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Release date: 16th OCTOBER 2015 JAZZ; WORLD MUSIC; BLUES; REGGAE; ROOTS; ROCK/POP; SOUNDTRACKS HARMONIA MUNDI LABELS: DISCOGRAPH / JAZZ VILLAGE / LE CHANT DU MONDE / WORLD VILLAGE
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RELEASE DATE 16TH OCTOBER 2015
On the Way to Two KENNY WHEELER & JOHN TAYLOR When this album was mooted, following the death of Kenny Wheeler, it seemed impossible that by the time of its release both protagonists would be gone. And so, what was intended as a tribute to the great Canadian trumpet player, is instead a memorial to two musicians who, in their understated way, dominated jazz in the UK through the 70s and 80s, recording together in the band Azimuth and then on key labels ECM and Cam Jazz, creating a body of work that will stand witness to their greatness. Released from CAM JAZZ’s archives “On The Way To Two” was recorded in 2005 featuring 10 songs over a total 45 minutes of stunning music. Complex themes alternate with short improvised passages, as proof of that natural, special feeling that bound the two musicians. Before Taylor died, he wrote in the liner notes his valediction to Wheeler: “It was a privilege and joy to play with you for most of my life, and I wish you were here now to listen to this music again with me”. "On The Way to Two" demonstrates and celebrates the empathy that these two musicians managed to build and develop over the long years of their playing together.
Label: CAM Jazz File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: CAMJ7892-2 Barcode: 8052405141729 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Kenny Wheeler - trumpet, flugelhorn John Taylor - piano
Track listing: 1. Canter #2 4:05 2. Fedora 5:50 3. Sketch No. 1 1:40 4. Quiso 5:42 5. Who Knows? 4:28 6. Sketch No. 2 2:53 7. Close To Mars 5:00 8. Fortune’s Child 3:18 9. Sketch No. 3 2:41 10. A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing 8:21
RELEASE DATE 16TH OCTOBER 2015
This Machine Kills Fascists FRANCESCO BEARZATTI TINISSIMA 4et Francesco Bearzatti’s latest album, “This Machine Kills Fascists”, is a tribute to Woody Guthrie (the words were emblazoned on the singer-songwriter, novelist and political activist's guitar in 1941). Following in the footsteps of “Tina Modotti” (2008), “Malcom X” (released in 2010 and winner of several top jazz awards) and the successful interlude of Monk’N’Roll (reinterpreting Monk’s themes by interlacing them with some of the most popular songs in the history of rock music), the saxophonist is back to musically depicting the life, art and times of another rebellious, unruly artist. "This Machine..." studies the other America, that of folk and blues, filtered through the perception of Bearzatti and a quartet that has already gained its place in jazz history. Moving through painful blues and frenzied tracks, the songs chart a musical journey that starts with Guthrie’s home town of Okemah, Oklahoma, and winds its way through dust bowls, hobos, ragged clothes and New York City. It ends with a piece dedicated to Italian born anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti and with the only non-original piece here, a reinterpretation of Guthrie's anthemic “This Land Is Your Land”.
