Top Recordings of 2015

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I would find it a good idea if we would recommend new recordings that are worthwhile, as the year moves along. If possible please post links for purchase and sound samples.

Let me start out with ''Impromptu'' a marvelous audiophile recording
that captures two of the best European Jazz musicians playing and interacting at on a telepathic level. The Sound quality is marvelous,
especially the upright bass sounds truly stunning.
Available as adownload in DSD , PCM and Flac.
''Impromptu'' Sound Liaison Music Shop
from the liner notes, more reading; Sound Liaison Music Shop

The new trio Album download from the Witmer trio has that same gorgeous Sound Liaison piano sound but is maybe a bit more accessible in terms of listening.
Even the drummer is playing melodic!
And I think it surpasses Impromptu in SQ as well. Sound Liaison Music Shop
from the liner notes;

When creating the sound stage, we spent a great deal of time getting the balance of the trio as optimal as possible using the ambient microphone stereo pair placed in the ''sweet spot'' in studio 2, before adding the spot microphones.
We wanted to create a sound field that was intimate but also with enough depth to have a visual representation of the instruments.
In a sense we adopted the same philosophy as Cajan Witmer in his arrangements, we wanted the melodic part of each instrument to stand out but not overshadow the whole, thus the paino and the drums have been given a position in the sound field, not spread out Left to Right as are more common in commercial recordings.
The benefit with this approach is that you can actually see the trio in front of you between the speakers, standing left to right, instead of the more common, commercial radio friendly approach, with the instruments piled on top of each other.
In a sense we are old fashioned, maybe we listened to too many old jazz recordings, but on the other hand........

''The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago."
(Louis Armstrong)