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2016: 30 Albums (+ 30 more)

1-10

Vektor – Terminal Redux

Miranda Lambert – The Weight of These Wings

Anna Högberg Attack – Anna Högberg Attack

Maren Morris – Hero

JD Allen Trio – Americana: Musings on Blues & Jazz

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree

Field Music – Commontime

Kepler Quartet – Ben Johnston: String Quartets 6, 7, 8

The Julie Ruin – Hit Reset

Leon Vynehall – Rojus (Designed to Dance)

11-20

Craig Taborn/Christian McBride/Tyshawn Sorey – Flaga: The Book of Angels 27 (John Zorn)

Kvelertak – Nattesferd

Kyle Hall – From Joy

Mudcrutch – 2

Nails – You Will Never Be One of Us

Omar S – The Best

Mchael Formanek's Ensemble Kolossus – The Distance

Suede – Night Thoughts

Dr Lonnie Smith – Evolution

Black Bombain & Peter Brötzmann – Black Bombain & Peter Brötzmann

21-30

Jeremy Pelt – #jiveculture

Ches Smith/Mat Maneri/Craig Taborn – The Bell

Maxwell – blackSUMMERS'nights

Brandy Clark – Big Day in a Small Town

Kevin Gates – Islah

David Bowie – Blackstar

Bonnie Raitt – Dig in Deep

Henry Threadgill – Old Locks & Irregular Verbs

Voivod – Post Society

The Paranoid Style – Rolling Disclosure

And if you don't like those selections, here are 30 alternate choices....

Lady Gaga – Joanne

Marek Poliks – hull not continent

Cobalt – Slow Forever

Bombino – Azel

FP-Oner – 6

Yuseef Kamal – Black Focus

Gorguts – Pleiades Dust

Danish String Quartet – Ades, Norgard, Abrahamsen

Willie Nelson – Summertime: Willie Sings Gershwin

Corinne Bailey Rae – The Heart Speaks in Whispers

Michael Bisio & Kirk Knuffke – Row for William O.

Kamaiyah – A Good Night in the Ghetto

Noura Mint Seymali – Arbina

Jemeel Moondoc & Hilliard Greene – Cosmic Nickelodeon

Aruán Oritz Trio – Hidden Voices

The Rolling Stones – Blue & Lonesome

Marylin Crispell/Gary Peacock/Richard Poole – In Motion

Honeyblood – Babes Never Die

Peter Brötzmann/William Parker/Hamid Drake – Song Sentimentale

Gucci Mane – Everybody Looking

Fire! – She Sleeps, She Sleep

Young Thug – No, My Name is JEFFERY

Wadada Leo Smith – America's National Parks

Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Arc

Quaturo Bozzini – Jurg Frey: String Quartet No. 3/Unhorbare Zeit

Moodyman – DJ Kicks

Murray, Allen & Carrington Power Trio – Perfection

Marc Ribot & the Young Philadelphians – Live in Tokyo

VA-- DJ Koze present Pampa Vol. 1

Steven Osborne – Feldman, Crumb: Piano Works

Jeff Parker – The New Breed

Pet Shop Boys – Super

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200 60s Albums

60′s lists are making the rounds right now, so I figured I’d throw my hat in the ring. As usual, the choices reflect my obsessions and my limitations. This list is more canonist than I’d prefer but I’m no crate digger. (And before you get too excited, know this: it’s, like,  50% jazz.)

The 5th Dimension – The Age of Aquarias

13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere

Albert Ayler – Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village

Albert Ayler – New York Eye & Ear Control

Al Green – Green is Blues

AMM – AMMusic

Andrew Hill – Black Fire

Andrew Hill – Point of Departure

Anita O'Day & Carl Tjader – Time for Two

Archie Shepp – Four for Trane

Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved a Man

Aretha Franklin – Lady Soul

Art Ensemble of Chicago – People in Sorrow

Art Ensemble of Chicago – A Jackson in Your House

Art Pepper – Smack Up

B.B. King – Live at the Regal

The Band – The Band

The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys -- Wild Honey

The Beatles – Rubber Soul

The Beatles – Please Please Me

The Beatles – Magical Myster Tour (US L.P. version)

Beroff, etc. – Messiean: Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps

Big Brother & The Holding Company – Cheap Thrills

Bill Evans Trio – Waltz for Debby

Bill Evans – Portrait in Jazz

Blue Cheer – Outside Inside

Bob Dylan – Another Side of Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited

Bobbie Gentry – Ode to Billie Joe

Bobby Hutcherson – Components

Booker T. & the Mgs – Green Onions

Buck Owens & His Buckaroos – Carnegie Hall Concert

Buddy Guy & Junior Wells – Hoodoo Man Blues

The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo

Can – Monster Movie

Cannonball Adderley – Sextet in New York

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Safe as Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica

Caetano Veloso – Caetano Veloso

Cecil Taylor – Unit Structures

Cecil Taylor – Conquistador!