Label: CAM Jazz File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: CAMJ7893-2 Barcode: 8052405141750 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Francesco Bearzatti - saxophone Giovanni Falzone - trumpet Danilo Gallo - bass Zeno De Rossi - drums
Track listing: 1. Okemah (Intro) 0:59 2. Dust Bowl 2:16 3. Okemah 6:06 4. Long Train Running 06:32 5. Hobo Rag 4:29 6. N.Y. 07:31 7. Witch Hunt 5:07 8. When U Left 04:57 9. Okemah (Reprise) 1:26 10. One For Sacco And Vanzetti 5:16 11. This Land Is Your Land 3:41
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Homes GILAD HEKSELMAN Gilad Hekselman’s new album, Homes, is a wonderful exploration of his ports of call, capturing their distinct musical personalities as well as the human values they represent. Accompanied by his loyal sidemen who have been with him for almost a decade, as well as a prestigious special guest, the guitarist reveals the secrets behind his influences and welcomes us into the innermost parts of his Homes. UK Tour Dates: Nov 18 - Gwyn Hall, Neath Nov 19 - Theatr Hafren, Newtown Nov 20 - RWCMD, Cardiff Nov 21 - Ucheldre, Holyhead Nov 22 - Silvershine, Birmingham Nov 23 - Vortex, London
Label: Jazz Village File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: 570058 Barcode: 3149027004121 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Gilad Hekselman - guitars Joe Martin - bass Marcus Gilmore - drums (except track 10) Jeff Ballard - drums (tracks 3 & 10)
Track listing: 1. Homes 0:32 2. Verona 7:51 3. Keedee 7:37 4. Home E-Minor 1:29 5. Space 0:37 6. Cosmic Patience11:16 7. Eyes To See 4:29 8. Parisian Thoroughfare 5:40 9. Samba Em Preludio 7:12 10. Last Train Home 5:28 11. Dove Song 5:06 12. Place Like No Home 1:45
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Sounds and Cries of the World JEN SHYU & JADE TONGUE Sounds and Cries of the World is the latest from experimental jazz vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Jen Shyu, who is best known for carving out new improvisational terrain for the voice through integrating traditional music discovered through rigorous research and fieldwork. The Guardian has called her “a remarkable phenomenon” and The Wall Street Journal “invigorating” and “enigmatic.” A 2014 recipient of the prestigious Doris Duke Impact Award, Shyu is well-respected for her uncanny vocal precision and formidable musicianship. She is perhaps best known as a member of influential saxophonist Steve Coleman’s band Five Elements – most recently on the critically lauded Synovial Joints (Pi 2015).
Label: Pi Recordings File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: Pi61 Barcode: 808713006124 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Jen Shyu - vocals, piano, gat kim (2-stringed Taiwanese moon lute), gayageum (12-stringed Korean zither), ggwaenggwari (Korean gong), kemanak (Javanese gamelan idiophone) Ambrose Akinmusire - trumpet Mat Maneri - viola Thomas Morgan - bass Dan Weiss - drums
Her new release is a culmination of her travels through East Timor, Korea, Indonesia, and Taiwan, where she has spent months to years in each place immersing herself in the language and under-recognized music of various indigenous cultures. Utilizing specific musical forms, dream-like narrative, and language of these various cultures, her work is utterly unique. The musicians Shyu has gathered together in her band Jade Tongue - trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, violist Mat Maneri, bassist Thomas Morgan, and drummer Dan Weiss - are currently some of the most acclaimed players in and around the jazz and improvised music scene. Track listing: 1. Song of Kwan Wen 2. Bloom's Mouth Rushed In 3. Mother of Time 4. Moxa 5. Aku Yang Lahir Dari Air Mata | Båwå Sidå Asih 6. Para Pembakar Ombak 7. She Held Fire 8. Rai Nakukún Ba’ Dadaúk Ona 9. Song for Naldo 10. Thoughts of Light and Freedom
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Introducing Shortlist 1992-2015
URI CAINE Uri Caine is one of the few artists who is at home in jazz clubs, in vaudevilles, in classical concert-halls and at the opera. Caine is a knowledgeable great master of both serious and light music. His artistic creativity and joy of experimentation seem to be immense. Through his interpretations do not only Bach and Beethoven sound unexpectedly new but also Gershwin, the popular songs of the Tin Pan Alley and the great American songbook, not to forget Gustav Mahler. Throughout the decades Uri Caine has preserved his original style and unique sound-language. However that shows only one side of this unique and most impressive artist. Caine is not only the master of adaptations, he is also a great composer and one of the greatest living jazz musicians of our time. The "Shortlist" presents highlights from 1992 - 2015. Uri Caine takes the listener's hand and leads him to his world of music with jazz, latin, popular and classical elements.
