21 May

[ May the 30th, 2025 release on Outside in Music: Ryan Truesdell – SHADES OF SOUND: Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2. ]

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Multi-Grammy Award-winning artist Ryan Truesdell reopens the Gil Evans Project vaults for the May 30, 2025 release of a powerful new album SHADES OF SOUND: Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2

Following in the footsteps of the band’s two critically acclaimed and Grammy Award-nominated albums, Centennial (2012) and Lines of Color (2015), SHADES OF SOUND (Outside In Music) continues to peel back the hidden layers of Gil Evans’ musical legacy. This exhilarating new collection marks the first time the band appears on vinyl and features some of New York’s finest musicians including Lewis Nash, Donny McCaslin, Steve Wilson, Ryan Keberle, Wendy Gilles, and the late Frank Kimbrough.

★★★★ “an album of rare depth and resonance…The arrangements, while infused with a modern sensibility, preserve the soul of the originals, making the music feel as urgent and contemporary as ever….From the first note to the last, Shades of Sound casts a spell.” – Thierry De Clemensat

“Truesdell’s approach to Evans’s legacy transcends mere homage. Rather than modernizing Evans, he illuminates just how forward-thinking this musical visionary truly was.” – Nick Lea, Jazz Views

“The gorgeous lilt of Evans’ still startling original arrangements for horns is preserved, not in the aspic of academia but in the living, breathing performances of a group of New York’s finest musicians such as Evans might have selected himself.” — Cormac Larkin, The Irish Times

12 Jul

[ July 12th, 2024 release on Palmetto Records: Brian Landrus Plays Ellington & Strayhorn ]

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Low woodwind specialist Brian Landrus, guitarist Dave Stryker, bassist Jay Anderson, and drummer Billy Hart celebrate the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn on the gorgeous new album Brian Landrus Plays Ellington & Strayhorn just out July 12, 2024 via Palmetto Records.

“The low reeds specialist Brian Landrus [is] a commanding voice on both baritone saxophone and bass clarinet.” – Nate Chinen, WBGO
“Brian Landrus established himself as a composer of great strength and substance, and rose to his position as one of the foremost low reed specialists on the scene.” – Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz

The album features Landrus on a full spectrum of instruments: baritone and bass saxophones, bass and contra alto clarinets, piccolo, and C, alto and bass flutes. With Grammy-winning engineer and producer John Kilgore, he layers his multi-hued voices into a rich and distinctive orchestral sound that harkens to the lush timbres of the classic Ellington Orchestra while displaying an evocative sonic hue all his own.

23 Apr

[ May 3rd, 2024 release on Ansible Editions: Dun-Dun Band – Pita Parks Pt.1 Xam Egdub ]

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Constellation Records alumnus Craig Dunsmuir presents his hypnotic out-jazz tentet Dun-Dun Band (out 3 May on Ansible Editions)

For anyone at all acquainted with underground music in Toronto, Craig Dunsmuir is as ubiquitous as he is revered. Many locals know him for his profound knowledge and curiosity as a listener, traits he’s deployed as a DJ and while working at some of the city’s most beloved record stores. His famously encyclopedic vantage point, though, has also served as fuel for the vast musical output he has created over the past 20+ years.