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The 10 best jazz albums of 2024

A Mercury prize winner, a host of fresh collaborations and a posthumous release of a much-lauded live performance are all among the year’s standouts

The Guardian - UK

Wadada Leo Smith and Amina Claudine Myers review – an elegiac homage to New York’s green lung

In their album Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens the two musical soulmates impressionistically reflect on John Lennon, Albert Ayler and more

The Guardian - UK

Ambrose Akinmusire: Owl Song review – quietly joyous jazz grooves

The California-raised trumpet virtuoso provides a balming trio album to counter our information overload

The Guardian - UK

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Chicago concerts to catch this spring, from hip-hop to jazz

Banda MS, Babyface Ray, Rico Nasty and The Marcus Roberts Trio are among the highlights for the spring concert season in Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times

Arts and letters academy votes in Everett, Coppola, others

The honors keep coming in for fiction writer-poet Percival Everett

The Independent UK

Guitar wizard Mike Keneally, a member of 6 bands, starts new chapter with COVID-era solo album

SAN DIEGO — Guitar and keyboard wizard Mike Keneally has made several dozen albums as a band leader and has been featured on 200 or so more by other artists. His collaborators have ranged from Frank Zappa and the great soul singer Solomon Burke to avant-jazz trumpet great Wadada Leo…

Tribune News Service

Esbjörn Svensson: HOME.S. review – buoyant, capricious, sweepingly melodic

This recently discovered piano meditation from the modest maestro behind the Esbjörn Svensson Trio will entrance fans and fascinate newcomers

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Wilco guitar ace Nels Cline shines with band and on his own: 'I'm not sure I have a style,' he says

Wilco guitarist Nels Cline has long been hailed for his skill and stylistic diversity, as befits a six-string master who has collaborated with such varied artists as Rickie Lee Jones, Phil Lesh, Mike Watt, Anthony Braxton, Yoko Ono, Rufus Wainwright and Wadada Leo Smith.

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Commentary: Raven Chacon’s ‘Voiceless Mass’ magnifies unsung voices into the realm of the sacred

Raven Chacon’s 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning “Voiceless Mass” is a mass without sung voices in the guise of an organ concerto. Written for the large organ in Minneapolis’ Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, where the instrumental ensemble can be spread over a grand space, the concerto gives individuality to instrumental…

Los Angeles Times

The world lost 6 revolutionary composers within a year. How LA, and only LA, is paying tribute

LOS ANGELES — When Harrison Birtwistle died last week at 87, he became the sixth pioneering composer who came to prominence in the 1960s that we lost in less than nine months. This uncompromising British modernist, along with Holland's most important composer, Louis Andriessen, and Americans Frederic Rzewski, George Crumb,…

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