My favorites of 2014 (there were other good shows, but these stay with me):
Nate Wooley- 7 Story Mountain- Winter Jazz Fest 2014 (January)
Brotzmann/Drake/Adasiewicz - Winter Jazz Fest 2014 (January)
Celebrating Cecil Taylor - Zankel, Parker, Burrell, Grimes, Cyrille - Philadelphia (March)
Gerstad/Bradford Quartet - Baltimore (March)
Jooklo Duo - Philadelphia (April)
Braxton Nonet - Brooklyn (April)
Vandermark Made to Break - Vienna, VA (April)
LARK (minus Kris Davis -due to sickness)-Laubrock, Alessi, Rainey - Baltimore (April)
Matt Shipp Trio Tribute to Duke Ellington - Washington DC (April)
Nels Cline Singers with Cyro Baptista - Baltimore (May)
Swedish Azz - Mats Gustafsson et al -Philadelphia (May)
Brotzmann/Parker/Drake - Baltimore (May)
Keir Neuringer - Quartet Without Borders - Brooklyn, NY (June 2010)
Mette Rasmussen ) -solo sax- Brooklyn, NY (June)
Vision Festival: Brotzmann/Parker/Drake and Moondoc Quintet- Brooklyn- (June)
Evan Parker Residency - all good! Particularly liked Group EP, Peter Evans, John Hebert, Tyshawn Sorey; also, EP, Escreet, Hebert, Sorey; also, EP, Wooley, Cymerman-- The Stone- (September)
High Zero Festival - Okkyung Lee, LaDonna Smith performances (September)
Tim Berne Residency - especially Electric Snakeoil, Ice Station Zebra, Decay --The Stone - (October)
Ran Blake - 2 sets solo piano- Baltimore (December)
Looking back, I was fortunate to see and hear a lot of terrific music.