03 Oct

[ October the 8, 2021 release via Fresh Sound New Talent: Lena Bloch’s Feathery Quartet – Rose of Lifta ]

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release date: 08.10.2021 via Fresh Sound New Talent

Most impressive quartet – or rather, four equals perfectly attuned to each other. ‘Collective’ is the key word here, for this is truly musical togetherness, creating a sound all its own.” – Dan Morgenstern

“The stunning thing about every performance here is the delicate blend of composed music and spontaneous invention.“ – Donald Elfman, New York City Jazz Record

“..unwaveringly cohesive…bone-deep gorgeousness…complex, compelling and beautiful, sounds of the highest quality and inspiration laid down by a premier jazz quartet.” – Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz .”

Saxophonist Lena Bloch and her quartet Feathery celebrate Rose of Lifta, their stunning new album of original music, with release concerts in Brooklyn. With a remarkably cohesive band featuring pianist Russ Lossing, bassist Cameron Brown, and drummer Billy Mintz, Rose of Lifta , a follow up to the acclaimed 2017 Heart Knows, demonstrates once again her three-tier excellence as a saxophonist, composer, and a bandleader whose approach nurtures listening, trust, and musical freedom.

01 Oct

[ October the 8th, 2021 release via Traumton Records: Fabiana Striffler – Archiotic ]

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release date: 08.10.2021 via Traumton Records

Around three years ago Fabiana Striffler amazed audiences and media with her album Sweet And So Solitary. The magazine Jazzpodium devoted a double page to the violinist and composer from Berlin, calling her music ” a fascinating cosmos of sound “while Deutschlandfunk concluded: ” Fabiana Striffler’s entire album is unconventional, sometimes even demanding and stubborn “

Concerto magazine found that “Gustav Mahler might compose such songs if a time machine had catapulted him into the early 21st century: mysteriously radiant, touching and full of unheard “.

And even in England Striffler received great resonance, for example in Hifi Critic: ” It takes great skill to make something sound so profound and so grotesque at the same time“.

Now she is back with her latest Archiotic project, out on 8th of October via Traumton, and it all clearly shows that all the trusted fans are going top be well rewarded for those three years of silence.

23 Sep

[ September the 24th,2021 release on Arjunamusic Records: Dark Star Safari – Walk Through Lightly ]

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release date: 24.09.2021 on Arjunamusic Records

Dark Star Safari is a musical entity comprised of Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Eivind Aarset, Samuel Rohrer and John Derek Bishop. Their second full-length offering Walk Through Lightly is the first to feature all five musicians together in the studio from the outset, making for a more organic refinement upon their already established methodology: gradually sculpting distinct songs out of collective improvisations, or using the raw material from initial recordings as the basis for more carefully articulated compositions. The final mix is one that invites few

21 Sep

[ September the 24th, 2021 release via Rune Grammofon: Sex Magick Wizards – Your Bliss My Joy ]

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release date: 24.09.2021 via Rune Grammofon

As is the common circumstance for so many new groups forming in Norway this century, Sex Magick Wizards met at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo where they studied jazz and improvisation. They released their promising debut album “Eroto Comatose Lucidity” in 2019 through a small label based in northern Norway, where leader and guitarist Viktor Bomstad was born. Now, an upcoming Your Bliss My Joy comes out from the renowned stables of Rune Kristoffersen, already well recognized rare gems finder and an exquisite ear.

20 Sep

[ September the 24th,2021 release on JazzLand: The Eivind Aarset 4-Tet : PHANTASMAGORIA ]

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release date: 24.09.2021 on JazzLand Recordings

“Phantasmagoria, or A Different Kind of Journey“, the new album by the The Eivind Aarset 4-Tet, is set for release on Jazzland Recordings on 2LP / CD / DL.

Featuring Eivind Aarset, Wetle Holt, Erland Dahlen and Audun Erlien the album is augmented by Jan Bang, John Derek Bishop (aka Tortusa) and Arve Henriksen.

