Well, it's that time of December again when we look back to the year behind us and then to the year ahead. Once again CJSW's Tim Mah, host of the Jazz radio program Jazz Today (heard on Thursday mornings from 530-7am) and frequent contributor to Four on the Floor, offers his top picks for Canadian Jazz albums of 2019.
As you will see below, there are plenty of great things happening in Canadian Jazz these days!
Make sure to come back again shortly for Tim's pick's for top overall international Jazz releases of 2019.
"Tim Mah's Top Canadian Jazz Albums of 2019"
Here are my favourite albums, led or co-led by Canadians, released between December 2018 and November 2019:
1) Kris Davis “Diatoms Ribbons”
https://krisdavis.bandcamp.com/album/diatom-ribbons
2) Seamus Blake “Guardians of the Heart Machine”
https://seamusblake.bandcamp.com/album/guardians-of-the-heart-machine
3) Landline “Landline”
https://landlinebrooklyn.bandcamp.com
Here are my favourite albums, led or co-led by Canadians, released between December 2018 and November 2019:
1) Kris Davis “Diatoms Ribbons”
https://krisdavis.bandcamp.com/album/diatom-ribbons
2) Seamus Blake “Guardians of the Heart Machine”
https://seamusblake.bandcamp.com/album/guardians-of-the-heart-machine
3) Landline “Landline”
https://landlinebrooklyn.bandcamp.com
4) Anna Webber “Clockwise”
https://annawebber.bandcamp.com/album/clockwise
If you missed it, please listen to Anna Webber talk about her music with Dave Douglas on the podcast called “A Noise From The Deep”:
https://greenleafmusic.com/anftd-61-anna-webber/
Below is a video of Anna Webber performing at the Experimental Sound Studio:
5. Nick Fraser, Kris Davis and Tony Malaby “Zoning”
https://fraserdavismalaby.bandcamp.com/album/zoning
6. Gentiane MG Trio “Wonderland”
https://gentianemgtrio.bandcamp.com/album/wonderland
If you missed it, please listen to Anna Webber talk about her music with Dave Douglas on the podcast called “A Noise From The Deep”:
https://greenleafmusic.com/anftd-61-anna-webber/
Below is a video of Anna Webber performing at the Experimental Sound Studio:
5. Nick Fraser, Kris Davis and Tony Malaby “Zoning”
https://fraserdavismalaby.bandcamp.com/album/zoning
6. Gentiane MG Trio “Wonderland”
https://gentianemgtrio.bandcamp.com/album/wonderland
7. Michael Davidson & Dan Fortin “Clock Radio”
https://elasticrecordings.bandcamp.com/releases
8. Jacques Kuba Seguin “Migrations”
https://jacqueskubaseguin.bandcamp.com/album/jacques-kuba-s-guin-migrations
9. Laura Anglade “I’ve Got Just About Everything”
https://soundcloud.com/justin-time-records/sets/laura-anglade
10. Orchestre National de Jazz de Montreal “The Mystic Mind”
11. Tara Kannangara “It’s Not Mine Anymore”
https://elasticrecordings.bandcamp.com/releases
8. Jacques Kuba Seguin “Migrations”
https://jacqueskubaseguin.bandcamp.com/album/jacques-kuba-s-guin-migrations
9. Laura Anglade “I’ve Got Just About Everything”
https://soundcloud.com/justin-time-records/sets/laura-anglade
10. Orchestre National de Jazz de Montreal “The Mystic Mind”
11. Tara Kannangara “It’s Not Mine Anymore”
12. Brad Turner Quartet featuring Seamus Blake “Jump Up”
13. Steph Richards “Take the Neon Lights”
14. Curtis Nowosad “Curtis Nowosad”
15. Sam Wilson “Groundless Apprehensions”
16. Louis-Vincent Hamel “Self Enquiry”
17. Jane Bunnett & Maqueque “On Firm Ground / Tierra Firme”
18. Donna Grantis “Diamonds & Dynamite”
19. Harris Eisenstadt “Canada Day Quartet Live”
20. Dan McCarthy “City Abstract”
21. Dan McCarthy “Epoch”
22. Dominique Fils-Aime “Stay Tuned!”
23. Fraser Hollins “Treehouse”
24. Chelsea McBride’s Socialist Night School “Aftermath”
25. SHPIK “Temple O”
Also check out (in no particular order):
Mike Allen “Just Like Magic”
Joel Miller “Unstoppable”
Florian Hoefner Trio “First Spring”
Mike Murley “Taking Flight”
TuneTown “There From Here”
Matt Choboter Band “Spillimacheen”
Trevor Giancola “Sonnet 18”
John Stetch “Black Sea Suite (Live)”
106 Collective Quartet (Adrean Farrugia, Chris Wallace, Luis Deniz, Roberto Occhipinti) “Surface”
Jazzlab Orchestra “Quintessence”
Four Visions Saxophone Quartet (Samuel Blais, Dave Liebman, David Binney & Donny McCaslin) “Four Visions”
Bria Skonberg “Nothing Never Happens”
Yannick Rieu “MachiNations”
Gordon Grdina Quartet “Cooper’s Park”
Steve Haines and the Third Floor Orchestra “Steve Haines and the Third Floor Orchestra”
Andres Vial “Gang of Three”
Kyle Hutchins Trio “You Sound Like Pine Trees”
Rafael Zaldivar “Consecration”
Jim Doxas “Homebound”
Brad Turner “Pacific”
Jim Brenan 11 “50/50”
Stephanie Urquhart “Concealment”
Andre Wickenheiser “A Happy Little Accident”
Carsten Rubeling “Volk // People”
The North “Plays the Music of Kenny Wheeler”
Thompson Egbo-Egbo “The Offering”
JV’s Boogaloo Squad “Going to Market”
Malleus Trio “Play Nice”
Dave Robbins Sextet “Joan of Art”
Ted Quinlan “Absolutely Dreaming”
Mike Allen Quartet “Celebrating Sonny Greenwich”
Kevin Dean “Sunset Trail”
Yves Leveille “Phare”
Carlos Jimenez Quintet “Don’t Fall”
Alex Fournier “Triio”
Dave Young “Lotus Blossom”
Mark Kelso Jazz Project “The Chronicles of Fezziwig"
Pat LaBarbera & Kirk MacDonald Quintet “Trane of Thought”
Heather Bambrick “Fine State”
P.J. Perry “This Quiet Room” (featuring Bill Mays)
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