Label: Winter&Winter File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: 910228-2 Barcode: 025091022823 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack
Also available: 919064-2 Sphere Music [2011] 919077-2 Toys [1996] 910004-2 Urlicht/Primal Light [1997] 910046-2 Mahler in Toblach [2 CDs] [1999] 910049-2 Love Fugue [2000] 910054-2 The Goldberg Variations [2 CDs] [2000] 910075-2 Solitaire [2001] 910112-2 Shelf-Life [2005] 910130-2 Uri Caine Ensemble plays Mozart [2006] 910135-2 The Othello Syndrome [1993] 910205-2 Rhapsody in Blue [2013] Track listing: 1. Goldberg Variations - Aria 1:48 / 2. Caine/Bach: Goldberg Variation 1 1:03 / 3. Caine/Bach: Goldberg Variation 5 [+8] 1:26 / 4. Caine/Gershwin: How long has this been going on / 5. Verdi: Drinking Song 4:26 / 6. This Is a Thing Called Love 7:13 / 7. Caine/Bach: Goldberg Variations/The Contrapunto Variation / 8. Blackbird 6:03 / 9. Strom's Theremin 5:20 / 10. Im wunderschoenen Monat Mai 2:24 / 11. Only Love Beauty 2:51 / 12. Yellow Stars in Heaven 9:10 / 13. Introduction for Symphony No. 5 1:53 / 14. Symphony No. 5, Adagietto 12:43
RELEASE DATE 16TH OCTOBER 2015
Expanded Places OLIVIER BOGÉ Following The World Begins Today, recorded with Tigran Hamasyan, Jeff Ballard and Sam Minaie, and praised worldwide, Olivier Bogé now offers a very personal new recording, Expanded Places, in which his expressivity is driven at its most. Playing the saxophone, the piano, guitars, fender Rhodes and vocals, Olivier Bogé has also gathered some of the greatest musicians of his entourage. The result is a series of nine oneiric and fascinating compositions.
Label: NAÏVE File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: NJ625411 Barcode: 3298496254114 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Olivier Bogé - piano, saxophone, Fender Rhodes, vocals Nicolas Moreaux - bass Karl Jannuska - drums Manon Ponsot - cello (tracks 2, 7) Guillaume Bégni - French horn (tracks 1, 2, 7)
Track listing: 1. Red Petals Disorder 2. Icarus’ Dream 3. Beyond The Valley Of Fears 4. What People Say 5. The Fairy And The Beard Man 6. Expanded Places 7. Sound Of The Endless River 8. Wings Of Desire 9. Apedjan (for Tigran)
RELEASE DATE 16TH OCTOBER 2015
Time River MIHO HAZAMA Composer, Arranger, and Pianist Hazama releases her second album on Sunnyside Records, Time River draws on her former life in Tokyo and her new one in New York City, displaying an ambitious and nuanced musical temperament and featuring Hazama’s m_unit, a hybrid big band/chamber ensemble with special guests saxophonist Joshua Redman & accordionist Gil Goldstein. The album features eight striking Hazama originals along with an unexpected arrangement of “Magdalena,” a song by the prog rock band A Perfect Circle. Before attending Manhattan School of Music, Hazama graduated from Tokyo’s Kunitachi College of Music with a degree in Classical Composition. She started her career as an orchestrator/arranger for legendary free jazz pianist Yosuke Yamashita in 2007 and has since worked with Vince Mendoza, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Sagisu. She’s also created orchestrations and arrangements for Japanese movies, commercials and TV programs.
Label: Sunnyside Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: SSC1420 Barcode: 016728142021 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Miho Hazama - composer, conductor Sara Caswell, Joyce Hammann - violin Meaghan Burke - cello Lois Martin - viola James Shipp - vibes Adam Unsworth - French horn Andrew Gutauskas, Ryoji Ihara, Cam Collins saxophone Alex Brown, Sam Harris - piano Sam Anning - bass Jake Goldbas - drums
Tracklisting: 1. The Urban Legend 2. Cityscape 3. Under The Same Moon 4. Dizzy Dizzy Wildflower 5. Alternative Universe, was that real? 6. Introduction 7. Fugue 8. Time River 9. Magdalena (song by A Perfect Circle)
RELEASE DATE 16TH OCTOBER 2015
Portraits GUILHEM FLOUZAT Paris-born and New York-based drummer and composer Guilhem Flouzat's sophomore album comes five years after his first release, One Way...Or Another, hailed by a French critic as "the work of a musical architect to which you can listen again and again". In five years he has built a brilliant and steadfast musical family, with mentors such as Eric Harland, Ben Wendel and Dan Weiss. He has played and recorded with the likes of Steve Wilson, Lionel Loueke, Gilad Hekselman and Dave Liebman, honing a musical language expressive and unique, somewhere between the fire of the New York scene and the introspective lyricism of French composer Francis Poulenc. with Portraits Flouzat curated a series of nine songs with five different line ups, creating a unique gallery over the course of two studio days. More than just sidemen, the musicians are close friends of Flouzat, and a written portrait accompanies each song.
