Below is a list of all Jazz titles released in the last 120 days.
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... |
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... |
James Brandon Lewis Trio
Apple Cores [ Anti- / CD - released 7/Feb/2025 ] Apple Cores is the latest full-length album from New York tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, "one of the fiercest sounds in jazz today" (The Guardian) with a "penchant for unbound exploration" (Pitchfork) Informed by the rhythms and textures... |
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... |
Finn Rees
Dawn Is A Melody (Orange Vinyl LP) [ Mr Bongo / 2 LP - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Limited Orange Coloured Vinyl. Mr Bongo proudly presents the debut album from Tasmania-born, Melbourne-based, Finn Rees. Gliding across a swirling palette of saturated hues, Dawn Is A Melody feels vintage yet vibrant, new but familiar at the same... |
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... |
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... |
Rainer Brüninghaus, Kenny Wheeler, Jon Christensen, Brynjar Hoff
Freigeweht (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 7/Feb/2025 ] Released in 1981, the debut of the legendary keyboardist from Eberhard Weber's Colours band and later the Jan Garbarek Group, Freigeweht presented Rainer Brüninghaus as a highly original and idiosyncratic sound sculptor in his own right, accompanied... |
Freddie Hubbard
Here To Stay (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 17/Jan/2025 ] Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard burst out of the gates with a torrent of creativity beginning with his debut album Open Sesame in 1960, and over the next two years turned out six classic albums including Ready for Freddie, Hub-Tones, and Here to Stay,... |
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... |
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... |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Like Someone In Love (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 17/Jan/2025 ] One of the greatest line-ups of drummer Art Blakey's hard bop finishing school The Jazz Messengers locked into place in 1960 when tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorterjoined trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt for the... |
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. |
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... |
Pharoah Sanders
Love In Us All (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 10/Jan/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... |
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,... |