Through the Lens, due out January 20, 2023 via Consolidated Artists Productions (CAP), explores memory, grief, discovery and growth through stunning solo piano improvisations
“[Evans] makes you listen carefully to discover the complexities that he configures beneath his music’s attractive but subdued surface.” – Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes
“A highly personal statement… tranquil and restrained, introspective, full of love.” – Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz, on Invisible Words
Time Bandits, due out January 13, 2023 via Freedom Road Records, features a brilliant all-star quartet with pianist George Cables, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Victor Lewis
“[John Bailey is a] horn player that sounds like he took the brass torch from Dizzy Gillespie… as crisp and sharp as a Dolce & Gabbana suit.”
– George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly
“When describing John Bailey as a trumpeter, musician, and composer, it is easy to run out of superlatives… a mature musician at the height of his game and waiting to be transcribed by the next generation.” – Michael Hackett, ITG Journal
Album release concerts March 24 & 25 at Smalls, NYC
release date: 06.01.2023 on Palmetto Records
Pianist/composer Fred Hersch and vocalist/bassist/songwriter esperanza spalding (stylized in all lower case) celebrate their captivating new album Alive at the Village Vanguard (available January 6, 2023, Palmetto Records) with a 20-date national tour Sunday, January 8 through Sunday, February 5. Due out January 6, 2023 via Palmetto Records, Alive at the Village Vanguard
release date: 17.12.2022
IVORA is the second album of Greek drummer and composer Billy Prim. The eight-track album is a reflection and exploration of the inner world in all it is. It is a storytelling album based on a person who begins a voyage of self awareness in the ocean of his consciousness without any destination. The album takes the listener on a journey of self discover, continence and devotion to ultimately reach a place of your truthful inner self in the final song ‘The Breath of All Things’.
Lightning, trumpeter-composer
It’s an adrenaline rush of joyful sound. They dive headlong into the music, taking the listener along on a wild journey of exploration. The sounds and ideas come fast and furious as the two challenge one another and push things as far as they can go.
“a fresh approach to improvised music… Adventuresome and rewarding.” — Stuart Kremsky, IAJRC Journal
“…a remarkable trumpeter, individual, lyrical and dramatic.” ― Ray Comiskey, The Irish Times
release date: 02.12.2022 via Pyroclastic Records
Grammy winning pianist and composerCory Smythe explores the climate crisis through an abstracted American songbook classic on his new album Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,
The album features vocalist Sofia Jernberg, violinist Joshua Modney, cellist Tomeka Reid, trumpeter Peter Evans, trombonist Zekkereya El-magharbel, saxophonists Ryan Muncy, Ingrid Laubrock, and David Leon, drummer/percussionist Jessie Cox, bassist Stephan Crump, and Smythe on piano.
“The sonic language that Cory Smythe has brought to his own recordings as leader, and to his work as a collaborator and sideman, blurs any lines… Expansive sound, cutting-edge vision.” – Brad Cohan, JazzTimes
“For over a decade, Mr. Smythe has been one of the busiest players on the new-music and avant-jazz scenes… But even when the music is the headiest modernism, his performances retain a sense of playfulness.” – Seth Colter Walls, The New York Times
Woodwindist/Composer Josh Sinton Embarks on 10-City Tour
December 1-18 in New York, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois
The tour caps a productive and busy 2022 that saw the release of three critically acclaimed Sinton albums
On her new solo album ”All The Birds And A Telephone Ringing”, the Portugese, Sweden-based trumpeter Susana Santos Silva demonstrates her great breadth as a musician and composer. The overarching theme is human–nature relations, and it’s explored sonically in a variety of ways by means of mixing field recordings, studio manipulated sounds, and improvisations on trumpet and Irish flute in different acoustic spaces..
More Touch, the powerful new album by visionary vibraphonist, marimbist and composer Patricia Brennan will be out November 18 via Pyroclastic Records. Joining Brennan are her wholly unique quartet with bassist Kim Cass, drummer Marcus Gilmore and percussionist Mauricio Herrera.
“Moving way outside the standard language of jazz vibraphone, Patricia Brennan has created something like a landscape of vapor, full of wandering melodies lost in the fog.” – Giovanni Russonello, citing Maquishti among the New York Times Best Jazz Albums of 2021
“You could say that Brennan drags the vibraphone into the 21st century, but her record suggests that mallet based percussion was always ripe for exploration.”
– Daniel Felsenthal, Pitchfork
Hedvig Mollestad & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra will release Maternity Beat on November 18th via Rune Grammofon and today shares the propulsive “All Flights Cancelled” to announce the release.
