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Il meglio del 2016 secondo Neri Pollastri

By NERI POLLASTRI
January 1, 2017
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Elencare le musiche migliori di un'annata è sempre cosa arbitraria e soggettiva, ma soprattutto espone al rischio di escludere altra musica, meritevole invece quanto quella inclusa (e, a volte, persino di più). Ne consegue che anche questo elenco—peraltro molto meditato -è tutt'altro che esaustivo, o definitivo. Indica però, certamente, musica che in questo 2016 mi ha personalmente donato momenti di grande piacere, stupore, meraviglia.

Dischi

Piero Bittolo Bon Bread and Fox Big Hell on Air (Auand Records/El Gallo Rojo)	Marco Colonna Minorance (Autoprodotto)	Scott DuBois Winter Light (ACT Music)
Alessandro Galati Trio On a Sunny Day (Via Veneto Jazz)	Danilo Gallo Dark Dry Tears Thinking Beats Where Mind Dies (Parco della Musica Records)	Javier Girotto, Massimo De Mattia, Massimo De Mattia - Bruno Cesselli, Zlatko Kaucic Il sogno di una cosa (Caligola Records)
Stephen Haynes Pomegranate (New Atlantic Records)	Hobby Horse Rocketdine (Parco della Musica Records)	Giorgio Pacorig -Zeno De Rossi Sleep Talking (Artesuono)
Emanuele Parrini The Blessed Prince (Long Song Records)	Samo Salamon -Stefano Battaglia Winds (Klopotec Records)	Trygve Seim Rumi Songs (ECM Records)