Today I’m playing a track from each of the seven albums that received a 5 star review in Downbeat Magazine in 2019.  As well, there is one album by a Canadian who The Ottawa Citizen jazz reviewer rated as not just the best Canadian jazz album of the year—but the best jazz album period!   Most of these artists are ‘new discoveries’ for me–and the jury is out as to whether it is music to which I want to give more time and attention.  Ask me next year.

But I start the program with something with which I definitely resonate.  It’s from the new offering from Chelsea McBride’s Socialist Night School— a record I’ve been looking forward to hearing.