On the conclusion of our two-part year end extravaganza, it has all come down to this.

You have heard us discuss close to a 100 albums in 2024, and all of them are well worth your time, but in the end there is only room for 10 that we think are the best this year had to offer.

Thanks for listening. We’ll see ya next year.

On this edition of Discologist, Eduardo and Kevin are looking back to discuss some of their favorite releases of the year so far.

Join Eduardo and Kevin as they chat with music legend Bill Frisell about his electrifying new release, "Orchestras," on Blue Note Records. With his trio and the Brussels Philharmonic/Umbria Jazz Orchestra, Frisell reinvents his classics and breaks new ground on what improvising can be.

Tune in as Eduardo and Kevin explore fresh releases from Aaron Abernathy, Prefuse 73, The Messthetics with James Brandon Lewis, The Mad Archaic, and more. Also, uncover the potential impact of AI in music with the launch of Suno, exploring its functionalities, industry disruption, and implications. Tune in now!

Explore the dynamics of the SXSW protests, the implications of the Living Wage For Musicians Act, new music from Charles Lloyd, Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band, and more on an all-new episode of Discologist.

Join Eduardo & Kevin on a jazz odyssey discussing new music by Julian Lage, Knower, Amarao Freitas, and more. Plus, the world premiere of "Down By the Lake" from Kevin's upcoming album, The Lake.

Bill Frisell’s latest LP Four is a masterclass in subtlety and connection. To celebrate the release, we’re dishing up a brief history of Frisell’s work and what it means to the American songbook. Then we’re digging into the new album to find out if his latest fits comfortably alongside his earlier releases or if maybe he’s starting to go a radical new direction.

Over the course of the pandemic, Gerald Clayton thought a lot about time. What it means, how we spend it, and how the past and the now influence the future in unexpected ways. His new album Bells On Sand is the result of this philosophizing and finds the acclaimed pianist and composer creating sublime new worlds out of simple melodies and space, and the resulting abstraction of time that both can provide.

Most people first heard of Asher Gamedze when he contributed drums to Angel Bat Dawid's acclaimed 2019 release The Oracle. Now, the South African drummer is back, this time as bandleader, crafting a powerful statement on colonialism and his country's history with his debut album Dialectic Soul, a record many have called the best release of 2020.