SCARUFFI'S TOP JAZZ AND CLASSICAL OF THE YEAR IS HERE!!

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>Best jazz albums of 2017:

Jason Moran: MASS {Howl, eon} (Yes Records)
Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse: Morphogenesis (Pi)
William Parker: Meditation/Resurrection (AUM Fidelity)
Vijay Iyer Sextet: Far From Over (ECM)
Roscoe Mitchell: Bells For The South Side
Craig Taborn: Daylight Ghosts
Ahmad Jamal: The Awakening
Lisa Mezzacappa: Glorious Ravage
Rez Abbasi: Unfiltered Universe (Whirlwind)
Linda May Han Oh: Walk Against Wind (Biofilia)
Dave Douglas & the Westerlies: Little Giant Still Life (Greenleaf)
Joe Fiedler: Like, Strange (Multiphonics)
Kate Gentile: Mannequins (Skirl)
Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble: Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE)
Wadada Leo Smith: Najwa (TUM)
Tyshawn Sorey: Verisimilitude (Pi)
Jaimie Branch: Fly or Die (International Anthem)
Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-pak Coalition: Agrima

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>Best classical music recordings:

Osvaldo Golijov: Azul - The Knights & Yo-Yo Ma on cello
Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations - Beatrice Rana on piano
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 - Riccardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Antonin Dvorak: Stabat Mater - Jiri Belohlavek conducting the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and the Prague Philharmonic Choir
Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus - Marc-Andre Hamelin piano
Stephen Hartke: The Ascent of the Equestrian in a Balloon - Gil Rose conducts the Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3 - Ivan Fisher conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Cantemus Children’s Choir
The John Adams Edition - Berlin Philharmonic
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time - Martin Frost clarinet; Lucas Debargue piano; Janine Jansen violin; Torleif Thedeen cello
Antonin Dvorak: Quintets op. 81 & 97 - Pavel Haas Quartet
Franz Schubert Piano Sonatas Nos 20 & 21 - Krystian Zimerman on piano
Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 - Krzystof Urbanski conducts the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra & Anna Vinnitskaya on piano
Hans Abrahamsen: Four string quartets - Arditti Quartet
Linda Catlin Smith: Drifter - Her own chamber music
Tigran Mansurian: Requiem - Munich Chamber Orchestra
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7 - Marin Alsop conducts the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra
Alex Mincek: Torrent - Three of his own compositions
George Tsontakis: Anasa, True Colors, Unforgettable - Albany Symphony Orchestra

and finally:

>Best classical music compositions that i heard in 2017:

Osvaldo Golijov: Azul (2009)
Tigran Mansurian (Armenia, 1939): Requiem (2011)
George Tsontakis (USA, 1951): Violin Concerto No. 2 (2008)
Hans Abrahamsen (Denmark, 1952): Schnee for large ensemble (2008)
Stephen Hartke: Symphony 3 (2003)
Alex Mincek (USA, 1975): Pendulum VII (2012)
Linda Catlin Smith (USA, 1957): Drifter (2009)

all found here along with best books, films and more: scaruffi.com/politics/year2017.html

>*fixed

Scaruffi has garbage taste in jazz but this is one of his better yearly jazz lists for a while.

I CAN'T FIND A LINK FOR HIS NUMBER 1 JAZZ ALBUM

>not including Girls of the Golden West or Glass' new Concerto for compositions

he's favorites of all time are Mingus and Coltrane, he's patrician desu

Where is Cuphead OST

bump

RIP :((

wow rip

>ranks TBSATSL as his top jazz of all time
>shits on the very concept of improvisation
>that hilariously bad #1 pick for jazz this year
>patrician in any way

>>that hilariously bad #1 pick for jazz this year

explain

also do you have a link for it? I literally can't find it anywhere

>"The World is a lot Poorer without You": a tribute to the great minds we lost in 2017...
>has Chris Cornell but no Chester Bennington

what did he mean by this?

JTG's jazz list is better

link?

Listen to the available tracks. Like most things Scaruffi likes, the initial idea's great where the electronics come in when the cornet plays and it plays something different to the cornet so it sounds like a musical concept of idk like DID or something. The raw production of it all sounds cool, too since everyone since has their space in the music. But the execution's so weak. The piano/rhodes doesn't really go anywhere on either piece, choosing to repeat lines and not really be that expressive. There's a similar problem with the drums, although the drummer honestly might have the most expression of the three musicians with how he adds variations on what he's doing. The cornetist is the worst though because he just blares a note or two occasionally. Very cool concept with weak ass execution.

Just check out some of the other ones in his top list. His #2 for example (Morphogenesis). At first it sounds like a sheer clusterfuck, but once you get attuned to the various moving parts you realize just how expressive the damn thing is and how much all the instrumentalists are interaction with each others. Or his #4 (Far From Over) which has its repetition bits but they are so rhythmically interesting going back and forth between grooves and just sheer technical jazz drumming. Or the third to last record on that list if you want something with a creative concept (Verisimilitude) where it's a drummer, pianist, and double bass but these three are playing their instruments in ways where they are emulating things like Indian classical music drones or electroacoustic music.

rateyourmusic.com/collection/jazzthreadguy/strm_relyear,ss.rd/2017

Three heroes who stood up to the quasi-dictator of their respective countries:

Russia's main opposition leader Alexei Navalny
Turkey's opposition politician Enis Berberoglu who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for publishing a video proving that the Turkish government has been secretely arming Islamists in Syria
FBI director Comey, fired by "Vladimir" Trump for refusing to stop the investigation into the Trump-Russia collusion

quads confirm. where tf is the cuphead ost it was the best jazz release this year

surprisingly reasonable and very 'mainstream' for Scruffy - closer to 'jazz critic consensus' I'd say than jtg's highest rated for example

isn't JTG's AOTY Far From Over? that album is widely acclaimed. it got number 1 of the year from NPR.

talking about the list in a wider sense like top 10-20 instead of just the one at the top. Iyer is high enough on Scruffy's list too.

>Worst books
>''Garry Wills' "What the Qur’an Meant". It's like Fox News writing a biograpy of Donald Trump that depicted him as honest, sincere and mentally stable. Wills (probably well-intentioned) twists every sentence in the Quran to make it look like the exact opposite of what it is (a war manual against all other religions of the world). He accuses us (those who speak out against the ideology of Islam) of “fearful ignorance”: we can accuse him of "wishful ignorance", like when he repeats the classic Islamic propaganda that "jihad" does not mean “holy war” but just “striving”: Mohammed showed with his actions what "jihad" meant to him and to all of the Arabs of his era. Wills is using 21st century Westernized-Islamic vocabulary, not the original one. Unfortunately, plenty of Muslims in the Islamic world know exactly what the author of the Quran meant with "jihad".''

how can one man be so BASED?

that first one has 1 rym rating jesus
anyone got a download for it?

bump

Has he given up on poo/rock music?

maybe it's coming later but I wouldn't be surprised

so for real does anyone have a link to his no. 1 jazz album? legit can't find it anywhere except bandcamp where you have to pay TWENTY fucking dollars for a DIGITAL copy.

bump

...

nah, he made a list with some rock/pop albums last year.

I thought he was dead already.

he can't be killed

>Glijov
>mansurian
memes, big fat memes

rest of those are pretty good though

I would unironically bawl