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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
Partisan Records
Year: 2024

Breaking Stretch
Patricia Brennan
Pyroclastic Records
Year: 2024

Paul Murphy Presents: Copa Salvo
COPASALVO
Jazz Room Records
Year: 2024

History Of The Vibraphone
Warren Wolf
Cellar Music Group
Year: 2024

Halfway Somewhere
Galliano
Brownswood Recordings
Year: 2024

Sì, Cosi
Les Hommes
Sudden Hunger Records
Year: 2024

Dream World
Chris Bangs
Acid Jazz
Year: 2024

Modo Avião
Caixa Cubo
Far Out Recordings
Year: 2024

Grande-Terre
Roy Hargrove
Verve Records
Year: 2024

The World I Hear (Essence Of Life)
David Lyn
MWL Productions
Year: 2024

Tension
Mulatu Astatke
Batov Records
Year: 2024

Everybody Cryin' Mercy
Vibration Black Finger
Enid Records
Year: 2024

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