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Release date: 1st JUNE 2015
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Live in Marciac - July 28th 2014 LUCKY PETERSON Lucky Peterson live in full effect on CD and DVD at last summer's Marciac festival in France, featuring Joe Satriani as special guest on the final track. Born in Buffalo close to New York, Lucky Peterson - a singer, guitarist and organist - is one of the most authentic agents of blues music; he’s familiar with its oral tradition and history and can also play and sing it like no other. Mixing his own compositions and inspired covers (of tracks by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Wilson Pickett and even Johnny Nash), he has decided to treat our eyes and ears to a ‘live’ recording on which he blends blues music and an unstoppable sense of groove. With these fourteen tracks, forged in the embers of a fire burning with soul and rhythm ‘n’ blues but giving off a few gospel and rock ‘n’ roll sparks (witness the final track by Chuck Berry alongside Joe Satriani!), Lucky Peterson has put blues, the oldest form of black American music, back in the limelight.
Label: Jazz Village File Under: Blues Catalogue No: 570076/77 Barcode: 3149027005227 Price: FULL PRICE Format: CD + DVD Packaging: digipack Lucky Peterson - vocals, guitar, organ Marvin Hollie - keyboards Shawn Kellerman - guitar, vocals Raul Valdes - drums Timothy Waits - bass special guest: Joe Satriani (track 14)
Track listing (on CD and DVD): 1. Boogie Thang 2. Funky Broadway 3. I Can See Clearly Now 4. It Ain't Safe 5. Trouble 6. Lock Out Of Love 7. Make My Move On You 8. Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan 9. Nana Jarnell 10. I'm Still Here 11. Goin' Down Slow 12. Jody's Got Your Girl And Gone 13. Boogie Woogie Blues Party 14. Johnny B. Goode (feat. Joe Satriani)
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Alone & Together with Mike Osborne Live at Wigmore Hall 1974
STAN TRACEY A NEWLY DISCOVERED RECORDING OF TWO BRITISH JAZZ LEGENDS GETS A WELCOME FIRST RELEASE! This double album consists of, for the first time ever on CD, the Stan Tracey solo recording Live at Wigmore Hall, made for Cadillac Records in 1974. The re-release of this set is valuable enough in itself, but added golddust comes in the shape of the additional material - the previously unreleased second half of the evening - a duo recording with alto saxist Mike Osborne. Two of the greats of the English jazz scene - in fact two of the finest jazz improvisers of theirs or any time. This is not only highly charged, beautiful music performed by musicians at the top of their game, it's a fascinating and irreplaceable historical snapshot of the jazz scene of the time.
Label: Cadillac Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: SGCCD014/015 Barcode: 5020675971424 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 2 CD Packaging: digipack Stan Tracey - piano Mike Osborne - alto saxophone (CD 2)
"There can't have been too many duos in the history of jazz that have ever achieved such a rare understanding as Osborne and Tracey achieve here. And one that's all the more gratifying in the light of the knowledge that the alto player was the man responsible for bringing newer forms of jazz to Stan's ears, and dissuading the older musician from jacking it in altogether." Steve Lake, 1974 Track listing: CD 1 1. Eighty Eight Plus One 42:04 CD 2 1. Two-Part Intention 45:08
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In for a Penny, In for a Pound HENRY THREADGILL'S ZOOID In for a Penny, In for a Pound is the latest installment in saxophonist/ flutist/composer Henry Threadgill’s ongoing exploration of his singular system for integrating composition with group improvisation. The music for his band Zooid – his main music-making vehicle for the past fourteen years and the longest running band of his illustrious forty plus-year career – is no less than his attempt to completely deconstruct standard jazz form, steering the improvisatory language towards an entirely new system based on preconceived series of intervals. His compositions create a polyphonic platform that encourages each musician to improvise with an ear for counterpoint and, in the process, creating striking new harmonies.
