Mi lista de favoritos de 2013

1. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Two Mississippi Moonchile (Constellation)

2. Mary Halvorson, Illusionary Sea (Firehouse 12)

3. Fire! Orchestra, Exit! (Rune Grammofon)

4. John Tchicai / Charlie Kohlhase / Garrison Fewell / Cecil McBee / Billy Hart, Tribal Ghost (No Business)

5. Matthew Shipp, Piano Sutras (Thirsty Ear)

6. RED Trio, Rebento (No Business)

7. Mike Reed's People Places & Things, Second Cities: Volume 1 (482 Music)

8. Kris Davis, Massive Threads (Thirsty Ear)

9. Taylor Ho Bynum, Navigation (Firehouse 12)

10. Adam Lane, Absolute Horizon (No Business)

11. Lotte Anker / Rodrigo Pinheiro / Hernani Faustino, Birthmark (Clean Feed)

12. Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House, Strong Place (Intakt)

Menciones honoríficas de 2013 sin orden particular:

- Josh Abrams, Unknown Known (Rogueart).

- Trio 3 + Jason Moran, Refraction-Breaking' Glass (Intakt).

- Angelica Sanchez - Wadada Leo Smith, Twine Forest (Clean Feed).

- Luis Lopes Humanization 4tet, Live in Madison (Ayler).

- Black Host, Life in the Sugar Candle Mines (Northern Spy).

- Borah Bergman / Kidd Jordan / William Parker / Michael Wimberly, Vita Brevis (Some Real Music).

- Hera with Hamid Drake, Seven Lines (Multikulti).

- Evan Parker / Peter Evans / CraigTaborn / Sam Pluta, Rocket Science (More is More).

- Samuel Blaser / Benoit Delbecq / Gerry Hemingway, Fourth Landscape (Nuscope).

- Harris Eisenstadt September Trio, The Destructive Element (Clean Feed).

- Alexander Hawkins, Song Singular (Babel).

- Alexander Hawkins Ensemble, Step Wide Step Deep (Babel).

Debutantes:

- Matt Michell, Fiction (Pi Recordings).

Box Sets:

- William Parker, Wood Flute Song: Anthology/Live 2006-2012 (Aum Fidelity).

Reediciones:

- John Carter & Bobby Bradford Quartet: Flight For Four (Flying Dutchman/International Phonograph).