Release Date: January 3rd, 2025
Pianist/Composer Kobi Arad to release new recording “Warping”
“Kobi Arad is as a contemporary Bach & Mozart in one” — Huffington Post
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Jan
[ January the 14th, 2025 release on Greydisc Records: Kevin Kastning, Carl Clements, Soheil Peyghambari – Triple Helix ]
release date: 14.01.2025 on Graydisc Records
This is a unique recording involving the four types of contraguitars, played by internationally recognised virtuoso Kevin Kastning, and two wind players. A multitasked, American veteran of the Sax Carl Clements, playing on Tenor, Alto, and Soprano saxophones and a young Iranian clarinettist Soheil Peyghambari, playing on Bass Clarinet & Bb clarinet on this six-tune marvellous session.
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Dec
[ December the 13th, 2024 release on Cacophonous Revival: Nicola Miller – Living Things ]
Nova Scotia-based saxophonist and composer Nicola Miller is launching her debut album Living Things December 13th. For it, she’s joining the roster of celebrated American experimental music imprint Cacophonous Revival, home to releases that feature the likes of Jessica Ackerley, Patrick Shiroishi, Camila Nebbia and others…
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Dec
[ November the 15th, 2024 release via Biophilia Records Sara Serpa – Encounters and Collisions ]
The groundbreaking vocalist/composer/
“Serpa possesses a preternatural cool, injecting weightless sophistication and melodic grace into everything she touches.” – Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader,
“Sara Serpa is a vocalist wielding an instrument as favourably unadorned and pure as any in jazz… literally, she sounds as if she must sing whenever she speaks.” – Phil DiPietro, All About Jazz
Album Release Concert December 9 at Roulette, NYC
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Dec
[ December the 6th, 2024 release on Giant Step Arts The Fury – Live in Brooklyn ]
Giant Step Arts continues the Modern Masters and New Horizons series with the new live album by collective group The Fury, Out December 6, 2024, Live In Brooklyn documents the debut performance of a quartet of some of the most accomplished players in modern jazz with Mark Turner, Lage Lund, Matt Brewer and Tyshawn Sorey.
“It’s rare even in New York City to have a group of four musicians with this kind of deep connection and who are this esteemed to make a live record at an intimate venue like Ornithology in Brooklyn. The audience was thrilled to be in the room as these four masters created, and Giant Step Arts is overjoyed with the results.” – Jimmy Katz
02
Dec
[ December the 6th, 2024 release on Tour De Bras: Brûlez les meubles + Ingrid Laubrock, Jonathan Huard & Marianne Trudel – Folio #5 ]
release date: 06.12.2024 via Tour De Bras
Even though their name may conjure up images of chesterfields erupting into flames, the Québec duo Brûlez les meubles (Burn The Furniture, in English) has been mining an atmospheric corner of avant-jazz since their 2016 debut, always alongside an illustrious cast of guest artists. On Folio #5, the group’s founders Louis Beaudoin-de la Sablonnière and Éric Normand continue this tradition, inviting legendary improvisers Ingrid Laubrock (saxophone) and Marianne Trudel (piano) into the fray, alongside rising-star percussionist Jonathan Huard on vibraphone.
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Dec
[ December the 6th, 2024 release on Giant Step Arts: Jason Palmer – The Cross Over: Live in Brooklyn ]
Giant Step Arts continues the Modern Masters and New Horizons series with the new live album by trumpeter Jason Palmer. Out December 6, 2024, The Cross Over: Live in Brooklyn is the fourth in a series of acclaimed albums from trumpeter Jason Palmer.
“Jason’s ability to express in his own personal voice an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the jazz trumpet vocabulary, without being possessed by it, is truly rare.” – Russ Musto, NYCJR
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Nov
[ November 29th, 2024 release on Elemental Music Bill Evans In Norway -The Kongsberg Concert ]
Elemental Music releases Bill Evans In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert available as an exclusive 2-LP set on RSD Black Friday, November 29. The album will be available as a deluxe CD version on December 6.
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Nov
[ November 29th, 2024 release on Deep Digs B.B. King In France – Live at the 1977 Nancy Pulsations Festival ]
Zev Feldman’s Deep Digs label will release a stunning, previously unreleased B.B. King album, In France: Live at the 1977 Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival, as a limited two-LP set for RSD Black Friday on Nov. 29, followed by the CD version on Dec. 6. The powerful, full-length concert recording features a dynamic, stops-out performance by the masterful blues singer-guitarist and his potent seven-piece band, which will be heard on record for the first time.
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Nov
[ November 25th, 2024 release on GroundUp Music: Tatiana Eva-Marie – DJANGOLOGY ]
release date: 25.11.2024
Vocalist/Musician/Artist Tatiana Eva-Marie has been busy since 2019 when she came out with her first recording. Now she releases her latest, 10th to-date recording titled “DJANGOLOGY“, with the repertoire leaving no room for doubt. Her affair with Parisian culture and the bohemian spirit of New York City has lasted over a decade now and it looks like it only gets hotter & hotter with the time passing by.
“One of the best young singers around” .. The Wall Street Journal
“A millennial shaking up the jazz scene.” .. Vanity Fair
“ The gypsy-jazz warbler” .. New York Times