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)