Jazz New Releases
Jazz New Releases
Below is a list of all Jazz titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 1 to 40 of 47
Bennie Maupin
The Jewel In The Lotus (LP) [ ECM Luminessence Series / LP - released 16/May/2025 ] An unsung modernist classic from 1974 - Pitchfork Bennie Maupin has been an inventive contributor to iconic records including Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi and Headhunters and Marion Brown's Afternoon Of A Georgia Faun.... |
Hank Mobley
Roll Call Blue Note Classic (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/May/2025 ] Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley was on a serious roll in 1960 when he recorded Roll Call, the middle album in a trilogy of hard bop masterpieces that includes the tenor saxophonist's equally essential albums Soul Station and Workout. For Roll Call,... |
Stanley Turrentine
Look Out Blue Note Classic (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/May/2025 ] After making a strong impression in a sideman roll on Jimmy Smith's twin soul jazz classics Midnight Special and Back at the Chicken Shack in April 1960, Blue Note boss Alfred Lion brought Stanley Turrentine back into Van Gelder Studio in June to... |
Brandon Woody
For The Love Of It All (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/May/2025 ] For The Love Of It All is more than trumpeter and composer Brandon Woody's recording debut; it is a manifesto, a ritual, a hymn to the enduring power of love. Joined by his band Upendo - Troy Long (piano, organ, Rhodes, keyboards), Quincy Phillips... |
Mavis Rivers
Four Classic Albums Plus (Take A Number / The Simple Life / Hooray For Love / Mavis)) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 9/May/2025 ] FRANK SINATRA'S FAVOURITE SINGER!! AVID Jazz are proud to feature a wonderful jazz singer who remained relatively unknown during her lifetime and perhaps had she not been born in Samoa, a fairly remote part of the world in 1929 could have... |
Arve Henriksen, Trygve Seim, Anders Jormin, Markku Ounaskari
Arcanum [ ECM / CD - released 2/May/2025 ] The Scandinavian project Arcanum brings together four artists all well-known to followers of directions in music at ECM: Arve Henriksen, Trygve Seim, Anders Jormin and Markku Ounaskari. They've played together in many permutations over the years, but... |
Various Composers
Tales of the Jazz Age Florian Noack [ La Dolce Volta / CD - released 25/Apr/2025 ] Can we go back a hundred years in time? Pianist Florian Noack's new album pushes back the gates of time to rediscover the lifeblood of the Roaring Twenties, which saw twentieth-century music trace a path between partying and war. |
Joe Lovano, Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz, Michal Miskiewicz
Homage [ ECM / CD - released 25/Apr/2025 ] Joe Lovano and his Polish conspirators from the Marcin Wasilewski Trio are endowed with an especially adventurous spirit on their second joint endeavour for ECM. |
Joe Lovano, Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz, Michal Miskiewicz
Homage (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Apr/2025 ] Joe Lovano and his Polish conspirators from the Marcin Wasilewski Trio are endowed with an especially adventurous spirit on their second joint endeavour for ECM. Building on the lyrical strengths that inhabited the group's previous recording (Arctic... |
Salami Rose Joe Louis
Lorings (LP) [ Brainfeeder / LP - released 25/Apr/2025 ] Lindsay Olsen aka Salami Rose Joe Louis is a genre traveller multi-instrumentalist female producer and a signee to Flying Lotus's Brainfeeder label. She returns with her most personal album to date on April 25th, 2025. Delightfully raw and... |
Various Artists
This Is Funky Jazz (LP) [ BGP / Ace Records / LP - released 25/Apr/2025 ] What it is, is funky! When the acid jazz scene ruled the world it looked for its inspiration in places that other jazz fans tended to overlook. The soul jazz of the late 60s and early 70s. The music of lounge bars and small clubs that fuelled the... |
Chick Corea
Piano Improvisations Volume 1 (Luminessence Series) (LP) [ ECM Luminessence / LP - released 18/Apr/2025 ] ECM's pioneering documentation of solo piano music was one of the genre-changing experiments of the early 1970s, and this beautifully recorded session, capturing Chick Corea in Oslo's Bendiksen Studio in April 1971, marked the beginning of this new... |
Pharoah Sanders
Love In Us All (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 18/Apr/2025 ] Pharoah Sanders' Love In Us All was recorded in 1972 but released on the Impulse! label in 1974. It consists of two extended compositions, "Love Is Everywhere" (which Sanders also recorded that year in a different version for his album Wisdom Through... |
Count Basie & His Orchestra
