapolis, July 27
\nRick Germanson Trio, Jazz Estate, Milwaukee, Dec. 23<\/p>\n

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A cool aspect of the Tedeschi Trucks Band’s “Wheels of Soul” tour was its communal\/interactive value. Here guitarist Derek Trucks (foreground, left) jams with David Hidalgo, lead guitarist-singer with Los Lobos, which preceded the Tedeschi Trucks Band in Indianapolis. The onstage band here includes members of Los Lobos and the TTB horn section, on far right. Photo: Kevin Lynch\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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