07 May

[ May the 14th, 2021 release via Artists Recording Collective: Alchemy Sound Project – Africa Love ]

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release date: 14.05.2021 via Artists Recording Collective

“…breathtaking… Call them chamber jazz, modern big band or classically influenced, the diverse yet synergized works on ‘Afrika Love’ are skillfully composed and arranged, sophisticated and enthralling.” – Monarch Magazine

“…five compelling and gifted musicians, each with their own unique and powerful creative vision… their multi-gendered, multi-racial makeup as a group offers a positive example of cooperative humanity.” – Dee Dee McNeil, Musical Memoirs

★ ★ ★ ★ “…a mesmerizing combination of chamber jazz, symphonic music, modern jazz and big band. You might even hear strains of Charles Mingus in this aurally delicious mix.” – Bob Protzman, DownBeat Magazine

04 May

[ Cécile McLorin Salvant delivers intimate home performance to raise funds for public health in Haiti ]

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Grammy Award-winning artist Cécile McLorin Salvant has partnered with the Haitian Global Health Alliance to release an intimate fundraising performance, At Home, recorded in her Brooklyn loft. The video will be available for viewing from May 10 – 31, with all proceeds benefiting GHESKIO, a world-renowned public health organization serving patients in Haiti.

02 May

[ May the 7th, 2021 release via Libra Records: Satoko Fujjii’s Tokyo Trio – Moon on the Lake ]

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release date: 04.05.2021 via Libra Records

“The music rattles the bones as often as it soothes the soul and no composer is more masterful at balancing and grounding those extremes…continually absorbing and unlike anything else.”

– Karl Ackermann, All About Jazz

Pianist-composer Satoko Fujii brings together a new piano trio on her latest release Moon on the Lake captured live at Tokyo’s famous jazz venue, Pit Inn. The Tokyo Trio features Fujii with two of the most in-demand younger musicians on the Japanese jazz scene, bassist Takashi Sugawa and drummer Ittetsu Takemura. They form a lithe, quick witted trio, capable of terrific speed and excitement as well as subtle textures and tone colors. Moon on the Lake puts their wide range and capabilities on full display

01 May

[ May the 7th, 2021 release via Sunnyside Records: Noah Haidu – Slowly:Song for Keith Jarrett ]

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release date: 07.05.2021 via Sunnyside Records

5-stars “…a stunning album. Not only does it sum up the spirit of so many Jarrett/DeJohnette/Peacock performances, but it realises a fresh and inspiring take on the piano/bass/drums trio format… it brings together three great musicians who just play their hearts out, with skill, intelligence and a quintessential jazz verve.” – Mike Gates, UK Vibe

“Haidu’s ability to express deep feelings is striking.” – Tony Hall, Jazzwise (UK)

“Infinite Distances pulses with soul…a sumptuous record that swings and grooves with far out moments.” – Dan Ouellette, DownBeat Magazine

29 Apr

[ May, the 3rd, 2021,11 am-11:30 am EDT, Livestream – Wadada Leo Smith’s Symphony No. 2 Winter in a live streamed, multi-location presentation ]

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May 3, 11 am-11:30 am EDT – Register for Livestream

The inaugural MM Performer-Composer class will perform Wadada Leo Smith‘s Symphony No. 2 Winter in a live streamed, multi-location presentation. The performance is part of the Performer-Composer Stone Lab, a workshop led by artists-in-residence at The Stone, “a not-for-profit performance initiative dedicated to the experimental and avant-garde.”

The new Performer-Composer Master of Music (MM) degree at The New School’s College of Performing Arts is designed for musicians whose passion lies at the intersection of composition, performance, and improvisation.

20 Apr

[ April the 30th, 2021 re-issue/release via Crammed Discs: Aksak Maboul, Benjamin Lew, Minimal Compact, Tuxedomoon : Made To Measure Vol.1]

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release date: 30.04.2021 via Crammed Discs

Crammed Discs‘ legendary Composers’ Series is reactivated in 2021, with the release of new albums remastered vinyl reissues of several classics starting with: MADE TO MEASURE Vol.1 : Minimal Compact, Benjamin Lew, Aksak Maboul and Tuxedomoon (April 30th – further details below) and MADE TO MEASURE Vol.5: Hector Zazou‘s Geographies (May 28th)

16 Apr

[ April the 21th, 2021 selfrelease album: Petter Rylen & George Goom – The Bended Tree ]

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release date: 20.04.2021 – self produced

Swedish pianist and Welsh artist find solace under ‘The Bended Tree’ during isolation

The double album is a collaboration between Welsh artist and music maker George Goom (who also made the artwork for The Bended Tree and created all graphic art around it) and Swedish born, Welsh living pianist Petter Rylen . The first album consists of piano compositions written and performed by Petter, which inspired the second album of remixes created by George. Those Two started to work together during the last year, when Petter released his Trio album After the Meltdown, for which Goom designed the cover too which we reviewed and published on here.

13 Apr

[ April the 16th, 2021 release via RBP: Rubén Blades y Roberto Delgado Orquesta – SALSWING! ]

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release date: 16.04.2021 via Rubén Blades Production

The album will also be released in separate editions, SALSA PLUS! on April 23 and SWING! on April 30. Only digital for now, but physical copies are expected to be produced at a later date.

“SALSWING! as an album has different purposes. One, to present the Roberto Delgado Orchestra as an outfit capable of expanding its original Panamanian roots to cover other musical genres,” says Blades. “Another, to present my interest in exploring other vocal directions and thus eliminate the stereotype that affirms that we are conditioned to only exist artistically within specific boundaries, according to our nationality. Perhaps the most important point is to exemplify that, as artists, we address our music to the world, not just to a specific segment of its population.”

08 Apr

[ April the 16th,2021 release via Red Hook Records: Masabumi Kikuchi – Hanamichi ]

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release date: 16.04.2021 via Red Hook Records

“[Kikuchi] was continually searching for his ‘voice’ that he couldn’t articulate with words. It wasn’t until a few years before he died that his ‘voice’ found him!” – Gary Peacock

Six revelatory tracks by the late Japanese pianist Masabumi Kikuchi are featured on Hanamichi, the debut release by Red Hook Records, due out April 16, 2021, in digital, LP, and CD formats available at https://ingroov.es/hanamichi. Recorded over a two-day New York session on a magnificent Steinway, the music marks a divergence from the mostly free improvising Poo (Kikuchi’s nickname), who died at age 75 in 2015, practiced during his final years. Kikuchi’s radiant playing sparkles with melodic exploration and expression in renditions of lesser-known tunes and popular standards.

The final studio recording from the late Japanese pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, Hanamichi is the culmination of a lifetime of musical exploration and discovery

02 Apr

[ April the 9th,2021 release via Libra Records: Satoko Fujii & Natsuki Tamura – Keshin ]

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release date: 09.04.2021 via Libra Records

“ The wife-husband team from Japan . . . consistently reveals a wide-open and unpredictable nature that makes its performance a thrilling ride for the listener.” – Steve Feeney, Portland Press Herald

“ Intuition and communication like that is rare.” – Adam Kinner, The Montreal Gazette