Karl Latham

The 37th Annual Jazz Station Awards / The Best Jazz of 2015 / Os Melhores do Jazz em 2015 

These are the complete results of the 37th Annual Jazz Station Awards conducted by the Los Angeles-based jazz journalist, record producer, jazz historian & jazz educator Arnaldo DeSouteiro. Mr. DeSouteiro is a voting member of NARAS-Grammy, as well as of the Jazz Journalists Association and the Los Angeles Jazz Society. He has produced over 830 sessions, according to the All Music Guide website. For more details and a small bio, please check 

2015 Drums: 1. Steve Gadd (“70 Strong” – BFM Jazz); 2. Akira Jimbo (“Jimbo de CTI” – Electric Bird); 3. Danny Gottlieb (“Directon Home” w/ Mark Egan – Wavetone); 4. Dan Brubeck (“Live From The Cellar” – Blue Forest Records); 5. Karl Latham (“Constellations” – Double Moon Records); 6. Antonio Sanchez (“The Unity Sessions” Blu-ray w/ Pat Metheny); 7. Jack DeJohnette (“Made In Chicago” – ECM); 8. Reggie Quinerly (“Invictus” – Redefinition Music); 9. Herlin Riley (“Live In Marciac” w/ Ahmad Jamal – Jazzbook/Jazz Village); 10. Harvey Mason (“Silver” w/ Fourplay – Heads Up); 11. Al Foster (“Heads Of State” w/ Gary Bartz – Smoke Sessions Records); 12. Joey Baron (“Sound Prints” w/ Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas – Blue Note); 13. William Kennedy (“Get Up!” w/ Bob Mintzer Big Band – MCG); 14. Bill Stewart (“Past Present” w/ John Scofield – Impulse!); 15. Anders Vestergard (“Lisbon Sessions” w/ Lupa Santiago & Anders Vestergard Quintet – Drum Voice Records) 

2015 Engineer: 1. Rudy Van Gelder (“Something Personal” w/ Houston Person – HighNote);  2. Jeremy Gillespie/Fred Kervorkian (“Constellations” w/ Karl Latham, Ryan Carniaux & Mark Egan); 3. Victor França/Angelo Cioffi (“A Testa In Giù!” w/ Gabriele Mirabassi & Orquestra À Base de Sopro de Curitiba – EGEA); 4. Paul Wickliffe (“Call It What You Want” w/ Russ Nolan – Rhinoceruss Music); 5. Adam Thomas/Joel Fountain (“Live From The Cellar” w/ The Dan Brubeck Quartet – Blue Forest Records); 6. Jay Dudt/Rich Breen (“Get Up!” w/ Bob Mintzer Big Band – MCG); 7. Talley Sherwood/Tom McCauley (“Jimbo de CTI” w/ Akira Jimbo – Electric Bird); 8. Phil Magnotti (“Direction Home” w/ Mark Egan – Wavetone); 9. Aaron Nevezie (“Invictus” w/ Reggie Quinerly – Redefinition Music) 

2015 Artwork: 1. EyeSoar Graphics (“Live From The Cellar” w/ The Dan Brubeck Quartet” – Blue Forest Records); 2. Knut Schötteldreier (“Constellations” w/ Karl Latham, Ryan Carniaux & Mark Egan – Double Moon); 3. Roger Huyssen (“Symphonic Arrangement – Suite For Flute And Jazz Piano Trio” w/ Hubert Laws, Steve Barta & Jeffrey Biegel – SBM); 4. Alessandro Scullari (“A Testa In Giù!” w/ Gabriele Mirabassi & Orquestra À Base de Sopro de Curitiba – EGEA); 5. Javier Chacin/Judy Kahn (“An Evening Of Indigos” w/ Bill Kirchner – Jazzheads); 6. Lauren Webster Mease (“Invictus” w/ Reggie Quinerly – Redefinition Music) 

The Best Jazz Instrumental CDs 

Hubert Laws/Steve Barta/Jeffrey Biegel: “Symphonic Arrangement – Claude Bolling’s Suite For Flute And Jazz Piano” (SBM) 
Bob Mintzer Big Band: “Get Up!” (MCG) 
Akira Jimbo: “Jimbo de CTI” (Electric Bird) 
Anders Bergcrantz: “The Painter” (Vanguard Music Boulevard) 
Pat Metheny, Jan Garbarek, Gary Burton: “Hommage À Eberhard Weber” (ECM) 
The Dan Brubeck Quartet: “Live From The Cellar – Celebrating The Music and Lyrics of Dave & Iola Brubeck” (Blue Forest Records) 
Karl Latham, Ryan Carniaux & Mark Egan: “Constellations” (Double Moon) 
Mark Little: “Suite Mother” (Caralittle Music) 
Akua Dixon: “Akua Dixon” (Akua’s Music) 
Mark Egan: “Direction Home” (Wavetone) 
Lupa Santiago & Anders Vestergard Quintet: “Lisbon Sessions” (Drum Voice Records) 
Carlos Franzetti: “In The Key Of Tango” (Sunnyside) 
Alan Chan Jazz Orchestra: “Shrimp Tale” (Crown Heights Audio) 
The Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet: “10” (Zoho) 
Bjorn Solli: “Aglow: The Lyngor Project Volume 1” (Lyngor Records) 
Mark Wade Trio: “Event Horizon” (Mark Wade Music) 
Kamasi Washington: “The Epic” (Brainfeeder) 
Lupa Santiago & Paulo Braga: “Manhã” (Sound Finger) 
Isaac Darche: “Team & Variations” (Challenge Records)

Bass Player Magazine Review of “Constellations” 

KARL LATHAM/RYAN CARNIAUX/ 

MARK EGAN 

“Constellations” 

DoubleMoon/Challenge Records 

Jazz drummer Latham, inspired by Bjork’s 

2007 side Volta, brilliantly reinterprets the 

Nordic chanteuse’s sound, style, and sensibility with the help 

of Mark Egan (on fretted and fretless Pedulla S-strings), trumpeter 

Ryan Carniaux, and keyboardist Nick Rolfe. Egan leaps from 

the opener, “Hope,” with a growling theme-and-variation ostinato 

that becomes a dialogue with Carniaux’s horn. Elsewhere, 

he locks in tight with Latham’s taut groove on “Wanderlust” and 

global shuffle on “The Dull Flame of Desire,” issues dancing harmonics 

in “Desired Constellation,” and makes the closer, “Ostara,” 

his own with his sympathetic fretless melody reading and sprawling 

solo. –Chris Jisi