“When I play with Myra, I always feel like I am having a conversation with my close friend,” says pianist Satoko Fujii when talking about Katarahi, her duo album with Myra Melford recorded live at the 2024 Jazz Festival Leibnitz and released May 8, 2026, via RogueArt.
01
May
[ May 1st, 2026, release on Corner Store Jazz – Phil Haynes with Ben Monder & Peyton Pleninger – Terra ]
Terra – the captivating new album from drummer and composer Phil Haynes and his generation-spanning new trio with guitarist Ben Monder and tenor saxophonist Peyton Pleninger – is out Friday, May 1 via Haynes’ own Corner Store Jazz imprint!
“Since arriving in New York from Oregon in 1983, drummer Phil Haynes established himself as a potent force on the downtown composer/improviser scene.” – Bill Milkowski, JazzTimes
29
Apr
[ May 1st, 2026, release on Cellar Music – Ensemble Infini – Volume ∞ ]
Few musicians embody the spirit of Québec’s musical radicalism better than Guy “Yug” Touin (b. 1940). During the 1960s, he was a vital part of the province’s countercultural awakening, co-founding Le Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec in 1967 and serving as the first drummer for Walter Boudreau‘s iconoclastic L’Infonie starting from their 1969 debut. He also worked alongside influential musician Robert Charlebois at the peak of the singer’s wayward curiosity, notably playing as part of his At Olympia appearance in Paris and featuring in the infamous l’Osstidcho cabarets. His practice gleefully reached across boundaries, embracing pop culture, the psychedelic underground, free jazz, poetry, fine arts, and new-age spirituality at a time when these worlds rarely intersected.
27
Apr
[ April 27th, 2026 relase on MoonJune – Xavi Reija Electric Quintet – Nu Breed ]
“Nu Breed” marks a turning point in Xavi Reija‘s career, consolidating an avant-garde approach that combines rhythmic precision with the freedom of progressive electric jazz. Out on the 27th of April, 2016 on MoonJune imprint!
23
Apr
[ April 24th, 2026 release on Newvelle – Loren Stillman, Craig Taborn and Thomas Morgan – Seer ]
Saxophonist Loren Stillman Unveils Seer, A Masterful Trio Album with Craig Taborn and Thomas Morgan, Released As Part Of Newvelle Records 10th Anniversary Collection
Newvelle Records proudly presents Seer (NV039), the striking new album from alto and soprano saxophonist Loren Stillman, recorded with the extraordinary pianist Craig Taborn and bassist Thomas Morgan. Available April 24, 2026 as part of the Newvelle Ten Collection, Seer is a deeply immersive work that showcases three of today’s most remarkable voices in jazz, each with a career defined by creativity, virtuosity, and innovation.
19
Apr
[ April 24th, 2026 release via Alister Spence Music – Alister Spence – Always Ever ]
Always Ever, out April 24, 2026, features Spence exploring a diverse spectrum of experimental approaches and preparations on the piano
“Spence is both imaginative and expansive, sensitive to mood and contrast, texture and melody, euphony and cacophony.” – Stuart Nicholson, Jazzwise
“Spence possesses a particular kind of vision that speaks to an original distance, whether from our usual sense of a scene as place or as constituent style, a special capacity to see through time and space to a different territory.” – Stuart Broomer, The Free Jazz Collective
The title of Always Ever, the absorbing new album from Australian pianist and composer Alister Spence, suggests a wellspring of sound and inspiration that gazes beyond the present moment into the infinite. An ambitious, singular and deeply personal collection of inventions and experiments, the album ventures further down the path on which the pianist embarked with his acclaimed 2020 album Whirlpool, which All About Jazz hailed as “a good place to hear [Spence’s] uncommon imagination at work.”
16
Apr
[ TIME TRAVELER RECORDINGS – April 18, 2026 Releases for Record Store Day ]
Zev Feldman’s Time Traveler Recordings will release LPs from Roy Hargrove, Terry Callier and Buster Williams for Record Store Day, April 18, 2026.
Terry Callier At The Earl of Old Town is a captivating, never-before-released 1967 solo performance featuring the influential singer/songwriter at just 22
Roy Hargrove’s BERN is a vital, previously unissued date showcasing the then 30-year-old trumpeter/bandleader at the height of his powers. Recorded at the International Jazzfestival Bern, Switzerland in May 2000
Pinnacle, the legendary bassist Buster Williams’ celebrated 1975 debut as a leader, will be reissued for the very first time by Time Traveler Recordings’ Muse Master Edition Series
15
Apr
[ ELEMENTAL MUSIC – April 18, 2026 Releases for Record Store Day ]
Elemental Music and acclaimed archival producer Zev Feldman will release four stunning, never-before-released albums on vinyl on April 18, 2026, for Record Store Day.
Michel Petrucciani – Kuumbwa
Bill Evans at the BBC
Cecil Taylor Unit – Fragments, The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts
Freddie King – Feeling Alright: The Complete 1975 Nancy Jazz Pulsation Concerts
14
Apr
[ RESONANCE RECORDS – April 18, 2026 Releases for Record Store Day ]
Resonance Records and the brilliant producer Zev Feldman will release four never-before-
Joe Henderson – Consonance Live at the Jazz Showcase
Ahmad Jamal – At The Jazz Showcase Live in Chicago
Yusef Lateef – Alight Upon The Lake Live at the Jazz Showcase
Mal Waldron – Stardust & Starlight At The Jazz Showcase
All were recorded at the legendary Chicago club Joe Segal’s Jazz Showcase and are the first in an ongoing series of albums from the Segal archives, all produced with the deep care and quality that Feldman has become known for. Six days later, on April 24, which would have been Segal’s 100th birthday, all of these albums will be available on CD.
13
Apr
[ April 17th, 2026 release via Ambiances Magnétiques – Jean Derome & Somebody Special – Le sourire ]
Here, we have a disc from Jean Derome, one of Ambiances Magnétiques’ founders and one of Québec’s most celebrated musicians. Le sourire features his all-star band Somebody Special and follows the approach found on their self-titled debut release: reimagining the songs of saxophonist and composer Steve Lacy. Derome leads the outfit on alto horn, bass flute and occasional voice, and enlists both collaborators from his longtime trio project (bassist Normand Guilbeault and Pierre Tanguay on drums), then adds the legendary Montréal vocalist Karen Young and the dense, elegant piano work of Alexandre Grogg.