alexandros1515Jazz Top 100 (2012)
Avant-prog/Jazz-Rock/Jam Bands/Jazz-Core
Raoul Björkenheim/Anders Nilsson/Gerald Cleaver - Kalabalik (DMG)
Elephant9 – Atlantis (Rune Grammofon)
Cakewalk – Wired (Hubro)
Stabat Akish - Nebulos (Altrock Records)
Tohpati Bertiga - Riot (Moonjune Records/Tohpati Music)
Avant-garde/Improv/Experimental/Free Jazz/Modern Creative/Modern Composition
Wadada Leo Smith - Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)
Steve Lehman - Dialect Fluorescent (Pi)
David S.Ware/Planetary Unknown – Live at Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2011 (AUM Fidelity)
Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day III (Songlines)
Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day Octet (482 Music)
Andrew Lamb - Rhapsody in Black (NoBusiness)
Nicole Mitchell – Arc of O (Rogue Art)
Hafez Modirzadeh - Post-Chromodal Out! (Pi)
Mary Halvorson Quintet - Bending Bridges (Firehouse 12)
Jeff Parker - Bright Light in Winter (Delmark)
Tyshawn Sorey - Oblique - I (Pi)
Evan Parker’s Electro-Acoustic Ensemble - Hasselt (Psi)
Henry Threadgill – Tomorrow Sunny/The Revelry, Spp (Pi)
Paul Lytton/Nate Wooley/Ikue Mori/Ken Vandermark - The Nows (Clean Feed)
Hugo Carvalhais - Particula (Clean Feed)
The Thing/Neneh Cherry - The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Supersound)
Eve Risser/Benjamin Duboc/Edward Perraud - En Corps (Dark Tree Records)
Stian Westerhus - The Matriach and the Wrong Kind of Flower (Rune Grammofon)
Joe McPhee/Ingebrigt Haker Flaten - Brooklyn DNA (Clean Feed)
Charles Gayle – Streets (Northern Spy)
Darius Jones Quartet - Book of Mæ’bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)(AUM Fidelity)
Peter Brötzmann/Jason Adasiewicz - Going All Fancy (BRÖ/Eremite)
Michael Formanek - Small Places (ECM)
Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet - Apparent Distance (Firehouse 12)
John Zorn - Nosferatu (Tzadik)
Josh Berman & His Gang - There Now (Delmark)
Brötzmann/Satoh/Moriyama - Yatagarasu (Not Two Records)
Jason Robinson – Tiresian Symmetry (Cuneiform)
Jean-Philippe Viret - Supplement d'ame (Mélisse)
Tim Berne - Snake Oil (ECM)
Alexander Hawkins Ensemble - All There, Ever Out (Babel)
John Zorn – Templars-In Sacred Blood (Tzadik)
Post-Bop/Modern Jazz/Mainstream/Straight-ahead/Soul Jazz/Funk
Sam Rivers/Dave Holland/Barry Altschul - Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
Aldo Romano/Louis Sclavis/Henri Texier - 3+3 (Label Bleu)
Ravi Coltrane - Spirit Fiction (ECM)
Håkon Kornstad - Symphonies In My Head (Jazzland Recordings)
Rez Abbasi – Continuous Beat (Enja)
Wayne Escoffery - The Only Son of One (Sunnyside Records)
Ernest Dawkins - Afro Straight (Delmark)
Floratone (Frisell/Chamberlain/Townsend/Martine) - Floratone II (Savoy Jazz)
Christian Scott - Christian aTunde Adjuah (Concord)
Eberhard Weber - Résumé (ECM)
John Surman - Saltash Bells (ECM)
Wes Montgomery - Echoes of Indiana Avenue (Resonance)
Jenny Scheinman - Mischief & Mayhem (Self Produced)
Sara Serpa/Ran Blake - Aurora (Clean Feed)
Marcus Miller - Renaissance (Concord)
Jeremy Pelt - Soul (HighNote)
Douglas Bradford - Atlas Obscura (Fresh Sound Records)
Bobby Broom - Upper West Side Story (Origin Records)
Brandford Marsalis - Four MFs Playin' Tunes (Marsalis Music)
Piano Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Brad Mehldau - Ode (Nonesuch)
Alexander von Schlippenbach - Plays Monk Piano Solo (Intakt)
Matthew Shipp - Elastic Aspects (Thirsty Ear)
Orrin Evans - Flip the Script (Posi-Tone)
Marilyn Crispell/Gerry Hemingway – Affinities (Intakt)
Simon Nabatov - Spinning Songs of Herbie Nichols (Leo Records)
agusti fernandez/Ramon Lopez - Azul (Universal Music)
Enrico Pieranunzi - Permutation (CAM Jazz)
Bobo Stenson - Indicum (ECM)
Brad Mehldau - Where Do You Start (Nonesuch)
Marilyn Crispell/Mark Dresser/Gerry Hemingway – Play Braxton (Tzadik)
Steve Kuhn/Steve Swallow/Joey Baron - Wisteria (ECM)
Ahmad Jamal - Blue Moon: The New York Session (Jazz Village)
Gonzalo Rubalcaba - XXI Century (5Passion)
Eric Reed - The Baddest Monk (Savant)
Bill Carrothers - Family Life (Pirouet)
Benedikt Jahnel - Equilibrium (ECM)
Michiel Borstlap - 88 (Challenge Records)
John Escreet - Exception to the Rule (Criss Cross)
David Kikoski - Consequences (Criss Cross)
Neil Cowley - The Face of Mount Molehill (Naim Jazz)
Masabumi Kikuchi - Sunrise (ECM)
Fusion/Ethno-Jazz/World Fusion/World Jazz/Latin Jazz
Vijay Iyer - Accelerando (ACT Music + Vision)
Erik Truffaz Quartet - El tiempo de la Revolucion (Blue Note)
Getatchew Mekuria/The Ex/Friends - Y'Anbessaw Tezeta (Terp)
Roberto Fonseca - Yo (Jazz Village)
Alfredo Rodriguez - Sounds of Space (Mack Avenue)
Ballaké Sissoko - At Peace (No Format!)
