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10 Oct

[ October the 11th, 2024 release via Sunnyside Records: Jason Anick & Jason Yeager – Sanctuary ]

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Violinist Jason Anick and pianist Jason Yeager reunite for their second co-led album Sanctuary, out October 11, 2024 via Sunnyside. Joining them are trumpeters Jason Palmer and Billy Buss, saxophonist Edmar Colón, cellist Naseem Alatrash, bassist Greg Loughman and drummer Mike Connors.

“Their music has a very focused energy, with a good dose of groove, counterpoint, emotion, and heart. It is refreshing to hear a true collaboration and to witness the clarity of their ideas being realized by such a solid and talented band.” – Grammy winning vocalist/composer Luciana Souza

“Really enjoyed listening to Sanctuary…great writing and playing by everyone involved, all crafted very elegantly. Highly recommended.” – Grammy winning saxophonist/composer Miguel Zenón

“Their music appeals as much to the mind as the spirit… it’s the content of their inventions, not any showiness or exploitation of clichés, that moves the listener.” – Bob Doerschuk, DownBeat

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08 Oct

[ October the 11th, 2024 release on Halocline Trance: Eldritch Priest – Dormitive Virtue ]

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release date: 11.10.2024 via Halocline Trance

Dormitive Virtue is not the album that one likely would’ve expected from Eldritch Priest next. For the past 20-odd years, the Vancouver-based composer, writer, and academic has been building a reputation through mind-bending books about music such as Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure (2013, Bloomsbury) and 2022’s Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams and Other Imaginary Refrains (Duke University Press) and disorienting chamber and electroacoustic works whose sprawling melodies and elusive forms destabilize one’s sense of memory and time.

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06 Oct

[ October the 11th, 2024 self-release: Ittetsu Nasuda – Tailwind ]

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Young Tokyo-born, USA-based Pianist & Composer Ittetsu Nasuda comes with a self-released debut recording titled “Tailwind“. The quintet sports, after the leader, vibraphonist Dan Neville, bassist Gabriel Vivas, and drummer Juan Chiavassa. Line up closes Japanese percussionist Takafumi Nikaido.

This must be one of the most elegant debuts I came across this year. Nasuda’s virtuosity is unquestionable and the repertoire is executed on the top level. The blend of the leader’s piano melodic eloquence, with the dynamic vitality of the Latin rhythm Section brought to my memories the great Danilo Perez as the first thought …

” You wouldn’t expect a band like that to come to fruition, but here they are … the hybrid of Latino – Caribbean folk & contemporary jazz makes a debut recording of young Japanese pianist …  ” – Greg Drygala, Jazzpress

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04 Oct

[ October the 8th, 2024 release via Playscape Recordings: Jason Robinson’s Ancestral Numbers II ]

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The second volume of Jason  Robinson’s “love note to my family” is out October 8, 2024 via Playscape Recordings, with trombonist Michael Dessen, pianist Joshua White, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Ches Smith

“Jason Robinson tends to weave his musical projects with multiple and overlapping narrative layers… [his] richly nuanced, storytelling compositions are full of freedom, flexibility, inventiveness and humor.” – Eyal Hareuveni, All About Jazz

“Jason Robinson is a sure-footed reedist, composer, bandleader and improviser… There is certainly jazz tradition here, but also a blissful sense of contemporary vitality.” – Filipe Freitas, Jazz Trail

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03 Oct

[ October the 4th, 2024 release via Zennez Records: Nick Adema – Urban Chaos ]

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Due out October 4, 2024 via ZenneZ Records, the wide-ranging album features tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger joining Adema’s quartet along with a string quartet and a host of guests.

“Each of his compositions contains a myriad of ideas, gradually revealing themselves over time and yet all coming together to form a satisfying whole. Adema’s writing possesses immense beauty while also managing to zig where others would normally zag.” – Yoshi Wall, The Whole Note

“It is especially evident that Canadian trombonist, composer and arranger Nick Adema deserves worldwide recognition.” – Georges Tola Briquet, Jazz Halo

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02 Oct

[ October the 4th, 2024 release on Capri Records: Mark Masters features Tim Hagans – Sui Generis ]

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Sui Generis, due out October 4 on Capri Records, presents a cycle of nine original compositions performed by an octet and designed as feature vehicles for trumpeter Hagans

“Mark Masters has emerged as one of the great jazz arrangers of the 20th and 21st century.” – Michael G. Nastos, Allmusic

“Masters paints complex, intricate, detailed jazz landscapes, and he has always invited some of the most adventurous and innovative players into his ensemble.” – Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz

It was nearly fifty years ago that a teenage Mark Masters, then an aspiring young jazz trumpeter, first encountered the sound of trumpeter-flugelhornist Tim Hagans, who was playing in the Stan Kenton Orchestra.

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