03 Jun

[ 12th of June release via Cellar Music – Daniel Hersog – Night Devoid of Stars ]

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release date: Friday, June 12, 2020 via Cellar Music

“Daniel Hersog has assembled a top-notch band from the cream of the Vancouver jazz community and taken them over the top with such high-powered soloists as Noah Preminger and Frank Carlberg. Daniel’s compositions and the stellar arrangements absolutely glow.” — Nou Dadoun, CFRO-FM, Vancouver

Night Devoid of Stars – due from the Cellar Music label on June 12, 2020 – showcases the 16-piece, Vancouver-based Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra in the leader’s richly melodic originals, plus an inventive, deep-blue arrangement of “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”

01 Jun

[ 12th of June release via Pyroclastic Records: Cory Smythe – Accelerate Every Voice ]

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available June 12 on Pyroclastic Records

“A growing number of musicians have mastered both notated and improvised music, but few have done it with more skill, insight and sensitivity than pianist Cory Smythe.” — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader

“Pianist Cory Smythe exploits every textural possibility of the instrument” — Winton Cooke-Wilson, SPIN magazine

Pianist and composer Cory Smythe evokes cyborg choirs and coastal floods on Accelerate Every Voice, his second release for Pyroclastic Records and the follow-up to 2018 album Circulate Susanna. Bringing together five vocalists from the a cappella, new and improvised music scenes, AEV cradles Smythe’s piano in an uncanny valley of voices before submerging it in an undersea expanse.

28 May

[ 5th of June 7d Media release – Trey Gunn – Punkte & Firma ]

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release date: 05.06.2020 via 7th Media

An initial OHs & AHs :

“These are great experiments in unknown territories…”
“I felt pleased and perplexed. Many more listening are forthcoming.”
“Love the space you put in this. It does breathe deeply.”
“Oh my God! This sounds awesome, interesting, attractive, cool, fresh, inspiring!”
“Loving it!”
“I like this.” (from Aunt Kaye)

16 May

[Crammed Disc release Aksak Maboul – Figures on the 22nd of May ]

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release date: 22.05.2020 via Crammed Discs

The legendary experimental pop outfit returns with a brand-new record entitled Figures, written, conceived and produced over the last couple of years by Marc Hollander (founder of Aksak Maboul and of the Crammed label) and Véronique Vincent (former singer with The Honeymoon Killers).

07 May

[ 15th of May release via Blue Land Records: Brian Lundrus Quartet with Strings – For Now ]

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Available May 15, 2020 via BlueLand Records

“Tonal nuance, melodic sense and instrumental command that set him apart from his peers.” – Ed Enright, DownBeat

For Now has a lot to say about romance, and it says it with quiet conviction and passionate declaration. Ace multi-reedist and composer Brian Landrus whose groundbreaking 2017 large-ensemble album Generations “takes the jazz big band tradition into the mesosphere” (Giovanni Russonello, New York Times), turns here to inner pathways, bringing together a remarkable quartet: pianist Fred Hersch bassist Drew Gress and drummer Billy Hart. Rounding out the musical equation are the brilliant young players Michael Rodriguez (trumpet) and Sara Caswell (violin), plus inventive and elegant string quartet arrangements by Landrus and the distinguished opera composer Robert Aldridge featuring Caswell and Joyce Hamman (violin), Lois Martin (viola) and Jody Redhage-Ferber (cello). The album is produced by Aldridge and composer/writer Herschel Garfein, both Grammy winners.

05 May

[May the 8th release via Giant Step Arts: Michael Thomas – Event Horizon]

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Event Horizon, available May 8, 2020,

“Michael Thomas is a badass. Anyone who doubts it should go to ‘Sax Intro,’ a four-minute cadenza with maniacal runs in towering arcs and torrents of scales upon scales. It sounds perhaps like an alto saxophone virtuoso practicing, except that Thomas shapes it all into a spontaneous symphony. Then, after this wild celebration of chops, he segues seamlessly into ‘Chant’ and into what this album is truly about: daring, in-depth collaborative ventures based on Thomas’ intelligent compositions, conducted by a formidable chordless quartet of trumpeter Jason Palmer, bassist Hans Glawischnig and drummer Johnathan Blake.” – Thomas Conrad, New York City Jazz Record

03 May

[ May the 8th release via Here Tiz Music Records: Dave Glasser – Hypocrisy Democracy ]

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Due out May 8 2020 via his own Here Tiz Music,

Hypocrisy Democracy presents risk-taking new compositions grounded in the jazz tradition with Andy Milne, Ben Allison and Matt Wilson

“Despite the fact that Glasser is an old soul in many ways, he shouldn’t be mistaken for a nostalgia act… he lives in the here and now and his playing and writing continue to evolve.”

– Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz

“Dave Glasser makes the past his own… [his music is] a modern manifestation of hard bop tradition.”

— Phil Freeman, Burning Ambulance

28 Apr

[ May the 8th release from Hubro: Jo David Meyer Lysne & Mats Eilertsen – Kroksjø ]

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release date: 5.05.2020 via Hubro

Limited edition LP – 500 pcs only

The new album by the partnership of guitarist Jo David Meyer Lysne (born 1994) and double bassist Mats Eilertsen (born 1975) is a remarkable document that functions simultaneously as both a calm and meditative series of chill-out soundscapes, and as a rigorously poetic evocation of mood and place that one might expect to hear more readily in an art gallery installation. While sharing some similarities with their 2018’s debut duo recording Meander, it also takes things further and appear to drift more into the abstract space, from previous, more melodic aspects. Listen to find out.

25 Apr

[ May the 1st release from Meta Records: The Karuna Trio – Imaginary Archipelago ]

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release date: Friday, 1.05.2020 via Meta Records

“What drives their every impulse is something that puts [the trio] in tune with the melody, harmony and rhythm of life… each musician responds intuitively to the other with not just hands and breath but body and spirit.” – Raul da Gama, World Music Report

The three visionary musicians that make up the Karuna Trio – master percussionists Adam Rudolph and Hamid Drake and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist Ralph M. Jones – have each forged a singular voice by culling inspirations that span the globe and reach back through musical and cultural histories. On their second album as a trio, Imaginary Archipelago, the group’s improvisatory explorations take them into an undiscovered country of sonic invention. These strikingly original pieces imagine an isolated island chain where musical traditions have evolved untouched by the rest of the world.

24 Apr

[ April 24th self -release via Bandcamp: Mark Dresser & Mark Helias – the Marks Brothers ]

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release date: 24.04.2020 on bandcamp

This is not a secret here for those who are reading my reviews and articles for a while, or know my taste for the doble bass music, that if there is anything new about that subject I gotta know it sooner rather than later. In that case it is definitely later , I would say that it is even pretty damn late, as this material had been recorded in 2000 and this news via bandcamp subscription came to me daily like to all of you and to say it at least: Took Me by Surprise, but what a wonderful surprise is that: Mark Dresser & Mark Helias, two of the bassists I simply admire, together making sweet and gob-smacking recording under funky cinematic joke a like title: The Marks Brothers. Please follow an excellent Bill Showmaker essay on that session written at the date but freshly discovered by myself today. What a Real blast from the Past it is!