Label: Pi Recordings File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: Pi58 Barcode: 808713005820 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 2 CD Packaging: digipack Henry Threadgill - alto saxophone, flute, bass flute Jose Davila - trombone, tuba Liberty Ellman - guitar Christopher Hoffman - cello Elliot Kavee - drums, percussion
Threadgill is widely considered to be among the most important artists in jazz. The New York Times called him "one of the most thrillingly elusive composers in and around the jazz idiom: a sly maestro of unconventional timbres, bristling counterpoint and tough but slippery rhythms" and NPR called him “a true idiosyncratic great.” He is a founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), which is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its founding this year, and continues to adhere to one of that august organization’s basic tenets: that of finding one’s individual path through original music. Threadgill continues to challenge himself to create music that is pushing the boundaries for what is possible. CD 1 1.In for a Penny, In for a Pound (opening) 2.Ceroepic (for drums and percussion) 3.Dosepic (for Cello) CD 2 1.Off the Prompt Box (Exordium) 2.Tresepic (for trombone and tuba) 3.Unoepic (for guitar)
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Jazzpaña Live GERARDO NUNEZ / ULF WAKENIUS Released in 1992, ACT's very first recording, Jazzpaña, was to become a milestone and synonym for the label's philosophy, and became a double Grammy nominee in the process. Jazzpaña brought the stars of the “Nuevo Flamenco” from Spain together with US jazz greats such as Michael Brecker, Peter Erskine and Al Di Meola, backed by the sound of the WDR Big Band. One album became two in 2000 with Jazzpaña II - a smaller band led by Gerardo Núñez and Chano Domínguez. Now, 15 years on from Jazzpaña II, ACT presents Jazzpaña live. For these concerts, once again both Jazz and Flamenco combine through Spanish guitarist Gerardo Núñez, considered the heir apparent to the great Paco de Lucía, and Swedish guitar virtuoso Ulf Wakenius. However this time a third element, Cuba, is added courtesy of pianist Ramón Valle.
Label: ACT Music File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: ACT9585-2 Barcode: 614427958525 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack
Track listing: 1. Calima (Gerardo Núñez)* 11:45 2. Alma De Mujer (Chano Domínguez)* 8:48 3. Para Chick (Chano Domínguez)* 6:31 4. Siboney (Ernesto Lecuona)* 6:18 5. Blues For Pablo (Gil Evans) 3:17 6. El Vito (trad. arr. by Gerardo Núñez)** 12:17 7. Calima [Encore] (Gerardo Núñez)** 14:08
Gerardo Núñez - flamenco guitar Ulf Wakenius - jazz guitar Chano Domínguez - piano Ramón Valle - piano Omar Rodriguez Calvo - bass Liber Torriente - drums Christof Lauer - saxophone Cepillo / percussion
Recorded live in concert * at the Berlin Philharmonie (KMS), October 21, 2014 ** at the WDR 3 Jazzfest 2015, Domicil Dortmund, January 31, 2015
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The ACT Years TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON Terri Lyne Carrington is one of the world’s most-sought after drummers and one of jazz’s leading female media figures. Her recording and touring with Herbie Hancock and Dianne Reeves have elicited rave reviews internationally. In addition to her recording and international performing, she is renowned for her role as a producer and jazz educator. She has won Grammy Awards both for Best Jazz Vocal Album (2011) and Best Jazz Instrumental Album (2013). This compilation includes tracks from Carrington's two ACT albums as a leader, and from Nguyen Le's Jimi Hendrix tribute album Purple, on which she played in Le's quartet. Musicians featuring on the repertoire include Wallace Roney, Greg Osby, Meshell Ndegeocello, Terence Blanchard, Herbie Hancock, Gary Thomas, Kevin Eubanks and many more.
Label: ACT Music File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: ACT9588-2 Barcode: 614427958822 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack
1. Jazz Is A Spirit (TLC) 3:40* 2. Manic Depression (Jimi Hendrix / arr. by Nguyên Lê) 5:27** 3. Ethiopia (Joni Mitchell) 6:19*** 4. Journey Of Now (TLC / Bob Hurst) 4:15* 5. Voodoo Child [slight return] (Jimi Hendrix / arr. by Nguyên Lê) 6:42** 6. Omega (Jimmy Haslip) 5:22*** 7. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp (Jimi Hendrix / arr. by Nguyên Lê) 3:42** 8. Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix / arr. by Nguyên Lê) 5:19** 9. Mindful Intent (TLC) 5:34*** 10. Middle Way (TLC) 6:57* 11. Samsara [for Wayne] (TLC) 7:24* 12. If 6 Was 9 (Jimi Hendrix / arr. by Nguyên Lê) 4:07** * from the album: Jazz Is A Spirit (ACT 9408-2, 2002) ** from the album: Nguyên Lê: Purple - Celebrating Jimi Hendrix (ACT 9410-2, 2002) *** from the album: Structure (ACT 9427-2, 2004)
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Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic IV - Accordion Night Vincent PEIRANI / Stian CARSTENSEN / Régis GIZAVO / Klaus PAIER From Musette in Paris to Schrammelmusik in Vienna, the Sinti and Roma music from the Balkans and the tango in Buenos Aires, the accordion is best loved in popular music, and a welcome companion in folk music: the "common man's orchestra". In the classical and jazz genres, however, it is all too often misunderstood and still an outsider in classical and jazz music, despite pioneering talents such as Astor Piazzolla and Richard Galliano. The eighth edition of the Jazz at the Philharmonic series at Berlin's Kammermusiksaal, curated by ACT head honcho Siggi Loch, sought to redress that balance, presenting an interweaving line-up of four of the finest accordionists in duo pairings with other instruments. The result is a triumph and presents unequivocably the accordion as a jazz instrument par excellence.
