Giant Step Arts continues its Modern Masters and New Horizons series with Tomorrow Is Today, the debut recording from The Phoenix Trio, a cooperative, deeply connected group featuring tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Joe Martin and drummer Marcus Gilmore. It’s out this Friday.
Recorded live in front of an audience at Brooklyn’s Ornithology Club in May 2025, the album fuses compositional depth, improvisational daring and powerful solos into a group sound both riveting and unique.
release date: 16.06.2026 via Ruzztone Music
“Intellectual to the core, melodic and elegant, Spiegel’s music will engage and challenge you at the same time.” — Ed Blanco, EJazzNews
The multicultural Ize Trio returns with an even more expansive reflection on jazz, classical and Middle Eastern cultural traditions
Global Prayer, out June 12, 2026, features pianist Chase Morrin, percussionist George Lernis and cellist Naseem Alatrash, with special guests including Grammy-winning bassist John Patitucci.
“[Ize Trio] are exuberantly and deliberately international, dedicated to finding new ways to meld their various musical and cultural traditions.” – Michael Ullman, Arts Fuse
“Ize Trio is a Boston-based trio redefining the traditional jazz piano trio sound… [blending] the American art form of jazz with Middle Eastern music, promoting a mission focused on social good.” – Tim Larsen, Jazz Views
release date: 12.06.2026 on HUBRO Records
With Spring Flood, Mariam Wallentin and Vestnorsk Jazzensemble present a new collective work in which improvisation, poetry, and vivid imagery merge into a living, organic expression.
Elemental Music presents So Many Lovely Things: Live in Brecon, an interactive, inexorably swinging document of “real jazz” by Kenny Barron’s superb go-to 1990s trio with bass titan Ray Drummond and Thelonious Monk’s drummer of choice, Ben Riley. Captured live at the Brecon Jazz Festival in Wales in 1995, the never-before-released album will appear as a limited-edition 2-LP set on June 12, 2026. The album is also available on June 12 as a 2-CD set and via digital download and streaming.
release date: 12.06.2026
David Occhipinti launches his new album on Elastic Recordings, Looking Glass, which—like his other recent offerings—showcases his intricate vision of ensemble writing alongside his formidable and singular guitar work.
release date: 05.06.2026 on Svale Records
Four years after their previous release, the award-winning and critically acclaimed Espen Berg Trio returns with their fifth album, Entropies, out on 5 June 2026 on Svale Records. Created over a period of nearly three years, the album nevertheless emerges as their most focused and fully realised recording to date, carrying forward the trio’s defining qualities in the very best way.
release date: 05.06.2026 via Not Applicable
Featuring Alex Bonney, Tim Giles and Isambard Khroustaliov, Eternal Gong Bath… is Leverton Fox’s ninth release and is due for LP / DL release via the Not Applicable label…
“Like the overlap of Faust’s “Krautrock” and Miles Davis’s Pangaea… a very singular hybrid” – The Wire
“Improvisational magic, conjuring up myriad images of a hidden world.” – Freq
”An extremely tactile avant-electronica that makes full use of mind-bending stereo production … ranging from squat, stunted machine-funk beats to bubbling, aquatic ambient environments.” – Jazzwise
“Stunningly beautiful, full of subtle changes as it develops, the creativity and variety we associate with the best contemporary jazz.” – UK Jazz News
”Leverton Fox come across a lot more gritty and demented than Polar Bear and there are even shades of 23 Skidoo and, more substantially, Nurse With Wound and very early Cabaret Voltaire.” – Freq
Bassist Chuck Bergeron presents a joyful album of intimate bass and voice duets with ten world-class vocalists
Bass and Face, out June 5, 2026 on Summit Records, features Bergeron in musical conversation with Janis Siegel, Sheila Jordan, Kevin Mahogany, Pete McGuinness, Roseanna Vitro, George Rabbai, Deborah Silver, Lisanne Lyons, Kate Reid and Nicole Yarling.
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“Jazz bassist and composer Chuck Bergeron is considered one of the most innovative musicians working in the jazz field today… [His] unique compositional style and approach to improvisation reflect a wide variety of musical influences, underscoring a deep commitment to the rich polyrhythmic characteristics of his musical and cultural heritage.” – Jon Liebman, For Bass Players Only