Charles Mingus – The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus – The Great Concert of Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus – Oh Yeah!

Chuck Berry – St. Louis to Liverpool

Coleman Hawkins – Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Willy & The Poor Boys

Dexter Gordon – Go!

Dionne Warwick – Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls

Dionne Warwick – Golden Hits

Dolly Parton – Just Because I'm a Woman

Don Cherry – Symphony for Improvisers

Donald Byrd – A New Perspective

Don Ellis – Electric Bath

The Doors – The Doors

Duke Ellington – Far East Suite

Duke Ellington - ...And His Mother Called Him Bill

Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach – Money Jungle

Dusty Springfield – Dusty in Memphis

Ella Fitzgerald – Ella in Berlin

Ella Fitzgerald – Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook

Elvis Presley – From Elvis in Memphis

Ennio Morricone – The Good, The Bad & the Ugly

Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch

Eric Dolphy – Live at the Five Spot

Fairport Convention – Liege and Lief

Flamin' Groovies – Supersnazz

The Four Tops -  Reach Out

The Flying Burrito Brothers – The Gilded Palace of Sin

The Fugs – First Album

Frank Sinatra – Sinatra at the Sands

Frank Sinatra – Nice 'n' Easy

Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention – We're Only In It For The Money

Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention – Uncle Meat

Freddie Hubbard – Hub-Tones

Funkadelic – Funkadelic

Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster – Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster

George Russell – Ezz-Thetic

George Solti, Vienna Philharmonic et al. – Das Ring Des Niebelungen

Glenn Gould – Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk 1

Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Ze, et al. – Topicalia our Panis et Circencis

Godz – 2

Grachan Moncur III – Evolution

Grand Funk Railroad – Grand Funk

Grant Green – Grantstand

Grateful Dead – Aoxomoxoa

Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza – s/t

Gyorgy Ligeti – Requiem/Lontano/Continuum [Bour, Orchestre Du Sudwestfunk]

Hank Mobley – Soul Station

Harry Partch – The World of Harry Partch

Herbie Hancock – Empyrean Isles

Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage

Holy Modal Rounders – 1

Holy Modal Rounders – The Moray Ell Eats the Holy Modal Rounders

Horace Silver – Songs of my Father

Howlin' Wolf – Howlin' Wolf

Hungarian String Quartet – Barktok: Six String Quartets

Iannis Xenakis – Metastasis/Pithopakta/Eonta (Simonovic, Ensemble Instrumental De Musique...)

Incredible String Band – The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul

Joao Gilberto & Stan Getz – Getz & Gilberto

James Brown – Sex Machine

James Brown – Live at the Apollo

Jackie Mclean – Destination...Out!

Jackie Mclean – One Step Beyond

Jacques Brel – Ces Gens-La

Jaki Byard – Jaki Byard Experience

Jerry Lee Lewis – Live at Star Club, Hamburg

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland

Jimmy Giuffre – Free Fall

Jimmy Rushing – Rushing Lullabyes

Jimmy Smith – Back at the Chicken Shack

Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz – Getz/Gilberto

Joe Harriot – Abstract

John Fahey – The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death

John Coltrane – Live at the Village Vanguard

John Coltrane – A Love Supreme

Johnny Cash – Orange Blossom Special

Johnny Hartman – John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman

Joseph Jarman – Song For

Karl Bohm, Nilsson, Windgassen, et al. – Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Karlheinz Stockhausen – Hymnen

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gielen/Kagel – Gruppen fur 3 Orchester