Label: ACT Music File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: ACT9589-2 Barcode: 614427958921 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Klaus Paier (accordion) & Asja Valcic (cello) Régis Gizavo (accordion, vocals) & Nguyên Lê (guitar) Stian Carstensen (accordion) & Adam Baldych (violin) Vincent Peirani (accordion) & Emile Parisien (soprano saxophone)
Track listing: Klaus Paier & Asja Valcic: 01 Tango Loco (Klaus Paier) 5:19 Régis Gizavo & Nguyên Lê: 02 South Africa (Régis Gizavo) 6:54 03 Love (Régis Gizavo) 4:59 Stian Carstensen: 04 Horgalaten (traditional arr. by Stian Carstensen) 4:00 Stian Carstensen & Adam Baldych: 05 Oriental Hoedown (Ola Kvernberg) 6:37 Vincent Peirani & Emile Parisien: 06 Egyptian Fantasy (Sidney Bechet) 4:12 07 Song Of Medina - Casbah (Sidney Bechet) 8:57 08 3 Temps pour Michel‘P (Vincent Peirani) 4:48 Finale - altogether: 09 Libertango (Astor Piazzolla) 8:05
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Graffiti JD ALLEN JD Allen's career ascendence suggests that he's making plenty of the right choices. The native of Detroit has been on the New York scene since 1993, when his youthful precociousness earned him a spot in “Jazz Ahead”, the singer Betty Carter's acclaimed touring program for up-and-comers. TimeOut New York says he will “remind you of giants like Coltrane and Rollins but placing a special kind of premium on concision, directness and accessibility.” The Chicago Reader adds, “Allen has gravitated toward a more brooding, elliptical approach with a strong jolt of John Coltrane at his most probing.” Finally, JD is, in the words of Connecticut's WNPR, “A man for all seasons,” who “plays ballads with warmth, beauty and truth, grooves hard in a post-bop mode or wails in a free jazz setting with passion saturated with the soulful spirituality, grace and inspired abandon recalling the power and the glory of John Coltrane.” One of the telltale symbols of his upward trajectory is the fact that his trio, bassist Gregg August (lead bass chair in the Brooklyn Philharmonic) and drummer Rudy Royston (a much sought-after rhythm power since relocating to New York from Denver), has remained solid throughout his rise.
Label: Savant File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: SCD2147 Barcode: 633842214726 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal JD Allen, tenor saxophone Gregg August, bass Rudy Royston, drums
Track listing: 1. Naked 2. Jawn Henry 3. Third Eye 4. Graffiti 5. G-dspeed, B. Morris 6. Little Mack 7. Sonny Boy 8. Indigo (Blue Like) 9. Disambiguation
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Say When STEVE DAVIS Steve Davis, one of the most beloved trombonists in modern jazz, first dreamed of recording the music of J.J. Johnson some 20 years ago, but only now has the time felt right. Along the way Davis has worked with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, the Jackie McLean Sextet, Chick Corea’s Origin, Benny Golson’s New Jazztet, Horace Silver, Hank Jones, Larry Willis, One for All, Freddie Hubbard and the New Jazz Composer’s Octet, the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars, as well as the big bands of Christian McBride, Ron Carter, Jimmy Heath and Roy Hargrove. He’s earned the highest praise, too, such as Freddie Hubbard calling him “one of the greatest trombone players in the world,” James Moody commenting that “his solos never cease to amaze me,” and Chick Corea saying that he plays “some of the most melodic improvisations ever heard in jazz.”
