Thank you very much for this great thread, @Jazzfan_NJ. I could recommend at least two thirds of the above personally. Here’s my first pick. Jürgen Friedrich’s “Pollock” is available on both Tidal and Qobuz.
Jürgen Friedrich - piano
John Hébert - bass
Tony Moreno - drums
Wanted to say the same, but you beat me to it. 
Merci beaucoup, Ralph.
Okay so far this thread has featured jazz from many different countries throughout the world but not France! So let’s fix that with these two wonderful recordings.
Baptiste Trotignon and David El-Malek
And the incredible Moutin brothers
Next up the Netherlands!
Thank you everyone for your positive feedback and for all the great contributions to this thread. Please let’s keep this going for all us jazz fans out here.
I started from Street Life and worked backwards
Plus a very young Roy Ayers and great versions of Ornette Coleman’s Ramblin’ (the title track), The Sidewinder and The Sandpiper (aka The Shadow of Your Smile).
Great recommendation! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it… It’s a true hidden jazz treasure.
Angel Bat Dawid
The Oracle
Dawid’s clarinet playing is garrulous and slightly wayward, with a wonderfully slippery quality that sometimes invokes Eric Dolphy, particularly on Cape Town, a freely improvised duet with South African drummer Asher Simiso Gamedze. Impepho is a polite freakout for clarinet and bass clarinet that sounds like Miles Davis’s On the Corner being played in slow motion; while a funky waltz for piano and clarinet called London shows that she can write tight, properly structured tunes. The Guardian
Angel Bat Dawid: The Oracle review – reverb-drenched messages from an afterlife | Experimental music | The Guardian
Somewhat ‘free’ jazz - there’s something here that reminds me of both Sun Ra & Alice Coltrane - perhaps the spiritual feeling. Far from an easy listen. Notwithstanding, I thought this one of the better releases of 2019. For the adventurous?
Hi @Ralph_Pantuso,
This is one of my favourite AJ albums. Unfortunately, it’s neither available on Tidal nor on Qobuz, but it’s a really great album. Excellent recording quality, too.
@Jazzfan_NJ suggested in an earlier post that there is some great jazz from downunder - this is exemplified by Aussie group The Vampires who have a real groove going on this album. If not into percussion you might want to skip the first track. Available on Tidal.
Giving The Vampires a listen via Tidal. Very impressive. Thanks for the recommendation.
The Quest by Mal Waldron with Eric Dolphy and Booker Ervin
Qobuz Only!
Available officially digitally for the first time! Listen now to The Quest by Mal Waldron with Eric Dolphy and Booker Ervin. This iconic jazz album was recorded back in 1961 and is filled with energy and unpredictability of modern jazz. The album is named The Quest because it was Waldron’s quest to explore the possibility of jazz through unique metering and forms. Listen now to this unusual masterpiece that will surely complete your jazz collection!
For the first time under Mal Waldron’s name that is. These recordings have been available digitally under Eric Dolphy’s name for quite some time. Nevertheless a “must have” recording (under any name) for any serious jazz collection. Only available on Tidal has part of various Eric Dolphy collections. Bad Tidal, bad!
I was just copying and pasting Qobuz press release… C’est la vie.
Turns out that I have these trks on 9 CD box set.
Well, if we’re going to complain about Tidal, surely we should be outraged that
doesn’t appear on Qobuz at all!
My fav Eric Dolphy!!!
Eric Dolphy’s “OUT TO LUNCH” is available on Qobuz (both as 16/44.1 and 24/192 plus booklet) – at least here in Germany and in the UK.
USA too…
