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Condensare il meglio di un anno di musica in soli dieci dischi! Che follia!
In fondo sono le classifiche stesse a essere un po' una follia e come tutte le follie va presa con un po' di leggerezza. Le obiezioni sono sempre le stesse: chissà quante cose i redattori di AllAboutJazz Italia non hanno potuto ascoltare! Ridurre tutto a una classifica è una vera banalizzazione! E così via. Tutto vero, ma certamente l'accostare i dieci dischi "dell'anno" di così tanti collaboratori offre alle lettrici e ai lettori una bella panoramica di suggerimenti e spunti.

Non vi togliamo il piacere di fare le pulci alle varie liste, segnalandovi che per ogni redattore i dischi sono elencati in ordine alfabetico e che il disco di cui viene riportata la copertina rappresenta il "numero uno" di ciascun collaboratore.

Qualche annotazione però: acclamato nelle liste di fine anno di mezzo mondo, spicca anche qui il sassofonista Steve Lehman, e con lui Wadada Leo Smith, Franco D'Andrea, Marc Ribot, e Jimmy Giuffre grazie al doppio CD dal vivo. David Virelles gli Angles 9, la Fire! Orchestra e i Jump The Shark di Piero Bittolo Bon anch'essi tra i più apprezzati... a testimonianza di una musica che anche in questo 2014 ha esplorato i linguaggi con la voglia di condividere scoperte e emozioni.

Vittorio Albani

The Cellar and Point -Ambit (Cuneiform Records)
Chicago Underground Duo -Locus (Northern Spy Records)
Fire! Orchestra -Enter (Rune Grammofon)
Gnostic Trio -Transmigration of the Magus (Tzadik Records)
Dan Kinzelman's Ghost -Stonebreaker (Parco della Musica Records)
Mats/Morgan -Schack Tati (Cuneiform Records)
Marc Ribot Trio -Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi Recordings)
Wadada Leo Smith -The Great Lakes Suites (TUM Records)
Zion 80 -Adramelech: Book of Angels 22 (Tzadik Records)
Yo La Tengo -Extra Painful (Matador Records)

Alberto Bazzurro

Piero Bittolo Bon Jump the Shark -Juvenes Doom (El Gallo Rojo Records)
Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack -....Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire (Singlespeed Music)
Leonard Cohen -Live in Dublin (Columbia Legacy / Sony)
Paolo Conte -Snob (Platinum / Universal)
Jimmy Giuffre 3 & 4 -New York Concerts (Elemental Music)
Honest John -Canarie (Rudi Records)
Keith Jarrett -Charlie Haden -Paul Motian -Hamburg '72 (ECM Records)
Mike Mantler -The Jazz Composer's Orchestra Update (ECM Records)
Gianni Mimmo -Alison Blunt -Lasting Ephemerals (Amirani Records)
Emanuele Parrini -Are You Ready? (Rudi Records)
Dino Saluzzi -El Valle de la Infancia (ECM Records)
Saxophone Summit -Visitation (ArtistShare)

Enrico Bettinello

Jason Ajemian -Folklords (Delmark Records)
Angles 9 -Injuries (Clean Feed Records)
Piero Bittolo Bon Jump the Shark -Juvenes Doom (El Gallo Rojo Records)
Domenico Caliri -Camera Lirica (Caligola)
Neneh Cherry -Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)
Jimmy Giuffre 3 & 4 -New York Concerts (Elemental Music)
Steve Lehman -Mise en Abîme (Pi Recordings)
Pharoah and the Underground -Spiral Mercury (Clean Feed Records)
David Virelles -Mbókò (ECM Records)
Wildbirds&Peacedrums -Rhythm (The Leaf Label)

