Jazz seem pretty popular on this forum, and I have discovered some great Jazz discs on this forum. So what are your top ten releases this year.
Here are mine
1 Top of the chart is a previously unknown to me, pianist from south Africa. Hearing Teardrop by Kyle Shephard from his “A dance More Sweetly Played” on the Gilles Peterson show stopped me in my tracks.
For me an average year for new releases. I went through everything I favourited released in 2024 - it’s easy to forget music from the early part of the year - and these stood out. Some reissues/remasters here.
Abdullah Ibrahim 3
Bill Evans: In Norway
Work, Money, Death: People of the Fast Flowing River
Takuya Kurada Remix by Kaidi Tatam
Aaron Parks little big III
Lucas Arruda Ominira
Galliano Halfway somewhere
Jose James 1978
Laurent Bardaine Tigre d’eau douce. Eden beach club
Gilad Hekselman. Live at the village Vanguard.
The Yussef Dayes experience. Live from Malibu.
Bruno Lara. Vital
Terez Montcalm. Step out.
Probably not the best cover of the year, but with honourable mentions for Arooj Aftab’s Night Reign, Total Blue and Nala Sinephro’s Endlessness, this live recording is probably my new jazz album of the year.
I like New Blue Sun too Andre 3000 plays flute on ‘I’ll Do Whatever I want’ a track on Shabaka Hutching’s last album which also features Carlos Nino who plays percussion on New Blue Sun.
night reign is a fine jazz album but i feel in moving so far towards western jazz arooj aftab has lost much that made her break through album so unique, rich and strange
