NEW JAZZ IN BRIEF

Angeloni & Roth: Spirale

Street Beat Suite / Lorraine Desmarais Trio

At the height of her art, the composer and jazz pianist Lorraine Desmarais offers a new work that celebrates the estuary of St. Lawrence River, connecting the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic Ocean. Reminiscences of landscapes surveyed and loved, of people met and appreciated feed the movements of the music suite with pictorial accents. (Analekta)

1CD# AN29300 $18.99

No Subject / East Axis

East Axis is like the cumulative life experience of its members. East Axis is four men, of different styles and backgrounds, coming together to spontaneously make music that sounds like each of them, all of them, and none of them. (Brother Mister)

1CD# BRO4003 $17.99

Orsini: My Moon

This album by the Apulian pianist and composer Pierluigi Orsini is a journey into music and through music, admirable art and sublime language whose uniqueness in transposing the views on the world into notes remains unchanged over time. (Digressione)

1CD# DIGR132 $17.99

Powerplay / Organic Organ Trio

The album Powerplay is a collection of original tunes inspired both by jazz today and grooves from the past. Modern jazz has had a clear influence on the blues tune Goldish, a homage to American organ player Larry Goldings. A more traditional sound is found in the songs FU and It Ain’t Swingin’ where you can hear the light touch from old swing tradition combined with the simple and natural groove from gospel. (Prophone)

1CD# PCD304 $18.99

Tenor and soprano saxophonist Bruno Angeloni has worked with many fine musicians, including Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille and Michael Zerang. Since 2016, he has had several rather coincidental meetings at public sessions with the 24 years younger drummer Steffen Roth. Henceforth, together they formed the duo ‘Spirale’ and have recorded this fascinating album. (Jazzorchestra)

1CD# JW 203 $16.99

Sensitive Hours / Avishai Cohen

Previously unreleased outside of Israel, Avishai Cohen’s Sensitive Hours (the gold album recorded in Hebrew) is available everywhere now. For the first time in his career, he has not made an instrumental album, but an album of beautiful songs that he writes and performs. An essential milestone in his already rich discography.

1CD# BLV7843 $16.99

Little Bird – Live in Gothenburg / Alexander Lövmark

Alexander Lövmark writes: “Dear listener, thank you for taking an interest in my record. Little Bird is a tribute to my lifelong love of the Great American Songbook. It features songs I love to sing and treasure listening to. The album was recorded in September 2020 in my hometown, Gothenburg, Sweden. It was a challenging year for me. However, the magic of music carried me through.” (Prophone)

1CD# PCD295 $18.99

Swedish Waltz: Mattias Åström Trio

Mattias Åström writes: “When writing and choosing material for this record I realized in the end that three of seven songs were waltzes. One of them sounded in some way Swedish, somehow simple and in the key of C. Hope you enjoy the music!” (Prophone)

1CD# PCD307 $18.99