This mix is less of a best jazz recordings of 2017 and more of a mix of jazz that I enjoyed in 2017. I don't listen to nearly as much jazz as I do ambient and indie music. But I liked enough releases to come up with an end of the year jazz mix. So here it is.
The year was anchored by two spectacular recordings - Aytche by Joseph Shabason and All This I Do For Glory by Colin Stetson. I saw Stetson at a small club and was blown away by his sound and technique. If you get the chance to see him up close definitely go.
There are two albums that I discovered while compiling tracks for my mix, Rhythm of the Rails. Those two are Eternal Stories by Michel Portal & Quator Ebene and Simultonality by Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society. Both excellent recordings.
Another highlight of 2017 was ECM records putting their entire catalog up on Spotify. I listened to nothing by ECM for a few weeks this fall.
This will probably be my last mix for 2017. I've already started on a guest mix for liftedicons.com that will be fun to put together. Music definitely helped me get through a messed up 2017. Here's to a great 2018.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
Best Ambient Albums of 2020
Quiet Indie Songs of 2020
Wind in Lonely Fences - A Farewell to Harold Budd
Melancholy Soundtracks: A Requiem for 2020
Keeping Time in the Golden Hour
The Stars Appear Like Diamonds
The Night Absolves
Stay Inside
Strange Beauty - 4th Excursions Vol. 2
Lighting Out for the Territories
Rainfall Meditation
simply ambient
Fragmented Dialogue
Not seeing is a flower
Dub Train Dub Station
Sea of Stars 2020
Sunday Morning Music vo. 20 - Exhale
Serenity, Hope & Grace by Paul Asbury Seaman
DEVS - a real & unreal soundtrack
Of Reed and Breath
Create your
podcast in
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It is Free
Irish Songs with Ken Murray
Immediately Kinfolk
Turned On
Resident by Hernan Cattaneo
Markus Schulz presents Global DJ Broadcast