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    Hi all,

    I thought it was time to do a year-end retrospective for a variety of genres for 2020. I usually say 'favorites' and not 'best' but you get the idea. I'm sure I have left some out and that's where you come in. I included my best of rock, prog, metal, pop and Brazilian following the jazz and fusion list.


    JAZZ & FUSION:

    Wayne Krantz - Write Out Your Head
    John McLaughlin - Is That So?
    Pat Metheny - From This Place
    Oz Noy - Snapdragon
    Brecker Brothers - Live and Unreleased
    John Scofield - Swallow Tales
    Chick Corea - Plays
    Al Di Meola - Across the Universe: The Beatles, Vol. 2
    Gergo Borlai - The Missing Song
    Chris Poland - Resistance
    Sebastian Cornelissen - The Holdsworth Reinterpretations
    Nir Felder - II
    Kurt Rosenwinkel - Angels Around
    Yellowjackets & WDR Big Band - Jackets XL
    L.Feliciati & Richard Hallebeek - Bumerang
    Scott Jones - Fictional Characters
    Tigran Hamasyan - The Call Within
    Panzerballett - Planet Z
    Taku Yabuki - Modern World Symphony No.3
    Dan Weiss - Natural Selection
    Terje Rypdal - Conspiracy
    Luciana Souza WDR Big Band - Storytellers
    Bill Frisell - Valentine
    Dave Douglas/Matt Stevens - Dizzy Atmosphere
    Avishai Cohen - Big Vicious
    Maria Schneider - Data Lords
    Steve Cardenas -Blue Has a Range
    Django Bates - Tenacity
    Keith Jarrett - Budapest Concert
    Gary Husband & Markus Reuter - Music of Our Times
    Gavin Harrison & Antoine Fafard - Chemical Reactions
    Warleigh Manor: The Ron Mathewson Tapes Vol. 1 with Allan Holdsworth
    Lyle Workman - Uncommon Measures

    PROGRESSIVE ROCK & METAL:

    Avatarium - An Evening with Avatarium (Live)
    Wobbler - Dwellers of the Deep
    Motorpyscho - The All Is One
    Derek Sherinian - The Phoenix
    Deep Purple - Whoosh!
    Toehider - I Like It!
    The Flower Kings - Islands
    Magenta - Masters of Illusion
    Gungfly - Alone Together
    Kansas - The Absence of Presence
    Elder - Omens
    La Maschera di Cera - S.E.I.
    Sonar / David Torn - Tranceportation Vol. 2
    McStine & Minnemann - McStine & Minnemann
    The Tangent - Auto Reconnaissance
    Haken - Virus
    Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant
    John Petrucci - Terminal Velocity
    Oceans of Slumber - Oceans of Slumber
    Sons of Apollo - MMXX
    Ayreon - Transitus
    Joe Satriani - Shapeshifting
    Devin Townsend - Order of Magnitude
    Unleash the Archers - Abyss
    Kamelot - I Am the Empire Live
    Unlucky Morpheus - Unfinished
    Nightwish - Human. :||: Nature.

    POWER POP/ROCK:

    Drake Bell - The Lost Album
    Mo Troper - Natural Beauty
    Confeti de Odio - Tragedia española
    Brendan Benson - Dear Life
    The Struts - Strange Days
    Aksak Maboul - Figures

    VARIOUS:

    Adriana Calcanhotto - So
    Caetano Veloso & Ivan Sacerdote - Caetano Veloso & Ivan Sacerdote
    Bebel Gilberto - Agora
    Last edited by tribalfusion; 12-17-2020 at 02:16 AM.

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    Hi tribalfusion,

    nice extensive 2020 list !

    Happy to be playing on 2 of these recordings...
    The Jackets XL recording made it to this week's top of the US charts:

    JazzWeek | Charts | JazzWeek

    Greetings from Cologne,
    Paul


    Quote Originally Posted by tribalfusion
    JAZZ & FUSION:

    Yellowjackets & WDR Big Band - Jackets XL
    Luciana Souza WDR Big Band - Storytellers

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    Snarky Puppy - Live at the Royal Albert Hall


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    Quote Originally Posted by DaShigsta
    Hi tribalfusion,

    nice extensive 2020 list !

    Happy to be playing on 2 of these recordings...
    The Jackets XL recording made it to this week's top of the US charts:

    JazzWeek | Charts | JazzWeek

    Greetings from Cologne,
    Paul
    Thanks Paul and my congratulations on the great recordings and the chart results as well!

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    I think we can all agree that Prog Rock and metal have the coolest names...Caligula's Horse indeed!

    A lot of those bands/artists would have made my best of list in 1976 or so...

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    Thanks for the list of new stuff to dig into Tribalfusion! Have been relying on you for great music for many years as you know.

    I am currently enjoying...

    Kevin Field - Soundtology (w/Nir Felder)

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    Been listening to Gergo Borlai - The Missing Song (already listed) in my new Sony XH-XB900N headphones in 24/96 lately. Absolutely stunning!