Лучшие джазовые альбомы 2016 по версии AllMusic / Favorite Jazz Albums of 2016
The year's finest jazz albums included an innovative concept album from Wilco's Nels Cline, a collection of improvised solo albums by Keith Jarrett and the final homecoming performance by the late Japanese pianist Masabumi Kikuchi.

Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom / Allison Miller
The third album of highly creative jazz from drummer Allison Miller's all-star ensemble.

Ruminative, bittersweet ECM debut from the jazz trumpeter recorded in the wake of his father's death.

Carla Bley / Andy Sheppard / Steve Swallow
The third album of gorgeously rendered, classically influenced jazz from the trio.

Charlie Haden / Charlie Haden & the Liberation Music Orchestra
Time/Life (Song for the Whales and Other Beings)
A gorgeous, elegiac album from Haden's long-running, socially minded big band with pianist Carla Bley.

Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth
The guitarist and his quartet extrapolate on the blues and vintage R&B on this set cut live in the studio.

For his second HighNote effort, the pianist is joined by bassist Buster Williams and drummer Lenny White.

Dave Douglas / Dave Douglas & High Risk
The second album of improvised soundscapes between trumpeter Dave Douglas and electronic musician Shigeto.

The saxophonist's quartet delivers a fitting tribute to David Bowie, inspired by their experience working with him on Blackstar.

The fourth album by the pianist's Trio Project is its most creative, musically diverse, accessible, and sophisticated.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra / Wynton Marsalis
An ebullient live recording of Marsalis' composition commemorating the 200th anniversary of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church.

Joe Lovano / Joe Lovano Quartet
A superb 2005 performance that marked the final collaboration between saxophonist Joe Lovano and legendary pianist Hank Jones, who died in 2010.

Backed by a fine Latin ensemble, the pianist delivers an all-acoustic set of inventive, memorable tunes on her 27th album.
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A Multitude of Angels [Live at Teatro Comunale, Modena, 1996]
Four amazing self-recorded solo improv concerts captured in Italy in 1996 -- the last before he was sidelined for two years by illness.

The saxophonist heads his ensemble on songs that combine aggressive post-bop improvisation and subtly infectious dance rhythms.

Kurt Elling / Branford Marsalis / Branford Marsalis Quartet
A sophisticated, swinging, and poetic collaboration that illuminates the talents of both Marsalis and Elling.

La Orquesta Sinfonietta / Michael Spiro / Wayne Wallace
Led by Wayne Wallace and Michael Spiro, this large group criss-crosses the musical history and traditions of the New World with grooves galore.

The acclaimed vocalist delivers an intimate set of covers recorded with her trio at the Parish Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in England.

Marcus Strickland / Marcus Strickland's Twi-Life
On his Blue Note debut, the saxophonist premieres a new band on a set of funky, ambitious tunes.

The final homecoming concert in Tokyo by the iconoclastic Japanese jazz pianist is a stunning portrait in self-revelation.

Mat Maneri / Ches Smith / Craig Taborn
The drummer's debut as a leader for ECM is an exercise in explorative lyricism and improvisational intuition for trio.

The founding Weather Report bassist and his sextet offer a bracing homage with variations of tunes recorded during and after his tenure with the group.

Nik Bärtsch / Nik Bärtsch's Mobile
After a decade of silence, the Swiss pianist and composer resurrects his first recording ensemble and issues a gem.

A stupendous album, one of the best of Molvær's career, proving once again that he's still way out there on his own.

Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny
A boundary-pushing collaboration between the avant-garde trumpeter and the superstar jazz guitarist.

Peter Brötzmann / Hamid Drake / William Parker
On their first recording together since 2003, this unit reveals their powerful, poetic, improvisational language undiminished by time's passage.

Ravi Coltrane / Jack DeJohnette / Matthew Garrison
The debut offering by this trio places the great drummer in the company of two contemporary masters.

On his debut, the producer, percussionist, and composer blurs lines between modern jazz and ancient Indian and African musical traditions.

The trumpeter's kinetic funk-jazz and Afrobeat-infused follow-up to his 2009 breakthrough Rising Son.

The maverick jazz piano trio returns to its roots, reworking a set of well-curated pop covers and an Ornette Coleman tune.

Tora Augestad / Frode Haltli / Svante Henryson / Trygve Seim
This wonderful chamber song cycle -- begun in 2003 -- is a watermark achievement for the composer and saxophonist.

Tord Gustavsen / Simin Tander / Jarle Vespestad
The pianist's new trio with German-Afghan vocalist Simin Tander explores traditional songs and poetry as panlinguistic improvisational devices.

A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke
A duo collaboration that transcends those limits to display a shared musical mind and emotional language.

The composer and his Golden Quintet deliver a masterwork examining the central ideas behind our National Parks and his own.

The Austrian guitarist expands his trio to a quintet in a relaxed yet dazzling series of new tunes and leaves plenty of room for solos.