Chris Parker has compiled a roundup of his favourite albums of the year. Chris has only included any albums that he has reviewed. The links from the album titles are through to Chris’s reviews. Some of the pictures are clickable through to Youtube and Soundcloud clips).
Album of the Year (by some distance – sheer perfection!)
Christine Tobin
Sailing to Byzantium
Trail Belle Records TRB02
Nine other UK favourites:
Blue Touch Paper
Stand Well Back
Provocateur PVC1042
Nikki Iles
Hush
Basho SRCD 38-2
Mike Osborne Trio
The Birmingham Jazz Concert
Cadillac SGCD 010/011
Michael Gibbs and the NDR Bigband
Back in the Days
Cuneiform Records Rune
Django Bates’ Belovèd
Confirmation
Lost Marble LM007
René von Grünig & Mark Wingfield
Cinema Obscura
Dark Energy Music (no catalogue number)
Barb Jungr
Stockport to Memphis
Naim naimcd179
Neon Quartet
Subjekt
Edition Records EDN1036
Food (Iain Ballamy/Thomas Strønen)
Mercurial Balm
ECM 370 9440
Five ‘foreigners’:
Tim Berne
Snakeoil
ECM277 8654
Fly
Year of the Snake
ECM 277 6644
Ernie Watts Quartet
Oasis
Flying Dolphin Records FD 1008
Keith Jarrett
Sleeper
ECM 370 5570
Jason Robinson
The Two Faces of Janus
Cuneiform Records Rune 311
Album of the Year (by some distance – sheer perfection!)
Christine Tobin
Sailing to Byzantium
Trail Belle Records TRB02
Nine other UK favourites:
Blue Touch Paper
Stand Well Back
Provocateur PVC1042
Nikki Iles
Hush
Basho SRCD 38-2
Mike Osborne Trio
The Birmingham Jazz Concert
Cadillac SGCD 010/011
Michael Gibbs and the NDR Bigband
Back in the Days
Cuneiform Records Rune
Django Bates’ Belovèd
Confirmation
Lost Marble LM007
René von Grünig & Mark Wingfield
Cinema Obscura
Dark Energy Music (no catalogue number)
Barb Jungr
Stockport to Memphis
Naim naimcd179
Neon Quartet
Subjekt
Edition Records EDN1036
Food (Iain Ballamy/Thomas Strønen)
Mercurial Balm
ECM 370 9440
Five ‘foreigners’:
Tim Berne
Snakeoil
ECM277 8654
Fly
Year of the Snake
ECM 277 6644
Ernie Watts Quartet
Oasis
Flying Dolphin Records FD 1008
Keith Jarrett
Sleeper
ECM 370 5570
Jason Robinson
The Two Faces of Janus
Cuneiform Records Rune 311
Categories: miscellaneous
Thank you Chris and London Jazz for your support for musicians and jazz all the year round! barb xxx
Great stuff!