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Hrayr Attarian's Best Releases of 2016

By Hrayr Attarian
December 21, 2016
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Many other writers have submitted superb Best of/End of year lists, so another similar one would be redundant. As women instrumentalists in jazz have been historically underrepresented to great degree and remain a minority even today, below is a list with a feminist bent. These 12 exquisite albums are either by women or prominently feature women. An example of the latter is cornetist

Taylor Ho Bynum

cornet
b.1975

" data-original-title="" title="">Taylor Ho Bynum's Enter the Plustet that showcases, among other masterful improvisers, guitarist

Mary Halvorson

guitar

" data-original-title="" title="">Mary Halvorson, cellist

Tomeka Reid

cello

" data-original-title="" title="">Tomeka Reid, trumpeter

Steph Richards

trumpet

" data-original-title="" title="">Steph Richards and saxophonist

Ingrid Laubrock

saxophone
b.1970

" data-original-title="" title="">Ingrid Laubrock.

Joëlle Léandre bass b.1951 " data-original-title="" title="">Jo?lle L��andre Can You Hear Me? (Ayler Records)	Satoko Fujii piano b.1958 " data-original-title="" title="">Satoko Fujii Peace (Libra)	Mary Halvorson guitar " data-original-title="" title="">Mary Halvorson Away With You (Firehouse 12)
Taylor Ho Bynum cornet b.1975 " data-original-title="" title="">Taylor Ho Bynum Enter the Plustet (Firehouse 12)	Eve Risser piano b.1982 " data-original-title="" title="">Eve Risser Les Deux Versants Se Regardent (Clean Feed)	Carol Liebowitz piano b.1953 " data-original-title="" title="">Carol Liebowitz First Set (Line Art Records)
Ingrid Laubrock saxophone b.1970 " data-original-title="" title="">Ingrid Laubrock Serpentines (Intakt)	Julie Kjaer woodwinds " data-original-title="" title="">Julie Kjaer Dobbeltgaeenger (Clean Feed)	Catherine Sikora saxophone, tenor " data-original-title="" title="">Catherine Sikora Jersey (Relative Pitch Records)
Jane Ira Bloom saxophone, soprano " data-original-title="" title="">Jane Ira Bloom Early Americans (Outline)	Christine Corvisier saxophone " data-original-title="" title="">Christine Corvisier First Takes (Unit Records)	Michala Oestergaard-Nielsen More Stories From the Village (Boogie Post)

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