Release Date: March 28th, 2025 on Link Music Lab
Shaho Andalibi, Chris Pruden, and Scott Peterson present The Trio Andalibi – Improvisations from the Doyen of Kurdish Nay
27
Mar
[ March the 28th, 2025 – Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio – Dream a Dream – Libra Records ]
Satoko Fujii’s Tokyo Trio Dream a Dream to be released on March 28, 2025, via Libra Records
“Satoko Fujii’s Tokyo Trio isn’t even close to being a conventional jazz trio. . . . But it is a Satoko Fujii ensemble in every sense, with the grace, sophistication, surprise and ingenuity found in every other of her ensembles.” — S. Victor Aaron, Something Else!
“Ms. Fujii’s Tokyo Trio has all the requisites for a landmark avant Jazz Improv Trio.” — Grego Applegate Edwards, Gapplegate Music Review
After two previous live recordings, pianist-composer Satoko Fujii’s Tokyo Trio made their third release, Dream a Dream in the studio. The beautifully detailed recording cements their place as one of the leading piano trios of our time. The group has an innate chemistry that allows them to navigate Fujii’s compositions as well as improvise with telepathic unity. It’s an unbeatable combination of individual and collective expression that keeps the music always lively and surprising. The album will be released March 28, 2025 via Libra Records.
25
Mar
[ March the 28th, 2025 release on L & H Production: Yelena Eckemoff – Scenes from the Dark Ages ]
release date: 28.03.2025 via L & H Production
Scenes from the Dark Ages is the latest recording from Russian-born pianist Yelena Eckemoff and her latest, mostly Italian-made sextet, sporting guitarist Riccardo Bertuzzi, flautist Carlo Nicita, violinist Eloisa Manera, bassist Riccardo Oliva if not the presence of the legendary drummer & percussionist Trilok Gurtu.
23
Mar
[ March the 21st, 2025 release via Rewound Echoes: Isabelle Olivier – Impressions ]
Acclaimed jazz harpist and composer Isabelle Olivier explores Impressionism in music and the visual arts with her genre-melding new album
Impressions, the remarkable genre-melding album from acclaimed jazz harpist/composer Isabelle Olivier exploring Impressionism in music and the visual arts, will be released this Friday, March 21, 2025 in the US.
The album brings together jazz and classical influences via a remarkably versatile electro-acoustic ensemble. With its many references to Chicago art and artists, Impressions brings together the two metropolises that Olivier calls home – the Windy City and the City of Lights. She celebrates the album on Thursday, April 24, 2025 at PianoForte in Chicago.
“Leaping from traditional repertoire to time- and space-tripping avant-garde, the musicians fuse groove and improvisation, and perform with a kind of measured steadiness that only could be delivered by their highly skilled hands.” – Denise Sullivan, DownBeat review of OASIS
“[Olivier’s] bold approach is characterised by permanent risk-taking and a strong desire to collaborate with musicians and artists from various backgrounds.” – Joel Chevassus, 6Moons.com
21
Mar
[ March the 21st, 2025 release on ECM Records: Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith – Defiant Life ]
release date: 21.03.2025 on ECM records
Defiant Life, Smith’s powerful second duo album with Vijay Iyer, is out today, March 21 via ECM
” A shared awareness of human cruelty and its inability to permanently erase its opposition suffuses every note” – Bill Meyer, The Wire
“Sublime, meditative…a calming masterpiece” – Jim Hynes, Glide
“Disciplined, solemn music by two masters of communication that provides a serious response to serious issues” – Kevin Le Genre, Jazzwise / Editors Choice
This recording session was conditioned by our ongoing sorrow and outrage over the past year’s cruelties, but also by our faith in human possibility. – Vijay Iyer
20
Mar
[ March the 21st, 2025 release on Patois Records: Salsa De La Bahia Vol.3 – Renegade Queens ]
release date: 21.03.2025 on Patois Records
With the first two volumes of Salsa de la Bahia, arranger and trombone maestro Wayne Wallace and filmmaker Rita Hargrave provided a detailed history of the San Francisco Bay Area’s vibrant and oft-overlooked Latin jazz scene.
“Renegade Queens is a welcome and necessary record of the indispensable contribution of highly talented women to the Bay Area’s rich jazz and salsa scenes.” – Catalina Maria Johnson, DownBeat, March 2025
19
Mar
[ Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol invents new digital microtonal keyboard ]
Grammy-nominated NEC faculty member Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol invents the Renaissance 17 (R17), a new digital microtonal keyboard instrument
Sanlıkol’s patented digital microtonal keyboard marks a revolutionary step in instrument making and is featured on the inventor’s forthcoming recording
The 3D version of R17 to be debuted on Sanlıkol’s March 26 Jordan Hall concert
The 3D printed Renaissance 17 (R17), invented and patented by Grammy-nominated New England Conservatory faculty member Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, marks a revolutionary step in instrument making.
16
Mar
[ March the 21st, 2025 release on TMR Music: Ted Rosenthal Trio – High Standards ]
Release Date: March 21st, 2025
Pianist and composer Ted Rosenthal is set to release “High Standards,” the first of four distinct new albums over the next year, titled “Trio in 4 Acts,” on TMR Music.
“Rosenthal is a pianist of the rarest skill, weaving rapid single-note lines that expand into rich chordal patterns, parallel octaves, and hints of the blues,” – Leonard Feather, Los Angeles Times.
“There are not many modern jazz pianists as dexterous as Mr. Rosenthal,” – Nate Chinen, New York Times.
“A musician’s musician who expertly balances technique and taste,” – The New Yorker.
13
Mar
[ Pianist and composer Aruán Ortiz receives major award from American Academy of Arts and Letters ]
One of two “composers of extraordinary gifts” to receive Goddard Lieberson Fellowship
Pianist and composer Aruán Ortiz is one of two “composers of extraordinary gifts” awarded with the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Shawn Okpebholo also received this fellowship as part of the seventeen 2025 Awards in Music honoring both established and emerging composers.
10
Mar
[ March the 14th, 2025 release via Pyroclastic: Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson – Bone Bells ]
Bone Bells, out March 14, 2025 via Pyroclastic Records, thrives on the pair’s bold instincts, improvisational daring and far-ranging compositional vision
“Courvoisier and Halvorson have a chemistry that brings out something new in both of them… [Searching for the Disappeared Hour] is a totally involving and, in its own warped way, beautiful session of music.” – Jerome Wilson, All About Jazz
“Courvoisier and Halvorson reach across the specifics of their approach to celebrate a mutuality of taste: of melodic shapes, of rhythmic structures, of harmonic colour.”– J.D. Considine, JazzTimes