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Meine TOP 20 / 2017
 

1. Rotem Sivan Trio – Antidote
2. Andre Cymone – 1969
3. Angie Keilhauer – Now hear this
4. Randall Thompson – Symphony No.3
5. Szymon Laks – Chamber Works
6. William Alwyn – String Quartet No.10-13
7. Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds from another Planet
8. Danish String Quartett – Last Leaf
9. Dauwd – Theory of Colours
10. Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee Owens
11. Tyshawn Sorey -Verisimilitude
12. Arve Henriksen – Toward Language
13. Josef Suk – Asrael
14. Omer Klein – Sleepwalkers
15. Cold Cut & On-U-Sound – Outside the Echo Chamber
16. Richard H.Kirk – Dasein
17. Grizzly Bear – Painted Ruins
18. MuZiek a Singe – Ècouter voir
19. Colin Vallon – Danse
20. Jens Schöning – Nocturne

 
… und als SPECIAL GIMMICK Jazzpiano aus dem Jahr 2016
 

1. Nick Bärtsch’s Mobile – Continuum
2. David Helbock Trio – Into the Mystic
3. Wolfert Brederode Trio – Black Ice
4. Frank Kimbrough – Solstice
5. Joachim Kühn – Beauty & Truth
6. Kenny Barron – Book of Intuition
7. Glauco Venier – Miniatures
8. Alexander von Schlippenbach – Jazz now
9. Younee – My Piano
10. Turn – Waiting for Fred
11. Michael Wollny – Klangspuren
12. Julia Kadel Trio – Über und Unter
13. Jon Balke – Warp
14. Misabumi Kikuchi – Black Orpheus
15. Lars Duppler – Naked
16. Yves Theiler – Dance in a triangle

Dear Manafonistas,

helpful and for some of us also trust-building changes in the wordpress-settings of our blog are on their way (thanks to technical supervisor Karsten): from now on all Manafonistas own equal wordpress access right as an „editor“ and are able to create and correct resp. rearrange their contributions or left comments.

Possibilities to delete postings of other authors in the future will no longer exist. In case the MHQ does some neccessary design arrangement or formal corrections of your article that you might dislike: objections are welcome anytime, same is the asking for an eventually needed technical support.

best wishes for all,
JS

 
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• John Abercrombie – Up and coming
• Björn Meyer – Provenance
• Frisell / Morgan – Small Town
• Chris Potter – The Dreamer is the Dream
• Aaron Parks – Find The Way
• Ralph Towner – My Foolish Heart
• Scofield / Medeski / Holland / DeJohnette – Hudson
• Allan Pasqua – Northern Lights
• Anouar Brahem – Blue Maqams
• McCandless/Taylor / Balducci – Evansiana
• Trio Mediaeval with Arve Henriksen – Rimur
• Tigran Hamyasan- Ancient Observers
• Fleet Foxes – Crack up
• Mike McGinnis – Recurring Dream (with Art Lande and Steve Swallow)
• Oregon – Lantern
• Yelena Eckimoff – In the Shadow of a Cloud
• Alex Cline – Oceans of Vows
• Tartovsky Quartet – Nuit Blanche
• Arve Henriksen- Towards Language
• Benedikt Jahnel – The Invariant
• Vijay Iyer Sextet- Far From Over

Reissues

• Beatles Sgt Pepper bluray audio box
• special mention: Django Bates-A Salute to Sgt Pepper

Old music: first time release:

• Bill Evans – Another Time (excellent recording and performance!)

„[Belief Defect] reveal themselves as an artist deeply involved in the disruption and malaise of our society–and era—through shuddering, broken soundscapes and provocative confusion. If at times the acceleration is too much, I only ended up wondering if my own ear (trained to expect harmony, to reject dissolution) was the problem. BD explodes capacities and challenges musical norms, while also creating a sound which is intensely listenable. “Too eccentric to dance to” were Mark Fisher’s words of Burial, but he meant it as a remarkable and good thing to say. Belief Defect achieves a similar magic; to work in the tools of electronic music, and to push them beyond their capacities.“ (full review)