Claudio Bonomi

Bill in the Tea -Big Tree (Ams/Btf)
Billy Bottle and the Multiple -Unrecorded Beam (Leo Records)
Scott Bradford -Rock Slides (Kismet)
Graham Collier -Luminosity -The Last Suites (jazzcontinuum)
Enten Eller -Pietas (Splasc(H) Records)
Volker Kriegel -House-Boat (MPS Records)
Lanfranco Malaguti Quartet -Papillon (Splasc(H) Records)
Michael Naura Quartett -Call (MPS Records)
I Satelliti -Transister (Cuckundoo Records)
Zauss -Diafonia Leitmotiv Waves (Fazzul Music)

Mario Calvitti

Allman Brothers Band -The 1971 Fillmore East Recordings (Mercury Records)
Robbie Basho -Art of the Acoustic Steel String Guitar (Grass Tops Recordings)
John Coltrane -Offering Live at Temple University
Miles Davis -Miles at the Fillmore—Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 (Sony Music/Legacy)
Fripp & Eno -Live in Paris (Panegyric)
Vijay Iyer -Mutations (ECM Records)
Jon Hassell -City: Works of Fiction (All Saints Records)
King Crimson -Starless (Panegyric)
Frank Zappa -Roxy by Proxy (Zappa Records)
John Zorn -Transmigration of the Magus (Tzadik Records)

Luca Canini

Angles 9 -Injuries (Clean Feed Records)
Piero Bittolo Bon Jump the Shark -Juvenes Doom (El Gallo Rojo Records)
John Coltrane -Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse! Records)
Fire! Orchestra -Enter (Rune Grammofon)
Jimmy Giuffre 3 & 4 -New York Concerts (Elemental Music)
Dan Kinzelman's Ghost -Stonebreaker (Parco della Musica Records)
Steve Lehman -Mise en Abîme (Pi Recordings)
Rob Mazurek and Black Cube SP -Return the Tides (Cuneiform Records)
Wadada Leo Smith -The Great Lakes Suites (TUM Records)
David Virelles -Mbókò (ECM Records)

Roberto Cifarelli

Kernny Barron -Dave Holland -The Art of Conversation (Impulse! Records)
Stefano Bollani -Joy in Spite of Everything (ECM Records)
George Cables -Icons & Influences (HighNote Records)
Raffaele Casarano -Noè (Tùk Music)
Franco D'Andrea Sextet -Monk and the Time Machine (Parco della Musica Records)
Dave Douglas—Uri Caine -Present Joys (Greenleaf Music)
Paolo Fresu quintet -¡30! (Tùk Music)
James Farm -City Folk (Nonesuch Records)
Keith Jarrett -Charlie Haden -Last Dance (ECM Records)
Dino Rubino -Kairòs (Tùk Music)

Maurizio Comandini

The Nels Cline Singers -Macroscope (Mack Avenue Records)
Club D'Elf -Fire in the Brain (BimCore)
Miles Davis -Miles at the Fillmore—Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 (Sony Music/Legacy)
Bill Frisell -Guitar in the Space Age! (Okeh Records)
Rory Gallagher -Irish Tour '74.. Expanded Deluxe Box (Legacy Sony Music)
Jon Hassell -City: Works of Fiction (All Saints Records)
Medeski Martin & Wood + Nels Cline -Woodstock Sessions, vol. 2 (Woodstock Sessions)
Annette Peacock -I Belong to a World That's Destroying Itself (Ironic Records)
Dylan Ryan Sand -Circa (Cuneiform Records)
David Virelles -Mbókò (ECM Records)

Angelo Leonardi

Ambrose Akinmusire -The Imagined Savoir Is Far Easier To Paint (Blue Note Records)
The Awakening Orchestra -Vol. 1: This Is Not the Answer (Innova Recordings)
The Bad Plus -Inevitable Western (Sony Music)
Stefano Bollani -Joy in Spite of Everything (ECM Records)
Franco D'Andrea Sextet -Monk and the Time Machine (Parco della Musica Records)
Keith Jarrett -Charlie Haden -Paul Motian -Hamburg '72 (ECM Records)
Mary Halvorson -Reverse Blue (Relative Pitch Records)
Steve Lehman -Mise en Abîme (Pi Recordings)
Marc Ribot Trio -Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi Recordings)
Wadada Leo Smith -The Great Lakes Suites (TUM Records)

