Dedication, due out November 11, 2022 via Cygnus Recordings, features Weiss’s longtime trio with pianist Jacob Sacks and bassist Thomas Morgan
Dedication, due out November 11, 2022 via Cygnus Recordings, features Weiss’s longtime trio with pianist Jacob Sacks and bassist Thomas Morgan
German saxophonist/composer Gebhard Ullmann celebrates his 65th birthday with three diverse, inventive new releases
On November 4, 2022, NotTwo Records will release For New Zealand by Ullmann’s transatlantic quartet The Chicago Plan
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Leo Records will release Transformations and Further Passages, the sixth outing by The Clarinet Trio
February 6, 2023 will see the third outing by the experimental electro-acoustic band Das Kondensat, Andere Planeten, via WhyPlayJazz
“Few improvising artists can boast the stream of creative ideas that seem to bubble from Gebhard Ullmann… [He] leaves the strong mark of a disciplined sculptor of sound, who speaks his own compelling language.” — Steven Loewy, Cadence
“[Ullmann] knows when to pull which tool out of the chest, and he uses the many devices at his disposal as means to an end, shaping his improvisations like a sculptor.”— Neil Tesser, Chicago Reader
Three Seconds | Kolme Toista Brings Together an All-Star International Ensemble for Reijonen’s Ambitious and Heartfelt Project
“… extraordinary music…. his playing is deep, profoundly nuanced, and essentially unique throughout.” — Barry Cleveland, Guitar Player about Jussi’s debut album Un
“Musical cultures and sensibilities cross, evocatively…without blinking or apologizing.” – Josef Woodard, DownBeat
“Reijonen’s musical universe has no frontiers. It is a beautiful, sensual mosaic of traditions and influences.” – Eyal Hareuveni, All About Jazz
US Release Dates: CD November 4, 2022, Digital October 14, 2022 – Worldwide release date for digital and CD: October 14, 2022 via Challenge Records International
Available October 28, 2022 via Form is Possibility Recordings (FiP)
Dynamic and compositionally rich, 4 freedoms features Josh Sinton’s Predicate: Sinton, Jonathan Finlayson, Christopher Hoffman and Tom Rainey
Séances, out October 28, 2022 via Pyroclastic Records, features Mary Halvorson, Ches Smith, Anna Webber, Carla Kihlstedt, Mariel Roberts and Oscar Noriega navigating chamber-jazz-metal compositions inspired by the bizarre tales of an 18th-century French religious sect
“ The music [Trio-Convulsant] play is not so much a fusion of styles as it is a collision of styles… If you’ve been following Trevor Dunn‘s widely varied career as a player, you know he’s got a sense of adventure.” – Sean Westergaard, AllMusic.com
“[Trio-Convulsant] hurtles from heavy to weightless and back again so quickly it’s hard to keep up… [pulling] it off with rare style and impressive improvisational rigor.” – Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader
release date:21.10.2022 on Jazzland Records / Punkt Edition
In 2020, the Norwegian duo of Inge Weatherhead Breistein (saxophone) and John Derek Bishop [aka Tortusa] (live sampling) performed a series of five concerts in five separate churches along the west coast of their native Norway. With the aim of exploring both these sites’ unique acoustic profiles and their unique historical resonances, the pair has selected ten shorter etudes from
release date: 21.10.2022 via Endectomorph Music
In The Flicker is Leverton Fox’s eighth album of immersive, improvised experimental electronic music to date. Out on Friday 21st October the site-specific album is being released in the Dolby Atmos ‘surround’ format, as well as CD and digital formats.
release date: 14.10.2022 on SOFA music
SOFA MUSIC continues to release the work of the extraordinary Norwegian composer Jan Martin Smørdal. Recently he was awarded the prestigious Arne Nordheim Composers Prize for his creative work.
release date: 14.10.2022 on Crammed Dics, Made to Measure series
KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH , CHRISTINA VANTZOU, STUBBLEMAN, LUCRECIA DALT, CAMILLE MANDOKI, MATIAS AGUAYO, MARY LATTIMORE, INNE EYSERMANS, FÉLICIA ATKINSON, BENJAMIN LEW, STEVEN BROWN: Eight distinguished artists wrote and recorded original pieces for this album which joins the dots between vintage, experimental and neo-classical ambient, and pays tribute to the relaunched Made To Measure composers’ series.