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07 Jan

[ January the 13th, 2023 release via Freedom Road Records: John Bailey, George Cables, Scott Colley & Victor Lewis – Time Bandits ]

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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

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02 Jan

[ January the 6th, 2023 release on Palmetto Records: Fred Hersch& esperanza spalding – Alive at the Village Vanguard ]

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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

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07 Dec

[December the 17th, 2022 release on Irida Music Records : Billy Prim – Ivora]

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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’.

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03 Dec

[ December the 2nd,2022 release on Bandcamp: Natsuki Tamura & Ittetsu Takemura – Lighting ]

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Lightning, trumpeter-composer Natsuki Tamura’s duet with drummer Ittetsu Takemura – a digital only release – is available today, December 2, 2022 via Bandcamp.

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

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02 Dec

[ December the 2nd,2022 release on Pyroclastic Records: Cory Smythe’s ‘Smoke Gets In Your Eyes ]

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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

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18 Nov

[ November the 25th, 2022 release via Thanatosis Produktion: Susana Santos Silva – All The Birds And A Telephone Ringing ]

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Susana Santo Silva releases All The Birds And A Telephone Ringing on LP / CD / DL via Thanatosis Produktion on the 25th November 2022.

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..

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13 Nov

[ November the 18th, 2022 release on Pyroclastic Records: Patricia Brennan – More Touch ]

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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

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07 Nov

[ November the 11th, 2022 release via Sunnyside Records: Jason Yeager – Unstuck in Time, The Kurt Vonnegut Suite ]

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Due out via Sunnyside Records on the author’s 100th birthday, November 11, 2022, Unstuck in Time: The Kurt Vonnegut Suite features Yeager’s gifted septet along with guest soloist Miguel Zenón

 “ [Jason] always impressed me with his talent, his curiosity and his desire to create his own music while really investigating the jazz piano tradition.” – Fred Hersch, pianist/composer, Doris Duke fellow

“This music is marvelous and I believe would have been right up my father’s alley.” – Edith Vonnegut, artist

Album Release Concerts Oct. 28 Framingham, MA; Oct. 29 Portland, ME; Nov. 10 South Bend, IN; Nov. 11 Indianapolis, IN; Nov. 12 Jasper, IN; December 9 Brooklyn, NY and more

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