Best Of 2012: Jazz/Improv

MAGNET’s Bill Meyer picks the best jazz/improv releases of the year.

1 Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith & Louis Moholo-Moholo Ancestors (TUM)
2 Keith Rowe & John Tilbury E.E. Tension And Circumstance (Potlatch)
3 Peter Brötzmann & Jason Adasiewicz Going All Fancy (Brö)
4 Joshua Abrams Represencing (Eremite)
5 Neneh Cherry & The Thing The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Supersound)
6 Fast Citizens Gather (Delmark)
7 John Butcher, Eddie Prevost And Guillaume Vitard All But: Meetings With Remarkable Saxophonists Volume 2 (Matchless)
8 Sam Rivers/Dave Holland/Barry Altschul Reunion: Live In New York (Pi)
9 Living By Lanterns New Myth/Old Science (Cuneiform)
10 David S. Ware / Planetary Unknown Live At Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2011 (Aum Fidelity)