Etienne Charles’ “Creole Orchestra” was the Number-1 album in KCCK’s Top 88 jazz releases of 2024. Matt Wilson’s “Good Trouble” was Number-88. Following is the list of everything else in between.
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1 Etienne Charles “Creole Orchestra” (Culture Shock)
2 Chris Potter “Eagle’s Point” (Edition)
3 Kevin Burt & Big Medicine “Thank You Brother Bill” (Gulf Coast)
4 Michael Wolff “Memoir” (Sunnyside)
5 Planet D Nonet “Echoes of Harlem” (Eastlawn)
6 Monty Alexander “D-Day” (PeeWee)
7 Tierney Sutton & San Gabriel 7 “Good People” (JRL-SGS)
8 Warren Wolf “History of the Vibraphone” (Cellar)
9 Ben Allison, Steve Cardenas & Ted Nash “Tell the Birds I Said Hello” (Sonic Camera)
10 Parker/Gillespie/Powell/Mingus/Roach “Hot House: The Complete Jazz at Massey Hall Concert” (Craft)
11 Lizz Wright “Shadow” (Blues & Green)
12 Wolff, Clark & Dorsey “A Letter to Bill Evans” (Jazz Avenue 1)
12 Brian Melvin, Soren Lee & Mads Sondergaard “Tranesformation” (Storyville)
13 Ghost-Note “Mustard n’ Onions” (Artistry/Mack Avenue)
14 Zaccai Curtis “Cubop Lives!” (Truth Revolution)
15 Catherine Russell & Sean Mason “My Ideal” (Dot Time)
16 Jeremy Pelt “Tomorrow’s Another Day” (High Note)
17 Thom Rotella “Side Hustle” (High Note)
18 Terry Gibbs Dream Band “Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959” (Whaling City Sound)
19 Ken Peplowski “Live at Mezzrow” (Cellar)
20 Bria Skonberg “What It Means” (Cellar)
21 Daggerboard “Escapement” (Wide Hive)
22 Ethan Iverson “Technically Acceptable” (Blue Note)
23 Brian Landrus “Plays Ellington & Strayhorn” (Palmetto)
24 Betty Bryant “Lotta Livin” (Bry-Mar)
25 Craig Erickson “Dream Tracks” (Craig Erickson)
26 Greg Murphy “You Remind Me” (Whaling City Sound)
27 Joel Frahm “Lumination” (Anzic)
28 Rufus Reid with Sullivan Fortner “It’s the Nights I Like” (Sunnyside)
29 George Benson “Dreams Do Come True” (Rhino)
30 Remy LeBeuf Assembly of Shadows “Heartland Radio” (Soundspore)
31 Adam Schroeder & Mark Masters “CT!” (Capri)
32 The Dave Stryker Trio with Bob Mintzer “Groove Street” (Strikezone)
33 Jason Anick & Matt DeChamplain “Reverence” (Magic Fiddle)
34 Mark Egan “Cross Currents” (Wavetone)
35 Julian Lage “Speak to Me” (Blue Note)
36 Ben Sidran “Rainmaker” (Nardis/Bonsai)
37 Randy Napoleon “The Door is Open: The Music of Gregg Hill” (OA2)
38 Jim Rotondi “Finesse” (Cellar)
39 Christian Sands “Embracing Dawn” (Mack Avenue)
40 Neil Swainson Sextet “Here for a While” (Cellar)
41 Karrin Allyson “A Kiss for Brazil” (Origin)
42 Curtis Taylor “Taylor Made” (Curtis Taylor)
43 Blue Moods “Swing Soul” (Post-Tone)
44 Brian Bromberg “LaFaro” (Be Squared)
45 Amina Figarova “Suite for Africa” (Amfi)
46 Marshall Gilkes & the WDR Big Band “LifeSongs” (Alternate Side)
47 Alexis Cole with the Taipei Jazz Orchestra “Jazz Republic” (Tiger Turn)
48 Tom Harrell “Alternate Summer” (High Note)
49 Vijay Iyer “Compassion” (ECM)
50 The Jazz Defenders “Memory in Motion” (ITI)
51 Gary Urwin Jazz Orchestra “Flying Colors” (Summit)
52 Eric Alexander & Mike LeDonne “Together” (Cellar)
53 Luther Allison “I Owe It All to You” (Posi-Tone)
54 Sarah McKenzie “Without You” (Normandy Lane)
55 David Benoit “Timeless” (SoNo)
56 Shelly Berg “Alegria” (ArtistShare)
57 Black Art Jazz Collective “Truth to Power” (High Note)
58 Jeff Coffin “Only the Horizon” (Ear Up)
59 Mike DiRubbo “Inner Light” (Truth Revolution)
60 Robert Edwards “Upswing” (La Reserve)
61 Michael O’Neill Sextet “Synergy” (Jazzmo)
62 Oscar Hernandez & Alma Libre “No Words Needed” (Ovation)
63 Jill McCarron Trio “Gin” (Jazz Bird)
64 Seulah Noh Jazz Orchestra “Nohmad” (Seulah Noh)
65 Ulysses Owens Jr. and Generation Y “A New Beat” (Cellar)
66 Rob Parton Ensemble 9+ “Relentless” (Calligram)
67 Something Else! “Soul Jazz” (Smoke Sessions)
68 Mark Winkler “The Rules Don’t Apply” (Café Pacific)
69 Anthony Stanco “Stanco’s Time” (OA2)
70 Affinity Trio “Hindsight” (Origin)
71 Lynne Arriale Trio “Being Human” (Challenge)
72 Emmet Cohen “Vibe Provider” (Mack Avenue)
73 Chick Corea & Bela Fleck “Remembrance” (Thirty Tigers)
74 Eliane Elias “Time and Again” (Candid)
75 Nicole Glover “Plays” (Savant)
76 Mark Lipson “Launch Control” (DCC)
77 Snorre Kirk “Top Dog” (Stunt)
78 Delfeayo Marsalis Uptown Jazz Orchestra “Crescent City Jewels (Troubadour Jass)
79 Marlon Simon and the Nagual Spirits “On Different Paths” (Truth Revolution)
80 Jim Snidero “For All We Know” (Savant)
81 Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band “Walk a Mile in My Shoe” (Imani)
82 Anthony Branker & Imagine “Songs My Mom Liked” (Origin)
83 Kirsten Edkins “Shapes & Sounds” (Cohearent)
84 John Ellis “Bizet: Carmen in Jazz” (Blue Room)
85 Caity Gyorgy “Hello! How Are You?” (La Reserve)
86 Art Hirahara “Good Company” (Posi-Tone)
87 Mike Stern “Echoes and Other Songs” (Mack Avenue)
88 Matt Wilson “Matt Wilson’s Good Trouble” (Palmetto)
Zacc Harris has been one of Minnesota’s most celebrated guitarists since moving to Minneapolis in 2005, being named Twin Cities Best Jazz Artist in 2017. He is a founding member of the collective group Atlantis Quartet, and has toured throughout the U.S. and U.K. On his fourth album as a leader, “Chasing Shadows,” Harris continues to explore his voice as a composer in a set of music which was written during a four-day cabin retreat.
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