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Jazz First's Favourite Albums Of 2024... Dance, No One's Watching!

By Tony Poole
December 13, 2024
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Twelve albums that reflect the Jazz First manifesto that is as much about dance and groove as it is about improvised music. The featured titles fuse jazz with hip-hop, house, Afrobeat, dub, spiritual, world and other genres that have been dancing with each other amiably for decades. Most of these albums reflect, in part, music for the dancehall, away from the concert hall where something got lost mid-way during the 20th century. Here's to hope for 2025 and how jazz can help speak toward the unifying power of dance in these uncertain times. Listen to selected tracks on the Jazz First podcast The Winners: Ezra Collective, Patricia Brennan, Chris Bangs, Galliano, And More

Dance, No One's Watching

Ezra Collective

band / ensemble / orchestra

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Partisan Records
Year: 2024

Breaking Stretch

Patricia Brennan

vibraphone

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Pyroclastic Records
Year: 2024

Paul Murphy Presents: Copa Salvo

COPASALVO

band / ensemble / orchestra

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Jazz Room Records
Year: 2024

History Of The Vibraphone

Warren Wolf

vibraphone
b.1979

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Cellar Music Group
Year: 2024

Halfway Somewhere

Galliano

band / ensemble / orchestra

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Brownswood Recordings
Year: 2024

S��, Cosi

Les Hommes

band / ensemble / orchestra

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Sudden Hunger Records
Year: 2024

Dream World

Chris Bangs

electronics

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Acid Jazz
Year: 2024

Modo Avi?o

Caixa Cubo

band / ensemble / orchestra

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Far Out Recordings
Year: 2024

Grande-Terre

Roy Hargrove

trumpet
1969 - 2018

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Verve Records
Year: 2024

The World I Hear (Essence Of Life)

David Lyn

percussion

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MWL Productions
Year: 2024

Tension

Mulatu Astatke

percussion

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Batov Records
Year: 2024

Everybody Cryin' Mercy

Vibration Black Finger

band / ensemble / orchestra

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Enid Records
Year: 2024

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