Episode 303: Best of 2024, Part 2

I have found close to 1000 jazz lp's that have been rated by about 120 critics, reviewers, and jazz lovers and posted online. Of these 1000 I've listened to a small fraction, and picked out a few that have so far stood out for me. And I'm playing you tracks from those albums and talking a bit about them.

Here are the albums I'm featuring this episode.

1. Galliano: Halfway Somewhere
2. EABS: Reflections of Purple Sun (and also including an excerpt from the original Purple Sun by Tomasz Stanko)
3. Etienne Charles Creole Orchestra
4. Charles McPherson: Reverence
5. Danael Olano: The Children's Corner
6. Alexi Tuomarila Trio: Departing the Wasteland
7. Monty Alexander: D-Day
8. Matt Wilson's Good Trouble
9. Andrea Whiting: The Illiminality of Her