Thursday, December 19, 2013

Ten (+1) Best LPs I Bought in 2013

Not necessarily released this year, and in order of album cover color palette. . .

Steve Lacy - "The Crust" (Emanem)

Jimmy Lyons - "Other Afternoons" (Actual / BYG)

The National Gallery - "Performing Musical Interpretations of the Paintings of Paul Klee" (Philips)

Paul Bley - "Open, to love" (ECM)

The Flatlanders - "The Odessa Tapes" (New West)

The Sixth Station - "Deep Night" (Numero Group)

Jeannie Robertson - "Songs of a Scots Tinker Lady" (Riverside)

Les Diables Du Rythme de St. Marc - "Tripotage" (Dorceant's Records)

LaSalle Quartet - "Schoenberg / Berg / Webern String Quartets" (Deutsche Grammophon)

Ian Matthews - "Some Days You Eat The Bear . . . Some Days The Bear Eats You" (Elektra)

Scott Walker - "Tilt" (Drag City)