Franti’s Latest LP “Rocks” Phil’s PIcks 2016 Albums Of The Year List

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The time has come.  Today is New Year’s Eve eve.  That means 2016 is nearly in the books.  With that year right at it’s end, it’s time for the last two of this year’s Phil’s Picks best of lists.

Rounding out this year’s lists are the year’s top new albums overall and the year’s top new overall movies.  The year’s top new albums list is up first.  It was not an easy list to assemble either as there were so many stand out records released from across the musical universe’s many genres.

This year’s top albums list is represented by music from the jazz community, the world of children’s music, rock, blues, and even reggae in the form of Michael Franti and Spearhead’s new album Soulrocker.

As with every previous Phil’s Picks list, this list features Phil’s Picks’ top 10 new titles plus five honorable mention titles, bringing the total count to 15.  Having noted that here for you is Phil’s Picks 2016 Top 10 new albums.

 

PHIL’S PICKS 2016 TOP 10 NEW ALBUMS

 

1. Michael Franti & Spearhead – Soulrocker

 

2. Santana – IV

 

3. Joe Bonamassa – Blues of Desperation

 

4. Yellowjackets – Cohearance

 

5. Foghat – Under The Influence

 

6. The Okee Dokee Brothers – Saddle Up

 

7. Songs of the Night: Dance Recordings by the Joseph C. Smith Orchestra 1916 – 1925

 

8. Marian Hill – Act I

 

9. Love and a .38 – Nomad

 

10. Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Getaway

 

11. Rich Robinson – Flux

 

12. Charles Lloyd and the Marvels – I Long To See You

 

13. Logan Richardson – Shift

 

14. Tedeschi Trucks Band – Let Me Get By

 

15. Mountain Heart – Blue Sky

 

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Bonamassa’s New Blues Record Is No Desperate Act From The Veteran Performer

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Phil’s Picks has focused a lot lately on rock and other genres of music in the vastness of the musical universe.  Today, the focus shifts away from those genres to something a little bit less mainstream.  In today’s list, Phil’s Picks presents the year’s best new Jazz and blues records.  This year’s list presents a wide variety of acts, from more well-known acts such as The Rolling Stones, Joe Bonamassa and Yellowjackets to perhaps lesser known, but still talented acts such as Hazmat Modine, Takuya Kuroda and others.  It wasn’t an easy list to work up, either.  That’s because there was so much great material out there this year.  Combining jazz and blues into one list didn’t make things any easier.  But it got done.

As with every other list, the Top 10 New Jazz and Blues Albums features the year’s top 10 new jazz and blues albums.  It also includes five honorable mention titles for a total count of 15 albums.  That is not to take away anything from those honorable mention titles.  They are enjoyable in their own right and deserved to be noted, too.  Enough rambling.  Here, for everyone’s consideration, is Phil’s Picks’ 2016 Top 10 New Jazz and Blues Albums.

 

PHIL’S PICKS 2016 TOP 10 NEW JAZZ AND BLUES ALBUMS

 

1. Joe Bonamassa – Blues of Desperation

 

2. Yellowjackets – Cohearance

 

3. Joseph C. Smith Orchestra – Songs of the Night

 

4. John Coletrane – Trane 90

 

5. The Rolling Stones – Blue & Lonesome

 

6. James Hunter Six – Hold On!

 

7. Takuya Kuroda – Ziggerzagger

 

8. Fela Ransom Kuti & His Koola Lubites – High Life: Jazz & Afro Soul (’63 – ’69)

 

9. Gregory Porter – Take Me To The Alley

 

10. Quinn Sullivan – Midnight Highway

 

11. Charles Lloyd & The Marvels – I Long To See You

 

12. Logan Richardson – Shift

 

13. Hazmat Modine – Extra – Deluxe – Supreme

 

14. Keely Smith – The Intimate Keely Smith

 

15. Jazz Haunts & Magic Vaults – The New Lost Classics of Resonance

 

 

 

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Logan Richardson Releases His Latest LP This Week

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Saxophonist Logan Richardson will release his latest full-length studio recording this week.

Logan Richardson will release Shift, his latest full-length studio recording this week. The album is Richardson’s first for Blue Note Records and his third overall full-length studio recording. It comes a little more than six years after his most recent album, 2008’s Ethos. That album was released via Inner Circle Music. Richardson brought enlisted one of the biggest names in the jazz industry today for the record in guitarist Pat Metheny for the record. In discussing joining Richardson for Shift Metheny noted Richardson’s talent and his overall vision that impressed him most about working with him. “While he is unquestionably one of the best new alto players to emerge of his generation, it is his overall artistic vision that impresses the most,” he said. Also on board for the project are pianist Jason Moran, bassist Harish Raghavan, and drummer Nasheet Waits.

Shift will be available in stores and online this Friday, February 26^th. It can be pre-ordered online now via Amazon and iTunes. It boasts ten original compositions from Richardson and a cover of Bruno Mars’ ‘Locked Out Of Heaven.’ Audiences that pre-order the album now will get the album’s lead track ‘Mind Free’ immediately. The song is also streaming in full online now via YouTube and other streaming services. Audiences can also check out the album’s trailer online now via YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbieGieGfGk&feature=youtu.be.

Richardson will tour in support of Shift beginning March 12^th in Vincennes, France. His current tour takes him to a handful of venues throughout Europe in March and April. There is also a planned date in New York, NY on May 20^th at Dizzy’s Coca Cola Club. All of the latest updates on Richardson’s tour is available online now along with all of his latest news and more at:

 

Website: http://www.loganrichardson.global

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/loganrichardsonworld

 

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