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RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
Tears of the World MIGHTY SAM McCLAIN & KNUT REIERSRUD Even Norwegians get the blues! On “Tears Of The World,” guitarist Knut Reiersrud and his band find themselves in the company of the Grammy-nominated, 72-year old vocalist Mighty Sam McClain, originally from Louisiana. Together, they dedicate themselves to the music of the deep south and give impressive proof that, when it comes to playing hard-driving R&B, soul or blues, it's not where you come from that's important, it's the spirit that drives you. On June 16, 2015 Mighty Sam McClain died. "Tears Of The World" is his last album and will remain as his legacy. The Blues & Soul world has lost an outstanding artist.
Label: ACT Music File Under: Blues Catalogue No: ACT9033-2 Barcode: 614427903327 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Mighty Sam McClain - vocals Knut Reiersrud - guitar, harmonica, piano (2, 8) & vocals (5) Bjørn Holm - guitar David Wallumrød - Hammond organ, Wurlitzer, piano & Prophet 5 Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen - bass Andreas Bye - drums Håkon Kornstad - saxes & flute Martin Horntveth - timpani, tubular bells + strings
Track listing: 1. Tears Of The World (Willie Hale) 2:52 2. Please Mr. Foreman (Joe Lee Carter) 2:41 3. Jewels (Knut Reiersrud / Erik Hillestad) 4:22 4. Living In The Key Of G (Knut Reiersrud / Jeff Wasserman) 3:23 5. Que Sera, Sera (Jay Livingston / Ray Evans) 4:39 6. Friends (Sam McClain / Pat Herlehy) 5:18 7. Too Proud (Carlene Carter) 5:12 8. Apples [Don´t Fall Far From The Tree] (Knut Reiersrud / Jeff Wasserman) 4:39 9. I Wish I Had A Girl Like You (Willie Hale) 3:00 10. Somebody Help Me (Sam McClain / George Papageorge) 3:38 11. Things Ain’t What Thay Used To Be (Sam McClain / George Papageorge) 3:46 12. Promised Land (Knut Reiersrud / Jeff Wasserman) 5:43
RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
Tears of the World LP MIGHTY SAM McCLAIN & KNUT REIERSRUD 180g VINYL EDITION Even Norwegians get the blues! On “Tears Of The World,” guitarist Knut Reiersrud and his band find themselves in the company of the Grammy-nominated, 72-year old vocalist Mighty Sam McClain, originally from Louisiana. Together, they dedicate themselves to the music of the deep south and give impressive proof that, when it comes to playing hard-driving R&B, soul or blues, it's not where you come from that's important, it's the spirit that drives you. On June 16, 2015 Mighty Sam McClain died. "Tears Of The World" is his last album and will remain as his legacy. The Blues & Soul world has lost an outstanding artist.
Label: ACT Music File Under: Blues Catalogue No: ACT9033-1 Barcode: 614427903310 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 LP Mighty Sam McClain - vocals Knut Reiersrud - guitar, harmonica, piano (2, 8) & vocals (5) Bjørn Holm - guitar David Wallumrød - Hammond organ, Wurlitzer, piano & Prophet 5 Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen - bass Andreas Bye - drums Håkon Kornstad - saxes & flute Martin Horntveth - timpani, tubular bells + strings
Track listing: Side A 1. Tears Of The World (Willie Hale) 2:52 2. Please Mr. Foreman (Joe Lee Carter) 2:41 3. Jewels (Reiersrud, Knut / Hillestad, Erik) 4:22 4. Living In The Key Of G (Reiersrud, Knut / Wassermann, Jeff) 3:23 5. Que Sera, Sera (Livingston, Jay / Evans, Ray) 4:39 6. Firends (McClain, Sam / Herlehy, Pat) 5:18 Side B 1. Too Proud (Carlene Carter) 5:12 2. Apples [Don't Fall Far From The Tree] (Reiersrud, Knut / Wassermann, Jeff) 4:39 3. I Wish I Had A Girl Like You (Willie Hale) 3:00 4. Somebody Help Me (McClain, Sam / Papageorge, George) 3:38 5. Things Ain't What They Used To Be (McClain, Sam / Papageorge, George) 3:46 6. Promised Land (Reiersrud, Knut / Wassermann, Jeff) 5:43
RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
Music is my Home - Prologue RAPHAEL IMBERT & Co LIMITED EDITION 10" VINYL EP WITH GATEFOLD SLEEVE FEATURING LEYLA MCCALLA, ALABAMA SLIM, BIG RON HUNTER Providing a foretaste of his album "Music Is My Home", RaphaĂŤl Imbert has now released "Prologue", as a five-track 10'' EP. Alongside emblematic musicians (Big Ron Hunter, Alabama Slim etc.) and young up-coming French stars (first and foremost Anne Paceo), the saxophonist takes on the role of a top-notch ethno-musicologist, escorting us along the roads of the American "Deep South". With an unparalleled knowledge of groove, he comes within touching distance of the roots of blues, jazz and soul. check out this introduction to the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vu7Pa-L8zA
Label: Jazz Village File Under: Blues Catalogue No: 33570085 Barcode: 3149027003476 Price: MID PRICE Format: 1 10" EP
Track listing: Side A 1. Rock With Me (featuring Alabama Slim) 2. Heart of Gold (featuring Leyla McCalla) 3. Going for Myself (featuring Big Ron Hunter) Side B 1. Po Boy (featuring Sarah Quintana) 2. Baby Please Don't Go (featuring Alabama Slim)
RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
Jean Paul Gaultier VARIOUS ARTISTS Jean Paul Gaultier is the quintessential « enfant terrible » of French fashion and one of the industry’s most flamboyant characters. His bold and often irreverent styles - think Madonna's cone bra from the 1990 Blonde Ambition World Tour have earned him the status of fashion icon. This compilation has been produced to coincide with the Paris exhibition devoted to the celebrated French couturier, The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk. The album celebrates the “music and fashion muses” of this provocative designer. His Parisian charm and tongue-in-cheek witticisms are reflected in this selection of songs he personally handpicked, from artists and muses including Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Catherine Deneuve, Boy George and Grace Jones - a selection which is as full of fantasy as it is of classical poise.
