I attempted the impossible here, which is to compile a fav’s list mixing all genres of music. Why not? It is what it is, but in the end squeezed out a lot of potential picks.
1. Ken Vandermark’s TOPOLOGY Nonet featuring Joe McPhee- Impressions of PO Music.
(Joe McPhee: tenor saxophone / Jason Adasiewicz: vibraphone / Josh Berman: cornet /
Jeb Bishop: trombone / Tim Daisy: drums / Kent Kessler: bass / Fred Lonberg-Holm:
cello and electronics / Dave Rempis: saxophones / Ken Vandermark: clarinets and
tenor saxophone)
2. I.P.A. – Bubble (Atle Nymo / Magnus Broo / Mattias Stahl / Ingebrigt Haker
Flaten / Hakon Mjaset Johansen)
3. DKV + Gustafsson / Pupillo / Nilssen-Love – SCHL8HOF (Hamid Drake / Kent Kessler
/ Ken Vandermark / Mats Gustafsson / Paal Nilssen-Love / Massimo Pupillo)
4. The Spyrals – Out Of Sight (Mock Records)
5. Atomic – There’s a Hole in the Mountain (Fredrik Ljungkvist / Magnus Broo /
Havard Wilk / Ingebrigt Haker Flaten / Paal Nilssen-Love)
6. Califone – Stitches (Dead Oceans)
7. Tarbaby – Ballad Of Sam Langford (Orrin Evans / Eric Revis / Nasheet Waits)
8. Goat – Live Ballroom Ritual (Rocket Recordings)
9. Frank Rosaly – Cicada Music (James Falzone – clarinet / Jason Stein – bass
clarinet / Keefe Jackson – bass clarinet, contra bass clarinet, tenor / Jason
Adasiewicz – vibraphone / Jason Roebke – bass / Frank Rosaly – drums)
10. Made To Break – Lacerba (Ken Vandermark / Christof Kurzmann / Devin Hoff / Tim
Daisy)
11. Valerie June – Pushin’ Against A Stone (Sunday Best)
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