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.

18 Aug

[ August the 23rd, 2024 release via Solid Jackson / Palmetto Record: Javon and Nikki Go to the Movies ]

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Javon and Nikki Go to the Movies, due out August 23, 2024 via Solid Jackson / Palmetto Records, draws on the pair’s shared love for standards from Hollywood cinema

“Saxophonist Javon Jackson, he of the sonorous tenor tone and the inquisitive musical mind.” – R.J. DeLuke, All About Jazz
“That a single musician can be equally inspired by the fiery poetry of [Nikki] Giovanni and [Peter Bradley,] a painter who works in abstraction (with no less fiery a personality) says something about the complexity of the musical tradition we call jazz.” – Joshua Myers, DownBeat

Javon & Nikki performances : August 18 – Jazz in the Valley, Poughkeepsie, NY • October 19 – NJPAC, Newark, NJ • November 9 – Louis Armstrong House, Queens, NY

13 Jun

[ June 14th, 2024 release via Palmetto Records: Matt Wilson – Good Trouble ]

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Due out June 14, 2024 via Palmetto Records, Good Trouble pays tribute to late Civil Rights icon John Lewis; with saxophonists Tia Fuller and Jeff Lederer, pianist Dawn Clement and bassist Ben Allison.

“[There’s] almost nobody in Wilson’s peer group with a broader sense of jazz history, or a more natural sense of time, or a stronger signature as a bandleader, or more goodwill among his fellow players.” – Nate Chinen, JazzTimes

“Regardless of the setting, Wilson’s ardent passion can be felt every time he wisely hits a piece of his drum kit.” – Felipe Freitas, JazzTrail

12 Jun

[ June 14th, 2024 release on Palmetto Records Mike Holober – This Rock We’re On Imaginary Letters ]

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Composer/arranger Mike Holober releases his ambitious new album, This Rock We’re On: Imaginary Letters this Friday, June 14, 2024 via Palmetto Records

In his ★★★★ 1/2 star DownBeat review, Ed Enright writes “Mike Holober’s Gotham Jazz Orchestra brings big-city virtuosity and rarefied sensibility to a double-disc, multi-movement program of original compositions inspired by the great outdoors… an utterly moving, long-form suite that finds pianist Holober… at the height of his deep-rooted composing/arranging expertise. A grand-scale masterwork…”

“The tunes featuring the vocalist provide a compelling contrast with the Gotham Jazz Orchestra’s instrumental selections (the bulk of the two-disc recording)—against pieces such as ‘Domes,’ an exultant big band statement, and ‘Tower Pulse,’ a masterful work of sleek modernism. In this juxtaposition, Holober’s talents as a composer for both a large ensemble and an intimate voice cannot be underestimated: these are magnificent expositions both musically and literarily.” – Suzanne Lorge, NYC Jazz Record

“Holober has brought a profound artistic vision to bear on today’s jazz scene and confirmed his standing as one of the finest modern composer/arrangers of our time, in the tradition of Gil Evans, Bob Brookmeyer and Jim McNeely.” – Ed Enright, DownBeat

“This Rock We’re On – Imaginary Letters’ feels like vespers sung for the Anthropocene before night falls.” – environmental justice activist and author Terry Tempest Williams

02 Jan

[ January the 6th, 2023 release on Palmetto Records: Fred Hersch& esperanza spalding – Alive at the Village Vanguard ]

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release date: 06.01.2023 on Palmetto Records

Pianist/composer Fred Hersch and vocalist/bassist/songwriter esperanza spalding (stylized in all lower case) celebrate their captivating new album Alive at the Village Vanguard (available January 6, 2023, Palmetto Records) with a 20-date national tour Sunday, January 8 through Sunday, February 5. Due out January 6, 2023 via Palmetto Records, Alive at the Village Vanguard

01 Aug

[ August the 12th, 2022 release on Palmetto Records – Frank Kimbrough 2003-2006 ]

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Palmetto Records celebrates the life and musicianship of the late pianist/composer Frank Kimbrough with a pair of gorgeous trio dates from a particularly fruitful period in his career. Frank Kimbrough 2003-2006 is out August 12, 2022 via CD and digital with LPs coming later this year. The set features newly mixed and remastered editions of the pianist’s 2003 Lullabluebye featuring Ben Allison and Matt Wilson with his 2006 follow-up Play featuring Masa Kamaguchi and Paul Motian.

