release date: 12.07.2024 on Art And Society, Ltd
” Latest outcome from talented Israeli guitarist spins a lot of your talented musicians, some of them already on the raise, bringing together all their talents to make that great recording a success. Striking from the cover to the last note WHO AM I shows mature concept waved around the solid jazzy groove and gently spiced with the modern spiritual & smoothy vocal . Give it a go and let’s see if the vibe is for you” – Greg Drygala, Jazzpress.
Pianist/composer Satoko Fujii and trumpeter/composer Natsuki Tamura release their ninth duo album Aloft on July 12, 2024 via Libra Records. After nearly 30 years of working together, the wife/husband duo showcases an ever-deepening ability to create and explore new sounds that borders on telepathic.
“It seems—in the studio or on the stage—that Fujii and Tamura think as one.” – Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
“a thrilling ride for the listener” – Steve Feeney, Portland Press Herald
release date: 12.07.2024 on Mindtonic Music.
Guitarist/Composer Jay Sanders to release his debut recording “Evanescent“ via Mindtonic Music label. Out on July the 12. 2024.
Giant Step Arts continues Modern Masters and New Horizons series with new live album by drummer Nasheet Waits. His quartet featuring Mark Turner, Rashaan Carter and Steve Nelson. Due out June 28, 2024, New York Love Letter (Bitter Sweet), live recordings made during the pandemic, is a deeply personal statement from the lifelong New Yorker.
“First-call among his generation for multiple bandleaders, famous or obscure, who want a drummer to render a 360-degree range of styles with authoritative execution, high musicality, imaginative intention and inflamed-soul spirit.” – Ted Panken, Jazziz
Giant Step Arts continues Modern Masters and New Horizons series with new live album by Tarbaby
Due out June 28, 2024, You Think This America is the first solely trio album from the long-standing cooperative of pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Nasheet Waits.
“Clarity of vision, creative earnestness and eye toward the basics sets the music made by Tarbaby apart.” – The New York City Jazz Record
Release date: 28.06.2024 on Shifting Paradigm Records
In poignant reflection, trumpeter/composer Zachary Finnegan unveils his debut masterpiece, “Guidance and Gratitude,” the culmination of a nine-year odyssey. Enriched by his upbringing, life’s teachings, and personal tribulations, Finnegan’s debut album, which germinated in 2015, blossoms as a testament to resilience and growth.
“Zachary Finnegan is the new standard for the 21st century musician. Not only is he a master of his instrument, but is a visionary composer and arranger, steward to his community, and fervent entrepreneur.” – John Porter, B’town Jazz Organization
“When you hear Zach Finnegan, you will love his sound, feel and presence. When you meet Zach Finnegan, you will be charmed by his gracious, honest, and warm demeanor combined with a contagious smile and a generous joy for life.” – Drummer Matt Wilson
Release Date: June 21st, 2024
The Kombos Collective to release new recording titled “UPROOT”. An incredibly powerful program of Greek songs from Asia Minor celebrating this vibrant musical heritage and capturing the refugee experience through song.
CATHARINE CARY – AIR CAKE and other summery occupations
Out: June 21st, 2024, from Orchard of Pomegranates (DL)
Genres: improvised music, spoken word, children’s
As Catharine Cary herself aptly puts it “AIR CAKE is an invitation to see the world upside down.” Indeed this recording — Cary’s first—makes what seems like an absurd proposition. On it, she takes her original children’s stories, themselves the whimsical product of spontaneity, and combines them with improvised music. As she brings these peculiar tales to life, in her characteristic animated delivery, the words bounce and flutter beside and between the contributions of her two musical compatriots Eric Lewis (Cornet, Bass Clarinet and Toys) and Ivan Bamford (Drums and Toys). It all comes together seamlessly.
Multi-Grammy Award-winning producer Ryan Truesdell has spent the last three years scrupulously curating a new project that is finally ready to be shared with the world. SYNTHESIS: THE STRING QUARTET SESSIONS is an epic, 3-CD collection pairing 15 of today’s leading large ensemble jazz composers with the timeless in June 21, 2024. The album, to be released via ArtistShare® on
release date: 21.06.2024 on Ropedope
From the back of times, artists, researchers, scholars, philosophers, but also just the common indigenous people, were the first one to ring the alarm bell when the life on Earth needed it. The first and the last ones, due to their deeper sensitivity, leaving their lives close to the nature and having deeper, organic understanding of the mechanisms ruling the nature. Remaining ones, due to their advanced study of the life and behaviour as well as economic processes and understanding the collision courses laying between the human greed and the well being of the planet. Those constantly ignored by the corruption governments and fueling them corpo creeps, basic rules of life, are finally starting to surface with upcoming generations’ healthy fear about the future. Something that brings the hope that maybe, just maybe, we won’t die out like a dinos. Which were better creatures by default, as they didn’t kill themselves neither exploited their homeland or blow it out. This is exactly what this music is about.
