As I was going through my 2015 music, I saw that I had a lot of jazz that had not made it onto a podcast this year, so I hastily put this last jazzcast for 2015 together. Some of these albums made it to many “Best of 2015” lists for the year, but this is just not an attempt at a list of best albums for the year – just a review of recent purchases by me.
Overall I thought it was a strong year for jazz – The Kamasi Washington triple CD The Epic is on many lists – and not just jazz lists (featured on my May 13 2015 Jazzcast). Christian Scott, featured today, is a bit similar in that his influences go beyond jazz – I think that’s the concept of his Stretch Jazz album.
So let’s listen to today’s jazzcast that with Erik Friedlander, Miho Hazama, The Enrico Rava Quartet, Pat Metheny et. al., Matthew Halsall & the Gondwana Orchestra, Nat Birchall, The Heads of State, Christian Scott, Oliver Lake and William Parker, and Maria Schneider.
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