Jazz New Releases
Jazz New Releases
Below is a list of all Jazz titles released in the last 90 days.
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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... |
Bennie Maupin & Herbie Hancock
The Jewel In The Lotus [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Bennie Maupin has been a musicians' musician for decades, and a highly inventive contributor, on bass clarinet and saxes, to some important records - including Miles Davis's "Bitches Brew", Herbie Hancock's "Mwandishi" and Marion Brown's "Afternoon... |
Bill Evans
Evans In England [ Resonance Records / 2 CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Previously unreleased 1969 recordings with Eddie Gomez and Marty Morell at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London, England is the fourth official collaboration with the Evans Estate. |
Bill Evans
Evans In England (LP) [ Resonance Records / 2 LP - released 17/May/2019 ] Limited edition, numbered. 180g vinyl. Evans in England is a vibrant, previously unreleased set of recordings featuring music by lyrical piano master Bill Evans with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Marty Morell captured during an engagement at... |
Brad Mehldau
Finding Gabriel [ Nonesuch / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Finding Gabriel comprises nine thematically related songs by Mehldau and features performances by him on piano, synthesizers, percussion, and Fender Rhodes, as well as vocals. Guest musicians include Ambrose Akinmusire, Sara Caswell, Kurt Elling,... |
Gary Burton / Chick Corea
Crystal Silence [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The Corea/Burton duo was brought together by producer Manfred Eicher, and Crystal Silence (recorded in 1972) brought a new chamber music sensibility into jazz improvisation, distinguished by an effervescence of melody and countermelody, with... |
David Darling
Cello [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The modestly titled Cello has a cover image by Jean-Luc Godard and much of the music featured here gradually made its way into the great director's films. This music paints images in the mind. Blogger Tyran Grillo wrote that "David Darling's Cello is... |
Don Cherry / Ed Blackwell
El Corazón [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] "The trumpeter sketches a succession of melodies and moods around and over the rich textural detail and earthy solidity of Mr Blackwell's drumming," noted Robert Palmer in The New York Times. "The melodies come from Spain, Africa, Jamaica and the... |
Eddie Gomez / John Abercrombie / Jack DeJohnette / Lester Bowie
New Directions [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] New Directions found drummer/pianist Jack DeJohnette reflecting on the multiple routes his musical life had taken and summarizing them in a single band. "My idea was to put together a cast of unlikely characters". He'd worked with Eddie Gomez in the... |
Edward Vesala
Lumi [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Recipient of a rare 5-Star review from the Penguin Guide to Jazz, Lumi is one of the key items in the discography of Finnish drummer-composer Edward Vesala. It was the first of his ECM recordings to feature his Sound and Fury ensemble, with creative... |
Enrico Rava
Easy Living [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Self-taught Trieste-born trumpeter Enrico Rava is the grand master of Italian jazz. Originally a Dixieland trombonist, he switched to trumpet in his teens after hearing Miles Davis. In 1967, he moved to New York ("where my idols were, all the people... |
Gary Burton Quartet
The New Quartet [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Born in 1943 and raised in Indiana, Gary Burton taught himself to play the vibraphone and, at the age of 17, made his recording debut in Nashville, Tennessee, with guitarists Hank Garland and Chet Atkins. Two years later, Burton left his studies at... |
Gary Peacock
Guamba [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Gary Peacock's recordings of the 1980s are production projects on which great players convened to play the bassist's tunes. And the bass is fully a lead voice here, with title piece Guamba a Peacock solo to open the proceedings. As Paul Bley once... |
Jan Garbarek / Bobo Stenson Quartet
Witchi-Tai-To [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Recorded November 1973 |
John Surman / Jack DeJohnette
The Amazing Adventures Of Simon Simon [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] John Surman and Jack DeJohnette first played together in 1968, but didn't make a duo album together until The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon in 1981. Immediately recognised as a special album it won the Record of the Year Award in Jazz Forum's... |
Julian Priester / Pepo Mtoto
Love, Love [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] After leaving Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band trombonist Julian Priester and synthesizer pioneer Dr Patrick Gleeson put together this now-legendary album in two sessions in 1973. Extending the experiments of the Hancock sextet this music can also be... |
Art Lande / Jan Garbarek
Red Lanta [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] |
Miroslav Vitous
Journey's End [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Miroslav Vitous - Bass John Surman - Soprano Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Bass Clarinet John Taylor - Piano Jon Christensen - Drums |
