Tim Garcia looks back on 2017 and explores his favourite records of the year in a two-part ‘Best of 2017’ special on Jazz FM.
Part 1
Track list:
Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah – Lawless Feat. Braxton Cook
Yazz Ahmed – Jamil Jamal
Sampa The Great – Bye River
Zara Mcfarlane – All Africa (Alternate Version)
Ruby Rushton – Butterfly
Thundercat – Blackkk
Eric Lau – The Best Good (A Message From Coltrane)
Keyon Harrold – Her Beauty Through My Eyes Feat. Pharoahe Monch
Joe Armon-Jones & Maxwell Owin – SE Discoteque
Nubya Garcia – Lost Kingdoms
Sudan Archives – Come Meh Way
Maalem Mahmoud Gania – Mrahba Baba Hamouda
Faizal Ddamba Mostrixx – Ancestral Match
Lagartijeando – La Memoria Del Viento
Namvula – Na Lile (Little Sorrow)
Ìfé – 3 Mujeres (Iború Iboya Ibosheshé)
Dego & Kaidi – See&blind,hear&deaf
The Diabolical Liberties – The Battle Of Trafalgar Feat. General Rubbish & Nyasha
Eabs – Waltzing Beyond (The Song On The Day The world Ends)
The Comet Is Coming – Final Eclipse
Esa – Rift Valley Feat. Abakisimba
Kologbo – Africa Is The Future
Part 2
Track list:
Alice Coltrane – Er Ra
Hermeto Pascoal – Dança Do Paje
Sibusile Xaba – Liyabukwa
Trio Da Kali and kronos Quartet – Eh Ya Ye
Max Cilla – Crépuscule Tropical
Ezra Collective – The Philosopher
Gaby Hernandez – Entranced
Philippe Baden Powell – Notes Over The Poetry
Wildflower – Flute Song
Vels Trio Feat. Shabaka Hutchings – 40 point
Kendrick Lamar – Pride
Four Tet – Two Thousand and Seventeen
Bonobo Feat. Innov Gnawa – Bambro Koyo Ganda
Ibibio Sound Machine – Quiet
Jonwayne Feat. Shango – Paper
Shigeto – Detroit Part II
Step Time Orchesta – Jazz Error NYC
Emanative – Ominous Shanti
Monsalve Y Los Forajidos – Black & Decker
Msafiri Zawose – Nzala Urugu
Quantic and Nidia Gongora – Que Me Duele?
Makadem & Behr – Nyako
Ghetto Kumbe – Makru
Bambooman Feat. Kashmere – Daxamite