If I had to choose one, it would be the Greg Foat.
This one is really special. Fantastic original compositions played by a great band!
My choice for 2020!
CD on BlueNote
Recorded in 2019, released in 2020
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I will check. Thanks.
I hadnāt heard of Dinosaur previously. Thanks for the heads up and itās a brilliant LP.
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this was a real find for me thank you
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@0.0 if you like Dinosaur, checkout the efforts from the other band members. There are some great young English jazz musicians making wonderful music at the moment.
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I have a few of them, and agree that the English jazz scene is very inventive actually.
Like Kamaal Williams, Yussef Kamaal, Greg Foat, Nick Waters, Chad Mac Cullought, Camila George, Collucotor, Irreversible Etenglements, Emmanative, Nubya Garciaā¦
All discovered on the fabulous Bandcamp site.
@Dreadatthecontrols has created a great thread on Jazz Refreshed too.
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Mine is probably Maria Schneiderās Data Lords. Intense stuff, specially the first CD.
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@frenchrooster
Sorry for late reply, Iāve been offline at my rural Welsh hideaway in Lockdown & Snowbound, just returned.
Off the top of my head in no particular order;
Nubya Garcia The Source
Moses Boyd Dark Matter
Blue Note Reimagined
Kokoroko
Maisha There Is A Place
Dee Dee Bridgewater Afro Blue (Mr Bongo re issue)
Village Of The Sun feat Binker & Moses
Zara McFarlane Songs Of An Unknown Tongue
Caixa Cubo Angela
Giles Peterson Presents MV4
Matthew Halsall Salute To The Sun
Golden Mean Through Walls
This list could be expanded ten fold if I included all the Jazz that was new to me in 2020 from the contemporary British scene over the last decade or so.
And of course for vinyl re issues Blue Note Tone Poet are still top drawer, every title Iāve bought to date should be on this list but if pushed Iāll pick two,
Bobby Hutcherson The Kicker
Lonnie Smith All In My Mind
Ok, make it three
Joe Henderson State Of The Tenor Vol 1
No four
Duke Ellington Money Jungle
Actually make itā¦
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Nice thread, as Iāve started dipping my toes in streaming waters toward the end of 2020 Iām āfavouritingā all the choices here for further listening.
Thanks to all and a very happy, healthy and musical new year
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Thanks , and happy new year to you !
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The Winner is MOSES BOYD / DARK MATER , followed by Matthew Halsall/ Salute to the sun and Dynausor.
Thanks you all!
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Found that list very interesting. Good choices and selection of the best jazz albums from Bandcamp. Some albums mentioned here appear, like Moses Boyd, Dynausor, Christian Scottā¦and others worth to listen to.
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Listen to Delvon Lamar. Jimmy Hendrix would be impressed by that solo guitar.
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If anyone cares, here is my list, as published in Jazzwise magazine:
NEW RELEASES
1 Lakecia Benjamin Pursuance: The Coltranes Ropeadope
2 Gary Bartz & Maisha Night Dreamer Direct-to-Disc Sessions Night Dreamer
3 Bill Laurance Trio Live At Ronnie Scottās Flint Music
4 Wynton Marsalis/Jazz At Lincoln Centre Orchestra The Ever Fonky Lowdown Blue Engine
5 Jerry Granelli Trio Plays Vince Guaraldi & Mose Allison RareNoiseRecords
6 Carla Bley/Andy Sheppard/Steve Swallow Life Goes On ECM
7 ObradoviÄ-Tixier Duo ā The Boiling Stories of a Smoking Kettle Naim Records
8 Ivar Gydland & Henry Kaiser ā In the Arctic Dreamtime Rune Grammofon
9 Christian McBride Big Band For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver Mack Avenue
10 Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra Dimensional Stardust International Anthem/Nonesuch
REISSUES
1 Duke Ellington/Charlie Mingus/Max Roach Money Jungle Blue Note Tone Poet
2 Ella Fitzgerald Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes Verve
3 Dave Brubeck Quartet Time OutTakes Brubeck Editions
4 Charles Tolliver/Music Inc & Orchestra Impact Strata-East/Pure Pleasure
5 Heshoo Beshoo Group Armitage Road We Are Busy Bodies
6 Charles Lloyd Quartet The Flowering Atlantic/Speakers Corner
7 Mike Westbrook ft John Surman Love and Understanding (Citadel/Room 315 Sweden '74) My Only Desire
8 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers ā Just Coolinā Blue Note
9 Nat King Cole Trio Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Best of Hittinā The Ramp: The Early Years (1936ā-ā1943) Resonance Records
10 Hideto Sasaki-Toshiyuki Seking Quartet + 1 Stop Over BBE
To this list I would also add a number of albums others have mentioned ā Maria Schneiderās Data Lords (Jazzwise album of the year), the Dinosaur album, Christian McBrideās The Movement Revisited, the Halsall album, Monkās Palo Alto and Connect by Charles Tolliver.
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The lists from Bandcamp, Jazzwise, The Guardian and members selections that have been posted on the forum illustrate just how wide, open and diverse the current ājazzā scene is. Iām finding it quite amazing how these lists differ in their best of year selections.
So much great music coming out despite these locked down times.
I suffer from the usual problem when trying to keep up and hear as much of this as possible, the numpty who thought putting only 24hrs in a day was a good idea!
With the lockdown announced yesterday, Iām temporarily retiring my cab and positively going to immerse myself in as much of the music on these lists as is humanly possible.
Lock down and tune in
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Interesting selection there. Did you compile the list for Jazzwise?
Thanks! I did start a thread dedicated to the contemporary British Jazz scene and Jazz Re:freshed. Unfortunately it didnt seem to get much support other than your good self and a couple of others, and has expired, maybe it might be timely to ask @RichardDane if it could be reactivated?
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Dread, the main āalbums of the yearā list was compiled from individual lists from about 20 Jazzwise scribes and editors.