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Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2024

by Ludovico Granvassu
Have you noticed how many best of the year" listicles start with an apologetic preamble ("these are not necessarily 'the best albums of the year' but 'my favorites';" it's all subjective;" tomorrow I might have chosen different titles;" I could only select ten albums" etc.)? Those disclaimers channel the writer's discomfort of having to summarize a ...
Cloudward

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Gate; The Tower; Collapsing Mouth; Unscrolling; Desiderata; Incarnadine; Tailhead; Ultramarine.
American Railroad: A Musical Journey of Reclamation

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Invocation (Pura Fé Crescioni); Swannanoa Tunnel / Steel-Driving Man (Traditional, arr. Rhiannon Giddens); Rainy Day (Wu Man); Far Down Far (Maeve Gilchrist); Tamping Song (Haruka Fuji); Rela (Sandeep Das); Wihanblapi Mazachanku (Suzanne Kite); Have You Seen My Man/ (Cecile McLorin Salvant); Swannanoa Strings (Traditional, arr. Silkroad Ensemble); Milimo (Niwel Tsumbu); Fukagu Sanjurokkei (Kaoru Watanabe); Mahk Jchi (Pura Fé Crescioni); O Shout! (Mazz Swift).
Katchie Cartwright's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Katchie Cartwright
2024 was another great year for jazz, and here are a dozen more reasons to think so... Hermeto Pascoal Pra você, Ilza Rocinante Records I saw heaven on earth doing this work." --Hermeto Pascoal Rhiannon Giddens American Railroad: A Musical Journey of ...
Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens: American Railroad: A Musical Journey of Reclamation

by Katchie Cartwright
Rhiannon Giddens is not afraid of big projects. American Railroad, the album, is part of a larger work, subtitled A Musical Journey of Reclamation, which Giddens initiated with the widely acclaimed Silkroad Ensemble, a diverse international collective of performers, improvisers and composers created by Yo Yo Ma. American Railroad digs into the building of America's transcontinental ...
John Chacona's Favorite Jazz Albums of 2024

by John Chacona
First the bad news: There are too many recordings being released these days. In the past 12 months, I have received or purchased 769. That's insane. Now the good news: There are a great many very good recordings being released these days. The following 10 are a snapshot, on one day, of my favorites ...
Mike Jurkovic's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Mike Jurkovic
It has been, to say the least, one hell of fright night year. But here is the music that stayed with me, through thick and thin, and all manner of human foible and political upheaval. Vijay IyerCompassion ECM Records Kris Davis
Doug Collette's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Doug Collette
These may not have been the only titles that provided respite from the inane insanity (insane inanity?) around us this year, but each in its own way commanded deep and abiding attention in and of itself. Mary Halvorson Cloudward Nonesuch Records Satoko Fujii Jet Black ...
Mary Halvorson: Cloudward

by Doug Collette
The title of guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson's Cloudward alludes to the sense of optimism she has stated she felt when writing the bulk of the material in fall of 2022. And while this palpable sense of faith in the future is in marked contrast to the tangible air of eerie foreboding that surfaced so often on this ...
Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

by Ludovico Granvassu
If it is true that, like The Police once put it, when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...