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These are the 2024 "Best of Jazz" lists and commentaries compiled by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association. They are displayed in the order received, with the most recent on top. 

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  • Howard Mandel

    01 Dec 2020 1:28 PM | Howard Mandel (Administrator)

    Yes, it's hard to select 10 best of the year. Downloads are not making it easier to organize -- I'm flooded! Great to have so much music at my fingertips, so that's not a complaint. And I may return to this list to add other notable releases, but I can recommend all of these albums -- and urge you to hear the title track of 92-year-old-though-you-wouldn't-know-it bluesman Jimmy Johnson's "Ever Day of Your Life."

    Monk'estra plays John Beasley (Mack Avenue), John Beasley

    Ism (International Anthem), Junius Paul*

    Old New, (Cuneiform), Tomeka Reid Quartet*

    Omega (Blue Note), Immanuel Wilkins

    General Semantics (Delmark), Geof Bradfield-Ben Goldberg-Dana Hall Trio

    Night Visitors (SE Records), by Dave Bryant with Charnette Moffett and Gregg Bendian

    Every Day of Your Life (Delmark), Jimmy Johnson

    Rainbow Sign (Blue Note), Ron Miles

    Like the Sun (Dim Mak), Brian Charrett

    Cosmicomics (Queen Bee Records), Lisa Mezzacappa

    * released in 2019

    Also -- Human Rights Trio, Jason Kao Hwang

              Swallow Tales (ECM), John Scofield

  • Sammy Stein

    25 Nov 2020 10:38 AM | Anonymous

    Top releases 2020 - in no order

     Sothiac feat Paul Jolly ' Superluna' ( Sotrhiac/33Jazz)

     Ivo Perelman/Gordon Grdina ' The Purity of desire' ( Not Two records)

     The End Allt Ir Intet ( Rare Noise records)

     Will Glaser and James Allsop ' New River Ramble' ( self release)

     Archie The Goldfish 'Hidden Depths' ( Ropeadope)

     Elliot Galvin and Binker Golding 'Ex Nihillo (Byrd Out)

     Ensemble C Small World ( Self Release)

     Dinosaur ' to THe Earth' ( Edition)

     Erodoto Project ' Mythos- Metomorphosis ( Cultural Bridge)

     Tony Kofi - Another Kind Of Soul ( Last Music Company)

     Witch N Monk ' Witch 'N Monk' ( Tzadik )

     David Grubbs/Mats Gustafsson ' The Underflow' (Corbet vs Dempsey)

    All of these are worth checking out. So difficult to choose just a few.

    Best Interviews I carried out in 2020

    Ivo Perelman       Ivo Perelman is Prolific in His Creativity: An Interview with Ivo Perelman ~ The Free Jazz Collective (freejazzblog.org)

    Mats Gustafsson  An Interview with Mats Gustafsson ~ The Free Jazz Collective (freejazzblog.org)

    Daniel Bennett LOOKING FOR THE BLESSINGS! - Daniel Bennett offers hope during Coronavirus (jazzviews.net) 

    These interviews were very revealing






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