Jazz New Releases
Jazz New Releases
Below is a list of all Jazz titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 1 to 20 of 44
Joe Armon-Jones
Ceasefire [ Aquarii Records / 12in - released 9/Aug/2024 ] Joe Armon-Jones returns with Ceasefire, the second in a series of dub releases on his own Aquarii label, following the release of 'Wrong Side of Town' featuring Hak Baker earlier this year. This time Joe teams up with legendary reggae deejay... |
Gary Bartz
Celestial Blues / Gentle Smiles (7") [ BGP / Ace Records / 7in - released 28/Jun/2024 ] Gary Bartz is one of the greatest living saxophonists, with a career that has seen him play with McCoy Tyner, Art Blakey and Miles Davis. From 1969 he lead his own band and his 70s Milestone and Prestige albums contain many great tunes. We have... |
Alice Zawadzki Fred Thomas Misha Mullov-Abbado
Za Gorami [ Ecm / CD - released 20/Sep/2024 ] Vocalist and violinist Alice Zawadzki, pianist Fred Thomas (who also plays the vielle and drums here) and bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado present a rare alchemy on their trio debut, fusing folk idioms from a multitude of sources with free flowing... |
Barry Guy / Jordina Millà
Live in Munich [ ECM / CD - released 5/Jul/2024 ] This concert recording from Munich's Schwere Reiter performance space features improvisation with an expanded palette of possibilities. "To work with these colours is a great challenge and joy!" says bassist Barry Guy of the glowing and ever-changing... |
Charlie Parker
Ornithology: The Best Of Bird [ Concord / CD - released 23/Aug/2024 ] "Ornithology: The Best of Bird" is a new collection bringing together 11 cuts from legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. Designed as an introduction to this influential artist, it covers Bird's prime Savoy Records years between 1945 and 1953,... |
SCHUMANN / REIMANN, BYRD / PIERINI, PURCELL
Im wachen Traume Delian Quartett [ ECM New Series / CD - released 21/Jun/2024 ] On their second ECM duo album Romanian pianist Lucian Ban and US violist Mat Maneri find fresh inspiration as they follow the trail of Béla Bartók, revisiting the folk music that spurred the imagination of the great Hungarian composer who, in the... |
Giovanni Guidi, James Brandon Lewis, Thomas Morgan, Joao Lobo
A New Day [ ECM / CD - released 12/Jul/2024 ] Rekindling the familiarly flowing interplay with fellow travellers Thomas Morgan and João Lobo - the trio's musical partnership goes back over a decade at this point -, on A New Day Italian pianist Giovanni Guidi moreover expands the group's... |
Hiatus Kaiyote
Love Heart Cheat Code [ Brainfeeder / CD - released 28/Jun/2024 ] Love Heart Cheat Code is a snapshot of four musicians dancing together on the edge, 11 playful, exuberant tracks that shine light. Yet, for a band that made a name for itself with its complexity and received critical praise and multiple Grammy... |
Jaubi
A Sound Heart [ Riaz Records / CD - released 6/Sep/2024 ] For Pakistan's JAUBI, "A Sound Heart" is the next chapter for the collective both sonically and spiritually, which follows on from their critically acclaimed debut album "Nafs At Peace" (Top 10 Global albums in The Guardian, Best of 2021 albums in... |
Louis Armstrong
Wonderful World: The Best Of Louis Armstrong [ Verve US / CD - released 13/Sep/2024 ] Louis Armstrong made a greater impact on American popular music than any other single artist before or since. Celebrating Louis' influence on popular music, Verve Records proudly presents an all-new collection featuring Louis Armstrong's biggest hits... |
Lucian Ban, Mat Maneri
Transylvanian Dance [ ECM / CD - released 30/Aug/2024 ] On their second ECM duo album Romanian pianist Lucian Ban and US violist Mat Maneri find fresh inspiration as they follow the trail of Béla Bartók, revisiting the folk music that spurred the imagination of the great Hungarian composer who, in the... |
Meshell Ndegeocello
No More Water: The Gospel Of James Baldwin [ Blue Note (USA) / CD - released 9/Aug/2024 ] Meshell Ndegeocello's 2nd Blue Note album No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin pays homage to the eminent writer and activist James Baldwin. Ndegeocello's transformative music and collaborative spirit ignites this genre-bending work that is at... |
Nala Sinephro
Endlessness [ Warp / CD - released 6/Sep/2024 ] Endlessness is a deep dive into the cycle of existence. The 45-minute album delicately spans 10 tracks with a continuous arpeggio playing throughout, creating an expansive, mesmerising celebration of life cycles and rebirth. Following Sinephro's... |
Norma Winstone, Kit Downes
Outpost Of Dreams [ ECM / CD - released 5/Jul/2024 ] Outpost of Dreams introduces a new duo. Norma Winstone, as always quietly innovative as jazz singer and lyricist, brings her vocal subtlety and poetic sensibility to new pieces by Kit Downes, and to compositions by Carla Bley, Ralph Towner, and John... |
Nubya Garcia
Odyssey [ Concord / CD - released 20/Sep/2024 ] The multi-award-winning tenor saxophonist, bandleader and composer Nubya Garcia's new album, Odyssey, follws her critically acclaimed debut album, SOURCE. It is a majestic feat that blends orchestral arrangements with R&B, jazz and dub. Produced... |
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
September Night [ ECM / CD - released 21/Jun/2024 ] Recorded at Munich's Muffathalle twenty years ago, in September 2004, this previously-unreleased concert recording of the Tomasz Stanko Quartet is a fascinating document, capturing a developmental chapter in the music between the song forms of the... |
Various Artists
Blue Spirits: 85 Years Of Blue Note Records [ Universal (Japan) / 2 CD - released 30/Aug/2024 ] 85 years ago on January 6, 1939, a German-Jewish immigrant and passionate Jazz fan named Alfred Lion produced his first recording session in New York City founding what would go on to become the most iconic and longest-running Jazz label in the... |
Albert Ayler
In Greenwich Village (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 6/Sep/2024 ] In the mid-'60s, Albert Ayler found himself at the center of major transformations within jazz. On his albums for ESP-Disk', his delivery was radically aggressive and his tone blistering-aiming for something beyond the New Thing. His music would be... |
Alice Coltrane
Eternity (LP) [ Antarctica Starts Here / LP - released 27/Sep/2024 ] Released in 1976, Eternity was Alice Coltrane's first album for Warner Bros. after eight wondrous records on Impulse! Combining the drones and textures of India, the gospel and R&B of her Detroit youth and the dissonance of modern classical... |
Alice Coltrane
A Monastic Trio Vinyl [ Verve Us / LP - released 21/Jun/2024 ] A Monastic Trio, created in the year following her husband's passing, is Alice Coltrane's first recording as a band leader and features six original compositions. |
