2019 In Music
Well… another year come and gone. I make a new playlist every month that you can find on @ https://open.spotify.com/user/windhamdavid . I try to use only new releases and some re-releases to make up the playlists. I keep track of all of my listening details over @ https://davidawindham.com/studio/music using the Last.fm API @ https://www.last.fm/user/windhamdavid. Year over year since I’ve begun tracking them in 2007, Bill Evans is taking the lead again. There’s a lot of it to go around. Just the Bill Evans recordings posthumously released (Fantasy, Verve, Riverside, Village Vangard, etc) would be about 50 CDs worth or recordings. I really don’t tire of him. There were a newly couple newly recorded albums that stuck out last year. The various ‘music year in review’ articles from other publishers have become a ‘wash’ for me mostly because my taste have gotten crotchety like an opinionated old man. I still like to browse through all kinds of new music, I pay some attention to other curators, and I like to listen to various shows. The music discovery mechanisms have gotten pretty good, but I feel like they suffer the same kind of ‘information silo’ ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_silo ) effect that plagues any other algorithmic driven data. There are some errors in my data because of the way single tracks are pre-released before the albums. I’m kinda weary of the ‘first to market’ approach to releasing single tracks for streaming because I miss the old days of being excited to hear an album in it’s entirety. I’m sure my tastes tend to lean towards my experience… after all I did wake up this morning trying to convince my better half how good the Bob Segar Live Bullet album I used to listen to as a teenager mowing grass is. Here’s what I was listening to in 2019:
Artist
- Bill Evans
- Ahmad Jamal
- Michael Kiwanuka
- John Williams
- Terry Allen
- Brad Mehldau
- Easy Star All-Stars
- Merz
- Duke Ellington
- Kevin Hays
- Jon Hassell
- Talking Heads
- First Aid Kit
- Rayland Baxter
- Destroyer
- Steven Goldmund
- Calexico
- Hiss Golden Messenger
- Quantic
- Voyager
- Deep Watch
- Empty Space
- Foxygen
- James Taylor
- Kevin Morby
- Louis Armstrong
- Steely Dan
- Van Morrison
- Wilco
- Allah-Las
- Beck
- Ben Harper
- Brittany Howard
- Curtis Fuller Quintet
- Frazey Ford
- Iron & Wine
- J.J. Cale
- Jungle
- Justin Townes Earle
- Kraak & Smaak
- Michael Nau
- Momento
- of Montreal
- Paris Atmosphere
- Poncho Sanchez
- Sylvan Esso
- Tejal Yann
- Terry Riley
- The National
- Bill Evans
- Ahmad Jamal
- Michael Kiwanuka
- John Williams
- Terry Allen
- Brad Mehldau
- Easy Star All-Stars
- Merz
- Duke Ellington
- Kevin Hays
- Jon Hassell
- Talking Heads
- First Aid Kit
- Rayland Baxter
- Destroyer
- Steven Goldmund
- Calexico
- Hiss Golden Messenger
- Quantic
- Voyager
- Deep Watch
- Empty Space
- Foxygen
- James Taylor
- Kevin Morby
- Louis Armstrong
- Steely Dan
- Van Morrison
- Wilco
- Allah-Las
- Beck
- Ben Harper
- Brittany Howard
- Curtis Fuller Quintet
- Frazey Ford
- Iron & Wine
- J.J. Cale
- Jungle
- Justin Townes Earle
- Kraak & Smaak
- Michael Nau
- Momento
- of Montreal
- Paris Atmosphere
- Poncho Sanchez
- Post Malone
- Sylvan Esso
- Tejal Yann
- Terry Riley
- The National
Album
| Side Tracks | Bob Dylan |
| Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 | Felix Mendelssohn |
| Glenn Gould Gathering | Alva Noto |
| Stay Around | J.J. Cale |
| Some Other Time: The Lost Session from the Black Forest | Bill Evans |
| Ballades | Ahmad Jamal |
| Face The Facts | Foxygen |
| Rated PG | Peter Gabriel |
| Grateful Dead Records Collection (Remastered) | Grateful Dead |
| The Balance | Abdullah Ibrahim |
| Father Mountain | Calexico |
| Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | John Williams |
| Tenderly (An Informal Session) | Bill Evans |
| Dreams of Sleep and Wakes of Sound | Merz |
| Just Like Moby Dick | Terry Allen |
| Kiwanuka | Michael Kiwanuka |
| WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? | Billie Eilish |
| Radiodread | Easy Star All-Stars |
| Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Remastered) | Franz Liszt |
| In the Key of the Universe | Joey DeFrancesco |
| Oh My God | Kevin Morby |
| Tracks (Remastered Anniversary Edition) | Oscar Peterson |
| Money Jungle | Duke Ellington |
| The Saint Of Lost Causes | Justin Townes Earle |
| Spotify Singles | Kurt Vile |
| All Of Our Yesterdays | Mac DeMarco |
| Motivic Retrograde | Quantic |
| Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits | Tom Waits Tribute |