Best of the Roulette Years (RSD 2025 Dark Green LP) [ Roulette / LP - released 13/Apr/2025 ] Limited to 1,000 Copies A brand new Collection, remastered, and pressed on dark green vinyl |
Flying Lotus
Spirit Box (RSD 2025 Black & Red Marble LP) [ Warp Records / 12in - released 12/Apr/2025 ] Fans of Flying Lotus know very well that Steven Ellison draws from a wide variety of influences in his art. On Spirit Box, his latest EP, the influences remain as disparate as ever, resulting in what might be, for him, his most idiosyncratic project... |
Vince Guaraldi Trio
Jazz Impressions Of "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" (Alternate Takes) (RSD 2025 LP) [ Fantasy / LP - released 12/Apr/2025 ] Highlights from the new expanded edition of the Vince Guaraldi Trio's Jazz Impressions Of A Boy Named Charlie Brown, featuring new and unreleased alternate takes of beloved songs from the original recording sessions, including "Linus and Lucy,"... |
Savina Yannatou, Primavera en Salonico, Lamia Bedioui
Watersong [ ECM / CD - released 11/Apr/2025 ] Savina Yannatou's fifth ECM album revolves around the theme of water in its many manifestations. Water as a blessing and a curse. A life-sustaining source and a mortal threat in the elemental power of the storm. |
Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates, Dave Holland
After The Last Sky [ ECM / CD - released 28/Mar/2025 ] Eight years after Blue Maqams, Anouar Brahem returns with a poignant project, titled after a line of verse by poet Mahmoud Darwish, which asks "Where should the birds fly, after the last sky?" Graceful chamber pieces for oud, cello, piano and bass... |
Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates, Dave Holland
After The Last Sky (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 28/Mar/2025 ] Eight years after Blue Maqams, Anouar Brahem returns with a poignant project, titled after a line of verse by poet Mahmoud Darwish, which asks "Where should the birds fly, after the last sky?" Graceful chamber pieces for oud, cello, piano and bass... |
Branford Marsalis Quartet
Belonging (2LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 28/Mar/2025 ] Saxophonist Branford Marsalis, one of the foremost jazz artists of our time and a pacesetting creative force in the music for more than four decades, makes his Blue Note debut with Belonging, a full album reinterpretation of Keith Jarrett's 1974 ECM... |
The Charlie Watts Orchestra
Live Fulham Town Hall [ Bmg / CD - released 28/Mar/2025 ] Charlie Watts 'Live at Fulham Town Hall' captures a remarkable moment in the legendary drummer's life, showcasing his long-held dream of leading his own jazz orchestra. |
The James Taylor Quartet
In The Hand Of The Inevitable (30th Anniversary Edition) (Double LP) [ Acid Jazz / 2 LP - released 28/Mar/2025 ] The James Taylor Quarter were the original group on the Acid Jazz scene, and 'In The Hand Of The Inevitable' was their 1995 triumphant Top 40 return to the Acid Jazz label. Recorded over a year, produced by James Taylor and Acid Jazz Records... |
Joe Armon-Jones
All The Quiet (Part I) [ Aquarii Records / CD - released 28/Mar/2025 ] Keyboardist, producer and songwriter Joe Armon-Jones shares his most elevated solo project to date, All The Quiet. A galvanising statement of intent, traversing jazz, funk, dub, hip hop, and soul music, entirely written, produced, and mixed by... |
Joe Armon-Jones
All The Quiet (Part I) (Double LP) [ Aquarii Records / 2 LP - released 28/Mar/2025 ] Keyboardist, producer and songwriter Joe Armon-Jones shares his most elevated solo project to date, All The Quiet. A galvanising statement of intent, traversing jazz, funk, dub, hip hop, and soul music, entirely written, produced, and mixed by... |
Joe Armon-Jones
All The Quiet (Part I) (LTD Edition Transparent Orange Double LP) [ Aquarii Records / 2 LP - released 28/Mar/2025 ] Keyboardist, producer and songwriter Joe Armon-Jones shares his most elevated solo project to date, All The Quiet. A galvanising statement of intent, traversing jazz, funk, dub, hip hop, and soul music, entirely written, produced, and mixed by... |
Lonnie Liston Smith
Expansions (AAA 50th Anniversary Edition Gatefold LP) [ Flying Dutchman / Ace Records LP / LP - released 28/Mar/2025 ] "Look at it! There's a guy in a Muslim skull cap and glasses, singing about space and love - wicked! Blows your mind!" Norman Jay Lonnie Liston Smith's "Expansions" is one of the most influential records ever to have been released with its sound... |
Maya Delilah
The Long Way Round (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 28/Mar/2025 ] 24-year-old singer, songwriter and guitarist from North London, Maya Delilah presents The Long Way Round, her stunning full-length debut album out via Blue Note/Capitol. The London-based singer, songwriter, and guitarist has been named a 2025 Spotify... |
