Ian Carey Quintet +1 - Count Up
Flying Lotus All the Secrets feat. Austin Peralta
Nadje Noordhuis - Le Fin
Bob Reynolds - Can't Wait for Perfect
Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Yo, Yeo, Yough
MF DOOM - Licorice
Poyser, Riggins, Jackson - Funky Butt
Daniel Ori - Back It Up
NEXT Collective - Fly or Die
Beastie Boys - Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament
Darryl Reeves - Star of Detroit
Chris Dave - Afrika... I Freak Her
Teebs - _for phil
Mark de Clive-Lowe & the Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra - Take the Space Trane
To Be Young, Gifted, Black, and a Jazz Enthusiast: Apparent Needle in a Haystack
About a month ago, Patrick Jarenwattananon of NPR's A Blog Supreme put together a group of lists of recent gateway jazz albums from prominent young jazz enthusiasts and bloggers. The Jazz Now Project was a rather brilliant idea and opened up a lot of discussion and awareness about the future of jazz and really shows what the field looks like right now. Early on the the culmination of this project, Jarenwattananon opened the submission of suggestions not only to those he specifically asked but also to other readers of the blog and on the email list. So it didn't take me long for me to submit my own Jazz Now list . (And special thanks to him for linking the post on the compilation of Jazz Now submissions. I got my highest hit count yet of 29 readers because of him. I really need more readers.) When I emailed him the link to my blog for submission, Jarenwattananon thanked me for my list and mentioned that I was the only black guy to have sent anything. ...
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