Label: Smoke Sessions File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: SSR1505 Barcode: 888295177351 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Steve Davis - trombone Eddie Henderson - trumpet* Eric Alexander - tenor saxophone* Harold Mabern - piano Nat Reeves - bass Joe Farnsworth - drums (*except tracks 5 & 10)
For Say When, he’s enlisted the support of the very best — Eddie Henderson, Eric Alexander, Harold Mabern, Nat Reeves and Joe Farnsworth — to breathe new life into six Johnson compositional gems, as well as Cole Porter’s classic “What Is This Thing Called Love,” Warren and Gordon’s “There Will Never Be Another You” and Coltrane’s “Village Blues.” It concludes with a surprising rendition of “When the Saints Go Marching In” that Davis vividly remembers hearing J.J. perform late in his career. It’s just another reason that Will Friedwald wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “The highly respected contemporary trombonist Steve Davis is a perfect bandleader to present the vast riches of (J.J.) Johnson.” As usual with this attentive label, the album comes as an 8-panel deluxe CD complete with 2,000-word artist interview and additional photos. Track listing: 1. Pinnacles (J.J. Johnson) 5:02 2. What Is This Thing Called Love? (Cole Porter) 5:03 3. Shortcake (J.J. Johnson) 6:03 4. Mr. Johnson (Harold Mabern) 5:53 5. Lament (J.J. Johnson) 8:28 6. Say When (J.J. Johnson) 6:39 7. Kenya (J.J. Johnson) 6:44 8. Shutterbug (J.J. Johnson) 5:40 9. Village Blues (John Coltrane) 6:46 10. There Will Never Be Another You (Harry Warren / Mack Gordon) 5:47 11. When the Saints Go Marching In (Traditional) 5:58
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The Epic Botanical Beat Suite HU VIBRATIONAL Hu Vibrational's new album mixes deep percussive African rhythms and Afro-Jazz with elements of hip-hop and electronica. Recorded and mixed at Bill Laswell’s state of the art studio, the album features seven percussionists from Rudolph's Go: Organic Orchestra on a wide variety of instruments, along with several special guests including Bill Laswell hitting the deep pockets on bass plus Norwegian guitar whiz Eivind Aarset creating ethereal electronic palettes. The tracks were then electronically processed and transformed in the mixes into a true ancient to future expression; a dance music style Hu call “Boonghee Music”. Adam Rudolph is known for work with Don Cherry, Pharaoh Sanders and other great jazz artists, as well as his 25 year partnership with the legendary Yusef Lateef. He currently also leads his Moving Pictures Octet and the 36 piece Go: Organic Orchestra. Almost 10 years since the last Hu Vibrational album (released on the Soul Jazz label), Rudolph turns his creative energies back to Hu by creating a deep groove masterpiece – indeed; a vision of future dance music. As Tommy Chong so aptly puts it, “When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.”
Label: Meta Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: META019 Barcode: 638977101927 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Adam Rudolph, Brahim Fribgane, James Hurt, Matt Kilmer, Tim Kieper, Keita Ogawa, Tripp Dudley – percussion Special guests: Eivind Aarset– electric guitars Steve Gorn – bansuri flutes Bill Laswell – electric bass Alex Marcelo – fender rhodes
Track listing: 1. Akete 6:08 2. Charas 4:14 3. Soma 5:21 4. Hikuli 4:36 5. Kwa-shi 5:00 6. Agobi 5:08 7. Ya-jey 4:38 8. Akete remix 9:21
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Tales Out Of Time BROTZMANN / McPHEE / KESSLER / ZERANG Joe McPhee and Peter Brötzmann first heard each other one night in October, 1977, in Paris, at the Rouen Jazz Action. Twenty years later, many criss-crossings of their paths behind them, they finally performed together in 1997 in the context of the Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, with whom they have recorded and toured together since. A few years ago they co-led a quartet for a single concert with a rhythm section of Noel Kupersmith on bass and Chad Taylor on drums, McPhee exclusively playing alto saxophone. And then in 2002, after an exhausting American bus tour by the Tentet, twenty-five years after their first encounter, McPhee and Brötzmann entered the studio with their Tentet cohorts Kent Kessler on bass and Michael Zerang on percussion, carrying with them the vague producerly notion of recording some “ballads.” During the Tentet tour I asked Brötzmann what he had in mind in that respect. Standards? Originals? Free ballads? “Na ja,” he said. “We will see. But anyway, whatever it is we will do it our way.” -John Corbett (from the sleeve notes)
Label: Hat Hut Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: HATO733 Barcode: 752156073321 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Peter Brötzmann - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone Joe McPhee - tenor saxophone, pocket cornet, trumpet Kent Kessler - bass Michael Zerang - drums, percussion
Track listing: 1. Stone Poem No. 1 3:16 2. Something There Is That Doesn’t Love 6:01 3. Master Of A Small House 7:22 4. Cymbalism 5:54 5. Alto Lightning In A Violin Sky 5:53 6. From Now Till Doomsday 6:46 7. Do You Still Love Me/Did I Ever? 12:07 8. In Anticipation Of The Next 6:09 9. Blessed Assurance 4:11 10. Pieces Of Red, Green And Blue 8:01 11. Stone Poem No. 2 2:24