Label: NAÏVE File Under: Pop Catalogue No: NS91760 Barcode: 3298490917602 Price: MID PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack
Track listing: 1.MICHELINE PRESLE: Falbalas 2.MADONNA: Vogue 3.KYLIE MINOGUE: Can't get you out of my head 4.GOSSIP: Heavy Cross 5.CHIC: I want your love 6.CATHERINE DENEUVE & SERGE GAINSBOURG: Ces petits riens 7.CULTURE CLUB: Do you want really to hurt me 8.COLETTE RENARD: Les nuits d'une demoiselle 9.SHEILA & B. DEVOTION: Spacer 10.GRACE JONES: Pull up to the bumper 11.AMANDA LEAR: La bagarre 12.JULIETTE GRECO: Jolie môme 13.YVETTE HORNER: Play Yvette 14.VALERIE LEMERCIER: Goûte mes frites 15.ARIELLE DOMBASLE: Cucurucucu Paloma 16.CONCHITA WURST: Rise like a Phoenix 17.JEAN PAUL GAULTIER: How to do that
RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
The Meridian Suite ANTONIO SANCHEZ & MIGRATION With motifs, phrases and concepts that recur and transform throughout the piece's five movements, The Meridian Suite is a thrillingly adventurous achievement that absorbs influences from modern rock, free form improvisation and electronic music into a forward-looking jazz masterwork. The album marks the high point thus far for a career that continues to climb and serves to reinforce Antonio Sanchez's place at the forefront of modern jazz - breaking boundaries as a virtuoso drummer, a visionary composer, and a truly inspired musical thinker. The suite, the cinematic scope of which was heavily influenced by Sanchez's experience composing the score to the Birdman movie, takes full advantage of the versatility and wide-ranging palette of Migration, the quartet that Sanchez has led since 2011. Tenor saxophonist Seamus Blake doubles on Electric Wind Instrument (EWI), John Escreet on piano and Fender Rhodes, and Matt Brewer on both acoustic and electric bass. Sanchez also layered keyboard atmospherics onto the album in post-production along with a wide array of guitars from Adam Rogers, while singer Thana Alexa contributes soaring lyrics to the second movement, "Imaginary Lines," and coloristic wordless vocals elsewhere.
Label: CAM Jazz File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: CAMJ7890-2 Barcode: 8052405141637 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Antonio Sanchez - drums, keyboards, vocals Seamus Blake - tenor saxophone, EWI (Electric Wind Interface) John Escreet - piano, Fender Rhodes Matt Brewer - acoustic and electric basses special guests: Thana Alexa - vocals Adam Rogers - guitars
UK concert: 17 July - Festival Theatre Studio, Edinburgh Track listing: 1. Grids And Patterns 11:25 2. Imaginary Lines (Lyrics: T. Alexa) 10:29 3. Channels Of Energy 8:25 4. Magnetic Currents 3:53 5. Pathways Of The Mind 21:16
RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
The ACT Man - Siggi Loch 75 A Life in the Spirit of Jazz
VARIOUS ARTISTS Producer and ACT label boss Siggi Loch turns 75 on August 6th this year and to celebrate his birthday ACT are releasing a collection of music that Siggi had the pleasure of producing over the last 50-plus years, his own personal ‘Best of...’. “Life in the Spirit of Jazz - Siggi Loch 75” represents a fascinating cross-section from the glittering career and from the passionate life of a man who has achieved legendary status in music. Right at the start of his career, he had the dream of running his own jazz label, and he has now fulfilled that dream. ACT has been voted label of the year four times in a row at the German ECHO awards, and in 2015 alone, its artists and releases garnered eight ECHOs: the label has achieved international renown. However this CD collection is a snapshot of where things are, a provisional taking of stock to mark and to celebrate Siggi Loch's 75th birthday. And what does the future hold for him? Loch answers that question unambiguously, and with Dizzy Gillespie's immortal formula: “I will bop until I drop!”
Label: ACT Music File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: ACT7004-2 Barcode: 614427700421 Price: MID PRICE Format: 5 CD Packaging: box set
Siggi Loch has a breadth of experience in the music sector that very few can match. From the 1960s onwards, those formative days for the modern record industry, his career path rapidly became a giddying ascent. From a position as sales rep for EMI, to label manager at Philips, on to head of Warner Europe, Loch owed this meteoric rise to his inexhaustible enthusiasm, combined with an ability to spot the talent and to predict the trends in pop music. He had been at Warner eighteen years when his boss and mentor Nesuhi Ertegün, the legendary Atlantic Jazz producer, stood down as WEA chairman. Loch, who now knew the music business inside-out, took his cue to abandon a lucrative managerial position, and finally to turn the dream of his youth into a reality. In 1992 ACT was born as a jazz label. Contents: CD 1 : The Beginning CD 2 : Blues & Rock CD 3 : Crossing Borders CD 4 : Visions of Jazz CD 5 : Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic Full track listing available on request
RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
Do What You Like GINGER BAKER'S AIR FORCE FEATURING THE FAMOUS DRUM BATTLE WITH ELVIN JONES! After Ginger Baker had re-written music history with Cream and broken up Blind Faith after just one LP and a U.S. stadium tour, he had the financial backing to set off on his first solo project, Ginger Baker's Air Force, formed in 1970. It was Ginger's idea to mix African roots with popular western music. It was to become the first 'World Music' band in music history, long before the category even existed. The last tour began on January 29, 1971 in Leeds and the next day Air Force played the Lyceum in London, where the famous meeting between the two great drummers Elvin Jones & Ginger Baker took place. After Air Force had played for a half hour, Elvin came on stage and played 'Aiko Biaye' with Baker. 'Do What You Like' followed, during which Ginger and Elvin delivered a drum battle of the highest quality. After the concert Elvin commented: "Those were great moments. Moments that I will remember my entire life." On February 20, 1971, Air Force gave its last concert in England. Ginger Baker's Air Force had made musical history after just 14 months.
