01 Nov

[ November the 4th,2020 release via Pine Eagle Records: Rich Halley’s The Shape of Things ]

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release date: 04.11.2020 via Pine Eagle Records

“Heartland American jazz of the very highest order.” – Brian Morton, Point of Departure

“Oregon-based saxophonist Rich Halley has been turning out smart, brawny music for a couple of decades.” – James Hale, DownBeat

“Uncluttered, bold and powerful.” – Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz

Halley’s second recording with these players sees the group building on their intuitive chemistry in a series of incisive and powerful improvisations recorded in August 2019 in Brooklyn.

19 Oct

[ October the 30th, 2020 release via Pyroclastic Records: Junk Magic’s Compass Confusion ]

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release date: 30.10.2020 via Pyroclastic Records

“Listen to the transfixing opening cut, ‘Laser Beaming Hearts,’ and in addition to Taborn’s aesthetic kinship with Detroit techno titan Carl Craig, you’ll be reminded of how many hours these improvisers have devoted, separately and in various configurations, to shifting the balance between abstraction and groove.” – Nate Chinen, WBGO

“Collages of dark and dirty parts, musical cast-offs, so to speak, that have been artfully reattached.” — Patrick Sisson, PopMatters

“More rewards await, rich and replete.” — Phil DiPietro, All About Jazz

For more than a decade, Junk Magic has been honing a collective sound that relies on individual expressions, imagination and subversion. Appearing first as a 2004 album title under pianist-composer Craig Taborn’s name, Junk Magic has transitioned into a sonic identity comprising electronic sound design, production techniques and elements of improvised music.

16 Oct

[ October 30,2020 release on Firehouse 12 Records: Mary Halvorson – Artlessly Falling ]

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release date: 30.10.2020 via Firehouse 12 Records

“Not only the most distinctive guitarist of her generation – her barbed, warped sound also has few rivals in any other.” – Michael J. West, Washington Post

“When all her influences click into place, the result is like little else, in any genre.” – Seth Colter Walls, Pitchfork

“One of the most distinctive voices in jazz … possessing a slippery tone.” – Chris Barton, LA Times

“Ever since [Halvorson] began recording in the mid-2000s, she’s projected a strikingly personal voice on the electric guitar; you only need to hear a few seconds of her fastidious fingering and extravagant pitch bends to know it’s her….her compositional style, with its intricate melodies and sudden tempo changes, is as distinctive as her playing.” – Bill Meyer, Chicago Reader

“Maybe it’s the weathered grace of Wyatt’s vocals or the astringent lyricism of O’Farrill’s trumpet, but the writing here conveys the quirky charm of Carla Bley’s collaborations with Paul Haines. Except Bley’s keyboards were never as otherworldly as Halvorson‘s guitar.“ – J.D. Considine, DownBeat

11 Oct

[ October the 16, 2020 release via Pyroclastic Records: Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain VI ]

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release date: 16.10.2020 via Pyroclastic Records

“Wooley’s investment [is] in the imaginative and emotional side of an experience that’s both physical and not.” — Justin Cober-Lake, PopMatters

“The prettiest, most progressive campfire music ever.” — Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times

Genre-defiant trumpet player and composer Nate Wooley brings together artists from seemingly disparate musical communities with the release of Seven Storey Mountain VI on Pyroclastic Records, the sixth iteration of his ecstatic song-cycle.

07 Oct

[ October 16,2020 release on One Trick Dog recs: Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project – Kites and Strings ]

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release date: 16.10.2020 on One Trick Dog

“A witty, skillful composer, the multi-instrumentalist leads his first full band outing in fine form with playing and writing that are second to none,” – Midwest Record

From Leonard Bernstein and Neil Young to Bulgarian Women Vocalists and Rosenblum’s beguiling originals, the music showcases a brilliant cast of improvisers, including trumpeter Wayne Tucker, guitarist Rafael Rosa, reed expert Jasper Dutz, bassist Marty Jaffe and drummer Ben Zweig

03 Oct

[ October 9, 2020 release on Ridgeway Records: Edward Simon’s 25 Years ]

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release date: 09.09.2020 on Ridgeway Recs

4 stars: “In a musical journey that spans the titular 25 Years, Simon has crafted a lot of music, employing a Latin/jazz/classical approach with a seemingly effortless refinement, making sounds that are unfailingly engaging and beautiful.” – Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz

“One of the strongest pianists of his generation, with intuitive empathy and drum-like ingenuity, and solos compositionally with passionate elegance.” — Ted Panken, DownBeat

Featuring tracks drawn from 13 albums spanning more than two decades, 25 features a brilliant cadre of Simon’s closest collaborators including tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, altoist David Binney, bassists Scott Colley, John Patitucci and Ben Street and drummers Brian Blade and Adam Cruz.

02 Oct

[ October 9, 2020 release via FiP recordings: Josh Sinton – “cérémonie/musique” ]

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release date: October 9, 2020 via FiP Recordings

“…[the music] sounds like an avant-garde version of early Miles Davis, with slow, spaced-out notes, here played by Sinton over the bitonal underlay of an electric guitar and bass, neither of which are trying to break the sound barrier. It’s music that draws you inward….if you just let yourself go and let it wash over you, it creates a spell that is hard to break..” – Lynn Bayley, Art Music Lounge

“The balance between the more serious and more playful moments is well paced here. A serious listen will unleash several underlying layers of subdued connections. Take your time with this.” – Bruce Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery

“I hear the freedom of making a chamber sound-object, something that breathes well in a small, closed space. More than a sculpture, I’m thinking of those early twentieth-century paintings that incorporate three- dimensional collages. Images that look naïve exactly because of their freedom, but they occupy their space so perfectly.”
– Giacomo Merega describing cérémonie/musique

01 Oct

[ October the 2nd, 2020 release via Pyroclastic Records: Angelica Sanchez with Marilyn Crispell – How to Turn the Moon ]

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release date: October 2, 2020 on Pyroclastic Records

“Ms. Sanchez improvises with crisp articulation and muscular command. Her chords, both dense and concise, offset free improvisations that reflect careful attention to narrative clarity.” — Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times

For the past two decades, pianist-composer Angelica Sanchez has shocked, bent and blurred lines and perceptions that separate composition from improvisation. How to Turn the Moon, her first release on Pyroclastic Records, offers a momentary culmination of that expression.

28 Sep

[ October the 2nd,2020 release via Lafayette Gilchrist Music: Lafayette Gilchrist -NOW ]

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Available October 2, 2020 via Lafayette Gilchrist Music

“New Orleans barrelhouse piano, the Impressionism of Ravel, and Duke Ellington’s jaggy solo-piano sound form the bedrock of Lafayette Gilchrist’s style at the keyboard. 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. With its classic loping groove, built on heavy hand percussion and call-and-response flow, go-go is the unofficial musical idiom of Gilchrist’s native Washington, D.C.” – Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times

“Lafayette Gilchrist has dug deep into [jazz piano] history… he’s tapping into jazz’s spiritual, historical and cultural roots. He’s an old soul at ease in the modern world.” – Kevin Whitehead, NPR’s Fresh Air

18 Sep

[ October the 2nd,2020 release on Sunnyside Records: Noah Haidu – Doctone]

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release date: 02.10.2020 Via Sunnyside Records

“Haidu is one of the finest young jazz lions…with jazz luminaries like trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and alto saxophonist Jon Irabagon gracing the band as part of a core quintet, rising above their powerful performance is quite an accomplishment and Haidu does just that.” – Edward Blanco, JazzTimes

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