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Il Meglio Del 2017 secondo Angelo Leonardi

By Angelo Leonardi
December 24, 2017
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È stato un anno jazzistico particolarmente ricco e creativo. I grandi protagonisti che hanno superato—spesso di molto—il mezzo secolo ci hanno regalato nuove opere memorabili. Basterebbe ricordare i recenti album di Wadada Leo Smith, Charles Lloyd, Satoko Fujii, Steve Coleman, Tomasz Stańko, Enrico Pieranunzi, Bill Frisell, Gary Peacock, Roscoe Mitchell, Tim Berne, Tom Harrell, Miroslav Vitous, Fred Hersch, Louis Sclavis, Franco D'Andrea e Michel Portal.

Poi ci sono le sorprendenti uscite da leader (esordi o poco più) delle cantanti Jazzmeia Horn e Krystle Warren, dei pianisti e compositori Vitor Gonçalves e Fabian Almazan, del bassista Miles Mosley, del batterista Daniel Freedman.
Ed infine le opere del 2017 dei trenta/quarantenni nel pieno della loro creatività: Vijay Iyer, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Avishai Cohen, Brian Landrus, Mary Halvorson, David Virelles, Mark Guiliana, Anat Cohen, Dan Tepfer, Jamie Saft, Gerald Clayton, Tigran Hamasyan, Nate Smith, Linda May Han Oh, Brandon Seabrook, Antonio Sanchez, Julian Lage, James Brandon Lewis, JD Allen, Craig Taborn.

Ho dimenticato sicuramente di citarne altri ma l'ordine di grandezza è chiaro. Alcuni di questi artisti sono presenti in questa lista altri no e la ragione è dovuta essenzialmente allo spazio anche se nella scelta hanno pesato quelle imponderabili ragioni emotive che ci fanno scegliere una cosa pur amando anche l'altra.

Dischi

Ben Allison Layers of the City Sonic Camera Records	Fabian Almazan Alcanza Biophilia Records	Dino Betti van der Noot Où Sont Les Notes D'Antan Stradivarius
Steve Coleman Morphogenesis Pi Recordings	Bill Frisell, Thomas Morgan Small Town ECM	Vitor Gonçalves Vitor Goncalves Quartet Sunnyside Records
Vijay Iyer Far from Over ECM	Brian Landrus Generations BlueLand Records	Rudresh Mahanthappa Agrima Self Produced
Dan Tepfer Eleven Cages Sunnyside Records	David Virelles Gnosis ECM	Krystle Warren Three the Hard Way Parlour Door

Concerti

Snarky Puppy—Auditorium S. Chiara—Trento- -22.04.2017
Orchestrina Vertical—Il Posto Castello—Illasi—01.07.2017
Munir Hossn— Malta Jazz Festival—20.07.2017
Mark Guiliana—Malta Jazz Festival—21.07.2017
Antonio Sanchez Migration—Malta Jazz Festival—22.07.2017
Daniele D'Agaro, Giovanni Maier, Zlatko Kaucic, Tobias Delius—BRDA Music Festival—14.09.2017
Massimo De Mattia, Milko Lazar—BRDA Music Festival—16.09.2017
Avishai Cohen Quartet—Teatro Ristori---Verona—02.11.2017

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