Label: Jazzwerkstatt File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: ITM920016 Barcode: 4250317473691 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Ginger Baker - drums Elvin Jones - drums (Track 4) Rick Grech - bass (Trks 1-3) Denny Laine - guitar (Trks 1-3) Graham Bond - vocals, Hammond, saxes Ken Craddok - organ, guitar, vocal Steve Gregory - tenor sax, flute Bud Beadle - saxes Colin Gibson - bass Aliki Ashman - vocals Diane Stewart - vocals Speedy Acquaye - congas
Track Listing 1. Let Me Ride (Staples) 4.26 2. I Don't Wan't To Go On Without You (Burns/Wexler) 4.01 3. You Wouldn't Believe It (Baker/Lane) 5.45 4. Do What You Like incl. drum battle with Elvin Jones (Baker) 33.06 5. Airforce Jam (Baker) 7.29 Tracks 1-3: Studio outtakes Oct 1970 Track 4: recorded live at the Lyceum, London Feb 1 1971 Track 5: recorded live at the City Hall, Sheffield, Dec 7 1970
RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
A Declaration of Love GEORGIE FAME Mod king Gerogie Fame on firin' live form with the Alan Skidmore Quartet and German jazz & soul diva Uschi Br端ning recorded at the Berliner Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal, September 19 2008, covering a fine selection of jazz, gospel, blues and R&B classics. Track Listing
Label: Jazzwerkstatt File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: ITM920020 Barcode: 4250317473738 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Gerogie Fame - vocals Uschi Br端ning - vocals Alan Skidmore Quartet
1. Rockin' Chair 4:00 2. Mr P.C. 6:12 3. Jumpin' With Symphony Sid 5:57 4. On A Misty Night 7:22 5. A Declaration of Love 5:21 6. Yeh Yeh 5:47 7. Black Coffee 6:51 8. Anthropology 2:43 9. God Shall Wipe All Tears Away 3:50 10. Stormy Monday 5:45
RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
Everything is Cool GIACOMO GATES Gates approaches jazz singing with a showman's poise and an aficionado's zeal. With his deep, cognac baritone and his vintage-hipster lexicon, his phrasing and his bearing, he upholds a distinctly masculine ideal of deceptively easy nonchalance. Gates is known as the modern day heir to Eddie Jefferson, the godfather of vocalese. Here he uses the style sparingly, but to great advantage, never showboating by using the challenging technique. Backed by his go-to pianist, di Martino and guitarist Lombardozzi leading the rhythm section and Grant Stewart out in front on sax, Giacomo sings and swings his way through a dozen tunes - some familiar favourites, some rarely heard gems. He may be soft and subtle or he may be hip and humorous but one thing Giocomo Gates is not, is predictable.
Label: Savant File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: SCD2146 Barcode: 633842214627 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Giacomo Gates - vocals Grant Stewart - saxophone John Di Martino - piano Tony Lombardozzi - guitar Ed Howard - bass Willard Dyson - drums
Track listing: 1. Everything is Cool 3:14 2. If I Were You, Baby, I'd Love Me 5:40 3. When Lovers They Lose 5:17 4. Social Call 4:19 5. Hazel's Hips 3:17 6. Almost Blue 2:53 7. Take Five 4:31 8. Who Threw the Glue? 3:41 9. Here Today and Gone Tomorrow 5:10 10. Please Don't Bug Me 3:26 11. All Alone 2:58 12. Well You Needn't / It's Over Now 3:54
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AwwlRIGHT! MIKE LeDONNE Mike LeDonne has appeared on over 100 CDs as a sideman with so many jazz giants it is hard to keep count: Art Farmer, Clifford Jordan, Dizzy Gillespie, Stanley Turrentine, Milt Jackson, Christian McBride and others. LeDonne made his first recording as leader on the B-3 for Savant in 2003 and has since added seven additional records to his discography on the label. To his regular band, The Groover Quartet (Alexander, Bernstein and Farnsworth), Mike has added guests Jeremy Pelt on trumpet and venerable bassist, Bob Cranshaw. With such an illustrious line-up there are few jazz combos that burn hotter, swing harder or generate more excitement than this all-star aggregation.