| Another Time: The Hilversum Concert | Bill Evans |
| Years to Burn | Calexico |
| Daddi (Reggie Watts Remix) | Cherry Glazerr |
| Seeing Other People | Foxygen |
| Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) | Jon Hassell |
| Light Years | The National |
| Ride Me Back Home | Willie Nelson |
| Simple Twist of Fate | Jerry Garcia Band |
| Violeta | Kevin Hays |
| Pino Europeo | Pino Europeo |
| Blue Train | Poncho Sanchez |
| That’s Not True | Skip Marley |
| Relaxamento | Various Artists |
| Whisperings | Ahmad Jamal |
| Finding Gabriel | Brad Mehldau |
| Flashback | Fujiya & Miyagi |
| Hope | Kevin Hays |
| Rides Through The Morning | Michael Nau |
| Santa Cruz de la Sierra | nico landa |
| Good Mmornin | Rayland Baxter |
| Saw Lightning | Beck |
| Uneven Days | Ben Harper |
| Largo | Brad Mehldau |
| Kaputt | Destroyer |
| Strange Beauty – Single | First Aid Kit |
| Jenny of Oldstones (Game of Thrones) | Florence + the Machine |
| Se Eu Quiser Falar Com Deus | Gilberto Gil |
| California Voodoo, Pt. II | Houndmouth |
| LEGACY! LEGACY! | Jamila Woods |
| Nothing Sacred / All Things Wild | Kevin Morby |
| Wide Awake | Rayland Baxter |
| I’m Comin’ Out | Shovels & Rope |
| Take The Money And Run / Love Is Strange / Swingtown / Killing Floor / Rock’n Me | Steve Miller Band |
| True Stories (Deluxe Version) | Talking Heads |
| Go / Eagle Birds / Lo/Hi | The Black Keys |
| General Strike | The Souljazz Orchestra |
| Side Effects | White Denim |
| Jabula | Abdullah Ibrahim |
| Portrait In Jazz [Keepnews Collection] | Bill Evans |
| Undercurrent | Bill Evans |
| Bring It to Mama | Boyfriend |
| Midnight Magic | Commodores |
| Ghostride | Crumb |
| Not Ready To Go | Diane Coffee |
| Stay Gold | First Aid Kit |
| An Anthology | Hank Jones |
| Everybody Needs Somebody | Hiss Golden Messenger |
| Rolling into One | Jordan Rakei |
| Invocations / Conversations | Jr Jr |
| It Rains Love | Lee Fields & The Expressions |
| Hot Tears | Leif Vollebekk |
| The Great Reunion | Louis Armstrong |
| Poison The Well | Modest Mouse |
| As Far as I Can See | Phil Cook |
| Come Back to Earth | Rayland Baxter |
| I Hear You Paint Houses | Robbie Robertson |
| They Want My Soul | Spoon |
| Can’t Buy A Thrill | Steely Dan |
| Spotify Singles | Toots & The Maytals |
| Valleys (My Love) | Whitney |
| Automatic Youth | Alex Ebert |
| LAHS | Allah-Las |
| Everybody Digs Bill Evans | Bill Evans |
| You Must Believe in Spring | Bill Evans |
| The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings (Sampler) | Bob Dylan |
| Can’t Find My Heart | Broken Social Scene |
| Hello Sunshine | Bruce Springsteen |
| The Great Pixley Train Robbery | Cass McCombs |
| Antidote | Chick Corea |
| Blues-ette | Curtis Fuller Quintet |
| Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? | Deerhunter |
| A Fool Like Me (feat. Self-Made Men) | Delbert McClinton |
Track
- Ahmad Jamal – Poinciana
- First Aid Kit – Strange Beauty
- Ahmad Jamal – Whisperings
- Ahmad Jamal – Because I Love You
- Bill Evans – Baubles, Bangles and Beads – Trio
- Bill Evans – What Kind Of Fool Am I?
- Brad Mehldau – Dear Prudence
- Curtis Fuller Quintet – ファイヴ・スポット・アフター・ダーク
- Kevin Hays – Violeta
- Michael Nau – Rides Through The Morning
- Poncho Sanchez – Blue Train3
- Wilco – Love Is Everywhere (Beware)
- Ahmad Jamal – I Should Care
- Ahmad Jamal – Land of Dreams
- Ahmad Jamal – Marseille
- Ahmad Jamal – Spring is Here / Your Story
- Ahmad Jamal – What’s New
- Allah-Las – Holding Pattern
- Allana Johnson – Second Level
- Angie McMahon – Take It With Me
- Antologie – Time Travel
- Barcelona Atmosphere – Parc Güell
- Beck – Star
- Bill Evans – Alfie
- Bill Evans – How About You?
- Bill Evans – It Could Happen To You
- Bill Evans – Very Early
- Bill Evans – You’re Gonna Hear From Me
- Bill Evans – You’re Gonna Hear From Me – Alternate Take
- Binary One – Tunnel Traveller
- Binaural Landscapes – Skyline
- Bing Crosby – It’S Been A Long, Long Time
- Brad Mehldau – Paranoid Android I
- Brittany Howard – Georgia
- Calexico – Father Mountain
- Calexico – Years to Burn
- Deep Watch – Moments
- Deep Watch – Reasons For Being
- Duke Ellington – Switch Blade – Remastered
- Earl St. Clair – Fed Up
- Eleanor Arroway – Trancendent Sleep
- Emblemic X – Pondering Life
- Empty Space – Paranormal
- Empty Space – Storyteller
- Erik Wøllo – Ody At Sea
- EverLight – Breath, Your Journey Begins
- Frazey Ford – The Kids Are Having None of It
- Gavin Luke – Gone
- Gilberto Gil – Se Eu Quiser Falar Com Deus
- Glen Hansard – I’ll Be You, Be Me