03 Jan

[ January the 20th release on Freedom Road Records: John Bailey – Can You Imagine?]

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release date: 20.01.2020

“…[a] fun and intriguing concept album…a musical tribute to the late Diz [that] invites listeners to imagine what might have happened if lessons about empathy and human decency had been embraced…. joyful and upbeat…” – Tom Henry, Toledo Blade

“Simply the best post bop album since the days of King Dizzy…. Bailey can soar like Dizzy did and blow lyrical too along with a band that totally follows the party line and is just about as close to what Dizzy would have if he were alive today.” – Lance Liddle, bebop spoken here

“John Bailey is a great improviser. Since we met as teenagers I’ve been taken with how natural a musician he is and how deeply his roots go into the tradition of jazz music. He’s a joy to listen to!” – Donny McCaslin, saxophonist

“Bailey’s playing is full of passion and fire, and he brings that energy to several musical styles.” – Jerome Wilson, All About Jazz

02 Jan

[ January the 17th release via Ridgeway Records: Dillon Vado – Blissonance ]

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Release date: 17th January 2020

Oakland drummer/vibraphonist Dillon Vado didn’t necessarily set out to make a bold statement. As a young bandleader and composer, he wanted to forge a distinctive group sound with some of the most vividly inventive improvisers on the Bay Area scene. He achieved exactly that with his quintet Never Weather, but what makes Blissonance such an impressive debut album is the music’s combination of emotional and musical intelligence. The album is slated for release on January 17, 2020 on bassist Jeff Denson’s Ridgeway Records.

29 Dec

[ 2020 January of 10th release via Skirl Records: Gordon Grdina’s Nomad Trio ]

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release date: 10th of January 2020

Teaming Grdina with the limitless pianist Matt Mitchell and the playfully experimental drummer Jim Black, Gordon Grdina’s Nomad Trio refuses to set down stylistic roots throughout its debut album Nomad. Album Release Tour January 5-17, 2020 with stops in Seattle, LA, San Francisco, Vancouver, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Ann Arbor, Chicago and NYC’

“The prevailing ambience is one of dark mystery, but the ruggedness of Grdina’s tone makes for a palette of rich contrast.” – David R. Adler, JazzTimes (review of Think Like the Waves)

“[Gordon Grdina is] a player of unbridled musical ingenuity.” – Raul da Gama, World Music Report

07 Dec

[ 2019 December of 13th release via Libra Records: Satoko Fujii & Tatsuya Yoshida – Baikamo ]

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release date: December the 13th

“ Relentlessly inventive, energetic and definitely recommended.” ― Eric Hill, Exclaim!

“ These two seemingly disparate musicians seem to have formed a comfortable musical bond.” ― Robert Iannapollo, Signal to Noise

“ The music that comes out of the space between rock and contemporary classical music.” ― Masayuki Baba, Musee

Fifteen years after their last recording together, pianist-composer Satoko Fujii and drummer Tatsuya Yoshida reignite the burning intensity of their Toh-Kichi duet project on Baikamo (December 13, 2019 via Libra). Merging art-rock muscle with free jazz and contemporary classical abstractions, Fujii and Yoshida make music that is both gleefully playful and in-your-face energetic.

15 Nov

[ November the 29th release from Traumton: Paul Hankinson – Dear Emily ]

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release date: 29 of November 2019

“Dear Emily” or Playing Between the Lines

Pianist Paul Hankinson’s acclaimed first album, “Echoes of a Winter Journey”, was inspired by the work of another artist. In the same vein, his newly released second album, “Dear Emily”, is the result of a profound work of artistic correspondence, a reference, a reflection. It’s an appraisal of a long-cherished, inspirational and yet silent space – the life and works of the American poet Emily Dickinson.

12 Nov

[ December the 13th release from Not-Applicable Recs: Leverton FOX – Megascopz Mixtapes & I am Zebra LP ]

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release date: December 15th

Welcome to the ” Magascopz ” multiverse ..,

For their latest release, Leverton Fox, the trio of Alex Bonney, Tim Giles and Isambard Khroustaliov offer up an intriguing take on what John Cage termed ‘happenings’ filtered through the ‘everything in every order all the time’ maximalism of our bitwise age.

07 Nov

[ November the 15th release from Hubro – Lumen Drones – Umbra ]

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release date: 15th November 2019

The appearance of the second album by Lumen Drones, ‘Umbra’, carries the status of a major event. Coming fully five years after the group’s startling, self-titled debut recording – released, in late 2015, on ECM Records – the long-awaited follow-up marks a significant leap forward. No less experimental than its predecessor, and certainly no less ‘electric’, yet in many ways a deeper and more profound expression of the trio’s interests, ‘Umbra’ is probably some sort of masterpiece.

05 Nov

[ November the 15th release via Enja/Yellowbird: Raz Abbasi & Isabelle Olivier – OASIS ]

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release date: 15th of November 2019

”Abbasi is living, breathing proof that jazz music can be as vital and boundary-pushing as ever.” – All About Jazz

“Olivier develops a very recognisable style from the first notes of her fascinating and rare instrument.” – Liberation

02 Nov

[ 8th of November release via Long Song Records: Satoko Fujii & Joe Fonda – FOUR ]

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“The conversation is intuitive, at times seemingly telepathic — and it creates an enormous amount of drama and joy.” — Steve Feeney, The Arts Fuse

“…an intimate but uncharted and wide-ranging improvisational encounter with a fellow free-zoning master, bassist Joe Fonda…This music is infused with a wide-open spirit.” — Josef Woodard, DownBeat

“Cerebral and emotive…” — Hrayr Attarian, Jazziz

01 Nov

[ November the 8th release on Endectomorph Music: Kevin Sun – The Sustain of Memory ]

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Out November 8, 2019, CD Release Concert Friday, November 15 at The Jazz Gallery, NYC

“This may be the first you’ve heard of Mr. Sun, a tenor saxophonist, but that will soon change… Mr. Sun’s playing develops an identity of its own, equal parts direct and discursive.”–Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times

The Sustain of Memory, out November 8, 2019 via Endectomorph Music, is saxophonist and composer Kevin Sun’s ambitious follow-up to his acclaimed 2018 debut release Trio. Featuring three extended compositions for trio, quartet, and quintet – with trumpeter Adam O’Farrill, pianist Dana Saul, bassists Simón Willson and Walter Stinson, and drummers Dayeon Seok and Matt Honor– the double album shows Sun’s commitment to the formal and dramatic possibilities of small-group formats as well as his emergent vision within them.