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.

07 Jan

[ January the 13th, 2023 release via Freedom Road Records: John Bailey, George Cables, Scott Colley & Victor Lewis – Time Bandits ]

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Time Bandits, due out January 13, 2023 via Freedom Road Records, features a brilliant all-star quartet with pianist George Cables, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Victor Lewis

“[John Bailey is a] horn player that sounds like he took the brass torch from Dizzy Gillespie… as crisp and sharp as a Dolce & Gabbana suit.”
– George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly

“When describing John Bailey as a trumpeter, musician, and composer, it is easy to run out of superlatives… a mature musician at the height of his game and waiting to be transcribed by the next generation.” – Michael Hackett, ITG Journal

Album release concerts March 24 & 25 at Smalls, NYC

03 Nov

[ IMPORTANT(please share) !!! DEEP TONES FOR PEACE presents DEEP TONES FOR CHANGE – A RELAY FOR PEACE ]

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With the election so close, the division so fractious and potentially explosive, we feel a special event is needed for the public on Election Day. On November 3, Deep Tones for Change will transmit 4 performances each hour, spanning the 17 hours that US polls are open nationwide, from the East Coast to Hawaii – 68 individual performances!

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.