Oh and the rather important milestone of 25 years was celebrated with the release of Chris Bowden’s ‘Unlikely Being’ on our own UK Vibe label (best mention that!). We were enjoying a fabulous release from Jazz Family by way of Simon Chivallon plus the wonderful new release by Thandi Ntuli called ‘Exiled’, and talk was that Straight No Chaser issue 99 had an April due date. Edition records fired up the Elliot Galvin burner, ‘The Influencing Machine’, before we had chance to crack open Calibro 35, Kathy Kosins, Kristina Koller, Joanna Wallfisch or Emma Frank releases, oh and Menagerie’s ‘The Arrow Of Time’ from Freestyle Records really caught our attentions, and it was only the first week into January! There were other great releases by Camille Bertault and MOPO (our Album of the Month) with Nat Birchall’s ‘Cosmic Language’ grabbing our attentions alongside the stunning Chick Corea and Steve Gadd Band ‘Chinese Butterfly’ release.Īs February closed in, Edition records offered up their first wave of releases with Ivo Neame, Verneri Pohjola, Snowpoet and Eyolf Dale, all landing on our doorstep together. Whirlwind Recordings kicked off their 2018 campaign with Walter Smith III and the team revelled in the Stephane Nisol album, ‘Trafic d’influences’. The snow fell, Santa paid a visit, the snow fell again, and the music poured in. Perhaps the big oversights for us were ‘Basement Sessions Vol.4 (The Bali Tapes)’ on Clean Feed records, Piotr Wojtasik with ‘Tribute to Akwarium’ on Indygo records and ‘Life and Death on the Other Side of the Dream’ from Vuma Levin. And as is custom during the New Year, we are exposed to some terrific albums that slipped through our net the previous year. Also through the door were two reissues by way of Victor Assis Brasil, on Far Out Recordings, and Saluki, on the rather delightful Round 2 Records. For our best jazz albums of 2017 click hereīefore 2017 had closed its door on us, we had received albums by Justin Gray and Synthesis, Julia Biel, Ilios Steryannis, Gili Yalo, Andrew Distel, Toto Bona Lokua, Henry Lowther’s Still Waters, Danny Fox Trio, Arnan Raz and a collaboration album from Stoney Lane Records under the banner ‘Live At The Spotted Dog’ featured the likes of Stan Sulzmann, Jonathan Silk, Ben Lee, Sean Gibbs, Andrew Bain, John O’Gallagher and Michael Janisch – and you know how we raved about Andrew Bain in 2017 and Stan Sulzmann in 2016 – It was going to be a crazy New Year for sure.

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