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Adrian Spinelli December 17, 2020Updated: December 17, 2020, 6:32 pm
Seu Jorge performs onstage during the 2019 Cruilla Festival at Parc del Forum in Barcelona. Photo: Jordi Vidal, Getty Images
This week’s “Listen” column looks back at this year’s best music. Check in next week for The Chronicle’s best Bay Area albums of 2020.
Seu Jorge & Rogé, “Night Dreamer Direct-to-Disc Sessions” (Night Dreamer)
After growing up in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Seu Jorge rose to prominence with roles in the films “City of God” and “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou” (notably releasing an album of David Bowie covers in Portuguese for the latter.) Now he and fellow Rio native Rogé live in Los Angeles and have captured the beauty and essence of being Brazilian on this seven-track EP that leaves a lasting mark.
15 Great Jazz Albums of 2020
Jazz may not have the mainstream cultural dominance that it once did, but it remains a thriving, multi-faceted form of music that continues to have so much more to say. Jazz informs so much of the rap and electronic music that
does have mainstream cultural dominance today, and it s long popped up in indie rock, metal, punk, and other styles of popular music too. Though jazz never went away, the past few years have seen a serious jazz renaissance that continues to grow, branch out into new innovative territory, and attract new listeners. The world of jazz is so vast and we don t claim to be experts of all of it, but if you re looking to catch up on some of the great jazz albums released in 2020, we put together a list of 15 that we strongly recommend. It s not a definitive best-of, and we probably haven t even heard all of the great jazz albums released this year, but we d like to think it s a pretty good place to start.