Records from 2024 that you have most enjoyed

[Rabshakeh]

I don't think we have a favourite releases of the year thread yet. (If we do, by all means shut me up and point me in the correct direction.) 

Anyway, for anyone who wants to, please post your favourite records released during the last 14 months or so.

Starting with me, I think that the records that I have enjoyed most have been:

- The Fay Victor vocal Herbie Nichols record seemed to me to be in the spirit of classic vocalists like Betty Carter without being derivative. 

- Matthew Shipp - New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz - This strikes me as one of the first Shipp records in a while that has something fresh to say. I really enjoyed the very gutsy chord work. Nice to hear it because I had given up on recorded Shipp. 

- The Ahmed box was a lot of fun, if overall quite uneven. I enjoyed the Monk/Rouse dynamic, which didn't get boring despite the extremely long tracks. 

Other than that, I'm not sure there's much I'd rush back to immediately.

Edited 17 hours ago by Rabshakeh

[T.D.]

+1 on the Shipp, though I haven't heard many of his recordings and can't make comparisons. He often collaborates with Michael Bisio, who is semi-local, so I've heard him live a few times.

Sadly, not sure I've heard sufficient 2024 releases to compile a list.

[Rabshakeh]

10 minutes ago, T.D. said:

+1 on the Shipp, though I haven't heard many of his recordings and can't make comparisons. He often collaborates with Michael Bisio, who is semi-local, so I've heard him live a few times.

Sadly, not sure I've heard sufficient 2024 releases to compile a list.

I like Shipp live but he has had a tendency to over record in the last decade or so. 

[jlhoots]

Micah Thomas: Mountains overdelivered.

[soulpope]

Beth Gibbons "Lives Outgrown" (Domino) ....

[mjazzg]

Ahmed

2 x Tomin on International Anthem

Jorga Mesfin

Pat Thomas - solo on Oto

Awen Ensemble

There is a similar thread started by @HutchFansomewhere I think. Here it is, slightly different parameters

https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/92191-2024-new-to-you-favorites/#comment-1894184

Edited 8 hours ago by mjazzg

[Rabshakeh]

2 hours ago, mjazzg said:

 

There is a similar thread started by @HutchFansomewhere I think. Here it is, slightly different parameters

https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/92191-2024-new-to-you-favorites/#comment-1894184

I knew there was! Sorry

Although I guess there is room for something a bit more targeted to best of new releases.

2 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Awen Ensemble

This is interesting. Just streaming Cadair Idris now.

Edited 5 hours ago by Rabshakeh

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

I knew there was! Sorry

Although I guess there is room for something a bit more targeted to best of new releases.

This is interesting. Just streaming Cadair Idris now.

Saw them perform it at the Vortex, they're very good (and seemingly very young too...)

[T.D.]

Off-topic, but I saw bassist Brandon Lopez (with Steve Baczkowski) at the last 2024 show Clifford Allen curated in Kingston and he just killed it. Going to have to see what he's released on bandcamp.