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Nextbop's Best Jazz Albums of 2019 - Nextbop Jazz

Jazz blog Nextbop.com picks the best jazz albums of 2019 featuring music by Linda May Han Oh, Portico Quartet, Fabian Almazan, Nérija, Joel Ross, and more.
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Lists like this excite me. I like looking at best-of lists of traditionalists because it becomes an echo chamber of affirmation. I, a youthful middle-aged man likes Tom Harrell and Joshua Redman, and lo and behold, slightly older middle-aged music critics place those two musicians and several others of similar ages and styles in their own best-of-year lists. HEY, we're all right and we're all so smug in our rightness.

But lists like this one excite me. NextBop is a site I go to when I was want to truly be introduced to something new in Jazz where there is also a good chance I will not only like it, but love it. Their staff shares my musical tendencies and sensibilities, but skews a decade or more younger than me. When, from other sources, I think I might maybe possibly like a musician like Joel Ross, but I'm on the fence, then NextBop praises him and includes him on this list, that says I need to make a better effort to listen to this album.

I need to acquire more albums on this list.
 
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Lately, I've been finding that if I go 4 or 5 hours without eating something, music doesn't sound right. To the point I begin wondering if there is something wrong with my audio equipment. Then I'll go eat something and listen afterward. Then everything sounds good again.
 
Unsomnambulist said:
Lately, I've been finding that if I go 4 or 5 hours without eating something, music doesn't sound right. To the point I begin wondering if there is something wrong with my audio equipment. Then I'll go eat something and listen afterward. Then everything sounds good again.
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TMW you discover your Audiophilia Nervosa has become Audiophilia Hypoglycemia.
 
Nickyboy said:
Debbie Harry turns 75 today. Wow!
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One of my first childhood crushes (and one of the few blondes I have every been intrigued by - I do use the term blonde liberally). She had a certain cool, coked-up appeal in all her pictures.
Have always loved Blondie - when I was in my tweens, my aunt used to buy me the popular albums of the day though I really wasn't into music that much at that time. Most of these albums were on the level of the Grease or Saturday Night Fever soundtracks (which I still can sing along to today), but oddly one was Blondie's Plastic Letters (where Debbie looks like she can barely hold herself up on the album cover) where I imagine my love of the group stems from
 
My primary computer died an ignominious death. On Tuesday or so, it gave up the proverbial ghost. It has been wheezing and crying out for months on end, but did I care? Only a little, it seems.

So, I am using my work-based computer, which is permissible. One issue is that I need to avail myself of additional sites, such as Spotify, RYM, and Bandcamp. Another is, this use of my work computer is only a stopgap; I will need to gear up the previously-owned computer I purchased from a neighbor and get that to working, so I can access my bank's secure site and other neato things.

So, why did I put this hear here, instead of the Lounge? Because music is like everything, man.....

Don't even try to tell me that it's not, because I am listening... but only to the music.
 
axolotl said:
My primary computer died an ignominious death. On Tuesday or so, it gave up the proverbial ghost. It has been wheezing and crying out for months on end, but did I care? Only a little, it seems.

So, I am using my work-based computer, which is permissible. One issue is that I need to avail myself of additional sites, such as Spotify, RYM, and Bandcamp. Another is, this use of my work computer is only a stopgap; I will need to gear up the previously-owned computer I purchased from a neighbor and get that to working, so I can access my bank's secure site and other neato things.

So, why did I put this hear here, instead of the Lounge? Because music is like everything, man.....

Don't even try to tell me that it's not, because I am listening... but only to the music.
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Format and reinstall the OS. Pay a neighbor kid to do it if you don't feel up to it.
 
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