My round-up of the best jazz releases of 2014.  Full details in today’s Sunday Times 100 Best Records of the Year [£].

1 HENRY BUTLER/STEVEN BERNSTEIN  Viper’s Drag (Impulse!)

2 DYLAN HOWE  Subterranean: New Designs on Bowie’s Berlin (Motorik)

3 HELEN SUNG, Anthem For A New Day (Concord)

4 CYRILLE AIMEE It’s A Good Day (Mack Avenue)

5 ZARA McFARLANE, If You Knew Her (Brownswood)

6 BILL FRISELL, Guitar in the Space Age! (Okeh)

7 DJANGO A LA CREOLE, Live! (Lejazzetal)

8 JAMIE CULLUM, Interlude (Island)

9 CHRIS INGHAM QUARTET, Hoagy (Downhome)

10 VARIOUS, Round Nina: A Tribute to Nina Simone (Decca)