THE QUIETUS: Complete Communion: The Best Jazz Of 2016

Sailing a ship through post-Brexit waters, Stewart Smith reflects on the year in jazz and improvised music, and presents his top ten releases of 2016.

10.) Konstrukt feat. Graham Massey & David McLean – Live At Islington Mill
(Astral Spirits)

09.) William Parker feat. Lisa Sokolov & Cooper-Moore – Stan’s Hat Flapping In The Wind
(Centering)

08.)  RED Trio/John Butcher – Summer Skyshift
(Clean Feed)

07.) Tyshawn Sorey – The Inner Spectrum Of Variables (Pi Recordings)

06. Shabaka & The Ancestors – Wisdom Of Elders (Brownswood)

05.) 

Steve Lehman – Sélébéyone (Pi Recordings)

04.Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra – Time/Life (Impulse!)

03.) Linda Sharrock/(In) The Abyssity of the Grounds – GODS (Golden Lab)

02.) Henry Threadgill – New Locks and Old Verbs (Pi Recordings)

01.) Wadada Leo Smith – America’s National Parks (Cuneiform)