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Todd's Picks: 2024 Albums
Looking back on a year's worth of very solid album releases and reflecting on the ones that stuck with me the most
Vancouver albums
Local Vancouver jazz reviews of new album releases.
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Peggy Lee & Cole Schmidt - Forever Stories Of: Moving Parties
The co-leaders play duo once, recruit improvisers from around the world, and still make such a ‘Vancouver’ album
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Tom Wakeling releases: The CBC Tapes & Cotton Club Live
Live, local, early-2000s Wakeling on bass with Brad Turner trumpet, John Gross saxophone, & William Thomas drums
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Marie Goudy’s Paloma Sky: produced by Elizabeth Shepherd
The sound on Goudy’s album, Shepherd’s own latest record called Three Things, and Andrea Superstein’s work
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Eldritch Priest: Dormitive Virtue
Afraid of projects that are too experimental and inaccessible? You'd be wrong to look past it
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Everyone I tell about this album digs it
Last week, I had an easy hook to get people interested in Benjamin Sigerson’s Frankie's show
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Django's Jewels: Live from the Hot Dog Stand
Aaron Loewen guitar / vocals, Cam Boyce violin, Wynston Minckler bass, Dylan Ranney drums
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What am I doing playing more often than Bruno Hubert?
On the legendary local pianist’s new trio album Fire Waltz and his jazzfest show at Frankie’s
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Ryan Oliver Quartet: Live in Vancouver
More than a Coltrane-influenced quartet date, this live record features Dee Daniels thrice
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Itamar Erez & Hamin Honari: Migrant Voices
Unity duo recorded by David Sikula at Monarch: Erez on plucked strings, Honari on percussion
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Last Ark Out: Lift
The shredding, the drumming, the riffs, the licks, the intensity gets your neurons firing
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Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa - Known & UnKnown: Solo Piano Works by Rodney Sharman
Over an hour of piano with some voice, dramatic, theatrical but soft, occasionally vulgar