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26 Jan

[ January 27, 2023 release on Traumton Records: Frederik Köster / Die Verwandlung – STUFEN ]

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release date: 27.01.2023 on Traumton

Frederik Köster‘s band Die Verwandlung [The Transformation] has been playing together for ten years, and with each album the award-winning musicians (various Jazz Echos, New German Jazz Prize, WDR Jazz Prize) surprise with new sound variation. In 2018 the quartet amazed listeners with their spectacular orchestra production Homeward Bound Suite and in 2020 on Golden Age they presented unique fusions of acoustic virtuosity and clever electronica aesthetics. The album was longlisted for the German Record Critics’ Award and received a lot of media response.

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21 Jan

[January 27, 2023 release via Thanatosis Produktion:Tomas Hallonsten – Monolog]

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Tomas Hallonsten releases Monolog on CD / MC / DL via Thanatosis Produktion on the 27th January 2023.

The album started out as a Mark Hollis-influenced project; gradually the music morphed and now it’s an album treading territories adjacent to the music of Francis Bebey, Mamman Sani, Hailu Mergia and Alice Coltrane.

“A serial collaborator on Sweden’s jazz and experimental scenes, the trumpeter used enforced isolation to down his horn and pick up a drum machine, improvising over its rhythms with Hammond organ and antique synths to get as close to the feel of a live band jamming as he could, ‘Monolog’ being the utterly wonderful result.

Hallonsten has Jimi Tenor’s knack of flirting with kitsch and creating oddball springy funk on the like of ‘Earth’ and ‘Go Ashram Go’, the latter ending with a beautiful piano part worthy of Ryuichi Sakamoto.  Most charming of all is his winning way with melodies, best displayed on ‘In Clouds (Pt. 1)’ with its irresistibly hummable vocal refrain: a veritable cherry atop an album as indulgently fun to listen to as it fells like it was to make.”
Paul Clarke, DJ Mag

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20 Jan

[January the 27th, 2023 release on the Efpi Records:Beats & Pieces – Good Days]

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Good Days is the highly acclaimed ensemble, Beats & Pieces Big Band’s third studio album release. Out on Friday 27th January 2023 in CD and digital formats on the Efpi Records label.

“Heirs to the eclectic big-band traditions of Loose Tubes, they make their own sounds from many styles” – The Guardian
“A return to the idea that contemporary jazz for big band can still generate the kind of direct impact more associated with rock and pop music, but without undermining its essential craft and sophistication” – Jazzwise
“An irresistible energy, powered by Cottrell’s sly way of investing the familiar chords of jazz with a startling new energy… pleasingly ambiguous, hectic and calm at once” – The Telegraph
“Beats & Pieces has little to do with big band as we know it and rather offered up a madhouse of sharps, flats, and contusions… I couldn’t be happier” – Rochester City Newspaper

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14 Jan

[ January 20, 2023 release via Consolidated Artists Productions:Falkner Evans – Through the Lens ]

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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

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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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