Karlheinz Stockhausen – Mikrophonie I&II

Kenny Burell – Midnight Blue

The Kinks – Something Else By The Kinks

Laura Nyro – Eli & The Thirteenth Confessions

Larry Young – Unity

Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II

Lee Konitz – Motion

Lee Konitz – The Lee Konitz Duets

Lee Morgan – Searching for the New Land

Lennie Tristano – The New Tristano

Leonard Cohen – The Songs of Leonard Cohen

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington – The Great Summit

Luciano Berio/Swingle Singers/New York Philharmonic – Sinfonia

Magic Sam – West Side Soul

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – Dance Party

The MC5 – Kick Out the Jams

Merle Haggard & The Strangers – Pride In What I Am

Merle Haggard & The Strangers – Same Train, A Different Time

The Meters – The Meters

Miles Davis – Miles Smiles

Miles Davis – In a Silent Way

Miles Davis – Nefertiti

The Millenium – Begin

Mississippi John Hurt – The Immortal Mississippi John Hurt

Moby Grape – Moby Grape

The Monkees – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, LTD

Morton Subotnik – Silver Apples from the Moon

Muddy Waters – Live at Newport

Nat King Cole – Wild is Love

Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

New York Art Quartet feat. Amiri Baraka – New York Art Quartet

Noah Howard -- The Black Ark

Oliver Nelson – The Blues and the Abstract Truth

Ornette Coleman – This Is Our Music

Ornette Coleman – At the Golden Circle

Os Mutantes – Os Mutantes

Otis Redding – Otis Blue

Patty Waters – College Tour

Peter Brotzmann – Machine Gun

Pharoah Sanders – Karma

Randy Newman – Randy Newman

Ray Charles – The Genius Sings the Blues

Ray Charles – Modern Sounds In Country and Western

Red Krayola – The Parable of Arable Land

The Rollings Stones – Between the Buttons [UK Edition]

The Rolling Stones – Beggar's Banquet

Rod Stewart – The Rod Stewart Album

Roscoe Mitchell Sextet – Sound

Roger Miller – The Return of Roger Miller

Sam Rivers – Fuschia Swing Song

Scott Walker – Scott 4

Serge Gainsbourg – Initials B.B.

The Shaggs – Philosophy of the World

Sly & The Family Stone – Stand

The Soft Machine – The Soft Machine

The Sonics – Here are the Sonics!!!

Sonny Rollins – The Bridge

Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins – Sonny Meets Hawk

Sonny Simmons – Music of the Spheres

Sonny & Linda Sharrock – Black Woman

Stan Getz – Focus

Steppenwolf – Steppenwolf

Steppenwolf – The Second

The Stooges – The Stooges

Sun Ra – Atlantis

Sun Ra – The Magic City

Terry Riley – A Rainbow In Curved Air

The United States of America – The United States of America

Vanilla Fudge – Vanilla Fudge

The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground

Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil

The Weavers – Weaver's Almanac

Wes Montgomery – Smokin' at the Half Note

Wilson Pickett – The Exciting Wilson Pickett

The Who – The Who Sell Out

The Zombies – Begin Here

VA – A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

VA – Anthology of American Folk Music

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Mid-Year Music Update [Albums]

I’ve heard a lot of good music this year. Here are my 30 favorite new album releases. 1. Vektor - Terminal Redux [Earache]

2. Anna Högberg Attack - Anna Högberg Attack [Omlott]

3. JD Allen Trio - Americana: Musings on Blues and Jazz [Savant]

4. Kepler Quartet - Ben Johnston: String Quartets 6, 7, 8, Quietness [New World]

5. Mudcrutch - 2 [Reprise]

6. Craig Taborn (John Zorn) - Flaga: The Book of Angels, Vol 27 [Tzadik]

7. Kvelertak - Nattesferd [Roadrunner]

8. Field Music - Commontime [Memphis Industries]

9. Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us [Nuclear Blast]

10. Michael Formanek’s Ensemble Kolossus - The Distance [ECM]

11. Leon Vynehall - Rojus [Running Back]

12. Quaturo Bozzini - Jurg Frey: String Quartet No. 3/Unhorbare Zeit [Another Timbre]

13. Bonnie Raitt - Dig in Deep [Redwing Music]

14. Henry Threadgill - Old Locks and Irregular Verbs [Pi]

15. Brandy Clark - Big Day in a Small Day [Warner Bros]

16. Marek Poliks - hull not continent [Another Timbre]

17. Ches Smith, Matt Maneri & Craig Taborn - The Bell [ECM]

18. Dr Lonnie Smith - Evolution [Blue Note]

19. Cobalt - Slow Forever [Profound Lore]

20. Jemeel Moondoc & Hilliard Greene - Cosmic Nickelodeon [Relative Pitch]

21. Aruán Ortiz Trio - Hidden Voices [Intakt]

22. Bombino - Azel [Partisan]

23. Kyle Hall - From Joy [Wild Oats]

24. Jeremy Pelt - #JIVECULTURE [HighNote]

25. Steven Osborne - Feldman/Crumb [Hyperion]

26. David Bowie - Blackstar [Columbia]

27. Omar S - The Best [FXHE]

28. Marylin Crispell, Gary Peacock, Richard Poole - In Motion [Intakt]

29. Kevin Gates - Islah [Atlantic]

30. Pet Shop Boys - Super [x2]

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2016 Music Update (1/3)

Jazz:

Michael Formanek’s Ensemble Kolossus - The Distance

Anna Högberg Attack - Anna Högberg Attack

Ches Smith, Matt Maneri & Craig Taborn - The Bell

Dr Lonnie Smith - Evolution

Aruán Ortiz Trio - Hidden Voices

Jeremy Pelt - #Jiveculture

Protean Reality - Protean Reality

Henry Threadgill - Old Locks & Irregular Verbs

Marylin Crispell, Gary Peacock, Richard Poole - In Motion

Beatz:

