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.

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.

26 Oct

[ October 27th, 2023 release via Pyroclastic Records: Angelica Sanchez — Nighttime Creatures ]

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Pianist/Composer Angelica Sanchez explores the vibrant hues of the nocturnal world on the debut album by her all-star Nonet

Nighttime Creatures, due out October 27, 2023 via Pyroclastic Records, Angelica Sanchez‘s NONET, features Michaël Attias, Ben Goldberg, John Hébert, Thomas Heberer, Sam Ospovat, Chris Speed, Omar Tamez and Kenny Warren

“One of the most persistently overlooked and under-recorded pianists of her generation, Angelica Sanchez… nonchalantly displays her versatility [on] fleet post-bop, fully improvised excursions, or… brooding introspection.” – Peter Margasak, The Quietus

” Angelica Sanchez is a pianist of great depth and imagination.” – Richard J. Salvucci, All About Jazz

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.”