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Shots STEVE LACY This album is release of the original LP on the Musica label, recorded in Paris in October 1977. Not to be confused with the recent Emanem issue of Shots (as part of the Cycles album), which is a live version from Rome, November 1977. ...Steve Lacy and Masa Kwate do something quite different on their wonderful and unique LP Shots. Neither is there any kind of conventionally direct interaction, where one player plays something and the other supports or counters, nor is there a sensibility of total independence. The American soprano saxophonist and the Japanese percussionist have a special understanding, no doubt a kind of cultural negotiation, that gives their joint activities a simultaneous atmosphere of interaction and independence. I can’t say that I’ve heard anything else like it... – John Corbett (from the sleeve notes)
Label: Hat Hut Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: HATO680 Barcode: 752156068020 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Steve Lacy - soprano saxophone Masa Kwate - Japanese percussion Irene Aebi - vocals, violin
Track listing: 1. Moms 5:13 2. Pops 5:16 3. Tots 5:41 4. The Ladder 5:06 5. Fruits 7:11 6. Coots 4:27 7. The Wire 4:32 8. The Kiss 5:14
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Travelogue HERBERT DISTEL Herbert Distel (born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1942) is a painter, sculptor, film-maker and composer. His musical work utilises found sound recorded on railways, electronically treated to form musique concrète soundscapes. "As opposed to the conventional structuring of musical events, Herbert Distel's constructivist methods of organization reject juxtaposition and development in favor of an idiosyncratic system of layering and looping, so that his editing and manipulations do not intensify the awareness of time passing, but remove time from the experience. The importance of rhythm, the means of measuring time as it moves through a predetermined space, is replaced by sound-color: a complex program of textures, densities, shades and micro-shades, and audible events are sustained like scenery passing before our eyes – although the scenery may be shrouded in fog, an ambience of persistent mystery, or even a dreamlike obscurity, all on a route of Distel’s choosing." – Art Lange (from the sleeve notes)
Label: Hat Hut Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: HATO734 Barcode: 752156073420 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack
Track listing: 1. Departure and Journey 38:55 2. Arrival 13:33
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Solo - Live at Snugs ELLERY ESKELIN Eskelin's 13th album for the Swiss label, which has championed his work for many years. Recorded live in New York, December 2013. …After five years of reassessment, a new solo concert program remained an unmet challenge. The idea was just as intimidating as it was the first time, maybe even more so. As it happened, Anabel Anderson extended an invitation to take part in her “Snugs Concert Series” of solo concerts at 61 Local in Brooklyn. Her invitation offered a second opportunity to rethink an approach to the solo saxophone and ask new questions… … All I had to do on this evening was start from the beginning and play until the end. – Ellery Eskelin
Label: Hat Hut Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: HATO731 Barcode: 752156073123 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Ellery Eskelin - tenor saxophone
Track listing: 1. Turning a Phrase 13:49 2. State of Mind 11:23 3. Unwritten Rule 10:24 4. Weave / Warp and Woof 14:33
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Live in Santa Cruz! BENNY GREEN There are certain music venues that become a home away from home for many musicians. Places where the vibe is right, the crowd is always involved and management is friendly. These perfect arrangements leave lasting impressions on musicians who frequently have to deal with situations that aren’t as pleasant. The Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, California is one of these places and the favorite venue of pianist Benny Green. Returning to the site where he recorded a live album on his 30th birthday, Green recorded Live In Santa Cruz to mark both the 20th Anniversary of that gig and his 50th birthday. The night and the performance were magical, as the trio featuring bassist David Wong and drummer Kenny Washington lit up Kuumbwa with a program of all original compositions by Green.
Label: Sunnyside Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: SSC1401 Barcode: 016728140126 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Benny Green - piano David Wong - bass Kenny Washington - drums
Since emerging under the tutelage of Betty Carter, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard and Ray Brown in the early 1980s, Benny Green has become a highly regarded pianist and bandleader. His efforts to expand upon the language of the classical jazz canon have placed him not only among the best interpreters but also among the vanguard of musicians keeping jazz’s evolution going.
