Jazz albums released in 2024
JazzWorldQuest Showcase 2024 features streaming of tracks from albums released in 2024 by jazz musicians around the world. Listen to our streaming program and if you like what you hear appreciate their music by attending concerts, buying CDs or follow their social media accounts.
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Méva’s Journal(Australia)-Median
Album: Chimera
This is the debut album from Meanjin/Brisbane hard bop quintet Méva’s Journal. As the brain-child of drummer, composer and bandleader Evan J. Evans, Mèva’s Journal has been a long time in the making. Evan had been working with and starting many projects throughout all forms of jazz and jazz-adjacent music, until he finally decided it was time to build what to him was the perfect band to explore the music of his mind.
The quintet explores different sounds of the ‘60s hard bop scene. A big and early inspiration to Evan has always been Thelonious Monk, being exposed to Monk in his first year at the esteemed Jazz Music Institute (JMI). Through Monk he found himself finding more people that he would come to look up to such as Eric Dolphy, Freddie Redd, Horace Silver, Bud Powell and Elmo Hope.
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Patricia Bonner(France)-Chronicles of Time
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Igor Willcox Quartet(Brazil) – Time Traveller(single)
A single announcing a new album which according to all signs will be an explosive one! The group forges its own way in jazz fusion, producing a electrifying sound blending freshness and craftsmanship. Wagner Barbosa on saxophone, Erik Escobar on keys, Ricardinho Paraíso on electric bass, and Igor Willcox on drums all deliver brief, powerful solos that thrust the listener right into the centre of an intense jam session.
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Peter Xifaras(USA)-Fusion
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William Doran Quartet(UK)-Hyacinth
Album: Creative Inteligence
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Tobias Hoffmann Jazz Orchestra(Austria) – Innuendo
Album: Innuendo
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EYM Trio (France) Nouvel album Casablanca
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Scott Murphy(UK/Hong Kong)-But You Ain’t No Dancer, Follow The Right Light
Album: a dream of form
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Reginald Policard(USA/Haiti)-Boarding Pass feat Richard Bona and Sammy Figueroa.
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Wil Sargisson Trio(Australia)-Warm Water
Label: 4000 Records / Jazz in Meanjin
Composer: Wil Sargisson
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Michel Heroux (Canada)-Folk Song
This is a return to jazz for me, after a few years of other musical ventures. I wanted to try a more ‘open’ sound,, like on many of the ECM albums that influenced me. The tune has a friendly and gentle vibe to it, I think we need this kind of vibe these days… The band is 2 guitars, double bass, and drums. Hope you like it.
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Celso Pixinga · Igor Willcox · Wagner Barbosa · Igor Bollos(Brazil) – North Zone
A riveting performance of a scorching jazz-fusion super-group driven by four accomplished musicians.
Igor Willcox‘s signature drumming is on full display, propelling the upbeat groove alongside the versatile bassist Celso Pixinga. On board guitarist Igor Bollos and saxophonist Wagner Barbosa contributing layers of inventiveness while throbbing rhythms to the mix.
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Akagera(France)-Traverse
Composer: Lavollée/Montigny/ Georgelet
Album: Traverse (Prado Records)
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Itiberê Orquestra Familia Da França (France/Brazil)
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Arshid Azarine(Iran)-Vorticity
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NASTAZIO GKOUMAS(Greece)-A Part of Rio
Composer: NASTAZIO GKOUMAS
Album: Silent Echoes
Nastazio Gkoumas guitar
Branimir Teuwen upright bass
Alberto Portocarrero drums
Eleni Anastasiou piano
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Amorosa(Belgium)-Petit Soleil
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Waves Colectivo(USA)-Darwin’s Approval
Composer: Ben Maloney
Album: Darwin’s Approval (Cayenne Blend Productions)
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“Darwin’s Approval” celebrates three years of Waves Colectivo performing as the weekly house band for the Wednesday night Latin jazz jam at Brothers Drake Meadery. During these jam sessions, we played with everyone from aspiring student musicians to professional musicians sitting in while on tour. To close out each night, we wrote this song as a way to feature the house band on intricate unison lines as well as an open solo section that anyone, regardless of skill level, could improvise over.