Peter Slavid - Favourite albums from 2022.

Friday, December 23, 2022

Broadcaster & journalist Peter Slavid has forwarded details of his twenty favourite European jazz albums of 2022, as featured on his internationally transmitted 'European Jazz Hour' radio show.

Peter Slavid writes;

My 20 favourite albums from 2022

Now available at https://www.mixcloud.com/ukjazz/my-20-personal-favourite-albums-of-2022/

This is my final email of 2022 and it covers an extended show (originally two radio shows) which feature 20 of my personal favourite albums of the year (and if there had been time it could easily have been 40). They aren’t in order of preference, just broadcast as two shows, then repeated on the next two weeks, before I get back to playing new releases in mid-January.

One or two of my selections have appeared on other people’s lists, but the majority are artists that nobody has heard of – in many cases artists that I’ve never heard of – which is exactly how I like it, and why I do this.

I’d like to remind those of you from labels and my friends in PR that I normally try to record my show at least 2 or 3 weeks ahead, so the earlier you can send me music, the better chance you have of it being played on the release date (not before, naturally). Also, I very rarely play singles, and if I do – I don’t then play another track from the album.

Over the year I have played (and listened to) 454 albums, and received another 100 that I didn’t play. This year 20% came from UK (down from 30% last year) and there was an increase in albums from a lot of smaller countries, as well as increases from France, Germany and Italy. And I know that there are lots of great albums that I haven’t been sent.

This year the albums came from 190 different labels, which I think is a good sign of a vibrant scene

I have listed the tracks played in alphabetical order of the artist so that nobody is confused into thinking I’m suggesting any one is better than the others (I’ve also attached a separate document containing the playlist in the order in which they are played on the shows. )

I hope you all have a happy Xmas and a very happy 2023 – and keep the music coming!

Peter

Full list in alphabetic order

AAAPUZ
Live in Algovia

Alex Paxton
Illoli-pop

Angles
A muted Reality

Armaroli - Schiaffini 4tet
Monkish

Bangkok Lingo
Tomorrow’s Finally Here

Corrie Dick
Sun Swells

Emil Parisien sextet
Louise

Fergus McCreadie
Forest Floor

Fred Pallem
Le Sacre Du Tympan

Iiro Rantala
Potsdam

Ivan Radivojevic Quartet
In Plain View

Jeppe Zeeberg
Conventional

Juan Saiz
Pindio II

Kristjan Randalu
Sisu

Marius Neset
Happy

Pat Thomas
Plays the Duke

Roberto Ottaviano/Alexander Hawkins
Charlie’s Blue Skylight

Shake Stew
Heat

Soweto Kinch & LSO
White Juju

Tomorrow’s Warriors
I am a Warrior

European Modern Jazz on the radio;

At any time
http://www.mixcloud.com/ukjazz

Weekly:

http://www.hayesfm.org.uk 91.8 FM – West London Community Radio Sundays 12.00

http://www.purebeatradio.co.uk Sundays 7pm

http://www.cabmuzikradio.com Sunday 5am EST

http://www.ruberyradio.co.uk (Birmingham) Monday 7pm

http://www.mykindamusic24.com Sundays 10am

http://www.listen.camp/ Sundays 3pm onward

Please send downloads to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (or physical CDs to me at 27 Pembroke Rd, Ruislip, HA4 8NQ.

Playlist in the order played: Show 1 – Broadcast Dec 18 2022 & Jan 1 2023

Angles
Fkk Down, Fkk Off
A muted Reality
Clean Feed

Corrie Dick
Fingers full of meaning + TheRiver
Sun Swells
Ubuntu

Ivan Radivojevic Quartet
Loving You in reverse
In Plain View A.MA Records

Kristjan Randalu
SheepSong
Sisu
Whirlwind

Alex Paxton Illoli-pop 3
Illoli-pop
nonclassical

Tomorrow’s Warriors
The Change
I am a Warrior
The Sound Of Tomorrow’s Warriors.

AAAPUZ
Aus dem Leben eines Staatsbürgers
Live in Algovia
Trouble in the East

Shake Stew
Wake up and be gone
Heat
Traumton

Bangkok Lingo
Bang Tao Beach
Tomorrow’s Finally Here
NXN Recordings

Iiro Rantala
Candide
Potsdam
ACT

Show 2 – Broadcast Dec 25 2022 & Jan 8 2023

Marius Neset
Wildlife
Happy
ACT

Pat Thomas
Drop me off in Harlem
Plays the Duke
NEWJAiM

Armaroli - Schiaffini 4tet
Blue Hawk
Monkish
Dodicilune

Roberto Ottaviano & Alexander Hawkins
Haitian Fight Song
Charlie’s Blue Skylight
Dodicilune

Soweto Kinch & LSO
Chaos
White Juju
LSO Live

Juan Saiz
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Pindio II
Leo Records

Fred Pallem
Au fond de l’oreiller
Le Sacre Du
Tympan
Street Machine / Kuroneko

Fergus McCreadie
Law Hill
Forest Floor
Edition

Jeppe Zeeberg
Casper Nyvang Rask/Barbie Girl
Conventional
self

Emil Parisien Sextet
Madaqascar
Louise
ACT