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Nenad Georgievski's Best of 2015

By Nenad Georgievski
January 5, 2016
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2015 was not an easy year. I became a dad for the third time while I was working on a Film festival for music documentaries. The festival itself was an uphill battle, but I managed to get it organized with astounding success. In the meantime I was writing constantly or was listening to music, as if my life depended on it. The Top 10 is actually a process of sifting through hundreds of records and panning for gold. Plenty of vinyl, streaming, CDs downloads and a great deal of books. 2015 was a good year.

Best Jazz Releases

St.Germain

St. Germain
St.Germain
(Nonesuch)

Brad Mehldau
10 Years Solo Live
(Nonesuch)

Natija Dedic
Matija Svira Arsena
(Croatia Records)

Nenad Vasilic
The Art of The Balkan Bass
(Galileo Music)

John Abercrombie
The First Quartet
(ECM)

Fred Hersch
Fred Hersch
(Palmetto Records)

Keith Jarrett
Creation
(ECM)

Vijay Iyer
Break Stuff
(ECM)

Eberhard Weber
Hommage A Eberhard Weber
(ECM)

Maria Schneider
The Thompson Fields
(ArtistShare)

Beyond Jazz: Top 10

Bob Dylan
Bootleg Series Vol.12: Cutting Edge
(Legacy Recordings)

David Gilmour
Rattle That Lock
(Columbia)

Hans Zimmer
Interstellar OST
(Music on Vinyl)

Gurdjieff Ensemble
Komitas
(ECM)

Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood And The Rajasthan Express
Junun
Nonesuch

Krste Rodzevski
Batania
(Self Produced)

Spiro
Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow
(Real World Records)

Daniel Lanois
Flesh and Machine
(Anti)

Oliver Josifovski
Neizgasnati Ognishta
(Self-Produced)

Arvo Part
Musica Selecta: A Sequence By Manfred Eicher
(ECM)

Top 10 Reissues

Miles Davis
Kind of Blue
(Music on Vinyl)

The Staple Singers
Freedom Highway
(Legacy Recordings)

Van Morrison
The Essential
(Legacy Recordings)

Philip Glass
Glassworks
(Music on Vinyl)

Various Artists
Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix
(Music on Vinyl)

Daniel Lanois
For the Beauty of Wynona
(Music on Vinyl)

Leonard Cohen
Live in London
(Music on Vinyl)

Jon Hassell
Possible Musics
(Glitterbeat)

Philip Glass
Low Symphony
(Music on Vinyl)

Simon and Garfunkel
The Complete Columbia Album Collection
(Music on Vinyl)

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