[ May 26th, 2023 release via Truth Revolution Recording Collective: Brian McCarthy’s AFTER LIFE ]
Saxophonist/composer Brian McCarthy explores the origins of the solar system on the breathtaking second album by his acclaimed Nonet. AFTER|LIFE, due out May 26, 2023 via Truth Revolution Recording Collective, reconvenes the band from McCarthy’s lauded The Better Angels of Our Nature for a cosmically ambitious follow-up
“McCarthy imbues his original compositions with a scholar’s perspicacity and a melodist’s ear.” – Brian Zimmerman, DownBeat
[ May 19th, 2023 release via Orbis Music: Bruno Råberg – Look Inside out ]
Bassist Bruno Råberg melds a lifetime of inspiration and experience into his stunning debut solo bass album
Look Inside, due out May 19, 2023 via Orbis Music, culls influences from throughout Råberg’s notable career, including jazz standards, free improvisation and world music influences
“Råberg is a bass virtuoso, a sophisticated composer, a seasoned veteran of jazz and other musics, and a respected teacher [with] an enormous sound.” – Steve Elman, The Arts Fuse
“[Råberg is] an agile bassist and strong soloist, with a great sound, whether walking or arco.” – Dave Jones, Jazz Journal
Album release concert May 14, 2023 at Lilypad Cambridge, MA
[ May 12th, 2023 release via Tapestry Records: Felipe Salles Interconnection Ensemble – Home Is Here ]
Home Is Here, due out May 12, 2023 via Tapestry Records, features vibrant compositions inspired by and featuring Melissa Aldana, Paquito D’Rivera, Magos Herrera, Chico Pinheiro, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Sofia Rei, Yosvany Terry and Nadje Noordhuis.
“Felipe Salles has truly blended the best of several worlds in his music.” – Frank Bongiorno, The Saxophone Journal
“The nineteen-piece Interconnections Ensemble… has no trouble navigating [Salles’] often intricate scores, whose essence ranges from Baroque to modern classical motifs, and from jazz to Brazilian folk music.” – Jack Bowers, All About Jazz
[ May the 5th, 2023 release via Pyroclastic Records: Mark Dresser – Tines of Change ]
Tines of Change, due out May 5, 2023 via Pyroclastic Records, features custom-designed 4- and 5-string basses with fingerboard-embedded pickups and a set of metal tines that offer stunning new possibilities that Dresser vividly explores
“[Mark Dresser is] a bassist who is one of the great instrumental forces in recent American jazz outside the mainstream.” – Ben Ratliff, The New York Times
” Dresser uses the bow like Picasso used the brush: to refract and recast certain realities and to create completely new ones.” – Robert Bush, San Diego Reader
[ April the 28th, 2023 release via Crammed Discs: ENSEMBLE 0 – Jojoni, Made To Measure Vol 49 ]
An excellent debut Album JoJoNi, by the ENSEMBLE O, the French Trio , which had been around for over a decade now, hits the world on April, the 28th via famous Belgian Crammed Discs Label. The stables which are famous and well recognised for bringing to the World and promoting the best of what had happened in an Avant Garde music since middle of the 80ies. If you asked usual guy what he knows that the Belgium is famous for the ultimate answer would be: The Belgian Waffles & The Crammed Discs Made 2 Measure recordings. Period 😉
[ April the 28th, 2023 release via Trouble in the East Records: Taiko Saito – Tears of a Cloud ]
[ April the 22th, 2023 release on Jaz Detective: Chet Baker – Blue Room – The 1979 VARA Studio Sessions in Holland ]
Collection Produced in Partnership with Elemental Music and Dutch Jazz Archive KRO-NCRV, Also Available on CD and Digital Download April 28,
Presents Two Superlative Sessions Recorded for Dutch Radio in 1979, Drawn from Tapes Unheard Since Their First Airing
Extensive, Newly Commissioned Notes Include an Overview by Journalist and Chet Baker Biographer Jeroen de Valk, Interviews with the Dates’ Producers and Sidemen, and Tributes from Trumpeters Randy Brecker and Enrico Rava
[ New England Conservatory Announces 2023 Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipients for its 152nd Commencement Ceremony ]
152nd Annual Commencement Exercises to be held on May 21, 2023 in historic Jordan Hall
Commencement Concert Will Showcase Graduating NEC Class of 2023 on May 20
[ April the 14th, 2023 release on Rune Grammofon: Fire! Orchestra – Echoes ]
release date: 14.04.2023 on Rune Grammofon
Now in its 14th year, the unique and constantly evolving Fire! Orchestra is back with their largest line-up so far, counting an international cast of no less than 43 members that includes mainstay singer Mariam Wallentin as well as newcomers David Sandström and Joe McPhee, both on vocals, McPhee also on tenor sax.