Once again CJSW's Tim Mah, host of the weekly Jazz radio program Jazz Today (heard on Thursday mornings from 530-7am) and frequent contributor to this blog, offers his top picks for best international Jazz albums of 2019 (this is a wonderful follow-up to his excellent list of Canadian picks last week). As you can see below, Tim's choices are well informed and there was lots of great music offered to us over the past year.
This will be the final blog post of 2019 so drive safe everyone and see you next year!
"Tim Mah's Top Jazz Albums (International) of 2019"
Here are my favourite albums from international (non-Canadian) artists, released from December 2018 to November 2019:
1. Camila Meza & The Nectar Orchestra “Ambar”
https://www.camilameza.com
2. Kendrick Scott Oracle “A Wall Becomes a Bridge”
http://www.kendrickscott.com
3. Johnathan Blake “Trion” (with Chris Potter and Linda May Han Oh)
https://johnathanblake1.bandcamp.com/releases
4. Reid Anderson, Dave King & Craig Taborn “Golden Valley is Now”
https://intaktrec.bandcamp.com/album/golden-valley-is-now
GOLDEN VALLEY IS NOW "Highway 1000" and "The end of the world" from Idée Fixe on Vimeo.
5. Lage Lund “Terrible Animals”
https://www.lagelund.com
6. Branford Marsalis Quartet “The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul”
https://www.marsalismusic.com/releases/secret-between-shadow-and-soul
7. Terri Lyne Carrington & Social Science “Waiting Game”
https://www.terrilynecarrington.com
8. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah “Ancestral Recall”
https://christianscott.bandcamp.com/album/ancestral-recall
9. Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom “Glitter Wolf”
https://allisonmiller.bandcamp.com
10. Linda May Han Oh “Aventurine”
https://lindamayhanoh.bandcamp.com/album/aventurine
11. Melissa Aldana “Visions”
https://www.melissaaldana.net
12. Joshua Redman Quartet “Come What May”
https://www.joshuaredman.com
13. Miguel Zenon “Sonero: The Music of Ismael Rivera”
https://miguelzenon.bandcamp.com/releases
14. Nerija “Blume”
https://nerijamusic.bandcamp.com/album/blume
15. Jazzmeia Horn “Love and Liberation”
https://concord.com/artist/jazzmeia-horn/
16. Guillermo Klein “Los Guachos Cristal”
17. Joshua Redman & Brooklyn Rider “Sun on Sand”
18. Kurt Rosenwinkel & Bandit 65 “Searching the Continuum”
19. The Comet is Coming “Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery”
20. The Art Ensemble of Chicago “We Are On The Edge”
21. Joel Ross “KingMaker”
22. Miho Hazama “Dancer in Nowhere”
23. Theon Cross “Fyah”
24. Caroline Davis “Alula”
25. Yazz Ahmed “Polyhymnia”
26. Yes! Trio (Ali Jackson, Omer Avital and Aaron Goldberg) “Groove du Jour”
27. Brad Mehldau “Finding Gabriel”
28. Julian Lage “Love Hurts”
29. Larry Grenadier “The Gleaners”
30. Portico Quartet “Memory Streams”
Also check out (in no particular order):
JD Allen “Barracoon”
Marta Sanchez “El Rayo de Luz”
Tomeka Reid Quartet “Old New”
Victor Gould “Thoughts Become Things”
Ryan Keberle & Catharsis “The Hope I Hold”
Ralph Alessi “Imaginary Friends”
Fabian Almazan Trio “This Land Abounds With Life”
Ben Monder “Day After Day”
Bill Frisell “Harmony”
Harish Raghavan “Calls for Action”
Steve Lehman Trio & Craig Taborn “The People I Love”
The Bad Plus “Activate Infinity”
Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan “Epistrophy”
Chick Corea “Trilogy 2 (featuring Christian McBride and Brian Blade)”
Taylor Ho Bynum 9-Tette “The Ambiguity Manifesto”
Amirtha Kidambi & Elder Ones “From Untruth”
Laura Jurd “Stepping Back, Jumping In”
Dan Weiss Trio Plus 1 “Utica Box”
Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain & Chris Potter “Good Hope”
Roxy Coss “Quintet”
Greg Ward & Rogue Parade “Stomping off from Greenwood”
Junius Paul “Ism”
Dave Douglas “Devotion” (featuring Uri Caine and Andrew Cyrille)
Miles Okazaki “The Sky Below”
Alex Lore & Weirdear “Karol”
Theo Croker “Star People Nation”
Zach Brock, Matt Ulery & Jon Deitemyer “Wonderment”
Matt Ulery “Delicate Charms”
Mark de Clive-Lowe “Heritage” and “Heritage II”
Chris Potter “Circuits” (featuring James Francies & Eric Harland)
Joe Martin “Etoilee”
Matt Mitchell “Phalanx Ambassadors”
James Brandon Lewis “An Unruly Manifesto”
ELEW “Cubism”
Persona (Caroline Davis and Rob Clearfield) “Anthems”
Chris Speed Trio “Respect For Your Toughness”
Marquis Hill “Love Tape”
David Sanchez “Carib”
Sun Speak “Moon Preach”
Curtis+Garabedian+Sperrazza “New Year”
Jeremy Pelt “Jeremy Pelt The Artist”
Kevin Hays & Lionel Loueke “Hope”
Jason Palmer “Rhyme and Reason”
Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn “The Transitory Poems”
Joe Lovano, Marilyn Crispell & Carmen Castaldi “Trio Tapestry”
Jerome Jennings “Solidarity”
Remy Le Boeuf “Assembly of Shadows”
Dan Tepfer “Natural Machines”
Veronica Swift “Confessions”
Ben Flocks “Mask of the Muse”
Brent Birckhead “Birckhead”
Matt Maneri “Dust”
Tom Harrell “Infinity”
Chick Corea “Antidote” (featuring the Spanish Heart Band)
Brandee Younger “Soul Awakening”
Sara Gazarek “Thirsty Ghost”
Rachael & Vilray “Rachael & Vilray”
Anthony Wilson “Songs & Photographs”
Jacky Terrasson “53”
Petros Klampanis “Irrationalities”
Ulysses Owens Jr. “Songs of Freedom”
Matt Brewer “Ganymede”
Hiromi “Spectrum”
Ronin Arkestra “Sonkei”
Nicholas Payton “Relaxin’ With Nick”
Jeff Ballard “Fairgrounds”
Chris Lightcap “Superbigmouth”
Brittany Anjou “Enamigo Reciprokataj”
Sarathy Korwar “More Arriving”
Chase Baird “A Life Between”
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