John Kelman · Best Albums of 2004 · Dec 9th
Here’s my best of 2004. Top 10 new releases, top 5 reissues and a notation at the end with a few runners-up.This is the format for Jazzviews.co.uk, to which I contribute along with being Contributing Editor at Allaboutjazz.
BEST ALBUMS OF 2004
New Releases (in no particular order)
- Bill Carrothers – Armistice 1918 (Sketch)
- Dave Douglas/Louis Sclavis/Peggy Lee/Dylan Van Der Schyff – Bow River Falls (Premonition)
- Enrico Rava – Easy Living (ECM)
- Jacob Young – Evening Falls (ECM)
- Steven Bernstein – Diaspora Hollywood (Tzadik)
- Kenny Wheeler/John Taylor – Where Do We Go From Here? (CAM Jazz)
- Branford Marsalis – Eternal (Marsalis Music)
- Trio Mundo – Rides Again (ZOHO Music)
- Arve Henriksen – Chiaroscuro (Rune Gramofon)
- Tim Garland – Change of Season (Sirocco)
Re-Issues (in no particular order)
- Miles Davis – Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings, 1963-1964 (Columbia/Legacy)
- Herbie Hancock/VSOP – Live Under the Sky (Columbia/Legacy)
- John McLaughlin – Belo Horizonte Warner Brothers)
- Dave Liebman/Richie Beirach – Mosaic Select 12 (Mosaic)
- John Abercrombie – :rarum Selected Recordings XIV (ECM)
In genre that many consider to be marginalized, 2004 had a bumper crop of fine recordings. Some runner-ups that didn’t quite make it to the lists,which are in no particular order: Nels Cline Singers, The Giant Pin, Marc Copland/Greg Osby, Night Call, Jamie Baum Septet, Moving Forward, Standing Still, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Morton’s Foot, Bill Bruford’s Earthworks, Random Acts of Happiness, Bill Frisell, Unspeakable, Tomasz Stanko, Suspended Night and ECM’s entire new batch of twelve :rarum — Selected Recordings, highlighting works from Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, Egberto Gismonti, Jack DeJohnette, John Surman, John Abercrombie, Carla Bley, Paul Motian, Tomasz Stanko, Arild Andersen and Jon Christensen.
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