09 Aug

[ August 15th, 2025 release on Irabbagast Records – Jon Irabagon’s PlainsPeak – Someone to Someone ]

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Filipino-American musical explorer proves you can go home again, both literally and figuratively

Someone to Someone available August 15, 2025 from saxophonist’s Irabbagast Records

“Irabagon’s expressive ability in terms of pure sound is incredible. He is ripe and rowdy, throaty and weird, burnished, loud, tender all at the right moments.” — Pop Matters

“What emerges from PlainsPeak is not merely a jazz album, but a kind of cartography, an emotional and sonic map of a place, drawn through the eyes of an artist deeply attuned to its rhythms, textures, and idiosyncrasies. Track by track, Irabagon invites the listener into a Chicago that is not postcard-perfect but alive, complex, and endlessly inspiring. It is a joy to be transported into this world, to wander its streets, absorb its atmospheres, and see the city anew through Irabagon’s singular lens.” – Thierry De Clemensat, Paris Move

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27 Jul

Out now – Paul Shapiro’s new single, “Project 26”

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We love Last Minute Calls! Especially the great ones, like that below, that reminds me of my juvenile days and How & Why I fell in love with Jazz and carry that affair with me forever. Extra confusing for the English-based audience that never came across an American incarnation may be the fact that in the same 80s decade, another Foreign Legion band had been formed on the Welsh soil 😉 Go figure it out, it may have been a popular resemblance in the Punk culture , back there…

This call-to-action single, “Project 26,” is just in from Paul Shapiro and features his 80s punk-funk band Foreign Legion with original bandmates Steven Bernstein, William Brown, and Thomas Doncker, along with longtime collaborators Cilla Owens, Tony Lewis, and Gary Foote.

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25 Jul

[ July 25th, 2025 release on Giant Step Arts – Eric McPherson’s Double Bass Quartet ]

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Due out July 25, 2025, Double Bass Quartet explores the unusual possibilities of a two-bass group powered by one of the most creative drummers in modern jazz
“A standout since he joined Jackie McLean’s band as a teenager in the early 1990s, that, along with his work accompanying Andrew Hill, Pharaoh Sanders and Greg Osby, established McPherson as a forceful and resourceful post-bop player versed in the polyrhythmic vocabularies of Elvin Jones and Jack DeJohnette.”   – Steven A. Cerra, jazzprofiles.blogspot.com
When your godfather was legendary bassist Richard Davis and family friends included drummers Max Roach, Michael Carvin, Charles Moffett and Freddie Waits, it’s no surprise that Eric McPherson gravitated towards music. And if your mentors were saxophonist Jackie McLean and pianist Andrew Hill, McPherson attaining status as one of the preeminent drummers of his generation became almost preordained. McLean, who worked with a host of legends behind the kit, called McPherson his favourite drummer.
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22 Jul

[ July 25,20252 release on Morphius Records Lafayette Gilchrist’s New Volcanoes – Move With Love ]

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Baltimore-based keyboardist/composer Lafayette Gilchrist, the newest member of the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra, returns with the exuberant Move With Love. The live album, out July 25, 2025 via Morphius Records, features Gilchrist’s hip-hop and go-go inspired New Volcanoes ensemble on its first release in seven years.

“[Gilchrist’s] melodic sensibility embraces the esoteric angularity of Andrew Hill and Sun Ra as much as the emotional directness of the blues.” – Troy Collins, All About Jazz

“New Orleans barrelhouse piano, the Impressionism of Ravel and Duke Ellington’s jaggy solo-piano sound form the bedrock of Lafayette Gilchrist’s style.. But if there’s one big influence on the way he thinks about rhythm, it’s the deeply swinging ‘pocket’ of a classic go-go beat.” – Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times

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19 Jul

[ July 25th, 2025 release on Giant Step Arts: Rico Jones – BloodLines ]

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Giant Step Arts continues Modern Masters and New Horizons series with new live album by tenor saxophonist Rico Jones. Out July 25, 2025, BloodLines is a deeply personal album, exploring the saxophonist’s heritage, personal connections and spirituality in a stirring live context. With BloodLines, Giant Steps Arts introduces a compelling new compositional voice, Colorado-native tenor saxophonist Rico Jones. The album is his New York City leader debut and features a multi-generational band of peer guitarist Max Light and two veterans in bassist Joe Martin and drummer Nasheet Waits.

“Rico is one of the few original voices emerging. His musicianship and passion have forged to create an original voice we will joyfully be hearing more from in the future!” – Vincent Herring

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17 Jul

[ July the 18th, 2025 release via Brass Tonic Records Sarah Wilson – Incandescence ]

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Acclaimed composer and trumpeter Sarah Wilson draws inspiration from visual art, brass bands and the joy of music on her spirited new album Incandescence.

Out July 18, 2025, via Brass Tonic Records, the album features Wilson’s brass-focused sextet Brass Tonic on an exuberant set sparked by the work of Austrian painter Thomas Reinhold

“Wilson swings naturally between genres and styles, blurring any stylistic boundaries with confidence and charm.” – Eyal Hareuveni, All About Jazz
“…a singular jazz artist with a tremendously evocative book of original material.” – Andrew Gilbert, Contra Costa Times

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09 Jul

[ July the 11th, 2025 release on Burning Ambulance Music Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley – Flashing Spirits ]

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release date: 11.07.2025 via Burning Ambulance Music 

Burning Ambulance Music will release a previously unknown archival live performance from pianist Cecil Taylor and drummer Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits, July 11, 2025. Flashing Spirits was recorded September 3, 1988, at the Outside In Festival in Crawley, UK. It consists of a 38-minute piece, followed by two encores.

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05 Jul

[ July the 11th, 2025 release on Libra Records: Kaze & Koichi Makigami – Shishiodoshi ]

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Kaze, the cooperative quartet featuring Japanese composer-pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura along with French trumpeter Christian Pruvost and drummer Peter Orins, joins forces with vocalist Koichi Makigami, a legend of Japanese avant-rock and free improv, for an inspired blend of serious music-making and quirky humor on their new album Shishiodoshi. The album is out today, July 11 via Circum/Libra.

“a bounty of fascination” —  Doug Collette, All about Jazz
“[Kaze] does the unexpected in ways that delight.” — S. Victor Aaron, Something Else!
Dee Dee McNeil of Making a Scene agrees: “…a flash of improvised music and unique vocals that are like none other…. I would expect nothing less from the creative and intense composer and pianist, Satoko Fujii.… surprising, stunning and exceptional. Especially with the addition of their special guest vocalist, Koichi Makigami.”
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