Track listing: 1. Certainly 5:10 2. Phoebe’s Samba 4:29 3. Cactus Flower 3:41 4. Sonny Clark 3:47 5. Golden Flamingo 5:27 6. Tales Of Malone 4:28 7. Forgiveness 5:01 8. Bish Bash 4:38 9. Anna’s Blues 5:32
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Kitano Noir SARA SERPA & RAN BLAKE The legendary pianist Ran Blake has long been known as a unique and eloquent stylist, his style ranging from the evocative to romantic to avant-garde. He is also known as a tremendous and supportive accompanist to vocalists. Sara Serpa is a vocalist of a much younger generation, who approaches the songs of the American songbook, music from her native Portugal, and her own original material with equal expertise. The duo has worked together since Serpa studied with Blake at the New England Conservatory. Together, they showcase their unique musical bond on Kitano Noir, a live recording from New York City’s Kitano Jazz venue and their third release as a duo, the others recorded live in Boston and in Lisbon, Portugal. Here their advancement as a pair can be heard as they focus on well-rehearsed originals written by Blake, and intriguing standards.
Label: Sunnyside Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: SSC1362 Barcode: 016728136228 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Ran Blake - piano Sara Serpa - vocals
Track listing: 1. FIELD CRY 2. WHEN SUNNY GETS BLUE 3. CURTIS 4. FINE AND DANDY 5. CRY WOLF 6. MÃE PRETA 7. INDIAN WINTER 8. MOOD INDIGO 9. MOONRIDE 10. ROUND MIDNIGHT 11. ADDIO LUGANO 12. GET OUT OF TOWN 13. DRIFTWOOD 14. SHORT LIFE OF BARBARA MONK 15. GOOD MORNING HEARTACHE 16. SING A RAINBOW
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Riding the Moment DENNY ZEITLIN & GEORGE MARSH Pianist/composer Denny Zeitlin has always been adept at transitioning from one musical idiom to another, as he has found inspiration in the sounds of the acoustic piano in different groupings, and in electronic music. On the new recording, Riding the Moment, Zeitlin returns to spontaneous composing utilizing electronic instruments along with the acoustic piano. His co-creator is the prodigious drummer and musical conceptualist George Marsh, with whom he collaborated on his first foray into the world of electronics during the late 1960s and 1970s. Time advances and it allows us to look back. It is left to true innovators to see both sides of the equation in order to keep their art evolving. Denny Zeitlin and George Marsh have revisited a collaboration they had nearly four decades ago when they were on the cutting edge of new technology and improvisation. Riding the Moment is a continuation and a furthering of their work into the future, as they create their own paths into new sounds and expression.
Label: Sunnyside Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: SSC1408 Barcode: 016728140829 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Denny Zeitlin - acoustic piano, hardware & virtual synthesizers, keyboards George Marsh - drums, percussion
Track listing: 1. BACK ON THE HORSE 6:55 2. FERMENTING 6:30 3. MARCHING TO A DIFFERENT DRUMMER 6:25 4. SETTING SAIL 6:25 5. VORTEX 2:30 6. BROKEN NEST 3:06 7. THE VISIT 2:34 8. WHEELS & TRACKS 8:22 9. VERY BARI 4:36 10. GEARS 5:07 11. DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE 10:27 12. QUEST 12:37
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Threading ODED LEV-ARI Composer-arranger-producer Oded Lev-Ari has crafted acclaimed albums by the likes of hit band 3 Cohens, clarinet icon Anat Cohen and woodwind sage Marty Ehrlich, as well as rising-star singers Amy Cervini, Melissa Stylianou and vocal trio Duchess. Now the Tel Aviv-born, New York-based Lev-Ari steps out with the first recording under his own name: Threading. The album presents six inspired Lev-Ari compositions – instrumental and vocal – performed by an all-star 11-piece New York band that includes Anat Cohen and the ace Matt Wilson on drums, as well as guest vocalists Alan Hampton and Jo Lawry. The chamber-jazz sound of Threading – which features not only winds, trumpet and a textured rhythm section but also three cellos – hints at varied sonic worlds, from jazz sound painters Gil Evans and Maria Schneider to tango nuevo king Astor Piazzolla and contemporary classical composers. Ultimately, though, Lev-Ari has his own, individual soundprint, one of cinematic richness and open-hearted lyricism. “Putting lightning in a bottle is what Oded Lev–Ari specializes in.” –DownBeat Magazine