Label: Savant File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: SCD2148 Barcode: 633842214825 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Mike LeDonne - organ Eric Alexander - tenor saxophone Peter Bernstein - guitar Joe Farnsworth - drums Special guests: Bob Cranshaw - bass (1, 5) Jeremy Pelt - trumpet (1, 5, 8)
Track listing: 1. AwwlRIGHT! 5:59 2. Love Don't Love Nobody 7:52 3. Never Can Say Goodbye 6:09 4. The Boss 6:31 5. Let It Go 6:42 6. Mary Lou's Blues 8:11 7. You Are So Beautiful 7:18 8. Hadley Joe 7:17
RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
Akhenaten Suite - Live at Vision Festival XII ROY CAMPBELL ENSEMBLE Roy Campbell was a jazz trumpeter and composer of the first order, one who encompassed the tradition even as he pushed the music forward. He was a founding member of the luminous collective Other Dimensions In Music, as well as Marc Ribot’s Spiritual Unity project, and produced numerous acclaimed releases as a leader. This album is one of his crowning achievements and, sadly, was to be his final album as leader. Akhenaten Suite was specially commissioned for and recorded live at the 2007 Vision Festival in New York. Released in 2008, it's original pressing quickly sold out. This re-press of 500 copies, with revamped artwork, finally brings this stellar release back in print. “A joyous, expansive collective of compositions that embraces stretching ambitions within an inviting language. Great band too: veteran bassist Hilliard Greene is an unsung hero, and the Bang-Carrott vibraphone and violin frontline encourages a lightness of touch that’s wholly refreshing." (Jazz Review)
Label: Aum Fidelity File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: AUM045 Barcode: 642623304525 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Roy Campbell - trumpet, flugelhorn, arghul, compositions Billy Bang - violin Bryan Carrott - vibraharp Hilliard Greene - bass Zen Matsuura - drums
Track listing: 1. Akhenaten (Amenophis, Amenhotep IV) 11:40 2. Aten and Amarna 6:30 3. Pharaoh's Revenge Intro Part 1 2:53 4. Pharaoh's Revenge Part 1 10:24 5. Pharaoh's Revenge Intro Part 2 3:07 6. Pharaoh's Revenge Part 2 10:31 7. Sunset On The Nile 12:09
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Metamophosis Classical Meets Jazz and Modern
VARIOUS ARTISTS Winter & Winter introduces thematically in the „Jubilee Edition“ artistical principals and highlights of the work cycles that have been realised in the first 30 years bewteen 1985 and 2015. A fundamental part of the all together over 300 productions that Mariko Takahashi and Stefan Winter have built up are the classical adaptations.
Label: Winter&Winter File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: 910224-2 Barcode: 025091022427 Price: MID PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack
The album »Metamorphosis« centers around the adaptations of composers and interpreters such as Uri Caine, the ensemble Kneebody, Reinbert de Leeuw and the Schönberg Ensemble, Barbara Sukowa and her band The X-Patsys, Fumio Yasuda and Stefan Zeniuk with the brass group Gato Loco and moves them in the focus. Their works stand for competence, creativity and musical innovation. The arrangements and performances represent an attempt to re-read historical musical texts from a todays perspective, by transferring them to new – sometimes formerly unknown – instruments and by filtering out existing elements, which are hidden. The re-interpretations open up unimagined perspectives to experience and enjoy the historic masters. Adaptations belong to the craft of composers and musicians since the early days of music. Bach deals with Vivaldi's music, Schumann with Bach's compositions, Mahler with Beethoven. Experiencing old masterpieces in an adaptation by contemporary artists has until today not lost any of its appeal. Track listing: 1. Othello's Victory [Adaptation by Uri Caine after Otello by Giuseppe Verdi] 2. Wehmut [Arrangement by Reinbert de Leeuw after Robert Schumann, Lyrics: Joseph von Eichendorff] 3. The Big Sleep [Adaptation by Stefan Zeniuk & Gato Loco after Messa da Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi] 4. Songs My Mother Taught Me [Arrangement by Kneebody; Composition: Charles Ives, Lyrics: Adolf Heyduk] 5. An Die Sternen [Interpretation by Barbara Sukowa, Lyrics: Andreas Gryphius] 6. Lost In The Stars [Arrangement by Barbara Sukowa & The X-Patsys; Composition: Kurt Weill, Lyrics: Maxwell Anderson] 7. Lohengrin, Overture, 1st Act [Adaptation by Uri Caine after Richard Wagner] 8. Ave Maria, Piena di Grazia [Fumio Yasuda after Giuseppe Verdi] 9. Der Bilbao-Song [Arrangement by Fumio Yasuda; Composition: Kurt Weill, Lyrics: Bertolt Brecht] 10. Die, You Sucka! [Adaptation by Stefan Zeniuk & Gato Loco after Messa da Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi] 11. Rhinelegend [Adaptation by Uri Caine after Gustav Mahler] 12. Der Leiermann [Adaptation by Guy Klucevsek after Franz Schubert] 13. Uri's Organ Prelude [Adaptation by Uri Caine after Johann Sebastian Bach] 14. The Blessing Variation [Adaptation by Uri Caine after Johann Sebastian Bach]
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Debi SANGOMA EVERETT TRIO A musicologist with a tremendous curiosity, American drummer Sangoma Everett has been established in France since 1979 and has always been a huge traveller, collecting and recording local tunes everywhere. It’s a beautiful story of triangular jazz, a meeting full of harmony and humanity, in which double bassist Christophe Lincontang forms an elegant rhythm team alongside Everett (a colleague of Dizzy Gillepsie, Clifford Jordan, Kirk Lightsey, Steve Grossman, and many others…), joining talents and imagination to Bastien Brison’s piano style, full of emotion. Brison contributes the majority of the compositions here. Where Are Our Friends opens the album on a wonderful and silky melody, almost pop. Debi and Frida soak in soft melancholy. The title track Debi is a tribute to the Indian sarod player Debi Prasad Gosh. Brooklyn concludes the album under a beautiful sun in New York. The Sangoma Everett Trio present a cohesive and striking work of breath-taking imagination.
