Best Jazz album of 2011

[Byas'd Opinion]

Peter Bacon, jazz critic with the Birmingham Post (West Midlands, not Alabama) and the guy in charge of the excellent Jazz Breakfast blog lists his Festive 50 albums of the year.

[Old Grumpy]

Interesting list. Some of my favourites in there.

I have just listened to Enrico Rava Quintet: Tribe - excellent and deserves inclusion. Keith Jarrett's Rio was also on my Christmas list and is awaiting a hearing.

OG

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i'd suggest Alyn's review ... some great stuff in that prog ...

[Byas'd Opinion]

My top three - although I've only heard a small fraction of what's been released this year -

Farmers By Nature: Out of this World's Distortions. (Trio of Gerald Cleaver, William Parker and Craig Taborn).
The Impossible Gentlemen: The Impossible Gentlemen.
Tommy Smith: Karma.

Honourable mentions to Ambrose Akinmusire's The Heart Emerges Glistening, Alex Garnett's Serpent, and Courtney Pine's Europa.

[Lateralthinking1]

I posted this on WM but can I include it here too please?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQO7cP34NQY

[geofflikesmusic]

I posted this on WM but can I include it here too please?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQO7cP34NQY

thanks nice video.

[charles t]

Not necessarily candidates belonging to Best of 2011, however I'm pulling an Occupy Movement...Picked this up a week back, at Texas's biggest music store - FOREVER YOUNG - and the name of Alex Maguire registered - although at the time I hadn't remembered it was from Doubt (the group)...[see follow-up post]



"Maguire’s talents as a keyboardist (and as a leader) are quite diverse. His touch is so personal, and his telepathic conversations with the other musicians in the band explode. There's great chemistry here, and, with performances so brilliant and impossible to predict, the line that divides the written parts from the collective improvisations is often imperceivable." MoonJune Records blurb

[charles t]

This little gem by one more [typically] under the radar Brit group (which includes transplanted New Yorker - Tony Bianco, drums) - and featuring Alex Maguire, keyboards - is a example of this singular oddity:

That is, of no other progressive jazz/rock(?) release initiating matters with Cathedral bells accompanying abstract vocalizing (in this case, by one Richard Sinclair)...



LISTEN HERE (TRACK 1):

http://www.moonjune.com/catalog/032_...R032/index.htm

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

full track



hi Chas how yer doin ..... Texas?

[cancom]

i really liked keith jarrett's rio.