Vittorio Lo Conte

Rodrigo Amado -Wire Quartet (Clean Feed Records)
Elisabetta Antonini -The Beat Goes On (Candid Records)
Day & Taxi -Artists (Percaso)
Aynan Fanous -Jason Kao Hwang -Zilzal (Innova Recordings)
Anna Lauvergnac -Coming Back Home (Alessa Records)
Stefano Leonardi -Stefano Pastor -Fridolin Blumer -Heinz Geisser: Conversations About Thomas Chapin (Leo Records)
Michael Musillami Trio -Pride (Playscape Records)
Roberto Ottaviano -Arcthetics -Soffio primitivo (Dodicilune)
Ivo Perelman -The Other Edge Leo Records)
Joe Sample & NDR Big Band -Children of the Sun (PRA Records)

Stefano Merighi

Franco D'Andrea Sextet -Monk and the Time Machine (Parco della Musica Records)
Fire! Orchestra -Enter (Rune Grammofon)
Michael Formanek -Mary Halvorson -Tomas Fujiwara -Thumbscrew (Cuneiform Records)
Jimmy Giuffre 3 & 4 -New York Concerts (Elemental Music)
Rob Mazurek and Black Cube SP -Return the Tides (Cuneiform Records)
Tom Rainey -Obbligato (Intakt Records)
Eric Revis -In Memory of Things Yet Seen (Clean Feed Records)
Marc Ribot Trio -Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi Recordings)
Wadada Leo Smith -The Great Lakes Suites (TUM Records)
Ken Vandermark Audio One -International Report (Audiographic)

Paolo Peviani

Angles 9 -Injuries (Clean Feed Records)
Brass Danse Orchestra -La Danse du Souffle (Yolk)
Andy Emler MegaOctet, Archimusic & Elise Caron -Présences d'Esprits (Radio France)
Paul Giallorenzo's Gitgo -Force Majeure (Delmark Records)
Steve Lehman -Mise en Abîme (Pi Recordings)
James Brandon Lewis -Divine Travels (Okeh Records)
NSI Quartet -Introducing NSI Quartet (Fonografika)
Louis Sclavis Quartet -Silk and Salt Melodies (ECM Records)
Tarbaby -Fanon (Rogue Art)
Nate Wooley -Taylor Ho Bynum -The Throes (CIMP)

Neri Pollastri

Stefano Battaglia -Michele Rabbia -Elvind Aarset—In memoriam (Medulla)
Uri Caine -Callithump (Winter & Winter)
Domenico Caliri—Camera Lirica (Caligola)
Mirio Cosottini -Tonino Miano—The Inner Life Of Residue (Impressus Records)
Charlie Haden -Jim Hall—Charlie Haden -Jim Hall (Impulse! Records)
Jeanette Köhn & Swedish Radio Choir -New Eyes on Baroque (ACT)
Steve Lehman -Mise en Abîme (Pi Recordings)
Stefano Leonardi -Stefano Pastor -Fridolin Blumer -Heinz Geisser: Conversations About Thomas Chapin (Leo Records)
Gianni Mimmo -Alison Blunt -Lasting Ephemerals (Amirani Records)
T.R.E. + Stefano Battaglia—Horo (Abeat)

Vincenzo Roggero

Angles 9 -Injuries (Clean Feed Records)
Jimmy Giuffre 3 & 4 -New York Concerts (Elemental Music)
John Zorn -Valentine's Day (Tzadik Records)
Matt Ulery -In the Ivory (Greenleaf Music)
Steve Lehman -Mise en Abîme (Pi Recordings)
Sylvie Courvoisier Trio -Double Windsor (Tzadik Records)
Taylor Ho Bynum 7-tette -Navigation (Firehouse 12)
The Bureau of Atomic Tourism -Spinning Jenny (Rat Records)
Vijay Iyer -Mutations (ECM Records)
Wadada Leo Smith -The Great Lakes Suites (TUM Records)