Label: NAÏVE File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: NJ625711 Barcode: 3298496257115 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Sangoma Everett - drums Bastien Brison - piano Christophe Lincontang - bass Sabrina Romero - percussion (tracks 2,3,4,10)
Track listing: 1. WAOF 5:28 2. Saint Igny 4:42 3. The Born Frees 4:10 4. Moon Alley 5:56 5. Too Early 5:14 6. Frida 4:11 7. Out of the Past 5:39 8. Remembering Ma Byrd 6:22 9. WBTB 4:14 10. Lani 4:24 11. Debi 4:56 12. Brooklyn 5:18
RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
With... JOHN RUSSELL John was off the scene for several months prior to this gig (Dec, 2014), mainly in hospital under observation for a serious heart condition, but he was determined to play this, his 60th birthday concert, at Cafe Oto in London. He has since had a heart bypass operation and is now well on the road to recovery. "On approaching my sixtieth birthday and how to celebrate the fact I had made it that far I realised that I have been deeply fortunate in having had the opportunity to play with some great musicians over the years. It is this thing of ‘with’ playing together in a spirit of shared generosity that is at the heart of free improvisation for me. It seemed natural then that the best way to celebrate would be to play a concert with some of these musicians." John Russell
Label: Emanem File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: EM5037 Barcode: 5030243503728 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack JOHN RUSSELL - guitar (1, 2, 3), electric guitar (4) HENRY LOWTHER - trumpet (1) SATOKO FAKUDA - violin (1) PHIL MINTON - voice (2) EVAN PARKER - tenor saxophone (3) JOHN EDWARDS - double bass (3) THURSTON MOORE - electric guitar (4)
Track listing: 1. THE FIRST HALF OF THE FIRST HALF - 22:11 2. THE SECOND HALF OF THE FIRST HALF - 13:26 3. THE FIRST HALF OF THE SECOND HALF - 25:03 4. THE SECOND HALF OF THE SECOND HALF - 17:08
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Chapter One ISKRA 1903 Paul RUTHERFORD / Derek BAILEY / Barry GUY A reissue of EM4301, featuring the first Iskra line-up recorded in London and at various locations in Germany, between 1970 and 1972. "Rutherford was the guiding spirit behind Iskra 1903 and even if he had not recorded another note, this fact alone would place him at the very heart of British improvisation since 1970. The early performances documented on CHAPTER ONE are typical of the group's highly concentrated output. More intensely focused and, residually at least, more jazz-inflected than either AMM or the more radical excursions of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Iskra 1903 represent a wonderfully challenging auditory experience. So densely interwoven are the lines and so convincingly vocalised is Rutherford's tone that one almost feels one is listening to a passionate discourse." RICHARD COOK and/or BRIAN MORTON - 'The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD' 2006
Label: Emanem File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: EM5311 Barcode: 5030243531127 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 3 CD Packaging: digipack PAUL RUTHERFORD - trombone, piano DEREK BAILEY - guitar (with amplification) BARRY GUY - double bass (with amplification)
"This is improvised music of the highest order, not three musicians seeking an idiom, but rather three musicians who have already learned to live without one, creating consistently fresh musical discourse in the process." SIGNAL TO NOISE Track listing: A1 IMPROVISATION 1 - 21:03 / A2 IMPROVISATION 2 - 5:37 / A3 IMPROVISATION 3 - 11:36 / A4 IMPROVISATION 4 - 5:04 / A5 IMPROVISATION 0 - 25:20 B1 OFFCUT 1 - 1:40 / B2 OFFCUT 2 - 4:25 / B3 OFFCUT 3 - 11:17 / B4 IMPROVISATION 5 - 5:54 / B5 IMPROVISATION 6 - 10:48 / B6 IMPROVISATION 7 - 4:29 / B7 IMPROVISATION 8 - 6:21 / B8 IMPROVISATION 9 3:39 / B9 IMPROVISATION 10 - 3:09 / B10 IMPROVISATION 11 - 7:34 C1 EXTRA 1 - 7:47 / C2 EXTRA 2 - 11:31 / C3 EXTRA 3 - 6:42 / C4 ON TOUR 1 - 13:37 / C5 ON TOUR 3 - 12:44 / C6 ON TOUR 2 - 12:34
RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
Lady Love - Live in Basel 1954 + 13 Bonus Tracks
BILLIE HOLIDAY The complete original album Lady Love (United Artists Jazz UAJ-14014), which contains a complete concert from Billie Holiday’s 1954 European tour recorded in Basel, Switzerland. To that fabulous performance, we have added five earlier studio tracks (which had been included as bonus material on previous reissues of the Lady Love LP), the four 1951 Aladdin sides with the Tiny Grimes Sextet, and her Capitol recording of “Trav’lin’ Light” with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. As a further bonus, we have also added an extremely rare complete live performance taped by Billie in Brussels during the same tour on which the Basel show was taped. Includes 16-page booklet.
