25 Jul

[ July 25th, 2025 release on Giant Step Arts – Eric McPherson’s Double Bass Quartet ]

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Due out July 25, 2025, Double Bass Quartet explores the unusual possibilities of a two-bass group powered by one of the most creative drummers in modern jazz

“A standout since he joined Jackie McLean’s band as a teenager in the early 1990s, that, along with his work accompanying Andrew Hill, Pharaoh Sanders and Greg Osby, established McPherson as a forceful and resourceful post-bop player versed in the polyrhythmic vocabularies of Elvin Jones and Jack DeJohnette.” – Steven A. Cerra, jazzprofiles.blogspot.com

When your godfather was legendary bassist Richard Davis and family friends included drummers Max Roach, Michael Carvin, Charles Moffett and Freddie Waits, it’s no surprise that Eric McPherson gravitated towards music. And if your mentors were saxophonist Jackie McLean and pianist Andrew Hill, McPherson attaining status as one of the preeminent drummers of his generation became almost preordained. McLean, who worked with a host of legends behind the kit, called McPherson his favourite drummer.

18 Jun

[ June the 27th, 2025 release on Whirlwind Recordings Rez Abbasi’s Acoustic Quintet – Sound Remains ]

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The extraordinary guitarist Rez Abbasi and his Acoustic Quintet (quartet members Bill Ware, Stephan Crump, and Eric McPherson, with the addition of master percussionist Hasan Bakr), release their soaring new album Sound Remains on June 27 via Whirlwind Recordings.

“Track of the week. Stimulating fusion from guitarist Rez Abbasi and his quintet measured out by the 12/8 groove found within ‘Presence’ … the vibes line from Bill Ware dominates the top frequencies of the sound shadowed ingeniously by Abbasi.” – Stephen Graham, Marlbank

13 Jun

[ June the 20th, 2025 release on Fresh Sound New Talent: Hillai Govreen – Every Other Now ]

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release date: 20.06.2025 on Fresh Sound New Talent Records

The New York-based Saxophonist/Composer Hillai Govreen releases the new recording “Every Other Now“. It is the first one I heard since the little track called Face Down In The Dirt, recorded live at Ornithology by Jimmy Katz. The other two, also present on the Bandcamp platform, are Duo recordings with pianist Nitsan Kolko. Those two, Allusions & Passing Through, released just a few months apart from each other, go back to 2021 and already show Govreens’ talents towards building melody-based atmospheric moods.

16 Jun

[ June 21st, 2024 release on Ropedope: Sebastien Ammann – Change of Course ]

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release date: 21.06.2024 on Ropedope

From the back of times, artists, researchers, scholars, philosophers, but also just the common indigenous people, were the first one to ring the alarm bell when the life on Earth needed it. The first and the last ones, due to their deeper sensitivity, leaving their lives close to the nature and having deeper, organic understanding of the mechanisms ruling the nature. Remaining ones, due to their advanced study of the life and behaviour as well as economic processes and understanding the collision courses laying between the human greed and the well being of the planet. Those constantly ignored by the corruption governments and fueling them corpo creeps, basic rules of life, are finally starting to surface with upcoming generations’ healthy fear about the future. Something that brings the hope that maybe, just maybe, we won’t die out like a dinos. Which were better creatures by default, as they didn’t kill themselves neither exploited their homeland or blow it out. This is exactly what this music is about.

16 Jun

[June the 17th, 2022 release via Giant Step Arts: Burton/McPherson Trio feat. Dezron Douglas – The Summit Rock Session at Seneca Village]

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Giant Step Arts, helmed by photographer/engineer Jimmy Katz, releases two new live albums captured at the historic Seneca Village site in Central Park. The albums will be released on Juneteenth – June 19, 2022.

2nd – Burton/McPherson Trio featuring Dezron Douglas The Summit Rock Session at Seneca Village – feature vital concert performances

The albums, available on Juneteenth – June 19, 2022 – are the latest releases from photographer/engineer Jimmy Katz’s Giant Step Arts, a groundbreaking, artist-focused non-profit with a single mission: to help modern jazz innovators create their art free of commercial pressure

“Giant Step Arts [is] a nonprofit dedicated to giving underappreciated but visionary jazz musicians the support they need to make quality live albums. Palmer is a…thrifty improviser with a vast dynamic range and an ambitious composer.” – Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times

03 Oct

[ 18th October release on Palmetto Records: The Fred Hersch Trio 10 Years / 6 Discs Anniversary Box]

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Available: October 18 via Palmetto Records

One of the most influential improvising musicians currently performing—a “living legend,” per the New Yorker—the pianist and composer Fred Hersch has made groundbreaking contributions in a staggering range of creative formats. DownBeat called his unprecedented cross-disciplinary theatre piece My Coma Dreams “a brave work of art that deserves to be seen and heard.” In the New York Times, the critic Nate Chinen wrote that “solo piano playing is one of the things that Mr. Hersch does best,” before explaining how he “combines the rigours of classical training with the disciplined freedom of improvisation and explores a richly varied repertory.”