The best & worst jazz albums and biggest surprise of 2024

[@carterjohn57]

Brother Kenny, my best jazz finding in 2024 is the 1964 Dexter Gordon LP, One Flight Up. The spacing on the LP is unbelievable. The feature composition Tanya written by Donald Byrd. When I listen to it I can hear all the instruments separately and playing together at the same time. Dex on sax, Donald Byrd trumpet, Kenny Drew piano, Niehl Orsted on bass and Art Taylor on drums. Art Taylor have them drums talking and popping. It's truly a classic........👁🎷🎺🎹🎻🎶

[@christopherbarker181]

That’s a great sounding album in the Tone Poet pressing!

[@christopherbarker181]

I stay away from those Third Man pressings🤔

[@triumphrider9396]

I agree. This album as the Blue Note Tone Poet series is astounding!

[@roncronovich9095]

Kenny, I wanted to thank you, your enthusiasm and positive energy is infectious. Your videos are uplifting. This is especially important right now as many of us are feeling despair over current events. Thanks for your positive energy, and of course your insights about the music, which I always enjoy. Warmest wishes, Ron from Kenosha WI

[@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews]

I sincerely appreciate your kind comments more than I can actually express. Thank you very much, it means a lot to me 😊

[@tomtheeagle1]

There's a whole raft of exciting young jazz musicians in the UK you need to check out. Some suggestions are Yussef Dayes, Nubya Garcia, Ashley Henry and Sultan Stevenson. There are loads more.

[@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews]

Thank you very much for your recommendations 😊 ✌️

[@gregoryfranz3940]

I am from Cape Town, South Africa. Enjoying this channel and was about to ask a question in the same vein - Is this channel mostly focusing on musicians from the USA?

[@MrSCOTTYMAN2]

Great looking watch Kenny! Thanks for sharing another wonderful video!

[@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews]

Thanks for watching!

[@CJ-vh2hf]

Always a pleasure viewing your videos, definitely appreciate your expertise! 📀

[@LarryHoyt]

Brother Kenny, this is why I listen to your great advice and recommendations! I picked up that Sahib Shihab record a couple months back and it's fantabulous! That is so neat that you picked this album as your top Jazz Performance in 2024! A Masterpiece, like you said! Is Impex putting out some amazing pieces of artistic and musical excellence, or what? Simply put, Abby Fonn and Chris Bellman, etc.etc, are working some serious magic! Peace and love to you!

[@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews]

I appreciate your comments my brother 🙏....that Sahib Shihab album is amazing 👏 👌

[@MurcielagoRentals]

youre one of my favorite new channels! i show your video to all my friends we love your recommendations. Love from latin america

[@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews]

Thank you very much for sharing my videos with your friends and thanks for watching my videos from Latin America 😊 ✌️

[@sven-ottolittorin6091]

Love the reviews! As a swede its always nice to see Jazz at the Pawnshop be mentioned.

[@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews]

Thank you very much for watching from Sweden 😊✌️

[@jmuse7465]

Not too many have the money these days for hundred dollar plus pressings. But I still enjoy your videos. My older Coleman cd sounds fine.

[@wallacebates6454]

Brother I love your total honesty. And those are total treasure you have, thanks for such jazz knowledge. And. Passing it on to jazz world. Great channel.

[@rmcellig]

I have had them for years and love the music.

[@doodahdavesrecords4319]

I got Sonny Rollins + 4 at Amoeba Records sounds great ! Weather Report first album sounds great Breezin George Benson Worst sounding Diana Krall on Impulse CD 1997 Love Scenes disappointment

[@christopherbarker181]

There is a German, Proprius pressing of Jazz At The Pawnshop that is really good too and may be another less expensive alternative.😊

[@thomashertl3037]

Interesting choices. Thanks for sharing. Of my purchases in 2024, my subjective choices are: Best sounding: VA - Jazz At The Pawnshop (AudioNautes) Best performance: Murray/Angry/Questlove - Plumb (JMI) Best performance & sounding: Jerome Sabbagh - Heart (Analog Tone Factory) Disappointment: Getz Gilberto (Impex 1Step) vs Getz Gilberto (AP 45); listened to in extensive shoot-outs on high-enders and therefore not purchased Support more the living highly talented artists and smaller passionate high quality new release labels!