Label: Sunnyside Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: SSC1398 Barcode: 016728139823 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Guilhem Flouzat - drums Becca Stevens - vocals Ben Wendel - tenor saxophone Jay Rattman – alto saxophone Anna Webber - tenor saxophone & flute Laurent Coq - piano Can Olgun - piano Desmond White - bass
Track Listing: 1. Ben's Song 2. Where We Should Go 3. Underachiever 4. At This Juncture In Time 5. A Dream 6. Sleepwalk 7. Truce 8. What's Up Yourself 9. Knight
RELEASE DATE 16TH OCTOBER 2015
The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note RAN BLAKE Cam Jazz reissue another batch of titles in their exemplary series of boxed sets dedicated to the catalogues of the legendary Italian labels.
Label: CAM Jazz File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: BXS1034 Barcode: 8052405141811 Price: MID PRICE Format: 7 CD Packaging: box set
Includes the following albums: IMPROVISATIONS DUKE DREAMS SUFFIELD GOTHIC SHORT LIFE OF BARBARA MONK EPISTROPHY UNMARKED VAN INDIAN WINTER
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The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note ARCHIE SHEPP Cam Jazz reissue another batch of titles in their exemplary series of boxed sets dedicated to the catalogues of the legendary Italian labels. Includes the following albums: A SEA OF FACES DOWN HOME NEW YORK LITTLE RED MOON CALIFORNIA MEETING - LIVE “ON BROADWAY”
Label: CAM Jazz File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: BXS1035 Barcode: 8052405141828 Price: MID PRICE Format: 4 CD Packaging: box set
RELEASE DATE 16TH OCTOBER 2015
The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note ROSCOE MITCHELL Cam Jazz reissue another batch of titles in their exemplary series of boxed sets dedicated to the catalogues of the legendary Italian labels.
Label: CAM Jazz File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: BXS1036 Barcode: 8052405141835 Price: MID PRICE Format: 9 CD Packaging: box set
Includes the following albums: 3x4 EYE ROSCOE MITCHELL AND THE SOUND & SPACE ENSEMBLES THE FLOW OF THINGS LIVE AT THE KNITTING FACTORY DUETS AND SOLOS THIS DANCE IS FOR STEVE McCALL THE ITALIAN CONCERT SHADOWGRAPH, 5 SPIHUMONESTY
RELEASE DATE 16TH OCTOBER 2015
The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note KENNY WHEELER Cam Jazz reissue another batch of titles in their exemplary series of boxed sets dedicated to the catalogues of the legendary Italian labels. Includes the following albums: FLUTTER BY, BUTTERFLY WELCOME ALL THE MORE TALES GUEST
Label: CAM Jazz File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: BXS1037 Barcode: 8052405141842 Price: MID PRICE Format: 5 CD Packaging: box set
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The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note MAX ROACH Cam Jazz reissue another batch of titles in their exemplary series of boxed sets dedicated to the catalogues of the legendary Italian labels. Includes the following albums: BIRTH AND REBIRTH COLLAGE SURVIVORS HISTORIC CONCERTS Set 1 HISTORIC CONCERTS Set 2 BRIGHT MOMENTS
Label: CAM Jazz File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: BXS1038 Barcode: 8052405141859 Price: MID PRICE Format: 6 CD Packaging: box set
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The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note ANDREW HILL Cam Jazz reissue another batch of titles in their exemplary series of boxed sets dedicated to the catalogues of the legendary Italian labels. Includes the following albums: FACES OF HOPE STRANGE SERENADE VERONA RAG SHADES
Label: CAM Jazz File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: BXS1039 Barcode: 8052405141866 Price: MID PRICE Format: 4 CD Packaging: box set
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The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note MINGUS DYNASTY / BIG BAND CHARLIE MINGUS Cam Jazz reissue another batch of titles in their exemplary series of boxed sets dedicated to the catalogues of the legendary Italian labels. Includes the following albums: REINCARNATION MINGUS’ SOUNDS OF LOVE LIVE AT THE THEATRE BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT / PARIS Vol. 1 LIVE AT THE THEATRE BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT / PARIS Vol. 2
Label: CAM Jazz File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: BXS1040 Barcode: 8052405141873 Price: MID PRICE Format: 4 CD Packaging: box set
RELEASE DATE 16TH OCTOBER 2015
Magic Moments 8 VARIOUS ARTISTS The latest budget-priced compilation showcasing recent releases from the ACT roster of artists. 16 tracks, 71 minutes.