Label: Anzic Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: ANZ0052 Barcode: 896434001849 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Oded Lev-Ari - piano Anat Cohen - clarinet Will Vinson - alto & soprano saxophones Brian Landrus - baritone saxophone, bass clarinet Nadje Noordhuis - trumpet, flugelhorn Alex Waterman, Yoed Nir, Noah Hoffeld - cello Gilad Hekselman - guitar Joe Martin - bass Matt Wilson - drums Alan Hampton - voice (3,7) Jo Lawry - voice (7)
Track listing: 1. Threading 06:18 2. Lost and Found 05:08 3. Goodbye (Feat. Alan Hampton) 04:18 4. Voices 10:25 5. Black Crow 06:05 6. E and A 03:55 7. The Dance (Feat. Alan Hampton, Jo Lawry) 04:14 8. Goodbye (Feat. Anat Cohen) 04:15
RELEASE DATE 1ST JUNE 2015
Inner Village GÉRARD MARAIS QUARTET The veteran French guitarist Gérard Marais, now 70 years old, has never been a prolific recording artist, but the work he has committed to wax has always been of the highest calibre. Associates along the way include a who's who of the European jazz scene over several decades - Renaud Garcia-Fons, Henri Texier, Michel Godard, Vincent Courtois, Louis Sclavis, Aldo Romano, Michel Portal... On this new album bass legend Texier teams up with drumming titan Christophe Marguet to create a formidable rhythm section, upon which Marais and pianist Jérémie Ternoy (currently a member of Magma but a bona fide jazzer too) roam at will.
Label: Cristal Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: CR229 Barcode: 3149028065220 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Gérard Marais - guitar Jérémie Ternoy - piano Henri Texier - bass Christophe Marguet - drums
Track listing: 1. Baron Noir 7:23 2. Le Rouge Et Le Noir 7:09 3. Quand Les Mahs 4:18 4. Serengeti 6:20 5. Inner Village Song 4:12 6. Lonesome Queen 5:28 7. Latin Breakfast 3:15 8. Think Nocturne 5:27 9. Katchinas 4:07
RELEASE DATE 1ST JUNE 2015
So Far So Good UPTAKE “Young talents can never be discouraged enough,” claimed one Claude Debussy. Fortunately, the members of the ReZZo FOCAL Jazz in Vienna juries are aware that the strength of fledging artists is that they are not, in fact, ‘discourageable’. This applies in any case to the musicians who form UPTAKE, the lucky 2014 winners of this high profile jazz talent contest, one of the most important in Europe. Overflowing with groove and energy, this quartet which stems from the music scene in Lyons, France, has already mastered the art of interplay – a synergetic way of spreading and shaping music together in total freedom…
Label: Jazz Village File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: 570062 Barcode: 3149027004725 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Robinson Khoury - trombone, flugabone, vocal Bastien Brison - piano, Rhodes, wurlitzer Pierre Gibbe - bass, electric bass Paul Berne - drums
Track listing: 1.Awake 7:21 2.The Way 4:55 3.So Lacy 6:53 4.Nighthawk 4:24 5.Days In Montreuil 5:22 6.Elsewhere 6:15 7.Mood 7:37 8.Babeth 5:11 9.Dreamcatcher 5:28
RELEASE DATE 1ST JUNE 2015
Congo - Pygmy Women of the Sangha Devoted to female repertoires of the Pygmies of northern Congo, this CD focuses on yeli - that most distinctive chant of Pygmy women with the meandering counterpoint of its polyphony, the sophisticated interlacing of its sounds and motifs and its complex yodelling technique. For Pygmy communities music has a vital role: "Normally everything is fine with us. It's only when we go to sleep at night that something can go wrong, because if we're asleep, there's nothing we can do to prevent it...So when something grave occurs, when someone fall sick, when the hunt is bad, or when death strikes, it must be that the forest herself is asleep and unable to watch over her children...We have to wake her up. And we do this with singing..."(Moke, Mbuti pygmies, 1961)
