04 Dec

[ December the 6th, 2024 release on Giant Step Arts The Fury – Live in Brooklyn ]

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Giant Step Arts continues the Modern Masters and New Horizons series with the new live album by collective group The Fury, Out December 6, 2024, Live In Brooklyn documents the debut performance of a quartet of some of the most accomplished players in modern jazz with Mark Turner, Lage Lund, Matt Brewer and Tyshawn Sorey.

“It’s rare even in New York City to have a group of four musicians with this kind of deep connection and who are this esteemed to make a live record at an intimate venue like Ornithology in Brooklyn. The audience was thrilled to be in the room as these four masters created, and Giant Step Arts is overjoyed with the results.” – Jimmy Katz

01 Dec

[ December the 6th, 2024 release on Giant Step Arts: Jason Palmer – The Cross Over: Live in Brooklyn ]

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Giant Step Arts continues the Modern Masters and New Horizons series with the new live album by trumpeter Jason Palmer. Out December 6, 2024, The Cross Over: Live in Brooklyn is the fourth in a series of acclaimed albums from trumpeter Jason Palmer.

“Jason’s ability to express in his own personal voice an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the jazz trumpet vocabulary, without being possessed by it, is truly rare.” – Russ Musto, NYCJR

25 Jun

[ June 28th, 2024 release on Giant Step Art: Nasheet Waits – New York Love Letter (Bitter Sweet) ]

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Giant Step Arts continues Modern Masters and New Horizons series with new live album by drummer Nasheet Waits. His quartet featuring Mark Turner, Rashaan Carter and Steve Nelson. Due out June 28, 2024, New York Love Letter (Bitter Sweet), live recordings made during the pandemic, is a deeply personal statement from the lifelong New Yorker.

“First-call among his generation for multiple bandleaders, famous or obscure, who want a drummer to render a 360-degree range of styles with authoritative execution, high musicality, imaginative intention and inflamed-soul spirit.” – Ted Panken, Jazziz

05 Sep

[ September 8th, 2023 release on Giant Step Arts: Mark Turner – Live at the Village Vanguard ]

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Giant Step Arts launches its Modern Masters and New Horizons series with the first-ever live album as a leader from tenor saxophonist Mark Turner. Live at the Village Vanguard, out September 8, 2023, featured Turner with trumpeter Jason Palmer, bassist Joe Martin and drummer Jonathan Pinson.

“[Mark Turner is] a premier saxophonist, conceptual thinker and bandleader who plays a visionary role on today’s rapidly evolving, ever-expanding jazz scene.” – Ed Enright, DownBeat

“Light of tone and phenomenally agile, the sound of Mark Turner’s tenor saxophone is so beguiling that I’d happily listen to him playing from a book of exercises.” – Dave Gelly, The Guardian

16 Jun

[June the 17th, 2022 release via Giant Step Arts: Jason Palmer – Live from Summit Rock in 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.

1st – Jason Palmer – Live from Summit Rock in Seneca Village featuring trumpeter Palmer with saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Edward Perez, drummer Johnathan Blake

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

[ October 9, 2020 release on Ridgeway Records: Edward Simon’s 25 Years ]

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release date: 09.09.2020 on Ridgeway Recs

4 stars: “In a musical journey that spans the titular 25 Years, Simon has crafted a lot of music, employing a Latin/jazz/classical approach with a seemingly effortless refinement, making sounds that are unfailingly engaging and beautiful.” – Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz

“One of the strongest pianists of his generation, with intuitive empathy and drum-like ingenuity, and solos compositionally with passionate elegance.” — Ted Panken, DownBeat

Featuring tracks drawn from 13 albums spanning more than two decades, 25 features a brilliant cadre of Simon’s closest collaborators including tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, altoist David Binney, bassists Scott Colley, John Patitucci and Ben Street and drummers Brian Blade and Adam Cruz.

03 Jul

[ July the 10th release via Tone Rogue Records – Ricardo Grilli Quintet – 1962 ]

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The sequel to his acclaimed album 1954, Grilli’s third album draws inspiration from a decade’s evolution with a stellar quintet featuring Mark Turner, Kevin Hays, Joe Martin and Eric Harland

“Evocative, ethereal, and eclectic… Grilli hits that sweet spot somewhere between post bop and the avant garde.”

—Brent Black, Critical Jazz

“Ricardo Grilli is a postbop guitarist with a sideline interest in the cosmos [and] a taste for the ultramodern.”

– Nate Chinen, The New York Times

“Grilli’s considerable chops are in full effect in each setting…an admirable outing.” – Bill Milkowski, DownBeat

27 Jun

[ Sara Serpa’s new release Recognition live-streamed concert on Sunday, June 28 ]

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“…her subtlety and sureness command serious attention.” – The New Yorker

“…a fresh and riveting presence on the vocal-jazz landscape.” – JazzTimes

“…unique beyond words.” – Boston Globe

04 Jun

[ 5th of June 2020 release on Biophilia Records – Sara Serpa – Recognition ]

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release date: June 5, 2020 on Biophilia Records

“… a singular multimedia experience both spellbinding and haunting in nature … truly beyond category.” – Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz

“Recognition is an irreverent and poignant analysis of the place of memory … a sincere reflection on universal responsibility and social justice, Sara Serpa connects the past with the present, exposing the propaganda used by the Portugal’s fascist regime in its occupation of African nations.” – Bruno Duarte, art director and film production designer

“With Recognition, Sara Serpa looks deeply into the problems of colonialism, occupation, racism, and exploitation that have left a scar on human history and continue to impact our world today … Recognition is not only a brilliant artistic work, but an important offering that I hope will be viewed by audiences worldwide.” – trumpeter/vocalist/ composer Amir El-Saffar

“This is a fearless, exciting new work by an already remarkable artist pushing herself outside of her comfort zone from almost every angle.” – guitarist/composer Rafiq Bhatia

07 Mar

[ March the 18th release via Giants Steps Arts: Jason Palmer – The Concert: 12 Musings for Isabella ]

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release date: March 18, 2020, via non-profit Giant Steps Arts

The Concert: 12 Musings for Isabella debuts Palmer’s all-star quintet featuring Mark Turner, with Joel Ross, Kendrick Scott and Edward Perez, is Palmer’s second release from 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.