Label: Poll Winners Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: PWR27344 Barcode: 8436542019613 Price: MID PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal BILLIE HOLIDAY, vocals on all tracks, plus: On 1-8: CARL DRINKARD, piano; RED MITCHELL, bass; ELAINE LEIGHTON, drums On 9-10: RED NORVO, vibes; BUDDY DeFRANCO, clarinet; JIMMY RANEY, guitar; SONNY CLARK, first piano solo; BERYL BOOKER, second piano solo; RED MITCHELL, bass; ELAINE LEIGHTON, drums
Track listing: 1. Announcement by Leonard Feather 0:29 2. BLUE MOON 2:15 3. ALL OF ME 1:43 4. MY MAN 2:51 5. THEM THERE EYES 1:40 6. I CRIED FOR YOU 3:22 7. WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO 2:45 8. I COVER THE WATERFRONT 3:31 9. BILLIE’S BLUES 11:35 10. LOVER, COME BACK TO ME 6:41 11. BLUE TURNING GRAY OVER YOU 2:03 12. BE FAIR WITH ME BABY [aka BE FAIR TO ME] 2:38 13. ROCKY MOUNTAIN BLUES 3:06 14. DETOUR AHEAD 3:05 15. TRAV’LIN’ LIGHT 3:19 16. HE’S FUNNY THAT WAY 3:47 17. ALL OF ME 1:41 18. MY MAN 2:59 19. THEM THERE EYES 1:46 20. I CRIED FOR YOU 3:31 21. DON’T EXPLAIN 2:40 22. FINE AND MELLOW 4:01 23. WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO 3:12
RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
Back to the Blues + 11 Bonus Tracks
DINAH WASHINGTON The complete Dinah Washington LP Back to the Blues (Roulette SR-25189), which presented the singer accompanied by an orchestra conducted and arranged by Fred Norman on most tracks. After a series of successful pop-oriented records, Dinah intended for this album to return her, as the title suggests, to her musical roots. We have completed this CD with eleven tracks from the same sessions that had not been included on the original album, among them, an alternate version of one of the LP’s songs. Includes 12 page booklet.
Label: Poll Winners Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: PWR27345 Barcode: 8436542019620 Price: MID PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal DINAH WASHINGTON, vocals on all tracks, plus: Orchestra arranged & conducted by FRED NORMAN [except 7 & 11, arranged & conducted by DON COSTA], fFeaturing (collective personnel): Illinois Jacquet, Eddie Chamblee (ts), Jack Wilson, Patti Bown (p), Jimmy Sigler (organ), Everett Barksdale, Billy Butler (g), George Duvivier (b), Jimmy Thomas, Osie Johnson (d), among others.
Track listing: 1. THE BLUES AIN’T NOTHIN’ BUT A WOMAN CRYIN’ FOR HER MAN 3:50 2. ROMANCE IN THE DARK 2:16 3. YOU’VE BEEN A GOOD OLD WAGON 3:54 4. LET ME BE THE FIRST TO KNOW 2:44 5. HOW LONG, HOW LONG BLUES 5:02 6. DON’T COME RUNNING BACK TO ME 2:27 7. IT’S A MEAN OLD MAN’S WORLD 3:15 8. KEY TO THE HIGHWAY 2:44 9. IF I NEVER GET TO HEAVEN 3:48 10. DUCK BEFORE YOU DROWN 2:15 11. NO HARD FEELINGS 2:38 12. NOBODY KNOWS THE WAY I FEEL THIS MORNING 8:44 13. IF I NEVER GET TO HEAVEN [first version] 3:57 14. NO ONE MAN 2:10 15. DON’T SAY NOTHING AT ALL 2:38 16. ME AND MY GIN 4:19 17. JUST ONE MORE CHANCE 2:35 18. BLUE GARDENIA 2:49 19. HE’S MY GUY 3:32 20. I RAN OUT OF REASONS 3:47 21. ME AND MY GIN [first version] 3:36 22. I’LL NEVER STOP LOVING YOU 2:18 23. MISS YOU 3:38
RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
Cooking the Blues + Sweet & Lovely BUDDY DEFRANCO QUINTET The complete original albums Cooking the Blues and Sweet and Lovely presenting Buddy DeFranco as the leader of an all star quintet featuring Tal Farlow, Sonny Clark, Gene Wright and Bobby White. These companion albums were recorded in three sessions in August and September 1954 in Los Angeles, and both received five star reviews in Down Beat. Includes 16-page booklet.
Label: Poll Winners Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: PWR27346 Barcode: 8436542019651 Price: MID PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal BUDDY DEFRANCO - clarinet SONNY CLARK - piano TAL FARLOW - guitar GENE WRIGHT - bass BOBBY WHITE - drums
Track listing: 1. I CAN’T GET STARTED 5:36 2. COOKING THE BLUES 6:57 3. STARDUST 6:06 4. HOW ABOUT YOU 6:51 5. LITTLE GIRL BLUE 5:07 6. INDIAN SUMMER 6:47 7. GETTING A BALANCE 9:02 8. OLD BLACK MAGIC 6:39 9. THEY SAY IT’S WONDERFUL 7:19 10. BUT BEAUTIFUL 4:35 11. THE NEARNESS OF YOU 4:54 12. WHAT CAN I SAY DEAR [AFTER I SAY I’M SORRY?] 4:48 13. MOE 4:07
RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
Life to Everything 2LP PHRONESIS 140 gram DOUBLE VINYL WITH THREE BONUS TRACKS To celebrate Phronesis’s 10th anniversary, Edition Records are producing a special edition 2 LP vinyl release of their internationally acclaimed album Life To Everything, recorded over three sold out shows ‘in the round’ at The Cockpit Theatre, London as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival in November 2013. The vinyl edition includes three bonus tracks recorded live at Copenhagen Jazzhouse. Phronesis will launch the vinyl album at their ‘Pitch Black’ concert at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival on 1st May.
