I don't do these year-end jazz mixes every year. Most of the time I'm just too lazy. I don't keep close track of what came out and what I liked. At some point this year I started tossing individual tracks into a playlist and that helped me remember what I enjoyed in 2021.
So here's my Jazz 2021 mix. It is by no means a "Best of" mix. It's merely a collection of jazz-ish tracks from albums I liked this year. And of course some of the tunes lean a bit toward ambient.
Cheers!
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T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Nala Sinephro - Space 8 [Space 1.8 on Warp]
- 13:03 Eli Keszler - Dawn [Icons on Lucky Me]
- 17:58 Joseph Shabason - 15-19 [The Fellowship on Western Vinyl]
- 23:17 Sons of Kemet - To Never Forget the Source [Black to the Future on UMG]
- 26:09 Benjamin Mørk & Arve Henriksen - Pasvikdalen [The Valleys]
- 28:57 Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes - Cold Pocket [Music for Saxofone and Bass Guitar More Songs on Leaving Records]
- 32:09 Nick Garbett & Mike Majkowski - Aerial [The Glider]
- 38:20 Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 1 [Promises on Luaka Bop]
- 43:12 Bell Orchestre - Nature That's It That's All [House Music on Erased Tapes]
- 47:20 M. Sage - Spinnaker on a Southerly [The Wind of Things on Geographic North]
- 50:12 Jeff Parker - Four Folks [Forfolks on Nonesuch]
- 55:37 Fuubutsushi - Fresh Salt [Setsubun on Cached Media]
- 58:32 Charles Lloyd & The Marvels - Ay Amor (Live) [Tone Poem on Blue Note]
- 68:32 end
I hate to break it to you Dave but for something assembled you say without much thought, this came out pretty good. There is some track over-exhaustion, like I discuss in Best of 2021 part 2, (aka the unprecedented 13 minute opening), but not a bad listening hour.
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