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Dec 16, 2020 · Here are 25 of our favourite albums from 2020. Nubya Garcia – Source. This is a splendid debut album from saxophonist Nubya Garcia. We’re introduced to her distinct sound and feel, which is luminous and earthy. Garcia’s jazz is wonderfully multifaceted.
- jaimie branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) August 25, 2023. Avant-Garde Jazz. 92 7 reviews. Spotify.
- Corinne Bailey Rae - Black Rainbows. September 15, 2023. Art Pop, Jazz Fusion, Art Rock. 91 13 reviews. Spotify.
- John Coltrane - A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle. October 22, 2021. Spiritual Jazz. 89 9 reviews. Spotify.
- Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises. March 26, 2021. Post-Minimalism, Third Stream. 88 26 reviews.
- Artemis - Artemis. September 11, 2020. Post-Bop. 90
- Gregory Porter - All Rise. August 28, 2020. Vocal Jazz. 90 iTunes. Spotify.
- Damu The Fudgemunk, Archie Shepp & Raw Poetic - Ocean Bridges. May 22, 2020. Jazz Rap, Jazz. 90 iTunes. Spotify.
- Christian McBride - The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait Of Four Icons. February 7, 2020. Jazz. 90
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- Secrets Are The Best Stories
- The Call Within
- On The Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment
- Life Goes on
- Songs and Stories
ArtistShare While Maria Schneider's last album, the critically acclaimed The Thompson Fields, came in pastel shades, reflective moods and a wistful evocation of an idealised ‘Heimat’; Data Lords,in contrast, releases what Schneider calls her “inner beast”. It contains her most powerful writing yet – the ominous rising tension of the title track, th...
Lost Marble The seven-year journey of this music from recording to release chimes well with the title, though Tenacitycould also be an unintended soundtrack to the era of pandemics and lockdowns. Everybody has to hold tight in tryin' times. In any case, there is a joy, if not exuberance, in this meeting between the trio led by British pianist Djang...
Blue Note Charles Lloyd has been an unacknowledged genius working in plain sight for far too long. Ever since his remarkable series of albums on the ECM label that began with Fish Out Of Water in 1990, the creativity and invention of his playing seems to have increased in direct proportion with each year passing year, so that with 8, his 80th birth...
Nonesuch Metheny’s first album of new material since 2014’s Kin (Nonesuch), From This Place is for my money the guitarist/composer/bandleader’s finest album to date. That’s a big claim, considering he has won 20 Grammy awards in 12 separate categories, which includes an amazing streak where he became the only bandleader in the history of the Grammy...
Night Dreamer Ever since his headline slot at We Out Here Festival last summer, US sax great Gary Bartz had been enjoying some well-deserved attention. His band for that show was the London-based spiritual jazz group Maisha and this new release, recorded straight to vinyl for Night Dreamer Records (an innovative young label based in the Netherlands...
Edition For its lyrical depth, emotional sincerity, and stellar performances, Secrets Are The Best Stories must be considered one of the most compelling entries in Kurt Elling’s acclaimed discography. Elling partners here for the first time with Panamanian pianist Danilo Pérez, and the sense of a shared aesthetic sensibility is keenly felt througho...
Nonesuch On his third trio album, the 33-year-old Armenian-born, LA-based pianist-composer Tigran Hamasyan intensifies the uniquely personal soundworld he developed on previous Nonesuch trio releases 2013's Shadow Theatre and 2015's Mockroot. The Call Withinmarks a more daring interplay of extremes where the slamming intensity of high energy contem...
Blue Note Putting the extreme vulnerability and complexity of the African-American condition – with possible solace amid the sufferation – into a single title is by no means easy but the evocative construct, On The Tender Spot Of Every Calloused Moment,makes a good fist of it. Ambrose Akinmusire's fifth studio album finds the 38 year-old trumpeter ...
ECM As the whimsical determination that has propelled Carla Bley’s 60-year career edges her into her 80s, neither her productivity or the stealthy eloquence of her long-running trio with bassist Steve Swallow and the UK’s Andy Sheppard on saxes show a hint of fatigue. Life Goes On is a close but buoyantly independent relative of its 2013 predecesso...
Stunt Recorded at London's Stadium and Air Studios last year and released on the Copenhagen-based Stunt Records, composer, arranger and trombonist Callum Au and renowned vocalist Claire Martin join forces on this outstanding new album. Built on a foundation of jazz standards and American Songbook classics, the engulfing beauty of ‘Pure Imagination’...
Jan 2, 2021 · JAZZ ORACLE: England's Upbeat Recordings, a major source of trad jazz, New Orleans and swing music, announced in May that it had acquired the Jazz Oracle label. Canada-based Oracle had released 71 compilations of often-obscure early jazz from the 1920s and early 1930s.
Dec 2, 2020 · 1. Immanuel Wilkins, ‘Omega’. On his debut, the 23-year-old alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins announces himself with a suite of 10 compositions that move with such grace, there’s no time to...
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May 4, 2019 · Classical vs Jazz Music. This article is an opportunity for two established pillars of the musical community to square up to one another and to discover how they compare. Are there areas where the two genres of music connect, or are they radically different? Is the popularity of Jazz greater than that of classical music today?
