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
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
Ryder Carter
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)
Scaruffi has garbage taste in jazz but this is one of his better yearly jazz lists for a while.
Kayden Scott
I CAN'T FIND A LINK FOR HIS NUMBER 1 JAZZ ALBUM
Wyatt Gutierrez
>not including Girls of the Golden West or Glass' new Concerto for compositions
William Thompson
he's favorites of all time are Mingus and Coltrane, he's patrician desu
Nathan Jackson
Where is Cuphead OST
Julian Hill
bump
Jace Martin
RIP :((
Liam Clark
wow rip
Brandon Ward
>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
Thomas Brooks
>>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
Tyler Sanders
>"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?
Jordan Myers
JTG's jazz list is better
Connor James
link?
Lucas Watson
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.
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
Jason James
quads confirm. where tf is the cuphead ost it was the best jazz release this year
Carson Edwards
surprisingly reasonable and very 'mainstream' for Scruffy - closer to 'jazz critic consensus' I'd say than jtg's highest rated for example
Eli Cooper
isn't JTG's AOTY Far From Over? that album is widely acclaimed. it got number 1 of the year from NPR.
Jonathan Rogers
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.
Jordan Price
>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?
Eli Ward
that first one has 1 rym rating jesus anyone got a download for it?
Levi Miller
bump
Juan Rogers
Has he given up on poo/rock music?
Aiden Ross
maybe it's coming later but I wouldn't be surprised
Charles Miller
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.
Angel Williams
bump
Aiden Johnson
...
Adrian Moore
nah, he made a list with some rock/pop albums last year.