Allright, here they are then, the albums of the year 2012 as selected by the entire review team of the Free Jazz Collective. Each reviewer presented his (unfortunately not her) list of the ten best albums of the year. Based on the commonalities between those lists, we selected the top-10 that we all favoured.
The Free Jazz Collective Top-10 albums of 2012
- Eve Risser, Benjamin Duboc & Edward Perraud - En Corps
- Angles 8 - By Way Of Deception
- The Thing With Barry Guy - Metal!
- Aram Shelton Quartet - Everything for Somebody
- Henry Threadgill Zooid – Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp
- Nicole Mitchell - Arc Of O
- Mary Halvorson Quintet - Bending Bridges
- Martin Küchen - Hellstorm
- Levity - Afternoon Delights
- Stian Westerhus - The Matriarch & The Wrong Kind Of Flower
Every contributor to the blog also made his own list of preferred
albums.
Denti Alligator
1.
Eve
Risser, Benjamin Duboc & Edward Perraud - En Corps
2.
Aaron
Novik - Secret of Secrets
3.
Neneh
Cherry & The Thing - The Cherry
Thing
4.
Bester
Quartet - Metamorphoses
5.
Charles
Gayle - Streets
6.
Keith
Rowe - September
7.
Mats
Gustafsson - Bengt
8.
David
Krakauer - Pruflas - The Book of Angels Volume 18
9.
King
Tears Bat Trip - King Tears Bat Trip
10.
The
Thing With Barry Guy - Metal!
Paul Acquaro
1.
Mary
Halvorson Quintet - Bending Bridges
2.
Elliot
Sharp Trio - Aggregat
3.
9
Volt - Open Circuit
4.
Elephant9
with Reine Fiske - Atlantis
5.
Joe
Morris, William Parker, Gerald Cleaver - Altitude
6.
Paul
Dunmall & Tony Bianco - Thank You To John Coltrane
7.
Eivind
Opsvik - Overseas IV
8.
Aych
- As the Crow Flies
9.
Scorch
Trio with Mars Williams - Made in Norway
10.
Tim
Berne - Snake Oil
Tom Burris
1.
Eve
Risser, Benjamin Duboc & Edward Perraud – En Corps
2.
Nicole
Mitchell – Arc of O
3.
Jooklo
Duo & Bill Nace – Scratch
4.
Mary
Halvorson Quintet - Bending Bridges
5.
Henry
Threadgill Zooid – Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp
6.
Rob
Mazurek Pulsar Quartet – Stellar Pulsations
7.
Sam
Rivers, Dave Holland & Barry Altschul – Reunion: Live in New York
8.
Hairy
Bones – Snakelust
9.
Noah
Bernstein – Six
10.
Ballister
– Mechanisms
Daniel Sorrelis
1.
Eve
Risser, Benjamin Duboc & Edward Perraud - En Corps
2.
Eli
Keszler - Catching Net
3.
Angles
8 - By Way of Deception: Live in Ljubjana
4.
Angharad
Davies, Tisha Mukarji, Dimitria Lazaridou-Chatzigoga - Outwash
5.
Pedro
Sousa & Hernâni Faustino - Falaise
6.
Martin
Küchen - Hellstorm
7.
Way
Out Northwest - The White Spot
8.
Mikołaj
Trzaska, Ollie Brice, Mark Sanders - Riverloam Trio
9.
John
Tilbury - For Tomasz Sikorski
10.
Henry
Threadgill Zooid - Tomorrow Sunny/The Revelry, Spp.
Phil Coombs
1.
Angles
8 - By Way of Deception - Live in Ljubljana
2.
Nicole
Mitchell - Arc of O
3.
Steve
Lehman Trio - Dialect Fluorescent
4.
Daniel
Erdmann - How to Catch a Cloud
5.
MMM
Quartet - Live at Metz' Arsenal
6.
Emile
Parisien - Chien Guepe
7.
Aram
Shelton Quartet - Everything for Somebody
8.
Matthew
Shipp Trio - Elastic Aspects
9.
Max
Johnson Quartet
10.
Eve
Risser - En Corps
Joe Higham
1.
John
Butcher and Toshimaru Nakamura - Dusted Machinery
2.
Levity
- Afternoon Delights
3.
Aram
Shelton Quartet - Everything for Somebody
4.
Daniel
Erdmann - How to Catch a Cloud
5.
Marc
Ducret - Tower Vol. 4
6.
Eve
Risser - En Corps
7.
Outhouse
- Straw, Sticks + Bricks.
8.
Arts
and Sciences - New You
9.
Kay
Grant & Alex Ward - Fast Talk
10.
Fred
Lonberg-Holm's Fast Citizens - Gather
Paolo Casertano
1.
Stian
Westerhus - The Matriarch And The Wrong Kind Of Flowers
2.
Joe
McPhee & Eli Keszler - Ithaca
3.
Nate
Wooley/Peter Evans - Instrumental Vol. 1
4.
Colin
Stetson & Mats Gustafsson - Stones
5.
The
Thing with Barry Guy - Metal
6.
Steve
Lehman Trio - Dialect Fluorescent
7.
Martin
Küchen - Hellstorm
8.
Peter
Kolovos - Black Colors
9.
Paradoxical
Frog - Union
10.
John
Tilbury - For Tomasz Sikorski
Ananth Krishnan
1.
Thomas
Heberer – Cookbook
2.
Angles
8 - By Way of Deception: Live in Ljubjana
3.
Levity
- Afternoon Delights
4.
Trespass
Trio - Bruder Beda
5.
Maya
Homburger and Barry Guy - Tales of Enchantment
Stef Gijssels
1.
Eve Risser, Benjamin Duboc &
Edward Perraud – En Corps
2.
RED
Trio + Nate Wooley - Stem
3.
Mikołaj
Trzaska Ircha Clarinet Quartet* – Zikaron - Lefanay
4.
Thomas
Heberer's Clarino - Cookbook (Red Toucan, 2012)
5.
Mathias
Küchen - Hellstorm
6.
Wadada
Leo Smith - Ten Freedom Summers
7.
Skogen - Ist Gefallen In Den Schnee
8.
Angles
8 - By Way of Deception: Live in Ljubjana
9.
Pretty
Monsters
10.
Dark
Poetry
Martin Schray
1.
Fire!
- In the Mouth a Hand
2.
Peter
Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet+1 - Walk, Sleep, Love
3.
Evan
Parker's Electro Acoustic Ensemble -
Hasselt
4.
Stian
Westerhus - The Matriarch and the Wrong
Kind of Flowers
5.
Hairy
Bones - Snakelust
6.
Martin
Küchen - Hellstorm
7.
Mats
Gustafsson/Thurston Moore - Play Some
Fucking Stooges
8.
Colin
Stetson/Mats Gustafsson - Stones
9.
Pao
- Pao
10.
Arts
and Science New You
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