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20 from 2020 – the New Music that Helped jazzpolice.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jazzpolice.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Year in review: 25 of the best jazz albums of 2020 By JAZZ.FM91 The jazz clubs all closed, and so did everything else. But thankfully, the music never stopped. This was a challenging year for most people. Yet jazz artists from around the world went on to release an impressive amount of great music for some, the best of their careers. That music brought us a sense of excitement and hope at a time when we needed it most. One day, these musicians will be seeing us in the audience once again, finally able to soak in the sounds of live music. Until then, we have these standout records (along with so many others) to bring the joys of life to our best and worst days. ....
★★★ LUCA is the debut solo album from Austin, Texas-based Alex Maas, the vocalist and bassist from psychedelic rock outfit The Black Angels. It’s an intriguing listen, with the lo-fi, almost tinny, production giving the whole set a spooky vibe. Tracks like Should Have Been and the parenthood-inspired 500 Dreams have a strong late-60s rock feel, the music’s grandiose chamber folk bringing to mind artists like Jefferson Airplane and The Byrds. Elsewhere Maas creates Nick Drake-levels of intimacy on the vulnerable Special. Native American culture apparently underpins much of the record both lyrically and musically. Acoustic closer The City addresses hundreds of years of conquest (“Oh the many burning homes, the women crying/ Now that’s a city that’s ripe for the taking”), while the mantra-repeating American Conquest, which deals with mall shootings in the US, packs a real punch. ....
6 Paths Through Jazz in 2020 lmtonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lmtonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.