Jazz New Releases
Jazz New Releases
Below is a list of all Jazz titles released in the last 90 days.
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Hank Crawford
Three Classic Albums Plus (More Soul / The Soul Clinic / From The Heart) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2019 ] Bennie "Ross" Crawford, more popularly known as Hank Crawford found early fame in 1959 playing baritone sax for the Ray Charles band and later as his musical director from 1963. He switched to alto sax and can be heard playing both on our four fine... |
Harold Land
Four Classic Albums (Harold In The Land Of Jazz / The Fox / West Coast Blues / Eastward Ho! Harold Land In New York) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2019 ] AVID jazz continues its mission to re-instate some of the lesser known or perhaps under-appreciated jazz musicians from the golden age of jazz. Here they feature tenor sax giant, Harold Land who started his musical career as a fiercely hard be-bop... |
Jack McDuff & Bill Jennings
Four Classic Albums (Enough Said! / Glide On / Tough 'Duff / Brother Jack) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2019 ] AVID Jazz continues its mission to re-instate some of the lesser known or perhaps under-appreciated jazz musicians from the golden age of jazz. Here we feature Hammond organist, Jack McDuff playing together with and, apart from, ("Tough Duff"), his... |
Jon Hendricks
Four Classic Albums (A Good Git-Together / Fast Livin' Blues / High Flying / Sing Ellington) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2019 ] Another two classics by the titanic trio and for good measure offer up a taste of the vocalese master Jon Hendricks out on his own on two extraordinary albums. Released in 1959, A Good Git Together features Jon Hendricks during the time of his... |
Milt Jackson
Four Classic Albums (Ballads & Blues / Soul Brothers / Bags & Flutes / The Ballad Artistry Of Milt Jackson) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2019 ] It's Milt Jackson! Need we say more? One of our favourite artists makes a long awaited return to the New Release schedules! We're following a more bluesy and "ballady" based theme through our four fine selections including a remarkable album with the... |
Miles Davis
In A Silent Way (50th Anniversary LP) [ Columbia Legacy / LP - released 28/Jun/2019 ] In A Silent Way, released in 1969, marked a transitional moment, not only in Davis's career but in the future development of jazz as a whole. Considered by many to be the first fusion recording, it also commenced the composer's most divisive phase -... |
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
So It Is [ Sub Pop / CD - released 28/Jun/2019 ] So It Is (2017) finds the classic Preservation Hall Jazz Band sound invigorated by a number of fresh influences, not least among them the band's 2015 life-changing trip to Cuba. A visit to the island, so integral to the evolution of jazz and New... |
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
So It Is (LP) [ Sub Pop / LP - released 28/Jun/2019 ] So It Is (2017) finds the classic Preservation Hall Jazz Band sound invigorated by a number of fresh influences, not least among them the band's 2015 life-changing trip to Cuba. A visit to the island, so integral to the evolution of jazz and New... |
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
That's It [ Sub Pop / CD - released 28/Jun/2019 ] Preservation Hall Jazz Band's That's It! (2013) is an eclectic album that draws on the collective experience of players nurtured in the New Orleans tradition but determined to build something fresh and exciting on that foundation. It marks an... |
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
That's It (LP) [ Sub Pop / LP - released 28/Jun/2019 ] Preservation Hall Jazz Band's That's It! (2013) is an eclectic album that draws on the collective experience of players nurtured in the New Orleans tradition but determined to build something fresh and exciting on that foundation. It marks an... |
Gianluigi Trovesi / Gianni Coscia
La misteriosa musica della Regina Loana [ ECM / CD - released 21/Jun/2019 ] This hugely enjoyable and highly inventive album is dedicated to the late Umberto Eco, a lifelong friend of accordionist Gianni Coscia and an ardent champion of this particular duo. Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanna, a meditation on the... |
Anouar Brahem
Le Pas Du Chat Noir (LP) [ ECM Records / 2 LP - released 7/Jun/2019 ] The Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem has chosen to work in a trio setting this time out, accompanied by Francois Couturier on piano and Jean-Louis Matinier on accordion. Brahem states in the liner notes that these pieces were actually composed on... |
Charles Lloyd
Voice in the Night (LP) [ ECM Records / 2 LP - released 7/Jun/2019 ] Recorded in May 1998, 'Voice in the Night' is rightly regarded as a jazz classic. |
Manu Katche
Neighbourhood (LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 7/Jun/2019 ] Manu teams up with Jan Garbareck, Tomasz Stanko, Marcin Wasilewski & Slawomir Kurkiewicz - the fine results speak for themselves. 'Neighbourhood' = ECM at its finest. |
Jan Garbarek
In Praise Of Dreams (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 6/Jun/2019 ] "In Praise of Dreams" - Jan Garbarek's first new album in six years - features two musicians with whom the great Norwegian saxophonist shares some history - American-Armenian violist Kim Kashkashian and African-French drummer Manu Katché. Garbarek,... |
Nils Petter Molvaer
Khmer (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 6/Jun/2019 ] Massive beats and throbbing grooves underpin the Norwegian trumpeter's fiery solos in a project that forms a bridge between ECM's improvised soundscapes and the brave new world of trip-hop, drum'n'bass, ambient/illbient, techno, industrial,... |
BARBARA
Barbara Alexandre Tharaud (piano) with with Juliette Binoche, Vanessa Paradis, Jane Birkin, Radio Elvis, Bénabar, Juliette, Dominique A, Tim Dup, Jean-Louis A [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 5/Jun/2019 ] "As usual, Tharaud confounds expectations and the two discs here, each of which is actually a self-contained album, approach Barbara's music in very different ways." Gramophone |
Minoru Muraoka
Bamboo (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 24/May/2019 ] Japanese jazz/breakbeat, folkloric mega-rarity as hallowed by the likes of DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Egon and co. Uniquely combines traditional Japanese instrumentation with Western jazz influences. Official Mr Bongo reissue. Gatefold single LP. |
Arild Andersen
The Triangle [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Arild Andersen's trio emphasises the writing and playing of Greek pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos, whose melodic improvising and sense of form are influenced by his background as a classical musician. Tsabropoulos's tunes, and his arrangement of Ravel... |
Aubrey Logan
Where The Sunshine Is Expensive [ Resonance Records / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Where the Sunshine is Expensive is the debut recording of acclaimed powerhouse trombonist/vocalist Aubrey Logan for Resonance Records. Coined "The Queen of Sass" in the press, Logan was a featured guest vocalist on Dave Koz's #1 selling contemporary... |
