by Minim Pro @ 2012-12-31 – 17:43:49
As we approach the end of the year, it's traditional for bloggers to start writing articles entitled 'The Best Albums of 2012'. Personally, I've never been keen to write one of those myself for two reasons: Firstly because you tend to subconsciously give weight to albums released in the second half of the year that you've heard more recently, but perhaps more importantly, because I really don't see the calendar year as being a particularly useful way to group and evaluate albums.
However, I came across a great idea suggested by Will Rodway, author of the 'Sure Nuff' blog who has similar reservations about these kind of articles. Will's idea was to write a post about the albums that he'd eitherdiscovered in 2012 or that had the greatest impact on him this year. I thought it was a great idea - reflections on a personal year of listening to music struck me as a much more interesting way to sign off these last 12 months. Chatting on twitter, we decided to do a joint post where we would each choose five albums that have been significant to us and post them. It doesn't matter when the albums where released, only that they had some personal significance to us in 2012.
Narrowing it down to five wasn't easy, but here are the choices I whittled it down to after much thoughtful beard-stroking:
- Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band - Season of Changes;
- Jerry Bergonzi - Napoli Connection;
- Snarky Puppy - Ground Up;
- Bill Evans - Portrait in Jazz;
- Dave Brubeck - Take Five, The Jazz Masters Series
Read complete and more: http://playjazz.blog.co.uk/2012/12/31/five-key-records-i-listened-to-in-15373525/
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