23 Mar

[ 31 March, 2023 release via Pyroclastic Rec: Ingrid Laubrock w.Tomeka Reid, Brandon Seabrook, Mazz Swift, Michael Formanek, Tom Rainey – The Last Quiet Place ]

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release date: 31.03.2023 via Pyroclastic Records

Saxophonist/composer Ingrid Laubrock fuses experimental jazz ensemble, avant-rock group, and altered string quartet in one electrifying sextet on her striking new album.

“Laubrock possesses one of the most fetchingly original free-improv styles out there–throaty, gutsy, bravely lyrical–but recently, her composing and arranging have proven as engaging as her soloing.” – Paul de Barros, DownBeat

“As a bandleader, the wildly inventive soprano and tenor saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock shepherds… category-defying projects with a bent toward unconventional instrumentation and disparate style-shifting.” – Brad Cohan, JazzTimes

19 Mar

[ 24 March, 2023 release on Soul Song Records: Yosef-Gutman Levitt & Tal Yahalom – Tsuf Harim ]

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release date: 24.03.02023 on Soul Song Records

Bassist Yosef-Gutman Levitt is proud to announce the release of Tsuf Harim, his second duo release with the Israeli-born, New York-based guitarist Tal Yahalom. In 2021 Levitt and Yahalom came together for Tal Yasis, an intimate duo album for upright bass and nylon and steel-string guitars that conveyed the universality of Hasidic Jewish melodies in the hands of a player with Levitt’s globe-spanning experience:

16 Mar

[ March the 17th,2023 release via Circum/Libra: Satoko Fujii’s Kaze and Ikue Mori – Crustal Movement ]

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The pioneering musician Ikue Mori on laptop electronics joins Kaze – the cooperative quartet featuring Japanese composer-pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura plus French trumpeter Christian Pruvost and drummer– for their innovative new album Crustal Movement, out March 17, 2023 via Circum/Libra. Album is a visceral, richly textured hybrid of pre-recorded music files exchanged during pandemic and live performance

“[Their music is] a well-judged amalgam of adventurous and empathetic ensemble playing, and striking individual flights,”—John Sharpe, All About Jazz

“So intriguing that you’ll listen to it as music, not noise, and you’ll start to think about the relationship between music and sound and then . . . you’ll be hooked–just as I am.”—Marc Phillips, The Vinyl Anachronist

11 Mar

[ March the 17th,2023 release on Tapestry Records: Dave Askren,Jeff Benedict & Ted Piltzecker – Denver Sessions ]

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Due out March 17, 2023 via Tapestry Records, Denver Sessions features a thrilling sax-guitar-vibes frontline with vibist Ted Piltzecker along with bassist Patrick McDevitt and drummer Paul Romaine

“The vast scope of moods that Askren and Benedict are able to capture is astounding.” – Betsy Bell, Jazz Journal

“Askren and Benedict offer the listener a unique experience of groove-based compositions… that will excite and engage the listening experience, even for the most discerning jazz aficionado.” – Geannine Reid, All About Jazz

07 Mar

[ March the 10th,2023 release via B. Inspelningar: Elsa Bergman – Playon Crayon ]

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release date: 10.03.2023 on B. Inspelningar lebel

In 2018 Elsa Bergman encountered graphic scores in some of the many projects on the potent Stockholm creative music community she’s involved in. As the year evolved she interpreted such works as a member of Per-Åke Holmlander’s Carliot—It’s Never Too Late Orchestra, in performance with the Anthony Braxton Tri-Centric Orchestra, and at a special concert with Mats Gustafsson’s Fire! Orchestra Actions for Free Jazz in Krakow, Poland—where they tackled graphic scores by Krzysztof Penderecki and Bogusław Schaeffer. Indeed, over time

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05 Mar

[ March the 10th,2023 release on Jazzland: Harald Lassen – Balans ]

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release date: 10.03.2023 on Jazzland Records

Balans, Harald Lassen‘s fourth album, is a fascinating self-portrait of an improviser who finds freedom in a good song, a songwriter who invites listeners and fellow musicians to explore what he has created, and an artist who understands that the only valid taste is the personal.

03 Mar

[ March the 3rd,2023 release on Bandcamp:Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double – March On ]

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March On – a download-only EP available March 3, 2023 via Bandcamp – centers on a riveting 32-minute piece of free improvisation and includes several short duo improvisations excerpted from alternate takes of the compositions from March.

“The near telepathic cohesion of a playoff team.” – Martin Johnson, The Wall Street Journal
“Six of the strongest voices in contemporary music.” – Matt Micucci, Jazziz
“The double instrumentation… provides opportunities for Fujiwara to indulge some compositional potentialities. What if you have a drummer play a song-length solo over the top of a ballad? What if you overlaid two spot-on imitations of The Magic Band waxing skeletally Beefhearty? Keep those questions coming.” – Bill Meyer, The Wire

Drummer/composer Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double – drummers Fujiwara and Gerald Cleaver, guitarists Mary Halvorson and Brandon Seabrook, trumpeter Ralph Alessi and cornet player Taylor Ho Bynum – returns with March On an epic improvisation culled from sessions for their acclaimed album March, which JazzTimes called “brilliantly mad, joyously improvisational, [and] cathartically cleansing.” While Triple Double comprises six revered improvisers, the focus of March was squarely on Fujiwara’s compositions.

02 Mar

[ March the 3rd,2023 release via Anzic Records: Sara Caswell’s The Way To You ]

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The brilliant Grammy-nominated violinist/composer Sara Caswell releases The Way To You, her first album as a leader in nearly 20 years, March 3, 2023 via Anzic Records. The band celebrates with a NYC album release concert March 5 at Birdland Theater.

“Sara Caswell is an anointed musician. From the first splash of tone pouring out of her violin, we are invited into a visceral sensation of deep-spirited passion, harnessed and polished through artistic devotion. As always, Sara’s playing soothes my spirit, and inspires my mind. I am very grateful for her most recent offering, and excited on behalf of the many listeners who will receive the sonic blessings contained therein.” – esperanza spalding

01 Mar

[ March the 3rd,2023 release via Crammed Discs: Aksak Maboul – Une aventure de VV, Made To Measure Vol 48 ]

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release date: 03.03.2023 on Crammed Discs, Made to Measure Vol.48

In the wake of their acclaimed comeback album Figures (2020), Aksak Maboul took a playful sideways step to create this total work, a 63-minute, conti- nuous suite of fifteen pieces, which could be described as an experimental audio play.The thread running through Une aventure de VV (Songspiel) is Véronique Vincent’s text, an enigmatic philosophical-poetical tale unfolding through monologues and dialogues, spoken and sung by a series of characters. The music was written & arranged by Marc Hollander and features his characteristic genre-hopping tendencies: strands of electronica, pop, jazz, collage, techno, ambient, improv, krautrock, contemporary classical & systems music are merrily woven together, in the inimitable Aksak Maboul style.

27 Feb

[ Iconic composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters ]

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Iconic composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith is one of nineteen new members and four honorary members who will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters during its annual Ceremonial on May 24, 2023. During the ceremony, the Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov, who is being inducted into Foreign Honorary membership, will deliver the keynote address.

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