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Mike Jurkovic's Best Releases of 2019
Chick Corea Trilogy 2
Concord Music Group
Here's hoping we needn't wait another several years for a third installment.
Branford Marsalis The Secret Between The Shadow and the Soul
Okeh
Even if the disc only contained "Dance of The Evil Toys" and Keith Jarrett's "The Windup" it will still be an end-of-the-year topper.
Lisa Hilton Chalkboard Destiny
Ruby Slipper Productions
Known on both coasts, here's the recording that will bring her into the fly-over states.
Veronica Swift Confessions
Mack Avenue Records
Brassy, sassy, full of break-out energy and more balls than Major League Baseball, Swift fronts both the Emmet Cohen and Benny Green trios.
Kris Davis Diatom Ribbons
Pyroclastic
Aided and abetted by Esperanza Spalding, J.D. Allen, Ches Smith, Nels Cline, Marc Ribot and Terri Lyne Carrington, Davis takes herself and her beautiful twisted music to exciting new heights.
David Torn Sun of Goldfinger
ECM Records
Sonically psychotic with a calm in the center that's daring to hear.
Bria Skonberg Nothing Never Happens
Self Produced
Skonberg's discography is a rather sunny one. . .until now. A wide, dark turn into the personal and national unrest that afflicts us all.
Cannonball Adderley Swingin' In Seattle, Live at The Penthouse 1966-1967
Reel to Real
History in the making and swingin' only partially defines it.
John Coltrane Blue World
Impulse
Previously unheard music from he classic quartet in 1964 at peak creativity and stamina getting ready for Crescent and A Love Supreme.
Enrico Rava / Joe Lovano Roma
ECM records
From the glorious unravelling of "Fort Worth" through the shimmering statements within "Drum Song/Spiritual/ Over The Rainbow," it's hard to fathom this is their first duet recording.
Steph Richards Take The Neon Lights
Bird Watcher Records
Fearless and forward thinking trumpeter Richards makes her instrument, its origins traced back to 1500 BC, sound startling new and mysterious.
Vijay Iyer & Craig Taborn The Transitory Poems
ECM Records
Cecil Taylor hovers mightily over these bold creators.
Erroll Garner The Octave Remastered Series
Mack Avenue
Released on a monthly basis starting September, 2019, Garner fully,finally and faithfully gets his props as a master musician, orchestrator, and improvisor. Dreamstreet in particular is a stroke of genius.
Eric Dolphy Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions
Resonance Records
Dolphy 1963. What more need be said?
Paul Bley When Will The Blues Leave
ECM Records
A true dance of inquisitive equals, this is first posthumous Bley release since his passing in 2016. An outstanding document of a more than outstanding performance from 1999.
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