Jazz New Releases
Jazz New Releases
Below is a list of all Jazz titles released in the last 90 days.
Displaying items 1 to 20 of 39
Erb / Baker / Rosaly
Don't Buy Him A Parrot [ Hathut / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] Given the breadth of their experiences, Erb, Baker, and Rosaly make a fine assembly of magpies. When they first played together at the 2013 Umbrella Festival, they sought out a balanced collective voice. This session took place a few months later,... |
Myra Melford Trio
Alive In The House Of Saints Part 1 [ Hathut / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] Listening, eight years after it was created, to this primary chapter in the recorded legacy of Myra Melford's first trio evokes a rush of feelings. There are warm memories of in-person encounters with Melford, Lindsey Horner and Reggie Nicholson; and... |
Shocron / Lamonega / Daz
Tensegridad [ Hathut / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] The SLD Trio (Shocron, Lamonega, Diaz) is an exciting and adventurous group of young musicians from Buenos Aires. The Argentinian capital is not a city that is exactly known for an extensive free-jazz and improvised music scene; however, there is a... |
Aaron Parks (piano)
Find the Way [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] For the second ECM album by Aaron Parks - following the solo release Aborescence, which JazzTimes praised as "expansive, impressionistic… like a vision quest" - the prize-winning pianist has convened a trio featuring bassist Ben Street and drummer... |
Avishai Cohen
Cross My Palm With Silver [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] A year after his impressionistic, critically-lauded ECM debut Into The Silence, trumpeter Avishai Cohen's Cross My Palm With Silver introduces a programme of new pieces which put the focus on the ensemble, on teamwork, with a quartet of the highest... |
Bill Frisell, Thomas Morgan
Small Town [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Small Town presents guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan in a program of duets, the poetic chemistry of their playing captured live at New York's hallowed Village Vanguard. Frisell made his debut as a leader for ECM in 1983 with the... |
Chris Potter
The Dreamer Is the Dream (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 16/Jun/2017 ] For his third ECM release as a leader, Chris Potter presents a new acoustic quartet that naturally blends melodic rhapsody with rhythmic muscle. The group includes superlative musicians well known to followers of ECM's many recordings from New York... |
Chris Potter
The Dreamer Is the Dream [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] For his third ECM release as a leader, Chris Potter presents a new acoustic quartet that naturally blends melodic rhapsody with rhythmic muscle. The group includes superlative musicians well known to followers of ECM's many recordings from New York... |
Dominic Miller
Silent Light [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Born in Argentina to an American father and Irish mother, guitarist Dominic Miller was raised in the U.S. from age 10 and then educated there and in England. Now he lives in France, though he has toured the globe for the past three decades. Aptly,... |
Dominic Miller
Silent Light (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Born in Argentina to an American father and Irish mother, guitarist Dominic Miller was raised in the U.S. from age 10 and then educated there and in England. Now he lives in France, though he has toured the globe for the past three decades. Aptly,... |
Ferenc Snetberger, Anders Jormin, Joey Baron
Titok [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Hungarian guitarist Ferenc Snétberger made a lot of new friends with his ECM solo debut In Concert ("a beautiful, assured performance" - All About Jazz) and will make many more with Titok, which features his trio with Swedish bassist Anders Jormin... |
Jim Langabeer
Secret Islands [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Jim Langabeer's debut on Rattle, Secret Islands is also his first release as bandleader. When asked to comment on the general quality of the players emerging from the Jazz Schools, a seasoned New York veteran (who shall remain nameless) said, "Man,... |
Quercus
Nightfall [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Quercus's self-titled ECM debut won the album-of-the-year award of the German Record Critics in 2013, was widely praised by the international press, and especially celebrated in Britain where June Tabor has long reigned as "the dark voiced queen of... |
Reuben Bradley, Roger Manins & Brett Hirst
Shark Variations [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] One of New Zealand's most revered drummers and jazz composers, Reuben Bradley teams up with Roger Manins (sax) and Brett Hirst (bass) for his fourth Rattle release. Recorded after their New Zealand tour in September 2016 (by Rattle's in-house... |
Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet
December Avenue [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Four years after the landmark album Wisława, the great Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's New York Quartet returns with another masterful recording, December Avenue. Always an insightful bandleader, Stanko here encourages spirited improvisation to... |
Harold Lopez-Nussa
El Vaje [ Mack Avenue / CD - released 9/Jun/2017 ] "El Viaje (The Journey)," the title track of Cuban pianist and composer Harold López-Nussa's debut release on Mack Avenue Records, seems to sway gently like a boat in the water-as if readying for a voyage or returning to port after arrival-trumpet... |
Miles Davis
Jack Johnson (LP) [ Music on Vinyl / LP - released 9/Jun/2017 ] In 1970, Miles Davis was at the height of his powers, recording the Jack Johnson sessions. It was also a turning point for Davis: In this year he embarked on some of his most radical music, abandoning jazz and the expansive textures of Bitches Brew... |
Thelonious Monk
Blue Monk [ Le Chant Du Monde / 3 CD - released 9/Jun/2017 ] Unique, alone and solitary, Thelonious Monk, extreme pianist, pursued his career with patient obstinacy. His work is colossal, original, bewildering and unusually modern. His compositions show as much quasi-scientific rigour as chaotic urgency and,... |
Moonchild
Voyager [ Tru Thoughts / CD - released 2/Jun/2017 ] Moonchild is multi-instrumentalists Amber Navran, Max Bryk, and Andris Mattson. In the nearly three years since dropping their sublime sophomore album, Please Rewind, this Los Angeles-based trio have been cultivating a strong following thanks to... |
Moonchild
Voyager (2LP) [ Tru Thoughts / 2 LP - released 2/Jun/2017 ] In the nearly three years since dropping their sublime sophomore album, Please Rewind, this Los Angeles-based trio have been cultivating a strong following thanks to securing a label deal with Tru Thoughts Records and opening up for The Internet, in... |