“Frank Kimbrough [was] a pianist of unerring taste and touch, a composer drawn to flowing ethereality, and an improviser steeped in the art of epiphany.” – Nate Chinen, WBGO

“ [Kimbrough] was remarkably at ease in any style of jazz, turning on a dime from blocky and dissonant clusters to bebop workouts to ethereal subtleties. In all cases, his impeccable touch was balanced by a strong undercurrent of rhythm.” – Michael J. West, JazzTimes

10 Jun

[ June the 17th,2022 release on Palmetto Records: Brian Landrus – Red List ]

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release date: 17.06.2022 on Palmetto Records

“… vivid and moving…The sweep of this music, its complex harmonic colors, its authentic drama, make you think of Gil Evans and Maria Schneider.” – Thomas Conrad, New York City Jazz Record

“A spectacular player…Red List has integrity in its compositional structure, its high-level personnel, its accessibility to groove merchants as well as those who revel in solo bonfires. It is inspired by (and helps fund) a worthy cause. And did we mention the siren call of that low woodwinds buzz?” – Britt Robson, JazzTimes

“His bari flutters with utmost grace, his bass clarinet sobs for humanity and his alto flute floats cloud-like through moody skies.” — Ed Enright, DownBeat

03 Jan

[ January the 7th, 2022 release via Palmetto Records: Fred Hersch with Drew Gress & Jochen Reuchert – Breath by Breath ]

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release date: 07.01.2022 via Paletto Records

“[Fred Hersch is] a pianist, composer and conceptualist of rare imaginative power.” – Nate Chinen, The New York Times
“Hersch’s work has developed an intensity of intelligence and emotional directness unparalleled among his peers.” – Steve Futterman, The New Yorker

Iconic pianist/composer Fred Hersch was an early adopter of new technologies and new ways forward when the pandemic hit in early 2020. But he’s also been among the most eager to return to live performance and collaboration now that life has begun to resume some semblance of normality. In August he returned to the studio to record one of his most ambitious projects to date: Breath By Breath, his first album ever pairing jazz rhythm section with string quartet.

04 Nov

[ November the 6th, 2020 release via Palmetto Records: Fred Hersch – Songs from Home ]

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release date: 06.11.2020 via Palmetto Records

“Ever since I heard Fred Hersch for the first time, he not only became a dear friend but a true idol. His piano playing, his music making, his breath, style, sound and soul are absolutely unique. He sets music free. He speaks directly to all of our hearts. A true Mensch at work. Fred Hersch is a gift to all of us and Songs From Home is another proof of this simple and yet essential truth.”
– Igor Levit, celebrated concert pianist

“When it comes to the art of solo piano in jazz, there are currently two classes of performers: Fred Hersch and everybody else.” – Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz

On Songs From Home, Hersch explores nostalgic pop songs, heartfelt originals and resonant jazz classics with his inimitable expressiveness and rich invention in the intimacy of imposed isolation

12 Aug

[ 28th of August,2020 release on Palmetto Records: Matt Wilson Quartet – HUG! ]

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release date: August 28, 2020 via Palmetto

“…a ray of sunshine from Matt Wilson.” – Nate Chinen, WBGO “Take Five”

“Between the plague and politics, 2020 seems like a good year, if you tote a pitchfork and walk on cloven hoofs. The rest of us could use some lifting up, and no one’s better suited to that job than Matt Wilson.” – Bill Meyer, DownBeat

A new Matt Wilson album isn’t so much a snapshot capturing the drummer at a particular moment in time. Rather, his recordings are more like a musical family tree, vividly illustrating the web of relationships that manifest in his music. A creative force since the 1980s, he embodies a verdant and radically unbounded aesthetic, and Hug embraces some of his deepest nourishing roots. Featuring Wilson’s long-running quartet with saxophonist Jeff Lederer, cornetist Kirk Knuffke and bassist Chris Lightcap, Hug documents one of jazz’s most potent and expressive working bands exploring a typically far-flung Wilsonian program.