Catch Up

Best of 2024 -Soul & Words

Daudi Matsiko – Falling (Really Good)
Morgane Imbeaud – Seven lives (Roy)
Clarissa Connelly – Life of the Forbidden (Warp/Beat)
Meshell Ndegeocello – Bedlam Blues (Red Hot Organization)
Michael Kiwanuka – Floating Parade (Polydor)
MRCY – Powerless (Ded Oceans)
Liana Flores – Butterflies (Verve/Universal)
Charlotte Day Wilson – Dovetail (XL/Beat)
Bilal – Something To Hold (Live) (ONErpm)
Loyle Carner – A Lasting Place (live from the Royal Albert Hall) (EMI)
Sampha – Dancing Circles 2.0 (Young/Beat)
Hiatus Kaiyote – Everything’s Beautiful (Brainfeeder/Beat)
Audrey Powne – From the Fire (BBE)
Cecily – I Am Love (Harmonious Grits)
Cleo Sol – Fear When You Fly (Forever Living Originals)

Positive Catastrophe – Plena Organization
Frederic Chopin – Mazurka op.68/4
Terry Riley – Organum for Stefano (excerpt)
György Ligeti – Ligeti: 3 Pieces For 2 Pianos – Selbsportrait Mit Reich Und Riley (Und Chopin Ist Auch Dabei)
Django Bates – Food for Plankton (in Detail)
John Carter & Bobby Bradford – The Sunday Afternoon Jazz Blues Society
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Manaqib Khawaja Mueenuddin Chishti

Vijay Iyer – Overjoyed [Compassion]
Makaya Mccraven – Kings Ans Queens [Universal Beings E And F Sides]
Sml – Feed The Birds [Small Medium Large]
Simon Moullier – Enchantment [Isla]
Stefan Harris And Blackout – Cape Verdean Blues [Sonic Creed]
Marshall Allen – African Sunset [New Dawn]
Brandee Younger – Linda Lee [Soul Awakening]
Emma-Jean Thackray – Ley Lines [Ley Lines]
Fay Victor – Life Is Funny That Way [Life Is Funny That Way]
JD Allen – The Revelator [This]
Rudresh Mahanthappa Hero Trio – Faith [Animal Crossing]
Michael Mayo – Speak No Evil [Fly]
Isaiah Collier – Eggun [Parallel Universe]
Orrin Evans & The Captain Black Big Band – Overjoyed [Walk A Mile In My Shoe]
Endea Owens – Before I Let You Go
Roy Hargrove’s Crisol – Kamala’s Dance [Grande Terre]
Peter Apfelbaum And The Hieroglyphics Ensemble – The World Is Gifted [Signs Of Life]
Melissa Aldana – La Madrina [Visions]
Cecil Mcbee – Tulsa Black [Mutima]
Ravi Coltrane – The Blessing [From The Round Box]
Amaro Freitas – Sankofa [Sankofa]
Makaya Mccraven – The Fifth Monk [Universal Beings]

Darin Gray/Pak Yan Lau/Steve Noble/Alan Wilkinson – Turn IV [The Worm Turns]
Hungry Ghosts – small bits of pus and blood [Segaki]
Joe Fonda Quartet – Inspiration Opus #1 [Eyes On The Horizon]
Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra – White River [Live at Adler Planetarium]
Tomeka Reid/Taylor Ho Bynum/Kyoko Kitamura/Joe Morris – Between Wor(l)ds [Geometry of Phenomena]
Dominic Lash & Pat Thomas – You Don’t Need Diamonds [Elements and Properties]
microplastique – Native Ants [blare blow bloom!]
Sakina Abdou/Marta Warelis/Toma Gouband – Leaf The Hammer [Hammer, Roll and Leaf]
Dans Les Arbres – Les oreilles voient [L’album vert]
Dennis Gonzalez Legacy Band – Hymn for Mbizo / Document for Toshinori Kondo [Live at the Texas Theatre]

Brintex Collective – Loïs [Loïs]
Reinier Baas – Wahid Jive [Relief Party]
Bnnyhunna – Prayer [Echoes of Prayer]
Oceanic & Greetje Bijma – Golden Skinne [Sykheljende Lûden]
Raw Fish – Sea Sausage [CRUDO]
WAAN – Open [Echo Echo]
Logan Kane – Urgent Care [Primer]
Alistair Payne – Cycle Song [This Thread Walks]
Kika Sprangers – Lunar [(In)finity]
Ambrose Akinmusire – muffled screams [honey from a winter stone]
Benjamin Herman – I Dreamed In The Cities At Night [Campert]

