Melhores do ano (Best Classical, Jazz and World Music recordings of 2017)

Metamorfosi Trecento (La Fonte Musica; Alpha)

Tye: Complete Consort Music (Phantasm; Linn)

Buxtehude: Trio Sonatas, Op. 1 (Arcangelo; Alpha)

Sheppard: Media Vita (Westminster Cathedral Choir; Hyperion)

Sorensen: Mignon (Katrine Gislinge; Dacapo)

Lucrezia Borgia’s Daughter (Musica Secreta & Celestial Sirens; Obsidian)

Compère: Missa Galeazescha (Odhecaton; Arcana)

Radigue: Occam Océan, Vol. 1 (Shiiin)

Tinctoris: Secret Consolations (Le Miroir de Musique; Ricercar)

Machaut: Sovereign Beauty (The Orlando Consort; Hyperion)

Menções honrosas: Stile Antigo em “Divine Theatre”, de Wert (Harmonia Mundi); na mesma editora, Matthias Goerne em “Lieder” de Schumann e “Cantatas” de Bach; Les Talens Lyriques em “Pygmalion”, de Rameau (Aparté); Ensemble Aleph em “Die Stücke der Windrose”, de Kagel (Évidence); Gidon Kremer em “Sinfonias de Câmara”, de Weinberg (ECM); Seong-Jin Cho em “Images”, de Debussy (Deutsche Grammophon); Nelson Freire em “Intermezzi”, de Brahms (Decca); Vicki Ray em “River of 1,000 Streams”, de Lentz (Cold Blue Music); Barbara Hannigan em “Crazy Girl Crazy” (Alpha); Emily Pinkerton e Patrick Burke em “Rounder Songs” (New Amsterdam). Do arquivo: “Tiger Balm/Amazonia Dreaming/Immersion”, de Annea Lockwood (Black Truffle); “Rose des Vents”, de Pierre Mariétan (Mana); “Four Indonesian Electronic Pieces”, de Otto Sidharta (Sub Rosa); “Hétérozygote/Petite Symphonie…”, de Luc Ferrari (Recollection GRM).

Ivo Perelman, Matthew Shipp “The Art of Perelman-Shipp" Vols. 1-7: "Titan", "Tarvos", "Pandora", "Hyperion", "Rhea", "Saturn" & "Dione" (Leo)

Wadada Leo Smith “Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk” (TUM)

Peter Evans, Agustí Fernández, Mats Gutafsson “A Quietness of Water” (Not Two)

Anemone “A Wing Dissolved in Light” (NoBusiness)

Fred Hersch “Open Book” (Palmetto)

Tim Berne’s Snakeoil “Incidentals” (ECM)

DEK Trio “Construct 2: Artacts” (Audiographic)

Matthew Shipp Quartet “Not Bound” (For Tune)

Ron Miles “I Am A Man” (Yellowbird)

Sirius “Acoustic Main Suite Plus The Inner One” (Clean Feed)

Menções honrosas: “Nerve Dance” (Michaël Attias), “Vertical” (Mario Pavone) e “Saxophone Special Revisited” (Rova Saxophone Quartet, Kyle Bruckmann, Henry Kaiser), na Clean Feed; “The Attic”, de Gonçalo Almeida, Rodrigo Amado e Marco Franco (NoBusiness); “Bells for the South Side”, de Roscoe Mitchell (ECM); “Vessel in Orbit”, de Whit Dickey, Mat Maneri e Matthew Shipp (AUM). Do arquivo: “Karyobin”, do Spontaneous Music Ensemble (Emanem); “Divine Music”, de Brother Ah (Manufactured); “Moshi”, de Barney Wilen (SouffleContinu); “Free Jazz”, de François Tusques (Cacophonic); “Song of Soil”, de Masahiko Togashi, Don Cherry e Charlie Haden (Tiger Bay); “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”, de Thelonious Monk (Sam); “On a Monday Evening”, de Bill Evans (Concord); “Truth, Liberty & Soul”, de Jaco Pastorius (Resonance). Foram-se Sunny Murray, Muhal Richard Abrams, Geri Allen, Arthur Blythe e Horace Parlan.

“Sweet as Broken Dates” (Ostinato)

“Oté Maloya” (Strut)

Tanzania Albinism Collective “White African Power” (Six Degrees)

“Welcome to Zamrock! Vol. 1” (Now-Again)

Les Filles de Illighadad “Eghass Malan” (Sahel Sounds)

“Pop Makossa” (Analog Africa)

Awa Poulo “Poulo Warali” (Awesome Tapes from Africa)

“Synthesize the Soul” (Ostinato)

Hamad Kalkaba “…And The Golden Sounds” (Analog Africa)
“Andina” (Strut)

Menções honrosas: a antologia “The Original Sound of Mali” (Mr. Bongo); “Lam Phloen”, de Phumphuang Duanchan (EM); “Nuits de Printemps”, de Abdou El Omari (Radio Martiko); “Eros in Arabia”, de Richard Horowitz (Freedom to Spend); gravações de campo no Brasil, em “La danse du souffle” (Ocora), e Etiópia, com “Ethiopian Urban and Tribal Music” (Sub Rosa); “Ragas of Morning & Night”, de Pandit Pran Nath (Just Dreams); “Gulu City Anthems”, de Otim Alpha (Nyege Nyege Tapes); o sétimo volume da Habibi Funk. E uma dúzia de títulos na PMG: “Boys and Girls” (Joe Moks), “Feelin’ Alright” (Kiki Gyan), “Funk With Me” (Danny Offia), “Celebration” (Aktion), “Light My Fire” (Burnis), “Co-Operation” (Foundars 15), “Let’s Have a Party” (Geraldo Pino), “Cold Fire” (Heads Funk), “Only You” (Steve Monite), “Sexy Thing” (Robo Arigo), “Happy Birthday To ‘U’” (Steve Black), “Don’t Stop the Music” (Sony Enang).