As January smacks us all in the face after December's excess and frivolity, we wanted to take this opportunity to share our favourite records and stuff from 2024. Now, the eagle eyed amongst you will be right in saying 'Hang on, that was releases in '74 not '24!!' and you would be completely justified in doing so. So a caveat here before we begin, these are things we loved in '24 that weren't necessarily released in '24. We are just slow getting to stuff, ok?? Here goes...
Danny’s highlights of 2024
Albums…
Anne briggs - S/T reissue
Neil Young - Dume
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Woodland
Balloon - Gas ‘n’ Air
Manfred Mann Chapter Three
Mj Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
Peter Bruntnell - Houdini and the Sucker Punch
Annie Dressner - I Thought It Would Be Easier
Gene Clark - No Other Sessions
Henry Parker & David Ian Roberts - Chasing light
The Hanging Stars - On a Golden Shore
Dave Evans - Elephantasia
Dorothy Carter - Troubadour
Polite Company - Please Go Wild
James Varda - Chance & Time
Hannah Scott - Absence of Doubt
Asking for the Truth - Soul4Real Compilation
Tucker Zimmerman - I Wonder If I'll Ever Come True
Books -
‘Unsung : Unsaid: Syd and Nick in absentia’ by Rob Chapman
‘Tickets To The Moon And Maps To The Circles Of Hades’ by Tucker Zimmerman
Stuff -
Hey Kids Rock n Roll and their wonderful Joni Mitchell and CSN&Y decorations
The Gene Clark tribute at the Betsey Trotwood
The Gram Parsons tribute at September Song Festival
Del's picks of '24
Charles Gayle - Kingdom Come (Silkheart)
Charles Gayle / William Parker / Milford Graves - WEBO (Black Editions)
Charles Gayle - Streets (Northern Spy)
Full Of Hell / Nothing - Where No Birds Sang (Closed Casket Activities)
La Dispute - Hear, Here IV (Self Released)
Peter Brotzmann - Ranging (Jazzwerkstatt)
William Parker / Cooper Moore / Hamid Drake - Heart Trio (577 Records)
William Parker / Ellen Christi - Cereal Music (577 Records)
James Finn Trio - Plaza De Toro (577 Records)
James Finn - Great Spirits (Not Two Records)
David Maranha / Rodrigo Amando - Wrecks (Self Released)
Alice Coltrane - Live At Carnegie Hall (Impulse)
David S.Ware - Oblations And Blessings (Silkheart)
Frank Wright - Your Prayer (ESP Disk)
Hery Paz - Jardineros (577 Records)
Stuff
La Dispute @ The Garage, London
The Notebooks Of Sonny Rollins - Edited Sam V H Reese
The Free Jazz Collective blog www.freejazzblog.org
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