Horace Silver Quintet, Featuring Stanley Turrentine
Serenade To A Soul Sister Blue Note Classic Vinyl [ Blue Note / LP - released 21/Mar/2025 ] Horace Silver had been delivering hard bop classic after hard bop classic for more than a decade when he shifted gears and began moving into more groovy territory with 1966's The Jody Grind. When the pianist next went into Van Gelder Studio in 1968... |
Lou Donaldson
Say It Loud! Blue Note Classic Vinyl [ Blue Note / LP - released 21/Mar/2025 ] Lou Donaldson had been a Blue Note stalwart since his earliest recordings in 1952 and over the following 15 years produced numerous classic dates spanning bebop, hard bop, and soul jazz. But when the alto saxophonist hooked up with the funky drummer... |
Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith
Defiant Life [ ECM / CD - released 21/Mar/2025 ] Anchored in the idea that, despite all obstacles, the human experience casts a net of possibilities, Defiant Life - Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith second duo recording for ECM - proves a profound meditation on the human condition and both the... |
Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith
Defiant Life (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 21/Mar/2025 ] Anchored in the idea that, despite all obstacles, the human experience casts a net of possibilities, Defiant Life - Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith second duo recording for ECM - proves a profound meditation on the human condition and both the... |
WYNTON MARSALIS
Marsalis: Blues Symphony Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Jader Bignamini [ Pentatone / CD - released 14/Mar/2025 ] A TRIUMPHANT SYMPHONIC ODE TO THE POWER OF THE BLUES The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Jader Bignamini present Wynton Marsalis' Blues Symphony. |
Jakob Bro
Taking Turns [ ECM / CD - released 14/Mar/2025 ] Taking Turns, recorded in New York's Avatar Studio a decade ago, finds Danish guitarist Jakob Bro joined by a multi-generational cast of improvisers, highly distinctive players all. Lee Konitz, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran and Thomas... |
Nicolas Masson, Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret, Lionel Friedli
Renaissance [ ECM / CD - released 14/Mar/2025 ] Nicolas Masson's acquaintance with his fellow quartet travelers Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret and Lionel Friedli goes back roughly two decades - in this time the players have developed an intimate musical bond, expressed purely and beautifully on... |
Joe Henderson
Multiple (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 7/Mar/2025 ] The reissue of a heady cult favorite from Joe Henderson, 1973's Multiple. Returning to vinyl after more than 50 years, the album features a world-class ensemble of musicians-including Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Larry Willis, and James "Blood"... |
Paul Bley
Open, to Love (Luminessence Series) (LP) [ ECM Luminessence / LP - released 7/Mar/2025 ] After Chick Corea's Piano Improvisations, and Keith Jarrett's Facing You, Paul Bley's Open, To Love was the third fabulous chapter in ECM's quietly revolutionary solo piano manifesto, whose impact endures and continues to influence improvisers today.... |
Billy Hart, Ethan Iverson, Mark Turner, Ben Street
Just [ ECM / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] After twenty years of playing together, the Billy Hart Quartet - with Mark Turner, Ethan Iverson and Ben Street - is distinguished by its stylistic openness. "If ever there was an example of contemporary jazz that draws extensively on all the... |
Jon Balke
Skrifum [ ECM / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] From the very first note, Norway's Jon Balke proposes a new sonic dimension with Skrifum, continuing a line of inquiry begun with Warp (2016) and Discourses (2020), solo piano albums which also processed the acoustic environment in which the music... |
Mathias Eick, Kristjan Randalu, Ole Morten Vågan, Hans Hulbækmo
Lullaby [ ECM / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] For Lullaby, Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick draws on the quartet formation in a programme that includes some of his most exploratory and improvisatory qualities, with a cast of ECM familiars Kristjan Randalu and Ole Morten Vågan on piano and bass,... |
Mathias Eick, Kristjan Randalu, Ole Morten Vågan, Hans Hulbækmo
Lullaby (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 14/Feb/2025 ] For Lullaby, Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick draws on the quartet formation in a programme that includes some of his most exploratory and improvisatory qualities, with a cast of ECM familiars Kristjan Randalu and Ole Morten Vågan on piano and bass,... |
