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Dean Nardi's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Dean Nardi
This has been the year that musicians collaborated and cross-pollinated, experimented within and outside jazz. Best of all, some of the more avant-garde musicians seemed to find value in sculpting their music like a potter with clay, trimming away the excess, shaping a harmonious vessel. Those were some of the records I listened to more than ...
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 ...
I dischi del 2024 secondo Angelo Leonardi
by Angelo Leonardi
Indico i dischi (sia italiani che stranieri) che ho più apprezzato e soprattutto amato nel 2024. Quelli che più mi hanno arricchito e appassionato, quelli che mi sono ritrovato a riascoltare spesso. Tra il primo indicato e l'ultimo non c'è un ordine di valore, ma solo alfabetico. Non so quanto sia possibile dividere la valutazione “professionale" ...
Richard J Salvucci's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Richard J Salvucci
Bandleader Glenn Miller would introduce a part of his 1930s radio broadcast with the phrase “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue." If you review enough classic vinyl rereleases, you get plenty of something old. The new here is obvious and a joy to hear. Only problem is that it will be 2025 before making ...
Konstantin Rega's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Konstantin N. Rega
Every year is a good year for jazz. With homages to more traditional styles as well as exciting innovations that push musical boundaries, there's never a dull moment. 2024 kept the good vibes flowing; it was a superb year for playful interpretations, various musical fusions and sophisticated performances. Bloom Bill Laurance ...
Joshua Weiner's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Joshua Weiner
Sweet reissues, new archival releases, and a truly new recording that is nevertheless a tribute to a genius musician of the 1950s and early 1960s... what can I say, I'm just an old-school kind of jazz fan! Also a vinyl listener, and the vast number of all-analogue, well-cut and well-pressed reissues of classic jazz albums coming ...
Jazz First's Favourite Albums Of 2024... Dance, No One's Watching!
by Tony Poole
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 ...
Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Jack Bowers
On a personal note, this is unlike any “best of the year" summaries I've written during my more than twenty-five years as a reviewer for All About Jazz. The reason is that I fell in late April and broke my left femur. As a result, I completed no reviews from that time until early September, a ...
Troy Dostert's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Troy Dostert
Another year of first-rate creative jazz is in the books, along with another impossible set of choices in assembling a top-10 list. These are some of the standouts, in a year in which trios and quartets were especially prominent, taking advantage of the unparalleled opportunities for close collaboration that smaller ensembles provide. My favorites are listed ...
Jerome Wilson's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Jerome Wilson
The ten recordings on this list made up some of the most stimulating and breathtaking work I heard all year. There was intelligence, emotion and daring laced all through this music and the title of the Charles Lloyd album provided a comforting sentiment to take into the uncertain future of 2025. Fay VictorLife ...
