Listen Again

Brad Shepik – Code Red [Human Activity: Dream of the Possible]
Christopher Parnis – A False Start [Everything You Could Be]
Godwin Louis – Vini Non [Psalms and Proverbs]
The Haas Company – Mekat Rock [Celestial Lattitude]
William Cepeda – Afro Vals [The Sound of Puerto Rican Jazz]
Tomohiro Mori – Osterville [Prana]
David Preston – Deco [Volume 2 – Purple / Black]
AuB (Alex Hitchcock & Tom Barford) – Folk Devils [Folk Devlis]
Eyolf Dale – Hvileskjær [The Space Between Two Notes]
Diego Rivera – Volver [Ofrenda]
Brian Lynch – High Point Of The Hang [7x7by7]
Jacob Chung – My Aspiration [The Sage]
Christopher Parnis – Everything You Could Be [Everything You Could Be]
Gregory Groover Jr. – 5660 [Lovabye]
Samara Joy – Autumn Nocturne
Avishai Cohen (B) – Drabkin [Brightlight]
Ivanna Cuesta – Ongoing Cycles [A Letter To The Earth]
Jonathan Powell – Juancito [Mambo Jazz Party]
Michael Dease – Anthem [Found In Space]
Miklós Lukács – Fields of Gold [Timeless]

Callum Allardice – Peaceful [Elementa]
Space Case – Sunburst (Feat. Claudio Roditi) [Space Case 2]
Sustenance – Engulfing [Playing With Fire]
Primitive Art Group – Charles Mungbeen [Primitive Art Group 1981-1986]
The Mike Nock Underground – The Squire [Between Or Beyond]
Lucy Clifford – Where We Listen [Between Spaces Of Knowing]
Nathan Haines – Belo Dia (Chaos In The CBD Remix) [Notes]
Mark de Clive-Lowe – Find the Beauty [Bread & Souls A Family Gathering Instrumentals]
After ‘Ours – Dumplings For Dinner (ft. Omar) [Long Road]
Mark De Clive-Lowe and the Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra – Take the Space Trane [Take the Space Trane]
Vanessa Perica Orchestra – The Eye is the First Circle [The Eye is the First Circle]
LacLu – Friends & Whanau [LacLu]
Peggy Lee, Julien Wilson, Theo Carbo, Dylan van der Schyff -Lore [Open Thread]
Callum Allardice – Solitude [Elementa]
Joe Kaptein – Eternal Afternoon [Eternal Afternoon]
Brian Smith – Quito [Brian Smith]
Mel Torme – Xmas Lift Jingle [Mel Torme]
Graeme Norris and the Chermside Three – You Stepped Up For the Team [Jazz In Meanjin 003]

Freddie Hubbard – Gittin Down [The Black Angel]
Javier Nero and his Jazz Orchestra – Time (feat. Sean Jones & Kyle Swan) [Kemet (The Black Land)]
Anthony Joseph – Black History [Single]
Knats – Tortuga [Single]
Zaccai Curtis – Black Rice [Cu-Bop]
Aaron Parks – Flyways [Little Big III]
Kenny Barron Quintet – Blue Waters [Concentric Circles]
Oneness Of Juju – Chants / Don’t Give Up [African Rhythms]
Jeff Parker – Max Brown [Suite for Max Brown]

George Duke – Sister Serene
Atmoshpehere – Little Elephant
Shawn Phillips – Prelude to a Leaving
Airto – I Don’t Have to Do What I Don’t Want to Do
Stone Alliance – Hey Bicho, Vamos Nessa
Boillat Thérace Quintet – 1224
Tyrone Washington – Submission
Bruce Cameron – Love is on the Way
Black Renaissance – Black Renaissance

Andre 3000 – Moving Day (Epic/Sony)
Kara Jackson, Ahya Simone, Dave Longstreth – My Name (Red Hot Org)
Jamie Isaac – Please Remember Me (IDLER)
Elliot Galvin – From Beneath (Gearbox)
Becky and the Birds – Anymore (4AD/Beat)
United Future Organization – Lunar Enfant (Cutting Edge/Avex)
ganavya – Om Namah Sivaya (LEITER)
Egberto Gismonti – Raga (ECM/Universal)
Kendrick Lamar – man at the garden (Interscope)
Boldy James & Harry Fraud – Fish Grease (Boldy James)
Sparklmami – running (Sparklmami)

King Heron – Neustart
Grifton Forbes-Amos – Ear Candy
Butcher Brown, Nicholas Payton – Montrose Forest
Chiara Spigariol – Juliet
Kokoroko – Higher
[KSR], Konny Kon – Part of the Plan
Ria Moran feat. Nubiyan Twist – Take It or Leave It
Emma-Jean Rhackray – Black Hole (feat.Reggie Watts)
AuB – Cavort
Sholto – Letting Go of Forever
Millie Gibson – Ripple
Sahra – The Other Side
Sokkyo – Mum

Jesse Fischer – Gotham Underground
Butcher Brown feat. Nicholas Payton – Montrose Forest
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Detroit Red
FORQ – Into Bright
Kalia Vandever – Mirrored Solitude
Manuel Valera – Evidence
Or Bareket – El Jardin De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan
Samora Pinderhughes – Inertia
Aaron Parks – Flyways
Nala Sinephro – Continuum 1
Javier Santiago – Chimera
Meshell Ndegeocello – Trouble
Santrofi – Amina
Joabe Reis – Asa
Morgan Guerin – Something In the Air
Simon Moullier – Lotus

This month Mike counts down the Jazzwise critics’ choice top 10 albums of the year, as published in the bumper December 2024 / January 2025 issue.

John Surman – Pebble Dance [Words Unspoken]
Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers – Albert Ayler, A Meditation On Light [Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths, and Gardens]
Pat Metheny – Shōga [MoonDial]
David Murray Quartet – Shenzhen [Francesca]
James Brandon Lewis Quartet – Transfiguration [Transfiguration]
Mary Halvorson – Tailhead [Cloudward]
Milton Nascimento & esperanza spalding – A Day in the Life [Milton + esperanza]
Charles Lloyd – The Water Is Rising [The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow]
Samara Joy – No More Blues [Portrait]

The Brotherhood of Breath – MRA
Kasai All Stars – Kafuulu Balu
Hermeto Pascoal – Just Listen (Escuta Meu Piano)
Henry Threadgill – Laughing Club
L. Subramaniam – Raga Kirvani: Tanam
Clifford Jordan and John Gilmore – Bo-Till
New Birth Brass Band – Show Me How Ya Do That Dance

M.T.B. – Solid Jackson [Solid Jackson]
Ruby Rushton – Stapodia
Jessica Lauren – I Love You Brother [Film]
Kenny Wheeler Legacy – Sweet Yakity Waltz [Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores]
John Hollenbeck – Entitlement [Colouring Hockets]
Lee Morgan – Get Yourself Together [Taru]
Out Of /Into – Radical [Motion I]
Moses Yoofee Trio – Bond [MYT]
Alice Coltrane – Ghana Nila [Transcendence]
Fabienne – Ambuehl [Thrive]
Lox – Opening
Ambrose Akinmusire – Muffled Screams [Honey From A Winter Stone]
Fay Victor – Check Out Your Mind [Lazy Old Sun]
Michael Mayo – Fly [Fly]
Andy Bey – River Man [Shades Of Bey]
Crispell/ Motian / Peacock – Requiem [Amaryllis]
Jessica Lauren – Coming Home [Film]