New Jazz

Prime / Christian McBride’s New Jawn [2 CDs]

Christian McBride’s New Jawn is back with their highly anticipated sophomore album, Prime, the follow-up from McBride’s Philly-centric named group. Featuring original compositions from each band member as well as fresh takes on songs from Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman and Larry Young, this group offers an exhilarating space of exploration for McBride to stretch his veteran wings. (Brother Mister)

2CD# BRO4004 $17.99

Passadinha – Jazz Thing Next Generation, Vol. 96 / Elsa Johanna Mohr

The 96th release of “Jazz thing Next Generation” seems to be heading to Brazil, but singer Elsa Johanna Mohr is from Düsseldorf. She can now be heard together with the Brazilian guitarist Flavio Nunes on her debut album. Together, the two have compiled a repertoire of Mohr’s originals and various Brazilian classics. (Double Moon)

1CD# DMCHR71418 $14.99

Jelly Roll Plays Morton / Jelly Roll Quintet

The current work, Jelly Roll Plays Morton, explores one of the legendary figures of the origins of Jazz with splendid sensitivity. With her Jelly Roll Quintet, Helga Plankensteiner tackles Morton’s splendid legacy with an attitude that on a first listen appears joyful, colorful, rich in moods and dynamics, with a few sprinklings of funk amid the rhythms of early 20th-century New Orleans. (Jazzwerkstatt)

1CD# JW231 $16.99

Samba Sem Você / Rosa Passos Quartet

Brazilian bossa nova queen Rosa Passos presents her highly anticipated album Samba Sem Você on Storyville Records. For years, the Brazilian vocalist and guitarist has had a devoted global following. It’s always soul-soothing and beautiful, and if you press play and close your eyes you can almost feel the Brazilian soul and see the sandy beaches for your inner eye.

(Storyville)

1CD# SVL1018499 $15.99

Londonien: Legacy / Emile Londonien; Nils Boyny

Emile Londonien soaks up the English jazz scene of the last fifteen years and offers up a personal version. Emile Londonien perfectly incarnates this “next gen” French jazz alongside Léon Phal, whose sound is close to theirs. Beyond labels, they mix tradition and contemporary music with ease, as measured on the dancefloor. (Naive)

Home / Les Arrivants

1CD# BLV8001 $16.99

Les Arrivants is an ensemble composed of Amijai Ben Shalev (bandoneon), Abdul-Wahab Kayyali (oud) and Hamin Honari (tombak, daf, frame drums). The repertoire developed by Les Arrivants reflects their experience of adaptation, which has had a lasting impact on their artistic and social lives. (Analekta)

1CD# AN29175 $18.99

Harm: Foresight / Markus Harm

The alto saxophonist Markus Harm from Nuremberg releases with “Foresight” the third album. The sound of saxophonist Markus Harm is mellow and sensual, and it combines optimally with the excellent guitar work of Christoph Neuhaus. (Double Moon)

1CD# DMCHR71423 $14.99

Bishop, Muller & Muche: From A to B / Jeb Bishop

Celebrate the trombone – Appreciate its slipperiness and weight; how it amplifies the intimacy of the voice and becomes vocal itself. The TRIO is that celebration: a celebration of the sound and possibilities of the instrument. And this is a glorious document of the kind of people that understand what the trombone is: absorbing and shocking; technical and transcendent; radical and human. (Jazzwerkstatt)

1CD# JW228 $16.99

Westman: Moving Forward / Simon Westman Trio

Since the debut album Stay a While in 2020, Gothenburg based Simon Westman Trio have had success on streaming platforms with 3 million streams. Now, they are back with a new album – Moving Forward

With this album, the three musicians have found their sound and their interaction even more. (Prophone)

1CD# PCD314 $18.99

Woods: Bird with Strings…& More! / Phil Woods [2 CDs]

Storyville Records is proud to present one of master saxophonist Phil Woods’ most impressive projects, Bird With Strings And More! The recording of this album took place in Tonhalle Zürich on June 13, 2005 with the help of pianist Ben Aronov, bassist Reggie Johnson, drummer Douglas Sides and the fantastic Zürich Chamber Orchestra. (Storyville)

2CD# SVL1038531 $18.99

Ella Fitzgerald Live at Montreux 1969

Ella Fitzgerald’s Live At Montreux 1969 features the First Lady of Song backed by the Tommy Flanagan Trio performing a set combining contemporary tracks, such as “Sunshine Of Your Love” and “Hey Jude” alongside classics like “I Won’t Dance,” “That Old Black Magic,” and a host of others. Available on CD for the first time! (Mercury)

1CD# MOB947294 $16.99

Blues & Bach / Enrico Pieranunzi Trio & Orchestra

It is to the musical conception and to the compositional art of John Lewis that, a little more than two decades after his passing, “Blues and Bach” wishes to pay tribute. His tunes have been reworked and orchestrated for the occasion with an ensemble that, in some ways, is itself a crossover within a crossover (jazz trio plus string quintet and woodwind quintet). (Challenge)

1CD# CR 73550 $16.99

Taylor: Conversations with Tony Oxley

Cecil Taylor, who died on April 5, 2018 in his hometown of Brooklyn, had a style all his own. Here we have one of his last concerts from 2008, performed in the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie. jazzwerkstatt had already begun impressively documenting the era of free jazz with the last recordings of Ornette Coleman. We hear the last sound cascades from Cecil Taylor in ‘Conversations with Tony Oxley’. (JCG)

1CD# JW 198 $16.99

Tate’s Delight – Groovin’ at the Jass Festival

Storyville Records presents the legendary American saxophonist Buddy Tate in a meeting with the Danish quintet White Label on the new album Tate’s Delight – Groovin’ at the JASS Festival. The meeting took place at the Holstebro JASS Festival in September 1982. (Storyville)

1CD# SVL1018533 $15.99