Label: Edition Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: EDN1050V Barcode: 5065001530654 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 2 LP JASPER HØIBY double bass IVO NEAME piano ANTON EGER drums
Life To Everything garnered exceptional international plaudits on its release, including a 4-Star Downbeat review & Nextbop’s CD of the Year (USA); CD of the month ‘Choc’ review in Jazzman Magazine (France); # 2 in Jazzwise’s Albums of the Year poll, 4-star reviews in the Guardian, FT & The Times (UK); features in German magazines Jazzthing and Jazz Podium; extensive ABC Australia airplay, widespread coverage in Scandinavia and across Europe and a second MOBO Awards nomination for ‘Best Jazz Act’. Track listing: Side A 1. Urban Control 7.53 2. Phraternal 6.33 3. Nine Lives 6.35 Side B 1. Song for Lost Nomads 7.01 2. Behind Bars 9.01 3. Herne Hill 5.02 Side C 1. Wings 2 The Mind 8.41 2. Deep Space Dance 5.02 3. Dr Black 7.38 Side D 1. Charm Defensive 6.10 2. Democrazy 8.57 3. Lipwash 7.16
RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
Uhrlicht - Primal Light 2LP URI CAINE 180g VINYL ANALOGUE-MASTERED DOUBLE LP In early 1995, the New York-based jazz pianist, composer and arranger Uri Caine was approached by German music producer Stefan Winter about adapting the music of Gustav Mahler for a documentary film Winter's brother Franz directed in 1993/94. Caine was also asked to debut this music during a live performance accompanying a screening of Winter's film at the Knitting Factory with a group consisting of leading members of New York's creative music community. Caine accepted this commission immediately and enthusiastically and for an entire year intensively immersed himself in Mahler's life and music. He pored over scores, searching for themes and fragments he could assemble into new compositions drawing on nearly every style of contemporary music of our age jazz, Latin, fusion, funk, free jazz and New Music. The premiere performance of Caine's work was a critical and popular success and in May 1996, he entered the studio to record Gustav Mahler - Primal Light, a unique and original tribute to one of the most significant composers.
Label: Winter&Winter File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: 917004-1 Barcode: 025091700417 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 2 LP Joey Baron - drums Aaron Bensoussan - narration Dave Binney - soprano sax Danny Blume - guitar, electronics Dean Bowman - vocals Don Byron - clarinet Uri Caine - piano Dave Douglas - trumpet Mark Feldman - violin Michael Formanek - bass Larry Gold - cello Arto Lindsay - vocals DJ Olive - turntables Josh Roseman - trombone
Track listing: SIDE A 1. Symphony No. 5, Funeral March 2. The Drummer Boy 3. Now will the Sun rise as brightly 4. I often think they have merely gone out! SIDE B 1. Symphony No. 1 Titan 2. I went out this Morning over the Countryside, Resurrection SIDE C 1. Symphony No. 5, Adagietto 2. The Drunkard in Spring SIDE D 1. Primal Light 2. Who thought up this Song 3. The Farewell
RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
Sweden / Norway - Norrspel VARIOUS ARTISTS Swedish and Norwegian traditional music from the world of popular and peasant society. The beguiling richness of ancient melodies in the form of wedding tunes, Swedish polska, and Norwegian springar and halling, played on the violin, on the hardingfele (a violin enhanced with sympathetic strings) and on the nyckelharpa (a bowed instrument with keys dating from the 14th century at least). Over the course of 28 tracks, the five musicians (three from Sweden, two from Norway) play mostly solo renditions, with some duo and trio.
Label: Radio France File Under: World music / Scandinavia Catalogue No: C560260 Barcode: 3149028067323 Price: LOWER FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Kjell-Erik Eriksson - violin Jon HolmĂŠn - violin Magnus HolmstrĂśm - nyckelharpa Leikny Aasen - hardingfele Vidar Underseth - hardingfele
RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
Mongolia - Throat Singing VARIOUS ARTISTS The best-known aspect of Mongolian music is the famous koomei or throat-singing, in which one or more pitches sound simultaneously over a fundamental tone, resulting in harmoniously rich melodies. Imitation of the sounds of nature (animals, wind, water) plays an important part in this pastoral music of nomadic people. Sung by populations that have seen little outside influence, it is one of the world's oldest, purest forms of music.
Label: Air Mail Music File Under: World music / Mongolia Catalogue No: SA141271 Barcode: 3700089412714 Price: BUDGET PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal
RELEASE DATE 31ST JULY 2015
Hawaii Memories JAN RAP & HIS ORCHESTRA Hawaii, the home of surfing, renowned for its volcanoes, hula skirts and for music heard countless times in Hollywood soundtracks. Typical of its music are the Hawaiian steel guitar, an electric guitar whose strings are plucked while being pressed with a movable steel bar, and the ukelele. The archipelago also has a wealth of vocal music, religious and secular. Jan Rap and his 8-piece orchestra take us on a musical tour of the islands.
Label: Air Mail Music File Under: World music / Hawaii Catalogue No: SA141270 Barcode: 3700089412707 Price: BUDGET PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal
RELEASE DATE 21ST AUGUST 2015
For Those Who Are, Still WILLIAM PARKER For Those Who Are, Still is a 3CD box set of new and previously unissued long-form works from world-renowned composer-bassist William Parker. This set is comprised of four distinctly compelling long-form works – Parker’s first composition written for symphony orchestra performance; a commissioned piece for a standing new music ensemble; a “chamber-jazz” song series for voice / soprano sax / piano / bass; a composition created specifically for a particularly diverse Parker assemblage in Universal Tonality mode. The four works are linked by a focus on and greater adherence to William Parker’s written compositions; the depth and breadth of the resultant performances is astonishing.
