Music hosts Jedd Beaudoin, Chris Heim, Carla Eckels and Bill Pearce run down the best in music for 2014 - including selections for world, rock, local music, jazz, R&B, gospel, blues, rockumentaries and books about music.
Join KMUW's music hosts throughout January on Global Village, Strange Currency, Night Train, Crossroads, Soulsations and Straight No Chaser for a month-long feature of the Best of 2014. See individual show pages for more information on upcoming shows and to listen to past shows through the streaming archive.
Night Train: Best of 2014
- Bob Stewart - Connections: Mind the Gap (Sunnyside)
- Kenny Barron/Dave Holland - The Art of Conversation (Impulse)
- Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden - Last Dance (ECM)
- Craig Handy & Second Line Smith (OKeh)
- Ted Rosenthal - Rhapsody in Gershwin (Playscape)
- Jacques Schwarz-Bart - Jazz Racine Haiti (Motema)
- Jane Ira Bloom - Sixteen Sunsets (Outline)
- Omer Avital - New Song (Motema)
- Jessica Williams - With Love (Origin)
- Bobby Hutcherson - Enjoy the View (Blue Note)
- Elio Villafranca & the Jass Syncopators - Caribbean Tinge (Motema)
- Steve Khan - Subtext (Tone Center)
- Fareed Haque - Trance Hypothesis (Delmark)
- George Cables - Icons and Influences (High Note)
- Leslie Pintchik - In the Nature of Things (Pintch Hard)
- Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein, Bill Stewart - Ramshackle Serenade (Pirouet)
- Holly Hofmann - Low Life (Capri)
- Helen Sung - Anthem for a New Day (Concord)
- Chick Corea Trio - Trilogy (Stretch/Concord)
- Tierney Sutton - Paris Sessions (BFM)
- Theo Croker - Afro Physicist (DDB/OKeh)
- Everette DeVan - For the Love of You (Henry)
- Jeff Coffin & the Mu'tet - Side Up (Far Up)
- Kavita Shah - Visions (Kavita Shah)
- Helge Lien Trio - Badgers and Other Beings (Ozella)
- Edward Simon - Venezuelan Suite (Sunnyside)
- Dee Alexander - Songs My Mother Loves (BluJazz)
- Eric Alexander - Chicago Fire (High Note)
- Gregory Porter / Donald Smith / Mansur Scott w/ Paul Zauner’s Blue Brass - Great Voices of Harlem (Pao)
- Dave Stryker - Eight Track (Strikezone)/ Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio - We're Back (Whaling City Sound)
