15 Feb

[ February the 21st, 2025 release via Irabbagast Records: Jon Irabagon – Server Farm ]

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Out on  February 21, 2025, on Irabbagast Records
Server Farm charts the tension between humans and the virtual with a phenomenal band featuring Mazz Swift, Peter Evans, Miles Okazaki, Wendy Eisenberg, Matt Mitchell, Michael Formanek, Chris Lightcap, Dan Weiss and Levy Lorenzo.

“As a strikingly original player with an imaginative vision, Irabagon keeps his music refreshingly focused but also bursting with freedom.” – Filipe Freitas, JazzTrail

“Irabagon is one of the most exciting talents to enter jazz in the new millennium… No other current saxophonist encompasses his mix of explosive energy, stylistic diversity, lethal chops and radical ideas.” – Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes

“Visceral clamour meets groove…. Server Farm moves nimbly between extremes of structure and texture. The beauty lies where the layers intersect.” – James Hale, DownBeat

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12 Feb

Fabienne Ambühl Quartet – Thrive (realised on 17th of January 2025) Label: Ubuntu Music / JAZZ

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Ten years have passed since I first came across Fabienne’s debut recording in the trio, titled Glitterwoods, which I further reviewed. That was one of my favourites back in time and I kept my eye on her, but nothing came out after. I later reached the label to hear that she became fully involved in musical education. I kept enjoying the debut recording then and hoping that one day she would make her comeback. Imagine my surprise when I heard from Fab, out of a sudden 10 years later, at the end of the year, through the ever-present social media, that she came back with her second recording, Thrive.

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05 Feb

[ February the 7th, 2025 release via Omar Thomas Music: Omar Thomas Large Ensemble – Griot Songs ]

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Out February 7, 2025,

The Griot Songs marks the return of the Omar Thomas Large Ensemble after more than a decade, featuring soloists Jason Palmer, Mark Zaleski, Alex Brown, Mark Cocheo and others

“Griot Songs firmly plants Omar Thomas in the pantheon of distinguished and exceptional writers. He blurs the lines stylistically in the best of ways withz a texturally compelling ‘heart and soul’ sonic story all his own.” – Grammy-winning drummer/composer Terri Lyne Carrington

“Omar Thomas… proves himself a modern-day griot – summoning influences, traditions, and narratives from both past and present, framing them in a manner that is at varying times tender, dramatic, mystical, and joyful – but always absolutely captivating!” – Composer/bandleader Chuck Owen

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02 Feb

[ February the 7th, 2025 release on Jazzland: In The Country, Solveig Slettahjell & Knut Reiersrud – Remembrance ]

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release date: 07.02.2025 on Jazzland Recordings

In the Country, Slettahjell & Reiersrud’s third album “Remembrance” is a unique feminist Norwegian music project rooted in the powerful poets based on the three English Brontë sisters and American Emily Dickinson, who wrote poems on each continent nearly 200 years ago. Brontë and Dickinson had a huge production of high quality poems, often quite emotional, which still today hits home.

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31 Jan

[ CODA: Pedal Streel Guitarist, Musician, Composer Susan Alcorn April 4 1953 – January 31, 2025 ]

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Hello Friends,

On behalf of Susan’s family, I’m saddened to confirm the passing of the pioneering musician Susan Alcorn due to natural causes.

One of the world’s foremost pedal steel guitar players who took the instrument to new heights, Alcorn was also a beloved collaborator, a kind and generous person whose mark on the music world and the musicians she played with was indelible.  A memorial service will be on February 20, 2025, 4:00 PM, at the Evans Funeral Chapel, 8800 Harford Road, Parkville, MD.

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29 Jan

[ January the 31st, 2025 release on HUBRO: Stein Urheim – Speilstillevariasjoner ]

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release date: 31st January 2025

Guitarist and composer Stein Urheim has been a prominent artist in the HUBRO catalog for over ten years. “Speilstillevariasjoner” is his seventh album for the label under his own name, in addition to contributions to albums by Erlend Apneseth, Benedicte Maurseth, a duo with Jørgen Træen, and most recently the critically acclaimed “Barefoot in Bryophyte” with Mari Kvien Brunvoll and Moskus.

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28 Jan

[ September the 7th, 2024 self – release by DaVinci Jazz: Monique Chao Jazz Orchestra – Time Chamber ]

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original release date: September 7th, 2024

We are exited to present you the latest release from pianist, composer & arranger Monique Chao with her Jazz Orchestra. An official release in China & Japan was on September the 7th, 2024. Now it is time for Us, the rest of the world to enjoy that wonderful music. Due to misfortune with the marketing procedures related to distribution & publicity on the American market the copyrights has been just granted and PR passed to us. So let’s help this great music not to get missed or forgotten due to bureaucratic battlefields misery.

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21 Jan

[ January the 24th, 2025 release via Libra Records: Keiji Haino & Natsuki Tamura – What Happened There? ]

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Get ready for some serious, subversive fun on What happened there? the first-ever collaboration between two of improvised music’s greatest provocateurs: trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and guitarist Keiji Haino. The album is out January 24, 2025 via Libra Records.

Tamura is internationally recognized for a unique musical vocabulary that blends jazz lyricism with extended techniques in a wide variety of settings including ensembles with Satoko Fujii. Haino is a monster-free jazz, noise rock, and free improvisation player who has made music with the likes of Peter Brötzmann, John Zorn, Derek Bailey, Jim O’Rourke, and Fred Frith.

 “Tamura has entered territory that no one has ever explored.” ―Masahiro Imai, Musen to Jikken
“Haino has achieved a reputation as a kind of unearthly visionary.” —Ben Ratliff, Art Forum

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