2011 likes and dislikes in jazz music

This will sound strange, but as listeners of many diverse musics, The album I listened to the most this year," I checked the iTunes play count", by far  was Mastodon's The Hunter, why? hell if I know, just thought it was a fantastic, accessible progressive rock album that really struck a chord with me, from beginning to end. Jazz wise The Miles Davis Live in Europe 3 disc 1-DVD set was very nice,  Also Miles Espanol, another Bob Belden tribute, every bit as good as Miles From India.

For a moment I thought Mandy is back  

IMHO you shouldn't  close your 'Best of 2011' lists without listening to





Edited by idlero - 20 Mar 2012 at 2:06pm

The album I found out at last days of 2011 - electronics+free jazz with strong krautrock flavor 

interesting music

Found an odd but  positive synergy from an unexpected fusion of artists( and they preferred musics), when I have found very little to enjoy from either in the last decade or so: Eric Clapton & Wynton Marsalis Play The Blues.  A total revamp of Layla,  consisting  a mash-up of a number of jazz and blues styles, works surprising well. Amazon.Uk were selling the CD/DVD combo for under 9 quid (inc p&p) so a great bargain and perhaps the most memory album in year that seemed a largely adisappointment, (from viewpoint of January 2012) .I should add some of those Weather Report DVDs, especially with Jaco cooking, tweaked some of my bells.

Looking from three months disctance two more albums come to mind as really attractive 2011 releases:

Edited by snobb - 27 Mar 2012 at 12:48pm

Edited by idlero - 07 May 2012 at 2:17pm