04 Oct

[ October the 8th, 2024 release via Playscape Recordings: Jason Robinson’s Ancestral Numbers II ]

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The second volume of Jason Robinson’s “love note to my family” is out October 8, 2024 via Playscape Recordings, with trombonist Michael Dessen, pianist Joshua White, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Ches Smith

“Jason Robinson tends to weave his musical projects with multiple and overlapping narrative layers… [his] richly nuanced, storytelling compositions are full of freedom, flexibility, inventiveness and humor.” – Eyal Hareuveni, All About Jazz

“Jason Robinson is a sure-footed reedist, composer, bandleader and improviser… There is certainly jazz tradition here, but also a blissful sense of contemporary vitality.” – Filipe Freitas, Jazz Trail

09 May

[ May 14th, 2024 release on Playscape recordings: Jason Robinson’s Ancestral Numbers ]

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The first of two volumes is due out May 14, 2024 via Playscape Recordings, featuring trombonist Michael Dessen, pianist Joshua White, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Ches Smith.

03 May

[ May 10th, 2024 release via Tonal Conversations: Christopher Zuar Orchestra – Exuberance ]

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Composer and bandleader Christopher Zuar takes a bold leap forward with the dazzling second album by his 22-piece Jazz Orchestra

Exuberance, due out May 10, 2024 via Tonal Conversations, vividly traces Zuar’s personal evolution through his relationship with his wife and collaborator, animator Anne Beal. Album release concert May 11, 2024 at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, featuring the full ensemble and projected animations

Exuberance is “a mature statement by a great composer in his prime, performed by a stellar ensemble with passion and care.” – pianist/composer Fred Hersch in the album’s liner notes

“[Zuar’s] music, artfully crafted and expertly rendered by a forward-thinking jazz orchestra, manages to harness and refract the sounds of struggle, hope, affirmation, humor, and youth.” – Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz

“Zuar’s compositions soar with a richness and beauty that demand reflection and leave a deep sense of serenity.” – Jeff Krow, Audiophile Audition

12 Nov

[ November 15th, 2023 release on Corner Store Jazz: Phil Haynes – Chasing the Masters – A Life Improvised ]

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The engrossing book, due out November 15, 2023, features stories of Haynes’ encounters with legends like Lee Konitz, Anthony Braxton, Dave Liebman and Paul Smoker, along with poetry, musical analysis and lessons from a life in music. The release will be accompanied by the career-spanning, eight-hour compilation A Life Improvised, a 62-track collection encompassing Haynes’ myriad projects and collaborations.

“In [Chasing the Masters], you find the beauty of Phil and his way of living. His artistry percolates beyond the rims of the glass (or of a drum), as all of the world becomes his canvas.” – Vocalist Nicholas Horner, from the Foreword to Chasing the Masters

“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

12 Jun

[ June the 15th, 2023 release on Corner Store Jazz: Phil Haynes, David Liebman & Phil Gress ‘Coda(s): No Fast Food III ]

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Drummer/Composer Phil Haynes launches an ambitious three-year release schedule with a new album by his adventurous trio No Fast Food. Coda(s), due out on Haynes’ 62nd birthday, June 15, 2023 via his Corner Store Jazz imprint, reunites the drummer with legendary saxophonist David Liebman and bassist Drew Gress. The release is the first of several planned through 2025, including Haynes’ memoir Chasing the Masters with an accompanying 62-track audio compilation

“[No Fast Food is] freewheeling free-bop… by a musically flexible trio of masters hellbent on dealing beauty.” – Dave Wayne, All About Jazz

“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

03 Jan

[ January the 7th, 2022 release via Palmetto Records: Fred Hersch with Drew Gress & Jochen Reuchert – Breath by Breath ]

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release date: 07.01.2022 via Paletto Records

“[Fred Hersch is] a pianist, composer and conceptualist of rare imaginative power.” – Nate Chinen, The New York Times
“Hersch’s work has developed an intensity of intelligence and emotional directness unparalleled among his peers.” – Steve Futterman, The New Yorker

Iconic pianist/composer Fred Hersch was an early adopter of new technologies and new ways forward when the pandemic hit in early 2020. But he’s also been among the most eager to return to live performance and collaboration now that life has begun to resume some semblance of normality. In August he returned to the studio to record one of his most ambitious projects to date: Breath By Breath, his first album ever pairing jazz rhythm section with string quartet.

14 Jul

[ Pianist/Composer Fred Hersch earns multiple DownBeat Critics Poll accolades, tours Europe, and announces new album ]

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Fred Hersch: Refuge, due out January 7, 2022 via Palmetto Records, features Hersch with Drew Gress, Jochen Rueckert & The Hudson String Quartet

“Fred Hersch belongs to the jazz piano aristocracy, that small elite called to leave a lasting mark.” – Louis-Julien Nicolaou, Télérama, June 2021

“Fred Hersch is always on target. Right in the heart. By playing ‘Songs from Home.’ Fred Hersch makes Bal Blomet his home. The audience’s silence is worthy of that of the forest that surrounds the house where this album was recorded…. Fred Hersch makes the piano sing…. The public does not want to leave. Fred Hersch either.” – Guillaume Lagrée, Le jars jase jazz, June 2021

07 May

[ 15th of May release via Blue Land Records: Brian Lundrus Quartet with Strings – For Now ]

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Available May 15, 2020 via BlueLand Records

“Tonal nuance, melodic sense and instrumental command that set him apart from his peers.” – Ed Enright, DownBeat

For Now has a lot to say about romance, and it says it with quiet conviction and passionate declaration. Ace multi-reedist and composer Brian Landrus whose groundbreaking 2017 large-ensemble album Generations “takes the jazz big band tradition into the mesosphere” (Giovanni Russonello, New York Times), turns here to inner pathways, bringing together a remarkable quartet: pianist Fred Hersch bassist Drew Gress and drummer Billy Hart. Rounding out the musical equation are the brilliant young players Michael Rodriguez (trumpet) and Sara Caswell (violin), plus inventive and elegant string quartet arrangements by Landrus and the distinguished opera composer Robert Aldridge featuring Caswell and Joyce Hamman (violin), Lois Martin (viola) and Jody Redhage-Ferber (cello). The album is produced by Aldridge and composer/writer Herschel Garfein, both Grammy winners.

26 Mar

[ March the 27th release via Corner Store Jazz: The Day Dream Trio – Originals ]

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release date: 27.03.2020 via Corner Store Jazz

Lyrical yet adventurous piano trio Day Dream reconvenes for their third record in a decade, this time focusing on original material

“…a set of buoyant originals…. This is a trio that truly is more than the sum of its parts, attaining vibrancy and color through a melding of Gress’ deep, shapely tones, Haynes’ probing, loose-limbed accents and Rudolph’s heady lyricism. There’s a fullness to the performance that you don’t usually hear in occasional trios –- or even steadily working ones….Perhaps the highlight of Originals, produced by Haynes, is his lovely offbeat celebration of his wife, ‘Beloved Refracted.’” – Lloyd Sachs, DownBeat