Ablaye Cissoko/Volker Goetze - Amanké Dionti (Motéma Music)
Omer Avital - Suite of the East (Anzic)
Ibrahim Maalouf - Wind (Mi'ster Productions/Harmonia Mundi)
Debashish Bhattacharya - Live in Calcutta (Rough Guide)
Kayhan Kalhor/Ali Bahrami Fard -I Will Not Stand Alone (World Village)
Lionel Loueke - Heritage (Blue Note)
Chano Domínguez - Flamenco Sketches (Blue Note)
Nu-Jazz/Electronic+Jazz/Post-Jazz
Eivind Aarset - Dream Logic (ECM)
Nik Bartsch's Ronin - Live (ECM)
Portico Quartet - Portico Quartet (Real World Records)
Jan Bang/Erik Honoré – Uncommon Deities (Samadhisound)
Esbjorn Svensson Trio - 301 (ACT)
The Bad Plus - Made Possible (Entertainment One Music)
Food - Mercurial Balm (ECM)
Pink Freud – Horse & Power (Universal Music Polska)
Farmers Market - Slav To The Rythm (Division Records)
Avant-prog/Jazz-Rock/Jam Bands/Jazz-Core
Raoul Björkenheim/Anders Nilsson/Gerald Cleaver - Kalabalik (DMG)
Elephant9 – Atlantis (Rune Grammofon)
Cakewalk – Wired (Hubro)
Stabat Akish - Nebulos (Altrock Records)
Tohpati Bertiga - Riot (Moonjune Records/Tohpati Music)
Avant-garde/Improv/Experimental/Free Jazz/Modern Creative/Modern Composition
Wadada Leo Smith - Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)
Steve Lehman - Dialect Fluorescent (Pi)
David S.Ware/Planetary Unknown – Live at Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2011 (AUM Fidelity)
Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day III (Songlines)
Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day Octet (482 Music)
Andrew Lamb - Rhapsody in Black (NoBusiness)
Nicole Mitchell – Arc of O (Rogue Art)
Hafez Modirzadeh - Post-Chromodal Out! (Pi)
Mary Halvorson Quintet - Bending Bridges (Firehouse 12)
Jeff Parker - Bright Light in Winter (Delmark)
Tyshawn Sorey - Oblique - I (Pi)
Evan Parker’s Electro-Acoustic Ensemble - Hasselt (Psi)
Henry Threadgill – Tomorrow Sunny/The Revelry, Spp (Pi)
Paul Lytton/Nate Wooley/Ikue Mori/Ken Vandermark - The Nows (Clean Feed)
Hugo Carvalhais - Particula (Clean Feed)
The Thing/Neneh Cherry - The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Supersound)
Eve Risser/Benjamin Duboc/Edward Perraud - En Corps (Dark Tree Records)
Stian Westerhus - The Matriach and the Wrong Kind of Flower (Rune Grammofon)
Joe McPhee/Ingebrigt Haker Flaten - Brooklyn DNA (Clean Feed)
Charles Gayle – Streets (Northern Spy)
Darius Jones Quartet - Book of Mæ’bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)(AUM Fidelity)
Peter Brötzmann/Jason Adasiewicz - Going All Fancy (BRÖ/Eremite)
Michael Formanek - Small Places (ECM)
Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet - Apparent Distance (Firehouse 12)
John Zorn - Nosferatu (Tzadik)
Josh Berman & His Gang - There Now (Delmark)
Brötzmann/Satoh/Moriyama - Yatagarasu (Not Two Records)
Jason Robinson – Tiresian Symmetry (Cuneiform)
Jean-Philippe Viret - Supplement d'ame (Mélisse)
Tim Berne - Snake Oil (ECM)
Alexander Hawkins Ensemble - All There, Ever Out (Babel)
John Zorn – Templars-In Sacred Blood (Tzadik)
Post-Bop/Modern Jazz/Mainstream/Straight-ahead/Soul Jazz/Funk
Sam Rivers/Dave Holland/Barry Altschul - Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
