Ki to be released September 19, 2025 via Libra Records
Pianist-composer Satoko Fujii and Trumpeter-composer Natsuki Tamura Dare to Be Quietly Adventurous on Their Tenth Duo Album
“It’s rare to sense this level of intuition between musicians.” – Kurt Gottschalk, New York City Jazz Record
“They can … charm, seduce, bewilder and ease a worried mind.” – Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
Juliana Venter & Rolf-Erik Nystrøm present their debut as a duo – new album Kassandra, out on the 19th of September via Grappa label.
Resonance Records’ deluxe reissue of The Charlie Rouse Band’s Brazilian jazz classic Cinnamon Flower is out Friday, September 19, 2025 as a limited-edition 2-LP set, CD and digital download.
The vibrant 1977 album featuring Rouse’s 11-piece star-studded group – with Claudio Roditi, Dom Salvador, Ron Carter, and Portinho, among others – is released in its originally released version and in its never-before-heard original form, without overdubbing, as it was engineered by Resonance founder and co-president George Klabin. The album also includes an unreleased bonus track “Meeting House.”
“Rothenberg pushes sonic and spatial barriers… as he explores combinations of vacillating intervals and knotty melodic kernels, and balances evolving patterns with ripe arpeggios and colourful harmonics.” – Fred Bouchard, DownBeat
“Rothenberg reconciles an unapologetically cerebral approach with accessibility and emotional expression. No mean feat, indeed.” – Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader
Créole Renaissance, out August 29, 2025 via Intakt Records, is Ortiz’s first solo piano outing in eight years and a fascinating musical and intellectual interpretation of the African diaspora
“One hears the firm imprint of Cuba’s musical heritage on Ortiz’s compositional style: the pulse of African-derived beats, the modern vocabulary of classical pianism and the abandon of free improvisation.” – Suzanne Lorge, DownBeat
“Cuban-born pianist and composer Aruán Ortiz is constantly evolving, experimenting and injecting new elements into his craft.” – Karl Ackermann, All About Jazz
release date: 29.08.2025 on SOFA Music
The pianist and composer Christian Wallumrød creates music out of silence. Like a visual artist making marks on paper, Wallumrød works away at the blankness of negative space with sound. You could say that sometimes he seems to prefer sound to music, and silence to either, so reticent is his governing aesthetic of less-is-more. This customary method, coupled with a playful air of sensuous quietude, can engender a deeply satisfying listening experience. People who like Christian Wallumrød’s music tend to be partisans who hold it very dear.
Out August 29, 2025 via Miel Music
Revered Saxophonist/Composer Miguel Zenón Celebrates 20th Anniversary of his Quartet with the Group’s First-Ever Live Album Vanguardia Subterránea, recorded at NYC’s legendary Village Vanguard. Zenón’s Quartet featuring pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Hans Glawischnig, and drummer Henry Cole.
Available on Vinyl, CD and all Streaming services. Album release shows at the Vanguard from Tuesday, September 16 to Sunday, September 21, 2025
Out on the 29th of August, 2025 on Action Jazz comes Jørgen Træen & Stein Urheim – Galant Galakse album, featuring a special guest, Henry Kaiser.
Pianist/Composer Jen Allen to release a new recording, “Possibilities“. Out on the 22nd of August, 2025, via Truth Revolution Records.
Multi-instrumentalist Roger Glenn celebrates his 80th birthday with My Latin Heart Available August 22 via Patois Records
In his first album as a leader in half a century, multi-instrumental wizard Roger Glenn celebrates his 80th birthday with My Latin Heart, a panoramic journey through his lifelong passion for Afro-Caribbean rhythms Out August 22, 2025, via Patois Records, the album features Roger Glenn with Ray Obiedo, David K. Mathews, David Belove, Paul van Wageningen, Derek Rolando with special guests John Santos and Michael Spiro.
