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CapRadio’s jazz hosts share their top picks for jazz music that came out in 2021.

Till Bronner & Bob James – On Vacation (Masterworks): “Together with jazz legend and Grammy award winner Bob James, trumpeter Till Brönner – Germany’s most successful jazz musician – has transformed holiday moods into a multi-layered sound painting. Close your eyes and dream: “On Vacation is first and foremost a feeling for me and we have transformed this feeling into music,” explains BrönnerVirtuosic, full of creative love for refined details and at the same time of the greatest possible nonchalance, Brönner and James create an imaginative and sonorous music for inspiration...

In the summer of 2020, pianist Emmet Cohen asked himself a key question: “What would Louis or Dizzy do in this situation?” At the time, much of the world was reeling from the coronavirus pandemic and the economic effects of shutdowns; the absence of in-person concerts only added to the misery. Facing these crises, globe-hopping jazz ambassadors like Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie “would have tried to spread some joy and unity and love,” Cohen recently told DownBeat, to provide “something that the world is lacking—not only jazz, but joy.” So, in October, with the hel...