Label: Aum Fidelity File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: AUM092/93/94 Barcode: 642623309223 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 3 CD Packaging: digipack
* Musicians featured herein include William Parker (bass, doson'ngoni); Hamid Drake (drums); Cooper-Moore (piano); Rob Brown (alto sax); Charles Gayle (tenor & soprano sax); Mike Reed (drums); Leena Conquest (voice); Mola Sylla (voice); Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (voice); Klaas Hekman (bass sax); NFM Symphony Orchestra + Choir (Wroclaw, Poland); Kitchen House Blend band. * Deluxe box set published in a limited edition of 1500 copies. Each of the CD sleeves (and the box cover) feature commissioned paintings by gifted young artist Douglas Arnold. The accompanying 24pg. booklet contains extensive notes by Philip Clark (The Wire, et al.), William Parker’s lyrics, and further key visual artwork. Track listing: CD1 For Fannie Lou Hamer + Vermeer 1. For Fannie Lou Hamer 28:00 / 2. Vermeer 7:09 / 3. Awash In The Midst of An Angel’s Tears 4:19 / 4. Essence 2:47 / 5. Flower Song (Take 2) 6:48 / 6. Just Feel 0:57 / 7. Feet As Roses 3:36 / 8. Gongs For Deaf Dreams 3:19 / 9. Sweet Breeze 4:56 / 10. Flower Song (Take 1) 6:59 CD2 Red Giraffe With Dreadlocks 1. Villages, Greetings and Prayer 15:35 / 2. Souls Have Fallen Like Rain 14:39 / 3. The Giraffe Dances 19:46 / 4. Tour of The Flying Poem 5:53 / 5. Children Drawing Water From The Well 6:15 / 6. Where Do You Send The Poem 11:44 CD3 Ceremonies For Those Who Are Still + Escapade For Sonny 1. A Magical Figure Dances Barefoot in the Mud 4:51 / 2. Light Shimmering Across a Field of Ice 2:28 / 3. Trees With Wings 5:10 / 4. Rise Up In Sound 7:57 / 5. Humble Serious 7:02 / 6. Tea Leaves of Triple Sadness 4:48 / 7. Ritual 3:52 / 8. Winter 5:49 / 9. My Cup 3:42 / 10. Encore 4:16 / 11. Escapade For Sonny (dedicated to Sonny Rollins) 25:25
RELEASE DATE 21ST AUGUST 2015
Le Bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation) DARIUS JONES QUARTET Le bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation) is alto saxophonist-composer Darius Jones’ new album work, and the 5th installment in his expansive Man’ish Boy epic. The highly acclaimed series began in 2009 with Man’ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing), and shall eventually comprise nine albums. This release arrives soundly at the mid-way point with aplomb, and is performed by the Darius Jones Quartet featuring vocalist Emilie Lesbros. As ever with Jones’ work, the compositional palette ranges widely here. From the new blues swagger of “Universal Translator” to the equally universal sense of great loss evoked in “I Can’t Keep From Weeping” (as aching a ballad as Jones has yet written/recorded); from the infectiously swinging & (finally) unhinged cabaret dialogue that is “Chanteuse in Blue” to perhaps the deepest essence of the album (and platforms of intent) which are “Two Worlds, One Soul” & “Beneath The Skin”, a pair of extended works which evolve with the utmost in careful consideration to timing and gesture by all involved. French singer-lyricist Emilie Lesbros’ own composition, “Quand Vient la Nuit” (arr. by Darius Jones) closes and lyrically encapsulates the album: espousing no fear, in life, in art.
Label: Aum Fidelity File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: AUM095 Barcode: 642623309520 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Darius Jones - alto saxophone, compositions Matt Mitchell - piano, Rhodes Sean Conly - bass Ches Smith - drum set, percussion Emillie Lesbros - voice, piano on track 6 Pascal Niggenkemper - bass on track 6
Track listing: 1. Two Worlds, One Soul 10:11 2. Chanteuse in Blue 9:01 3. Universal Translator 8:30 4. Beneath the Skin (we are already one) 11:34 5. I Can’t Keep From Weeping 7:00 6. Quand Vient la Nuit 6:34
RELEASE DATE 21ST AUGUST 2015
Life in Real Time LASZLO GARDONY Over the past quarter century pianist/composer Laszlo Gardony has gained widespread acclaim for a series of inspired albums documenting his trio and his riveting solo recitals. In a welcome addition to his treasure-laden discography, he delivers his first sextet session, Life In Real Time, a thrilling live album recorded at the Berklee Performance Center at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. Rather than an all-star blowing session, Life In Real Time introduces an ensemble that breathes, phrases and reacts as one, reveling in the knifepoint balance between structure and freedom afforded by Gardony’s arrangements and bandleading sensibility. In many circles Gardony is best known as a master of the trio format, but he’s equally impressive alone at the piano, the format he first explored on 1993’s acclaimed Changed Standards and returned to again on his last album, 2013’s Clarity (both on Sunnyside). After the probing introspection of a solo recital it seems fitting that Gardony returns with a bandstand bash that captures some of jazz’s most eloquent raconteurs inspiring each other to ever more vivid tales.
Label: Sunnyside Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: SSC4019 Barcode: 016728401920 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Laszlo Gardony - piano Bill Pierce - tenor saxophone Don Braden - tenor saxophone Stan Strickland - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet John Lockwood - bass Yoron Israel - drums
Track listing: 1. BOURBON STREET BOOGIE 7:48 2. BREAKOUT 12:26 3. GEMSTONES 12:12 4. LULLABY OF BIRDLAND 9:51 5. MOTHERLESS CHILD 5:48 6. NEW SONG 7:37 7. THE OTHER ONE 8:57 8. OUT ON TOP 12:20