MASKED 15 JAZZ RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 2021

We started to venture out a bit after the vaccines and the boosters, and the flu shots. Saw Kurt Elling at Catalina, Branford Marsalis, Count Basie Orchestra with Liz Wright and Adam O'Farrell's Orchestra all at the Soraya in Northridge. Can't wait to get back to Maui Sugar Mill for some blues.

Fortunately this was a great year for jazz albums and here are fifteen that I would recommend There are many more where these came from.

Franco Ambrosetti Band- Lost Within You

Veronica Swift - This Bitter Earth

Charles Lloyd & The Marvels-Tone Poem

Greg Abate - Magic Dance

Sons of Kemet-Black to the Future 

Renée Rosnes - Kinds of Love

Gretchen Parlato - Flor

Becca Stevens & The Secret Trip

The Cookers - Look Out!

Kurt Elling - SuperBlue

BADBADNOTGOOD- Talk Memory

Sheila Jordan - Come Love—Lost Session 1960

Floating Points - Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra

Christian McBride and Inside Straight - Live From the Village Vanguard

Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trios - Songs From My Father

THE MASKED TEN + FIVE SHOWS I WOULD RECOMMEND TO YOU - 2021 EDITION

COVID has changed our viewing habits. I limit my viewing to 2-3 hours a night (closer to 2). We don't have all the services so no Disney+ or Paramount+. Hardly use Amazon Prime other than for shopping. Sunday night is reserved for the 90 DAY FIANCE cycle (sorry). Masked Wife and I have a hoot yelling at the TV (as if there isn't enough evidence of how this country has lost its mind). We've kind of given up on movies. Still watching wrestling, after all, I'm in the game now. 

So we are pretty picky about what we watch. Having said all that we still watch lots of shows. Lots of international crime procedurals. Hunt down Nazis in a pulpy series (Jaguar) and I'm there.

Of course sports but I've been trying to cut back.

Still watch the 911's because they are over the top wild but not much else on the networks. Went cold turkey on Masked Singer.

All that is to say here are the ten ( and five more) that I would recommend that you check out although I have a feeling many of you may already have. I don't go for the obscure. Not here to impress.

I put them in some sort of order but, really, the top two are in a class by themselves, for me, of course. Both of them gave me the feels.....lots of feels. So.............

Reservation Dogs - FX on Whatever

Gentified - NETFLIX

Succession - HBO

Hacks - HBO With A MAX

Billions - Showtime

Akwafina is Nora From Queens - Comedy Central

Pen15 - HULU

What We Do in the Shadows FX Classic

We Are Lady Parts - The Cock

Shtisel - NETFLIX

Oh here are five more

Curb Your Enthusiasm - HBO

Mare of Easton - HBO

Heels -STARZ

Ted Lasso - Apple With A +

Girls5eva - The Pea