AP REVIEWS: ‘TOP ALBUMS OF 2015’

ANOTHER GREAT YEAR for British and international contemporary jazz – and, out of 79 albums reviewed… well, it would be so pleasing to list 79 (I’m so tempted!).

Looking back and re-listening to the releases which I have reviewed in 2015 confirms a fantastic outpouring of creativity (and, of course, there are hundreds more albums my ears have never heard). But these are the recordings which have, on a purely personal level, made the final AP Reviews cut. Somehow, I have whittled it down to a TOP 12 (ie 12 months in the year / Twelve Days of Christmas).

But then, to recognise and recommend so many other, unanticipated gems that have come my way, I offer a further list of COMMENDED recordings – those which, over the past year, have unexpectedly captured my imagination and warmed my heart.

All are truly wonderful in their own unique way, and I thank all of these amazing jazz/improvisation artists for their energy, invention, enthusiasm… and, as a result of that, some of the most life-enhancing music imaginable.

AP REVIEWS – TOP 12 OF 2015
(in reverse sequence)

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New Era
Entropi
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