Mark Corroto’s Best Releases of 2012
To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of the death of jazz have been greatly exaggerated. 2012 has been an outstanding year for jazz and improvised music. Here is a list of some of the best.
 Stephen GauciThunk! (Not Two Records) |  Matt Wilson/Arts & Crafts Attitude For Gratitude(Palmetto) |  Rivers/Holland/Altschul Reunion: Live In New York (Pi Recordings) |
 Angles 5 By Way Of Deception (Clean Feed) |  Steve Lehman Dialect Fluorescent (Pi Recordings) |  New Zion Trio Fight Against Babylon (Veal Records) |
 Smith/Moholo-Moholo Ancestors (TUM Records) |  Federico Ughi Songs For Four Cities (Skycap Records) |  Elliott Sharp Aggregat (Clean Feed) |
 Rodrigo Amado Burning Live ( JACC) |  Trio M The Guest House (Enja Records) |  Aram Shelton Everything for Somebody ( Singlespeed) |
 Jason Stein Quartet The Story This Time ( Delmark) |  Neneh Cherry/The Thing The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Superjazzz) |  Rich Halley 4 Back From Beyond (Pine Eagle) |
 Zanussi 13 Live ( Moserobie) |  Ivo Perelman The Foreign Legion (Leo Records) |  Kullhammar/Aalberg Basement Sessions Vol.1 (Clean Feed) |
 Harris Eisenstadt Canada Day III ( Songlines) |  Josh Berman/His GangThere Now (Delmark) |
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Rhythm Abstraction: Azure is the first volume of new compositions created as a follow up to 2018’s release Rhythm Kaleidoscope. As with that release, Brock Avery improvised drum and percussion solos. Frank Macchia then composed music for woodwinds and orchestra to Brock’s creations. Azure is the first of three extended play albums of 6-7 compositions which will be released starting in January and followed up in April and July. In Azure we have a created a group of pieces that continue our quest for honoring the art of improvisation with a “stream-of-consciousness” sense of composition,...
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