Label: ACT Music File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: ACT9599-2 Barcode: 614427959928 Price: BUDGET PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack
Track listing: 1. Mighty Sam McClain & Knut Reiersrud - Too Proud (5:17) 2. Torsten Goods - Sing Hallelujah (3:33) 3. Ida Sand - Hey Hey, My My (3:14) 4. Solveig Slettahjell, Knut Reiersrud, In The Country - Borrowed Time (4:40) 5. Rudresh Mahanthappa - Bird Calls #1 (2:52) 6. Natalia Mateo - I Put a Spell On You (3:18) 7. Frank Woeste feat. Youn Sun Nah - The Star Gazer (6:43) 8. Caecilie Norby & Lars Danielsson - Liberetto Cantabile (4:28) 9. Dieter Ilg - Adagio (4:52) 10. Wolfgang Haffner - Piano Man (5:04) 11. Romain Collin - 99 (2:03) 12. Kalle Kalima - Ghost Riders in the Sky (5:17) 13. Randi Tytingvag - Steady-Going (3:14) 14. Jukka Perko & Iiro Rantala - Just Say I Love Her (5:01) 15. Regis Gizavo & Nguyen Le - South Africa (Live) (7:00) 16. Iiro Rantala - Imagine (4:48)
RELEASE DATE 16TH OCTOBER 2015
Tantz! Klezmer & Gipsy Music
SIRBA OCTET Tantz means ‘dance’ in Yiddish. La Dolce Volta presents here an expressive, mellow, dance-filled flight of inspiration in which the Sirba Octet, on its fifth album, performs a kaleidoscope of numbers marked by folk sonorities from the musical traditions of Russia, Moldavia, Poland and Romania: a chance to discover the Doina, the Hora, the Sirba, and many others – as many as the emotions and surprises that the klezmorim and gypsy musicians offered their audiences as they passed through villages to play for celebrations and weddings. While respecting that tradition, the eight musicians drawn from the Orchestre de Paris give this music a new distinction in unique arrangements played with dazzling interpretative freedom. A true musical treasure trove!
Label: La Dolce Volta File Under: World music / Klezmer Catalogue No: LDV21 Barcode: 3770001901404 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack
Track listing: 1. Hora de Bessarabie 1:36 2. Hora de Mana Pe Batai / Di Mashke 5:20 3. Fantaisie Roumaine 2:25 4. Les deux guitares 5:16 5. Doina Ciobanului / Sirba 
6:43 6. Vu bistu geven / Der yid in Yerushalaim / Batuta de la Sarata 6:58 7. Oyfn Veg Shteyt A Boym / Avreml der Marvikher 4:06 8. Fantaisie Hongroise 2:55 9. Jalea Tiganilor / Opa Tsupa / Yom Shabes yom 9:15 10. A Gute Vokh 4:27 11. Hora Dance / Hora Flacailor 5:09 12. Doina clarinette / Ciganski Stakato 4:27 13. Ikh shtey unter a bokserboym, musique Chava Alberstein 5:22 14. Geamparale de la Babadag 1:56
RELEASE DATE 16TH OCTOBER 2015
The Singing of Sanaa HASAN AL-'AJAMÎ Sublime poetic texts (dating from the 14th century) and highly original instruments (qanbûs lute and copper plate percussion) inspire the Singing of Sanaa, the quintessence of Yemenite traditional music, in classic themes of courtly love, nostalgia and absence... Al-'Ajamî is a sublime vocalist and a master exponent of the lute, and is perhaps the last musician still able to perform in the ancient tradition. The music, comprising three long suites, gives us a good example of what Arab music must have been like at the beginning of the Islamic era. This is a re-issue of C560173 originally released in 2003.
Label: Radio France File Under: World music / Yemen Catalogue No: C561173 Barcode: 3149028076424 Price: LOWER FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Hasan al-'Ajamî - vocals, lute Mohammed al-Khamîsî - percussion