Ponta Murakami – Route 246 [Introducing “Ponta” Murakami]
Masaru Imada – Spanish Flower [Green Caterpillar]
Hideo Ichikawa – Tomorrow [Tomorrow]
Ryo Fukui – Horizon [Mellow Dream]
Takao Uematsu – White Fire [Straight Ahead]
Takehiro Honda – Sunny [I Love You]
Chris Spedding – Station Song [Songs Without Words]
Mabumi Yamaguchi – Dawn [Leeward]
Squad – Wave [Squad]
Crystal Zone – Rai Rai [45 Single]
Terumasa Hino – Life Trip [Hip Seagull]
Sax Workshop – Dionysis [Live In Hamamatsu]

Enrico Pieranunzi – Footprints [Live In Paris]
Renee Rosnes – Frevo [Crossing Paths]
Matters Unknown – I Am The Birds (feat. Onipa) [Sillhouettes: A Dream Sphere Journal EP]
Azymuth – Arabutã (Daniel Maunick Dub) (Part 2)
Sam Fribush Organ Trio – Spanish Joint [Vol.1: Riverboat]
Reinhard Flatischler – Swinging Kangogis [Mega Drums]
Jeff Coffin – Pharoah Rise [Only The Horizon]
Jacqui Naylor – I Didn’t Know What Time It Was [Treasures of the Heart]
Shabaka – I’ve Been Listening (feat. E L U C I D) [Possession]
Village of the Sun – The Spanish Master [Live in Tokyo]
Zachary Bartholomew – Crazy Socks [Balancing Act]
Webster Lewis – Mr. Knots [The Club 7 Live Tapes]
DARGZ – Shedding [ft Oscar Jerome]
Hot 8 Brass Band – Big Tuba
James Andrews – The Treme Shuffle [The Big Time Stuff]
Dee Dee Bridgewater – Whoopin’ Blues [Dee Dee’s Feathers]
John Patitucci – Lipím [Spirit Fall]
Dayna Stephens – Jump Start [Hopium]
Shabaka – Cycles Of Growth (feat. esperanza spalding) [Possession]
Work Money Death – We Are The People [People Of The Fast Flowing River]

Gary Crosby’s Nu Troop – Incentricity [Migrations]
Lauren Desberg – You Go to My Head (feat. Gretchen Parlato) [Sideways]
Emile Londonien – Fly (feat. CHERISE [Three Roses]
lizmnk – Grounded [Message From Above]
Samara Joy – You Stepped Out Of A Dream [Portrait]
Sambambo – The Absence Of You [The Absence Of You]
A Song For You – Limoux (feat. Moses Yoofee & Theo Croker [Home]
Venna – Hizuki [HIZUKI // PERFECT DIVIDE]
Mackwood – Thunder (feat. Eerf Evil and Kianja [Master Changes]
Keyon Harrold – Gotta Go (Outer Space) [Foreverland]
Summer Pearl – green eyes [outmysystem]
Ezra Collective – God Gave Me Feet For Dancing (feat. Yazmin Lacey) [Dance, No One’s Watching]
Roy Hargrove – Strasbourg / St. Denis [Earfood]
Tomorrow’s Warriors – Joyful Sound (Live at The Jazz Café, London 2021) [feat. Rosie Turton] [I AM WARRIOR (Live at The Jazz Café, London)]

Anouar Brahem – Bahia [Blue Maqams]
Aka Trio – Choix De Joie [Joy]
Dwada Jobarteh – Firifiroolu [I Met Her By The River]
Henri Texier – Hauts Plateau [Carnet De Routes:Suite Africaine]
Lophae – Fallout [Fallout]
Thomas Marsh – What’s Wrong With Rain? [What’s Wrong With Rain?]
Wilkins/Harris – Hope (Is The Thing With Feathers) [Wilkins/Harris]
Dio Saluzzi – Los Them [Rios]
Estrella Morente – Bulerias Of The Bola [Mi Cante Y Un Poema]
Majid Bekkas – Annabi [Magic Spirit Quartet]
Ella Fitzgerald – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas [Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas]
Horace Silver Quintet – Swingin’ The Samba [Finger Poppin’]

Tommaso Cappellato – Heading Back To Venus
Marquis Hill – Meshell
Bugge Wesseltoft – Bugge 1 (Bonus)
Kamasi Washington – Computer Love
Ayumo Ishito – Constellation Ceiling
Chien Chien Lu – Boulanger’s Variations
Le Système – Blues
Club D’elf – Trance Meeting