release date: 17.06.2022 on Strut Records
…this intriguing encounter with multi-reed virtuoso Benny Maupin is one to the most fitting tributes that [Adam Rudolph] could pay Lateef, a timeless musical ‘universalist’.
★ ★ ★ ★ EDITORS CHOICE Jazzwise
Strut announce a memorable collaboration between two true jazz greats: Bennie Maupin and Adam Rudolph‘s ‘Symphonic Tone Poem For Brother Yusef’ is released June 17 on CD, LP and limited edition cassette.
release date: 19.11.2021
As part of the conclusion of its celebration of the 80th Anniversary of Wadada Leo Smith, TUM Records brings out the most extensive release of Smith’s recorded output to date, String Quartets Nos. 1-12. It is a seven-CD boxed set recorded by RedKoral Quartet and special guests comprising the first 12 of Smith’s string quartets and The Emerald Duets is a five-CD boxed set that includes Smith’s collaborations with four leading drummers of our time, Pheeroan akLaff, Andrew Cyrille, Han Bennink and Jack DeJohnette
release date: 17.06.2022 on Attaboygirl Records
“Never content to follow one musical shape, as if following the hard winds of wanted or unwanted change, Grdina’s unerring investigative prolificacy hits on a new geometry each time out.” – Mike Jurkovic, All About Jazz
Pathways (Attaboygirl Records) is the second release by Grdina, legendary pianist Matthew Shipp, and bass innovator Mark Helias. Since their 2019 initial meeting on Skin and Bones, these three extraordinary artists continue their musical evolution with a tightly coiled, laser focused recording full of abundant ideas packed into concentrated, intense bursts of creative energy.
“[Grdina is] an accomplished free improviser and player with strong instincts for motivic improvising in the post-bop tradition… he crosses the borders of harmonic and rhythmic daring without much fuss.” – Will Layman, PopMatters
Vancouver-based guitarist, composer, and oud master Gordon Grdina is on a roll. After releasing two acclaimed albums in February, he returns on June 17, 2022 with two adventurous new trio albums, with the first featuring masters of improvisation Matt Mitchell on piano and Jim Black on drums,
release date: 17.06.2022 via Tapestry Records
“Felipe Salles blends the visceral and the cerebral… infusing classical modernist strains with the buoyant rhythms of his Brazilian homeland.”
– Carlo Wolff, JazzTimes
“ [Salles has] gravitas as an authentic, original voice… an artist who presents the full gamut of musical possibility.” – Jay Deshpande, All About Jazz
Tiyo’s Songs of Life, out June 17 via Tapestry Records, features pianist Zaccai Curtis, bassist Avery Sharpe and drummer Jonathan Barber, premiering compositions written while Salah-El served a life sentence without possibility of parole.
release date: 17.06.2022 on Palmetto Records
“… vivid and moving…The sweep of this music, its complex harmonic colors, its authentic drama, make you think of Gil Evans and Maria Schneider.” – Thomas Conrad, New York City Jazz Record
“A spectacular player…Red List has integrity in its compositional structure, its high-level personnel, its accessibility to groove merchants as well as those who revel in solo bonfires. It is inspired by (and helps fund) a worthy cause. And did we mention the siren call of that low woodwinds buzz?” – Britt Robson, JazzTimes
“His bari flutters with utmost grace, his bass clarinet sobs for humanity and his alto flute floats cloud-like through moody skies.” — Ed Enright, DownBeat
release date: 707.06.2022 on 1K Recordings
“The In Between dives into the same improvisatory bandwidth as Red-era King Crimson. Tough, fearless, and utterly driven, it turbo charges an outstanding set of spontaneous explorations with an expressive metal-etched velocity that marks a new and exciting point of departure for the Philadelphia-based power trio.” Sid Smith, Prog Magazine (UK)
release date: 10.06.2022
“Yao’s compositions hold the kind of steady, swinging cadence of classic Blue Note bop, but with a definite post-bop edge in their spikey harmonies.” – Jackson Sinnenberg, DownBeat
“[Yao’s] music swings, lopes and races forward. All five of the bandmembers share command of their instruments and a likeminded sense of joy that makes the album feel like an amusement park ride: energetic, exciting, yet safe.” – Franz A. Matzner, All About Jazz
Trombonist/composer John Yao and his audacious three-horn quintet Triceratops release their bold, inventive second album Off-Kilter on June 10, 2022 via See Tao Recordings.The album features Yao with saxophonists Billy Drewes and Jon Irabagon, along with bassist Robert Sabin and drummer Mark Ferber. They celebrate the album on Sunday, June 12 at Culture Lab LIC, 5-25 46th Avenue, Long Island City, NY.
release date: 03.06.2022 on Rune Grammofon
Fast & Furious FIRE! Trio releases their latest Requiēs EP , with Stephen O’Malley & David Sandtröm, the first thing from the last year’s Defeat. Swedish Trio led by multi reed player Mats Gustafsson and completed by Johan Berthling on electric bass and Andreas Werliin on drums needs no further introduction to the fans of unpredictable, ferocious Scandinavian jazz. The limited to 1000 copies vinyl pressing had been sold out in just few days and became unavailable since three months to the official launch time. Impressive, huh ?
release date: 03.06.2022 on Astral Spirits Records
The debut LP from RedGreenBlue posits a mesmeric, minimalist extension of Chicago’s groove-based improvised music tradition. Over the course of two introverted, side-long pieces, the band patiently crafts hypnotic—yet still dynamic—sonic spaces using languid pulsations, careful shifts in colour, and occasional bursts of virtuosic urgency. It’s music that hovers between worlds,
