Juliana Venter & Rolf-Erik Nystrøm present their debut as a duo – new album Kassandra, out on the 19th of September via Grappa label.
09
Sep
[ September 19th, 2025 reissue on Resonance Records, The Charlie Rouse Band’s Cinnamon Flower ]
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.”
02
Sep
[ September the 5th, 2025 release on Pyroclastic , Ned Rothenberg – Looms & Legends ]
Out September 5, 2025 via Pyroclastic Records, Looms & Legends features the acclaimed woodwinds master on alto saxophone, clarinets and shakuhachi flute
“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
29
Aug
[ August 29th, 2025 release on Intakt Records, Aruán Ortiz – Créole Renaissance ]
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
27
Aug
[ August 29th, 2025 release on SOFA Music Christian Wallumrød – Percolation ]
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.
25
Aug
[ August 29th, 2025 release via Miel Music: Miguel Zenón 4tet – Vanguardia Subterránea, Live at The Village Vanguard ]
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
23
Aug
[ August 29th, 2025 release on Action Jazz: Jørgen Træen & Stein Urheim – Galant Galakse ]
Out on the 29th of August, 2025 on Action Jazz comes Jørgen Træen & Stein Urheim – Galant Galakse album, featuring a special guest, Henry Kaiser.
19
Aug
[ August 22nd, 2025 release on Truth Revolution Jen Allen – Possibilities ]
Pianist/Composer Jen Allen to release a new recording, “Possibilities“. Out on the 22nd of August, 2025, via Truth Revolution Records.
15
Aug
[ August 22nd, 2025 release via Patois Records- Roger Glenn – My Latin Heart ]
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.
09
Aug
[ August 15th, 2025 release on Irabbagast Records – Jon Irabagon’s PlainsPeak – Someone to Someone ]
Filipino-American musical explorer proves you can go home again, both literally and figuratively
Someone to Someone available August 15, 2025 from saxophonist’s Irabbagast Records
“Irabagon’s expressive ability in terms of pure sound is incredible. He is ripe and rowdy, throaty and weird, burnished, loud, tender all at the right moments.” — Pop Matters
“What emerges from PlainsPeak is not merely a jazz album, but a kind of cartography, an emotional and sonic map of a place, drawn through the eyes of an artist deeply attuned to its rhythms, textures, and idiosyncrasies. Track by track, Irabagon invites the listener into a Chicago that is not postcard-perfect but alive, complex, and endlessly inspiring. It is a joy to be transported into this world, to wander its streets, absorb its atmospheres, and see the city anew through Irabagon’s singular lens.” – Thierry De Clemensat, Paris Move