[@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews]

Thank you for listing your choices 😊...I'll have to check out a couple of them.

[@dimebagdave77]

Thanks so much for these reviews Kenny✌️🤘

[@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews]

Thank you my brother 🙏 ✌️

[@tedpikul1]

So far, I've been able to check out a couple of the releases that you recommend. Sahid Shihab and The Danish Radio Jazz Group is pretty striking stuff. I'm not sure if I've heard anything like it before, like Ellington meets Out To Lunch! I'm going to look for more work from Shihab, and the Jazz Group. I also enjoyed Patricia Barber's Companion. I've enjoyed her solo work on piano, and she sounds fantastic with a live band on Companion. Thanks very much for your suggestions and discussions!

[@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews]

Thank you very much for taking the time to watch my video and thanks for listening to the music 🎶

[@axelfeiss1130]

Hard to argue about the sound quality of the shown albums but the best performance of the year? None of the shown albums have been performed even in this century, they only have been preserved and re-released. For performance, you should pick albums where the art was actually created in the said year.

[@DonHamlin]

For a new jazz recording released in 2024, check out the Bill Charlap Trio “And Then Again” on Blue Note. Recorded live at the Village Vanguard with great music and sound.

[@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews]

Thank you very much for your recommendation ✌️

[@lyndellwilliams5890]

Out of all your purchased recommendations, I took the time to listen to the Duke Ellington Indigos album. I think it's a good sounding album for the time period it came out. I could see it somehow being (music for made for films), which interestingly enough was an album I just recommended by Brain Eno if you saw the comment yesterday?

[@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews]

I did see the comment, thank you very much for the recommendation 😊

[@rmcellig]

Are you familiar with the wildflower loft sessions on the Douglas label?

[@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews]

I'm not familiar with those sessions, I'll will check it out when I can. Thank you for your recommendation 😊

[@cliveholder5864]

The Gloria Coleman album was recorded in 1963 by Rudy van Gelder. Perhaps it's the mastering by Kevin Reeves or the production by Bob Thiele or Rudy was having an off day ? I know Rudy's engineering from 1963 onwards was much "drier" than his more reverberant work prior to this.

[@josefjankus5076]

Hello Kenny what makes Rudy Van Gelder recordings sound so good compared to other producers?

[@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews]

I'm not sure but it may have been the venue that he was using while making those recordings of those awsome jazz legends...great question 😊

[@timessquarerecordscom1469]

The electronics were simple back in the day

[@doodahdavesrecords4319]

@@kennysaudiophilerecordreviewshis house in Englewood NJ it was

[@l.ralphmellon1716]

I love your channel and its content. However, may I politely suggest calling those reissues?

[@kerbyfab]

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[@chelillingworth9466]

My worst one was Don Cherry art Deco which was also part of the verve by request series I'm pretty sure or at least was done by third Man, I think on top of their terrible mastering they tried to squeeze way too many minutes on the grooves and I had to turn my stereo all the way up just to even see if there was actually music on the record

[@ffyddgobaithcariad9923]

Jacob Wendt - Silver Street is excellent in sound and performance and is NEW for 2024 - not a reissue 😊

[@LarryHoyt]

Spot on with 'Silver Street' from Jacob Wendt! Picked up the lp and the Promo CD as he has been making the rounds all throughout SoCal record shops, shows, and Fairs. This new jazz drummer and band are top notch!!

[@chelillingworth9466]

Some of those third-man pressings are just horrific, I really don't understand the verve by request, if they happen to be mastered by Ryan k Smith then they have a chance of being really good as long as the pressing isn't a disaster, but if they are mastered by third man they seem to be completely awful

[@jorgegera9042]

Worst Sounding record of 2024 is John Scofield's A go go by Verve. Period!

[@glenmoon]

The Verve by Request Series is awful. They all sound awful to me. Garbage. I will never buy another Verve by Request album ever again.

[@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews]

I learned my lesson as well, I will have to stay away from those albums.

[@humthappa7159]

You look like jazz

[@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews]

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