news@birdland 5/1/24 - Best of 2024
“The only truth is music.” ― Jack Kerouac
Good Morning,
A very Happy New Year to all our readers. We hope you had a great holiday. Here’s looking forward to a much better 2025 for every one on earth.
Around the end of the year there are always lists of the best this, best that, best other. Here is our Top 30 - just 2024 new recordings and archival releases first issued in 2024. We haven’t included any reissues of classic albums in our best sellers, just titles that were first released in 2024. So the Tone Poets, Blue Note UHQCDs, Verve reissues aren’t included. Maybe next week for the best reissues.
Here’s our list of best sellers:
Top 30 Best Selling New and Archival Releases of 2024.
(Also on LP = #)
1 to 10
Keith Jarrett - The Old Country (More From The Deer Head Inn).
Vijay Iyer / Linda May Han Oh / Tyshawn Sorey - Compassion #
Tomasz Stanko Quartet - September Night #
Miles Davis - Miles in France – 1963/64: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8. #
Wayne Shorter - Celebration: Volume 1. #
Bill Charlap Trio - And Then Again. #
11 to 20
Alice Coltrane - The Carnegie Hall Concert #
Melissa Aldana - Echoes Of The Inner Prophet. #
Tyshawn Sorey Trio - The Susceptible Now. #
Charles Lloyd - The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow. #
Tord Gustavsen Trio - Seeing. #
McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson - Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' #
Fred Hersch - Silent, Listening #
21 to 30
David Murray Quartet - Francesca
James Brandon Lewis Quartet - Transfiguration
Bill Evans Trio - In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert
Ezra Collective - Dance, No One's Watching. #
Jenny Scheinman - All Species Parade
Cannonball Adderley - Poppin' In Paris: Live At L'Olympia 1972
Cannonball Adderley - Burnin' In Bordeaux: Live In France 1969
Emily Remler - Cookin' At The Queens: Live In Las Vegas 1984 & 1988
Top 10 Digital Audiophile best selling releases of 2024
Steely Dan - Aja - Hybrid Stereo SACD
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound - Hybrid Stereo SACD
Patricia Barber - Modern Cool - Hybrid Multi-Channel & Stereo SACD
Steely Dan - Gaucho - Hybrid Stereo SACD
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - Blu-Ray Audio Disc
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours - Blu-Ray Audio Disc
Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group - Hybrid SACD. Out of print. LP only.
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison - Hybrid SACD
The Doors - The Best Of The Doors - Blu-Ray Audio Disc
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else - Hybrid Stereo SACD
The ones we liked in 2024:
Kieran:
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Roots & Herbs - UHQCD
Jeff Parker + ETA IVtet - The Way Out of Easy
Tyshawn Sorey Trio - The Susceptible Now.
Keith:
Anna Butterss - Mighty Vertebrate
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue - UHQCD
Caoilfhionn Rose - Constellation
Chris:
Miles Davis - Miles in France – 1963/64: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8. #
Tyshawn Sorey Trio - The Susceptible Now. #
Some articles, satire etc
The kindness of strangers: a knight in dining armour scored me a seat at a Michelin star restaurant
Seriously did one single good thing happen in 2024? Yes! First Dog on the Moon
Suffering in the Shadows - Humanitarian Calamities That Aren’t on the World’s Agenda. Sudan and the Congo.
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat – Official Trailer
Russia Denies Involvement in Azerbaijani Airlines Crash, Says Plane Fell Out of Hotel Window
The Long Telegram of the 1990s: “Whose Russia Is It Anyway? Toward a Policy of Benign Respect”
Soundout Festival - Canberra Jan31-Feb2. 2025
The Death of Music Genres youtube - Rick Beato
Upcoming releases on CD in 2025:
Billy Hart, Jon Balke, Mathias Eick, Yuval Cohen, Julia Hulsmann, Benjamin Lackner, James Brandon Lewis, Sullivan Fortner, Jeremy Pelt, Tony Levin, Peter White, William Hooker, Kurt Elling, Jim Snidero, Branford Marsalis, Ambrose Akinmusire, Cecil Taylor, and many more.
On Vinyl:
Jazz Crusaders, Andrew Hill, Art Blakey, Ella Fitzgerald, Helen Humes, Art Tatum, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Reece, Horace Parlan, and many, many more.
On SACD:
Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Velvet Underground, Genesis, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell, Van Halen, Fleetwood Mac, War, …..
That’s all for now folks!
cheers
Kieran