Aldo Romano/Louis Sclavis/Henri Texier - 3+3 (Label Bleu)
Ravi Coltrane - Spirit Fiction (ECM)
Håkon Kornstad - Symphonies In My Head (Jazzland Recordings)
Rez Abbasi – Continuous Beat (Enja)
Wayne Escoffery - The Only Son of One (Sunnyside Records)
Ernest Dawkins - Afro Straight (Delmark)
Floratone (Frisell/Chamberlain/Townsend/Martine) - Floratone II (Savoy Jazz)
Christian Scott - Christian aTunde Adjuah (Concord)
Eberhard Weber - Résumé (ECM)
John Surman - Saltash Bells (ECM)
Wes Montgomery - Echoes of Indiana Avenue (Resonance)
Jenny Scheinman - Mischief & Mayhem (Self Produced)
Sara Serpa/Ran Blake - Aurora (Clean Feed)
Marcus Miller - Renaissance (Concord)
Jeremy Pelt - Soul (HighNote)
Douglas Bradford - Atlas Obscura (Fresh Sound Records)
Bobby Broom - Upper West Side Story (Origin Records)
Brandford Marsalis - Four MFs Playin' Tunes (Marsalis Music)
Piano Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Brad Mehldau - Ode (Nonesuch)
Alexander von Schlippenbach - Plays Monk Piano Solo (Intakt)
Matthew Shipp - Elastic Aspects (Thirsty Ear)
Orrin Evans - Flip the Script (Posi-Tone)
Marilyn Crispell/Gerry Hemingway – Affinities (Intakt)
Simon Nabatov - Spinning Songs of Herbie Nichols (Leo Records)
agusti fernandez/Ramon Lopez - Azul (Universal Music)
Enrico Pieranunzi - Permutation (CAM Jazz)
Bobo Stenson - Indicum (ECM)
Brad Mehldau - Where Do You Start (Nonesuch)
Marilyn Crispell/Mark Dresser/Gerry Hemingway – Play Braxton (Tzadik)
Steve Kuhn/Steve Swallow/Joey Baron - Wisteria (ECM)
Ahmad Jamal - Blue Moon: The New York Session (Jazz Village)
Gonzalo Rubalcaba - XXI Century (5Passion)
Eric Reed - The Baddest Monk (Savant)
Bill Carrothers - Family Life (Pirouet)
Benedikt Jahnel - Equilibrium (ECM)
Michiel Borstlap - 88 (Challenge Records)
John Escreet - Exception to the Rule (Criss Cross)
David Kikoski - Consequences (Criss Cross)
Neil Cowley - The Face of Mount Molehill (Naim Jazz)
Masabumi Kikuchi - Sunrise (ECM)
Fusion/Ethno-Jazz/World Fusion/World Jazz/Latin Jazz
Vijay Iyer - Accelerando (ACT Music + Vision)
Erik Truffaz Quartet - El tiempo de la Revolucion (Blue Note)
Getatchew Mekuria/The Ex/Friends - Y'Anbessaw Tezeta (Terp)
Roberto Fonseca - Yo (Jazz Village)
Alfredo Rodriguez - Sounds of Space (Mack Avenue)
Ballaké Sissoko - At Peace (No Format!)
Ablaye Cissoko/Volker Goetze - Amanké Dionti (Motéma Music)
Omer Avital - Suite of the East (Anzic)
Ibrahim Maalouf - Wind (Mi'ster Productions/Harmonia Mundi)
Debashish Bhattacharya - Live in Calcutta (Rough Guide)
Kayhan Kalhor/Ali Bahrami Fard -I Will Not Stand Alone (World Village)
Lionel Loueke - Heritage (Blue Note)
Chano Domínguez - Flamenco Sketches (Blue Note)
Nu-Jazz/Electronic+Jazz/Post-Jazz
Eivind Aarset - Dream Logic (ECM)
Nik Bartsch's Ronin - Live (ECM)
Portico Quartet - Portico Quartet (Real World Records)
Jan Bang/Erik Honoré – Uncommon Deities (Samadhisound)
Esbjorn Svensson Trio - 301 (ACT)
The Bad Plus - Made Possible (Entertainment One Music)
Food - Mercurial Balm (ECM)
Pink Freud – Horse & Power (Universal Music Polska)
Farmers Market - Slav To The Rythm (Division Records)
