Dec 15, 2019
As I do every year, this Podcast is "A Few of My Favorite Things" form 2019. It is not intended on being a Top Ten list - I do that for the Jazz Journalist Association - but rather a grouping of recordings that got repeat play in my house, making me take notice over the many recordings I receive. This year, I had the pleasure of hearing the following stellar albums:
NEW THINGS FROM OLD FRIENDS
Branford Marsalis Quartet - "The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul"
Al Foster - "Inspirations and Dedications"
Ethan Iverson Quartet with Tom Harrell - "Common Practices"
Joey DeFrancesco - "In the Key of the Universe"
Ralph Alessi - "Imaginary Friends"
PLAYERS COMING INTO THEIR OWN OR HITTING THEIR STRIDE
Melissa Aldana - "Visions"
Veronica Swift - "Confessions"
Yotam Silberstein - "Future Memories"
Johnathan Blake - "Trion"
Joel Ross - "KingMaker"
COLLABORATIONS
Alfredo Rodriguez & Pedrito Martinez - "Duologue"
Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan - "Epistrophy"
Avishai Cohen & Yonathan Avishai - "Playing the Room"
Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Brian Blade - "Trilogy 2"
Dave Holland/Zakir Hussain/Chris Potter - "Good Hope"
ARCHIVAL OR REISSUE RECORDINGS
John Coltrane - "Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings"
John Coltrane - "Blue World"
Stan Getz - "Getz at the Gate:The Stan Getz Quartet Live at the Village Gate"
Nat King Cole - "Hittin’ The Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943) "
Alice Coltrane - "Live at the Berkley Community Theater 1972"
TRIBUTE RECORDINGS
Cyrille Aimee - "MOVE ON - A Sondheim Adventure"
Miguel Zenon - "Sonero: The Music of Ismael Rivera"
Monty Alexander - "Wareika Hill - Rastamonk Vibrations"
George Benson - "Walking To New Orleans: Remembering Chuck Berry And Fats Domino"
Poncho Sanchez - "Trane's Delight"
As always, there were other things well worth noting. This year would include the documentary "Miles Davis: The Birth of the Cool"; books by Sammy Stein "Women in Jazz" and Ted Giola "Music - A Subversive History"; Quincy Jones' Qwest TV; and the return of David Sanborn to video with his streaming "Sanborn Sessions."
Musical selections in Podcast 718 include:
Branford Marsalis Quartet - "The Windup"
Joel Ross - "With Whom Do You Learn Trust"
Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Brian Blade - "Pastime Paradise"
John Coltrane - "Blue World"
Poncho Sanchez - "Blue Trane"