Label: Ocora Radio France File Under: World music / Congo Catalogue No: C560243 Barcode: 3149028019025 Price: LOWER FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack NEW OCORA RADIO FRANCE PRINTED CATALOGUE AVAILABLE
Track listing: 1. Yeli (Mikaya) 2'02 2. Yeli (Aka/Mbenzélé) 2'37 3. Yeli (Mikaya) 4'09 4. Yeli (Aka/Mbenzélé) 3'08 5. Berceuse (Aka/Mbenzélé) 1'26 6. Yeli (Baluma) 2'17 7. Yeli (Aka/Mbenzélé) 4'19 8. Mobio (Aka/Mbenzélé) 4'19 9. Bolobé (Aka/Mbenzélé) 4'16 10. Likano (Mikaya) 1'53 11. Bolobé (Aka/Mbenzélé) 3'06 12. Djengui (Aka/Mbenzélé) 2'59 13. Berceuse (Aka/Mbenzélé) 2'53 14. Yeli (Baluma) 3'42 15. Yeli (Mbenzélé) 2'21 16. Yeli (Aka/Mbenzélé) 1'58 17. Molimo (Aka/Mbenzélé) 5'11 18. Berceuse (Aka/Mbenzélé) 2'35 19. Bolobé (Aka/Mbenzélé) 3'20 20. Yeli (Aka/Mbenzélé) 2'05 21. Molimo (Aka/Mbenzélé) 1'56 22. Bolobé (Aka/Mbenzélé) 2'08 23. Bolobé (Aka/Mbenzélé) 2'52
RELEASE DATE 1ST JUNE 2015
Floë Ëssi / Ëktah 7" MAGMA This 7" 45rpm single, which contains the tracks "Floë Ëssi" (daughter of the sea) and "Ëktah" (the hero), is being reissued here for the first time since its original release in 1998. Released on Super Hi-Fidelity vinyl with free download card. A must for Magma collectors! Track listing: 1. Floh Essi 2:58 2. Ektah 5:52
Label: Jazz Village File Under: Rock Catalogue No: 45570073 Barcode: 3149027002974 Price: BUDGET PRICE Format: 1 7" Vinyl
RELEASE DATE 1ST JUNE 2015
1001 Centigrades MAGMA 180 gram VINYL LP VERSION WITH DOWNLOAD CODE After losing guitarist Claude Engel and reinforcing the brass section with Jeff Seffer on saxophones and Louis Toesca on trumpet, Magma went back into the studio in 1971 to record a second album. All the originality and greatness of Kobaïa are there, in even greater measure because everything is magnified. The two tracks composed respectively by Teddy Lasry and François Cahen occasionally introduce a jazzier note but it is Rïah Sahïltaahk which shows the most forceful development of the work apparent on the first album. This Christian Vander composition is over twenty minutes in length. It amazes as much by its richness and the incredible number of its themes as by its rhythmic strength and its perfectly controlled violence. Furthermore, it allows the listener to admire the diversity of the brass, whose role diminishes progressively over time.
Label: Jazz Village File Under: Rock Catalogue No: 33570071 Barcode: 3149027002677 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 LP
Track listing: Side A 1. Rïah Sahïltaahk 21:51 Side B 1. "Ïss" Lanseï Doïa 11:46 2. Ki Ïahl Ö Lïahk 8:20
RELEASE DATE 1ST JUNE 2015
First Touch - 20th Anniversary Edition LP DOMINIC MILLER 180g VINYL LP - LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES It has been 20 years since the original release of First Touch, Dominic Miller’s first solo album. The audio has been remastered for this 20th Annivery Edition and the album now contains three bonus tracks (Urban Waltz, Luberon, Carnaval). Miller is currently on a European tour with Sting and Paul Simon which includes several UK dates. "Sting has kept Dominic very busy over the last 24 years. Recording sessions, world tours, TV appearances… they’ve even co-written a couple of tunes, most notably ‘Shape Of My Heart’. But Dominic refers to his role in Sting’s entourage as “my day job” and after a busy day at the office, Dominic makes it his business to add to his own prestigious collection of solo albums. The first solo CD came out in the mid 90s; entitled First Touch, it featured moodily beautiful nylon string melodies over atmospheric backdrops with the occasional fiery Latin influenced instrumental on the side." ACOUSTIC magazine
Label: Q-rious File Under: Rock Catalogue No: QRM134 Barcode: 4260027621343 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 LP
Track listing: Side A 1. Eclipse 2. Do You Want Me 3. February Sun 4. Rush Hour 5. La Boca 6. Looking For 7. Urban Waltz (Bonus Track) Side B 1. Buenos Aires 2. Scan 3. David 4. Ten Years 5. Last Dance 6. Luberon (Bonus Track) 7. Carnaval (Bonus Track)