19 Sep

[ September the 24th, 2021 release via Rune Grammofon: Krokofant w/ Storløkken & Håker Flaten – Fifth ]

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release date: 24.09.2021 via Rune Grammofon

“.…juggernaut drums broken up by staccato Hammond and followed by every shade of jazz and prog underpinned by monster bass ” ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ HI FI CHOICE

” The intense mix of guitar, sax, electronics and rums moves effortlessly from spiky, wild pummeling to stealthy and hypnotic ” ★ ★ ★ ★ MOJO

” Q forms a suite of grandly anthem motifs, storm import, clamoring drum tattoos and celestially suspended sax notes ” ★ ★ ★ ★ Editors Choice, JAZZWISE

As David Fricke pointed out in his liner notes to “Q”, the previous album from this expanded edition of Krokofant, this is not just another novelty guest-project. In fact, all the involved were so happy after finishing “Q” that a follow-up was decided upon straight away. So here it is, with four new tunes from guitarist and leader Tom Hasslan, each clocking in between eight and twelve minutes.

17 Sep

[ September the 24th, 2021 release via Traumton: Erkin Cavus & Reentko Dirks – Istanbul 1900 ]

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release date: 24.09.2021 via Traumton Records

“Their music is performed with such overwhelming vehemence that the listener is swept away and moved to tears.” (Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten)

To many, Istanbul represents a place of longing, a place surrounded by myths and traditions, while others consider it a symbol for economic progress. Since the Gezi Park protests in 2013, Western Europe sees more in the picturesque metropolis by the Bosporus than just the Hagia Sofia and other cultural monuments. Social developments are also noticed. Guitarist Erkin Cavus spent many years of his life in the gigantic, crowded and often hectic city. He made his career there and played alongside famous artists before he moved to Germany about four years ago.

15 Sep

[ September 21, 2021 release via Capri Records: Graham Dechter – Major Influence ]

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release date: 21.09.2021 via Capri Records

Major Influence, out September 17, 2021 via Capri Records, reunites Dechter with all-star rhythm section Jeff Hamilton, John Clayton and Tamir Hendelman“Los Angeles guitarist Graham Dechter wowed listeners with his 2009 debut as a leader, Right On Time, and he hits it out of the park again with his sophomore release, Takin’ It There.” – Jennifer Odell, DownBeat

“Dechter should be on the scene for many years to come. Only in his twenties, he shows both a skill and maturity that many players don’t find until middle age.”

– John Heidt , Vintage Guitar Hit List

14 Sep

[ September the 17th,2021 release via Summit Records: Chuck Owen & The Jazz Surge – Within Us ]

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release date: 17.09.2021 via Summit Records

Within Us reconvenes Owen’s vibrant 19-piece big band along with special guest vibraphonist Warren Wolf to commemorate the band’s silver anniversary and the resolute spirit that steered it through the past year

“Owen writes with seductive rhythms in mind and sets aside ample room for earnest blowing by a number of splendid soloists. Grammy voters, have your pens and pencils ready – again.”
– Jack Bowers, All About Jazz

“[E]pisodic, dramatic and picturesque. Owen deserves to be ranked high among today’s composers/arrangers.” – Scott Yanow, New York City Jazz Record

Album Release Concert, Sunday, September 26 at Birdland

13 Sep

[ September the 17th, 2021 release via Artist Share: Jon Gordon – Stranger Than Fiction ]

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release date: 17.09.2021 via Artist Share

“ Jon Gordon is a master. His compositions, improvisation, tone, and technical virtuosity set him apart as an elite musician for our time.” – Brandon Bernstein, Jazz Improv NY

“Gordon has embraced the history of his instrument, carrying with it the ability to extend music as a universal language.” – Wayne Shorter

Truth has become a bizarrely contentious issue in this divisive era of fake news and alternative facts. Still, as alto saxophonist and composer Jon Gordon points out on his latest album, one oft-repeated maxim may be more true now than ever: that truth itself is indeed Stranger Than Fiction. Over the course of ten original compositions arranged for a stellar nonet, Gordon explores the warped modern existence that we’ve all grappled with during the past several months and years.