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'Blogarrhea Best of 2016

It's been a rough year. Most of my friends are sticking up their middle finger to 2016, as am I. I can only wonder which heroes of mine will bite the dust in 2017...but that's for another Blogarrhea. The following annual all-list blog is not supposed to represent the most important or the best-selling or even the most accomplished CDs of 2016. I have done nothing my entire life but listen to music and tell people about it. So these are the ones I got the most excited about. Before the lists commence, please note that Leonard Cohen's 'You Want It Darker' (Columbia) and Paul Simon's 'Stranger To Stranger' (Concord) are my two favorite CDs of 2016. That said, on with the show.

By Mike Greenblatt

'REVIEW: Jack DeJohnette/Ravi Coltrane/Matthew Garrison, 'In Movement,' ECM Records

Drummer Jack DeJohnette, 73, has played on more ECM records than any other musician. Why, then, is the 'In Movement' ECM debut of his new trio with tenor/soprano/sopranino saxophonist Ravi Coltrane and electric bassist/electronics master Matthew Garrison major jazz news?

By Mike Greenblatt
'REVIEW: Bill Evans, 'Some Other Time: The Lost Session From The Black Forest,' Resonance

Although just a tad under what finding The Holy Grail would mean to Christian culture, the discovery of 'Some Other Time: The Lost Session From The Black Forest' (Resonance Records) by legendary pianist Bill Evans [1929-1980] is something akin to a revelation.

By Mike Greenblatt

'REVIEW: Jack DeJohnette Revived on 'Made In Chicago'

By Mike Greenblatt

'Blogarrhea Best of 2016

'REVIEW: Jack DeJohnette/Ravi Coltrane/Matthew Garrison, 'In Movement,' ECM Records

'REVIEW: Bill Evans, 'Some Other Time: The Lost Session From The Black Forest,' Resonance

'REVIEW: Jack DeJohnette Revived on 'Made In Chicago'