04 Oct

[ October 10th, 2025 release on Giant Step Arts, Mark Turner – Reflections on The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man ]

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Due out October 10, 2025,

Reflections on: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a powerful commentary from one of the most important voices in modern jazz.

“A cult hero and musician’s musician in jazz circles, a tenor player with a sound and language of his own, at once postmodernist and attuned to the lessons of pan-historical jazz lore.” – Josef Woodard, DownBeat

Musicians make albums every day. But statements come along far less often. With his latest release, Reflections on: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, tenor saxophonist Mark Turner has crafted a magnum opus both deeply personal and macrocosmic in its exploration of social issues.

19 Jul

[ July 25th, 2025 release on Giant Step Arts: Rico Jones – BloodLines ]

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Giant Step Arts continues Modern Masters and New Horizons series with new live album by tenor saxophonist Rico Jones. Out July 25, 2025, BloodLines is a deeply personal album, exploring the saxophonist’s heritage, personal connections and spirituality in a stirring live context. With BloodLines, Giant Steps Arts introduces a compelling new compositional voice, Colorado-native tenor saxophonist Rico Jones. The album is his New York City leader debut and features a multi-generational band of peer guitarist Max Light and two veterans in bassist Joe Martin and drummer Nasheet Waits.

“Rico is one of the few original voices emerging. His musicianship and passion have forged to create an original voice we will joyfully be hearing more from in the future!” – Vincent Herring

25 Oct

[ November the 1st, 2024 release on Palmetto Records Andrew Hill Sextet Plus Ten – A Beautiful Day, Revisited ]

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2-LP/CD reissue of Hill’s 2002 live big band recording features a fresh remaster, an extended edit of one track and a previously unreleased bonus track, available November 1, 2024 via Palmetto Records

“One of the most serious, probing personalities in the world of modern jazz.” – Leonard Feather
“His music changed my life, repeatedly, starting in the early 1990s. Every time I heard him live, I would find my usual sense of time and space overridden or intensely altered.” – Vijay Iyer

More than twenty years after the original release of legendary jazz pianist and composer Andrew Hill’s 2002 live big band recording A Beautiful Day, Palmetto Records founder Matt Balitsaris felt compelled to revisit the original recordings. The music, featuring the Andrew Hill Sextet Plus Ten, was so strong that he decided to use advances in recording technology to touch up these old masters and reissue the album, with a fresh remaster, extended edit of one track and a previously unreleased bonus track.

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

23 Jun

[ June 28th, 2024 release on Giant Step Art: Tarbaby – You Think This America ]

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Giant Step Arts continues Modern Masters and New Horizons series with new live album by Tarbaby

Due out June 28, 2024, You Think This America is the first solely trio album from the long-standing cooperative of pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Nasheet Waits.

“Clarity of vision, creative earnestness and eye toward the basics sets the music made by Tarbaby apart.” – The New York City Jazz Record