Kyle Hall - From Joy

Omar S - The Best

Moodyman - DJ Kicks

Africaine 808 - Basar

Leon Vynehall - Rojus

Konono No 1 Meets Batida

Bombino - Azel

Pop:

Field Music - Commontime

Bonnie Raitt - Dig in Deep

David Bowie - Blackstar

Pet Shop Boys - Super

K Michelle - More Issues than Vogue

Kamaiyah - A Good Night in the Ghetto

Willie Nelson - Summertime: Willie Sings Gerswhin

Classical:

Kepler Quartet - Ben Johnston: String Quartets 6, 7, 8, Quietness

Quaturo Bozzini - Jürg Frey: String Quartet No. 3/Unhorbare Zeit

Philip Thomas - Jürg Frey: Circles and Landscapes

Cédric Tiberghien - Bartok: Mikrokosmos 6 & Other Piano Music

Metal:

Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Arc

Tombs - All Empires Fall

Cobalt - Slow Forever

Voivod - Post Society

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2015, 80 Albums

1-15:

James McMurtry – Complicated Game

Irene Schweizer & Han Bennink – Welcome Back

Jazmine Sullivan – Reality Show

Future – Dirty Sprite 2

Robert Forster – Songs To Play

Willie Nelson & Sister Bobbie – December Days

Kirk Knuffke – Arms & Hands

James Brandon Lewis – Days of FreeMan

Boof – The Hydrangeas Whisper

New Order – Music Complete

JD Allen Trio – Graffiti

Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth – Epicenter

The Paranoid Style – Rock & Roll Just Can't Recall

Mary Halvorson – Meltframe

Courtney Barnett – Sometime I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit

16 - 30

Young Thug – Barter 6

K. Michelle – Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart?

Green Velvet & Carl Craig – Unity

Rae Sremmurd – Sremmlife

Tal National – Zoy Zoy

Rudresh Mahanthappa – Bird Calls

Beauty Pill – Describes Things As They Are

Iris DeMent – The Trackless Woods

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Ba Power

RP Boo – Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints

VA – Movelltraxx presents Street Bangers Factor, Vol 1-3

Chris Stapleton – Traveller

DJ Paypal – Buy Now / Sold Out

Henry Threadgill's Zooid – In for a Penny, In for a Pound

Fabiano Do Nascimento – Danca do Tempo

FP-Oner – 5

31-45

Mbongwana Star – From Kinshasa

Max Johnson Trio – Something Familiar

Napalm Death – Apex Predator-Easy Meat

Oneothrix Point Never – Garden of Delete

Eric Church- Mr. Misunderstood

Mike WiLL Made It – Ransom

Ratchett Traxxx – FEAR_OF_THA_BLACC_HACCER

Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter 3: River Run Thee

Future – 56 Nights / Beast Mode

Vijay Iyer Trio – Break Stuff

Tomeka Reid Quartet - s/t

Matthew Shipp Trio – The Conduct of Jazz

Sicko Mobb – SSV2

Alan Jackson – Angels & Alcohol

Miguel – Wildheart

46-60

Toby Keith – 35 MPH Town

Moritz Von Ozwald Trio – Sounding Lines

Roscoe Mitchell Quartet – Celebrating Fred Anderson

Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson – Django & Jimmie

Jason Derulo – Everything is 4

Jack DeJohnette – Made In Chicago

Darius Jones Quartet feat. Emilie Lesbros– Le bebe de Brigette

Terakaft – Alone (Tenere)

Floating Points – Elena

Colleen Green – I Want To Grow Up

Stephen Haynes – Pomegranate

Soichi Terada – Sounds From the Far East

Vanio & Vigroux – Peau Froide, Leger Soleil

William Parker – For Those Who Are, Still

Hieroglyphic Being & J.I.T.U. Ahn-Sahm-Buhl, We Are Not The First

Boz Scaggs – A Fool to Care

61-80

Oliver Lake & William Parker – For Roy

The Thing – Shake

John Zorn – Simulacrum

Jlin – Dark Energy

Jam City – Dream a Garden

Matthew Shipp Trio – To Duke

Gucci Mane – King Gucci

Nozinja – Nozinja Lodge

Marilyn Crispell/Gerry Hemingway – Table of Changes

Debahsish Bhattacharya – Slide Guitar Ragas From Dusk Till Dawn

Ata Kak – Otaa Sima

Bob Dylan – Shadows in the Night

VA – CARGAA, Vol 1 & 2

Jose Padilla – So Many Colours

Visionist – Safe

Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There

William Parker – Raining on the Moon

Peter Stampfel & Friends – Have Moicy 2: The Hoodoo Bash