16 May

[ May the 23rd, 2025 release on Summit Records: The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra – Mixed Bag ]

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Out May 23, 2025 on Summit Records, Mixed Bag features a stellar band of experienced NYC virtuosos with a guest appearance by Grammy-winning pianist Bill Charlap.

“…McGuinness instantly identifies himself as an arranger with an active imagination and an urge to swing.” – Bill Milkowski, DownBeat
“As leader of his superlative New York-based Jazz Orchestra, Pete McGuinness proves… that he is one of the more astute and resourceful composer / arrangers on the scene today.” – Jack Bowers, All About Jazz
“[The PMJO] deftly walks the tight rope of celebrating the traditional modes of swing-era big band jazz while simultaneously presenting music that nods to, winks at, and ultimately transcends the musical concepts of that era.” – Matt Silver, WRTI

Album Release Concert at 5:30 pm on May 25 at Birdland Jazz Club, NYC

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12 May

[ May the 23rd, 2025 release on Meta Records: Adam Rudolph, Dave Liebman & Billy Hart – Beingness ]

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release date: 20.05.2025 on META Records

Three masters of creative music: award-winning percussionist Adam Rudolph and NEA Jazz Masters Dave Liebman and Billy Hart join forces for the extraordinary live album Beingness. The CD and digital album will be available via Meta Records on May 23, 2025 with LPs to follow on July 15.

“…a musical nirvana of sorts that keeps opening us to myriad moments of ecstasy.”– Raul da Gama, JazzdaGama.com

” You can call it jazz; you can term it spontaneous composition; you can designate this as non-genre instrumentalism. Whatever you choose, this is music which has a collaborative heart. This is three-dimensional music.” – Audiophile Audition audaud.com

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05 May

[ May the 9th, 2025 self – release: Mike Prigodich – Stage Magic Live ]

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release date: 09.05.2025

Pianist/Composer Mike Prigodich to release his new recording “Stage Magic“. Recorded live on November 23, 2024 Classic Pianos – Portland, OR.

“This band is top shelf; they were super tight and super exciting.” – George Colligan (Jack DeJohnette, Lenny White)

“Prigodich speaks a musical language all his own, one born of a voice that elevates his instrument far beyond its realm into one where mystery and magic meet.” – All About Jazz

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01 May

[ May the 9th, 2025 release on Libra Records: Satoko Fujii’s This is It! – Message ]

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release date: 09.05.2025 on Libra Records

The brilliant pianist/composer Satoko Fujii never ceases to amaze! Message, the boisterous third album from This is It!  featuring Fujii with trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, and the buoyant, unpredictable percussionist Takashi Itani, is out May 9, 2025 via Libra

“this is music that deserves to be heard with full attention – with the understanding that no matter what we’re hearing, ‘this is it!’” – Eric McDowell, The Free Jazz Collective
“…can’t get much closer to improvisational music perfection…..As with any Fujii project but especially the smaller combo ones, telepathy and simpatico are the two main ingredients that elevate her music well beyond the notes.
– Victor Aaron, Something Else!
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10 Apr

[ April the 25th, 2025 release via All In Records: Sean Nelson & the New London Big Band – Don’t Stop Now ]

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release date: 25.04.2025 via All in Records

Sean Nelson and the New London Big Band to release “Don’t Stop Now“, The Lost Music of Thad Jones, written for Harry James

Eight “brand new” charts from the pen of Thad Jones are brought back to life, including novel arrangements of familiar tunes like Tip Toe and Three and One. Alongside trumpeter Wayne Bergeron in the role of Harry James, and John Riley, longtime drummer with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Thad Jones’s legacy ensemble, the band has recorded these historically important compositions.

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10 Apr

[ April the 22th, 2025 release via Reva Record: Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness – Sextet ]

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All-star improvising ensemble Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness expands to a sextet for a moving exploration of spirituality and community

On Sextet, out April 22, 2025 via Reva Records, founders Tony Jones and Charlie Burnham are joined by Kenny Wollesen, Marika Hughes, Jessica Jones and Rashaan Carter.

“[A] clinic in how fascinating, and listenable, and intelligent free jazz can be.” – Alan Young, Lucid Culture Review of Trio
“A clearly wild ride, prepare yourself for an audio movie and all its cinematic thrills and spills.” – Chris Spector, Midwest Review on Quartet

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10 Apr

[ April the 12th, 2025 release on Resonance Recording: Freddie Hubbard – “On Fire: Live from the Blue Morocco” ]

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Resonance Records presents the unissued 1967 performance On Fire: Live from the Blue Morocco showcasing legendary trumpeter Freddie Hubbard at his ferocious peak.

Recorded at Sylvia Robinson’s Bronx Club with an all-star band featuring Bennie Maupin, Kenny Barron, Herbie Lewis and Freddie Waits, the recording will be released as a limited edition 3-LP set on Record Store Day, April 12, 2025, with the CD and digital editions to follow on April 18.

“This recording is insane! It’s one of the most exciting live documents I’ve ever heard in my life,” says renowned trumpeter Steven Bernstein. “It’s f!cking mind-blowing. Freddie’s on fire. It’s just so damn good.”

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06 Apr

[ April the 11th, 2025 release on Pyroclastic: Ingrid Laubrock’s “Purposing the Air” ]

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“The genius of Laubrock’s compositions lies in the way they balance compositional structure with improvisational freedom.” – Troy Dostert, All About Jazz

Purposing The Air, out April 11, 2025, sets to music 60 brief yet evocative koans for the pairings of Fay Victor/Mariel Roberts, Sara Serpa/Matt Mitchell, Theo Bleckmann/Ben Monder, and Rachel Calloway/Ari Streisfeld (Duo Cortona). Hailed as a “fully committed saxophonist and visionary” by The New Yorker, Ingrid Laubrock has evolved a distinctive, fascinatingly complex and richly layered sonic vocabulary that spans her efforts as an improviser, as leader of her own diverse ensembles or, as in the case of her captivating new album Purposing The Air, as composer and conceptualist for other musicians.

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04 Apr

[ April the 4th, 2025 release on Barnyard Records stef.in – Icterus II ]

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Miles Davis’ much-touted ‘electric’ period was widely credited with birthing so-called jazz fusion, and because of this, it can be easy for one to forget the true breadth of its influence. A crucial ingredient in Miles’ cauldron of styles during this time was Karlheinz Stockhausen, whom he first heard in 1972 (and later collaborated with in a yet-unpublished session). This fact provides an important reminder that the binding agent in Davis’ singular blend of jazz and rock was experimentation—with texture, electronics, form, and other parameters.

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