Luigi Santosuosso

Bobby Avey -Authority Melts from Me (Whirlwind Recordings)
Michael Blake -Tiddy Boom (Sunnyside Records)
Zeno De Rossi Trio -Kepos (El Gallo Rojo Records)
Fresh Cut Orchestra -From the Vine (FCO Records)
Erik Friedlander -Nighthawks (Skipstone Records)
Arto Lindsay -Encyclopedia of Arto (Northern Spy Records)
Karen Mantler -Business Is Bad (XtraWatt)
Roy Nathanson's Sotto Voce -Complicated Day (Enja -Yellowbird)
David Virelles -Mbókò (ECM Records)
Wadada Leo Smith -The Great Lakes Suites (TUM Records)

Giuseppe Segala

Ran Blake -Cocktails at Dusk: A Noir Tribute to Chris Connor (Impulse! Records)
Paul Bley -Play Blue (ECM Records)
Anthony Braxton -Trio (New Haven) 2013 (New Braxton House)
Franco D'Andrea Sextet -Monk and the Time Machine (Parco della Musica Records)
Miles Davis -Miles at the Fillmore—Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 (Sony Music/Legacy)
Jimmy Giuffre 3 & 4 -New York Concerts (Elemental Music)
Steve Lehman -Mise en Abîme (Pi Recordings)
Roscoe Mitchell -Conversations II (Wide Hive)
Marc Ribot Trio -Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi Recordings)
The Young Mothers -A Mothers Work Is Never Done (Tektite Records)

Luigi Sforza

Kernny Barron -Dave Holland -The Art of Conversation (Impulse! Records) Fiorenzo Bodrato -Travellling without Moving (CMC Records)
Franco D'Andrea Sextet -Monk and the Time Machine (Parco della Musica Records)
Dave Douglas -Riverside (Greenleaf Music)
Marc Ribot Trio -Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi Recordings)
Claudio Fasoli Four -London Tube (Abeat Records)
Dino Rubino -Kairòs (Tùk Music)
Norma Winstone -Klaus Gesing -Glauco Venier -Dance Without Answers (ECM Records)
Jerome Sabbagh -The Turn(Bee Jazz)
The Wee Trio -Live at the Bistrò(Bionic Records)

Luca Vitali

Paolo Angeli -Hamid Drake -Deghe (Rer/Arti Malandrine) Angles 9 -Injuries (Clean Feed Records)
Sidsel Endresen -Stian Westerhus -Bonita (Rune Grammofon)
Fire! Orchestra -Enter (Rune Grammofon)
Arve Henriksen -The Nature Of Connections (Rune Grammofon)
Steve Lehman -Mise en Abîme (Pi Recordings)
Polar Bear -In Each and Every One the Leaf Label (The Leaf Label)
David Virelles -Mbókò (ECM Records)
Anna Webber -Simple (Skirl Records)
Wollesen -Haffner -Naujo -Rasa Rasa (Tzadik Records)

Maurizio Zerbo

George Cables -Icons & Influences (HighNote Records) Franco D'Andrea Sextet -Monk and the Time Machine (Parco della Musica Records)
Duke Ellington -A Drum Is a Woman(Cheesecake Records) [Ristampa]
Gilberto Gil -Gilberto Sambas (Sony Music)
Wayne Horvitz -The Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble -At The Reception (Songlines Records)
Frank Kimbrough -Quartet (Palmetto Records)
Ted Nash Big Band -Chakra (Plastic Sax Records)
Zoot Sims -Bob Brookmeyer -Stretching Out(Dreamcovers Records) [Ristampa]
Giovanni Tommaso Quartet -Conversation with My Soul (Parco della Musica Records)

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